skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The flip side of that is that the USA has heavily subsidized the defenses of Europe and the rest of the world.

Not that they've asked for it - but it's difficult to conceive that Europe would have escaped Hitler or the USSR's aggressions without a lot of military spending on their behalf by the USA.
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I generally choose smartphones based on which gives me the least problems. In the past this was iOS, because the only problem I personally had was the restrictivness of their platform. But lately the OS quality went down the drain and they became even more erratic about their App Store rules. Anyone else here who can't really enjoy smartphones because of the deep flaws every OS seems to have?

edit: typo
In my case, I pay more than that for just the US-specific paperwork. Naturally, I also have to deal with the Italian side of things, which is not exactly a low-bureaucracy system either.
This ^ may sound like a banal observation, but it doesn't make it any less true.
To be fair, there's lobbying on the other side against simplified tax codes. There have been lots of proposals: flat tax, fair tax, consumption taxes, VATs, etc. All are opposed by lobbying groups and not even the same ones.

All this foaming at the mouth and finger pointing only makes things worse.
And yet most iOS developers just swallow their anger and keep on developing for iOS which in turn enables Apple to keep on ridiculing their devs.
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How about top 5 all time good books by non-whites (not just what you read in 2014).
Hi, I'm on os x using macport.
What are my options for installing InfluxDB?
Body Labs wants to create your virtual doppelganger
theprintful.com - does a good job of this.
Many people fill out the 1040-EZ themselves (a one-page form you can use if you just take the standard deductions and have no unusual tax situations). However, if you can deduct more than the standard deduction, you have non-trivial investments, or any of numerous other situations apply, you have to fill out the full 1040 form, and that requires sufficient effort that there's a substantial tax preparation industry in the US.

That said, there shouldn't be; there's quite a bit of lobbying by the aforementioned tax prep industry to prevent simplification of taxes to the point where everyone could simply file them on their own, as well as to prevent the establishment of an online government-hosted tax prep system. And that's completely ridiculous. The IRS already has more than enough information to simply send everyone a pre-calculated bill.
Funbills.com to Launch First Free Bill Payment Service with Gamification
FunBills.com is a place to pay (or play) down your bills. A user can search for thousands of service providers in the U.S., such as cell phone, cable or satellite, utilities, credit card and other companies and pay for them directly from the FunBills platform. Users can play games against friends to pay down their bill. Saving money on bills is finally fun and rewarding.

The problem is that bills are currently hard to manage. Many of us have a few different websites we visit to make our various payments. The process does not currently provide a pleasurable experience. Paying with checks and stamps is hard to manage and people cannot always afford to pay their bills on time. Online bill payment services cost money. Many banks currently offer the service to pay bills but even this is not very fun or social.

While the current bills payment process is boring and costly, the FunBills’ solution is free, social, mobile, and because of gamification – Fun. By interacting with the site users earn plays to challenge friends to games, or play games by individually in their spare time. Once a game is complete, you will be awarded points, which can later be used to reduce your bills. At home, on the go, or anywhere you have access to the FunBills’ website or mobile applications you can be playing games- and playing means winning. By increasing the number of people in your FunBills' network, you increase your chance to win more points. More Points = More Savings.

The Funbills application will be launching soon in closed private beta for select individuals http://lnc.hr/IibgO
In my experience: iOS is a bit easier, as long as you're using Objective-C, but not by much. Learning one doesn't necessarily help you learn the other.
RubyMotion is not a traditional Ruby, it generates binaries that basically look basically like what an Obj-C program would generate. It's also not portable to Linux.
If the prosecutor doesn't want an indictment, there won't be one. The kind of thing this is good for is to shed light on that reality.
I don't see how to record meta information like a quality indicator (important for lets say timespans where no data could be recorded e.g. during a connection loss).
I think a lot of it stems from an attempt at simplicity in design. At the time, Windows Mobile was offering a fully customizable filesystem, but Apple wanted to go the route of simplicity when they introduced Apps with iOS2. You tap on them and they work, delete them when you don't want them, etc. Everything is so isolated as a result, and combined with the lack of any sort of Downloads or file creation in the traditional sense, it sort of makes you feel like the data of your apps is stored in really remote, weird locations you can't ever access.

Simplicity like that was part of what made people think not just of productivity but also of fun when they looked at a smartphone imo. Still not very fun to deal with. (Never write a document on your phone. It's not worth it)
Have you run the numbers on refinancing the loan?

