skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can think of a few in regulatory compliance industry. I have systems that can sort of solve these problems, but it could be done much better. I may even try to build better versions at some point in the future if I can get my current things finished off my plate.
If not satire, then what do they suggest as a replacement. They mention using objects instead, which I don't understand.
Baidu Teams Up with Medical Researchers to Fight Cancer
The only trike I've ridden had a coaster brake. No feet being thrown off, at all, you just turn it backward a bit to stop.

I'm sure insuring bicycles or tricycles is much cheaper than insuring automobiles (and actually not required, by law, as it is with autos). I would think the rider would be responsible for damages, and not the owner of the vehicle, but that's just a guess.

Regardless, somehow bicycle rental businesses manage to exist in every major city. So, it must be possible to insure them. I would think the personal injury risk to her customers would be the bigger insurance concern, but if I were doing it, I'd require customers to sign a very strongly worded waiver of liability for injury.
Security through obscurity is not steganography.
That makes a lot more sense than anything I could come up with. Thanks!
Hmm. It allows me to connect my PC to my console and play it, right? Not quite the right scenario, though close; since I want to use Xbox Streaming, I need to fool my PC into thinking it has a controller attached.
A Non-Scientist's Guide to Checking the Science Behind a Claim (2012)
Kevoree Modeling Framework – toolset to structure and reason about complex data
I assume you're talking about stock options, not actual stock.

Most stock option grants don't allow any transfer of ownership without at least the approval of the company who issued stock options. So given the current rules for stock options such trading is not possible.

Were the rules to change, it would still be highly problematic because you're essentially creating a stock exchange and those are highly regulated by the government (since without oversight they are great avenues for fraud).
Guidance counselors across this country are massively failing the students who turn to them for... guidance. Mine pushed me into AP/Honors classes for subjects I had almost zero interest in causing me to get B's when I could have easily gotten A's in the regular classes (Comp Sci was the exception, I'm glad I took the AP version of that, at both A and AB levels). Even with my score on the ACT being very good I wasn't able to qualify for certain loans through my college (and some privates ones/grants) due to a lower (un-weighted) GPA which increased my tutiation.

This coupled with a complete lack of understanding how student loans work or what I would be responsible for (I take 100% responsibility for this failing I just wish there had been more education on the issue). Now I've got some ~$60K left in student loans and I didn't even finish college because all of my job prospects said they didn't care about a degree if I could do the work required (software engineer). I am, thankfully, able to make the payments on them but (and again, I take full responsibility) student loans were practically billed as "Free money" and just "something everyone did"... The "good debt" to have... What a load of BS.

I liked my college experience and the life-long friends I made but knowing what I know now I might have cut my college even shorter or possibly not gone as I was able to get a part-time job (I could have worked full time if I had wanted) in my first semester at school in my field... This will not hold for all majors of course but the college (and high school) system sells college as a job ticket and that couldn't be further from the truth in today's world.
Maybe because it will only be launched in January 2016 in India.

http://www.windowscentral.com/surface-pro-4-slated-launch-in...
I can't speak for the original commenter, but I can't agree with the the idea that we can make racism go away by pretending race doesn't exist (as in, not acknowledging and correcting for the huge historical and ongoing impact it has on groups of people). In fact, I would argue that in lots of liberal cities today (SF, NYC), almost no one hates blacks. But economic inequality is still rampant, precisely because we're not doing enough to acknowledge and correct centuries of injustice.
Pushing? Lol, they've pushed it long time ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law
The fitting name for this that I came across recently is a wantrepreneur.
A bit of click-bait. I went to the link expecting to hear of some new law. I know the law would be silly, but not the first silly law.
> Where I live in the U.S, moss is largely an unwanted thing akin to mold.

I think that's due to the US attitude that nature is a thing to be controlled, not nurtured. Moss grows in its natural way, on top of other things, not in its own little individual pot or plot.
As someone who has sells a LIMS module for DNA sequencing the problem is the people that run theses systems do not like change. You need a scientific background to run these labs, but the work is very routine. The personalities that gravitate towards being a lab manager are the personalities that really, really, really like systems to stay the same. It is a very tough sell to get them to use something new no matter how good.
Carefully, the 5X is significantly bigger - 147 x 72.6 x 7.9 mm (5.79 x 2.86 x 0.31 inches).
Sounds like a good plot for a movie :)
You're not really the class of employee that these policies are (or should be, at least) targeted at.

