skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's very cool that you know exactly what is going to happen. Or, at least, you could simulate exactly what should happen. And, if there was some repository of contracts, you could simulate the effects of the system. Such higher-order possibilities are so opaque most of the time.

But, I'm not sure ambiguity is a bad thing. Or, at least, there is a dose-specific effect. A lot of ambiguity is bad, but so is none. The flexible Goldilocks Zone is the least fragile -- to society that is, not to law.
I'm on a carbon x1 and I'm not having any issues.

It's super light, but the feel and build quality is still there.
The problem is not the GPL, the problem is Apple's rules for the App Store. The GPL prohibits restrictions on the rights granted by the license. Yet the App Store terms contain restrictions (most prominently, the freedoms to redistribute copies or copies of modified versions) on what you can do with the software obtained therefrom. Thus, they are not compatible with the GPL.

GPL grants you freedoms. App Store terms take them away. I think it's clear who's doing the censoring.
Jeez. Is Microsoft just stupid or what sometimes? You can't charge for something that's been free for decades.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-28684751

http://qz.com/247389/teachers-who-dont-show-up-to-work-cost-...
Actually Vista added one of my most-used time-saving features: Windows-key and start typing to search. Huge, huge win (for me at least).
YC is not a publicly owned company and therefore they don't answer to you or me but to their shareholders and authorities and they get to draft their own rules and regulations the way they see fit as long as they violate their jurisdiction laws.

Hope that was of help to you.
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It's a pretty complex issue to address - clearly if you're working another job to survive (eg farming your own land) then you may need to take time off for harvests and such. If you're in a rural location and your children are sick you may need to take days of to take them to a clinic, etc..

The first question I'd ask, I think, is do the teachers have enough money to pay for all the needs of their families. If you can't attend school for all lessons and survive then there's little benefit in assessing other enticements.
See, now you're getting to the kind of stuff I'm talking about. They need more power budget. Other things about them are pretty good or easy to update. So, do a clean slate design following the other plane's strengths as much as possible while adding the new stuff. The result is not the same plane. Yet, it should deliver more value than a basic upgrade of old plane while having way less risk than a program requiring tons of R&D (eg F-35).

Now, my proposal doesn't negate the possibility of investing in next-gen tech. The F-22 program didn't bother me because we have to push ourselves as far as possible in any specific area. The results usually trickle down into other, affordable tech. F-35, far as I can tell, benefited a bit from that program. The U-2, SR-71, B-2, and F-117 all offered unique capabilities. Just prefer that the majority of our fleet is cost-effective and value-driven. Leads to build on what's proven.

U-2 is probably one of better investments given it's apparently still paying off (see below). Could probably use that F-35 sensor system & some control assistance for pilots. However, it could all just be an excuse for local Majors to jump in GTO's and tear up the tarmac. ;)

http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a7818/chasing-the-u...
I guess the most important fact here is, his parents somehow supporting him through all this. I am an Indian and I know firsthand how controlling Asian parents can be.

Here is a documentary about hyhy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC74gSReUtE . Today his former teammates make more than 100K USD/annum. But owing to variety of factors(which I suppose includes big opposition from Family) he missed the boat big time.
So it's a currency, a contract system, a new form of law, a distributed computing system... I think I need to lie down.

These explainers I keep reading are not helping.

Can anyone tell me whether this is some giant boondoggle circlejerk, or something that is really going to be used widely and perhaps lead to things changing?
Disclaimer: I was a dota player, which has some rivalries with LoL

The LoL model is controversial. You may not pay anything, but it will take you literally thousands of hours to get most champs and runes. Do you need all? Thats arguable. Can you get IP fast enough to buy champs as they come out? Most people cant, from what i understand.

Dota and tf2 fit in the freemium that cares for the users.
Well, the old web was profit-less and only public benefit oriented

When? Banner ads appeared in '94 (in HotWired), and targeted ads in '96 (service by Affinicast).
The spam analogy for targeted ads is a really bad one, I think. Spam became popular for senders because it was extremely cheap to reach millions and millions of people. Over time costs did grow a bit, because of the effectiveness of filtering, but at the same time if it's unlikely for your spam to be ready, how much would you be willing to pay for it? Not that much, hopefully.

Targeting does not necessarily reduce the cost of ads - for very valuable users the cost of an extremely targeted ad can be quite high. The question is then what happens to the total cost of the campaign. The article seems to imply that the cost of the campaign is low for low-quality sellers, and this is why targeted ads become a bad signal for buyers. But online ads are very often performance tracked, and the entire reason that some demographics are so expensive is that the ads to them perform well. If an ad is measurably giving a high-return on investment, then the advertiser should be pouring as much as they can into the campaign, which implies that campaign budgets for some targets go up, not down, and the quality signal to buyers should be higher, now lower.

