skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recent improvements to Redis Lua scripting
Make the censors watch paint drying
It goes beyond that in the Netherlands. A lot of bus lanes have their own traffic light system -- they have very small lights to show when they can go or stop. :)
>30 people for 3 days, unblinded [1], and this is considered of significance?

Why not, if the effect is big enoug?
GA of HTTPS Load Balancing and Akamai Joins CDN Interconnect
2 things: 1) Markdown was intentionally designed to be readable without preview. 2) check out the Marked 2 app. It's basically a preview engine with lots of good export, formatting, and metadata (about your text) options.
Expect the prices to spike horribly in a few years, it sounds like a classic oligopoly in the making.

Small & mid-sized carriers are being killed off, and the big carriers are forming consortiums.

Once that consolidation is complete, it'll be a closed field with massive barriers to entry: the immense amounts of capital necessary to build those huge ships, plus the need to secure the necessary docking slots.
If there was ever a reason for HTTPS to be default on every site, this is it
The Day Google Deleted Me
As someone whose last name ended in "rz", I was aware of this every single minute. =)
Chrome just set the adoption of HTTP/2 back 4-5 years
Dutch railways: http://spoorkaart.mwnn.nl/
does anyone know the Tokyo one? pretty impressive how many trains are going through some stations there...
I think in this case they had the route optimization software and saw a nice opportunity to illustrate what it can do.
EU clamps down on Bitcoin, precious metals to curb terrorism funding
This was Slush 2015
A shame that this is so C-specific; most of the bugs seem to be trivialities around C integer behaviour that simply wouldn't be an issue in e.g. Python. So it would be good to see comparisons to other languages.
Getting The Deal Done
In Firefox, the "disable javascript" checkbox is now gone from the settings --why would they do that?

But it can still be disabled in `about:config` > `javascript.enabled`

I used and loved Firefox since more than 10 years so far, but can't truly understand some decisions they took.
From https://www.facebook.com/help/414383411931263

If you've ever paid for an in-game purchase, donated to charity, sent payment to a friend, bought an item through their groups - they'll have your details.

I've never done any of those - but I'd wager several of my friends (and yours) have done so.
I've been doing this for a while now after becoming tuned into the tracking and particularly fingerprinting being done. The web is surprisingly usable with it off. I use SafeScript in Chrome which generally works ok. I use multiple profiles in Chrome, one with just Adblock the other with Adblock, noscript, httpseverywhere, privacy badger, etc. I use the normal one where I absolutely must and that doesn't keep cookies.

I'm not paranoid and I don't have anything to hide but I object to being tracked to have stuff sold to me.
* People who have used the donate/buy buttons before now

* People who have bought in-game items for FB games

The dialogue supports CC and PayPal & appears to use their existing payment infrastructure (e.g. using any cards/paypal you've used before).
None of these "researchers" would ever wonder why a person would spend time playing in a string quartet when they could, economically, be making money behind the counter at Arby's. The idea that doing the work is rewarding never occurs, apparently.
I read about this a while back if I remember correctly it's because people kept turning it off accidentally and breaking the Internet and blaming Firefox.
Nope. It's shady as it comes and to my knowledge works via normal HBCI/FinTS access [0] you usually would use for 3rd party online banking software.

But lacking wide spread of credit cards and the aversion of many merchants to PayPal here in Germany it's still pretty popular.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FinTS
What Happens to Your Body When You Stay Up for More Than 24 Hours?
The problem is clearly one of lack of self-control, as with drugs and everything else. The question is why we don't treat obese people as addicts, and try to mitigate easy access to food. If you're obese and your pantry is always full of food, how much weight do you think you're going to lose?
True, and it is a nice demonstration. Show's the real-world applicable use of it.
My white neighbor thought I was breaking into my own apt. 19 cops showed up
Oh, yes I do. And I hate the grayed out downvoted comments. I have a chromium HN plugin that fixes the background.
The diffraction grating is super rad, and the agar gel too.
Quantum Mechanics Is Putting Human Identity on Trial
5xx to me suggests that retrying is worthwhile. Any "deterministic" error (as a function of the parameters I submitted) should be a 4xx.
Don't ISPs give up common-carrier protections for things like copyright when they interfere with the traffic? This should make them liable for contributory infringement on any copyright infringements by their customers that they don't take action against.
Elsiveer has its own in house big data team HPCC - A few years ago when I worked for another part of Elsevier I tried to get New Scientist interested in using ML to montize the 50 years or archives they had.

