skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the difference between what you brought up and wealthy people just moving their holding companies to jurisdictions with lower capital gains and earnings tax? People should be mobile as they want to be in free societies. Do we believe that the state owns their citizens or a portion of those citizens working lives? The income tax presumes they do.
If it was all paid back though, what was the magnitude of the theft? If we say 8% return was too low given the risk, the value that was stolen from the public is the marginal interest the public missed out on.

So what was the right rate of return? If it was 10%, that's 2% marginal rate not captured. How long was the term of the loans? 5 years? That works out to roughly $70B over 5 years.

I'm not claiming that's a small number (!) but if we are calling it theft, we should qualify the theft more concretely.
Are all the "clients" listed as persons or are some of the corporations? I know for a fact that the Bahamas is used massively as an endpoint for many tax evasion schemes, going through shell company after shell company and ending up there, which is then spent there (which is why the Bahamian gov doesn't really do anything to stop it.)
From that post:

"""A # of users involved in this cabal are depressed, aren't "cool", are LGBT (more difficult to be included socially if you are a member of this group in real life), are social outcasts,"""

And it's basically 100% a cishet presumably-white dude pretending to be a victim in the same way that you see people talking about Mexicans moving in to the US and "taking over" or ISIS being an "existential threat".
Nuance (the company that now owns Dragon) has a huge patent portfolio for speech recognition. No commercial products will be able to ship with F/LOSS speech recognition because of this. It also makes using the GPL not possible

It is possible that someone will make an MIT licensed version (and could do so legally in some countries that aren't the US), but it would be technically illegal to distribute in the US.
It was/is true. The Snapdragon chips. Voice activation is a built in feature. https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2013/02/20/snapdragon-wake...
I believe the point of Sandstorm is to allow people to install mail/docs/calendar apps as simply as possible. It already has multiple document editors ported.

To install apps into Sandstorm, you literally just click on a link - Sandstorm will manage grabbing the app and installing it for you. Sandstorm itself is a self-contained daemon that can run on any Linux server (and, at some point, there'll be an ISO to install an auto-updating Linux with Sandstorm on it).
It sounds like you are talking about plpython rather than plpgsql.
If you go to Burning Man, you'll enjoy this
The sound limitation is actually due to browsers limitation. Will keep working to enhance the experience! Thanks for the feedback!
> a free [OSX] app

I was expecting a mobile app. Or at least something cross-platform.
Lovely webapp. Looking forward to your android port! :)
looks like none of the styles are loading in your examples. I'm accessing them from work, so maybe they are getting blocked on my end...?
What if your TV provider is also your Internet provider (and also provides your modem)? Wondering if they could disguise or obscure this traffic if they control the network.
For ~50 years, Radio Shack rode major trends in consumer electronics quite well. Amateur radios, walkie-talkies, CB radios, home stereos, home computers, cell phones, they did it all (except interestingly PCs they didn't do so great).

It was only when electronics became so mainstream, competition increased and profits became marginal they couldn't survive.

It's too bad, but if we're smart instead of over-analyzing this, we'll should keep our eyes peeled for the next industries that will go under.
Here is my implementation of an in-memory Redis based on JS objects that supports Lists, Strings and Hashes commands. This implementation is mostly used as an in-memory cache in the browser to sync state from the server in the Meteor framework:

https://github.com/meteor/miniredis
I think for this use case you'd keep the machine at home and reverse-proxy or VPN it to the outside world.
>I was still a student and I started doing social media campaigns for various clients. I was at a turning point of my career: to continue with IT stuff or try my luck in completely new area. //

Not really sure I'd consider a change of focus on part-time work whilst still a student a "career change".
Thank you! Glad you love it :)
Developers' Box Club
Not at all. If the whole process is human-controlled, then we can change it, whereas the gold's going to be wherever gold's going to be.

