skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$170 million adjusted for inflation ends up close to $1.2 billion in 2015. Add in the additional safety regulations (not just on the design of the bridges themselves, but also the added costs of safety rules for construction crews, truck drivers, etc.) we've come up with since the 70s, and $4 billion isn't a completely batshit insane number. Big projects are expensive.

Also, don't underestimate the effect inflation can have on large public works projects. Inflation over the course of a 10 year project can be as high as 35% - even if inflation stays under Fed's targets. When stating dollar numbers, projects almost always do so in current, nominal dollars because that's what gets you the lowest number. And all of this is before taking into account the financing costs of a large public works project (municipal bonds are tax-exempt, but they aren't free).
What I find disconcerting is the faith Walgreen's has put in them. To be honest, their revenue plus the partnership with Walgreen's likely justifies the valuation. It is just that Walgreen's shouldn't partner with organizations for testing that aren't on solid scientific footing.
Of course, but that's not the way beancounters think.
On a larger scale (overall layout of a page) CSS reliance on DOM structure is a bad thing. But on a small scale (layout of a component) the cleanest markup is usually going to require coordination between the CSS and the DOM structure (and JS if the component has custom behaviors.)

This is true for basic html too. You could create a bullet list by adding a div with a class for the container and arbitrarily located divs with classes indicating that they're list items related to the container, and then use complicated CSS to pull it all together into a visual representation of a bullet list. Or, you could use a ul element for the container with direct child li elements for the items. Your visual style relies on the DOM structure, but overall it's a cleaner solution.
... which, by the way, does not mean that JSON Schema is bad or unusable. I actually quite like it, it has certaint elegance. Just not really standard.
I can confirm that the explosion of package managers (npm/bower), task runners (gulp/grunt), UI frameworks (foundation/bootstrap/skeleton), pre-processors (sass/less), JS frameworks (...), etc., that you can waste entirely too much time deciding between them.

As an aside, I've been working on a project that uses Angular 1.3, and I'm not entirely sold yet. I do like that modules are usually contained, but the dependencies are hard to reason about (plus there's all the black magic I'm convinced they had to use to get this to work). Everything about the application feels sluggish, because there's a ton of other JS frameworks being pulled in. So whatever you do, don't mix and match 10 of them. It's painful as a user
Does the React + Webpack stack essentially give you all of the same functionality that Angular does?
I was so uninteresting I became interesting.
> static type declarations aren't necessary for correct automatic refactorings.

They very much are, it's a scientific fact (look up the Curry-Howard isomorphism).
I dont think ADSL can compare to what you can get in most metro areas in the US. I have basic internet and get 18mbps but most of the time its more than 20. Google fiber will be coming to my area soon so I can expect this to go way up even if I dont switch.

As far as CC chips almost all of my cards have a chip in them with the exception of a credit union debit card. Larger retailers that had security breaches are now using this tech such as Home Depot and Target. It will take a very long time to get smaller retailers or even gas pumps to update their card swipers.
WalmartLabs is releasing OneOps cloud technology to the world as open source
Bell Canada to pay $1.25M penalty for fake reviews
Interesting, we're doing something similar with Open Publish, Bitstore, and a couple of DHT backed delivery systems, namely IPFS and BitTorrent.

Content is published by registering a SHA-1, BitTorrent InfoHash, an IPFS key and a URI pointing to the content on the Bitcoin blockchain.

https://github.com/blockai/openpublish#register-media-with-a...

Payments or tips towards that content are registered by creating a Bitcoin transaction that pays the person who registered the content by referencing the SHA-1.

https://github.com/blockai/openpublish#tipping-and-micropaym...

We've experimented with some Reddit-style ranking algorithms where we consider payments or tips as upvotes.

One big difference between what we're building and what this presentation is describing is where and how the content itself is stored.

We expect the content to be available on BitTorrent (and WebTorrent) as well as IPFS, both content-addressable data stores that use DHTs, but we also have a fallback to a URL for the content.

