skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please try to have a Midwest office hours. We all have the same problems/opportunities:
1. mediocre startup scenes/investment options.
2. lots of technical talent. plenty of enterprise companies with experienced IT. So, what if we use C#/java.
3. Better test market. SV is great for early adopters but if you want a really big company it needs to work here too.
"zum kotzen"
U.S. states pass laws backing Uber's view of drivers as contractors
"In the 1990s it became clear that microfinance, then the most exciting tool in development economics, was not reaching the very poorest people... BRAC came up with a scheme to help the ultra-poor. It gives them a small stipend for food, followed by an asset such as a cow or a few goats, which they are expected to manage. Field workers visit weekly for the next two years, teaching recipients, for example, how to tell when a cow is in heat and how to get it inseminated. The aim is to help women 'graduate' from extreme poverty to the normal kind—as Sir Fazle puts it, 'to help them back into the mainstream of poor people'. ...A study published earlier this year in Science showed that similar programmes run by other NGOs boosted consumption in Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Pakistan and Peru, with the effects lasting at least a year after they ended. ...Such programmes are pricey. In India and Bangladesh they cost more than $1,000 per household at purchasing power parity. Other research explains why. ...The poorest women, it turned out, did far more hours of income-generating work...Yet they packed them into fewer days... The reason is that they toil mostly as domestic servants and in the fields—and casual agricultural work is seasonal. During planting and harvest they work extremely hard; the rest of the year they do little. Better-off women usually rear livestock, which is not only steady work but pays about twice as much per hour. When the poorest women are given cows, they quickly fill their idle time..."
The key word there is "specifically." Apple Pay may require technology that isn't 100% deployed, but it is a generic and standardized technology that long predates Apple Pay, not some new Apple-only technology that the boys in Cupertino came up with and foisted on the world.

I don't understand your security point at all. It hasn't prevented any breaches? How do you know? It doesn't validate cards you enter into Apple Pay? If you possess the card (or can make one from having possession of the card data) then you can already use it fraudulently, loading it into an iPhone is just an extra unnecessary step for the thief. The security advantage is that malicious terminals can't steal card data, and stealing your method of payment doesn't confer the ability to pay. It's not perfect by any means (and again, not something us consumers need to even care about), merely better than a regular plastic card.
How to handle and bill support issues from previous projects
An Automated Market of Cypher-Annotated Microservices, Part 1
Ask HN: Would anyone use a JIRA mac, windows or linux client?
Hi everyone. I'm thinking about writing a native desktop client for jira as a sideproject. Would anyone be interested in that?
> Does the engines comply with EU standards?

No. The engines were (re-)tested at 0.62g/km, EURO5 allows 0.18g/km, EPA Tier 2 / Bucket 5 allows 0.043g/km.

> Why US Standards are different?

US standards are much more stringent on NOx, I expect because historically they regulate gasoline engines which produce relatively little NOx, and the standard bodies could thus easily clamp down on that.

The EURO standards actually have two profiles, one for gasoline and one for diesel, with the diesel profile allowing significantly higher NOx emission than the gasoline profile. Though even with that, the US EPA standard remains more restrictive than the EURO6 gasoline standard.

Here are the limits of the EURO standards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_emission_standards#Em...

Here are the limits of EPA Tier II: http://www.dieselnet.com/standards/us/ld_t2.php#bins

(warning, EURO NOx is in g/km, EPA is in g/mi)
I don't know how VW gets audited but in US, when a company is audited by their accounting firm, one of the sections is a "Process Audit" - checking to make sure that regular business practices are followed.

In a perfect world, audits would catch these things, however, because there is a lot of pressure on accounting firms, usually, this step isn't given a lot of consideration.

In the event a company is caught, the accounting firm takes a hit on their reputation and have to go back, re-audit, and change their designation of company policy.

Source: my wife works at one of the big 4 accounting firms and recently explained how an unrelated company had similar issues in failed business practices etc. etc.
Wait, last time I checked, the API/Server wasn't free software? Did I miss something, or has the licensing model changed?
Ask HN: Technology and framework for file storage web service
I would like to develop an application (not necessary a web page) that will be able to handle my requirements which are:

* file uploads (with meta-data) which I would like to store in one specified directory on server (meta-data would be in SQL database),

* text data (with structure or without),

* handle JSON queries so I will be able to get information/data from server.

Is there any kind of framework that will allow me to quickly create such application and help me storing and retrieving data with JSON queries?

Maybe (but not necessarily) there is a python framework for that?
OP is looking at people who direct and sustain a capitalist enterprise's internal processes. These people (managers, HR) are hired by the capitalists to optimize internally for profit. The only warm & fuzzy side-effects that these positions provide are the ones that don't get in the way of capital increasing.

