skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first question I ask people when talking about this project is, "Do you know your voter information is public?" About 85% are shocked and in horror that this information is available. Outside of a campaign, it is hard to say if the public would support it.

I've chatted with a two different lawyers over here in Ohio...and both have advised strict security and election/campaign use only.
Right, which is why planning to commit a crime is now a crime as well (think price fixing). You can stop people before harm is actually done (with harm==results of illegal action)
it is not clear to me the roles of "you" and "them" in your post, but if I pick "manager" and "worker" (or vice versa) I still don't really know what you are trying to say.

I think what you are saying is "tell the manager you are tracking their time". but not sure.
I'm approaching the car at 30-70 mph from an oblique angle and trying to determine both the car and occupant status and whether I can safely get over and stop. I also wasn't expecting the situation, because I was out going about my business.

I admit that if the car was occupied by 6 elderly females, each with a pistol in one hand, a grenade in the other, and a deranged look in their eyes, that I wouldn't stop, but realistically, I'm making the call on occupant likely threat level to me primarily on gender and age, as if they're in the car, I can only see their shoulders and head.

In a good Samaritan situation like this, I have to be right every single time. One (more) mistake, and I can end up in a really bad spot and that's just not worth it to me or my family. For most false positive cases (where I drive past someone who posed no threat [which of course is most people on the side of the road]), they're going to get help inside of an hour or two from the police or AAA anyway.
* Significantly more than $1.7m to build a roundabout, vs $40,000 for one that can be installed on existing infrastructure.

* Adding roundabouts requires more land, which is in tight supply in a built-up city like Seattle. I don't think shaving the corners off of buildings is going to go over very well.

* As I've noted, the buildup of the cameras is very recent. The traffic light data you cited is over a year old. They're creeping into the side streets now.

* Nobody needs a study to see the obvious improvements possible in cases I cited.

* Given the desire of the government to install cameras everywhere on the roads, the cost of them is going to be there with or without roundabouts.

* Far friendlier to pedestrians? How is that possible when cars don't stop? I've crossed roundabouts in England as a pedestrian. It involves pushing a button and a traffic light turns red so you can cross. I.e. the traffic lights are still there!

* In Romania the roundabouts also had traffic lights for the pedestrians, as well as pedestrian tunnels under the intersection. That can't be inexpensive.

* I can see a roundabout as cost effective in a rural area where land is cheap and there are few pedestrians. In a builtup city, not so much, as they'd be massive and expensive construction projects. A $40,000 box can be installed instead with no disruption and immediate improvements. Sounds like a winner to me.
Abstract hard can be harder than it looks. (Buy some acrylics and try it if you don't believe me.)

But the 'you didn't' part is more about self-promotion and networking than aesthetics.

If you park your abstract canvas on the desk of Important Gallery and wait for them to offer you an exhibition, you'll be waiting a long time - unless you've already made a name for yourself through self-promotion, networking, and (cynical?) cultivation of galleries, patrons, and important collectors. Or you've been already been canonised by same as The Next Big Thing.

So from the point of view of art-as-marketing, you couldn't do that.

Put crudely, no one cares unless they can make money from your work (top tier galleries, collectors) or cultural capital (national galleries, museums.) And money isn't going to happen unless you're already on the inside having come up through art school and made the right connections, or you're enough of an edgy outsider to have a bankable story.
> I'm pretty sure said micromanager was getting kickbacks for outsourcing.

I'm really curious how companies let this kind of stuff happen. I guess I expect this kind of stuff from larger companies with so many staff no one is really in charge? A friend claimed at his company managers were picking outsourcing companies based on where they wanted to vacation next. They'd then book business class tickets, get a refund, then buy 2 economy tickets with the refund and take their lovers.

At least one company I worked at had a whistle blower policy to report this kind of stuff without retribution and, at least at the time, seemed to be very serious about it to weed out bad people like this.
100% agree that this is a problem. And no silver bullet solution. Product Hunt actually took a perfectly reasonable approach to this (heavy curation), but Open Hunt exists in order to try to tackle the problem using a different path.

We have some ideas on it already. Possibly some sort of queuing system where you can schedule it to post in the future, with a # of slots reserved every day for the queued up in advance ones.

But this topic will take a lot of discussion, and we're hoping we can get lots of different opinions on the matter before deciding on a course.

In the meantime, pure voting should bring the best products to the top, in a daily list. We'll also give products a chance to resubmit after a certain period of time.
Don't we have "ForceTouch" or something now that can provide more information about touched thing?
"The injunction was sought by a plaintiff before a criminal court in São Paulo state whose identity was kept secret."[1]

So let me get this straight. The president is risking an impeachment, there is renewed discontent with the unprecedented levels of corruption... And some unknown judge, representing an unknown plaintiff, bans a mass communication tool used by 93 million Brazilians daily, by requesting something the people responsible for the tool are capable of producing...? That sounds like an awful lot of bullshit to me.
That's right but I believe both Ampache and Kodi are complementary (I'm using both, Ampache on a web server and Kodi at home) and have a quite different approach.
Author here.

