skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't have to store it in plain text, but they do need to store it with reversible encryption (as opposed to hashing) so that they can use it to login to the bank's website.
We are seven billion intelligent beings, with significant resources, intelligence, and motivation, and we still don't fully understand "reality".

That is just humbling.
Perhaps the line is somewhere beyond donating money, regardless of cause. Maybe the line is throwing bricks through windows or chasing people with a bat.
I thought we would become more competitive with the drop in natural gas prices. Is it that the strong dollar has been greater than the energy price drop?
Depends on how successful (ie valuable to the participants) the trade agreement is.
Shipping is very cheap. Smelting (aluminum) is expensive.

I'm going to guess that most scrap is recycled locally, but shipping bauxite to China and buying back bulk aluminum is cheaper than doing it locally. Is recycling done this way also?
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Two mayoral candidates in Florida draw cards to decide a tied election
You can have bad claims approved by very thorough and costly audits if the standard is poorly set (as is the case with SRED).
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It's a step in the right direction, but I'm afraid we need more than this.

> Since some Web pages may appear broken when elements that track behavior are blocked, we’ve made it easy to turn off Tracking Protection in Private Browsing for a particular site using the Control Center.

Whitelisting a whole site because it "appears broken" is a pretty weak approach, and clearly incentivizes "brokenness". I notice the spies (google etc.) are more intelligent and creative than the defenders of privacy.

We need a browser that can make such sites work - for the user. Without leaking any cross-site information. This involves rewriting URLs and cookies, or "mixmastering" identifiers across a cloud of users.

>Today we’re also releasing new visual editing tools in Firefox Developer Edition including Animation Tools that work the same way animators think.

To me this sounds like fiddling while Rome burns.
Typical of their track record of wasting energy on irrelevant projects instead of making a great browser.
If it's cheaper to out source it American companies will. Interestingly they do this to recycle paper because its really toxic to do so. Never understood why, pine trees are a fairly renewable resource. In Georgia we have plenty of pine trees that grow pretty fast and a forest can be replanted fairly easily.
There is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_distribution_system
Gauge: hackable test automation written in Golang
They were founded in 2006, and their first generation cameras were being unloaded on Woot last year, and the there was a flash sale on their second generation yesterday. It'd be great if they finally recognized that a proprietary format was blocking their success, but...
I agree that there are many other issues with SR&ED (including the one you mentioned above). I just chose to tackle one that I could put clear numbers and examples to and viable solutions. With respect to the SR&ED process itself, that's going to be another post once I have a well thought out proposal and data to back it up. :)
When discussing whether X should be patented, it is appropriate to discuss the trade-offs specific to X.

It is a poor time to discuss trade-off generic to all patents. Focusing on them shifts the discussion away from the issue at hand, and toward a political stance that people have already heard.

avar's post does the latter.

Just like in a topic about whether to vote for a specific tax levy, it's inappropriate to talk about whether property taxes as a whole should be abolished.
They don't actually outpace American manufacturing. America focuses on low volume extremely high priced manufacturing, China and other countries focus on high volume low cost (i.e. low skill) manufacturing.

For the most part this is because wages are higher in the US, so you need to make more expensive stuff to make it worth it.
If you bill yourself as a mobile dev expert and work for non-technical teams, you could probably take any mobile dev job.

For instance, if a hospital is looking for someone to build an appointment management app for their patients, they don't care if you use Obj-C or JavaScript - they just want an app that works.
Worry not, the dogs get plenty of goats' milk and scrambled eggs that their charges produce for them!
Yeah, and users can't even run their own LTE-U base stations because - last I heard - it requires signalling on the licensed LTE frequencies to tell the end device to use the unlicensed LTE-U band for data. So if they make 5.8GHz unusable for anything except LTE-U, users will effectively have to pay the mobile telcos to run their own 5.8GHz access points on their own wired internet connections.
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"The price of the cryptocurrency bitcoin surged on Wednesday to its highest in more than a year amid a wave of Chinese testimonials for a “social financial network” called MMM, which bears the hallmarks of a pyramid scheme."

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/ee93bc2e-82f6-11e5-8095-ed1a3...
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Very cool! Looking forward to diving into the code!

