skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This are some pretty terrible pictures, but they show you how densely packed the containers are:

http://www.travelwithachallenge.com/Images/Travel_Article_Li...
http://www.travelwithachallenge.com/Images/Travel_Article_Li...

That's 14 layers of containers, eight below deck and six above. Some contains will need power hookups because they're refridgerated, so it's feasible that those are accessible, but most won't be.

Plus, containers do get lost overboard occasionally. Cabins would be rather safer...
Thank you, I see your point..
I use Zotero (+ownCloud for storage) as well, a bit quirky at times but has all the functionality I need. Don't know how good the standalone program is, I only use the browser plugin+libreoffice plugin and occasionally the dreaded ms-office plugin as well (if not working with latex).
Quick feedback about the site: Pink on blue doesn't seem to work for me, and I suspect for many other people. It even hurts (literally).
Ask HN: What's the best use of emails of startup community, whom you don't know?
Soo... they should open a restaurant or food delivery business?

Snark aside, if 0.1% of people would like to replace a meal per day with a flavorless slurry this still leaves them with a 100,000 client base in US alone.
Thanks for the feedback. The main reason to use us is.. 1. its easier to use. you mention google maps - try using it on mobile, when you need to decide in 2 seconds. doesn't work, too much noise. you see 8 results because these are top ranked, we don't show you everything. if thats what you want (everything) then its google. 2. aggregation. unlike google, which you mentioned, we show you content from numerous different sources. when i am picking a place i want to know: is it michelin rated? zagat rated? timeout top100? what % score did it have on zomato? did any of the major newspapers write up on it? what do ppl say about it on twitter? what are recent reviews like? these are all things we have, in one place. the use case here is mobile entirely. mb we should just get rid of the desktop site to clarify that and add a mobile app..
> The only way to deal with any form of mass shooting is to have systems in public places that can automatically detect and disable the shooter within milliseconds of their first shot.

You are proposing that public spaces be fitted with some kind of system that can reliably detect bullets based on their "speed, size, and shape" profile.

How do you propose to do this without using a bunch of sensors?

> and much more to do with governments wanting as much surveillance and control over their populations as possible

Outfitting all public spaces with sound and vision recording/analysis devices seems like the very definition of mass surveillance and control.

> Anyway, generally you're referring to technical challenges, all of which could be readily solved.

Of course, we should not get bogged down in the technical implementation detail, but you can't just brush away these - very valid - technical criticisms of your idea.
Judging by the complete lack of information on Google beyond copies of this memo, I would guess that the idea was never taken up.
A killer feature of Mendeley for me was its ability to extract metadata from PDFs. I remember that I could not find a comparable functionality in Zotero last time I evaluated it. Is there any way to do it now?

EDIT: found it! Great!
It actually is. I'm living in India at the moment, surrounded by many Koreans and Japanese people and a few people from Europe and America. Getting a permit to work was extremely straightforward for them.

I'm sure you didn't mean to sound extremely rude or ignorant, but that's what you ended up sounding like.
Well they (*joylent actually, because soylent doesn't deliver in EU yet) managed to change my life somewhat. Easier to keep a diet and I never stress about buying food anymore - I only get what I feel like eating when I feel like eating it, because I have a standard backup to go to.

This goes with being the first company to make a certain kind of product. If they had opened a pizza chain they may have been more or less successful, but there would have been zero claim on changing the world.
Curiously it worked for some people in our office and not others, so I'm guessing it was related to sharding, perhaps?
"it teaches you how to be an adult"

I do think this gets overplayed, I'm sure you developed considerably over that period of your life, but so will anybody else of a similar age who moves away from home.
Here's one (behind paywall unfortunately) by the Max Planck Institute for Human Development that "found significant gray matter (GM) increase in right hippocampal formation (HC), right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and bilateral cerebellum in the training group" that was trained for 2 months for at least 30 min per day with a platformer game:-

http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/v19/n2/pdf/mp2013120a.pdf

But it seems brain training games don't seem to provide any conclusive benifit:-
http://longevity3.stanford.edu/blog/2014/10/15/the-consensus...
Vilnius, Lithuania: http://stops.lt/vilnius/#vilnius/map/en (click "Show vehicles").
Awesome template for a CV/resume on LaTeX
Not across the entire US, but in many places there are few or zero practical competitors.

And where there are competitors, they're most likely AT&T or Time-Warner, which have similar shitty practices.
Yes, it's fair, because many developers live in a little bubble. The United States, Canada, Australia, Russia and all of Europe combined is only 15% of the world's population.

You can argue the other 85% doesn't have internet access or isn't your target audience. However, I run a site that's geared to the US market, it's entirely in English, and 12k of my registered users are from China (1.5%). If I included files from the Google CDN, I'd be losing 1.5% of my users due to one line of code.
> Even if it works, I find that awkward : it acknowledges that you can not get the job done at work, because of the endless stream of meetings and interruptions.