So it seems like as targetting differentiates by consumer, it also differentiates by seller. The ad networks also allow choosing which publications to target, and higher quality publishers do cost more. So given some self-awareness about your own value for a given target and the quality of the publication you're reading, you could (given the signaling theory of ads is correct) get a better signal in many cases.
No kidding :/ . If anything, there should really be a movement to get people to migrate off of it more and more.
Yeah because software is free to maintain and develop.

Software that has already been written and does not require changes is free to maintain and develop.

There is a trend recently for newer versions of software to remove features that older versions had, for varying reasons that are invariably not in the users' interests.

Removing something but then offering to put it back in return for money or accepting ads or accepting spyware or whatever other onerous condition is user-hostile. Some would say it's just business, but to many it seems malicious.

Promoting new software that does this as being an upgrade, and trying to seduce users into making the switch by giving away the new software freely but not openly disclosing what the user will lose by switching is misleading advertising.
No, they are the same thing.

From what I understand of the climate at the time, the justice system was seen as wrong in turning against recognizing different classes of people.
Okay, I challenge you to discover a "revealed preference" that says they like overlays. Not that they click them, not that it "results in an action," but that they like them and they will be more likely to return to the site because of the positive and enjoyable experience of the popup.

There are a few dozen confounding variables in your analysis as well if you want to look for the revealed preference. Why are users clicking the modals? Are they certain that they have a choice? In the article, the author makes the excellent point that many people believe that they must complete the modal to continue reading the article. That's not preference, that's coercion.

So, sure, it's valuable to understand revealed preferences without bias of leading questions. Absolutely. But you still have to keep your head on and understand the variables you're measuring, the confounding variables, and larger effects at play.

This question comes up a lot in user experience design, with stated preference vs. revealed preference (how you do user testing and surveying vs. how users actually use the product unprompted), and the larger macro-scale question of what actually makes a quality experience. Often making all the decisions about the user experience from microinteraction tests leads to a poor overall experience, and it's exactly because of too much focus on 'what works' without understanding how the measurements are being made and how we should interpret that data.
Fortunately the Intel graphics are connected to all the display outputs. The nvidia card is always off for me (I unloaded the nouveau kernel module to be sure, but normally it turns off automatically when idle)
Fixed Android link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ghostery.a...
Not a great fan of LINQ if I'm honest. Sure it's terse and powerful but with it comes great responsibility and a relatively large pile of tasty landmines. Three regular problems I see:

FirstOrDefault being passed 2 rows = non-determinism. This one is always fun when your SQL server doesn't guarantee the order of rows returned so every time you hit .FirstOrDefault you get a different item. Never happens in dev due to the tiny datasets fitting in a single page.

There's also Single being passed 2 rows = crash. SingleOrDefault being passed >1 rows = crash.

And when it does crash it's entirely not helpful because the lambda block reports no state information in the stack. Inevitably this leads to adding precondition checks to avoid "Hey everyone, one of the 20 LINQ expressions in this method blew with more than one element in the sequence".

Then there's the fact that you don't know the size of the set of data nor really think about it. So if someone passes in a collection of 10 rows in dev and it works out that it's O(N^2) and has a random .ToList() in it then you're up shit creek in the memory and time departments when that 10000 items collection appears in production.

None of this unique to LINQ but it hides a lot of problems behind a wall of pain.

From extensive experience; there be dragons.
I feel like this was pretty obvious given that teratomas appear spontaneously. Once you appreciate that ESCs contain enough potentiality to form organs, the research kind of unfolds itself.
Ads inside an operating system (startmenu) and in applications that are included by default (Solitaire). I never saw that, not in Android, not in iOS, not in OSX. All telemetry, key and audio capturing and auto-cloud-upload, peer-to-peer-updates, forced updates, ...these new "features"/annoyances aren't well received. What's going on at Microsoft campus?

On iOS one can simply deactivate Siri and iCloud, that's it, two settings. On Android it's almost as simple (remove GoogleNow widget, use Samsung/HTC/Sony/etc. non cloud-only apps). Windows 10 requires 25 settings to be changed, and two can only be changed in the Enterprise edition, and to decide yourself which updates should be installed the very expensive Enterprise Long Term Servicing Branch edition is required. What's wrong with Microsoft? Who would trust such an operating system? Nadella seems to be the worst CEO of Microsoft to date; he receive advance praise unjustified for earlier work that still Ballmer decided. Microsoft should fix that.
I work for a small enterprise (under 2,000 people) and we get a choice of a couple different Macs (Air, Book, Pro), Dells in various configurations as well as Surface tablets.

The tech folks usually get a Mac Pro or a high-spec'd Dell (it has better specs than any Mac Laptop that's available at the moment, but is about the size and weight of a TV tray). The business guys and PMs go for the Airs and Surfaces...I'd say the Surfaces are about 2:1 to the Airs on takeup, and that's mostly because of the form factor and pen.