We made our own service called Bitstore, a content-addressable file hosting and distribution service that uses Bitcoin public key infrastructure for authentication and payment.

https://github.com/blockai/bitstore-client

So instead of having to run your own IPFS or BitTorrent node that's always serving up your content, you can pay a small fee in Bitcoin to have your file hosted... something like a coin operated S3.

Both Bitstore and Open Publish use the same form of authentication and permission, the public key nature of Bitcoin wallets. Users are identified by their public wallet addresses. This login mechanism has been implemented in a number of wallets that support the spec Common Wallet interface.

https://github.com/blockai/abstract-common-wallet

This opens up a number of really interesting interactions, such as something like "tip to comment", where a web service can check the Bitcoin blockchain to see if a self-identified wallet address did indeed tip the content it is attempting to comment on.

https://github.com/blockai/my-two-bits https://github.com/blockai/my-two-bits-client
The US Supreme Court Could Ruin Elon Musk's Plan for Tesla
This was technically stealing.
The US is very, very big, and very, very empty compared to Europe. Outside of the I-95 corridor on the East Coast, some islands of density in the midwest, and the coastal zone of California, Oregon, Washington, it's overwhelmingly rural or uninhabited.
Video of this talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrfD3pC0VSs
Though it is from 2014, it is interesting on comparison between linux and smartos(solaris).
There is also a recent, shorter video http://containersummit.io/events/sf-2015/videos/going-contai...
Government organizations turn to ordinary measures to solve software problems
Hey, I'd be willing to build such a thing. Open source hardware and software and all. Email me at kliment@0xfb.com
Just tax it and regulate it, enough with the puritan witch hunts.
They've changed that very recently then. It used to be free but you just didn't get interface builder support.
For me, check cashing shops are a huge sign I'm in a poor neighborhood.

Businesses with signs in Spanish is another, though that's probably specific to Texas and the southwest, since we have a lot of poor Hispanic neighborhoods here. Unfortunately, the Hispanic neighborhoods here are almost universally poor. You go farther north, there probably won't be many Hispanic neighborhoods at all.

Put them together, and seeing "Cambiamos Cheques" is a huge red flag.
A new notification center for Android(pre-beta)
It might be that you are spreading your efforts out across too many languages. My suggestion would be to try focusing in on one until you feel like you've gained some traction. Good luck.
It was reported that he would be giving up 30-50%(now at least 50% apparently) of his own stake. Which comes out around 10% of the entire company, depending on what number is actually correct.
What's so shocking about it? Have you ever been bullied? Ever had to fight someone?
I love this country (USA)
Should Everyone Work as Hard as the Chinese and Americans?
It's often the only or best way too. The more secure a place is the easier it is to get in. People become very trusting. Carry a clipbord and look like you know where you're going and you can walk damn near anywhere.
I suspect that, for many people, getting cable (or satellite) has just become sort of the default. Of course, many do watch sports which often (though not always) run on non-network channels.

Also, not everyone is able to get TV OTA or is in a position to install an attic/rooftop antenna. I personally can't get anything OTA. I regularly toy with cutting back to a very basic bundle but haven't seriously pursued yet.
Good to read that there are good contractors.
How do you identify the good ones? Just apply and see?
This is neat research. Probably not very practical or useful in it's current form, yet, you have to engage in highly speculative research and even consider the ridiculous to discover new ideas.

This version is unlikely to be able to compete in almost any metric with robot arms or even far simpler purpose-built machines (think simple 1 DOF automation used in manufacturing assembly lines, like bottling plants). With time interesting and unique applications of some future version of this might find a problem it can solve elegantly.
I didn't have cable tv in college back in 2005. We used rabbit ears. I went without cable tv for 8 or 9 years and subscribed a year or two ago. I look back and I'm glad at the money I saved. I was blown away when HD antenna was introduced. The antenna is really underrated nowadays. I'd love to see it make a comeback.
There's not a single biological system in our bodies that isn't incredibly complex and has many moving parts. How do you recommend researcher investigate these interactions without being able to control for all these factors?
Ten Years in the Making, Nicholas Felton Files His Final Report
Every type of tech product became cheaper over the last 20 years – except one
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2696389/That-blast-l...

http://www.interpretermag.com/was-col-strelkovs-dispatch-abo...