But the NS editor Was/Is a bit of a Luddite so nothing came of it.
Sorry if I didn't address civil forfeiture... of course that is wrong.

My comment was posted in relation to "... kill more people than any terrorist ..." which I don't think has anything to do with civil forfeiture.
I very much dislike that invalid states are left representable in idiomatic go error handling.
How susceptible are modern cars to hacking?
Curiously, when you zoom out, you can scroll as far east as the Polish/Byelorussian border, but in west/south direction you can barely see all of former East Germany.
Very relevante snippet:

"Looking across 15 companies and more than 300,000 hires in low-skill service-sector jobs, such as data entry and call center work, NBER researchers compared the tenure of employees who had been hired based on the algorithmic recommendations of a job test with that of people who'd been picked by a human."

The headlines are far too general and deceptive. It's like saying "computer are better than humans at playing games" because computer bet humans in chess.
German public train network live map
Here's My 2c, this code is shit.
Frankly the whole "don't want to be dumb pipe" thing is a telco variant of "perpetual growth".

Frankly at one point or other every large company in every mature market has to contend with having reached their growth limit. There are only so many customers in this world for the products and services offered.

The only place that could grow forever is Wall Street, by piling derivatives upon derivatives and passing them round like hot potatoes. Everywhere else has to contend with us being on a physically finite planet.
Hello, it's me. On a flip-phone. Samsung unveils clamshell model
I hate to take the Panglossian view of technology making things better, but I really think body cameras would have made a huge difference here.

There was no need for 19 cops. But that isn't the heart of her criticism. It was the complete disrespect that she was shown. Body cameras would have caused the police to know that their behavior would be seen and judged by their bosses and their community. A small bit of compassion for this woman would have made all the difference.

In a test in Rialto, CA [0], body cameras resulted in many fewer use of force incidents as well as many fewer citizen complaints, as both police and citizens improved their behavior.

Finally, it is a huge deal in NYC when a cop discharges a weapon for any reason. The police commissioner always comes to the scene. I would like to see a requirement that a report be filed whenever cops unholster their weapons as well.

[0] http://www.vox.com/2014/9/17/6113045/police-worn-body-camera...
This is a dreadful article, even if it is an interesting topic.

Their forecasts, and those of many other modelers, vastly overpredicted the actual toll of the disease.

No they didn't.

That prediction was in the absence of interventions.

They modeled the impact of various interventions and found a best would produce around ~10,000 infections[1] in Liberia in November 2014. In reality there were around 6500, so I'd say that was a pretty accurate prediction.

[1] guessing from a graph: http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/files/2014/09/LiberiaComb.... Complete paper: http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/article/obk-14-0043-model...
Its not excessively hard to make people redundant especially in the USA I don't see the issue that DEC management have here.
Here's my 2c, this code is shit.
Not sure why this is being downvoted. In my personal opinion Elsevier are slandering (actually libelling) researchers here. This could have significant financial implications for the researchers when e.g. grant applications are made.
No being pedantic is giving a fixed number. Just say: "try to keep functions small" and be done with it without needing to debate semantics.
Carly Simon: You're So Vain Is about Beatty and Two Others
Telegram CEO blames french taxes for paris attacks
Show HN: LawPatch – JQuery for Law using Git
What are Red Hat Software Collections? (v2.1 just released)
Data Science Weekly Newsletter – Issue #104
"People who use Go and people who designed Go both appeal to the language design. It's users write blog posts about that deliberate balance of simplicity and power they encountered in language, which made them productive. And it's creators write posts and give talks on their deliberate approach to language design to achieve this balance."