1) I think you just proved my point. The new Sendai subway uses a linear motor, but is not maglev, while the Linimo and Chuo are maglevs and thus use linear induction motors more or less by definition. However, these are both generally just dubbed リニア in the Japanese press.

2) The privatized JRs still hemorrhage money due to marginal routes, most are loss-making and only JR Central makes sizeable profits. Until the Iwaizumi Line was shut down last year, JR East had not shut down a single line since privatization in 1987, despite >50 of its 60-odd lines losing money.

3) JR Central is notionally privatized, but it's still de facto an arm of the government. The new line is being built with the central government's explicit approval and implicit financial backing.
It's a thing when they do any product launches as well, I end up having to paste the stream into VLC.

Don't own any Apple stuff but I like to watch what they are up to (often because I'll end up supporting their stuff at some point).
More on this here: https://torrentfreak.com/seven-pirate-bay-domains-have-been-...
Whatever happened to beauty in art? Much of the article focuses on art whose only purpose seems to be so "say something", to shock its viewers, to do something nobody else had ever thought of doing before. At which point in time did we lose the mother of all art - beauty? Aesthetics? Craftsmanship?

Now do not get me wrong, of course artists must engage in a dialogue with the society in which they live, and of course art is a great way of expressing political and social opinions. But when the fundamental purpose of art - the creation of something beautiful - is lost, all that remains is politics masquerading as art. And no wonder nobody wants to see that.

It is perfectly possible to produce art containing both: beautiful content and a strong message. Just take the Expressionist artists and poets of the Great War as an example. Wilfred Owen, Georg Heym, Otto Dix - they all produced incredibly strong anti-war art (poems and paintings) that still displayed a very high standard of artisan skill. There are many, many other examples, from many different points in history.

What happened to that legacy?
Smoking is very much on the decline in Japan. It's still much more common than in the West (eg. smoking rooms in hotels are still a thing), but it has vastly improved since 2000 or so.
It's about blocking google analytics (or whatever else).
My thoughts exactly! Or maybe just using different exposure parameters? Then the images could be cleaned (semi)automatically...
I think it's ment in the sense that power users are by far the most likely people to disable telemetry or "Send usage data to help improve this software" functions, if such a setting is offered.

Especially if the option is buried somewhere deep in the settings menu. Also the most likely users to have adblockers, though that's getting more and more common.
While some of these are obvious - removing borders from buttons on iOS made everyone confused, in my personal observation - others are not necessarily "a naive attempt to emulate Apple". Eg.: you can't have (useful|easy to figure out) tooltips or "right click" on touchscreen devices.
Ruby was built in Japan. But shops like yours are rarity: in patio11's words, "Metropolitan Nagoya has literally thousands of people who can write assembly code that you’d literally trust your life to (you have before and will again, unless your sole method of transportation is bicycles), and probably only a few dozen who you’d want working on a web application."
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”

― Albert Einstein

Let him grow and make his own choices, just be a good loving parent and have faith in him. Forcing knowledge and skills can backfire, make sure you mediate your passion for hacking to him ;)
Oh, that’s like my old games from my childhood
I don't think anybody has expressed desire for that feature in a visible way, and I'm quite certain nobody is publicly working on it. While that'll likely not trigger anybody to just work on it, I invite you to send an email explaining what you want. Helps see a couple of those to gauge interest.
As a first language, I think Haskell is too safe. It forbids you from doing too many things that the computer can do. I recently talked to someone who was learning Haskell as a first language, and it was a surreal experience. It was obvious that he wasn't having fun in the sandbox, but he couldn't articulate it because he'd never been outside the sandbox.

My own first language was QBasic and I'm very happy about it. If I'd been made to suffer through parsers instead of putting colorful circles on the screen, I would think of programming as hard work, and that probably wouldn't lead to a very good career.
It's sad but comments like this made me turn away from language as a reliable means of communication. I used to believe anything I'd read. But, having become aware of trolls and worse, those days are gone. Not only English, but Japanese and who knows which other languages are untrustworthy.
This also highlights why it would be better to use opensource firewalls such as Openbsd instead of proprietary ones!

If you care about your security then you need to be able to inspect the code that protects your assets.

Distributed open source firewall vs propritary firewall with backdoors.
An Unusual Proof of the Doodle Theorem
That amount of fuel sounds about right. The usual for a jet that size is between 25% and 40% of take off weight.