..and many others
Do you go to independent restaurants or small businesses? Here in Minneapolis, where "buy local" is a serious thing, we do it all the time. But if you only shop and eat at national chains, you won't see it.
With Chromecast (or something similar to connect your computer to TV), and a decent Antenna, you do not really need anything else. Plus, most of the things that we watch are on-demand anyway - we don't have patience to sit through commercials for 1 hour to watch 20 minutes of a Sci-Fi episode.
IIRC the DVB-T standard took a very long time (multiple decades) to adopt and deploy.
Lord knows why. It's basically a tool to pick up non-stop advertising. If you're lucky, there's some horrible Big Bang Theory rerun displayed in one quadrant of the video signal, sped up to 210% normal framerate, so they can fit more commercials in. Plex is the new tv antenna.
3 reasons why you’ll have a self-driving car within 5 years
We've been using this protocol underneath another Bitcoin protocol we've been working on called Open Publish.

https://github.com/blockai/openpublish

At some point soon we are going to be transitioning away from Blockcast and instead using a Protocol Buffer, but it has been really nice to be using a loose format based on JSON and Blockcast while we were figuring out all the requirements!
> People agree to trade Bitcoin for that amount of money and that's it.

Yes, however Bitcoin is still not used very much for traditional goods-and-services trade. Many people are buying Bitcoin as an investment in the ecosystem. They see the value in Bitcoin technology, and believe that it is promising enough to increase in value.
Employees+and+a+Time+Tracking+App:+Friends+or+Foes?
Show HN: Webpack Node.js REPL Loader
So people's level of input into political decisions will be directly tied to the amount of money they're willing to spend?

Sounds like it would pretty much legitimise the problems with the current system. Or maybe I'm missing some key part here?
...and then you go to Dallas where you typically have a Walmart in walking distance of a Whole Foods or Central Market.
There's this tweet by a rebel commander: "Message from the militia. / / In the area Torrez just downed aircraft, like the An-26"

From http://blog.storyful.com/2014/07/19/how-social-sleuthing-unc...
> they either have permission (e.g. companies have agreed to hand over the encryption keys or allow monitoring of the data after it is unencrypted on arrival)

No, because nobody would do that and the NSA has no legal authority with which to force that. Companies wouldn't agree to this because they have everything to lose and nothing to gain. It's not like the NSA could even offer them favors in exchange, as the entire thing is ultra-classified. Also there's exactly zero chance this would ever be able to be kept secret. Companies can't even keep their products secret for the few months it takes from prototypes to launch, there's no way in hell the NSA would trust them to keep this secret for years. The first sys admin forced to do this would instantly talk about it.

> some other means (man-in-the-middle attacks, server backdoors, hacking vulnerable software) to bypass the encryption entirely

The article talks about this. That's definitely possible, but it's much more targetted and doesn't fit the scale that the Snowden leaks suggested the NSA was achieving.
Heh, they used to drive around in the UK with an EM locator, looking for unlicensed TV's to tax. Craziness.
See: http://blog.codinghorror.com/please-dont-learn-to-code/
What I'd like is an easy, cheap DVR solution for OTA. Mostly I'd just like to be able to pause and rewind live TV. After cutting the cord, it's like living in the 80s again shouting at family members to be quiet when you need to hear something.
And dollar stores.
assuming you are referring to the license fee: GBP145.50 is closer to $225 is it not?
Vexflow has been on my list of things to play with for a long long time - I'm glad to see it's getting lots of love from people with more motivation/skill/time than myself. I think music education is definitely ready for disruption - if you'll forgive the buzzword - and Vexflow seems to go a long way towards enabling that.
Symbols don't make sense without context.

