skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And, as the author of the piece says, if you did have an overstuffed pension fund that caused problems too both with the IRS and because of LBOs.

Of course, a lot of benefits choices are driven by laws/accounting rules/taxes. Ideally companies want to give benefits that cost them less (however they look at cost) than their value to the employee. Once that balance flips, that benefit makes a lot less sense.

That said, a benefit structure that assumes long-term employment with a single company doesn't make a lot of sense for most people or most companies today. (Though I'm probably unusual among this readership is that I actually will have a modest pension from a past employer.)
Can confirm. It's happened to us with Amazon one click. My wife stepped away from the computer and within a few minutes my then 3 year-old had ordered a game. The situation will be comical when kids can order directly via Google searches.
That's not entirely true. Even if I behave completely above-board, it's possible that some site I visit has been compromised by hackers. Without some kind of protection, I could then be damaged by malware.
It's not just the ipod revolution, it was happening in the walkman era, starting about the time sony came out with the little turbo headphones. (which then morphed into the earbuds)

The killer was the balance between bass and treble, the phones were plenty loud enough, they just had no bass response to speak of until the treble was loud enough to cause permanent hearing damage. Earbuds today might be a little better, but they're still fighting the physics.

I did damage to my hearing until I bought good headphones (Grado SR60. They were ~60 back in 1992, not much more than that now). They had more bass at 2 than the earbuds had at 9. There were a couple of tracks that demo'd the effect really well, where a drum or bass line just wasn't there in the little earphones.

Now, my hearing drops off above 12khz and below about 35. And it's much harder to hear things when there's other distracting noise going on. I can tell someone's talking, just not what they're saying. This is especially true when someone's yelling from another room over the not terribly loud music in my office. It's also really bad talking to someone on the phone, but I'm not sure how much of that is hearing loss and how much is crappy cell connections.
Sorry. Won't feed the trolls again.
DNA storage[1]? It will be very interesting to watch computers become more "organic" over time. DNA for storage, processors that are correct "most of the time", deeper and more broad neural networks, etc.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_digital_data_storage
I never said I've never looked at Scala. I think you can tell from my responses to you in this thread that I'm in fact quite knowledgeable about Scala. What I said was that I had not looked closely at how Scala does constructors and that they were not an inspiration behind the design of constructors in Ceylon.

Whatever, your attack on me was totally uncivil and unjustified, as you now realize, which is why you're backpedalling it so furiously. You've never interacted with me before, and so coming in here with a blazing personal attack was completely unreasonable behavior. I think you see that, so let's just drop it now.

> Ceylon's approach isn't very good in terms of language complexity.

Here's another assertion for which you simply have not provided evidence. How are Ceylon's constructors more "complex" than Scala's constructors? The actual syntactic weight of both constructs is almost identical. And in terms of complexity, the factory-method-on-a-companion-class pattern is significantly more complex in terms of ceremony than doing the equivalent thing in Ceylon.

Look man, stepping back a second, I can see that you're clearly a fan of Scala and that Scala is something you love and enjoy. That's great! But Scala isn't perfect and other languages can have good ideas too. I highly recommend you spend some time learning Ceylon, since it has a bunch of awesome things in it that I know you'll love: the things we can do with union and intersection types, disjointness, abstraction over tuple and function types, etc, are just beautifully elegant and powerful. Don't let the fact that you love Scala blind you to other ideas.
The investment could produce a net gain, even in the immediate, and there would still be a problem. Leaking value into the competitive environment in which you're trying to survive will kill you. As alluded to by the GP, training as compensation produces employees that are worth more to competitors. Once trained, an employee experiences a loss in pay equal to the cost of their training. This Effectively subsidizes their departure.
One problem with $1000 ear plugs (and $1000 speaker cables, etc) is that some of the microphones used to record the music only cost a hundred bucks, and it passed through numerous 10 cent op-amp chips in various studio equipment.
That's what I used to think about all-flash websites.

They did go away, more or less, but only because the Web became that same pixel-per-pixel full-designer-control application platform, with all the same obnoxious problems that made us hate Flash, minus the binary blob.

The overwhelming majority of websites would be better served by simple HTML3 with no javascript at all. Or rather, their users would be better served.
Other than "virtual reality" with some aspect of "multiplayer", they don't. I'm going after productivity applications. They're going after social networking.
"Among the challenges these Goliaths face is integrating inventory and payments systems from retailers big and small that have little experience selling stuff outside of their own storefronts."

Seems like there could be an opportunity for a service to act as a broker; they could act as a go-between for inventory related tasks and services between the front-ends (Pinterest, FB) and the backends (retailer APIs.) Provide a standard API on both ends (so retailers can update prices, number in stock, tax and such, and front-ends can push buys and get updates.) If they were front-end agnostic, they could save the retailers a bunch of time, and handle API updates all in one place (preventing mass breakage when APIs change, since a good part of their job will be to keep the interfaces up-to-date.)