Suppose somebody spends a lot of money hiding easter eggs, and then I spend a lot of money finding and getting the eggs. We can both save a lot of money by them just giving me the eggs.
Welcome to the Robot Hotel in Nagasaki This Summer
Yes. I remember back when they switched from kat.ph — they said both domains would be available for use
If your result can be negative, use a signed integer. But in many cases you shouldn't: unsigned integers have well-defined behaviour, you should take advantage of that.

Also, while it's true that modern C has the stdint.h typedefs, the old types are still good. All of the standard library, and many libraries you use, use the old types, so this makes interaction with them more practical. Furthermore, it'd probably best to use sizes suited to your platform. A long will be 32-bit on a 32-bit system and 64-bit on a 64-bit system. You only need long long in some cases. You can't avoid the traditional C types for things like strings, either.

Really, stdint.h only matters if you're reading binary data or performance is ultra-important, IMO.
I never get tired of watching this video of an Il-76 transport plane taking off in Australia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLxEHIbHUlY
Hobby electronics? You can't even get a simple power adapter at RadioShack anymore. RadioShack is a joke.
Usually you don't create a struct yourself, but use c2nim to wrap it, like I did here: http://hookrace.net/blog/what-makes-nim-practical/#wrapping-...

When you look at the resulting Nim wrapper, here's what a C struct got turned into: https://github.com/def-/nim-bpg/blob/master/src/bpg.nim#L61-...
Article> many in the maker movement can’t comprehend why their beloved RadioShack is failing.

Really? I would think that anyone who had tried to purchase parts for a maker-type project in their local RadioShack would understand in the hour it took the clueless clerk to point the prospective customer past the displays of cell phones, $30 HDMI cables, and RC toys to the lone, dusty cabinet of mis-filed and comically over-priced components.

I have a soft spot in my heart for TRS, taught myself BASIC one summer on a TRS-80, bought every Forrest Mims engineer's notebook, loved my 50-in-1 electronics kit, and even today occasionally use a through-hole resistor from my collection of RS parts. I wish they weren't going away, but I sure as hell comprehend WHY they died...
I've looked at Om before. It looks great and I guess probably implements some of the ideas I'm talking about but it's just too far away from what I'm doing. I have some really complex optimised code already and I'm pretty adverse to trying to bend it into a whole new language. Will take another look though to see if there are ideas I can borrow.
awesome to see stripe on the list!
> Regarding your first point it's extremely rare in my experience to have an interviewer expect perfect/compiable code when whiteboarding (nearly every whiteboarding exercise I've ever done has been prefaced with the interviewer explicitly stating this). They're looking for how you go about solving a problem, they don't care about missing semicolons.

The interview instructions Amazon gave me prior to my in-person interviews specifically said my whiteboard code would be judged on syntax and that I was expected to produce working code, not pseudocode. They are not the only company that has said this to me, so I do not think it is "extremely rare".

> As for your second point, just because the ability to easily "inspect the actual work done" is not practical in one profession doesn't mean it shouldn't be considered in a completely different profession where it is practical.

For a large portion of programmers, it is impractical. The only way most programmers have representative examples they can show that level of detail in is to do professional-quality work outside of their day job. Expecting them to do so is unreasonable.
> I totally reject this article's somewhat Marxist undertone that RadioShack's demise was due to Americans' lack of demand for hobby electronics

How is such an explicitly market-based argument "somewhat Marxist"?
It's still a bit ahead of launch, but we are preparing an open source alternative to OwnCloud (that also includes messaging platform) that acts as an OAuth server for apps/plugins and an API and does not impose all apps to be implemented in the same language. We are using a NodeJS runtime, but the code is generated using a strongly statically typed language, Opa.

Source code is not yet published, will be AGPL.

Docker containers: https://github.com/MLstate/PEPS
Developing a Software Library for Graph Analytics
44 year old programmer here -- I keep hoping that one day C++ won't matter, but I keep getting jobs (at startups) partly because I know it well.
This is great. I was using Coffitivity which has been featured oh HN before. Unfortunately they tried to launch a paid version and that didn't work out all that well. They wanted to tie it to a facebook account and I can't get on board with that strategy so I decided not to use it.