There's been a couple rough spots, but our leadership simply decided it was time to figure it out, and if we did, we'd be years ahead of larger enterprises, thus giving us a competitive advantage.
>I don't expect everyone to like me.

You're just some random person who comments on the same message board. I doubt I've ever met you, or will meet you in person; but if we were at a backyard barbecue, who knows, we might become pals. I don't require my friends to be a facsimile of me. Like I said it wasn't personal.

>What you did seemed very personal to me in the moment I read your comment.

I found that comment on the second page of your HN history. If you don't want anyone to know it you need to rethink the kinds things you post here.

>I got a sinking feeling in my chest.

Why?

>I don't think you mean anything malicious

What could possibly have been malicious about my perusal of two pages of your post history and my post. Another poster suggested that you might work in defense/aerospace (and therefore may have an ulterior motive). I posted a snippet from your history that suggests that you may indeed be employed in defense/aerospace. Those were your words. I made no remarks disparaging defense/aerospace workers, and I don't make moral judgements against people who choose that as a career.

>I had that little momentary stab of unease.

What end do you think I was trying to achieve?
Homer Simpson's Guide to SAP ERP's Evolution
Here is a framework that allows you to easily try this in practice: https://github.com/iurimatias/embark-framework
>Lots of effort went into studying the problem, so it most definitely isn't an issue of "can't be bothered".

Citation needed.

I've seen absolutely zero sample implementations, testing of implementation options, etc work going in with regard to adding Generics in Go.

And, aside from a couple of blog posts and shooting down people asking for it in comments, I've seen no real organized discussion, e.g. like what would go on for a Python PEP to be accepted.
>Surely there must be more like me? People who appreciate that somebody, somewhere is putting craft and effort into creating something, and that these people need to get paid if we want that to continue?

I agree with you right up to the second comma.

Youtube was a smash success well before it started giving youtubers advertising money. Open source software has been around way longer than paypal donations. YMTD, Newgrounds and 4Chan have never paid their content creators. Stuff like the jargon file, zombocom, quakenet and OCAU has been around since forever, running on donations from users or the willing pockets of their creators. Wikipedia editors get paid in warm fuzzies.

People are basically creative and giving, and like making content for others to enjoy. The internet was hardly languishing from a lack of content before advertising started to seriously make inroads.

Hell, when it comes to technical advice, half the best content is technical posts made before 2006 on random forums all across the internet by people who just want to be helpful. No forums user has ever gone "I'd like to post a full teardown of my favorate motorbike engine, but no one will pay me so I guess that the opportunity cost would be wasted, maybe I'll go spend 5 hours on mechanical turk instead".

On the other hand, sites like wired, forbes, the wall street journal and time have spiraled into a cesspool of clickbait titles, poorly researched articles and thinly veiled native advertising pieces since they moved their business models from mostly paper mags to mostly online advertising.

I reject utterly the notion that the web is improved by paying people to make internet-centric content, and would shed no tears whatsoever if I saw all monitisation-driven content creators leave the web for whatever they feel are greener pastures.
I am sure I have brought it up here before, but I will again. Here it goes.

My father is an intellectual property attorney. Among colorful clients was a very active entrepeneur/inventor.

One year he insisted the future was a digital nation. You see how people drool or get excited even with 1/4-of-the-way-there e-Estonia system? He was talking about this years ago, when I was finishing high school and starting college.

My father even drafted letters to the UN on his behalf pitching the notion of offciail recognition, and he was laughed off completely.

Mark my words, if govts still antagonize their people and an alternative of this form exists, a vocal minority will popularize the notion.

As an American, I cannot wait.
Microsoft's official statement on this:

> Microsoft Solitaire has been free to play for the past 25 years on Windows, and continues to be free to play on Windows 10. Users can access and play everything within the game for free, including new premium features like Daily Challenges and Star Club. The Microsoft Solitaire Collection game experience and Premium Upgrade features such as Double Coins for Daily Challenges, and removal of advertisements, is identical to the Windows 8 version that has been available for purchase for years

Source: http://www.windowscentral.com/heres-what-microsoft-says-abou...
How about an SHA-1 cert and a form that posts to HTTP? Is that the web you want?
Brilliant. ~0.49 seconds for me too.
We have done privatising of public services already in many areas, and I can't remember a single one were it was advantageous for the public. In Germany they started with telephone companies and suddenly many cities (even major ones) lacked coverage, even some smaller towns are left completely without modern technologies. Trains now are nearly unusable, always running late, always being broken, etc.