It's not even about these individuals being evil or not. I'm sure most of them are torn to pieces (before they become numb) when they make decisions against the wellbeing of the workforce. The point is that the managers would not be in these positions if they could not fulfill these roles — they would be replaced. These positions self-select for "evil."

The people who optimize externally for profit focus not on squeezing the workforce, they focus on squeezing the public. These are the lawyers, the salespeople, the accountants, the marketers, the compliance experts. There's no point debating the evilness of the individuals, but their roles are necessarily evil. These roles tend to grow more and more evil as the capitalist enterprise grows. The enemy here, then, is capital, not these poor workers who fill necessary capitalist roles.
People have different tastes. Why is that so surprising to you?
Interesting video, but it mistakes legality for morality in the file-sharing bashing section, and it unjustifiably demonizes rationalization.

It's not rationalization itself that is the problem, but the logical mistakes made in the attempt to justify what we need to justify.
> So Bosch is not all together innocent.

The Bosch software was designed mainly for testing purpose not to be used on real cars. It's perfectly legitimate to build this sort of software and give it to your customers. When someone use a debug tool to crack a software you don't tell that people who have made the debugger are "not altogether innocent".

From your first link:

Citing unidentified sources, Bild said Bosch had warned Volkswagen
as early as 2007 that its software should only be used in company tests
and not for normal driving.
What do you think about alternatives? Like Anglican.
What did you use to generate this?
Firefox on Android uses Gecko. All iOS browsers are based on Webkit due to Apple's policies.

> "everyone else supports webkit prefixed CSS properties on mobile"

The question is, how often are these directly used? Isn't the common pattern to target modern features without universal support through polyfills and solutions like Babel nowadays?
I wonder if that could be used for a diff algorithm? Or maybe that already exists.
Inside Google's Deep Dreams project
Worked so well for Beos.
“My boss doesn't get it.” – The puzzle of motivation
What about companies that have additional data sources? For example, a CRM. It seems like it's hardly a data warehouse if it's _only_ event data. Or am I missing something?
Non tariff barriers and NIH
not sure how to get a stamp for sending mail from the US to where I live honestly. But the idea is cool and thanks for considering internationals as well ;)
Alibaba Buying South China Morning Post, Aiming to Influence Media
Let's not exclude the customers and the public at large. Does any significant number of people really care about this? In my personal list of the 100 biggest problems in the world today, it's not really a contender.
Any examples of how much 'below market rates' their salaries are? I was under the impression it was on par or slightly below. The Googles/Facebooks/MS are usually well above market rate.
Don't be so obtuse, getting a feature in a proprietary operating system when the vendor has a shitload of customers doesn't work that way.

For example, the windows command prompt has been shit forever, only after more than a decade does resize and copy/paste work properly.

Changes happen when they want and on their schedule. You can feel free to throw money in the millions at them, then you might at least have someone talk to you about their direction/plan.
It's cynical, but true.

A famous sports mantra is: "if you're not cheating, you're not trying". (Mark Grace, 1B, Chicago Cubs)

Corp and individuals cheat all the time. However, in most cases, the cheating are little white lies. In Corp world, their big lies that stay high up - with intention of never seeing the light of day.
Watsi is only for medical treatments but works like that.
I would like to see something similar for education.

https://watsi.org/
I'm not aware of any limits in the US, but it could just be that I haven't spent enough money in a transaction to encounter them.

The phone can be quicker than a plastic card because the phone is more convenient to reach. It's just in my pocket. Reach in, thumb on home button, put near terminal, approved, put phone away. With a card, I have to get it out of my wallet too. Not a big deal, but not as smooth. (Plus, with today's addictive smartphones and short attention spans, half the time my phone is already in my hand at this time.)

Strictly speaking you can leave the card in your wallet and just hold the whole wallet to the terminal. But this only works if you have exactly one contactless card (or if you don't care which card pays). Unfortunately the US is moving away from such cards. I used to have two or three, but I just checked my wallet and out of the eight payment cards I have in there, none of them support NFC. Sad.
It seems that sync engine was AGPL licensed from the start https://github.com/nylas/sync-engine/blob/master/LICENSE
The word "Python" should be inserted somewhere in the title.
Optimizing Content Quality Control at Netflix with Predictive Modeling
120/month per user would be something along the lines of 1.3/visit (assuming ~3 articles on average every day of the month). That sounds very high?

