skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Many, many forfeiture cases demonstrate that the reasonable presumption is not actually made by our system. For example many look like, "Person tries to board a plane. TSA finds money on person, seizes it, sues the money with no case made against the person."

The structure of asset forfeiture laws requires that the action be formally against the property. They also require both specific notice of people with specified relations to the property which indicate probable ownership, and public notice, so that any persons with ownership interests in the property can intervene in the action and have the opportunity to contest the governments claims against the property.
Tesla has discovered a new energy source: Burning shareholder cash
In the 1960s, hundreds of pounds of uranium went missing in Pennsylvania
Sorry if I was unclear. When I said "the common model" I was referring to the context of the previous sentence (and also this article and this site), tech startups. I agree that most normal businesses are self-funded.
Time to close the TSA
Oh wow, is that what that was. I had upgraded recently to 10.11 and thought that caused everything. Thankfully, it solved it self a little while after.

So as someone who didn't really know what was going on: It didn't really affect me too much, most apps seemed to still work partially (1Password, etc.). Still it didn't seem annoying because I thought it was the upgrade process.
> deductions are not credits

Good catch, I read "You can reduce your income subject to tax by up to $2,500." as "You can reduce your income tax by up to $2,500."

Thanks.
> And if I work for Ford, I'm not going to buy an iPad if I don't think that Apple engineer is going to turn around and buy a car.

What? I don't make anything that you will buy. I can guarantee it. So why should I buy your products if you won't buy mine.

That makes no sense. The way money works, it doesn't matter who is buying from who, only that things are being bought.
Yeah, he's back online, but hasn't done any more casts or OSS work.
Whether it is a problem or not can be debated, but it IS a shortage. If we don't say this is a shortage, then nothing ever would be, unless there is literally 0 supply of something. As long as there is at least 1 of something, there will always be at least SOME price you could pay to get it. In economics, a shortage means the price of something fails to rise to reach an equilibrium, which is EXACTLY this situation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortage
Assembly was a system of tools for developing applications via crowd contributions. Coderwall (https://coderwall.com/), Firesize (http://firesize.com/) and Helpful (https://helpful.io/) were a few of Assembly-made projects that were built with Assembly.

To make a long story short, projects were pitched to an idea board, and were up or down-voted on by community members. Ideas that got traction were "green-lit", which basically meant that the Assembly company would provide resources for it like hosting, DNS, email services, git repositories, etc., etc.

Apps that were greenlit could create bounties for work that needed to be performed, and any member of the community could collect on those bounties. Need design work like logos and icons? A designer (or many designers) could grab the work and submit their entries. Each unit of work would be awarded a pre-determined amount, and those payments amounted to a blockchain allocation -- e.g., submitting a logo might be worth 100 points, while submitting the accepted logo might be worth 1,000 points. That 1,000 points equated to ownership. If there were 10,000 points awarded to date, your 1,000 points were worth 10% ownership.

If the product was developed, completed, marketed, etc., and turned a profit, Assembly would collect a rake to cover expenses, and all the profits were paid out based on allocation.

It was a good system, really, and resulted in some pretty neat projects. That said, I'm not surprised to see it being shuttered. A while back they pivoted most of their tools into being some kind of community changelog, and as a fairly active participant, I literally stopped using it after that, as I had no idea how to use it, saw no instructions, and all the chatrooms that had existed previously had been shuttered in favor of the changelog.

I assume, but have no inside knowledge, that between participation dropoff, and the other end -- that many projects were either never completed, never marketed, never got traction, or not really good, they were outlaying too much and getting too little success on the other end.

For a (probably) better description of what they were, this article is handy:
http://tech.co/assembly-basically-group-projects-adults-2015...
The middle mouse paste (select to copy) in Ubuntu makes it even more seductive. In many occasions I have accidentally pasted code into my terminal window and many times without even knowing (debugging phantom menaces). I have started using Clipit/gedit to screen code now.
Since the issue was actually applications that were using pre-2005 versions of OpenSSL that didn't support SHA-2, the "grace period" here was effectively 10 years.
Sentview the next big thing?
Hey glad to hear it. I'm one of the guys who's been working on this bot.

Yeah that's very true, it should use the more semantically correct verbs and params in the paths. I'll update it.

Any other comments feel free to register an issue.

Thanks for taking the time to comment.
It could also be that there are many paths to and definitions for the skillsets that make good professional workers. Even if you create a list of the most desirable features of a software developer there are infinite ways of actually getting those features and they will not even look the same for 2 people.

