skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't quite follow how they extrapolate the housing economic bubble to a pyramid scheme.

One of the fundamentals of a pyramid scheme is that early entrants profit, and continue profiting as the scheme plays out. How does this apply to the housing market if you don't get continual returns on resale?

An interesting correlation between Eve factories and the housing market which they don't mention is that no rational actors are incentivized by depreciation. There is only positive pressure on the price to push it up, which is interesting because for many assets you have investors that can bet on it going down (i.e. shorting).
Lets say one uses http/2 across microservices in a datacenter (or "cloud") with (possibly) ipv6 (or ip4) over secure (vpn or physically secure) links. Would you reallly want to complicate the stack by having to choose between using both 1.1 and 2 or do double encryption?

I get that browsers demand tls as there's no sane ui/ux to show that the link is secure because of vpn etc to the user. Not so for other clients.
It is backward-compatible, because they adjust the divisor to compensate, so that the index value pre-rebalancing is the same as the index value post-rebalancing.

If they never adjusted the list of stocks, it would eventually become irrelevant as stocks go bankrupt or are acquired. Only 1 current Dow member was in the index in 1907 (GE), and 4 current Dow members were in the index before 1939 (XOM, PG, DD).
> How can one verify that a vendor has been licensed to sell a work if they don't include their license with the author?

One generally is not expected to, unless one is the author or author's representative, in which case one doesn't need the vendor to provide the license agreement.

> Maybe a street vendor has been licensed to sell the just-appeared-in-theater movie that they are selling?

A more valid analogy here would be "maybe the multiplex cinema selling movie tickets has been licensed to screen the just-appeared-in-theater movie that they are showing".
Being fired for cause in this case refers to misconduct at the job, which is quite different from just being not good enough at your job.

I won't repost the list, but you can find the definition and the most common list on their website here:

http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/ei/information/misconduct...
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I don't know if the majority of people are good at interviews, but that is completely orthogonal to whether the majority of people who can code can code in interviews.
I entered my name and number into an insurance finder once. I got calls for years after from every insurance company imaginable. The junk mail still comes. Never again am I giving away my personal info in a finder that passes it on.
If the Netflix traffic was exempt from your data cap, you would be paying $(Netflix rate)/(Netflix usage) for Netflix, while you would be paying (monthly rate)/(other usage) other usage. That means different rates for different types of data. The core problem that net neutrality addresses is that, in allowing the ISP to charge different rates for different data, they can prioritize data based on their own interest, rather than what the consumer wants. Say your ISP decides that, instead of offering a flat rate to deliver Netflix service, it will launch its own content service which, when accessed, would not count towards your data cap. In this way, the ISP can undercut Netflix's service because they own a monopoly on the mode of transmission - that is, you can't get Netflix through any other mode of transmission. The same can be said about speed: if your ISP limits the bandwidth of Netflix's video streams so that you can only watch in standard definition, but places no such limits on its own service, then the ISP can again unfairly undercut Netflix (and this happened, actually - Netflix was strong-armed into paying a large sum so that an ISP wouldn't rate-limit Netflix content). Net Neutrality prevents such scenarios from arising, by forcing ISPs to treat all types of data equally. Therefore, it cannot leverage its monopoly on distribution to prevent innovation of Internet services by competitors.
I inferred from the rest of that section that what was really meant is "people start caring about further career advancement."
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It's also almost certain that somewhere in Elsevier's terms, they require a copyright license, and require the same of their member journals, which would mean by accepting any member journal's fine-print guidelines for publication, the authors granted a separate license to Elsevier to propagate, store, and resell the content. IANAL but I'd assume that Elsevier's lawyers aren't stupid.
According to Alexa, Amazon.cn is the 69th most visited website in the entire world and the 14th most popular in China. [0]

Their second largest competitor JD.com (according to that article) is only the 16th most popular in China. [1]

Tmall.com is 5th in China, so OK Amazon.cn isn't THE most popular ecommerce site in China. [2] But is that really failing and throwing in the towel?

What am I missing here? How has Amazon.cn failed in the Chinese market?

[0] http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/amazon.cn

[1] http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/jd.com

[2] http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/tmall.com
Instagram yes, but Dropbox is/has migrated to Go. So has disqus.
Anything can be revoked at anytime.

But, specifically to you question, yes the patent can be later revoked for non-originality, prior art, etc.
I feel weird parallels between the job market and the dating scene recently. Nobody is good enough, you can be tossed out at any point for not being an absolute perfect match, and everybody is complaining about how impossible it is to find love/talent.
Look up WebJaguar. They can do all of what you listed. Not sure what your budget is but they are pricier than Shopify and Squarespace but much more powerful. Send me an email, if interested. projectwj200@gmail.com
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Can google put the DNS results into the links directly while keeping the hostname as well? Since the IP address is fetched real-time, there won't be any load balancing issue.