Question- how much extra work would it be to add Android and/or Windows Phone support with react-native?
Having worked in a genetics lab as a sysadmin, I can agree with this 100%.
Yup. Many more issues, but this is one that isn't subjective and I can provide possible solutions to, so its the first I wrote about. :)
The problem I have with the grizzledExpert-style responses is that their stance usually assumes a postion of hand-holding; that is, often it's assumed the BaffledNewb is misguided in their thought process (which they are in the examples given), but also that giving them an answer to a question they haven't thought to ask is the best course of action.

I think that if the BaffledNewb is allowed to encounter the consequences of obtaining literal answers to their questions, they'll have a better understanding of why their original question was misguided, and in the future (hopefully) learn to ask questions in a better manner as well as more fully understanding why the answer to their original question is not the best answer.
I agree that there are many other issues with SR&ED (including the one you mentioned above). I actually point out a few at the bottom of my post. :) I just chose to tackle one that I could put clear numbers and examples to and viable solutions.
I was once told of a restaurant that managed to get SR&ED for their chefs.

Second-hand, and supposedly they've tightened the rules since then, but I feel like it's really telling of the flaws with the program at a fundamental level.

Either make it a handout directly or tighten up the rules so that it can only apply to things with really rigid processes that are capital intensive, imo.
Any chance demand from domestic US automakers would increase enough to stem US aluminum industry losses? With higher MPG CAFE fleet requirements, I'd assume a surge in demand for aluminum for vehicle unibodies (which is stronger and lighter than steel).

Also, I'd be curious if aluminum plants might start buying renewables with locked in rates to compete against foreign firms who have access to cheaper energy (utility scale solar is already down to 4 cents/kwh).
There seems to be little discussion of the benefits to open offices. I would like to know how much money is saved to startups without significant funding. A big company like AT&T has no excuse but "shareholder value" for lowering the quality of work life - because let's be honest, private offices are obviously best - but a startup doesn't really have that choice.

Personally, I'm fine with some kind of mix. Some people have cubicles where I work, others have offices, others are a bit more open. As long as I'm listening to good music, it's never really bothered me.
It is directly driven by the cost of energy, as tomkinstinch brought up. China burns an incredible amount of coal for power, which brings the cost of energy down at the price of huge amounts of pollution.

As China and other places green, you can expect the price of aluminum to rise and production to float to other places.
But we can infer that there used to be a star there, and we can infer what the mechanism is that creates them; we also "see" immense electric fields sometimes, and we see accretion disks and other things.

The dark-matter-critters would see literally none of that; they'd only realize anything was amiss if they saw gravitational lensing of their stars (if they even have light) or felt tides when someone happened to pass near one.
That's silly, of course it can be taught, and it can even be measured if that's so important to you. Can this person read a text and understand the arguments that are being made? Can this person tease out subtexts and narratives and ideologies in the world around them? Can they write and make themselves understood? Can they follow an argument to its logical conclusions or pick apart failures in an argument? Can they recognize aesthetic and technical choices, or stylistic and intellectual affinities within a work of art? These are all skills necessary to be engaged in civic and cultural life, and they can absolutely be taught.
Pretty sure the answer is no, because all the signalling to negotiate the use of LTE-U happens over licensed LTE frequencies - so unless you're a ham that happens to be able to transmit in one of those bands, no dice.
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These people seem focused on recruiting volunteers, but they may be able to put you in touch with a resource: http://www.volunteermatch.org/search/index.jsp?r=msa&l=98599...

Other possible resources or leads:

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http://interconnection.org/retail/

https://www.dshs.wa.gov/ra/division-vocational-rehabilitatio...
I repeatedly fail to understand this 'Freedom of Speech' notion - and certainly do here. Mozilla is a company. They certainly can pick roles based on the statements of an individual. If you apply for a job there and can't stop cursing like a madman, or if you happen to add juicy details about your personal homophobic beliefs to the interview, you might not get the job. Free speech? Doesn't matter.

Now, I do admit that I didn't like the whole 'we dug up this stuff in his past' part of the story. Nor the pitchfork wielding crowds on the net. I, personally, would've considered him misguided and stuck in the past in this regard, but I wasn't calling for (or expecting) consequences. Mozilla decided (or was pressured) to distance itself from the person and his statements. That might be correct or might be unfair, depending on your stance.

But it's not about free speech.
Bad unintended consequences was a nice way of phrasing 'it sucks and is draining money away from real R&D/innovation'
I think it's worthwhile to unpack exactly what "owner" means; I don't think it's purely binary. In our current society, I can own land, but still be restricted by HOAs and zoning laws. I can buy a piece of software, but really it still belongs to the creator, who has granted me a license laden with restrictions. And these days, of course, we might own the hardware of our devices, but they're fancy bricks without the software that we certainly do not own. Heck, even the change in your pocket is only owned by you in the sense that there are implicit and explicit contracts with other humans not to take it, and what the repercussions are if they do.