It may just acknowledge that in your normal day to day job people have competing priorities that makes spending all your time on a single, specific project hard to achieve, especially when you're the easiest person to go to for others to solve their problems.

> It really begs the question if the way we traditionally work with everyone in the same office is really that efficient.

Or they're not efficient for the same things. It's not a given it makes sense to work the same way all the time.
How Slack Has Brightened Up Team Collaboration? 17 Integrations
I find headlines that ask a question very grating.
I've looked at knex. But I felt it not to be as composable as sqlata.

In knex operators are written with .where() itself. Also it doesn't manage table aliases apparently. And it's quite tied to an underlying connection as I can see.

But yes, all the sql bulders out there are quite similar, but there are notable differences compared to sqlata if you look deeper.
How to show wordpress posts in other CMS?
In my city, Eindhoven in the Netherlands, traffic lights are often calibrated to make sure that buses don't have to stop at a red light.
It's crazy but people use this and have no problem handling over the keys to their bank account.

I wonder whether there's more to that story. It seems like a potentially useful payment service, but it also seems like something the banks would surely be aware of. Customers giving up their credentials like that is probably a blatant violation of the bank's normal terms of business, and asking for those credentials or failing to keep them secure seems legally risky for the payment processor as well, particularly if anything ever goes wrong. Are you sure there's no separate agreement or commercial arrangement to cover this, probably between the payment processor and the banks?
Please add the 2014 tag
Well, that leaves it pretty open, but heres a quick rundown:

We found out about continuity of government during Iran contra, but were misled into thinking it went away. The people mostly responsible for it were the same neocons who manipulated GW Bush (eg: Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bremer) The best writing about this is from former diplomat Peter Dale Scott. I think it's possible that CoG is in effect and the Constitution has been secretly superseded by secret law. (Originally designed for nuclear attack, it was later expanded to be overly broad so as to potentially apply to almost any "national emergency". By the way, we have officially been in a state of "national emergency" since 2001, with renewal every year by all presidents since.

Beyond that, resource wars are incoming, which includes a reduction of the power of the petrodollar, which is the core reason behind expansion into the Middle East, Africa and the Russian border (Georgia 08, Ukraine).

Add to that the fact that since 2010 Citizens United, corruption of our electoral process is almost unilateral, that we are haemorrhaging jobs to overseas (which will increase once the TPP TTIP inevitably passes), and even if the horribly destructive so called "free-trade" systems don't do it, we are on the verge of an automation age which will remove many jobs from the market, and the oligarchy are increasingly done extracting wealth from third world countries and have turned inward and are now eating their own people so to say.

With the surveillance engine already in place, the inevitable unrest will be put down harshly (for national security of course), and the internet will be balkanised and the real world model of law will be applied to the internet... you know, the one were everything is illegal and everyone commits at least three felonies a day, so then you can arbitrarily enforce the law in order to stifle dissent.

All three branches of the government are compromised, and the fourth estate is in the gutter, along with the education system.

So basically we are returning to some strange form of neo-fuedalism, but this time it will be high-tech and global.
Source for that statistic?
Glad to see it's not just me that thinks things like that... the problem is I know it would take me forever, and when I eventually did it, everyone I know would just say "Why? It can't even do [insert killer app here]" and that would be that!
Helsinki has one for their trams, subway and ferries:
http://live.mattersoft.fi/hsl/Default.aspx?lang=en

I really wish there was this service for buses. Quite often the digital displays saying when the bus will arrive are inaccurate, as are the actual timetables printed on the bus stop (when there is traffic etc.)
Everyone is an enemy until we say otherwise.
See Betteridge's law of headlines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headlines
What?! In Cincinnati I had CincyBell Fibre about three years ago. I think I paid around $60 ~ $70. I don't remember the advertised speed, but it was crazy super fast.
So it's definitely true that players will have different skill levels with different factions. But even with 20 factions I'd be worried about getting enough data on for individual player/faction combinations to converge to the real values. That's especially true if the game doesn't allow a player to specialize in just a couple of factions, but realistically will be playing 10+ different ones. Maybe the thing to do would be to have three components instead of the current two; generic player skill, faction power, and faction-specific player skill.

