skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Long-term, these problems get solved in other ways. Whatever the system is in different places is the result of evolution & design. The role of individuals, companies and governments in dealing with things like sick pay, healthcare insurance, education and such varies a lot.

In poor countries and poorly functioning (or just poor) governments there is often a wealthy class that demands (and can afford) the sort of services usually provided (or regulated) by the state. Schools, health insurance.. In these places you will generally find pretty good alternatives to state run services payed for individually, by the company or some mix of the two.

We tend to think in terms of what we know. But, usually it's just a product of how the history of it unfolded and the economic structure of the country. How/good bad it is usually depends on "execution" rather than the macro structure (employe pays, government pays or individual pays). Those macro structures make a difference, but it is not like we have a clear and undisputed "best" way that works best everywhere.

For example, in a lot of western european countries (Germany, france) employers have a lot of responsibility to keep everyone employed and employable. This takes pressure off the social welfare system to a large extent.

There are a lot of downside to "employer takes care of things" whatever your ideological position is. I don't like the idea of employee-employer marriages too much. Feels off.

If this really is a major trend, I expect new "culture" will be built around it. Services, standards and common practices.
That's why I specifically wrote "credit" rather than copyright notice. If you distribute modified binaries without code (as you can do with BSD/MIT), there's no copyright notice on code to see.
Canada here - Health insurance costs are inversely correlated with the number of people insured, so it sounds like we have a similar situation as you. My hunch is that this is an underlying principle of insurance - their risk is greater if only the unhealthiest people sign up.
That's a bit out of date, because libsecret is supported as well:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/c...

But yeah, it pretty much looks for any sort of secure credential manager and falls back to the fixed key only when nothing is available.
It's being called KSecret Service afaik (https://barlog.rusu.info/valentin/blog/?p=411).
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Can I have iOS 9 Cydia Download Now …?
While tools like vagrant, editorconfig, scripts etc can help - my suggestion above all else would be to document your standard environment.

If a tool doesn't work but you know what it was trying to achieve you can usually get there manually. If you don't know what it was trying to do, you're pretty much fucked.
Agreed. But it doesn't mean that they are not especially abnormal as well. So, essentially, we don't know it and we shouldn't pretend that we know.
Ask HN: Good VC-related private slack groups
Does anyone know any good venture capital slack groups?
In related news, if you don't have a key and a lock, you cannot really lock a door.
A strong business case is already having an existing piece of critical code that is implemented in CLJS. It's why Objective-C is still a thing.

So if you want to use it, just implement something with it and see what happens. There are two negative outcomes and one positive one:

- you could get fired (in which case it's a pretty bad job that affords you no latitude)

- you have to rewrite it in JS (you would have had to anyway, apparently)

- or they'll say "Looks great, keep it running, maybe other people can try out this CLJS thing too."

As far as objective argument for the setup's superiority, there is none. Software has an embarrassment of riches with regard to capable tools; ClojureScript and JavaScript are both capable tools.
Rent control has been tried in so many different American cities and by and large is considered a failure in any city it is implemented. I would love to see a city try a radically different tactic. Minneapolis requires a certain amount of low and middle income housing in any suburb. NYC is giving large tax credits for middle class housing and is considering a pied-à-terre tax. Simply expanding rent control seems to just be pushing the problem off farther into the future.
Being more productive with Launchbar
Oh. It was an in-person conversation, or possibly a Facebook message that @bburky and I had at some point. Let me see if I can dig it up, but I think it was pretty much just a screenshot of gitk on a particularly complex graph.
This just brings iOS to parity with OS X though, I keep seeing people talking about this as if it's exclusive to iOS to make some strained point about Apple. Both OS X and iOS now use this same implementation, where the blocking extension is little more than a JSON blob of rules describing what should be blocked from loading or hidden on the page.
The obfuscation isn't really intentional IIRC. It's an artifact of the assumption that a proper base credential will be available from either libsecret, Gnome Keyring, or KDE Wallet. The fixed key is just a placeholder that gets used when none of those secure mechanisms is installed on the system. Although, that file has a number of outdated comments, which add to the confusion.
The Ruby/Rails hype cycle started like ten years ago. Rails is one of the most widely used web app frameworks in the market. Ruby's been around for twenty-odd years and has gone from being a niche scripting language to one that's used to power an outrageous amount of big applications. It's not a pissing contest by any means, but calling Ruby and Rails a hype cycle is just inaccurate.
Indeed. Taiyo-Yuden were (still are, until December) one of the very best of the actual manufacturers of optical media: and they explicitly cite that optical media is losing its relevance as why they're ceasing operations in that market.

I think this is of historical significance: it's a sea-change moment, with a leading manufacturer essentially conceding that optical media is no longer relevant and can never catch up, destined to fade into the past.

