skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have studies to back up the fact that you just questioned what he said?

Seriously, this "do you have studies" BS is getting out of hand. He made an argument (which btw includes more context than what you quoted), and stated his opinion of what would happen in a hypothetical situation. And it's also obvious to everyone who has ever casually conversed that "everyone" in this context means "many people", not literally everyone.

You can disagree and say "That's not what's going to happen because ...", or even "Study such and such shows that this not necessarily happens...".

Asking for studies to back up his thinking is BS. This is not some peer reviewed journal, nor is he writing a thesis. This is a simple conversation. And even if he gave 4-5 studies there would be absolutely no guarantees that those studies aren't crap, aren't invalidated by subsequent studies, aren't only describing what works in some specific cultural context, etc.

This is sociology and human behavior, not physics or math to have some be all end all studies answering specific questions.
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Interestingly, Google has seemed to go in the opposite direction. From being staunchly vocal about hiring only graduates from top universities when they were still comparatively small, to coming out and saying that educational histories not correlating in any meaningful way with employee performance as they've grown.
For private companies in the US, I've never encountered having to repay training expenses. (Though it wouldn't surprise me if there were obligations around getting a degree program paid for and that sort of thing; I've never been in that sort of situation.) However, I have seen a company go after relocation expenses from someone who was moved cross-country and, shortly thereafter, quit.
This kind of raw comparison somewhat useless, since domain knowledge adds up + numerous other contract-specific things. For example, it is not unreasonable to ask $200 a hour in my country for a short gig, however if the contract is longer, usually the billable amount goes lower as well.
There is no 'healthy' microbiome
Its great Govt is finally understanding the need for 'Accessible' data and solutions.

Hopefully this will bring in more transparency and efficiency in otherwise slow and opaque system.
How to get fired and become a tech entrepreneur: AppNexus CEO
Sweden – to become first cashless society?
You can download Windows 8 free online, and enter into the serial on the CDs when it comes time to register.

(Windows 7 was the first Windows OS that was fully installable from a downloaded or USB-stick copy.)
Yes, the physical wires running to your home is the cost-prohibitive thing that is stopping competitors from entering the market (i.e. running a second set of wires to your home).

The ISP should be responsible for your service to the rest of the internet, since there's many ways you can manage that side of the network. If an ISP wants to offer a non-net-neutral plan, they can, but there should be little barrier preventing another ISP from entering and competing with a net-neutral plan.

This is very similar to the way the UK currently does it[1]. It always baffles me that the FCC thinks that it's in uncharted waters. This sort of thing has been hashed out and is working well in other infrastructures.

[1]: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/03/uk-regulators-off...
I think you're looking at it.
Let me try and explain why these things are related with some economics.

There is a scarce resource, consumer bandwidth. We normally use pricing to communicate information about scarce resources. This has the advantage of increasing the profitability of investment in increasing the supply of the scarce resource.

The explosion in growth in streaming HD video services has meant that the statistical variance of consumer bandwidth consumption from mean consumption has increased.

If most pricing models assume a mean usage, that means that heavy users are now being subsidized more than before by light users.

For fairness, heavy users should be charged more.

That can be done via metered access with higher allowances costing more, or it can be done by charging more for the streams of data that are consuming the scarce resource. That means Netflix and their ilk. But of course Netflix will pass on any extra cost on to the customer.

These are two sides of the same coin. If metered access with segmented pricing can't solve the pricing problem, then contracts with suppliers of data streams will be used instead.
Thanks. What one idea hit you home from it? How would you sum it up?
http://utm.io

url shortener with builtin support for google analytics link tagging utm parameters. time saver for marketers creating tracking links for google analytics.
It has everything to do with net neutrality. See my reply to eli for the reason why (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8547054).
Installing a camera would be massively cheaper than the driver having to have a college degree.
> Nintendo and Sony offer pretty robust online delivery services

I would say that they're both lightyears behind Microsoft/Xbox.
Well, besides that, if we put hacking aside, people go to jail for long terms for stupid offences all the time in the USA.