There's also the fact that they were charging either 4-5 bucks a month (can't recall exactly) for what amounted to 3 additional mp3 files. That's a tough sell.
Note: I just tried to upgrade the version following the docs. I didn't notice that I read the 7.0 docs for upgrading and there, it says you should download "owncloud-latest.tar.bz2". This will download an old version of ownCloud. Use this link to get it:

https://download.owncloud.org/community/owncloud-8.0.0.tar.b...
Hmm, could be - anyone else having this problem? It's a script running over their site's template, so I'm guessing that is getting blocked.
What if your team was working remote?
I've been thinking increasingly that webcl's place is in the cloud, including because of all the work on multiuser/multitenant confidentiality+integrity+availability!
Color of this page hurts my eyes :(
Ability to change background color would be great, after sitting in front of terminal for hours this green background is too bright.
The benefits of daily writing: Tracking progress and learning from top performers
I have a 4 month old daughter and paid for a white noise app to help her sleep / calm down. This is a perfect replacement with better design etc.

I urge you to make an app marketed towards parents - I would pay for it.
Nice! Might I just propose better color contrast between text and background? Sometimes it's a little hard on the eyes.
Looks like most of the top stories at the moment are meta-discussions about reddit vs voat, as well as a thread about how much they hate Islam.

New boss same as the old, I guess.
We have an iOS app https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/noisli/id862773459?mt=8
Some time ago I wrote Coisas[1], which is somewhat like this, but with Markdown and YAML Front Matter and not so much visual appeal as Hubpress. Anyway, it is a nice thing, runs in your browser and publishes to GitHub Pages. Small and modular codebase, you can fork and modify it easily.

[1]: https://github.com/fiatjaf/coisas
I'm in my happy place.

www.noisli.com/get_combo_by_link/LfuyDN4ryc0DE7x

Where did you source these loops for this project?
The thing is, people are flooding the market with cheap noisy crap anyway, distributed as any of hundreds of non-brands and shipped directly to the customer from outside the regulatory area. Technically it falls upon customs to stop these from entering, but customs is not qualified to do compatibility testing. Personally I think the correct response would be a customer protection law that requires that manufacturers and vendors take back/replace problematic products, rather than forcing pre-certification and membership in predatory organizations on everyone. The current regulatory environment (particularly WEEE) is toxic to any kind of small-scale manufacture, not because of the specific requirements imposed, but because of the gigantic costs of complying with said requirements in a regulation-approved way.
If the risk was that low you would have thought that a lot of rich guys would have stood in line to buy up the banks' assets.
There are lots of apps that do this. I used to use them to help me sleep. There was a fantastic thunder storm one but it was quite expensive. The songs were incredible though.
Goliath Needs David: Why Fortune 100 Brands Work with Startups [Infographic]
Probably great specificity, but close to zero sensitivity. I guess thats fine if you have no intention of changing jobs though.
Top Y Combinator Companies by Stage
Sounds very interesting, thanks! Adding it to my reading list.
Tbd.vc – early stage tech investments
Same here. "GitHub had an IPO???"
Exactly. RadioShack could have decided to turn themselves into a DigiKey or a SparkFun, but instead they tried to turn into a Circuit City or a Best Buy.

(That said: "Marxist undertone", really? It's certainly an awful undertone, that it's somehow the fault of potential customers for not consuming enough at Radio Shack, rather than the fault of Radio Shack for not selling what people want.)
This entire thread is news to me. Just the other day I was searching the apple store for "GNU" and "GPL" and came up with almost nothing of note.

So what you are saying is if I wrote, say, a game for the app store, and wanted to release it under GPLv3, Apple wouldn't approve it? Even if I provide the binaries/src on a seperate website linked from within the app but not dependent on apple in anyway whatsoever?

