skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, yes, it depends on the assumptions. Honestly, I have no idea how it worked out in the West, as I come from a country where 2 working parents has been the norm already for my grandparents. Maybe there is lack of production, and more employees could produce more, and hence get paid more (in average). On the other hand, (as I think you implied in another reply) there might be too many employees already, wasting time at work, and a lack of consumption. In that case, the only thing that 2 working spouses would cause is a redistribution in income (2-working-parent families would be getting comparatively more money, 1-working-parent families comparatively less).
That was my first thought as well - in comparison, medieval art looks like child's scribbles.
I agree with you that they're misunderstanding Spotify and how its revenue model isn't about CD sales. Artists and labels should _really_ forget about CD's or anything physical. That's a long time ago that was a working business model now and belongs to the past. And so does the type of sales you can expect.

I think that Spotify is competing with radio and avoiding piracy in the process. So they should find Spotify useful; it's a very efficient bullet against piracy, much moreso than sending cease and desist letters. It works on huge masses, millions of people, and it doesn't need lawyers to be paid. And it often works.

As for payments, It hink we're moving into the radio comparison. It's about streaming, not ownership, so obviously they can't compare Spotify to sold CD's. Every time a user listens to a song on Spotify, the artist/label is paid. Not so with a CD. So a CD is more expensive, and better compared to iTunes. The iTunes with a business model in trouble and rumors that Apple is intending to change, where they have already started with iTunes Radio. Coincidence? No, I definitely think not and refer to my first paragraph.

So: Beat piracy, and provide radio for the 2010's. It's part radio where music is chosen at Spotify's discretion, part chosen by the user via playlists. So it's a net loss for music labels since the user is given much more control, but hey, times are changing. Users now have this today, so they will expect it tomorrow. If they stop supporting Spotify today, many of their users will be more inclined to move into piracy than ever tomorrow.

These times when they can go back... They've already passed.
I have never delved into the issue, but the model that Japan and other countries have adopted where the young take care of the old, has always seemed to me the most humane and stimulating solution for the elderly. I don't feel it corresponds well with how modern society works, and my impression is that that model is fading in popularity in Japan as well, but I certainly believe there are innumerable positives to extract from that kind of care-taking.

Along with other speculation such as a seafood-heavy diet, it seems to me to be the reason that Japanese people live the longest.

(Nope, not a single thread of evidence in my post, Sorry. A quick google search somewhat agrees though)
Lying about broken links to get your own referral ID in there? That's low.
What's cynical is a system where having a job doesn't provide a living wage. That just needs to be fixed. There is no point trying to scare with the fact that this would take people from a job that doesn't pay enough, to welfare that pays even less.

Higher minimum wages could mean higher unemployment of course, but it isn't a right to employ people without paying them a living wage. Raised minium wages would need to be coupled with increased spending on social benefits/welfare.
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In the same way that its cynical to cut taxes on the wealthy in hopes it'll "trickle down" or "create jobs".
Fair enough.

This said I won't belive all of this to be rooted in reasons beyond control.
Because that means yet another build tool users have to maintain, check for security updates, etc. Packagers for people not using guix will need to start including it, etc, which will just add to the absolute excess of build tools out there. Currently installed on my system are bsd make, cmake, gmake, and scons, just to handle various software I've installed. Plus, you have samba in there that drags in Waf for its builds, and I know that there's some package out there I'm gonna want to poke at that's gonna wanna bring its buddies ant and/or nant in to party too. Unless the new and improved tool can understand all those tools, it's just gonna add to the mess.
AWS's service offerings have an uncanny evolution pace. They have repeatedly delivered new features that I felt like were obviously missing within weeks of me noticing then.

It will be hard for Google and Microsoft to keep up given AWS head start. But the competition will make up for a healthier ecosystem which is very welcome.
This is just the next tragedy. Register in order to get to vote? People (100%) not having ID's? Why not issue ID's to everyone and just be done with it? Passports would be good...

Early voting seems to be possible in most states, and with at least 4 days of voting before the tuesday, most people should be able to do it. How can it not be a requirement for all states to provide early voting?
Sorry you're downvoted. Your response is totally legit.
McGrath provides an fascinating view into a unique individual. That is, he is using Scarlett to talk about e-sports, not the other way around. And I think this causes him to miss the whole story. Scarlett does not represent e-sports, unfortunately. The fact that she was able to climb onto a global stage, starting as a nobody, is undeniably incredibly. However, with "The Rise of the Professional Cyber Athlete" as its title, I expected the article to be about the rise of e-sports, not of a singular e-sports athlete.