Even for completely BS stuff due to the "3 strikes" thing. So in general his fears are not unsubstantiated.
This is exactly why I don't use it.
aaand this is why I don't respond when friends ask me which PC laptop they should buy.
Australia reached zero long term debt in the mid 2000s. The only debt that remained was a rolling short term bond intended to create a stable liquid asset for banks.
I think the key difference is that college is trying to set you up for life, whereas MOOCs are available for life. When I have turned to MOOCs in the past, it was because I had a specific goal in mind. Once that goal was met, which may have been half-way through the class, I had no reason to continue. In the future I may have a new goal that requires I finish the course, and I will do so at that time. There is no advantage to forcing me to have it complete within a set timeframe.
I would actually much prefer ebooks for Japanese, because then you could turn furigana on/off, or on to various degrees (according to your reading level).
I get the impression that the equivalent to that would be for the FCC enforce that ISPs can not discriminate based on content origin, and content creators must be left unregulated. Or, in other words, net neutrality.

The idea that one entity owns the wires, and rent to another that connects the wires into the network is madness. Both entities will fight to no end, and bad service will always be caused by "the other one".
That's actually what this is for. Since the article is linked to the BBC worldwide site, I can't actually read it here in the UK - go figure - so I don't know what it said already, but here's the FAQ from the company building this path...

http://www.solaroad.nl/en/faq/
although there is no information on how one might provide it.

On Page 4:

All queries or comments related to the “Policy on Open APIs for Government of India” shall be directed to the Joint Secretary (e-Governance), DeitY at jsegov@deity.gov.in.
What problem is this solving? The limiting factor in solar panel production is cost, not places to put them. Why bother building solar panels that can double as roads when we can just put solar panels anywhere else?
If I understand, your statement that X is better than x$ is based on keystrokes.

But there are other ways to look at that.

x$ is more consistent with the general idea of verb object. If part of your memorized subset of Vim includes xiw (do x In Word), xe (do x to the End of the current word), x) (do x to the end of the current sentence), etc, then x$ fits in with that. In fact for this reason (not consciously decided), I almost never use X variants.

For me personally, there is also less wrist-twisting if I don't use X, which involves moving my pinky down to the shift key; that always feels like I'm walking up to the edge of carpal tunnel.

But bottom line, none of those and similar choices are objectively superior to the others. What matters most is how much of what you do can be done with no conscious thought, that it just happens. The best parts of vim for me are the ones I no longer know how to do, the ones that are in muscle memory and that I have to stop and think about after someone asks "how did you do that?"

From that point of view, YVSANMVSBYVSAOK[1].

[1] Your Vim Strokes Are Not My Vim Strokes But Your Vim Strokes Are OK.
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Wow, that delights me. Finally some music that doesn't cater to "I want it now" consumer mindset!
Can I write
ls "é*"
in an openBSD console at my first boot? Else, why is it unclean to have accent by default in a shell?
The problem is this would take a long time.You are talking about removing a large quantity of paperwork from organisations which move to bigger offices to accommodate the paper work.
And also when it comes to security,You saw what Anonymous did to Ukrainian government.The government in itself is not capable of such a large endeavour.I hope the implementing organisation selection depends more on their reputation instead of tenders and briberies.
I was more looking about general principle of management, but I would definetly look to this ones too. Which one did you prefer Peopleware or The Mythical Man-Month?

What do you think about First, break all the rules?
I have switched jobs under AC21, and I have since gotten permanent residency.

