skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Waiting for room-temperature super conduction and enough computation power to even out the effects of an uneven magnetic field (so you do not need to rotate the full device at high speed to average the field).
Almost all people curious about the brain, especially neuroscientists, experiment (ha!) with drugs. I won't assume MRI is safe, but cocaine isn't safe either.

That's just my anecdotally supported prejudice.
Companies often learn the same lesion over and over. Reliable workers are more in demand so they can more easily find higher paying work for someone else.

If you cut pay or increase workload things can look ok for just long enough that all your good people leave.
Tokyo police are using drones with nets to catch other drones
Sounds promising.

To be honest, though it might not be what you had in mind, what you said reminded me of Oberon (the programming language and the OS):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(programming_language)

It even works on FPGAs, so that could help with the custom hardware part of a reboot too. :-)
front running is illegal, and flash boys is a book packed full of ignorance. there is no outrage over one consumer buying a house or an apple ahead of another. there's no demand for "fair" auctioning of toyota corollas. speed isn't illegal, and it's been a determining advantage in markets for eternity.
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Focus by Firefox seems pretty good and (IMHO) is trustworthy: https://support.mozilla.org/kb/focus
Bollocks, the whole thing was initiated by a European non-profit that contracted the WVU.
The big issue for Disney is once Mickey Mouse enters the public domain, anyone is free to create derivative works of the initial cartoons.
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Being excluded from a group is a pretty severe penalty, emotionally. Our instincts associate group membership with survival. Membership in groups can have significant impacts on the quality and status of contacts.

If wearing a t-shirt once can make others feel uncomfortable and not included, and this situation is wrong, then it is also wrong to permanently or too severely sanction the t-shirt wearer. Such a situation should be discussed calmly and resolved.
I've been wondering for years no why nobody offers sweetener-free pops. I just want something bubbly with a hint of flavor, but without the sweetness: like lemon-flavored club soda for example.

I have a hard time believing there's no market for this.
People will probably start building bigger drones with bigger nets to catch the police drones. It's just a matter of time.
due to some health issues that have me on an extremely low sodium (500mg/day or less) no caffeine (including things like chocolate/cocoa) diet some years back I had to switch to eating basically 100% unprocessed unseasoned food and never eating out, it was quite amazing how at the beginning it felt that food had nearly no taste, but nowadays many things that before required a lot of seasoning have a lot of salty/sweet tastes of their own.

Lately for example I have found that corn can be nearly too sweet to eat, I mean, plain steamed sweet corn, some varieties are extremely extremely sweet to my tastebuds; when reading that every year corn is engineered to be sweeter and sweeter I can definitely see why, it honestly tastes as sweet as ice-cream did when I still ate it.

Plain carrots are fairly sweet tasting, some brands more than others, but a lot more than I had expected; plain potatoes are salty, not too strong, but definitely noticeable, things like clementines / tangerines / mandarins / pomegranates taste way absolutely amazing, much much much better than any dessert I had when I was still eating processed food.

As much as I theoretically now could eat oil and sugar (there was a period of time where they really did not sit well with me) I honestly don't miss them, especially the sugar / syrups which nowadays taste way way too strong.

I doubt anybody nowadays would want to eat 100% unprocessed as honestly it can be a bit of a drag having to cook from scratch every meal starting from unprocessed ingredients and not adding any salt etc., not to mention it definitely will impact your career to not be able to go out to eat with coworkers, but if you find yourself concerned about having to have a lot of processed food for taste reasons, when you are on vacation it might be a worthwhile investment for you to try to eat this way for a few weeks to "reset" your tastebuds a bit.

It's amazing just how one can go from eating 5000mg of sodium a day and foods tasting "normal" to 500mg and after a period of adaptation them tasting "normal" as well, same deal for sugar.

(edit) and btw, as another interesting n=1 datapoint, although that was not the reason for the low sodium, going from 5-6000mg/day to 400-500mg/day my bp went from 135/85 to 105/65 over a few years, without really changing how I felt, and without taking any medications, that was surprising as I always thought that bp would not vary that much just due to diet.
Indeed. But even then, the body can only hoard calories that you eat.

As long as you spend more calories than you eat (even if you feel shit from that), the energy stored in the fat in your body will go down.
Agreed. I have been scanned around 1,500 hours over the years and I have not had any ill effects (at this point). And that is 1.5T, 3T and 7T MRI scanners
FYI, there's an actively developed successor to Blitz Basic called BlitzMax:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitz_BASIC#BlitzMax
One possible solution is online editing, like https://clara.io or Google Docs. These tools have version control built in, and multiple people can simultaneously edit.