If you paint a swastika on a synagogue people will be upset, but not because they dislike shapes with 90 degree angles. If you say that black people love fried chicken people will be upset, but not because liking fried is unique to black people or inherently bad. It's mostly because it's a stereotype associated with a period in US history when it was socially acceptable for a white mob to lynch a black man for being rude.
The claim that that the missile was fired from near Donetsk was debunked not by Bellingcat, but by the Dutch report. The 9M38M1 is not a long-range missile; there's a roughly 10x10km area from which it plausibly could have been fired, and that area is nowhere near Donetsk.
I recently tried to explain my setup to a friend and realized this is getting out of hand. I like the do one thing/pluggable UNIX philosophy as much as anyone, but saying "Typescript,tslint,gulp,jspm,Karma,mocha,chai,sinon,nightwatch,stylus,stylint,istanbul,react,skeleton,jsx,editorConfig,babel,Cordova" makes your head spin. Also getting them all to work together and play nice with sourcemaps and gulp tasks is a pain. Just setting up the tooling for the project BECAME the project. Sure it's IDE independent, pluggable and makes for clean development, but next week another thing will be shiny and I'll be doing more boilerplate. sigh
exactly, the dilution of samples needs to move to the forefront of the discussion.

Theranos:

(1) takes a much smaller amount of blood, claiming they will use the Edison machine to analyze it

(2)(a) sometimes uses the Edison machine, whose accuracy is disputed

(2)(b) sometimes dilutes the sample to test using a regular machine. The dilution moves normal concentrations outside the range of detection of the machine, so when a 10x dilution has its concentration multiplied by 10, there are huge errors, often causing misdiagnosis

When Theranos receives a proficiency test, they don't receive a small amount of blood. They receive the amount of blood a normal lab receives. These are the only samples that they can run in the manner the standard machines were designed for.

Theranos competes on costing less and taking less blood. The doubts are all around whether you can get accurate results with smaller amounts of blood from a different body part.
This is the correct answer.

Old, but still relevant density map:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_density#/media/File...
Surely both can and should do their bit.
Governments have the scale and power to run systemwide education, healthcare and crime reduction programmes; wealthy entrepreneurs have the freedom to try experimental schemes or artistic programmes that many people think sound like a waste of money.
Could someone please offer a TLDR; The article seems very clickbait and full of teases.
this may explain: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1213048...
Who reads all this content-mill fluff?

I regularly write for trade journals in the legal field and cannot conceive churning out worthwhile articles in less than a day, much less hours. Is it all clickbait junk? How many of the articles here on HN come from such mills?
OneSignal is hiring devs to help make push notifications smarter and easier
At OneSignal, our mission is to become the ubiquitous platform for all web and mobile push notifications, and we’re well on our way. We now have 6500 developers and over 250 million end-user devices using our service.

We’re backed by top investors including YCombinator, Justin Kan, SV Angel, and Rakuten Ventures.

Our stack includes Ruby, Rails, RSpec, CoffeeScript, PostgreSQL, and Redis. Our backend systems currently send tens of millions of personalized notifications per day and process up to 75,000 API requests per minute.

As you can imagine, the architecture for such a system requires some truly skilled engineering.

We're hiring developers to join our team in Mountain View, California for the following roles:

1) Front-End Developer

Responsibilities: Work with our experienced team to build and improve our landing pages, dashboard, and documentation.

Technologies include: Rails, HTML5, Javascript, CSS, Illustrator.

2) Full Stack Developer

Responsibilities: Work with our experienced team to build and improve our front-end, backend, and API.

Technologies include: Rails, PostgreSQL, Ruby, Redis, HTML5, CSS, Javascript.

3) Back-End Development Lead

Responsibilities: Lead our efforts to maintain and improve our infrastructure. Build and improve systems to send 100,000+ notifications per second across multiple protocols.

Technologies include: Ruby, PostgreSQL, Redis.

Future technologies may include: Go, Clojure, ElasticSearch, Kafka, or others.

4) Mobile Developer

Responsibilities: Work on our Open Source SDKs https://github.com/one-signal/. Write clean, elegant, and unit-tested code to be used by tens of thousands of mobile applications.