While you can change jobs, your new employer has to both be one that wants to handle H1-Bs (and many smaller ones don't). On top of that, if you were applying for an employer-sponsored green card, like most H1-Bs want to do, then guess what? You have to get your new employer to sponsor you too, depending on the part of the process you are in. And while asking an H1-B to pay for his own visa costs is illegal, as far as I can tell, asking someone to compensate the company for legal fees trying to obtain a still pending green card does not. In my last job before the green card, I had a nice 20K anvil hanging over me if I left before green card +1. And that process took about 7 years, thanks to visa limits. So yeah, I could have changed jobs again, but it would not have been cheap for me.

And all of that, while knowing that getting laid off leads to either leaving, or staying in the US illegally for a small period of time, which is one of the few reasons the USCIS agents can find to end up denying a green card application.

So I am glad AC21 exists, but the freedom an American has and the one an H1-B visa holder have are nowhere near equivalent.
f jumps to the next occurrence of a particular character on the same line. F jumps to the previous. t and T do the same thing, but jumps to the character immediately before.

For example, if you were at the beginning of the following text:

foo(bar, baz);

Typing f,dt) would change it to:

foo(bar);
you too!?

I used to at least be able to recommend ThinkPads but I can't even do that anymore. I pretty much only have Macs left as an option at this point, but not one that I'm super thrilled about. I mostly use VPS and a $600 _should_ be fine.
She may be running into bad luck, or she might just be technologically illiterate on the ebook front. I've never really dug into her issues with ebooks as I wouldn't know where to start.
Wow, thanks! This is exactly what I'm talking about, with organic learning over time. Just about every week, I pick up some little tidbit like this, which makes my editing flow a little bit smoother than it was the week before. I doubt that I'll ever know EVERYTHING, and that's okay.
Except that it actually works just fine, see BT OpenReach in the UK.
i can't help but think piezoelectricity would be better for a road - though depends on traffic to create power
While I'm not overly impressed with the post I have to agree with the sentiment of it as Uber/Lyft has made living in LA without a car much easier. Coming from another major city my wife and I were dreading the idea of having to buy a second vehicle for me just to live daily. Thanks to rise of ride sharing services we haven't had to and that makes living here, not just nightlife, a lot easier given the lack of useful public transportation.
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If they sell you a 100Mbit/s line with unlimited data, it should be illegal to charge you again if you use all that potential... either directly or indirectly.
30$
Totally agree, almost every one of the Uber's I hop in and strike up a conversation with the driver they end up being a struggling actor/comedian/musician. Seems as if it is a welcome alternative to getting a job as a server at a restaurant.
“I wouldn’t have to create Linux if there wasn’t any lawsuit against BSD in the early 90`s. It wouldn’t be necesary”

Page 52 http://free.blackpatchpanel.com/pme/linux/history.pdf
To be clear, I'm trying to state that a (nice) recomputation semantics is desirable because it means it's possible to reason about your program ignorant of time. Obviously, an implementation is preferable if it can speed things up via incremental computation and that ought to be nice as well

AFRP is a good example here. AFRP semantics are easily stated in a recomputational way. It makes it necessary to talk about causal AFRP and bounded history AFRP which are nice terms to think about a computation (if sort of obvious). Then, the efficient implementations (of causal AFRP) themselves are incremental for efficiency.
Maybe because the local politicians are your cronies and enable grant-grabbing from the EU? For 3M€ you can put solar panels on at least at least 100 houses and not just have energy for 3 as the article states. Plus they wont degrade or be covered with plenty of dirt or snow in winter.

As always, just follow the money and you can find out what's going on.
Oh, that's unfortunate.

Here's the Der Spiegel article, the BBC piece linked to:

http://www.spiegel.de/reise/aktuell/solarradweg-in-den-niede...

Hopefully you can Google-translate it in Chrome.
10% of my upload bandwidth is a megabyte a second. That's enough for most of my upload usage - backup primarily, and the occasional youtube video.