It doesn't need to change the browser or anything else.
Seriously. It's extremely important that we as engineers be ethical about what we build. If you are enabling a surveillance state, I think many people would consider that to be harmful to public welfare.
Patents can be challenged/revoked if they are not novel - in other words, if the practice, process, invention, etc already existed. Particularly if it is in widespread use it is often easier to get it revoked - hence conference papers, articles, posts, etc, about this practice can prove that CD is well known and get the patents taken care of.

Generally you are not required to search for prior art before you file a patent, you just have to promise you aren't aware of any. Some people intentionally avoid looking for prior art for this reason, as the patent office is overwhelmed and often staffed people not as much of experts as they should be, and you end up with people granting patents for obviously non-novel things.
Data caps do not exist for non-mobile Internet connections in Germany. The speed of the Internet is still increasing. We are at a point where i don't even care about getting more. Bandwidths of 250mbit are announced to come to the market in the coming years. I can live with stable 50mbit. The real problem are rural areas where people are stuck with 2mbit/256kbit lines and throwing away net neutrality will not change a damn thing about this. Laying kilometers of fibreglass into the ground for less than 500 customers will never be profitable. Even if they can charge half of them with a premium fee.
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Especially when you look beyond the hubris of the word "career" and consider that a very important part of "building a career" is growing your skills, experience & knowledge. That's something both employee and employer should want.
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Not to mention the most played video game of all time: Windows Solitare.

http://m.fastcompany.com/1671462/a-real-deck-of-cards-that-i...
S3 is $0.03/GB/month.

Your own pod is $0.048/GB/once.
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Any examples of other companies with an awesome hiring process like this?
How do you figure 0.03 per month is similar to 0.05 per 4? years?

[Ed: Not to mention, from the comments: "our drives [have done] roughly 4 gbps of traffic over the last week." I don't know about you, but I'm not doing 4 gbps sustained to s3 ...]
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My first thought: here's another Google offering they won't promote, and will discontinue in a year or two. Why bother?

It reminds me of the "compare CD rates" page they had - I tried to find it just now, but it looks like they killed it off.

But I did find this - Google Compare credit cards:

https://www.google.com/compare/creditcard/qs#p=0
I don't know if I'm convinced. Yes, overcapitalized clothing retailers have had a horrible time online, but the Nasty Gals of the world are doing just fine (at least until you actually see the clothes)
The more I look at what else is out there in vehicle tracking, the weirder this thing becomes. Other tracking devices that people have discovered [1] have been much more professionally assembled, with epoxy blobs coating interesting chips and everything. Additionally, fleet telemetric devices that are battery powered and use cell signals and gps also look a lot more professional than this, with plastic casings, neat soldering jobs, etc. This feels like an odd amateur tracking device of some sort, which IMO makes it even more interesting than a government tracker.

[1] http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2011/11/GPS-Tr...
I don't think so. The syntax is (A); (B); or (C).
I've been planning to get everything off the shared hosting accounts for awhile. Is Digital Ocean a better deal than, say, AWS for hosting dynamic websites?
To be fair 0.03 also includes operation costs like power and space, replacements. I _feel_ that a backup company will have an operational advantage having its own storage but its more complicated than comparing cost per GB.
> What am I missing here? How has Amazon.cn failed in the Chinese market?

Most popular US services/companies have Chinese-based (and Chinese-targeted) equivalents[0], and in most cases, the Chinese version is more successful in China than its US-based counterpart.

So the real question is: why do Chinese companies tend to outperform foreign ones in China?

I have a number of speculations as to why, but I'm not sure if the answer is really cut-and-dry[1].

[0] Some of these even predate the US version!

[1] Though the inability to (or difficulty with?) store Chinese user data outside China is probably a big part of it
I'd also add that rubys confusion about what a function is is the thing that's been annoying me the most lately. You have procs, lambdas, blocks, and all with subtle differences (http://awaxman11.github.io/blog/2013/08/05/what-is-the-diffe...), and all I want are simple funcs as first class citizens that have consistent behavior. (TCO as a default would also be nice).

"And finally, pie in the sky, can we solve packaging apps up into distributable binaries, please? Rust and Go are making us look bad."

As a ruby programmer the lack of any reasonable - i.e. not hacky - way to build binaries is annoying. Unless you're building a server side app, you can pretty much forget using ruby because of this. Maybe that's all ruby cares about, its certainly its niche but I like ruby and would like to be able to use it for cli programs, etc. Personally, I don't want end users of my code to have to install ruby, learn about ruby gems and boot the ruby vm before having to run a cli program.
If you're interested in getting a similar experience to Adam check out the FAA seminar "Operation Rain Check". These scheduled events occur around the country and typically include a tour of ARTCC, TRACON, and/or tower facilities. You need to be a pilot or a guest of one but it's a tremendously interesting experience if you can swing it.