One person who could be driven to learn and improve themselves by sheer ego, and another by absolute anxiety from bad things happening in their lives and a need for security and understanding. Those people look quite different when they work, and respond very differently to the high pressure situations of an interview. In the end you'll end up trending towards the same people that are in charge of interviews, because you'll tend to want to work with people that match your expectations of what a productive professional looks like (which can sometimes be "diversity" itself, though usually with a lot of degrees).

The other problem is that people tend to stick with what they know through their careers, and be around similar people. Its a fact of life of any interviewing programmer that with the exact same job requirements you can completely bomb one interview and look like a saint in the next. This is something that isn't easily quantified, which pretty much goes against the whole point of software to begin with, creating quite an interesting problem.
Ask HN: Are unicode symbols allowed in domain names?
A search of web whatsapp on google yields :
https://web.whatsapp.com//en.
I wonder if these symbols can be part of the Rest API / Domain name?
My bad; I somehow skipped over your paragraph saying to 'dive in', which renders all of my disagreement invalid.
This. The economics and incentives make more sense for individuals to train themselves. Whether that be through university or through side projects.

In fact I'm going to university and was taught this in "Comparative political economy of advanced industrial nations". Germany and Japan counter this effect through a culture of non-poaching whereas Anglo-saxon nations deal with it through lots of university education.
Video analytics?
With over a million videos being made and uploaded every day, videos and video sharing is becoming more and more popular. The number of videos uploaded and shared is set to increase by 450 % within the next 5 years.

What if it were possible to actually spot trends and pick out important information from this large amount of video data ?

It is possible. Head off to www.sentview.com to find out how companies are taking advantage of social media videos.
Definitely not an easy task but the degree of difficulty depends on the language.

Both Haskell and Scala, for example, have sufficiently powerful type systems to allow for building up a typed query expression of arbitrary complexity, which can then be deconstructed via pattern matching to assemble the sql statement. Easy? Not at all, but very much doable, and incredibly elegant...until you need to support various database engines and their limitations/extended features; then the implementation hacks begin :\

Personally I think the work of Stephan Zeiger on the Slick library in Scala is ground breaking. Also, Wadler et al's recent-ish paper on a composable query DSL in F# is worth checking out[1]

[1] http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/yow/dsl-long.pdf
I tend to think it's a good thing that I don't actually know my bank passwords - a password manager is much simpler. Having strong passwords for all different banks is a piece of cake when you don't have to remember them.
Nobody found them inflammatory when they sat in the public HN source code for years, but once they appeared in an accidental screenshot, they became outrageous!

We're happy to answer good-faith questions about HN moderation, but this seems like trying to stir up drama.
The story has been updated with the following:

"Apple issued a new, stronger (SHA-2) Mac App Store certificate in September, before the older (SHA-1) one expired, as planned. The new Mac App Store certificate was using the current, strong SHA-2 algorithm. However, some apps were running receipt validation code using very old versions of OpenSSL that don’t support SHA-2.

OpenSSL started supporting SHA-2 in 2005, which is why Apple didn’t foresee this issue."
How is it straightforward? I tried porting a very small codebase from python 2 to 3 and ran into a bunch of issues which required manual workarounds. If it were easy to port, most library owners would have done so already.
I agree with the thrust of your argument. Pretty much no one gets job training from university, they get it when they start actually working.

There is a big problem, however, and it's only going to get worse. If all your training is in a specific industry, what happens when that job gets outsourced or automated away? I'm not sure I completely buy it, but there is a case to be made for generalist education as preparation for a changing world.
The one parent comment here addresses consumer credit/debt in the US.

The article is about unsustainable debt building up in emerging markets due to attractive interest rates on risky bonds in an environment where safe, conventional returns of 5-9% are extremely hard to come by:

A dollar-denominated government bond issued in 2012 by Zambia, a copper-rich country with an average GDP per person of $1,700 a year, offered just 5.4% interest; even so, it was 24 times oversubscribed as rich-world investors clamoured to buy. The following year a state-backed tuna-fishing venture in Mozambique, a country even poorer than Zambia, was able to raise $850m at an interest rate of 8.5%.

Now data from the IMF is showing that corporations and governments were probably not investing these loans into profitable activities:

Growing debt in emerging markets is not of itself something to worry about. It may be that savings are getting into local capital markets more effectively or that there are more, better investment opportunities. Sadly, those happy possibilities do not seem to account for what is now going on. While corporate leverage in emerging markets has been going up, corporate profitability there has fallen, says the IMF. There is plenty of evidence to suggest that rapid debt build-ups are the hallmarks of periods of indiscriminate lending that eventually end in tears.