One thing I do is track how much games with each faction contributed to each player's rating. But that's just for amusement value, there's no feedback from these faction breakdowns to the ratings as a whole.
having built the system and analysis method behind an absorption photospectroscopy (IR/VIS/UV) based device to measure a specific set of rigorously prepared and filtered bio-analytes, i would strongly advise against accepting this devices claims. Spectroscopy is a wonderful tool, but it's not a new one, and far more sophisticated machines have tried and failed at this consumer level device's claims. caveat emptor.
I don't think Facebook, or their userbase, care. :/
That's precisely the point being discussed. The "collect it all!" mentality of the intelligence agencies just increases the size of the haystack and does not actually result in stopping these incidents, as they are now spread too thin.
ISIS darknet site is Wordpress hosted in Amsterdam
5 things to consider before joining an accelerator
How do you define a better employee though ? I mean employers might want to hire people they like, not people who are better at their job. Skill can also be subjective. Sometimes it's about having a good relationship inside a company.

I'm all for hiring people based on their skill, experience and potential, but don't think employers will want to let algorithm do the job of HR. Many hires are based on social contact and first impression, and I don't think anyone want to change that idea of a company being a group of people getting along.

Being able to hire whoever you want is am important liberty. If people were letting algorithms do the job, they might not like it. I guess it's part of the "machine will decide for us" debate.

Anyway, I'm unemployed, so by no mean I could be against change of any sort.
Announcing instantsearch.js: Everything you need for great search in one library
if I understood correctly it works with surface light reflection near IR spectrum, which is fine for certain set of food, and useless for many others. Anything that has different structure inside compared to surface will give only partial results (from apples to chocolate coating to ... well you get the point).
"superior ideas"

Ahh, usurping the language of imperialism and religious domination. We've got lots of experience to show how well that works out.

Here's Pat Buchanan using that same language: http://buchanan.org/blog/goodbye-columbus-7030

> And here we approach a deep-seated reason for the hatred of Columbus. He was a colonialist and an imperialist. He believed in the superiority of his Catholic faith and European tribe. He believed that what we call the West should rule, because its faith, of which God Himself had been the founder, and its culture and civilization, which excelled all others in arms, inventions, literature, governance and the arts, were superior.

> Christopher Columbus was a Christian European supremacist.

> ...

> How else, these men would ask us, does civilization progress, if not through the imposition by superior men of superior ideas? What great nation, what great empire, what great civilization ever rose on a belief in the equality of all other peoples and all other faiths?

The British spread 'superior ideas' as well, https://visserhis338.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/journal-seven/ :

> Furthermore, his purpose for making the trip reflects a greater British colonial theme, global missionary work. Britain felt obligated to spread its superior ideas and culture around the world and civilize those in need of their assistance.

Here you see it used to justify war http://scholarship.law.nd.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=10...

> The Peace of Westphalia remained in effect until the revolutionary
leaders of France, who believed their ideas were superior ideas and
should therefore be imposed throughout Europe, decided to go to war.
The decision to go to war coincided with the developing concept of
sovereignty which included the idea that a state had the right to use
force whenever its leaders wished.

If you usurp the language of conquest, how do you tell if you've also inherited the bigotry and intolerance that so often accompanies it?
I stay with Comcast because it is way cheaper then AT&T but with AT&T's VDSL I could get 45mbps (fiber to the neighborhood box, apparently).
Riconoscimento facciale: rilevare la prossimità di un volto in JavaScript
Super high cost of living too, though.
"...better than humans at hiring replaceable drone-serfs in an inhumane, inhuman industry which burns people out like they were incandescent bulbs", for sure.
This. I think this is much more in line with the recurring donation model they have already launched. The next logical step is simply to say "Hey you know all those non-profits there? They will now be accompanied by your favorite personalities, publications, podcasters, apps etc that you're already sharing here."

Facebook being Facebook, it could morph still further to become Kickstarter and even an investment platform (AngelList) eventually, but patronage is the more natural fit.
You might want to consider trying something more like Airbnb. Play around with the Airbnb search, and imagine the same for restaurants.

https://www.airbnb.com/s/Rome--Italy

Some Airbnb improvements that could be applied to your site.

1. Give more room to the results, instead of having the map cover 80% of the screen.

2. Search bar for location, then checkboxes for cuisines.

3. Slider for price.

4. Update the results when you move or zoom in or out on the map.
Police civil asset forfeitures are burglaries.
> "I've decided to quit impostor syndrome and accept that I am kind of a biochemistry badass…"

I think the work you do is pretty awesome (at least from reading your posts here and on your blog) and can understand that you are stretched, but I can see that you also want to move the field forward (and not in the "lets shit some papers out and maximize for 'impact factor'" way).

>"As to why I'm not really that excited about helping the Open Insulin Project any further: I've become kind of wary about prevailing attitudes in the tech-to-bio transition field that basically takes an exploitative attitude following the Postdocapalypse... There's this investor class expectation that they can hire frustrated grad students and postdocs for cheap. I think this is true, but they better watch out, in 99% of cases they are going to get what they are paying for."