Here's a description of a seminar from a couple of years ago in NY: http://www.faasafety.gov/SPANS/event_details.aspx?eid=43755

Sadly, the FAA doesn't have a great way to find out about these things unless you're signed up for email notifications but if this is the sort of thing you're interested in you're probably industrious enough to figure it out.
> Copyright infringement is a civil tort, not necessarily illegal.

Civil torts are illegal, even though they are not criminal.

> The law defines infringement but does not prohibit it, but merely provides mechanisms of civil remedy.

That is incorrect, the law prohibits torts like infringement as much it prohibits criminal offenses. (It may do so by simply specifying the consequence of violation of the prohibition without separately stating the prohibition independently, but this is typical of criminal laws as well -- which are often phrased as "whoever does <prohibited act> shall be punished with <punishment>", so if we accepted the prohibition/consequence distinction for torts, we'd have to do so for crimes as well, and say crimes are not "illegal".)

> Fair use is not infringement.

Sure, but that's a non-sequitur.

> You may be thinking of criminal copyright infringement.

No, I'm just not falsely limiting "illegal" to "criminal".
1. Count N

2. compute p = n/N

3. select * from table where random()<p*(some lambda >1) order by random() limit n

4. Repeat 3 until you got n rows
He/she would only have to pay 3.28 times his normal payment in order to pay it off in 1/5th of the time. It's paid off more quickly because by paying more, you reduce the amount of interest that accumulates.

On a $100k 20 year loan at at 5.7% (I know, example), interest paid would be around $67k (so total $167k). By paying 3.28 times more per month ($2300 per month versus the $700 normal rate), the interest paid ends up being only around $12k.
I think saying that ATC's close the airport is accurate, in the sense that they're doing the work of rerouting all the planes away and so on.
next up on forex trading charts : mmo economies.

a lot of btc traders used to track SecondLife lindens due to there being a conversion scheme between the two currencies.
Notify the author and coordinate action with them (legal, social, military, up to you). Ultimately it's their call.
No, I get that, but at the same time, everybody's paying in to unemployment, and even in a down economy, where we have something like 10-12% unemployment, that means that 88% are paying in.

If the caps are so short and arbitrary, unless I'm missing something, the state is pocketing a ton. Perhaps that's okay, because it does definitely defend against the "everybody's out of work" scanario that we haven't really had in awhile, despite the recession. Or maybe it just means that there are more people who need it more than I'm envisioning, or that it disproportionately favors the lower incomes, or any other number of factors.

The point though, which I've perhaps done a poor job of illustrating, is that it still behooves the state to ensure that earners with high wage potential aren't made homeless as a result of those caps.

If the higher wage earners get less benefit from the system, then so be it, but that means that the system needs them more than they need it, and as a result, should probably not be bankrupting those with high income potential, just because "we shouldn't be debt servicing their assets".
Almost makes me want to apply in an effort to abandon my current web development life entirely. Almost
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I would find this in a previous stressful job. My mental state would change from "I NEED TO DEFEAT THIS!" to "This is impossible to win, so I'll just focus on doing my best", and the subsequent stress would subside.
You meant different objects on the same webpage. Load balancing for them will be different as you suggested. Is this really important? Load balancing for different clients can be achieved easily.
I would downvote this if i were able. This is not a link to python tips, it is a banner ad for purchasing a book.
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Well done! I'd love something along those lines as well, since my iPad is generally dead most of the time, never being used.
Huh?

I am clean cut, drug free, and have a regular job.

Desiring a substantive community is becoming a mainstream thing - just like community-based open source free software is now in use, well, everywhere.
I hope this also eventually means moving away from using phone numbers as the sole mechanism for identity. While it is and was useful to build up a meaningful userbase and resist spammers, it also hinders a lot of useful usage patterns.
It feels less informed. HN covers tech to a fine point but Groklaw, IMO, remains untouched for its legal coverage.
looks like Private Investigator catalog equipment in the states. Big, clunky, and built to suit a million different uses. Dev board + sensors + 3g = a million different reconfigurable spy toys.

Although I hope it's a three-letter agency, because that'd make me a bit less frightened of them.

Also, I don't know why everyone is up-in-arms about the solder job quality. Rip apart a Chinese Futaba-knockoff RC transmitter, dash cam, or counterfeit Lenovo/Apple power-brick for similar quality (and that stuff is everywhere). All that anyone cares about is that it passed the bench test. (who cares if it burns up later?)
Yes, I am. Where is the logical inconsistency?
In most of the US, "employment-at-will" eliminates the distinction. A company doesn't need to show a cause in order to fire someone. Where it becomes important is that if someone is fired "with cause," then they are not eligible for the company's typical severance benefits or unemployment compensation.