The turn around included maintenance which isn't always done. And it's quite a big plane requiring more time for boarding and restocking.

If you look at for example easyjet turning around a much smaller airbus A320 for a short haul within the EU, they do it in 25 to 30 minutes.
God forbid having a manager that plays Crusader Kings II or Europa Universalis IV!
modern art = i could do that + yeah, but you didn't

To me, good art is the combination of a couple things: skill and vision.

Vision, the intent to express some idea (hopefully interesting) is absolutely needed. Even if I don't understand it, I can respect that someone is trying to make a statement of some kind.

Skill, of some sort is also needed for me to call it art. If there was no craft involved in the creation, no practice, no iteration... then I don't consider it worthy of my time. Show me something that you can do that I can't, basically.

If your "art" consists of a couple common items that took all of ten minutes to put together, that is not art to me. You may be making a statement, which is great, but it is not great art.
Are you seriously claiming that the places he visits are only temporarily depopulated because everybody is on holiday?!

He's not pulling these stats out of his ass: the town of Yubari used to have 120,000 people, and now has 9,362. This is of course extreme, but basically the entire countryside is following along the same lines.

Here's a random prefecture (Aomori) on Kaso-Net, which shows the areas officially classified as "depopulated" by the Japanese government, meaning they've lost >25% of their population: http://www.kaso-net.or.jp/map/aomori.htm

Red means it contains parts that are depopulated, yellow means it's about to be, green means the area as a whole is already over the limit.
BlackBerry, the anti-privacy and anti-security company. Good luck with that, BlackBerry.
I'm too late in this discussion, but they are really going to use the majority of the grant, namely $10k out of the $15k, to replace the word "slave". See

https://supybot.buildbot.net/meetings/buildbot/2015/buildbot...

> Buildbot's MOSS application: $10k to remove slave from all code/docs, $5k to work on stability/handling shutting down EC2 slaves when buildbot master crashes/exits/restarts (djmitche, 16:39:19)
Ask HN: London, UK, who are the highest paying companies out there?
So people always say 'investment banking/finance' is what pays most, but often those comments fall short of mentioning company names. I'm left wondering who are those high paying companies? What are the salary ranges (for someone with a few years of experience as a software engineer at $BIGCO)?
I love these threads thrashing Product Hunt, it is an abortion of nature, elitist, suffocating echo chamber, and a place that clashes with the basics principles of Internet. Sites that started elitist, like Facebook at Harvard, opened to the world audience to empower the platform.
I was thinking the same thing. Honeymoon's over? What honeymoon? There never was a honeymoon!
Um, nope. Old people need a lot more health care than young ones, anywhere in the world: http://blogs-images.forbes.com/danmunro/files/2014/04/hccost...
Facebook Messenger now allows custom emoji responses and color themes
Text-to-speech voices sound pretty awkward. To make them sound less awkward, you have to either tweak the software for all sorts of special cases or pre-record a bunch of phrases. Both of these take a lot of manpower.

Fonts are the same, except they're used by many more people and last much longer than that brief moment when your text-to-speech software stumbles on an uncommon combination of words.

I'm sure that the technology will rapidly improve as more and more Chinese fonts are needed, but as long as AI remains inferior to humans in some way, I don't see it getting all automated.
This is a very important point. Are the backdoor(s) traceable to a specific event or individual? How far up the company hierarchy does the rot go? Whatever the answer, it is insufficient. We are relying on hardware and software that is opaque at the network level, and therefore open to this sort of manipulation.
Art should not be above the viewer in the sense that it seems to say "You're too dumb and too uneducated to understand me".

It should totally be above the viewer in the sense that it should get him to broaden his horizons, to deepen his thinking and to cultivate an appreciation for the craftsmanship that goes into art.

Art that is exactly at your level may give you some temporary pleasure, but little else. The German classical poets saw art as a means of educating peoples' personalities. If you always stick to what you can already understand without a problem, when are you ever going to grow?
Of course the idea that open source software in general, and firewalls in specific are better than closed source ones relies on people actually having the skills and time necessary to conduct a decent audit.

Some of the very large security bugs found in open source software which were present in that code for years, indicate that this is not commonly done.

And that was just bugs as opposed to actual backdoors which would likely be harder to find if inserted competently.

So whilst in theory you are correct, I'm not so sure you are in practice.
In my experience, micromanagement is often a sign that you're managing by disaster. By that I mean you spend months, or sometimes years, not expecting your staff to make judgement calls for themselves, not communicating your intent, not building those relationships, and then there's always some project where something needs to be done. At which point, the only way that you can do that project, given that you haven't invested in those relationships, haven't built those skills, is to tell everyone pretty much precisely what to do.