So this article has little to do with the average American consumer. It's about banks looking for higher rates of returns in riskier markets and doing dumb things with their money. If they have not sufficiently calculated and priced out these risks, which is what happened in 2007 (purposefully), then a lot of this debt might start defaulting, which could lead to another financial contraction as banks find themselves yet again with risky, misvalued assets on their balance sheets, eating up an unsustainable portion of their portfolios and limiting their ability to lend.

The difference is that screwing up corporate lending might not be as damaging as fudging consumer lending, such as mispriced and unsecured mortgages. The author draws this conclusion from the findings of one OECD paper, so take that with a grain of salt.

Does anyone want to discuss the actual contents of the article, rather than what they think the title implies?
Hospitals are low margin/break even because they choose to be - but that's another topic.

>IT security doesn't really produce any revenue.

Hospitals (and the health care industry at large) has been drowning in billions-with-a-B federal and state dollars since ARRA. All in the name of "meaningful use" of health information technology. HIT is very much a revenue model for hospitals.

http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2015/03/04/where-is-hitechs-35...

https://www.health.ny.gov/technology/efficiency_and_affordab...

http://www.hrsa.gov/ruralhealth/resources/healthit/

http://www.ehrinstitute.org/articles.lib/items/Grants-for-EH...

http://calhipso.org/news-and-updates/more-than-1-2-million-i...

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* re: operating margins TIME magazine puts margins at an average operating margin of not-for-profit hospitals is 11.7 percent.

According to the AHA Annual Survey, the average operating margin of all hospitals was 5.5 percent in 2011.

So, the industry themselves declare 5.5% margin for non-profit hospitals, a healthy margin for any non-profit entity.
Efficient and Inexpensive Sodium–Magnesium Hybrid Battery
Buy spot price, sell a future immediately. Works if the storage cost (i.e. keeping the ship & crew out of port) is greater than the spread.
So is digital marketing/online ads the bubble that SV is currently founded upon, not VC overvaluations? It seems like in the event of a recession, and companies not being able to spend as much as they have on ads, would have a huge resonance cascade on a lot of startup business models.
Please, get some downsides that are not shared with representative democracy. Because, you know, people are comparing those two.
I favor PDFs because they are in form of self contained concentrated knowledge.

I can save them, print them, read them on e-book and they play nice and they do not have unnecessary elements like menus or side panels or what ever.

The same can not be said about a web page. If nice printing option is not provided then it is normally near impossible to print correctly, if I save them, it is not sure that they would display correctly years later, if I do not save them, I could not be sure I could actually access the information years later.
I work in higher Ed as an app developer with a focus on standardizing web apps across the college and it is very very hard to get the disparate forces within to work together. My parents have been academics their entire careers and have told me throughout my childhood the very same thing. Trust me when I say that it is much more complicated than you think. There is no "cut down on administrative costs" magic wand. We have people paid to do things for a reason.
in this scenario I'd ask wtf they're doing that cost so much that they couldn't sustain it. It seems like a business that could be run with 1 or 2 people, and it seems like they were making enough to support that. Why wasn't that enough?
The discussion in HN around the same article 7 months ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9290271
On mobile so please excuse me if I missed something subtle, but what's more insecure about this change? From what I know constant time compare protects against timing side channel attacks, so isn't it improving security here?
I think the person you are replying to is agreeing that it is not frivolous, but is stating their amazement that so many people dismiss it as being such.
NNSA, national labs, Nvidia to develop open-source LLVM Fortran compiler
How is that? I assume the mantissa is chosen to represent the full number, but how is the exponent set so that the granularity is of exactly 1.0?

And of course 1x10^7 + 2x10^7 != 3x10^7, right?
'Fool's gold battery' developed as alternative to lithium ion
This is an interesting topic to brew on. There would certainly be a lot of problems that would be tough to address using apprenticeship, but it's not like our current education system is lacking in problems.

I wonder, though, how apprentices would fair in competition with people having general education and degree focus. Fields require skills to change over time, and quite quickly now. I wonder if an apprentice would be stronger in the short-term and outpaced in the long-term.

Also, where does the wage subsidy you talk about come from? Would people be paying for their own apprenticeships? The government paying for some like public institutions?
Score one for centralization I guess.
Explicit exceptions in method signatures are a language design mistake. If you need to handle multiple classes of return values, that's what sum types are for. Exceptions exist to communicate secret messages from a raiser to a handler, preventing anyone in the middle from intercepting them.
Here's how I see it: people should be guaranteed apprenticeships regardless of the job market or results of automation. However I also think that some portion of their income should be accrued into a college-only account, should they choose to expand their general education.