Technologies include: Android SDK Development (Java), iOS SDK Development (Obj-C, Swift), Windows SDK Development (C#). Native code wrappers for engines including Cordova, Unity 3D, Cocos2D-x, and others.

Please apply here: https://jobs.onesignal.com
This is an interesting question. People always throw tantrums about "lack of diversity" or "pay gap" but never actually mention a goal.

"See, women get 70 cents for a dollar!" - which btw is a myth, but fine let's play along. What's the goal then? A perfect 1-to-1? Would 97 cents for a dollar be ok? How about 1.2 for a dollar? When will we consider that we're done with the pay gap?

"Not enough black people in tech!" Fine, whatever the stats are now, what's the goal? Will we be fine with 13% since as far as I know that the share of the population in the US?
Unicorns and Superbonds
I'm able to do this with Comcast, but the channels available look really bad on my tv.
Pope Francis: A Transformational CEO
The five-dollar wrench doesn't allow for passive collection. You kinda know when you get hit with a wrench.
This is like finding unused bytes in TCP headers and using them to store data for messaging. This is not what the bitcoin's blockchain is designed for and if you want your data to persist across everyone's computer use something specifically designed for it like, say filecoin or ipfs, but please do not store data on the bitcoin's blockchain and burden everyone.
Conservation of energy: you can only become something else. Death is the opposite of birth, not of life.

And indeed, we are the cosmos contemplating its own existence.
Silicondust is releasing their DVR in the next month or two. I'm in on the kickstarter but not at the level that is currently testing. There are also dedicated devices for people less tech savvy.

https://www.silicondust.com/products/hdhomerun/hd-homerun-dv...
Now who's spreading FUD?
The @TwitterOSS got really hammered by the layoffs. They were real people, not just "high tier engineers". I take offense as some of my friends, real people, lost their jobs.

You shouldn't make light of other people's misfortune.
I don't know anything about Bellingcat, but most of what's on the site about MH17 isn't tea-leaf reading like this. Their case is mostly based on found photographic evidence.

Unless you believe that it's Bellingcat that's manipulating photos, their narrative seems pretty sound.
> relatively simple protocol

We must have a completely different definition of 'relatively simple' then.
Running Python with Compiled Code on AWS Lambda
Its when corporations get into the business and extra every cent from a technology. Expensive cable subscriptions, expensive cell subscriptions, etc... They all add up quickly.
In my experience they have the time, but they don't have the knowledge. Also, weight loss is a battle fought and won far more in the kitchen than in the gym. While I would expect a correlation between jogging and eating healthier, I would say the reason that the poor are less healthy has far more to do with eating habits than with exercising habits.
>This is the same leak that Glenn Greenwald describes to Edward Snowden in Moscow (-> -> -> -> POTUS

You mean in "Citizen Four", right?
How Facebook for iOS Continues to Drain Your iPhone Battery
Well, you, right? You started this comment thread by pointing out a source that nitpicks one non-critical bit out of a whole mess of open source evidence Bellingcat came up with, and then suggested we shouldn't trust the site because of that.
Why would you create a list with <div> elements? I understand your point; DOM structure has styling defaults and you have to play with it - 100% decoupling it's not possible. Still, trying to achieve decoupling between structure and styles doesn't mean that you should create bad mark-up.

In your scenario, I'd use a list element (<ul> or <ol>, according to the nature of the data) with a class (e.g. .my-list) and list item elements also with a class if needed (<li> with e.g. .my-list__item). No complications here. If somewhere along the way someone wanted to to a navigation area with exactly the same styles but with a different mark-up (anchors inside a <nav>), you could reuse or extend those classes to a <nav> element for the container and <a> elements for items. That's another "level" of DOM independence.
The final quote is the most interesting:

In reference to not getting paid for job, "A lot of these 'scammers' are actually other freelancers who are delegating their own projects in order to get paid for it without having to do any of the work."
Maybe it's different here in Europe, but most Smart TVs have had this functionality for the last few years - they store recordings on a USB drive. Before DVB tuners were integrated you had to get an addon receiver box, I have one from 10+ years ago that has a 80GB HDD to do exactly this.