I recall that being true of Java, as well, in the early years.
Selling Feelings
HBOS collapse: report recommends formal investigation into former executives
Yea, had a colleague many years ago who worked on a very large web site where all the php files ended in .asp
Probably. Iirc ammunition was actually used in america at some point. Cigarettes could also fit the bill as prisons, depressions and concentration camps suggest.

There would probably a few currencies and exchange rates floating around. One of which would be gold.
The point is that the algorithm isn't what people are currently trying to get past, they are trying to get past human hiring. When they switch to a strategy gaming the algorithms instead of the humans then the algorithms can become worse than nothing depending on how quickly the information race goes.
Just download NoScript - it's better than turning JavaScript off and on all the time anyway.
I'm sorry, but I don't see this as being a matter of "color". There's too much information we don't know and it's entirely possible that a separate event in the same area was the reasoning behind a large response. No department is going to waste that degree of resources on a simply "burglary". I think this author is looking to make this an issue of race when it simply was not. Descriptions of people when [potential] crimes are being committed often include skin color. Why? Helps narrow down suspects and provides identifying information. She just happened to have a neighbor who did the right thing: called the cops when they suspected a crime.
Investment is considered as asset gain in some accounting systems, leading to taxes. I am not an accountant, though.
Ask HN: Why don't you collapse comments' huge threads?
It looks to me that the first conversation at some point simply dominates the entire comments page making other conversation disappear.
Show HN: Introducing Moya Techblog, a blogging engine for coders and photographers
Switzerland is good if you are an employee, bootstrapping there is financial suicide.
An arsonist who set Washington on fire in 1985 (2007)
Yeah, that's just "taxes".
Exactly. Everyone is still taxed, is just a question of accounting as to who and how you get taxed. To say U.S. corps are zero-taxed is quite misleading.
There is a reason for having a maximum of twelve passengers:

http://www.stunningyachts.com/articles/reference/faq.php#12
I think you don't understand how NOD's work. It's a soul crushing experience that is far worse than firing people and giving them layoff severance.
I should probably have qualified my original comment.

I can recognize the artistic merit and value of such imagery where appropriate, and while I didn't know where the image was from (TIL!), I knew it had been included for a very good reason.

I was just snap-reacting to the "woop, that wouldn't have been great to open on lunch break" thing, for its' own sake. Basically what sam_goody said.
Elsevier says a lot of things.
In Japan I think the phrase is called Window Gazing -- the employee / victim is provided an office with a nice view (presumably of things they could be doing instead of draining resources from the company) and left to draw their own conclusion.

In Australia many years ago -- early to mid 1990's -- we had a spate of large public organisations being privatised, with a predictably large number of HR casualties. There was typically a brief queueing system, as some token effort at redeployment was considered ... but in reality once you'd been side-moted to a Window Gazer role, you know precisely where you stood.

The phrase used locally was 'being led into / sitting around in Flight Deck' -- that being the name of the frequent flyer awards club of one of our two major airlines at the time. (That airline's completely gone now -- make of that what you will.)
>happy side-effect this has for patients in poor countries

Sometimes I wonder if some HN comments are being posted from an alternate universe...
You're missing the point. Injecting scripts into HTML delivered through your ISP for any purpose is grossly abusive on the part of Comcast.
We should expect machines to be better than humans when there's a bunch of standardised, static, objective criteria, eg number of calls made and such. It's like looking at sports, where it's also quite clear that Messi and Ronaldo are in a league of their own. Any kind of personal hunch is likely to be either wrong, or something that data could quantify more precisely.