I wonder how much such big organizations spend on selling advertising (I'm now conflating with the likes of NYT that has ads in its paper version etc). If one truly went for ad-free, one would of course let all the ad-selling staff go (or let them do something else).
But even those article were mostly about leaders of huge engineering departments. Here on HN (and in the article linked today), there seems to be much uproar about "blame the engineer" because "engineer" is read as the underdog "little guy in the trenches". But that uproar is completely beside the point because in the communication of VW, "engineer" has a very different meaning. There it may apply to anyone in a department that is not strictly manufacturing, marketing or organizational like finance our HR, no matter how high up in the hierarchy and no matter how little actual engineering they still do - provided they actually have the academic grade. In german, you do not get to call yourself "Ingenieur" because you are doing engineering. Academic grades take very strong precedence over job descriptions (and terminologal collisions between those two areas are strictly avoided).

The only source for "blame the engineer" in the way it is read here on hacker news are some completely clueless excuses made by the CEO of Volkswagen USA, but that guy is hardly more than a glorified car dealer.
> A combined ratio of 100 means you've paid out $1.00 in claims and expenses for every $1.00 brought in as premium. Sounds bad but due to investments made an insurance company can still be profitable with a combined ratio of 100 or over.

This is what they'll tell you, but most insurance companies make net revenue even before investment gains and assuming a combined ratio of 100, because they don't include the sale of ancilliaries in the combined ratio. If they sell you car insurance, the basic premium is used to calculate the combined ratio, any alloy wheel cover, no claims protection, lost key cover, etc are kept out to make it seem like life as an insurance company is harder than it really is.
Akatsuki probe successfully enters Venus orbit, returns images
Perl had tons of awesome libraries. Yet Python, Ruby, and Go, which had virtually none compared to Perl when they started still became very popular, and are arguably more popular than Perl now.
I'm not as sure. One could argue that if you removed guns from the equation while still retaining a population prone to violence the police would be in an even worse posture, because up close edged weapons are very dangerous and they don't wear stab vests (which I suppose they could switch to, but I'm told they're even more uncomfortable than soft ballistic body armor, which is bad enough). Prone to violence in that as I recall our edged weapon murder rates exceeds most of "the developed world's".

Watch Tueller Drill video, then factor in the police having to close with someone with an edged weapon, an option I as a civilian can almost always avoid. I say worse, because the public generally doesn't realize the danger people armed with knives poise.

The experience of Brittian is suggestive, it:

Started getting serious about gun control a century ago (fear of the Left, becoming panic with the Bolshevik's win).

Effectively outlawed the use of guns for self-defense in the '50s (courts) and '60 (statutory law).

Then went almost all the way to banning guns that might be useful for self-defense a few decades ago.

Hasn't helped violence, hasn't made much of a dent in "gun violence" as I recall, but could be wrong, and now the obsession is with knife control.

Which suggests a people problem, not an object problem.

(Then again, when the police are nationally centralized and used as a weapon to punish areas that vote "incorrectly" by mostly withdrawing their protection, you've got bigger problems, but again people problems.)
I'm using AKG's N60 NC's and they are much better regarding nearby high pitch speech than the older AKG models (495 and 490) but without music/white noise there may be some speech coming through.
> A a former Navy nuke technician, I'm wondering why these ships aren't nuclear powered.

Even the Navy only uses nuclear power sparingly - you won't find it in destroyers, supply ships, etc. Given the regulatory nightmare and costs around civilian nuclear power plants I really can't imagine nuclear freighters being feasible.
Stickermule[0] and RedBubble[1] come into mind.

[0] https://www.stickermule.com/
[1] http://www.redbubble.com/
Someone would as there's already an app for that (http://almworks.com/jiraclient/overview.html) and it is doing fine :-)
Interesting stuff - I can't decide whether to read it as an useful reminder about planning and analysis ('measure twice, cut once', if you will) or to read it just as a collection of hilarious failures.

My Friday brain is steering me very much toward the latter, I must confess.
Tldr: he had an MRI twice a week. Cross referenced with other data about mood, diet, blood. Didn't find much out because sample size = 1.
Probably not. But I guess it's difficult for some people to say "Not my department, so fucked if I know". So they make something up that sounds plausible and hope that it either happens to be correct or that no one ends up calling them up it.
Why not ask for "one or more" stickers? (Still promising only two total in return). If you're not being purist about the ponzie part, that is. Then you might be able to carry it on a little longer.
What other attack?
I think you hit the nail on the head with something that I've been wondering about for a while. I do audits (TDD) for a living and I actually take my job serious. I invest a lot of time into gathering all the information available on the company and try hard to figure out what the main issues facing a company are before I even go there. That means that when I go and look at a company I really look at it. This has two possible outcomes: the first is that the company is actually flattered that someone would take them - and their investors - serious enough to spend the time to make sure everything works and works well. They'll be proud to show someone that spent the time and effort to get to know their company and product how good they are at their jobs and how well their product is put together. If stuff surfaces that is not 'ok' they either know about it and have a plan of mitigation but simply not enough time or other resources and if they didn't know about it they're grateful for the sincere feedback and will fix things as soon as possible.

