skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Swiss provided a service to the Jews in Germany and helped hide their money from the nazis. Unfortunately most of their customers were killed...

Oh lordy, that is the understatement of year!

"Documents recently uncovered in former East German archives suggest that in 1944, SS Chief and German Interior Minister Heinrich Himmler sent a special train loaded with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of gold, jewelry and art objects to Switzerland for deposit in the vaults of Swiss banks."[1]

[1]http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/nazis/readings...
> "That was Microsoft coming late to the party."

Late? They threw the party. Damn near a decade ago.
From their Q4 results, as analyzed by AnandTech, about 11% of their revenue is from "iTunes/Software/Services". The rest is hardware.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8633/apple-q4-fy-2014-fiscal-r...
IMHO the long list of items you added to the restaurant analogy does not make the analogy a more accurrate representation of the relationship of Microsoft to the users of their products.

In fact (again IMHO) your description is laughable if it is intended to accurately represent Microsofts's efforts to reconcile with users it has wronged in the past.

Microsoft simply hasn't put in anything like that kind of effort to instill confindence in their good will toward their customers. Obviously srean probably agrees with me on that point.

> So please just go away.

Telling srean to go away is just not in the spirit of this site. He/she (I honestly don't know which it is) has been reasonably civil, and did not attack you personally. You simply don't agree with him/her. He/she has contributed reasonably to the conversation, so you have no valid reason to ask him/her to stop commenting on the topic.

And lastly (again, IMHO) your comments appear to be much more troll-like than his/hers. You have been much less civil in this conversation than srean.

And I'm not going to ask you to "go away" :-D

(edited for a typo and a missed "/her" )
Let's say a comet is going to impact Earth in a few decades. One proposal among many [0] to divert a comet is to aim a laser at it for a few years, long enough for the outgassing from the laser spot to push the comet onto an orbit that misses the Earth.

If you were designing a mission like that, wouldn't you want to have first-hand knowledge about the comet's surface?

This is also a baby step. We now feel more confident about landing equipment on irregularly shaped, rapidly spinning objects with negligible gravitational fields. Conservative estimates about the aggregate value of all of the rare heavy metals available inside a near-earth asteroid go into the trillions of dollars.

[0] http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~jmelosh/HazardsDeflect.pdf
Don't know why this was downvoted. The GP appears to believe no one ever has bad luck and everyone is as fortunate as he.
This review is surprising in two ways: how thorough it is and how even-handed. It must have been a lot of work to put together and I'm glad you did it so the rest of us don't have to.

It's refreshing to see posts like this and http://blog.metaobject.com/2014/06/the-safyness-of-static-ty... pointing out that we don't have strong evidence on this and keeping an open mind. A trend? One can hope.
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The idea that the U.K., German, or Swiss governments are less authoritarian than the U.S. is laughable to U.S. citizens.

Considering that the UK will throw people in jail for expressing their right to freedom of speech is a slight counter to your argument.
And history was changed forever, this was the beginning of a new era where wars between countries were fought over Screeps.
I'm a Rails developer, most comfortable with backend stuff, or frontend logic based stuff. More junior but I pick things up quickly.
And yet when calorie restriction is done through restricting carbohydrates, the results are much more convincing http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2716748/
Bezier curves (2001)
Thank you! I already found one nice looking event and RSVPed. It would just be nice to have a more personal contact as I'll be on my own in an unfamiliar country, and it's intimidating enough going to meetups here! :)
Well that is a non-novel solution :-) Basically the cartridge is the barrel. A much more novel solution would be a barrel that was a rail gun, then just recharge it to refire. Of course we can't really store enough energy in a capacitor or battery that we can in gun powder yet. .22 caliber CO2 fired guns would be more dangerous (they could have longer plastic barrels and be more accurate.) But all of this simply strokes the survivalist bent that folks have to somehow come out on top when the world comes crashing to an end.

I am much less worried about a nerd trying to mug me with a plastic gun than I am with the wrong person getting hold of a UAV with a shotgun [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYz_D89BLUg
I've found it's harder to get a job you are massively overqualified for than to get one you are barely qualified for.

If you need a job which you are massively overqualified for, dumb it down and do your best to appear no sort of threat. Bosses in entrenched organizations love people who are just smart enough to push the levers, but not smart enough to appear promotable, or to become bored or feel unfulfilled and cause some sort of trouble or to notice obvious abuses and have the mental capacity and wherewithal to seek remedies....

In these types of situations, appearing dumb and predictable is your best bet. And that's a very hard act for some people.
Sometimes competition with lower costs lead to a race to the bottom in quality where you cannot even buy anything of the former quality even at higher prices. You will see carriers nickel and dime you everything that was previously included.
This keeps coming up, so let me make this super clear:
While access to the download expires after three years, all software downloaded up to that point remains your property, including the licenses.

Even for the exception, Windows Server, you'll get four production licenses as a farewell gift. Given that StackOverflow runs on 25 Windows Servers, this can't be a bad deal.
why would this design be limited to 2 inches? it's a prototype.

you could easily design a 4 inch version with rifle grooves on the inside of the casing. it's just another 2 inches!
Dartlang also will get C# style await async (as of 1.8) and has very similiar syntax. Additionaly it has more CLI oriented tools (eg. pub) and Google ecosystem integration (recent app engine managed vms integration)

I'm happy .NET is going open source path but still think we need others to compete.
Over the past 20 years gun regulations have been eased and the number of weapons sold has skyrocketed. However in that time the violent crime has gone down.
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Yes there is--
incomeassure.com

I helped create it.
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Suggestion - put in some social sharing meta tags. It literally takes two minutes.
Here's a quickie to make it semi presentable on facebook

```
<meta property="og:title" content="Introducing the Photon IoT Toolkit">
<meta property="og:image" content="https://s3.amazonaws.com/spark-website/photon-hero.jpg">
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Spark">
<meta property="og:description" content="A $19 postage stamp-sized hackable Wi-Fi module for interacting with physical things.">
```

Also, $59.04 to ship to Canada? And why does it cost twice as much to ship to Canada than to France?
yup. once upon a time we had a MySQL db on commodity hardware doing around 6K QPS with over 100M rows in the biggest table. you can't do much to it without taking it offline, and even then you have no idea if/when the migration will complete.
Road to 1M funding starts here
Yes, you should be thinking 3-5 years ahead. And if you're thinking that far ahead, you'll amortize the free 3 years with the 2 years after in which you pay and come out with a true cost. You might even work in the odds that you'll be in business and/or have sold out in that time along with some estimate of switching costs to other technology (which might actually be low if you mainly use Azure).

I don't know if it still comes out as worth it, but that's what you have to figure out. A kneejerk "I'll be paying for this in 3 years so I shouldn't take advantage of it being free now" isn't exactly the most rational response either.
I'd assume that ribbons get securely disposed of, just like old documents/backup tapes/etc.
The distinction in the article is not devices vs. services but vertical vs. horizontal. Tesla sells services, but those services are either vertically integrated with their cars (e.g. they don't repair non-Tesla vehicles) or have strategic value for their primary business (e.g. making superchargers compatible with non-Teslas expands the supply of EV charging stations generally, which is good for Tesla owners).
If you want to build a firearm (semi-auto) at home in the US it isn't even illegal.

Incorrect. The only limitation is you can't make an NFA weapon (automatic, etc) or build it out of more than 10 imported parts.

"Firearms may be lawfully made by persons who do not hold a manufacturer’s license under the GCA provided they are not for sale or distribution and the maker is not prohibited from receiving or possessing firearms. "[1]

[1]http://www.atf.gov/files/firearms/industry/0501-firearms-top...
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