(I realize it may not be an option, but if you already have a fairly clear plan to stay in the US, it would seem worth pursuing, maybe even just to avoid all the money transfer fees)
The biggest pain point I see in this market is that experimental parallelization is an intervention-heavy process. Ignoring the equipment costs, it's also capital-intensive (unlike say deploying to AWS). And finally, obtaining usable data still requires experiential knowledge. There's something about knowing and feeling the data (yeah, that's awfully fuzzy) that is still an important part about obtaining good results [0]. So for any biologic process that is parallelizing the operators are going to want to own the machines anyways.

In order to capture a real market, you're going to have to figure out a way to offer parallelization services - be given a non-parallel experiment with certain parameters and scale it up on behalf of the users. So, the user has an experimental plan and just 'hands it over' to transcriptic. I still worry about the experiential knowledge part, putting the experimenter one step away from the experiment is potentially counterproductive.

[0]http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pro.2339/full
In this paper, the grad student (and lead author) who had spent four years of her graduate work on a previous paper had a nagging feeling that the data were strange. By actually looking at the wells, she figured out post-publication (with nothing to gain) that the protein was sticking to sides of the 96-well plate and causing the observational data to be artefactual. Then there was the question of how to do more experiments to prove that was going on. And then the political problem of convincing her grad advisor to publish a retraction (well at least it was a retraction worth a 10 page paper and a new citation. The story has a happy ending; she got a position at a pharma company largely on the back of her due diligence).
It would still be an issue for Uber -- if nothing else, it's bad customer service and indicative of poor quality control. Can't people even admit that?

If someone was complaining about being overcharged, everyone would accept it without question and wouldn't say "it's not an issue" for Uber/consumer/whoever. But it seems that being overcharged is a complaint that is legitimate because men believe that it happens without the customer being in the wrong. Rape, on the other hand...
That's exactly why I don't like ruby. A ruby app usually does not integrate very well with other ruby apps on the system. Especially when company policy mandates that system ruby versions need to be used.

/rant

It's my experience that ruby applications usually require the $latest ruby version. Getting it to run properly with other ruby (diva) applications is just a pain.
This is especially annoying if the applications are managed with a deployment tool like puppet. Applying $PATH quirks to get a nice and consistent layout on these machines is not really the solution.
Now, your solution whilst certainly being neat just creates another intermediate layer. I'm not sure if this is the solution. How do people manage the os updates on docker images? How how do people handle application updates? What if I want to define that in a sane manner?
With puppet I can define a nice and sane process that handles everything from installation to updates to the removal of an app. I have a clear history and I'm able to see what is going on on the machine. I also have a defined and clear process to update the machines.

I'm just guessing but I don't think that your solution is going to work for gitlab without applying a couple of patches to the source files. Routing SSH through port 22 of the host system is going to be a real pain. It also makes future updates a cheerful occurrence.

Nowadays I mostly do development in C, C++ and C# (OSX/Windows and some embedded stuff). Whenever I hear `ruby` or `gem` I start running :)

I also had similar problems with a Go application recently (can you guess which one?).
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My favorite is "Uber for genetic testing". That is exactly what I want, a company like Uber completely ignoring all moral and legal rules with complete access to all of my genetic information.
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Makes me think of a quote from another recent HN front page article on Docker vs. CoreOS and the idea of "simplicity" in the enterprise. I think it's relevant here.

"You can't avoid complexity by pretending it doesn't exist."

There's a lot of complexity and nuance around the handling of files. Mobile likes to pretend it doesn't exist, and the result is file handling choices that treat user data contemptuously and do not allow any kind of workflow whatsoever.

This is one of several very significant reasons mobile in its present form will never displace PC except for low-end use cases.
Get in touch with me at interest@printdropper.com if you'd like to speak further.
> Notification center rejection

Wait, that app had a fake keyboard inside a notification center widget? That's truly awful and roundly deserved to get rejected.

> Sandbox forces feature removal

I don't see how this is relevant to your comment. This wasn't a decision by app store review, or anything like that at all. This appears to simply be that the app was using functionality that is not possible to do inside the sandbox. If he was shipping on the MAS before, he must have been using a temporary exemption and would have known that it would have to get removed once those temporary exemptions stopped being allowed. This is a purely technical limitation and has nothing to do with the sort of management issues you're complaining about.

> Slide to start

That seems like a legit rejection to me as well. Looking at the actual screenshots, they tried to make their control look and feel pretty damn close to the official Apple control. This is a control that Apple spent years training people meant "unlock" (or more specifically, "unlock device"). So even though Apple isn't using it right now, they're still well within their rights to claim that it is too similar to Apple's own UI widget (especially for something that does completely different functionality).

I bet that if the slider didn't look so intentionally similar to Apple's own widget, he wouldn't have had an issue. But he deliberately aped Apple's UI, and should have expected this to eventually happen.

