skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anything that even smells like the financial and banking industry is considered shady by a lot of people, not just programmers, after our Great Recession. A necessary evil at best, and for programmers one that pays very well. In any case, it was a good zing.
I don't think smaller companies can be offensive with patents, because they don't have the money to litigate. Maybe your definition of small and mine are different, though. I'm thinking of < $10M/yr. In that case, I don't believe a company of that size would have the resources to go after alleged infringers.
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I'm not the author of the post, only defending it (somewhat).
Some of the people that work there, yes.
"Storing" money in low-risk investments is a given.

But if you have, say, $100k in income and $100k in the bank, you're going to "make" far more money by decreasing your costs by $20k than you could by investing that $100k (on average).

Obviously there are people who get lucky buying houses and whatnot, but no one can reliably double $100k in 5 years.
I would think that publicly displaying doxxed information was against the rules... not a matter of censorship. But I'm new around here. I just find it odd that it's allowed. Also think it's tasteless.
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Hey Jerome, grats on the HN feature! =D
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> You obviously don't live where it's hot.

It's a really strange paradox that, in places where it gets very hot during the day, we're drawing tons and tons of energy from the grid to cool the house precisely at the time of the day when even more energy is pouring down on us freely from the skies.

Seriously, A/C is basically Universe's most heavy-handed hint that we should use more solar.
I don't think that's really what this article is arguing for either.
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This came as a shock to me today as I went to GrooveShark to get some coding done (love listening to film scores while I'm in the zone).

I always assumed the site was legit (musicians were getting paid a la other streaming sites) because it looked professional and was so mainstream.
"People cook, play, and work out together, and everyone enjoys coming to work everyday. It’s hard to imagine what my life would have been without these memories with them."

What is this I feel.. envy?

While I cannot do this anymore because of family constrains, I do miss the days where I could hang around my colleagues all day long (who are still my best friends till date).
What license is that under?
I was feeling that too, but I'm guessing it's just a matter of paying attention from having an interest. I notice the same thing when I move to a new city: I move to San Francisco and it seems like everyone's talking about SF in my reading; I move to Boston and it's the same thing.
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Sometimes illegal can be worth it.
The author got a lot further than my attempt! [0] I was attempting to make a Python-based GPS signal generator for later use in testing a pure VHDL/FPGA (no embedded CPU) receiver.

[0]: https://github.com/jevinskie/jevps
Exciting! I was looking for a ClojureScript monad library just last month. Can't wait to dig in to this one.

I think there is a lot of potential to help with the complexities of asynchronous failures.
"by much" was a key in my comment.

If the average return from an index fund is 7% and inflation is, say, 3%, then you're making an extra 4%.

If you're investing $100k, you'll double the value of your money in 20 years. That's not great for someone who doesn't have much other cash and could use that $100k over those 20 years for significant lifestyle improvements.
Yeah - the "heroes" in this story don't come off as terribly appealing. The "happy ending" caption was the nail in the coffin for me.
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Quarter way through the article and it's clear this is a story of chargeback fraud.

People love to tout the beauty of chargebacks but the fact is that for a lot of business to consumer ecommerce, the buyer has a lower risk profile than the seller. It's the buyer who knows he is dealing with Amazon. The seller hasn't a clue who he is dealing with. Are the odds that Amazon will take your payment, not ship a product and say FU, or are the odds a buyer will do that, either with his own creditcard or stolen credentials?

Obviously there are exceptions here. But to me it makes a lot more sense to have no chargebacks inherently. That way businesses are protected from chargeback fraud, and as there is less fraud, payment processors have fewer losses as do merchants, which positively influences pricing both of products and creditcards in a small manner (say 1%).

Does a user still want the ability to chargeback? Fine, but it'll cost 1% in costs, from which fraudulent cases are paid for. And it's only possible if the merchant accepts it. Why is it so crazy for a merchant to be able to say 'no chargebacks possible if you use your card with me'? Of course, if it's a new kid on the block in a shady location with a weird website and no phone number, he's not allowed by the payment processor to disable chargebacks, and customers will avoid him anyway. But if he's a large retailer like Amazon, or a vetted SME like these guys with a business registration, phone number, a track record, hell perhaps even a surety bond if necessary, do you really want to force them to expose themselves to chargeback fraud or not take payments at all?