Retail API broker or something. I wonder if anyone is thinking of doing this already.
Are there any things to know about settings images to 'private' on Flickr?
Apple's storage pricing model would be unsustainable in a competitive environment. Entry level products with 16GB exist solely to establish a 'free' subsidized level while practical use requires a US$750 64GB model.

Ordinarily Samsung and Moto would make a phone of similar quality and charge the market rate of $8 for the 64GB upgrade to undercut Apple.

Unfortunately it's not a competitive market. Apple's 2013 iPhone 5S still has lower power use and more processing power the current Samsung phones because Apple invested in chip design and shipped an AArch64 chip Samsung can't match even with two years (1.33 Moore's Law cycles) of process upgrades and access to Apple's tapeouts.

Apple's screen process is still brighter with more faithful colors. Apple's case design is still more fashionable (even though I don't like the latest ones, they look slick). Apple's net software and services like maps and backup are catching up to Google and ahead of M'soft or anyone else. Apple still has better control over power consumption and background processing in its OS. Apple's user experience is still clearly better and easier than Samsung or Google.

A lot of that is Google losing interest in Motorola, the Nexus brand, and Android. The Nexus 5 was the last inexpensive high quality pure Android effort and it wasn't profitable. Motorola wasn't worth keeping. Android is good enough to keep Apple and Microsoft from squeezing Google off the net and that's all Google needs. Google hasn't even updated Android to take advantage of AArch64 which cripples all the Android phone makers against Apple.

Ultimately, Google knows that they can't compete against Apple because carriers have contempt for quality. No other maker but Apple has loyal and lucrative customers that will switch carriers to keep using Apple devices. Thus no other manufacturer has leverage to get the best quality devices it can make to users. Carriers want your phone crippled because they dream of controlling you and governments hand them monopolies so they can control your device maker.

The result is that only Apple can make a top flight device. And therefore they can use monopoly price discrimination tactics to bleed extra money from you for 64GB.

It beats the alternative which is carriers ruining all devices including Apple. I like Apple robbing me a lot more than AT&T or Telcel or Softbank or NT&T or China Mobile or Verizon.
> I'm overjoyed that, as you put it, a climate of fear exists for fascists, misogynists, racists, and similar. I hope that this continues and only worsens for these people.

That 'climate of fear' also exists for those people who don't fall into such cleanly vilifiable categories, and yet occasionally engage in language and behavior that could be categorized as such, often unknowingly because those definitions seem to depend on contexts they cannot determine, have different meanings for each individual, and are rapidly being expanded to encompass broader categories of thought and behavior.

> I'm happy for many reasons. The first is that it has, as you've said, made privileged people afraid. I think this is only the beginning. Privilege creates safety, and as it is removed, I think the unsafety of the oppressed will in part come to the currently privileged classes. But if I could flip a switch and make every man feel the persistent, gnawing fear that a woman has of men, I would in a heartbeat. I wouldn't even consider whether the consequences were strategic, I would just do it.

One thing I've noticed about the fearful is that they tend to resent the fearless, and want everyone to live under the same fears they do. It's a very primal thing, as people who fear the same things are part of the same tribe. These fears are not used to achieve anything strategic, but to define the very culture members exist in, and so are vigorously spread and defended regardless of any practical value they may have. In such a culture you will never get beyond that fear. You can see this most readily in religious sects, but many political movements are little other than that.

And regardless of the 'harm' fear prevents, it is still the antithesis of knowledge, and a society ruled by fear cannot be ruled by knowledge. In such a society knowledge itself is a threat, and the only people willing to discuss controversial ideas will either be the ones courageous enough to question or hateful enough not to care. The fearful of course will not be able to tell the difference.

Personally, that is not a price I am willing to pay for a 'safe' society. That doesn't mean such a system is right or wrong, only that it doesn't align with my values. But regardless of differing values, it still troubles me that anyone would take such joy in other people's fear and unsafety, and I don't think any good can come of that.

> So if discourse is permanently removed as a tactical and strategic option for future leftists, I'll consider it a victory.

And yet here you are, using a throwaway account to engage in tactically and strategically driven discourse.
Really? For myself and everyone else I've talked to, using an SSD was by far the largest upgrade they've applied to their home computer for many years.
I'm not arguing for moral relativism, quite the opposite.

I'm arguing for ethics based on fundamental axioms, most of which can be broken down to the Golden Rule. This isn't Western, this is just frequently obscured by irrelevant "morals", like those set forth by various religions.