I'm also a bit irked that he's trying to play this up as a big "I got a bogus rejection!" thing and completely ignored the fact that Apple told him to remove or revise it. The issue is not that the act of sliding a finger across a screen to start the race is verboten. It's that his widget is too similar to Apple's UI. Note the actual quotes:

> 8.3: Apps that appear confusingly similar to an existing Apple product, interface, or advertising theme will be rejected

[emphasis mine]

> The “slide to start the stopwatch” is similar to the “slide to unlock in iOS device”.

> Thank you for your message. In order for the app to be reconsidered for the App Store, please remove or revise the Slide To Start feature. Have a good day.

[emphasis mine]

> Specifically, the Slide to Start Race UI element is not appropriate and not in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines as it is too similar to the iOS Slide to Unlock UI.

[emphasis mine]

Instead of trying to stoke public outrage, he should just accept that his UI widget, which was very obviously based directly on the slide-to-unlock widget, should be altered to not look so similar.

--

Yes, there are bogus decisions. PCalc is a good example. But there are also plenty of valid rejections too (many orders of magnitude more). And it's a mistake to think that every publicized rejection is invalid.
Governments don't have to be competitive if they mutually limit migration - and this is one problem.

People need the option to leave a system that doesn't work for them, or that system won't see a need for change. The same competitive forces that are so important to capitalism should apply to nation-states as well.
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> Maybe the problem isn't bill gates, and it's just that there aren't enough minority authors in the US to begin with, due to our school system turning low-income students off from reading?

Agreed; I think this is part of a good discussion. Are few books being written by minorities and women? If so, are few of minorities/women getting the opportunities (e.g., book deals)? Do few have the qualifications to write on such topics?

Your idea certainly seems plausible, and then I wonder: Why do the bad schools seem overwhelming concentrated in minority and poor communities? For example, I suspect some is the result of generations of historical discrimination:

* Red-lining kept even economically successful minorities (which were were few due to overwhelming discrimination in employment and finance) from owning homes (nobody would give them a loan) and in depressed neighborhoods. I doubt it's coincidence that, despite the explosion of the black middle class, many remain in those neighborhoods.

* Women were denied opportunities in many of these fields.

I'd have a very hard time believing some isn't due to ongoing discrimination.

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However, the rest of the post seems a return to the same damaging shout-downs of anyone raising these issues:

If you re-read the comments, nobody calls Gates a bigot or blames him at all; I suspect many like me would share your hypothesis. Sorry to pick on your message, but your post is a good example of the reflexive response I was talking about that prevents us from moving forward. You seem to agree:

> any immediate call to 'unconscious' racism/sexism is likely to be a red herring.

Think of it this way: Aren't you enforcing a new political correctness? That is, it's now 'politically incorrect' on HN to point out racism. (Historically, that's been the most common political incorrectness.)

EDIT: typo on last word
Ask HN: How to increase your chances as a freelancer to get paid projects?
Now and then I do freelancing projectS only to find myself competing with ridiculously low bids by certain agencies, 20-30 of them on sites like elance. This decreases the chances for a freelancer in the west to have a significant chance to get the job.

So I built this for me and my friends: www.cnnected.com

But would love to know other ways or sites to not play the lowratewar with indian developers. Any ideas?
Uh, fine. Sure, some of the rejections may be appropriate. But the situation with Drafts and PCalc are still very valid examples of problems with Apple's policies.
this is so interesting! games have a long way to go before becoming as interesting as ecology.
Woudln't this also benefit the attackers now that they know how ppl are going to mitigate them?
Snowdrift, a new sustainable funding model for free software
Greg Caporaso's Introduction to Applied Bioinformatics. Suddenly saw a huge new way to think about code, especially python, and an accessible path to deep, sound thinking about bioinformatics.

http://caporasolab.us/An-Introduction-To-Applied-Bioinformat...
Yes sir or ma'am. I believe whatever you were trying to convey might have been lost and is not made obvious by your comments position in the responses. The downvotes on your original comment seem to support this theory, but perhaps my reading comprehension is just off today.
US subsidizes the defense budgets of Norway and Saudi Arabia alike.

Sure, some of these countries have great freedom, but I'm not convinced whether US military subsidy protects freedom or just the status quo.
I second the very cool company.

I applied to a job there (went on an interview, waiting for the results), one of the founders prior to the interview even had a Skype Call with me regarding the interview and gave me a few tips.