It's a bad situation, and I think it's fairly transparent to most people who've worked for any significant length of time that it's not a good way to manage, but once someone is in that sort of situation there never seems to be a good time to move to a better model of management without having to let some commitments lapse. That's a very hard sell to make to the rest of the organisation: Yes we're going to make mistakes, and yes we're going to miss some deadlines, (or need some forgiveness on deadline,) because we need to actually develop our staff.

The situation is, of course, exacerbated by the fact that even where that time is available; you're working on a less intensive project; a lot of people want to think that what they're doing at the moment works. They want to think well of themselves. And there's a certain penalty that people, especially people with large egos, are going to pay in admitting that what they've been doing up until this point has certain flaws in it.
This article, with its bold assertions and dubious use of evidence, seems to be written by someone capable precisely the wild and imaginative leaps need to appreciate modern art. That aside, is it really true that high culture was part of the common conversation? Fine art seems to have always been confined only to the aristocrats. Whether pop culture is increasingly banal is a more contentious point than what the essay argues.
That's because touchscreen devices suck for the real work! Their popularity is actually mostly due to Apple, too. Still, that's not an excuse, think out of the box, come up with some other way to do the same thing.

There are ways. Some applications for example had a "query" button which let you examine the UI, what each element does. I don't see why touch devices couldn't have the same thing as a (hardware) button.

Steve Jobs hated buttons, but they have their place. If you eliminate all of them, of course you end up less productive.

And yeah, unfortunately, my list is very obvious.
Given that this was hidden even from the organization that was in control of the codebase, it's not clear that open source on its own is a real solution. This made it through whatever initial review processes Juniper has, and was only caught by an "internal code review" performed after the fact - an exercise only infrequently conducted on most open source projects.

Given enough eyeballs backdoors can be easy to spot in source code, but eyeballs aren't an unlimited resource. In addition to open sourcing your software, the community that cares about the project needs enough funding or institutional support to actually review the code in question.
The article misses another huge and overlooked issue: there are databases that are not accessed via a public Internet address because they are filtered by a firewall BUT are accessed via the local network because in many VPS services you can connect to all the VMs inside the same region internally. Look at this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskNetsec/comments/3mqufn/how_do_yo...
Play with stuff.

Pull things apart, put them together, wonder if they can be better, make things, experiment, mix stuff up.

Imagine!

It may be that your little one is not interested in computers, but playing, making, exploring, and experimenting will be of value no matter where their interests take them.
For one thing, don't describe yourself as a "jack of all trades" because that is associated with "and master of none" in people's minds.

Instead, describe yourself as a "Swiss army knife".
Look at total compensation - average total compensation says ~$238k for senior, which certainly seems to confirm numbers...and they may be higher currently since I'd guess that those numbers probably span across a number of years. Google SF is a smaller office also.
One of the best things I've read lately. At my last job, I voiced exactly the same concerns over the clarity of icons, and was always told that the users are going to get used to it after training (it was an enterprise product). It was really frustrating as a (back-end) programmer to load up my work in the browser and to hover over each icon every time to test it. I didn't get used to it, no one else ever was going to.
A new way to make laser-like beams using 250x less power (2014)
Passing the Baton – AMPLab – UC Berkeley
Exactly why do we need "solitary confinement" in the first place?

If a person is dangerous for others or some extra punishment is needed, put them in a single cell, but in the same place as the other cells and just don't let them get out (for the restaurant, exercise yard, etc.) for the confinement period.

Unless they scream or something, there's no need to be a totally isolated room.
The truth about Trident
If it's a web app, you can't do that.
> If deliberate, why is there speculation about who might have installed this "secret code"?

Would you take whatever your VCS claims as face value in this case? I wouldn't, which makes answering this very difficult, so I think it is to be expected that they don't have an answer yet.
DNS is not decentralized at all. It has a center - ICANN (organizational, legal) and the root servers (physical), which gives one party a near absolute control.

Namecoin is decentralized.
The Petnet
So, in the end how much does it really cost, and how hard is it to acquire the service?
Also known as isometric projection. Although, because the telescope has a such a small field of view, perspective projection would give virtually the same image.
I don't think the public good and making a profit are unable to coexist. Y Combinator has greatly aided startups, but has made a great deal of money in the process; Stripe and Amazon Web Services are very much the same.

To be sure, there are some causes which can operate as charities; but if your goal is to simplify credit card processing for startups, can it be achieved in any manner other than in the form of a corporation? My own startup falls into the same category: I wanted the world to have a solid, secure, online backup service for geeks, and it turned out that a company was the only natural way for Tarsnap to exist.

While I absolutely agree about the importance of open source software -- and that's how I've primarily given back to the community -- I don't think all the other ways people improve the world are in any way diminished by the fact that they make a profit in the process.
How Much Money Can an Egg Donor Make from Donating Eggs