E-sports is on the cusp on exploding, and video-game live-streaming service Twitch.tv plus the increasing availability of the internet at all times (smartphones help) are a large part of the reason why. Dota2 and League of Legends (both MOBAs) lead the forefront when it comes to players and money, but Starcraft II (real-time strategy a la Age of Empires), while declining, is not going anywhere. Additionally, Hearthstone (Blizzard's online card game) has exploded onto the scene in the past year, proving to appeal to casual and competitive gamers alike with its free-to-play model and low learning curve. Rounding out the pack are the fighting game communities (Super Smash Bros, Ultra Street Fighter IV) and first-person shooters (Halo, Call of Duty, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive). Yes, console-based games have a harder time creating a high-level competitive scene, but it isn't impossible. Starcraft 1, Counter-strike: Source, and Super Smash Bros Melee have all been being played competitively since the turn of the century, almost.

I'm rambling at this point...

If anyone has any questions regarding the e-sports scene, from local grassroots tournament organization to being a high-level competitive player, to other Scarlett-esque people, please ask. I'm most familiar with Hearthstone and Super Smash Bros.
Despite the gazillions of dollars they have earned, Apple is really constrained when it comes to software development.

They don't have the man power to stray far from their focused feature set. Just look at the mess that iOS 8.0 is. I don't know if they are not willing to hire more capable people or if they just don't care as long as the money pours in (that could bite them in the long term though).

FLAC is a niche feature and those features are usually only supported if someone at Apple has a personal interest in supporting it and if it doesn't get vetoed by the power that be.

In the case of FLAC it might even have been the latter as you could describe FLAC (not entirely correct) as the codec that let's you digitize your CDs losslessly. That view would put it in competition with iTunes (320kps AAC/MP3 ought to be enough for anybody?) and additionally, if you are a true Apple follower, you don't have a CD drive anymore anyway.
There's been plenty of detailed reports concluding for the small number of patent Apple holds, they don't receive anywhere near enough money to cover their own MPEG-LA fees. They aren't doing this out of financial interest — it simply isn't worth enough to them to justify that.
> This said I won't belive all of this to be rooted in reasons beyond control.

Most definitely. If America had a proper social safety net and income equality, this would've never happened. But heh! Bootstraps!
“The Menace of Unreality: How the Kremlin Weaponizes Information” [pdf]
I've been using Magnar's and Christian's excellent collection of emacs settings and packages for some years now, and haven't bothered to adjust the settings in emacs myself evet since.

It's like turning your trusty old emacs into a monster hacker tool. Watching the screencasts is much more entertaining than reading boring documentation.
How does this compare to scrapy? Why would I use one over the other, or is either a fine choice?
If Anyone Finds a Chunk of Metal with Radiation Symbols, They Should Notify Us
I have set refcontrol[1] to forge referral and send google.com for online.wsj.com. Saves you the googling.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/refcontrol/
While your point is true in general, in the case of Taylor Swift she has a bit more sway. Not only is she, by far, the biggest act on a small indie label, she was the first artist signed by that label and her father was one of the initial investors. So while she doesn't own her own label, she is on a small indie label and no doubt has quite a bit of influence.
They have a very pro-end-justifies-the-means attitude. Just listen to DoJ defend most of the illegal spying they get caught with. They keep saying "...but it's effective!". As if that makes it less illegal.

The sad part is the mass surveillance done by the NSA, by and large, isn't even that. Maybe it's effective for economic spying, or spying on political leaders, or hacking into other countries infrastructures, or even helping to assassinate random people in Middle East who happen to be in the area of "terrorists", who may or may not be guilty of terrorism. But it's so easy to just press that drone's button, especially when it happens so far away from home and with nobody to hold them accountable...so who cares, I guess? It's easier and cheaper to kill someone with perhaps 20 percent chance of being a terrorist, than not doing that (I think that's their attitude towards this). Autonomous killer drones will only make this problem 10 times worse, as they can kill many more such people, faster. And with every innocent life taken this way, 10 more people ending up hating America (but not for its freedoms).

But so far there's no evidence that this mass spying would actually help with its promoted and intended goal - "stopping the next 9/11". If anything, there's probably evidence against it. A bigger haystack is just that - a bigger haystack in which to find the needle, and way more false leads, with biased algorithms that lead to the harassment of tens of thousands, if not millions, and without them ever knowing why they are even harassed in such a way.
That doesn't verify that you're communicating with an actual HSM, just that you're communicating with something operating like a HSM, that has a key signed by someone that promise they'll only sign keys of actual HSMs.