This, in turn, creates a perverse incentive for employers to fabricate a cause, or even to provoke the employee. Fortunately not at my present employer, but I have seen this happen and have also seen managers brag about it.
As a systems biologist and web developer, I say major thumbs up for the presentation of the idea, but a thumbs sideways for the actual visualization method.

I'm not sure this makes biology clearer. Seems like rearranging deck chairs.
I know a guy that makes GPS trackers for divorce lawyers, pretty common tech. Doesn't need to be a state actor, just a jealous girlfriend etc. Heck you can by a GPS on eBay that will text you coords for $40...
I'm glad I'm not the only one.

I really want to like tablets, and have owned (and subsequently given away) several iPads, but they just never seem to have a clear place in my life: I have my phone with me most of the time because it fits conveniently in my pocket, and a significant chunk of the rest of the time I'm sat in front of a proper computer; there isn't really enough of a gap left between those two categories of devices that I'd need a third to fill it.

(I also like physical books and haven't really installed very many apps on my phone. Perhaps I'm just a Luddite.)
I don't know... Can you really trust a wikipedia page that has needed attention from an expert for five years?
I have similar thoughts, it really seems rather like overkill. Either an old device or not a purpose-built tracker. Very large, and holy cow is that a TQFP-144? I've built local-storage trackers before with DIP-8 chips. I've not implemented GSM, but I'd be pretty surprised if a modern GPS+GSM tracker required this much horsepower.

Not to mention the board layout is pretty good, and because the GPS & GSM are integrated the layout engineer probably had to know a thing or two about routing antennas- while as you point out the solder job is quite amateur.
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it's enemy action." - Auric Goldfinger
Installed Chrome extensions are your remaining helpers in there.
I honestly believe that the recruiting/hiring market is ripe to be flipped on it's head for these reasons. I just can't think of any way to do it that can scale though.

There are the hired.com models where independent experts thoroughly vet the candidate, but that involves a lot of manual interaction.
The author isn't saying that it's a bad thing, or something that good employees shouldn't be doing. Rather that it's a thing that happens, and is important to your employees, so if you don't address it or aren't attune to it then problems ensue.
Polygraph most certainly work ... if you believe they work while being tested.
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Well what should we expect? In the last 20-30 years, a huge amount of effort has (rightly) been put into bringing girls' performance up. Examples include substituting practical classes for theory, exams for courseware, and so on. Also, for quite unrelated reasons, there are fewer male teachers (i.e. role models) than ever before.

So if I was interested in gender equality then I might suggest that maybe the balance has swung too far and we need to reverse some of these changes just a little bit, but I'm actually a feminist so I'm just going to declare victory and move on.
Try it while not logged into SharePoint. My experience when SharePoint is logged its not exactly lean.
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Looking through LinkedIn it seems these guys are all Israelis. Maybe that's why they don't care about gaming the US patent system.
This guy, Günther Oettinger, has been against net neutrality from the beginning, and he's now in charge of setting the net neutrality agenda. He was also the one the newspapers lobbied so he would campaign against Google and force it to pay money to newspapers in Germany.

Worse yet, he even said that ISPs should be able to lock-in customers for longer periods of time so they can "recover their investments", or something.

https://gigaom.com/2014/11/07/let-isps-lock-their-customers-...

The EU Commission should stop pretending that net neutrality is getting killed by national governments. They have an inside man doing the exact same thing there.

Oh, and he'll also be responsible for drafting the new EU-wide copyright laws. So yeah...the next couple of years are going to be very interesting.

Julia Reda had a talk at the latest CCC on the upcoming copyright law:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL_Wxu6x1HU
I just listened to the audio of US Airways 1549 today. Sullenberger reports both engines out like he just told his wife they're out of milk. I guess the training works.
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I use Deluge at the moment. Last time I tried Transmission I remember there wasn't any official support for multiple watch folders.

Is this still the case? If not, I'd like to give Transmission another try.
HP makes such crummy software, I can't believe they actually test anything.
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Why can't C# become F#?
Looks useful.

I'm not using ST3 yet; how stable is the current beta?
When you buy power to toast some bread, do you pay a different dollar-per-watt rate, depending on whether your toaster was made by the same company that owns the power plant?

The problem with allowing special arrangements it that companies can--and do--use them in anticompetitive and manipulative ways.
In case anyone else is looking for the story: http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/saudi-surveillance/
The problem is that a lot of people genuinely think "If a large institution approved of it, it must be good". Which is a lot scarier than people not giving a damn about good or evil.

Morality is not something you outsource.
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