That seems pretty obvious. They still accept wire, without chargeback risks. And customers still use them. In other words, there's a market for easy and fast payment processing without chargeback protection both from the merchant and consumer side, that's faster and easier than wiring money. In the Netherlands for example we have this, it's called iDeal, wiring money that arrives seconds later without chargeback fraud, cheap and fast. Internationally the equivalent is using bitcoin with a USD wallet at e.g. Circle or Bitreserve by the founders of ColdFusion and CNET respectively.

Don't get me wrong, chargeback protection has its place. But payment processing without it, does, too.
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I wish the thing was built in such a way as to allow it to sit on a raised pedestal of sorts, with only lightweight bolts into the wall. That would address the flooding concern just fine.
Thanks Queue, will do.
Google Kubernetes tops Docker for container orchestration
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But it mandates that you click through an SSL warning, which no user should ever have to do unless they are actually testing SSL-related stuff. Otherwise, it's just teaching everyone bad practices.
Great, next time I'll hit your bug tracker directly ;-)

The script and data are available here:
http://zentrale1.com/~an/literal-translation.tar.xz

The texts were scraped from the European Parliament web site. The phrase table was built with Moses from the Europarl parallel corpus [0] minus the texts.

The script itself was supposed the be baseline input for another experiment, basically it's the worst way of translating something i could think of.

[0] http://statmt.org/europarl/
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Previous HN discussion about WoSign...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8982013
If we use your logic that it's hard to use other people's code, then the entire premise of open source is a failure. Clearly that isn't the case so I question your logic.
I don't know about that; it was a war for a legalised drug trade rather than against it. It's notable that the Chinese tried to enforce a total ban on the trade and to execute domestic traders, which resembles modern (failing) drug policy. The similarities probably end there though, as modern drug cartels and the British Empire are very different entities.

It's also worth remembering that America was selling opium to China too, and that John Quincy Adams spoke in favour of the opium wars from a "free trade" stance.
I actually meant inflation.

In the investing world, index funds are very useful, and they often beat inflation by a few percentage points. But that return is only significant when you have tons of money.

As I pointed out in another comment, turning $100k into $200k (adjusted for inflation) would take 20 years, assuming index funds grow 7% every year and inflation is a constant 3%.
> my kettle can draw 3kW

Pretty awesome for when you want that coffee ready in like 30 seconds flat, huh?
I agree with you on this, but once they admit to not being fully emotionally mature, it seems immoral to make the person think you are going to help him to simply reject and ignore him as soon as he seeks help.
> Looks like Rand Paul, a Republican surprisingly

Sounds like you need to get to know more Republicans.
I can appreciate where you're coming from here, I really can.

I will say that we did consult our lawyer before writing this post, actually.

Additionally - business is done on trust. Some will read this and (like you) not trust us and won't do business with us. Others will appreciate it and do business with us. No worries either way.
Buy on the rumour, sell on the announce. Sharetrading 101.
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A couple of good takeaways-- Companies will need to pay upfront retainers to get the right talent. Agency recruiters, evolve or die.
I agree we shouldn't get into a huff about what isn't reality - in fact I called for real data.

I don't personally see much of a non-legal distinction between geolocations.

We probably should have a little outrage at torture and rendition programs, though we should probably have some realism too.
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They have way too much power as a private organization. I think that kind of power scares people. One bad commit and the world's economy crashes.
It's pretty easy to prove that a given domain was registered by a given registrar, so it's pretty easy to say that e.g. Hover is responsible for example.com, so Hover can request one (!) certificate for .example.com (or re-request it and revoke the old one).