It's a good initiative, and as long as you trust the company, you can trust that they probably haven't signed a compromised key, or that someone's been able to extract the key from a HSM (something that's really hard, but see eg: the (first) XBOX hack involving an electron microscope for reading key-bits from ROM).
What's the benefit of Guix compared to tools like Chef (https://www.getchef.com/) or Puppet(https://puppetlabs.com/)?
A TOS applies to how you use the service, and what they would do if you violate their service i.e. terminate your account. I highly doubt Netflix would close your account if you used something like this, although they may email the author and tell them to discontinue development, that's another route altogether.
> Zero adoption of personal digital signatures. Zilch. Nudda.

See Estonia - http://e-estonia.com/component/digital-signature/
That's a fairly good criteria for success in most businesses.
Uber to hit $10B in revenues
Yeah, hmm, as for me those advantages are intertwined. To get anywhere close to great music discovery, I need to be able to easily listen to everything I can discover in the first place.
It's just a name, you're reading too much into it. Katwijk also ends with "wijk" and is home to 60k people.
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veb is referring to this paragraph from the beginning of the article:

" Working people who live below the poverty line are particularly afraid to say no to these unusual schedules. They may have no one to say no to, anyway—those schedules might have been created by computers, rather than human managers, in the hopes of saving a corporation money. Many companies now use data and algorithms to schedule employees so fewer hours will be spent sitting around. The software doesn’t care if a shift falls in the middle of the night, or that it might tear a big hole in an employee’s family life."
Wait what? No postal voting in the US? This is peculiar.
Many people here are comparing this feature of Postgres with MongoDB or other document-oriented NoSQL dbs. I think the comparison is just wrong and unfair.

Even if I'm amazed by the performance of Postgres for this particular task (considering also that is a relatively new feature), I don't think performance is the reason why people are using NoSQL dbs. The problem that NoSQL dbs are helping with is scaling. I don't see this as a priority for an RDBMS such as Postgres. Take for instance MongoDB (just because it was named by many of the other comments here, but I guess the same apply to Couch or others): it's relatively simple to deploy a cluster with automatic sharding, replica, failover, etc.. because these are all builtin features.
The thing that makes me wonder is that all these typographical features should be easily supported by a WYSIWYG editor. From my perspective all it would take would be for Microsoft to buy some professional grade fonts and to put a couple of developers on the problem.
None of this seems like it's inherently incompatible with the WYSIWYG workflow.

Am I overlooking something here?
if you want to set up a channel, just make a channel and put it anywhere (github is free).

if you do (in either nix or guix) let me know. I've been planning on doing something similar for non-free software for a while but to be honest it seems I don't have to use non-free software nearly as much nowadays.
I haven't even read the article yet, but the title "The Rise of the Professional Cyber Athlete" heavily implies a focus on not the sport, but the people that practices that sport.

I wouldn't think that it only focuses on one specific person though.
Hope you are joking

http://www.opera.com/download/guide/?ver=HN
http://www.opera.com/download/guide/?ver=recomends%20cheese
I am not from US, but as someone explained this to me - issuing everyone national IDs like we have in EU would be incredibly hard if not impossible,because there is not one certain way to establish if someone is a citizen or not, so a lot of people in US would perceive such attempt as being a discriminatory one.
I admit, I'm being highly cynical. This system is great. The keys are state issued, so if you set your mind to level of paranoia where the state is trying to frame you for tax fraud, it's not beyond repudiation... but yeah, on balance it's likely a better system than being rolled out here in the UK[0]. Gov.uk 'Verify' involves four entities (the hub, the government department you're trying to use , you, and your chosen identity provider) and, from what I can tell, it's just glorified OpenID.

[0] https://identityassurance.blog.gov.uk/2014/10/14/gov-uk-veri...
It is the most humane for the elder, I'll agree with that. But the sheer amount of stress and expectation it puts on the next generation?

Not to mention the total nullification of privacy. Not everything I do I want my parents to see, and I'm not even gay, transgender, of a different religion than my parents, or any other controversial topic your parents might disown you for.

And you thought having kids was bad? Try dealing, day to day, with your dementing parents that shit themselves and do not recognize you anymore.
I'm not in the US, and I have a hard time even thinking about everything being open 24/7. (New Zealand is where I reside)

I'm not surprised! When I worked in NZ for a few months, years ago, I found very few businesses open outside of "business hours". This made e.g. grocery shopping a challenge. A few touristy places were open on Saturday morning.

Please don't take this as a criticism; run your country however you want to run it. It's just that cultural differences go both ways, and the other side looks weird no matter which direction one is looking.
http://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

Light grey text on a white background? #718793 on #FFFFFF seems to fail accessibility.

A design that goes outside basic accessibility is not design. It is like a chef serving stone cold food or a builder making doors 5ft high.
Sleep Deprivation and Diabetes a Vicious Cycle
There definitely is at least in some (most?) states
If you have a bunch of single people raising kids on their own, something like this is bound to happen.