Heck, the international human rights are a pretty good rendition of it: every human is equal (i.e. disregard kinship bias), every human is free, personal freedoms end where they impact the freedom of others. Yes, the hard questions are hard, but the level of the vast majority of real world problems does not even come close to them.

If anything, I'm arguing for Kant's Moral Imperative, but that's just me being German.
Sure, the client is always paying for it anyways...

If he doesn't wanna pay for defect correction, you are just going to spend a lot more time on that before you deliver (i.e. your estimates goes up)....

Finding subtle bugs is increasingly difficult as the code quality goes up, so each bug is getting increasingly costlier to find before it hits the real world.

Even well-tested code will not be defect free unless an incredible amount of effort is spent. (We are talking orders of magnitude more than regular clients are willing to pay for). Look for the NASA study on code quality and look at their productivity to achieve that (granted, brilliant) code quality.

Personally (as an freelancer), I comp the really, really stupid oversights (and their diagnosing time)... That shit happens once in a while (and that comping buys you a lot of credibility)... but the "normal" (i.e. somewhat trickly) bugs, they client pays for them.

For new customers, I usually have a "facts of software development" talk, so that they know how and why I do stuff... (most customers appreciate the frankness and have no problem paying for bugfixes afterwards - if they do, I simply add margin to their estimate that gives me room for expected later bugfixes).

If they balk, when you say that you cannot write defect free code... ask them if they ever find typos in documents or wrong calculations in spreadsheets even after they spend "a lot" of time to make sure they were correct...
In a similar vein, you can find the fountain pen. It's not quite the cost advantage, but a 20$ lamy pen and a 12$ bottle of ink will last you a long, long time. It will also feel better too, ballpoints particularly need an offensive amount of force to write with, whereas fountain pens just glide across the paper.

Funny how old stuff is kinda having a revitalization, especially with stuff like mechanical keyboards. I wonder what the next oldnew tech will be.
I think there are more than 4 ways to monetize pinterest. But, I will cede that it might make a lot of sense for pinterest. It's pretty much everyone else doing it that i take issue with.
I live in Wellington, NZ - a place famous for being windy as hell - and the only umbrellas that survive here are Blunt umbrellas: https://www.bluntumbrellas.com
I have been forced to work with really old computers connected to as old research hardware. At some point it is probably more economical to let someone figure out the interface and solder something together with an Arduino or similar so we can start using a new computer. But that point is never now. Until then we have this old chain of hardware just to get the data from the old machine via 5 1/4 floppy disks.
Bit new to Docker - so does this mean Docker 1.7 won't work with RHEL? Specifically I'm working on RHEL 6.6 machines, and I'm already stuck with Docker 1.5 so curious to know whether this will affect me
I use Car2Go (a car sharing program) extensively. I've never seen any garbage or body fluids. I once found a females sweater left in the back. I don't think it will be as big of a problem as you think.
There is no good venue for that discussion, Thomas.
So what? Even if the numbers are inflated it's a real problem. Forced prostitution and force labour are valid problems in their own right, even outside human trafficking.
Hey, this is the pixel art renouncing guy. A large part of your brand is that you're obsessive over high quality artwork. You didn't rebrand either - you created new artwork, actually furthering the current brand. Most of what you're discussing is about creating a cohesive art style.
​CII takes steps to make open-source software safer
The value added here is a non-fragmented container ecosystem. This would be huge, at least to me.
Xcode 7 Beta Release Notes [pdf]
this is some pepsi logo level of rationalization here.
The buzztalk is strong with them: "The V3 Optimized Desktop Allocation (ODA) technology is the first and only technology that allows for hyper-converged appliances to be delivered in a distributed fashion."

Sometimes I wonder about the strength of this sort of sales behaviour but ultimately I guess they make their own ecosystem by requiring specialized techies to translate even the sales pitch - promoting a sort of "it has got to be super-hyper-vigilantly efficient if I can't even understand what its good for, plus I can wash my hands of it professionally if it fails because anyone in their right mind can see the necessity of having someone else evaluate the usefulness of a system this incomprehensible"-response from certain managers.
LXC:

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/lxc.container.conf.5.ht...

A per-container configuration file, stored in the container directory. Similar to the "tarball with metadata" of Docker, but you'll have to roll your own layers (or do it the old fashioned way & hardlink common files between containers).

Systemd:

You're right on the container interface front, my apologies. However:

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-nspa...

specifies an image format (basically a bootable ISO or some such). It's not as self-contained as a docker image (still need to specify a bunch of parameters), but it's available.
>>> Science does not say that a caloric deficit automatically is starvation, you alone are making that claim

I never said that. Eating 100 calories less a day is not starvation, duh. But that diet it's not really effective at losing weight, now is it?

I know it's hard to admit being wrong on the internet, but you have no argument here.