Then the only problem is when your registrar is a bad actor, and that's rough because they lose all* their business when people find out that they're screwing over their customers.
If he didn't need it, why did he take it?
Unfortunately many receivers have a (speed > X || altitude > Y) check when, IIRC, the law only requires (I don't see the altitude part in your quote) (speed > X && altitude > Y). I think the altitude limit was 20 km or 25 km. Anyways, it is a pain for people who want to put a receiver on a high altitude balloon. I was able to... find... a modified firmware for my SIRF receiver but I have been to afraid to flash it. Besides, I don't even know if the receiver has the "bad" logic. I've been jonesing to make a SDR GPS simulator that generates a signal that I can feed directly into the antenna port on the receiver to test high altitude functionality.
I would agree that we should look at it from an evidence base and if those options look lile the best ones then that's great.

The thing that winds me up the most is the prevalent attitude of kneejerk banning of anything of everything, damn the consequences and fuck the evidence.
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He will have willfully broken the terms of his contract. That's generally considered illegal and GS should have a fairly strong civil case against him given what the defence has admitted to.

Can't for the life of me think why this should be a criminal case though. Not sure how the American people are served by a conviction.
I get your point but I wouldn't put this as a trait of american society. It's what the world is moving to because specialization is a core skill in today's world. If you want to become good at something, you have to spend lots of time on it. I think the core issue is 'impatience'. People want to get good very fast. By the time they are 30 and thus spend all their time on one thing. Previous generation was happy to wait till 50 to get the same level of specialization. But because of globalization, it only requires one society to work insanely and it puts the pressure on the rest of the world to follow suit. If you don't follow, you will be replaced. If you think you cannot be replaced, it's only because you have spent an insane amount of time on one thing compared to others....

I do think the quote below is less and less followed today:

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

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Not so different from the US stock market.
Tangent, there are two books you may be interested in. Both are about how people view their jobs or work.

Working, by Studs Terkel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working:_People_Talk_About_Wha...

Terkel was a journalist in Chicago, who mastered the art of interviewing/listening to people, and then writing stories and books about it. You'd do well to read just about anything he wrote, over the years.

In Working he would interview someone about their work, to get a sense of how their work defined them and vice versa.

The one I always remember is a stone mason, I think it's the last chapter. He drove around the stone mason's town with him, and he was constantly pointing out what he'd built, walls and buildings, some of it quite old.

This used to depress me, because I build nothing that lasts, it's just code. But over time I've realized that I wasn't looking at the right products of my work. What I'm really building is a body of experience, and a person informed by my experience, and a foundation for growth for myself and my family. But it's taken me a long time to learn that.

The other book is very similar, Gig, about people's jobs and how they related to them. It's very good, but only Terkel is Terkel, so if you have to choose I'd read Terkel. But this is good too. http://www.amazon.com/Gig-Americans-Talk-About-Their/dp/0609...
I don't know man; all those ninja cats on unicorns seem to say otherwise.
You bring up some interesting points regarding chargebacks but, in this instance, chargeback protection actually saved the credit card holders from becoming victims as well, no?

I'm pretty sure these were stolen credit cards and that the credit card owners had the cards used without their permission. That's why, after the first chargeback, we didn't fight it - we didn't want the credit card owners to get screwed if we WERE to win.
It's called involuntary withdrawal and this is not the first time it's happened in a US college

http://www.splc.org/blog/splc/2013/04/transparency-tuesday-c...
Is it on the website anywhere? I'd recommend putting it on the buy page and the buyer's faq at least. Couldn't find a trace of it! :p
I'm not a physicist but as someone that's always looked at over-the-top headlines and groaned while internally wishing they were true, I just want to say: this is all so very cool and I'm so excited to see where this takes us.

Even if it's not the start of a Star Trek-eseque future, this is some pretty neat stuff and I'm really anxious to hear more about what new gates of knowledge this unlocks. The plot line is right out of sci-fi and it's what makes me love technology so much: we truly never know what we will find.
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It does seem that if there's no way to buy from the USA that there's a hell of a business opportunity there. I know nothing about this, but if that gap exists and anyone wants to work on the problem together... let's do this?
Lets assume what you say is true. Then why risk taking any code at all? It was an incredibly stupid move on his part.

Cooking and programming are horrible comparisons too.
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