The thing is performance is often subjective, and it's often not possible to tell how a team will change from adding a member. (In football you can at least try to look at national/club team differences, or stats that changed after a player changed clubs). When people change jobs, they often change roles, and the firms they are joining have different positions in the market, and different aims.
Not every poor country has gone to war. Propaganda is typically what makes people do so by amplifying fear and doubt and giving them The One Solution™.
If you have SSH keys set up then:

cat file.bin | ssh -A host1 ssh host2 "cat > file.bin"

Then there's other tricks you could do like port forwarding, filesystem mounting over SSH (sshfs) etc. But if zmodem works for you then it's as good a solution as any of the above. I only give SSH examples as demonstration at just how scarily powerful a tool it can be.
I agree that this device wouldn't work for that assay, but the opacity of the pills isn't a factor: the optical bench is too small and the illumination will be too low to do anything worthwhile.
Real time public transport in Vilnius: http://stops.lt/vilnius/#vilnius/map/en

Select this icon: http://stops.lt/vilnius/_images/vehicles.gif, on the right, to show vehicles as bubbles.

It is real time from GPS transmitters inside the vehicles.
We need engineers in the Netherlands, so you could move if you really wanted to.
Why negative votes for this? This is such a weird site. :(
Hi there.

We are working on fixing auth right now. Sorry for inconvenience.
The next big thing – Gnome application sandboxing
Thanks for the advice, I didn't published anything before on HackerNews :-)
Raman spectroscopy is used in pharma manufacturing and law enforcement to inspect pharma evidence in the field, but compact Raman spectrometers are a couple of orders of magnitude more expensive than this consumer device. Also, you really need an analytical chemist to interpret the data. Raman is hard.

NIR spectroscopy, which is what this product uses, isn't very sensitive and wouldn't be a good choice to look for trace contaminants even on quality instrumentation.
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Very well written. Surprising (or perhaps not) that the author preferred the system that involved less thinking. Not everyone is chasing self actualisation, or perhaps this is a job to fund other activities.
Anyone know how to reproduce this? I'm on Comcast Xfinity and I can't find it on any HTTP page I visit.
Type-first development (2012)
What did?
What about: handedness of the molecules, variations in density (the surface of pills tends to be compressed)?
Emergence of colistin resistance mechanism in animals and humans
RIP. My only memory of zmodem involves Slackware, minicom and dial up in 1996.

That is one really well written and comprehensive obituary! They managed to keep it both real and amusing. Recommended read.
You could just miss out Temple Bar too, unless you want tourist traps galore.
No legal implications are associated with such tags.
From my experience, which is purely anecdotal some open source programmers love giving back to the community. Some of them have motivation rooting from them learning programming through open-source materials and feedback. Thus, wanting to give back to the community.

Some people enjoy it, and can get benefits from it, such as gaining experience and reference for a person's portfolio. There have been some people who have been getting more job offers from open-source repositories than their online job application.

Companies and programmers actually benefit from open source compared to closed-source, look at this dicussion [1]

1.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10574555
Hacking the im-me (2010)
It sounds like what the Vessyl was trying to do and has failed miserably, as evidenced from repeated delays.
The data is from OpenStreetMap, so anyone can add them and improve the map.

Which pubs are missing? I can add them myself.
> To pay taxes there has to be a profit first.

sadly, not necessarily, i.e. you can have taxes on gross revenue[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_receipts_tax
Show HN: NodeOS 1.0-RC1
Validated Learning, how a startup used lean startup method to succeed
It was going so well until "Fifteen languages were developed from cuneiform" - no languages were developed from cuneiform, since it is a script. Old Persian and Akkadian aren't even in the same language family (the former is Indo-European, the latter Semitic).
It is fixed already
>I don't know what you mean by "doesn't seem very valid". It is the law

Apparently it's not the law, as the link doesn't contain the words "distributed or used in any other way" or anything to the effect of "any other way".