Your perspective on upload vs download may change a bit when your connection gets better. I think a 9:1 ratio of download to upload is the right thing for most consumers. Ideally, the connection would rebalance based on demand, but I don't know enough about xDSL technology to know why that isn't possible.
I disagree with your assertion that deregulation has been good for the Texas power market. (I lived through that same transition and have been participated in it for most of my adult life.) For one, still-regulated cooperative and municipal power utilities still have lower rates than fixed-term "competitive" utilities.

That said, I wholeheartedly agree with the idea of splitting data delivery into poles/wires and content parts. This is where I want municipal broadband to go. Have the county or the city or what-have-you own the physical plant and run it like the city water system (yes, I know, Texas has private water systems; don't get me started on Monarch Utilities). Any competitive provider that wants to hook up to the system and provide services would be welcome to do so.
Unsafe C code in Swift
I understand the frustration while learning Rust. As a Rust beginner myself, I suggest not to follow guides (except the ones at http://www.rust-lang.org) since most are outdated.

My way to learn Rust: I spend 90% of the time in Rust's std docs, 9% of the time watching the type/borrow checker spit at me and 1% of the time in IRC when I'm out of ideas. Google was useless most of the time.

I found revisiting http://doc.rust-lang.org/index.html (specially the spec and the first four guides) as I was getting insights from experimenting with the language allowed to me to understand what was going on.

For me the most important parts to understand to get up to speed were:

- The module system (understanding `mod` vs. `use`).

- The concept of ownership. References. Lifetimes. Borrows. Copies. Moves. Moving out of. `ref` on tuples.

- Getting used to rustdoc's format. Docs hard to navigate not knowing the language idiosyncrasies. Trait methods are often not textually documented.

- Understanding rustc error reporting. IMHO the worst part of rustc is the cryptic lifetime error messages (though they're getting better).

Good luck in your journey! I'm loving Rust so far.

---

Some concrete feedback:

> This probably isn't right (I'm sure empty maps must be supported somehow), but it will do for now.

Indeed. I see you joined the IRC (great idea, people are very helpful there) and got the correct syntax, but to fix the ~str problem, the answer is:

let mut map = HashMap::<Box<str>, uint>::new();

Box<A> is the resulting type of an expression "box a" where `a` is of type A. I guess an example will make it more clear:

let owned_three: Box<uint> = box 3;

But Box<str> is actually just String, so the final line should read:

let mut map = HashMap::<String, uint>::new();

By the way... why do you need to box the str?

Local bindings (args, let bindings...) are allocated on the stack and must have a fixed size. A string has variable size by definition, but a box has a known size (the size of a reference to your heap-allocated str), so can can wrap the str (on the heap) on a box (on the stack).

That's why you'll never see a sole `str` as a type: you either see the (boxed) String or &str (reference to a string slice).

> Ah, OK. So I think this means Rust has no built-in way of determining if two int-arrays are equal.

Actually the problem is Rust currently doesn't implement traits for static-sized arrays because the size is part of the type signature and each size would need to be implemented separately.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/7622

Though the Coord solution you implemented is in my opinion better for a typed language.
The sheer insanity of this... Wow. Just wow.
Ask HN: What localized SAAS/WebApp do you run
What localized SaaS/WebApp do you run that can be replicated in a similar location?
Geopolitics for Individuals
I feel almost guilty admitting it, but these behaviour seems completely natural to me. Paper books, music on CDs. Seems to me much more rational to buy something like this, than buying (heck, it's not even buying, it's more like renting by some weird license!) array of bytes, that can be deleted by some Apple or Amazon from your device, and doing so for nearly the same money as if you buy real book or CD! It's not japanese who are crazy, it's more like western people are totally irrational and insane!

And, well, I'm a bit missing these times when you could exchange CDs with your friends and all that kind of stuff. But dismiss it. However ability to not have CD-ROM in your notebook is major bonus. And size of portable music players as well.