If you privatise the police force you end up with protecting the rich from the poor, which some might argue is even currently what happens too much. It will be more like that, though, not less. Because then a company does the protection and companies want money and are often not required by law to actually provide real, well spread service. And if you have no imagination for worst case scenarios then have a look what big companies with private armees like Nestle do in third world countries without the government being able to fight back because the companies simply have more fighting power.

We slowly shift from a country based society to a company based society. And sadly we have not fought for any rules considering health care, protection of our goods, etc with companies. We only have rights in the face of countries. No countries, no rights. At least that how it looks more and more.
Not really relevant since I am working at a startup and have a significant % ownership. I am renegotiating for a much larger % of the ownership. But how much the % is worth at the end of the day remains to be determined.
> but I still find it a lack of imagination to think there's absolutely nothing you could discover.

Perhaps. But the world is huge, and I still haven't worked my way through everything that I'm aware of on my own.

> Never had your friends show you an interesting product, tool, website?

Yes, all those things have happened. Even from ads.

> our individual experiences do not generalize well to the rest of the population if we're particularly frugal.

Absolutely. I'm an anecdote of one, just expressing my thoughts. The thing is, though, I'm not frugal for frugal's sake. I'm not frugal on purpose. It's just that in a universe of interesting things, there's enough interesting things outside the store doors that I personally don't need to go in to be interested. But that's me.
Sorry about the bad terminilogy, I have my input from a psychology student. Maybe someone can clarify about the correct terminology.

I researched more, and at least the wikipedia arguments against NLP are critisized heavily, too. http://realpeoplepress.com/blog/research-in-nlp-neurolinguis...

There is an organisation that aims for NLP to be recognized scientifically http://www.researchandrecognition.org/

At this point, you are right that there is not much scientific evidence. I hope for the research group that it produces some proper results soon
This was mentioned at the end of the article.
> I can't imagine the mind of the person at MS who decided that making Solitaire pay-to-play was a good idea.

It categorically is not.

All of the functionality in classic solitaire (the version since Windows 95) is all free. There are also additional game modes which are also free.

But they've added "daily challenges" which you can pay to play. It is an optional additional part of the game.

> how products like Win 8 and 10 get out the door

You mean products people dislike because Microsoft has actually tried to push forward their platform? Seems like they cannot win. If they push out a product exactly like XP over and over people will complain that Microsoft is being lazy/playing it safe/not innovating, but if they push out a product like 8/10 then people complain that they are changing too much.

Reminds me a lot of Ubuntu Unity. Everyone complained that they wanted innovation in the Linux desktop space, and when Ubuntu tries to provide that everyone freaks out because "they changed classic Linux!!!" Well which is it? Do you want to see progress or don't you?

> MS seems to think it can fix the terrible design by downvoting critics on public forums and getting PR companies to write booster posts

Now we're moving into the realm of conspiracy theory. Did it ever occur to you that other people have a different opinion to you and that that is ok? Not everyone is a Microsoft shill, and your opinion isn't the only legitimate one.
Previously you said this: If groups with power were not to resist social mobility (i.e. for less powerful groups to obtain more power) we'd see a constant shift in power distribution...

You now say this: "it's easier to approximate power through proxies such as income, percentage of powerful roles"

Lets work with this specific prediction. If a group has a tendency to enter a powerful role with probability p, and there are N members of this group, then the shifts in power distribution will have standard deviation (in percentage terms) of 1/sqrt(Np(1-p)).

That doesn't seem to agree with your "constant shift in power distribution" at all.
> FirstOrDefault being passed 2 rows = non-determinism... There's also Single being passed 2 rows = crash. SingleOrDefault being passed >1 rows = crash.

Which is the point of the different API's, you get to pick the behavior you want. Don't want it to crash? pick `FirstOrDefault`. A formal API is better than manually codifying the elected behavior each time, making it tedious to infer the intent each time whilst being susceptible to human errors manually copy+pasting imperative code.
Enjoy your wealth tax, your compulsory social insurance, your common second pillar insurance, your strict immigration controls, your smug and utterly false belief that the US bails out everything, Switzerland bails out nothing, and your similarly baseless belief that this is ultimately beneficial.

I really and truly do wish that more "people" like you would leave the country. Thank you for having the backbone to leave. As an American, I'm INCREDIBLY glad that you're no longer here.

Sadly, you probably still keep your US passport, because that's super-valuable, and you're an enormous hypocrite. Am I right?

Also, it's worth noting that if you ever gain Swiss Citizenship (you won't, but whatever), are aged or invalid and don't have money, you'll get free money from the Swiss government. So if your life goes sideways and you're an enormous hypocrite, you'll be able to get some help.
So what happens when you need to seriously use excel and the Mac version falls over.
Google's AU$1m grant to help introduce 10,000 students to STEM careers
This isn't clickbait: Why you shouldn't hate BuzzFeed
Are you saying boo or boourns?