You also avoid the large asset problem by always keeping the large assets in the "cloud".

disclaimer: employee of the maker of clara.io
Thank you... it is funny how often people mistakenly try to use Dropbox for public file distribution.
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Are you interested in a new challenge?

I ask because a friend who works in IP Law recently was telling me how she needs software engineers to come and work for them (DLAPiper is the firm) as experts. They even help you pay for law school if you're interested in that.

If that sounds at all like an interesting challenge hit me up at shmandell at gmail.com for more information.
I can see lots of reasons to distinguish between labour and capital. A big part of me thinks it would be appropriate to reward productive labour by reducing taxes and to discourage rent seeking by increasing taxes on investment income. There are practical reasons, of course, not to do this as we would rapidly chase investment from our country, but it is definitely worth thinking about these things.
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If you pay someone 10$/h as a w2 for even 5 hours a week, the government wants you to contribute an extra 6.2% for social security and 1.45% for Medicare. Plus a range of other benefits which don't show up on there paystub, but still cost you money.
I have a gel mat that is similar to a kitchen standing mat. I forgot what brand it was but it was less than $35 on Amazon. I stand on that without shoes and it's very comfortable. I have a National Public stool to sit on when I need to give my feet a break.
those few who have disproportionate capital consume and invest. they don't stuff the money in their mattresses.
> What will happen is that eventually some gruesome accident will lead to a high profile court case and then finally governments will decide that yes, Uber drivers need to buy commercial insurance.

I don't understand where this misconception keeps coming from. Uber holds commercial insurance specifically covering passengers being ferried around by their UberX contractors.

Here: http://newsroom.uber.com/2015/01/certificates-of-insurance-u...
Only in those situations where the US government can be proven to have access to the same level of proof that fraud is being committed compared to the information they had on VW. Chances of success of such an operation: 0. Effect on the PR situation: -10000. Likelihood of engaging in such an action by VW: 0.

Anybody except for VW would be in a position to make a move regarding other manufacturers, according to a document linked elsewhere from a German auto magazine there is plenty of reason to suspect that other manufacturers are engaging in similar practices but nobody to date has proof.
Uber drivers don't even have the opportunity to negotiate a contract.

The situations are not even comparable.
The nit picking in these comments seems, for once, to actually be in good spirit, but this is a really fun idea!

I would love to do this with startup / event t-shirts so I could (eventually) clean out my drawers...too bad sizing clothes is a little more complicated than stickers.
Indeed, and they don't have to tell anyone what the postage actually costs :)
> Source?

a priori. lsy is constructing a model. The foundation of the model is equilibrium. They're going out of their way to highlight the things that are out of equilibrium to explain why people might move for other than random reasons.

Imagine a world with only two cities easterland and westerville. If crime, safety, amenities, economy is the same, people are going to bounce around for random reasons. maybe bobby got into westerville state. mabye sue wants to be closer to his family. by the law of large numbers, those random fluctuations are going to balance out. There is no threat of godzilla attacking esterland, thus causing mass exodus to westerland.

> Again: Source?

if you accept equilibrium, then clearly things can go out of balance in two ways. Demand going up, or demand going down. lsy isn't trying to explain all cases, lsy is explaining the demand going up case.

> Your generalization doesn't work for all cases.

Yes, but all cases is not the issue at hand. The issue at hand is what happens when demand goes up.

You have my sympathies that your neighborhoods are turning into ghost towns. It seems like you have a different problem that's clouding your thinking about the demand going up case, because they're related, but different.
Agreed. I take my shoes off as soon as I get to work, and walk around barefoot all day. No one has said anything to me yet..
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MRI magnets primarily interact with the nuclear spin of protons, which can align with or against the field. Adjusting the orientation of the spin should not change any reaction chemistry, so there is no significant hazard. The nuclear spin orientations shift back into their normal equilibrium once the magnetic field is removed.

The radio waves generated for the technique can cause heating when the energy is absorbed. This should be limited by how the MRI is designed, however I am not familiar with the detailed design of MRI instruments.

More research could be done in this area for very long term effects, but I haven't seen any convincing evidence for concern.
My experience with Netflix's video quality has been pretty positive, so they seem to have been doing something right. I hope this predictive model will only improve things and won't deteriorate quality (consider they tuned for low false negatives quality shouldn't decline).

This is a nice write-up of the business case for data science. It would have been nice to have a follow up with the technical details - but maybe that's deemed proprietary?