I wonder if paper books are as expensive in Japan as in the western countries.
Compared to french press, any filtered coffee is going to be smooth. I recommend you look into manual pourover brewers. The Chemex (my daily brewer) comes in sizes up 50oz.
Playing Games to Leave Games
I need to second this. It isn't just being bored, it is being totally unable to function. There are things that I am interested in and REALLY want to learn/do/practice/build/enjoy but sometimes I am just totally incapable. I know what I want and I know what I need but I can't do it. Dr. Russell Barkley refers to ADHD as a performance disorder that was misnamed as an attention disorder and I tend to agree.
"Last week, the Obama administration announced its choice to lead the Federal Communications Commission: Tom Wheeler, who is not only a former telecom lobbyist but also a huge bundler for the Obama campaign. The New York Times Editorial Page today explains that this choice is "raising serious questions about [Obama's] 2007 pledge that corporate lobbyists would not finance his campaign or run his administration." It also notes that "given his background, it is almost certain that [Wheeler] raised money [for Obama] from people whose companies he would regulate, creating potential conflicts of interest."

Last week, President Obama named another big bundler of his, the billionaire heiress Penny Pritzker, to be his Commerce Secretary; at the Nation, Rick Perlstein details just some of the interesting questions about that choice that need to be explored. At this point, the only surprising thing is that there are any more bundlers left for Obama to appoint to important administration positions." - Glenn Greenwald, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/09/hawking...
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> If they sell you a 100Mbit/s line with unlimited data, it should be illegal to charge you again if you use all that potential... either directly or indirectly.

(QFP) It's "thinking" like this that's responsible for a good 40% of the outrage over net neutrality, IMO.
Amazon and Apple both sell DRM-free audio files, which is no different than buying and ripping a CD, minus having the superfluous physical disc lying around. They can't be deleted from your device.
Perhaps Mr. Kaletsky's conclusions regarding Keynesian principles might be more compelling if his portrayal of the facts of global economic policies were (a) more consistent, and (b) more accurate: http://mises.ca/posts/articles/capitalism-4-0/
Don't pay for startup advice
1. Build a small, centralized team to assist every department with API design (not implementation). This would help keep things relatively consistent and interoperable, and may also assist in component reuse.

2. Design in the open — publish proposed APIs early and get public feedback, preferably at a single place (apidocs.gov.in?).

3. Build a centralized authentication/authorization system with libraries for all the popular languages. Mandate that every department with sensitive data use it rather than roll their own.

4. Other than that, give implementation teams freedom to make their own technology and architectural choices. Express a preference for, but do not mandate, open standards. (It goes without saying that HTTP/REST and JSON should be added to the list of preferred open standards!)

5. Mandate that all implementations be open source (provide a standard license) with a public issue tracker and pull request mechanism. Provide a centralized project hosting with these features, but allow project teams to use alternatives if they choose.
"a clear indication of the author's intent"

No, what I wrote is what we're doing. Maybe
there's some humor in there somewhere, but
it's all simple and obvious and makes good
sense to us.
The Cult of Done Manifesto (2009)
Aah, I stand corrected. Although I do hope someone from deity (clever name) also reads HN.
We are in the semi final to win £10,000 and need help
Hey everyone,
We are in a competition called Smarta 100 to win £10,000 and we are in the mobile business category.
The voting ends today in like 7 hours and it would be epic to win and get to the finals. Here is the link : http://www.smarta.com/smarta100/2014/venteo/

About Venteo:
Venteo is an app and platform that is based around events, we make sure all the pictures taken at an event by everyone is in the same place. No more having to ask friends to send you the pictures they took a week ago but instead they are just in the album immediately.
For larger events like a concert you can see the pictures from every angle and not just the pictures taken from pro - photographers.
http://www.venteo.co <-- getting updated in all areas

Thanks a lot and any feedback would be awesome!!
> then you could turn furigana on/off

Would you please expand upon that? How could you do that? What kind of ebook format allows that? That really would be neat.
Solar paths and solar roads is one of those cool thing until you actually think through the problems.