Those of us of a certain vintage will remember a similar thing happening to floppy disks - and there are lessons to be learnt from that. Grab a few of these and carefully hang onto them, in the dark and away from heat sources - while you'll still be able to get them in a decade's time, it'll probably be impossible to find any new good-quality media then: so on the basis that you might want one when you least expect it, have a couple handy just in case.

There's a certain melancholy here, having seen this technology through its entire lifecycle - but at least we don't have to worry about scratching USB mass storage devices. I think I have only one PC which still has an optical drive, and it's the one which still has a floppy drive.

Maybe we'll replace spinning rust, and flash memory, too, in time.
What will you do with the rest of your life?
I use pass and pass-dmenu since I don't use a DE. http://www.passwordstore.org/
Debian Popularity Contest can tell you a few things...

Just over half of those participating have installed Gnome/KDE/Cinnamon

https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=gnome-shell%...

And it looks as if about a quarter totally are using Gnome/KDE/Cinnamon regularity (rest could be switched off of course!)

https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=gnome-shell%...

Popcon statistics are notoriously hard to interpret though so a large pinch of salt needed.

https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/the_popcon_problem/
I'm glad Greenwald called then put for using the term "boyfriend" for his 10-year old spouse. Something didn't sit well with me about that term, but I couldn't have vocalized it. It seems meant to evoke sexual connotations, when they played no part in the story.
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My dad had 2 jobs in his career before he retired and last switched in 1975. I have had 6 so far halfway through my career, and I'm not an outlier from what the data seem to bear out.

The word employee should not even exist anymore, I prefer associate, as it is more truthful to the underlying relationship with the corporate entity. Its all business, never personal. I dont even decorate my personal workspaces in my environment with pics of my kids or touch it up to remind myself that this is a transistory situation. My advice 1) Keep a LARGE portion of your before and after tax savings in a combo of 401k, IRA, and stock picks (at least 15 percent). 2) Stay mobile. Do not commit to a large house, etc, in an area of the country where you can be tied down. Mobility, mobility, mobility. 3) Keep a close eye on the finanials of the business. A quarter or two of missed earnings (if public) or low salesforce numbers over an extended period of times screams "run" no matter the bullshit the ceo may be feeding you. 4) Skills, always have an ear and time investment in new ones. You should always be learning one core technology outside of what you use at work, especially if you work at a larger, established company. 5) Network. Always try to interact and build relationships with younger and experienced people inside and outside your job location. Young people see things in new ways and refresh you. Older people have battle scars they can donate to you without the pain of living through them.
I'd be glad for a short TL;DR... care to provide one?
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It seems that your criticism is (justly) geared towards Bitcoiners, more so than Bitcoin. You should consider that extreme views on either side of this debate are absurd. Fortunately for all involved, Wall Street 'grown-ups' are moving into the space to apply a more mature and sustainable approach to the field. You will quickly see the Libertarians and 16-year-olds drowned by their peers as a result.

Regarding decentralized markets - you clearly have no substantial background in the space. They would be decentralized by escrowing value in the blockchain, instead of in the custody of a site operator. If Silk Road were a brand name, dark markets would be dead. I have no idea what dark markets are popular right now, but clearly they are popular : http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/05/daily-c...

Ahh, so the environmental cost of mining is what's got you bugged. That cost is borne by all actors involved in the system. They have every right to burn their energy, just like you do. But more specifically to your point, how much energy do the incumbent finance systems burn? If it's a drug-market transaction - it would be way over $8-$10 per transaction in terms of incarceration costs, import costs, etc.

If lightning network scales, that same $8-10 now secures the 4,000 TPS that your credit card system processes. And probably that $8-$10 is far more economical than the energy being burned by incumbent value routing systems.

Your brand of denialism is extreme. While it's certainly not entirely uncommon it's rapidly diminishing. Yours is a dying breed.
A house is an income generating asset, selling the houses would cause both a drop in house value and increased investment in other sectors.

I don't see a downside, other than in hot markets like Vancouver where the capital appreciation of properties is sufficiently high to not require renting them out in order to turn a profit.
It's infuriating until it prevents your neighbour from building a chemical factory right next to your house.

Like it or not, what you build often substantially impacts your neighbours.
This article reads a lot different if you look at the authors first.
Sometimes things have to hurt. The US and other countries accept that every day with their warfare.
Do not go on a date with anyone with the on-line handle "Kobayashi Maru".
I was referring to China's efforts to compromise systems in the US, not their (dismal) domestic human-rights record. The point: we shouldn't be collecting and concentrating the private communications of American citizens in a giant data center – it's provided no proven protective value, and is a huge glowing target for foreign espionage (corporate and/or governmental).
>the adblock devs were given money by google shortly before making that choice.