It may be worthwhile to renegotiate these norms and definitions of ownership. In the meantime, I think it behooves all of us to be not be naive, and understand the terms of every "ownership" contract that we sign.
I'm doing exactly the same with http://duckie.tv/

Runs as:
- Mobile (Phonegap)
- Native (nw.js)
- Website
- Chrome extension

with exactly the same codebase.
Coal is still cheaper, as is subsidized energy in the Middle East. =/
Honestly? I don't care. I just pointed out that he wasn't "fired" in any real meaning of the term. He lost control of his own troops and decided to go. That's not "getting fired" in my book.
Y Combinator, the X Factor of tech
The average add-on adds 10% to Firefox's startup time. https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2011/04/01/improving-add-on-... If this were an especially efficient one it might not be that bad, but it does take a performance hit.
China is almost like a big blackhole.

Destroying industries one by one - the coolest thing about it is they are only doing it to improve the standard of living for their people - having a global monopoly is not the #1 reason.

Like the rest of the world's economy wont matter and are like small planets.
You've got a bit of misinformation in here. He's correct about the raw sequence data for a 30X whole human genome being 100GB of data. The standard practice is to align the sample to the reference, but we store alignments in the BAM file, not variations. Some of the mismatches in the alignments are due to noise in the sequencer. We run the BAM through a variant caller which outputs a VCF which contains the variants. You do not typically genotype at only known SNP sites when generating a VCF file (although you may restrict by a region). If you were only interested in certain SNP sites you would be better off running a microarray.
I found I was the most productive when I was in a small office with 2-3 other developers, with a door we could close. Everyone was setup this way, and people ended up decorating each of their rooms and every room had a "theme" (ours was called the lounge). This degree of personalization brought me closer to my co-workers whom I shared the office with, and as a result we worked better together.

In the afternoons, we'd have our "coding sessions" where we could close the door and just sink into whatever project/problem we were working on. The result (without constant distractions of people walking by/around us) was extremely productive.

This was back in Ohio years ago. Since then, I've moved to the bay area where I've unfortunately been forced to work in open offices. I find them depersonalizing and my ADD kicks in with people constantly walking by/around me. I isolate myself with good noise canceling headphones, but I find myself longing for the days when I shared an office with some really cool dudes. Or, maybe I still haven't found a team I like.

Anyway, I find it odd that companies in the bay area, with how innovative everything is out here, think open offices are good and/or work. You pay people 6 figures to use their mind and then make them sit in a room all day with constant distractions. It makes no sense.
I am very much liking the CSS animations.
yep seems like click bait to me.
Your project's Readme is boring
Someone needs to write an article "why no one office plan will make everyone happy". Discussions around office layouts always devolve into different groups vehemently defending how everyone should love their preferred choice, and very few people recognizing that different people work differently.

Some people thrive in an open office, while others can't function due to distraction, interruption, and an expectation of constant interaction. Some people thrive with private offices and doors, while others go stir-crazy and feel like they can't collaborate. And cubicles with proper separation end up as a satisficing solution that doesn't make anyone completely happy but doesn't drive people completely crazy.

Ideally some kind of hybrid could work, with doors available for people who want them, and common work areas available for people who want them. But perceptions matter too, and "private office" rightfully looks like a perk; many who might function better in a common area might resent not getting an office.
Right - they asked about Bitcoin in general which is rife with pump and dumps.

The bubble right now is mostly a response to the MMM buzz.
I’ve always thought that much of the bitching is about individual productivity without taking into the considerations of group productivity. Teams of 4-8 being in a single room probably gain more in collaboration in sum total by being together than the loss in personal productivity; however open spaces in the hundreds now introduct distractions for non-group associated work.
ISP copyright was addressed in this reddit post: https://reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/3rlu3g

>ISPs must move quickly to remove material with a copyright claim against it:

>these conditions shall include a requirement for Internet Service Providers to expeditiously remove or disable access to material residing on their networks or systems upon obtaining actual knowledge of the copyright infringement

>If your data/material/whatever is pulled down because of a bogus claim, you can't sue ISPs:

>An Internet Service Provider that removes or disables access to material in good faith under subparagraph (a) shall be exempt from any liability for having done so

>[All pulled from Chapter 18, Annex 18 E/F]
That infographic is really bad. 100% of what? A 100% increase? Then why is it a pie chart?
I think if something the size of twitter failed, the loss of trust in a similar service's sustainability would prevent a clone from seeing critical mass for a long time, if ever.

edit: why the downvote? If you disagree, let's talk about it.
In this research, it's looking at Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Web Developer definition there is http://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/w.... Software Developer is http://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/s....