I can see where you are coming from about the whole Postdocapalypse economics… I see it heating up as well with mindfulness being the current carrying agent in moving the neural tech forward (some neuro phd i was talking to on twitter said this to when I was mocking the "run matlab on cluster for months mentality" and saying it could be done way faster (hours) and cheaper: "Sounds a little bit more complicated than just reporting what you did in a paper.", so yeah, the investors who fund people like that are going to get exactly what they are paying for), but I'm going to help people milk it for what its worth just to help foster something that can compete with the abomination that academia has metastasized into that masquerades such games as science.

> "…I've never been terribly excited about bringing the marginal cost of scientific labor closer to zero, and the OIP is basically that."

Yeah I can understand that, but I also think the way that resources are allocated as a society are in for a major shake up (esp with the whole crowdfunding bonanza across so many industries, and have people who worked for the UN and a gov agency in Turkey contact me about the software I wrote to track it on social media), which I think is why people aren't terribly excited on top of the personal stress all the uncertainty brings which I'm familiar with being a drop out who's in the neck of it up here in the boston area (and happen to be the only one it seems to have open-sourced a spacial beamformer in c++ for real time neural feedback for eeg that can be adapted for dual eeg/fmri). I do think though, because you aren't necessarily confining yourself to what things have to be (as defined by the status quo), you'll probably end up doing way more than you think you are capable of now.
Good effort keep it up ............
Joel Spolsky Was Wrong – DHH on Rewriting Software
You might want to try getting out of the HN/SV bubble more often.
CUBA filters – the fast food of business software?
Have you read anything about the quality of public defenders? If not, here's a recent article:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/our-public-defender-...

What public-interest agencies are you talking about? As far as I can tell, the ACLU, EFF, and a handful of others provide no-cost support for a negligible portion (way less than 0.1%) of civil cases.
The problem with naming things "what they are" is that the scope of the project can change over the years, so that the name selected 5 years ago doesn't appropriately reflect what the project does now.
I suppose a follow-up would then be to test

1: hires only made by algorithm vs

2: hires that had human initial screening and then a human interview, and maybe vs

3: hires that had algorithm initial screening and then human interviews.

I think we often assume that #2 gives us the best chance at the right cultural/skill fit, and fall back to #3 when we don't want to give our recruitment departments enough money for the staff needed in #2.

But it's possible that the in-person interview ends up affecting the interviewer's biases such that #1 provides a better overall result than #2 or #3.

Complication certainly ensues when, as others said, the applicants (or the new Professional Application Assistant industry that will pop up) learns how to game the algorithms.
AGPL fixes this problem for backend code running on the web server, which is technically not distributed, so GPLv2 does not apply. For Javascript code, the code is distributed to the web browser, so even GPLv2 applies.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10575305
Oh. Some bonus content (I hadn't read that blog post in quite a while). That DARPA program manager... About a year ago on pubpeer very credible claims emerged suggesting that all of her work in grad school was an instrument artefact. Her PhD advisor committed some ethically questionable actions overdefending it.

And after spearheading several bio-hacking-type calls within DARPA, and seemingly being groomed to take Arati Prabhukar's position, she seems to have suddenly disappeared from her position at DARPA altogether in the past few months.
God, how I wish I lived in the Netherlands...
Is it possible to have internet without internet service providers?
That would be technically impossible ;)
Startups and small businesses in the United States organized as "S corporations" also pay zero taxes, and the qualification rules are a lot more permissive.

To be a United States S corp the rules are:

1) Number of shareholders <= 100

2) All shareholders are humans and U.S. residents

3) There is only one class of stock

For more, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_corporation
My teenage impression of the Kermit and Zmodem protocols, written in the mid 90s:

here’s my impression of how kermit works

client: here is byte number 1
server: i have received byte number 1. the checksum was 3.
client: i agree that the checksum was 3.
server: ok, we’re done with byte number 1.
client: I agree, we’re done with byte number 1.
client: here’s byte number 2.
server: you know, it’s not easy being green

now zmodem zmodem goes something like this:

client: I’m gonna send you about 200k now, and you’re gonna bend over and take it
server: thank you sir! ( … )
server: ok, got 200k, checksum was 523
client: DID I ASK YOUR FUCKING OPINION?
server: NO SIR! SORRY SIR!
It's not an editor, it's an IDE. Just look at the Python support they expect to add next year: "full intellisense, debugging, profiling, pkg mgmt, unit test, virtual env, multiple interpreter, Jupyter, etc. support.". All that in one program? You can't tell me that's not an IDE.
I could see something like this being very useful for preventing deaths due to contaminated party drugs. If it works.
Pigeons taught to diagnose breast cancer on X-rays
85.7% of statistics are made up on the spot. 97.1% of people know that!
</sarcasm>
I don't think this note was intended to be taken literally.
In a remote corner of Romania, neighbours kill each other over strips of land
Huawei fast charging cell batteries