"Diana and Ivette’s mother, Marisol, for instance, is raising the girls on her own, working at a supermarket from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. and at Home Depot from 6 to 10 p.m., six days a week. "

"This clock has highlighted weakness in our social networks. In 2013, 28 percent of children were living with a single parent; 77 percent of those single parents are mothers."

Sounds like at some point, people are going to have to make a specific choice between raising kids on their own (potentially) or not having them at all; and vote for Governments that favor the policy they prefer.
Actually, I posted this to suggest to people reading it that they go and disable the justify rule to make it less annoying.
La catalana Bea García es la primera mujer con diabetes que acaba la 4Deserts
Ugh. The article made the mistake of making it sound like the casters were amazed by the fact that Scarlett is female. This is the sign of someone who's clearly an onlooker and doesn't pay close attention the eSports scene. While there's definitely things such as GamerGate and such making the gaming scene look terribly unsavory for female participants, in truth the eSports community has long since fully welcomed Scarlett as a true gamer, girl or not. I dislike articles forcing this focus on her being a girl and somehow sticking out for it, much like women in tech hate being glorified just for being "a woman in tech." They have real skill and contribution outside of being an outlier for their gender.

If anyone who knows what's going on is ever amazed she won it's because she was actually an underdog in the specific matchup, not because she's a female, let alone for being a "foreigner" (non-Korean). In fact, the amount of amazement for being a foreigner winning was pretty low by the time of the match the article writes about. I remember watching the game mentioned here last thanksgiving, and it coming down to the wire, and the audience didn't care that Scarlett was "a token female" or anything, we were just excited about the awesome match and that Scarlett pulled a miracle win. The casters were no different, all eye-popping was purely about the awesome decision making and creativity leading to an excellent game.

Don't make the gaming community sound more sexist than it already does on its own. Scarlett may have faced difficulties or felt singled out in the past for it, but it certainly wasn't true in the fashion depicted in this article.
Children abuse their elderly parents. They do this by stealing their money; by neglectig them; by subjcting them to physical violence.

"Eldar abuse" is a significant cause of harm to older people.

Dementia is not a simple illness. Next time you visit a specialist dementia hospital ask why their crockery is red. http://www.bcf.nhs.uk/docs/14053_1922582528.doc

> Deliberate use of colour cues can also help significantly. For example, one study with people with advanced Alzheimer's disease showed that changing to highly visible red cups and plates led to a 25 per cent increase in food intake and an 84 per cent increase in liquid consumption. Brightly coloured toilet doors have also been used successfully in a variety of care settings to help people with dementia find the toilet independently, and more readily.

But these losses of visual ability are masked when someone is in their familiar home. People don't realise that the older person can't see the mug - they just assume the older person is not thirsty.
How can we as a society survive if most people decide to not have kids at all?
Parents usually live alone but close to their children. I think the biggest factor is that most of the elderly don't just sit at home on vacation once they retire. Most people participate in some kind of class to keep their minds sharp. My volunteer Japanese class is almost entirely made up of retirees.
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America's bank bailouts: Unnecessarily unfair (2012)
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> The UK will never be able to foster the same atmosphere as Silicon Valley. We're a conservative bunch and always will be; it's almost embedded in our culture.

I would agree with this if I wasn't seeing entrepreneurs who are breaking the stereotypical British attitude of "sell for £10m, kids to private school, consultancy gig until I'm 50 and retire". We have US-style founders over here who are trying to build amazing things. The venture community hasn't caught up, but I think after one or two larger exits for truly spectacular businesses (forget Zoopla, which is about as innovative as Amazon would be if it helped you check the stock of book stores which you still had to visit), the limited partners in funds will pile on.

> This isn't a problem because it means we're more prudent when it comes to investing hence why we rarely get VC/Angel investment for startups unless they have an already successful business model.

That's changing amongst the top tier of venture investors. Rentify (my business) couldn't process credit cards when we raised from Balderton, and the first board mtg of the year was focused on going for growth uber alles.

I agree that some in the UK lack the natural optimism of the west coast, but there are entrepreneurs here who fit the bill and I think venture will catch up on the whole.

Seed stage is different and I agree that seed investors are a lot more conservative in the UK. But from their perspective, look at the recent explosion of pre-venture startups in the UK, and the relative lack of expertise in discerning which is high potential and which isn't. Risk profile doesn't come into it (on the basis that all early-stage startups are high risk), but rather the seed community in London/UK has a heavy financial services bias, and therefore there's a paucity of expertise or even interest in tech.

> The best way to put it is: In the UK we mostly invest in 1 - n whereas in Silicon Valley they also invest in 0 - 1. After all, it's the birthplace of true capitalism.

I agree with this although I dispute the reasons, and the notion that it will never change.
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