This is just my opinion and I would welcome responses.
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Sorry if this is just oversight, but I haven't seen much discussion on HN of liability arising from termination of an employee. I'd guess (admittedly, no data here) that this is one of the major factors driving disemployment for marginal tech candidates (read: those whose qualifications are in doubt). Hiring someone you may soon need to fire is difficult enough, but probably not a dealbreaker. However, pair that with legal risk, especially arising from discrimination suits, and the expected value of your candidate turns deeply negative.
I'm not a lawyer but this strongly disagrees with everything I learned in high school civics class about judicial review, and with many many high profile court cases overturning popularly enacted laws, from Marbury v Madison through to the current day gay marriage ban reversals.

It seems pretty cut and dried to me that the 4th amendment supersedes any law passed in direct opposition, just like the 1st or 2nd would. This isn't a case where the courts would be making multiple logical leaps to invalidate a law they disagree with, you can describe it in 4 words "seizure without a trial", then look at the 4th amendemnt.
$40 + $40 + $40 = enough.

Probably too stoned out of their minds to think that far ahead. They should move ahead with having their next 3 children instead.
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The constitution says the US is both a Republic and a Democracy.
Inconsistent behavior in PHP7, bug?
I think the point here is that a civil burden of proof is completely inappropriate when the plaintiff is the state and there's an allegation of criminality.
Ask Tobias Lütke, founder of Shopify, if apprenticeship restricted him.
Methane is lighter than air.
imho Gogs[1] is a much easier to setup/maintain personal git repos. I use it with a 128mb server from RamNode w/ 80gb of space and I'm pretty sure I'll never run out any time soon since I never really commit large files. Plus it's been running smooth for almost 6 months and usually stays around 8-10mb of ram usage.

[1]: https://gogs.io
Punycode-encoded Unicode characters can be rendered correctly, depending on whether the TLD in question allows them. Not all TLDs allow punycode, and even those that do limit the allowed codepoints for security reasons.

This should get you started:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack
I think we're approaching the same point from different angles. I just described one of the most enjoyable white-collar jobs, and you contrasted it with less-enjoyable ones. And you brought up one of the most enjoyable blue-collar jobs to contrast my unpleasant blue-collar one. I think the point we're both reaching at is that compensation would correlate more strongly to enjoyability of the job that in currently does. Unpleasant jobs, white- or blue-collar, would need to be compensated more in order to retain staff, or be made less unpleasant.
I've heard this claim before that the police "charge" the asset rather than the owner; I believe it was in John Oliver's show on civil forfeiture--mentioned in other comments below:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10560200
The discussion is muddied by treating "tech talent" as a meaningful grouping of people. It is a similar type of error as "STEM jobs", which includes both marine biologists and computer scientists even though they have wildly different experiences in the job market.

Some software jobs can be quickly learned by anyone with good programming experience. These are the kinds of "shortages" that can be reasonably solved by training existing software talent. There is a baseline amount of skill required but that level is low enough that it is at least plausible that you can expand the supply on a reasonable time horizon.

However, some high-demand software jobs require multiple years of experience and a high talent baseline to be an effective practitioner. The time required to develop these skills can exceed the life cycle of companies and products. These shortages are very real because there is no easy way to manufacture more of this talent on a time horizon that matters to anyone. Consequently, they tend to be self-trained in operational environments over several years. People with these skills tend to be paid atypically well, but you are really just shifting the shortage around between different companies. High wages per se does not manufacture a talent pool.

In software, we have talent shortages that could be addressed by training and we have talent shortages where the amount of time required to produce new talent is so high that it is almost never worth it for a company to make that investment. In practice, the latter case has been solved by people investing in themselves over several years (usually because they have a keen interest) to develop the skill but in many areas this is definitely not producing enough talent to meet demand.

These are problems that must be solved differently. Lumping them together muddies the conversation as people talk past each other.
I'm not sure why you think this is a pivot.

CoreOS, the company's name, is a bit of misnomer now. Their original product, CoreOS, is their namesake and a good foundation for the rest of their platform.

As a company, they've been putting out a number of products, such as etcd, fleet, flannel, and more. It seems that Clair is another product under their umbrella.

So it's not a pivot, it's just another product as a part of their larger offering.

CoreOS's products are all open-source and openly developed, which is awesome. They make their money from their managed service offerings, such as Quay.io container registry (which Clair seems to bolster), CoreOS managed linux, and Tectonic (Kubernetes as a service).

So each product announcement you see is another facet of CoreOS's larger offering.
> Shrink the reach of the federal government, and we'd be looking at rule by corporations

Nonsense. The corporations are given free reign and support by the government. If the government didn't establish favorable regulations, they would be slowly whittled away by their smaller, nimbler competitors.

Economies of scale aren't a simple slope. They're a bell curve. After you get to a certain size, any additional growth is detrimental and you can only exist through artificial means.

Get rid of big government and you get rid of big corporations too!