Would it matter on the monetization scheme? eg free, one time payment, in app purchases, all with access to src to be compatible with GPL?

If it's true that Apple doesn't allow GPL'd s/w in the store, I think my hatred for Apple just grew by 10,000 sizes.

edit: Seems to be true, Apple store is completely at odds with GPL'd software, and potentially quite a few other licenses.

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store...
http://contrastrebellion.com

Though the page colors vary over time.
> I've talked to a few lawyers and they basically consider GPLv3 a contract that isn't worth bothering with.

That isn't a reason. Lawyers don't have magical powers to reason about the business implications of legal documents, the interesting thing they can tell you is how the law will treat the words, e.g. if some part of the document would not be enforceable or would do something you wouldn't have expected from reading it. It would actually be interesting if they said something like that, because that would be a reason. Ask them for a reason. Otherwise it's just FUD.

It is quite obvious that if your intent was to produce a tivoized product then GPLv3 is not your friend, because that was the point. But most people don't want to do that, so why should they care?
No, I suppose you're right. That's not at all fascinating to consider...
Agreed - Radio Shack completely lost sight of what the hobbyist was doing and how they were evolving. The stores became a mix of Best Buy and Radio Shack from the 80s.

However, it is also important to note that the evolution of consumer electronics was away from the "tower" PC you could easily build and modify yourself, and towards sealed devices with intricate and highly designed components like laptops and smartphones. Still possible, thanks to iFixit, but not quite as easy.
I have had the same problem with 'ambient sound' apps, and they eventually render them useless for me. Perhaps it would be an idea to layer two tracks of different lengths on top of each other to at least make it 'random' for longer? Have you considered this?

(Other than that, great work. I might buy the iOS version soon!)
Thanks! Actually, now there is the option to stop the background color at any time ;) Just click the wheel icon on the menu and there it is :)
It's basically a Spanish symbol by all accounts, with plenty of evidence of usage prior to the Independence of the US. The "real de a ocho" remained legal currency in the US for many decades. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_dollar
It's all fine until it's firmware that is spying on you. Or baseband chip.
> It can be summed up as "don't use technology without understanding it, and don't blindly follow the crowd." But then again, how are you supposed to learn when a certain piece of technology should be applied, other than apply it and see how it goes?

That's called research. You do it on your own time, while using more mature & proven solutions for daily work. Play with it, review all the source code. Like it or not, it's going to be your code, once you start using it in earnest. Don't treat it like a friendly black box.

Is that too much to do? Then you're going to have a lot of surprises. Maybe that's fun for you, but I have to say it gets really old over the years.

> It requires a certain amount of cognitive dissonance to point to Etsy's 2000 files as a failure while at the same time they are a successful company.

Er, no, it doesn't require cognitive dissonance at all. In fact, the folks at Etsy blogged about the issues themselves.

It's a common thing for a fast moving, highly successful project to accumulate gunk under the excuse of "it works for now, we'll clean it up later". But, if the clean up never comes, that gunk eventually becomes a noticeable drag on daily development.

> And it's not a particularly interesting one, imho. I'm not sure why so much ink is spilled on it other than it's easy to form opinions around.

If it's not particularly interesting, then why are you reading about it and responding to it? :)
Samsung's SmartTV Privacy Policy Raises Accusations of Digital Spying
Smart TVs eavesdropping on your conversations is not new (sorry)
The brain doesn't do logic, it does pattern matching, and selects the appropriate reaction based on the match that offers the biggest chances of survival.
So glad you found your happy place on Noisli :)
We should just remain comfortably cocooned in our contextual containers.
And the query stays in your version control instead of the server.
Darpa Probabilistic Programming Summer School 2015
"But yeah ... there is engineering brain from what I see."