So far, really nice experience. And they're very open to feedback, I've made a couple of suggestions which where implemented quite fast actually (simple suggestions, nothing very fancy)
We have many jurisdictions in the US where open or concealed carry is legal, and even someone with an unlicenseed gun would likely face only a minimal sentence on a weapons charge if it were used for self-protection in a violent confrontation. While Google does turn up some reports of women shooting would-be rapists, it doesn't seem to be that common. We could generalize fromt hat to observe that we still have other forms of crime like mugging, assault, etc. despite the widespread availability of guns, and at considerably higher rates than many other developed countries.

Lastly, you only seem to be considering the sudden-assault-by-stranger sort of rapes, whereas many rapes (and other crimes) are committed by someone who has established a degree of trust, either by default (as a relative or some other social context) or by design (as in date rape or some sort of 'long con' predatory behavior).

The problem with your approach is that it can be used to sideline people who choose not to carry weapons, as well as normalizing the carrying of weapons in every context - 'shouldn't woman take guns with them into the shower, just in case? Isn't it a bit irresponsible to leave oneself defenseless in the shower, where it may be hard to hear someone break into the house?'

One could equally suggest that every woman get herself a large dog. People are extremely respectful of personal space if you step out with a German Shepherd; my neighbor observes that she feels quite safe taking a nap at a park or beach in the company of her dogs. But just because anyone could do this doesn't mean everyone should do this.
Video of the shooting: http://www.wkyc.com/story/news/local/cleveland/2014/11/26/ta...

The point is that the police initially reported that the officer told Tamir Rice three times to put his hands up and that he then "reached for his waistband." The video illustrates that the police pulled up and shot him way too fast for any of that to have happened.

For people who understandably don't want to watch the video: police pull up very quickly in front of kid, cop jumps out with gun drawn, shoots him. The whole "waistband" thing is a bit of a running joke with regard to justification of police shootings everywhere - what are your hands close to when you're standing?

What's on the video is obviously the worst of it but the way things were handled both before and after the shooting was also horrible.
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that said, I don't want to be a total negative nancy! There are some services (like flow cytometry) that I think I might use for transcriptics.

I think you could also capture an interesting market if you offered "evolution as a service" using your kit.
On an iPad, you can tap-hold on a link and Add to Reading List. That might be easier. It does do JS though, whereas Pages presumably doesn't.
The trouble is that the cost/benefit tradeoff of open source vary massively between types of software and data. A few open source projects have been hugely successful, attracting contributions from many for-profit corporations. Many more are somewhere between useless and abandoned and sorta-kinda useful if you're willing to tolerate various bugs, quirks, and poor UI. The vast majority of all software written will never be open-sourced because of some combination of vertical target markets, the need to be tightly linked to other proprietary things, massive investment needed before it's usable, etc.

OSM is an interesting case. I would have thought that the sheer effort required to keep map data up to date across the world would make it severely impractical to have open map data. They seem to be doing a decent job plugging away, but I don't have any data on how good they are at getting really accurate data and keeping up to date with ever-changing road conditions.
I think you are oversimplifying. After all, the map data isn't really the product here. But you are right the tricky thing would be to maintain an incentive structure.

Waving hands wildly: imagine a mapping database that was owned by the government, free to use for non-profit uses, and licenseable by corporate entities. Here's the twist though, the license fees are proportional to the government doing a certain amount of upkeep/improvement on the database, and you are free to provide the same work block instead of a fee. That way, if you can do it cheaper, it will save you money up front and if your competitor can't do that, it's a competitive advantage.

I haven't thought about this model carefully just pointing out it isn't necessarily as black and white as you suggest...
Jesus that's fucking depressing. I knew of the lady in FL but that was just for water; I didn't realize that people were getting condemned for not having what the city considers to be enough electricity.

I can't believe that the hypocrisy of the government officials isn't blatantly obvious to all. Lady can't afford electricity so they kick her out of her house to sleep in her car. Disgusting.
An Android phone with a pure Google Android experience or very close to it is really the best smartphone experience. Sadly, this is a relatively small percentage of the smartphones available.

And no, rooting and adding a custom ROM doesn't really cut it. Even the world's most popular ROM (cyanogenmod) is still stuck on Android 4.3 Jellybean with 4.4 stuck in perpetual testing land even though it's over a year old and 5.0 has been released.
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"which are based in part on Open Street Map (giving data back too)"

I know for a fact this isn't true. What was your source for this?
Elizabeth Holmes is a driven, effective leader in laboratory testing using small programmable instruments that test for multiple conditions at the same time.

Since there is no mention in this article about the technology that is used, I wonder if a language like Erlang would be effective in running such an automated instrument?
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And you're one of our top candidates! :D The other suggestions will be implemented but will take some more time...
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