My problem with Netflix is that I rarely find streaming films I would be interested in watching. It's so bad that I don't even bother looking there any longer, I'd rather just pay the $2.99 and rent a film I'd like to watch from Play or Amazon.
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tax breaks for long term gains encourages investment.
> What makes it harder to prove

maybe nothing, I'm not overly familiar with the various types of insurance fraud schemes, but it does seem like masquerading as internet bullies via vpn and feigning a ruined life would be easier than faking your death, for example.
1. Instructions: Uber instructs drivers on how to use the app to manage fares, and how to use the app to navigate routes. Generally, the use of other navigational apps was not permitted.

2. Training: Uber trains drivers in how to use their app.

3. Uber forbids drivers from having friends in the car and are expected to behave like livery drivers.

4. (Drivers can work whenever.)

5. (Drivers do not need to work full time.)

6. Drivers are required to display an Uber tag in their windshield while driving, (but are not required to begin and end their work "shifts" at any particular location).

7. Drivers are paid out of Uber's revenues, and not by the customer. This is obvious from the way that Uber prepares its financial statements, wherein all payments from customers are treated as its revenues, and driver's cuts as COGS. (On financial statements, employees are COGS, contractors are generally other expenses.)

8. (Uber does not compensate drivers for their expenses) except for tickets, impound fees, and fines incurred while driving for Uber.

9. Uber provides an app, a windshield decal, navigation services, payment processing services, and deposit services.

10. (Drivers provide their own cars.)

11. (Drivers can incur a loss looking around for riders.) This is actually a big point at the international level when determining whether one company is independent of the other financially, but it generally isn't as much of a factor at other levels.

12. (Drivers work for multiple services.)

The balance favors treating drivers as employees. Indeed, one of the most important factors is that Uber itself characterizes the drivers' income as its own on its financials and tax returns. That will definitely hurt it when the IRS, the same agency that audits the tax returns, needs to make a determination about classifying the drivers.
While the technical hurdles may be surmountable, the political issues are probably intractable.

About the only viable green solution for container ships is going back to sails. Some ships already fly sails (really kites) to reduce their fuel costs, but it's not practical as the ship's only propulsion.

The best solution is probably to switch ships over to burning natural gas or biodiesel instead of filthy heavy fuel oil, but the cost structure is all wrong for this right now.
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While I agree that jQuery is often overused and not needed for basic DOM manipulation, what this document succeeds at most is reminding me just how useful the library actually is.

[].slice.call(document.querySelectorAll(selector) || []);

is not exactly intuitive and an awful lot of typing. That goes for quite a few of the examples given. Anybody who needs to do those things frequently ends up writing wrapper functions and basically reimplementing jQuery.

Then there is the convenience and power of the monad syntax. Also that jQuery allows you to manipulate all elements matching a selector in a single statement, just as if it was a single element. And last, but certainly not least, the fact that it abstracts away quite a few incompatibilities and implementation details (classList is not always available, textContent behaves differently, etc.

No, you don't need jQuery, but it does make life an awful lot easier.
> proven open secure communications like OTR

Axolotl has significant advantages over OTR, such as forward secrecy and deniability while operating in an asynchronous context.

It is necessary that the global standard for secure messaging be decided by rough consensus and running code and not by standards committee.
The elephant in the room is "minimum wage requirements." here ie finding away around paying minimum wage.

Ask Sports Direct in the UK how fiddling the minimum wage is working out for them.
The very low end cars in the linked story really don't look that interesting, but there are other recent Chinese electric cars that look more promising: http://www.carnewschina.com/2015/12/06/the-jac-iev5-is-a-che...
Because what they're doing good - desktop browser and desktop mail client - are becoming more and more irrelevant.

Browsing is quickly becoming a thing most people do on (only) their phone and email is for more and more something you do on the web.

If Mozilla keeps focusing on these two aspects they will start to cater to a niche market and lose the ability to influence the Internet at large.
The Brooks Review has a decent comparison of the iOS ones, at least: https://brooksreview.net/2015/12/content-blockers/

Doesn't necessarily touch the "trustworthy" side of things, admittedly.
While I applaud your use of citations, do you have another one for cells being able to communicate through glass? That one seems very interesting.
I remember the days when it was a point of national pride to own a Cray supercomputer.
In the 1980s, India tried to get access to a Cray XMP-24, but was denied access due to dual use capabilities. Instead, they were only allowed to purchase the lesser capable XMP-14.
The purchase came with the stipulation of having to host US personnel onsite to monitor the usage of the supercomputer.
This denial/control of access also led to the birth of India's own supercomputer efforts by CDAC.
Many developments in India's space, nuclear and computing efforts mainly happened due to denial of technology such as Cryogenic engines, supercomputers etc.
another good point, even when you have a standing desk, changing positions is still key.
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What would Uber be then? Just a holding company that everyone dumps their money in to?