The second possible outcome is that a lot of stuff surfaces that the people running the company may not even have been aware of and would rather not be aware of.

This all in contrast to the same job being done by larger companies which tend to output super nice and glossy reports that are essentially 50% gray paper, there isn't anything you could do with a report like that except for pretending that you went through the motions of doing your job.

My reports by contrast are usually 20% the size of the competition without any graphs or other distracting elements but are full of actionable advice and clear guide as to whether or not I believe the investment is a good one or not and why. This doesn't make me a whole lot of friends but the results are there and I stand by every word I write.

For the life of me I can't imagine that VW with the budget they have and the amounts of money at stake would not give their compliance department the tools and the authority required to do their jobs. I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop, someone leaking a mail archive from VW internal correspondence (assuming evidence has not been destroyed, which would make them look even worse) or something to that effect.

This goes way beyond a single arm of VW, it just isn't possible and if it is then it is (counter-intuitively) actually worse for VW because it may mean they are not compliant with a whole bunch of other laws as well.

In that case essentially any VW vehicle would need to be re-certified for all aspects of a road worthiness certification because they have make it plain that their compliance departments are toothless paper tigers. And that might be a much worse path for VW than the one where they simply and openly admit to malice with respect to this one single aspect of their products.
My personal fantasy is that they'll turn the Isle of Dogs in to an area that looks like Hong Kong.
The thing I'd really like to get is stats on exactly how often does the SWAT team go in hard and discover a situation that might otherwise have been mortally dangerous for officers. The other side being how often have they just found some shellshocked people, maybe some recreational drugs and a gun in a closet somewhere.
It is more comparable with AWS Aurora, since this is a compatible reimplementation and _not_ a MySQL box with beefed up hardware specs.
If it comforts, I'm running my third pair of AKGs in 4 years. First 490, then 495 and now N60 NC. First got 490 warranty replaced with 495 and when they broke, bought N60 as I still prefer AKG sound quality over Boses and the NC got much better with this model.

In both 490 and 495 the problem wasn't the NC or audio or cabling but the cursed plastics. They just gave up on normal day-to-day use. I did use them really carefully and without any abuse :/
TexTuring – dithering tool based on natural patterns
Bug: Unlimited up votes and down votes per person. Kinda ruins it
I'd say the number one real danger on the Internet are child predators -- and there's no sane way to protect from that, just like there's no sane way to protect from that in the real world. But education and dialogue (with your children) helps.

I'd probably be more worried about all the porn that your 11 year old watch, than the beheadings. Staying ahead of the curve wrt healthy sex ed. is a real challenge.
Community for creating, reusing and sharing interactive content
I think you're spot-on in a scenario where insurance companies have deep enough pockets for any new floats they want to set up and had reduced regulatory requirements (with respect to things like EU Solvency II obligations)
If I send 2 stickers will I get back 4?
I am struggling to think why any mobile phone app would be useful or relevant in a car. If you're driving a car, why is your mobile phone even turned on? And if you're not driving, what's wrong with the controls integrated into the dash, which are probably much larger and more flexible than any phone screen?
You might want to use a streaming api rather than have users upload their songs. Sounds illegal
This is not a serious risk. You could easily armor the reactor module to resist any amount of pirate weaponry, and rig it so when damaged it just drops to the bottom of the ocean intact.

Getting into it isn't a threat either: terrorists aren't going to be plasma torching into a reactor and surviving long enough to do anything.
Take a percentage cut of the stickers (or postage cost)
The problem is that technological disruptions like this pose a threat to the economy as it is organised and run today. In particular, modern economy cannot cope with unemployment. The masses of laid-off people would either have to engage in yet more pointless jobs, or "disrupt" the social order. This is very unlikely to increase efficiency overall.
The article overlooks the sovereign debt. The world has a total sovereign debt of about 50 trillion. The Government bonds and their derivatives account for most of the difference between available capital and GDP.

"Capital is no longer scarce" sounds very absurd. There will always be more people chasing limited resources and whenever less men (labor) are required for a task, the society directs that "capital" to either arts or research
3 critical API industry trends in 2016
Ask HN: Text Classifier benchmarks?
What are the benchmarks for the best classifiers in the world?
Are there any benchmarks available on leading commercial providers?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_reply_coupon

Might work if they are still sold in your country.

A bit expensive though and not sure if they are willing to accept these, because they have to be exchanged for a stamp, they don't count as a stamp themselves.
Paid or free? Would it work for both self-hosted and Atlassian Cloud instances? Both Jira Core & Jira Agile?
Engineer in this context appear to mean: anybody not present in the board room or in the sales and marketing departments.