The short answer: Back-end as opposed to Front-end
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> I immediately found a few potential tracking issues with its default lists

I am curious: what are these "few potential tracking issues" specifically?

Whatever default lists uBO is using, unlike with ABE (which is essentially ABP filtering engine), users have the last words in what is blocked:

- The `important` filter option can be used to override exception filters.[1]

- Dynamic filtering override all static filters.[2] For example, you do not need a special filter list to block Facebook everywhere, it's a matter of a few point-and-click to block it everywhere without any way for any static filter to counter it.[3]

* * *

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax#...

[2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Overview-of-uBlock's-...

[3] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-to...
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I've shared a few that have done very well on their Show HN posts:

Show HN: Artpacks.org – Archive of the ANSI and ASCII art scene (1990 to present) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8962810 & http://artpacks.org

Show HN: SendToMyCloud – A Public Inbox for Your Dropbox and Google Drive - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9005870 & https://sendtomycloud.com

And one that didn't do so well (and hasn't, in the market):

Show HN: Private Forms: PGP-Encrypted Webforms for Privacy-Conscious Receipients - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10154565 & https://privateforms.com
Mostly seems to be Chinese govt policy

"Government subsidies are taking as much as $200 per tonne off the cost of production. Chinese Governments subsidize the local industry in order to protect jobs, and to maintain a level of “social order”. http://blog.alcircle.com/2013/03/04/the-secret-of-chinese-al...
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China needs to ship almost everything it makes somewhere else to buyers, so it's not exactly alone.

Besides, if the yuan rises against the dollar or Chinese electricity costs go up, all the smelting will eventually go somewhere else.
It already happens, and new names change, or a different region creates their own regional name.

Champagne is already limited to a region in Europe, but that hasn't stopped, say, Catalonia from making Cava: their own regional brand for what is, in essence, the same thing. If anything, this also allowed local producers to band against the old name, which now indicates it's a product made in France.

So in practice, its not a big deal for good competitors.
I've worked in a cube. I've shared an office with one other person with a variety of different desk arrangements. I've had my own office. I currently share an office with three other people (almost an open office).

I vastly prefer sharing an office with one other person where both of us have our backs to the wall over any of the others. Having my own office is too isolating for my tastes, but I don't like wide open spaces, and I don't like people being able to sneak up behind me.
I think you're right about local recycling - it only takes about 5% of the energy to recycle vs. direct from bauxite.

Here's a list of recycled smelting operations: http://www.lightmetalage.com/producers.php
You know who does this? Sony. PS3/4. Author should have done some research before proposing such a ridiculously stupid idea. If I was legally allowed to, I would hurt them physically for for imposing this shit on me when I just want to play videogames.

EDIT: Not to mention it obviously doesn't improve security. This is Sony we're talking about here.
Do any of the browsers privacy modes make an active attempt to stop fingerprint based tracking yet?
Carbon fiber is stronger and lighter than either.
The question is, what happens with the next generation? Also, there are public companies that are family-controlled, such as Ford, through two classes of stock. Family control of large companies is more common outside the US, in countries which allow cross-holding and have weak shareholder rights. Samsung and Hyundai are family-controlled, but the family owns under 1% of the stock. A successful company that tried that in the US would face a hostile takeover.

Arguably, Google and Facebook are "family-controlled", with two classes of stock that keep the founders in control.
Seems awesome!

But how can it possibly work if it only has a surface temperature sensor and no way to know either internal temperature or both the weight of the food and area of the food-pan contact surface of the food? (or even better, a full 3D model of the food)

I mean, an extremely thin but large steak will likely need a different cooking time that a more "spherical" steak (even if they weight the same).

Otherwise it seems an amazing product.
As a matter of fact, we have empirical data posted just yesterday about who is committing to the mainstream browser engines: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10503653

You are welcome to draw your own conclusions about the viability of constructing a modern browser engine on donated time from a handful of Facebook and Netflix engineers.