Why would anyone do that?
I agree. Although it will be hard to separate the need for transparency to one's rights to privacy. You can deem that some actions inherently leave you no rights to privacy, but I'm afraid it'll be only a matter of time till everything you do is under the watchful eyes. On the other hand, humans are at the best when they know theyre being watched. Its a difficult tradeoff.
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That is the right way to handle the situation. These engineers work in such a specialized environment, I wonder how that would work out for them.
People work on Saturday, too. Less, it's true, but still enough that you can't disenfranchise them.
Or you can even automate that. Bread Automats are cheap, and even sold at ALDI at least once a year. Press a button, fresh loaf of bread in 2 hours.
The federal government derives 89% of its funding from income tax and payroll tax.

https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud...

With contractors instead of employees the onus of paying taxes shifts to the unreliable individual. There is no way that this continues to grow unabated by legislation. Either these people will end up employees or they have to pay taxes using some kind of automated system special for the sharing economy.
Sorry, I must have copied the link from the DuckDuckGo News search, rather than the redirect. It should point to http://www.cnet.com/news/japans-akatsuki-orbiter-sends-back-...
For those who are not crypto experts, how would an attack exploiting an IND-CCA vulnerability work, in lay terms? Also, what kind of information one could learn from the victim's behaviour?
Middle ground as in: you (the contract worker) have none of the benefits of an employee and all of the downsides of an independent contractor and the company has all the benefits of having employees but none of the downsides.

That's nicely spread, 50/50.
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> everything is an object

Well, if we're talking Java, not everything is an object. None of the primitive types are, and Java has static methods.

> Just like a cashier doesn't reach into a Person's brain for their debit code. The cashier asks them to type it into the keypad, and points them where to do it if it isn't obvious.

OK, so I picked a bad example. What if you're dealing with records of tree data? Are you suggesting that modelling the domain means that trees should know what to do with the information about their diameter? In what way is that modelling a domain?

In software we're rarely writing simulations of the real world, and even then, it doesn't always make sense to have objects hide information that other agents could just observe about them.

We're usually dealing with information, not actors.
You should let people know not to send coins, too. Coins can get violently ejected from postal sorting machines and cause injuries.

(And as general advice, if you're going to do a mail campaign like this in the future, it might be a good idea to actually chat to a postal carrier about it first.)
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First load per browser/session. At least there's no intro in w3m (actually a bit sad about that, seems like a missed opportunity).
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Eh, the non-profit thing happened in 2013/2014.

The EPA ignored the results for a full year.

The VW CEO already resigned in April, several months before the EPA went crazy, due to it.
I don't know how this worked back then, but what prevents acts of corruption or any other kind of power abuse from the instated public figures' part? BTW, the power itself legitimizes lobbying, so this may sound a little cynical but when you ban means convenient for corruption then it simply goes underground until it finds its way to being legit again in some form. Maybe this is the way it's supposed to be (the cynical part) - the game of life and the ever-present competition inside our species?
At some point, somebody came up with the idea and a decision was made, either individually or through consensus, to use the defeat device. Why do you find it so unbelievable that it was an engineer (or a group that included engineers)? Would it make a difference if it was an engineer who had been promoted to be a team leader? Promoted to "chief engineer"? "Engineering manager"? At what point would the person's title be far enough removed from "engineer" that you would find it believable? Does having the word "manager" in one's job description automatically make one less trustworthy than someone who has the word "engineer" in theirs? Shall we just adopt a policy of "Engineer good. Manager evil."?

You say that the compliance department should have audited the code. Do other car companies' compliance departments audit their code? I doubt they do. I suspect it would be cost-prohibitive.
Nope. We need to make the copyright to last 5 years for exclusive monopoly, and more 10 years for making profit out of the copyrighted work.

And make Mickey Mouse public domain.
And the costs were what? And the costs of all the failed projects were what?

Your reply says nothing about ROI without that information.
It's a lot more efficient, apparently. 70-80% efficient. And cheaper in the long-term than batteries.
Thanks for the interest in the study (I'm the first author/experimental subject). I seem to have survived with no lasting effects - at least small pieces of metal are no longer clinging to me :-)