(No offense, but you're an anonymous writer on the internet.) Do you know of a URL or something I can use to verify that statement?
Actually, state of the art speech recognition has switched over to having a Recursive Neural Network directly run over the audio input. Take a look at the paper at http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.5567 and http://usa.baidu.com/deep-speech-lessons-from-deep-learning/

However combining learning features with other systems is a very powerful approach and combining SVM's on top of the learned features of a Neural Network I would say is common. I personally am more interested in approaches like Deep Fried Convnets (http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.7149) that combine kernel methods as part of the Neural Networks themselves.
Ok, something with noxious elements, yes. (Although I think it should be private neighborhood organizations to prevent this, not government).

All they wanted to build was a couple of office building and bike path.
Uber logs 1M daily rides in China – as many as the rest of the world, combined
There is a Who Is Hiring thread posted the first day of every month.

Can I post a job ad?

A regular "Who Is Hiring?" thread appears at the beginning of every month, and you're welcome to post there. The rest of the time, job posts are reserved for Y Combinator-funded startups.

An account named whoishiring is the only one allowed to submit the regular threads. This prevents a race to post them first.

A single YC startup job post may appear on the front page at a time. Job posts have no vote arrow and just a timestamp in place of the usual story details. They begin partway down the front page and fall steadily in rank.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
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Reasons the MI6 Story Is a Lie
Well ... he is his boyfriend and due to his relationship with Glen was more potent tool for putting pressure. So it is relevant.
...until the cyberpunk vision of affordable beauty is a reality.

That vision is here - it's called eat right, exercise and act like a man/woman.

The outcomes will be asymmetric but the inequality will be lower. The current situation is tall hairy muscular guy dating pretty skinny blonde, while short fat bald guy is lucky to get fat brunette ugly girl. The delta in utility between the latter couple and the former could be massive.

If everyone improved themselves you'd have short bald confident ball of muscle dating hot brunette butterface. Asymmetric, but the delta is pretty small.
Thank you so much for writing this. It is useful not just for Emacs users but to anyone who prefers writing their book in a text-based markup rather than Microsoft Word. It also explains how to collaborate with someone who uses Word exclusively.

Unfortunately, every tool has a quirk and we eventually need to settle on a workflow that somehow works, even though everything might be open source as you have described in the case of Pandoc. But I believe Emacs is the best authoring tool for books due to its versatility.
Twitter becoming rapidly “the Blackberry” of social media
Some of Borland's problems had nothing to do with Microsoft. A good example is Borland taking 6 months to rewrite Quattro in object-oriented code. They did this in the middle of a heated battle with Microsoft Excel, where both companies were releasing major new features every 6 months. As awesome as OOP is, it is not a user-visible feature. Being MIA for 6 months while engineers OOP'd the code may have cost them the battle. You can read some of this in this story (search for 'object oriented'): http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/29/business/the-executive-com...

Some of Borland's problems were indeed Microsoft's doing. OWL vs. MFC, for example. OWL was the first object-oriented library for Windows, but MFC eventually won because MFC was always first to support Windows features. OWL lagged behind because Borland did not have access to in-development versions of Windows.

Borland applications such as Quattro Pro also suffered because Borland did not have access to in-development features of Windows such as OLE 2.0, and because of Microsoft bundling productivity applications into an Office "suite".
Supply and demand go out the window here folks?
Cute. You probably can shorten the argument a bit by accepting Rice's theorem ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice's_theorem ) instead of explicitly building the Rice widget (which is pretty much how Rice's theorem is proven).
Garbage story, the Intercept addresses it well: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/14/sunday-times-r...
The idea that Mutex<T> owns T and provides access to T only when locked is a really nice design, but...

Does it solve the case here? The two locks ordered by the address check are otherwise unordered, i.e., one is not inherently owned by the other. One could imagine the same data structure in a Rust program: a vector of runqueues, all on equal footing, and the programmer wants to lock an arbitrary pair (i, j) of them. This would have to look something like:

{
let mut guard1 = locks[i].lock().unwrap();
let mut guard2 = locks[j].lock().unwrap();
do_work(*guard1, *guard2);
}

And you have the same problem as this post addresses: we need a total order over indices (e.g., ensure i < j) to prevent deadlock.
Yes, unions do regard labor market rigidities as accomplishments.

That's probably why the sharing economy is growing rapidly while the unionized workforce can't compete. That's probably also why unions are desperate to hinder the rest of the market with rigidities, e.g. a $15 min wage for thee but not for me.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/27/labor-leader...
Ask HN: Is there a way to see only technical posts on HN?
Here is the background story to why I created userpoll.io: https://www.peterkrantz.com/2015/first-step-to-find-what-use...
> If they're not, it falls back to storing passwords itself with obfuscation, which is the best it can do.