You don't need to starve yourself to suffer from those symptoms. Your metabolism slows because it literally doesn't have the same energy to work. Meaning you'll get fat very easily. This doesn't even need a scientific paper, it's just common sense.

If you read closer, the Minnesota experiment showed that when terminating a low calorie diet the body becomes primed to gain fat FIRST before anything else. And your metabolism slows, making it extremely hard to continuously lose weight.

And most importantly, it doesn't work long-term. You can't just lose the weight, you have to stay like that.

Finally, no medical organisation recommends it unless you have a valid medical reason to do so.

http://www.webmd.com/diet/low-calorie-diets

"For people who are overweight but not obese (BMI of 27-30), very low-calorie diets should be reserved for those who have weight-related medical problems and are under medical supervision."

http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/loseweight/Pages/very-low-calorie...

"Most people who want to lose weight do not need to eat a very low calorie diet."
Here's a famous reddit comment about bootstrapping a language: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9x15g/programmi...

Also this was here not long ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9699065
For a mathematician you sure like fallacious arguments.

As a result, a business can't pay to train it's own work force

Well, they could offer more pay after the training is completed, or focus on being a nice place to work such that employees would choose to stay put with a company that treated them well. Your argument rests on the implicit assumption that employees will leave the moment they receive a competitive offer and are only interested in maximizing the take-home pay aspect of their economic advantage. Employees are motivated by a combination of monetary compensation, benefits, and good will towards a firm in the same way that a firm is valued by both its book assets and its good will in the marketplace. You assume, without foundation, that employee loyalty towards an employer that provides training will be nil, and ignores the possibility that employees might look forward to receiving future training (and promotions) which would have significant economic value, whereas a firm that poaches employees and offers no training of its own presumably won't be offering any in future either.

If an investment can't be protected it's pointless to make it. Having employees pay for (and be compensated for) their own training is the most reasonable workaround.

You could equally argue that it's pointless for employees to run up debt buying expensive an education which an employer might then say doesn't quite meet their requirements and therefore shouldn't be rewarded by additional compensation. Considering the non-dischargability of student loans in bankruptcy and the financial weakness of employees relative to employers when it comes to negotiating prices for training/education, I would say it's rather irrational for employees to take on all the financial risk involved.
I need to try this... thanks!
From the decision:

"Taken in context, and regarding the expressly conditional nature of the statement and the reaction of the listeners, we do not see how it could be interpreted otherwise."

It is literally right there in the decision, so in fact the conditional language is being considered.

> you can't determine from the specific language people are using that this is definitely not an immediate threat.

That's utterly irrelevant.

How is this utterly irrelevant? it seems to be the substance of the entire legal problem.
How can a compromised site damage your machine, given that you keep your browser updated?
If you are doing freelance work, you could roll maintenance development/fixes into an ongoing support contract which includes a SLA and monthly fees.
I guess it depends on the purpose of the education. If you're already getting the CS fundamentals, maybe it doesn't hurt to get up to speed on some of the industry fads at the moment, since most of the students could be looking for an industry job in two-three years.
He also has problems understanding compilers that are adhering to the standards:

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30475
Do you just create a bootstrap-theme to make it look unique?

I'm interested in learning more about how to take advantage of the good parts of bootstrap without having a site that looks too much like vanilla bootstrap.
I'm picturing wearing my hard hat / facemask / ear protection setup in an office. It is OSHA approved for some occupations...

It certainly would be conspicuous.
It's not parsing the phrase into the tokens "10 - 2" and evaluating that. Rather, a corpus of data was used to train the neural net and, for whatever reason, the answer "seventy-two" was the highest probability output. In all likelihood, it doesn't even register that this is a math question.
Similar. I love Hoplite as well. I was reading this review and it was making the comparison to Hoplite: http://toucharcade.com/2015/02/18/auro-a-monster-bumping-adv...

In general, if you like Hoplite, try to pay attention to the roguelike genre. Hoplite and 868-HACK both started as entries into the 2013 Seven Day Roguelike challenge (which was my first time entering). You're bound to find more stuff you like there. http://www.reddit.com/r/roguelikes/
One of the things I liked best about this story is that it is based on reporting that has been following the same family over time for many years. That gives the before-and-after aspects of describing development of rural towns in China a lot of coherency and visual impact.

I too had no technological problems viewing the story, using desktop Google Chrome on a Windows PC with a lot of script blocking running.
Yea, I agree, thanks for clarifying.

There is a huge difference is explicit bias (give applicants an IQ test even though we'll weed out the blacks or even to weed out the blacks) and subconscious bias - which is an incredibly complex problem.

Most companies are trying to eliminate (unintended) bias in the hiring process.
There is: https://twotap.com/

disclaimer: I am an angel investor in the company.
In practice, most programming languages are not purely or even mostly functional. So why is everything on this list about functional programming?