I saw Temple Grandin speak at a state fair some years back, she's interesting, and I'm paraphrasing and probably misquoting but what I heard was something along the lines of if the species had to rely completely on neurotypicals, we'd still be living in caves and wearing hides, with a side dish of if a brain gets stuck or trapped on something like mathematical analysis of animal behavior as relates to architecture then we end up with her PHD dissertation revolutionizing livestock facility design, but much more likely if the brain gets stuck on lining up thomas the tank engine action figures, then the long term outcome is not so good. Also she had some opinions about discipline that were not the current mantras. No one at the event seems to like medication other than people with a financial interest in medication, I was surprised at that uniform consensus.
We built a wearable device that can help people sense a virtual object (like a square or a map of India or a cube or an entire solar system), through a small vibrating motor on their hand by moving their hand around in the air.

This would be particularly helpful for the blind and the visually impaired as it can help them better visualize shapes, learn geography and access images like they never could before.

And I'm very proud to tell you that our team at Color Me Black (http://www.colormeblack.co.in/) won the Education themed Startup Weekend Hyderabad, India last night!
Hi. OP here. Learned some stuff, while founding and funding Mister Spex and several other startups in Berlin in the last 8 years. I'd like to invest my returns into other software and e-commerce entrepreneurs.
To elaborate further, the prototype is a glove that people can wear, and when they move their hand around, an arduino onboard detects that and turns on a small vibrator-motor on the glove when their hand is at a position where an imaginary object is supposed to be, allowing them to get an understanding of what the object might be shaped like.

For example if we have the computer simulate the shape of a square, the glove-wearer would feel a vibration on their hand as they move it along it's imagined boundaries, allowing them to get a sense of it's shape.

Blind students and blind people in general have a tough time visualizing, understanding and using images, but with the help of this smart-glove, we can give them a sense of what things in the image might be shaped like, enabling them to better use that information.
Oh, so that's why we don't have local speech recognition and everything is going to the cloud? Damn it, patents.
You find the option to stop the background color clicking on the wheel icon on the left menu ;)
Good point. In those cases, the analogy breaks down.

Merriam-Webster offers several definitions for "parallel", though the only definition with a temporal connotation is the definition related to computing:

"relating to or being a connection in a computer system in which the bits of a byte are transmitted over separate channels at the same time"

Meanwhile, "concurrent" references "parallel" as a synonym. Perhaps the terms are rather arbitrary after all, and we just need to get comfortable with their less-than-perfect assignments.
NBA Cron: a tool for automatically running scripts after every NBA game
kat.ph redirects to kickass.to now, and before both kat.ph and kickass.to redirected to kickass.so.

They are both owned, but they all redirect to whatever is the main one at the time.
On the surprising behaviour of memory operations at high thread counts
tool to drive you nuts at work if white noise isn't your thing
Personally, both from experience long ago, and from what I gather is the case today with exits being difficult and good ones very rare, I'd make the stock options a "Equity" check box, and include a text box with a politely worded version of "If you wish, please tell me why the discounted value of the equity is not essentially zero or negative...."

The negative is because they can be a motivation to fire an employee just before they become worth something, e.g. in the most infamous case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reid_(computer_scientist...
Thank for the feedback and for sharing your experience. Hope you enjoy Noisli :)
The reality is that RadioShack pretty much always sold high margin consumer junk. (I remember laughing about their lousy stereo gear purchased by people who didn't know they'd be far better off going to a "real" pre-big box stereo/electronics store back in the late 1970's.) And they also sold stuff like CB radio and TV antennas back when those were things. Between the Internet and the way consumer electronics developed over time, I'm not sure there is a strategy Radio Shack could have pursued that both had some connection to their roots and which would support the scope and type of retail that they created over time.
Security wise bcrypt(md5(password)) is at least as strong as bcrypt(password). However broken md5 is it is certainly no easier to find a preimage than where you already have the preimage. (Edit: now that I think about it, it could be worse if there is a side channel in your md5 implementation.)

If you do it that way you'll pay a performance cost on every password check forever. I suppose that trade-off might worth it in some cases.
How to get a big back?
It's only a matter of time until the scheme crashes again.

135 comments and not one mention of Bitcoin?