No, the best it could do is to have a master password, provided at launch.

I'm really concerned about the extent to which neither Google nor Mozilla actually cares about user security. No plaintext password should ever live somewhere outside of the user's head; no password encrypted with a user-memorable password should live outside of a computer under the user's physical control. Thus, passwords (and other private data) on remote systems should always be encrypted with secure keys, themselves generated on the user's device and encrypted on his device with his memorable password.

The facts that by default Google will store your website and WiFi passwords (along with your emails and pictures) in plaintext on their servers, and that Mozilla utterly destroyed the security of their sync system, are utterly sickening.
Pandoc's great. It has many great advantages and I would not hesitate to recommend it, but when you commit to a workflow early (rst in my case) rewriting or converting it mid-way through is a major hassle, one I'd rather like to avoid.

Still, rst/Markdown/Docbook is better than MS Word for techies.
They had confirmed that it had landed a bit rough.
I think it would fall under fair use. This is a demo for an open source project.
There's nothing stopping a contributor from keeping your copyright notice, and adding his own license that only covers his own modifications. The contributor does not technically need to change the license of _your_ work, but he is free to chose whatever license he likes for his own changes to your code.
The political and current-events stuff is very interesting, and I tend to get distracted!
The article implies that there is an in-total limit of new office space that has been adopted for some time period, which probably is based largely on ability to expand infrastructure to deal with added needs (e.g., commute traffic.)

Why the decision was made to alot the lion's share of that alotment to LinkedIn rather than Google, I don't know.

(Determining the actual cost to address the impacts and setting the cost of approval to recoup those costs, rather than setting hard limits, would seem a more efficient mechanism, if it could be done fairly and accurately, but that's not easier or less prone to political manipulation than setting limits and allocating within those limits.)
While what you're saying is correct there is no single best option. The German system is pretty much geared towards employees. For non-default cases such as freelancers and entrepreneurs the system is convoluted at best and downright broken in some respects. It probably still is one of the better healthcare systems worldwide but there are so many stakeholders involved - the least important of whom is the patient - that it has a lot of flaws that need fixing but aren't very likely to be fixed in the foreseeable future.
This is an really outstanding idea.
I will make a prediction here about the outcome:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-02-03/portugal-c...
Holus: H+ Technology back-pedals in the wake of “holoscam“ backlash
A really interesting economist is Ronald Coase. In his (1937) paper he starts with the question 'why do firms exist.'

IE, why aren't we all contractors selling the services that we do at companies to each other? In a free market people can bargain to achieve more efficient economic outcomes than a centralised economy can achieve using prices. Why shouldn't this principle apply to firms? Why are firms run like a Soviet dictatorship with a hierarchy and planning?

His answer was "transaction costs.^" The cost of organising every activity that requires more than one person, negotiating terms and all the rest are bigger than the benefits.

The examples of contracting in this article (eg uber) are essentially market creators. I think the way to think about this trend (if it is a meaningful trend and not just a way of bypassing pesky restrictive labour conventions) is 'markets replacing firms' not 'contractor replacing employees.' If that is really the trend, I would expect to see average company size shrink and thus far, it is not.

If Google contract out the development of blue sky ideas to small companies or individuals and that yields products like gmail, that would be a sign. So far though, it's in house or acquisition (a form of contracting?) for really important things.

^Economists have an enormous tolerance for dealing with big hairy concepts like "transaction costs" without unpacking them. I personally that in addition to (or within... damned economists) 'transaction costs' is human beings' inherent skill at operating as a group with all sorts of unnamed dynamics replacing the quid quo pro. If you have an economy instead of a group that people feel a part of, you lose all that.
Looks like encouraging new construction is part of the package as pointed by a Reddit user here https://www.reddit.com/r/berlin/comments/3871ik/berlin_becom...

That new constructions are excluded from rent control.

Thing is I can't really find this in German media. Only British media seems to write gist of this new regulation, which seems quite odd.
The point is, if he were married to a woman, they would probably have called her "his wife", and not "his girlfriend".
> For white-collar jobs, competition becomes insanely high, excluding such opportunities from non-Ivy League networks and/or considerably decreasing wages.

Most people don't consider this aspect of contracting. They are blinded by the pictured opportunities.
Because I would feel uncomfortable if my boss wore a shirt of dicks all over it. Its inappropriate in any professional setting other than porn star or pimp. It's sexist objectification of women, and undoubtedly makes some of his peers uncomfortable. Not cool.

edit: I should have googled the shirt first, somehow in my mind is was a lot worse than it was. It was more tasteless than anything.

edit2: I kept digging, looking for more angles, and it is still bad. Impossibly figured hyper sexualized illustrated women don't belong in the workplace.