Plus, the "de minimis" thing and fair use exceptions mentioned in your second comment, already scale down the absolute "any other way" qualifier.
Why comply with unjust illegitimate laws created to serve a monopoly?

Why comply with a framework designed not for your benefit or societies benefit but for the purpose of maintaining a monopoly on others peoples labor, socializing cost and individualizing profit. Laws are not created for the people and by the people, they are made by corrupted individuals for those with the most wealth and power, complying with them is no better than complying with any other sort of violent oppression.
Yesterday November 18th it has been released NodeOS 1.0-RC1, a Linux-based operating system build on top of Node.js as userspace and mostly intended for cloud servers and embeded systems.

The best advantages of such a system are performance and memory foot-print, since there are no intermediate layers between the Node.js binary and the Linux kernel making Node.js applications to run almost on the metal, but also making it easier to understand and learn since all the applications are written in Javascript and it's code is easily accesible. It has some particular characteristics that make it different of other OSes, like a build system fully managed by the npm package manager, full unpriviledged access to system devices in a secure way, or the combination of OverlayFS and chroot jails to provide per-user root filesystems, allowing to each of them to create its "own" OS inside NodeOS while being isolated from the other users.

The project was winner on the systems category of the spanish national Universitary Free Software Championship 2014-2015, and it's a participant of the 2015-2016 edition and of the University of Granada Free Projects Championship 2015-2016. Future roadmap includes ARM support and a graphical HTML5-based GUI.

You can download NodeOS source code, build instructions, prebuild ISO images and contribute to its development at https://github.com/NodeOS/NodeOS (pull-request are highly welcome).

P.D.: Thank you to @dang (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dang) by advice me how to publish correctly the message :-)
Would that make https://www.flightradar24.com/ a much bigger concern?
nasty diseases, notably cancer

Insulin-like Growth Factors (IGF) have been implicated in some cancers. As the name suggests, these enzymes are very similar to Insulin -- so every time someone tweaks insulin there's concern that they might end up triggering whatever (as yet poorly understood) metabolic pathway connects IGFs to cancer.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10594350

And here you have it now :-) Thank you! :-D
The same thing exists for Austria as well: http://zugradar.oebb.at/
Bad idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wire_%28season_2%29
Agreed.

Why don't we have any languages where small bignums are as fast as fixnums? Is it a hardware problem (difficult to have an overflow trap with zero cost in case of no overflow), or is it a programming problem?
Investment is basically transforming one asset (cash) into another (tangible or intangible property). It doesn't say anything about profit and loss - and it's profit, that's taxed.

Now, in order to have some cash at all, you probably need some income - and that income, minus your costs is the profit, which will be taxed. So you want to turn your cash out for investment into cost, so you could minimize your earnings before taxes.

The catch is, that the investment is going to serve for years, so you can't deduce it all at once - you have to depreciate it (put a fraction of it's price into current years costs). [Of course, another reason is, that your country wants as much as taxes as possible right now, so for it more taxes paid now are better than zero taxes now and higher taxes next year.]

-- This is not an accounting advice, it is very simplified. Limitations apply. Consult a professional if you need it. There might be error due to printing or mistranslation. You know the drill.
Service composition in GuixSD
this could be used to make the most incredible 'scotland yard' mmowiw
What goes up
Well regardless of your scheme, you should still write down your passwords!

Just because it's not feasible to lug a moleskine with that long long list of passwords to everywhere as a "password manager" solution, doesn't mean that you shouldn't write them in that notebook, which you store in a safe place. Not for quick & easy access, but for backups.

You don't have to do it on paper, but it's a good choice because it's low-tech, easy for anyone to use (bus-factor, next-of-kin) and exactly as secure as your common sense, making it exactly as secure as anything else you can use.

Being unable to access accounts, because you forgot the passwords, that you didn't write down anywhere is equivalent to losing data because you didn't make backups. Which we also tease people about, right?

Have you written down your LastPass master-password anywhere?
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