I had to take a piss test to get a job where I drove a company box truck on a route every day, with a hazardous material endorsement. I was fresh out of high school, no other qualifications. I didn't then, nor do I now, have a problem with that piss test.

I'm a programmer now. I'd have a problem with a piss test--which I would readily pass, even if it were effective.
Notice the "Also" in my original comment. It is meant to be read as 2 distinct sentences.

I am not a lawyer but I do know that people are held responsible for the personal belongings they carry, say on a plane. I know that I cannot carry a prohibited item on a plane and claim that I didn't know how it got there. Which is probably why they make you say that your bag was not touched by any strangers before you board your flight.

The captain of a ship should be held responsible for the ship and it's cargo.
Bear in mind that the ship was likely made of heavily pitched timber, which will have had a very high energy density. Also, ships are big. You'd be surprised how much lumber goes into one. For instance, the hull would be feet thick towards the keel.
Russia and India has recently signed up a pretty big deal for a bunch of nuclear plants. Though this of course is just lesser (in the current partial order over the set of current alternatives) evil. India has major share of world's thorium, so once somebody learn how to use it (unfortunately Russia who has been long-term India' partner in nuclear is of no help here) it would be a big boost for India.

Of course, the developed world, if they took heads out of their bottoms, would be just installing solar panels in India like crazy and on their own dime just to avoid India building new coal plants - in the long term it is cheaper to build solar for somebody than that somebody building coal for themselves.
Doubt he wouldn't mind NOT being paid, rescue would be enough for me... I think lol, not to mention book and movie rights would set him up for life.
The article talks about this at the end:

So maybe what we all need right now is the killer Web app—a demonstration of a website that performs beautifully, even if only on Android. Maybe that would get users’ attention and, maybe then, Apple’s attention.
Interesting. But is part of that also that many labs may be stuck on older gen operating systems that newer software would need to support? Thinking of a recent visit to a hospital that was running WinXP on their machines.
And any company related to the Chinese government, which is basically all of them. So if you make tractors and use Chinese computers to make tractors, your Chinese competitor who makes tractors can be assumed to have full access to your computer systems, for all practical purposes.
> just

That's a small word for major change in programming paradigm
"I've done this, to fix the problem."
"Ah yeah, no need; that problem's been discussed in the past".
"Ok, what happened"
"IT...WAS...DISCUSSED!"
Ashley Madison says it added 4M members since the hack
For the same reasons (size) I picked up an Amazon Fire phone inexpensively, rooted and reloaded it with Cyanogenmod. It's 4.7" with decent hardware (nothing cutting edge). So far so good.
They already had a lot of cred with me because of their research, which is publicly available at research.microsoft.com. Contrast this with, say, Apple, which created some open source projects, but not much more.
Ah yes, the old "web app so cool that Tim Cook decides to flush money down the toilet" strategy.
> What a wonderful world we would be in if vendors compete on how best they can implement a spec. Assuming "best" means "as close to spec as possible" and that the spec is fairly well defined.

That's only possible if someone is writing a spec, and that someone is not the vendors.
> if oft-used man pages haven't already added "EXAMPLES" sections over the last 30 years, how likely is it that they'd add them now?

Lots of reasons they didn't add examples earlier. Maybe nobody happened to care, but if you submit a patch, they'll gladly accept it? Why so cynical?
I highly doubt we will ever be able to achieve interstellar travel for 500B or less, not with our current technology, maybe in 100+ years, but when coming up with a number we need to also take into account all the tech we need between now and launch and the costs of those technologies, not to mention we'd need a wormhole, either one we create, or that someone else creates for us, and since we don't know if we're alone or not in the universe, the only assumption is we'd need to create that ourselves, and I really have no clue how much a Wormhole would cost to create, but I'm gonna guess at least 20 Trillion USD, if it's even possible at all...
How do you feel about mushrooms, flowers, or trees?

I know HN is mostly interested in computers, but plants have some very interesting things to learn about. I like mushrooms and succulents because of the huge variety you can witness - once you start looking at particular things, you see types you've never seen before quite often.
I work in consulting in the oil and gas industry. Many E&P companies are struggling right now with crude in the $30-40/bbl range. The E&P I work for has reduced staff 4 times this year officially. Unofficially they've had 6 "random" drug tests in the past 8 months. That is a way to reduce payroll without having to do a press release stating you've dropped 26% of your workforce.
Rds will likely never support a .0 release, as .1 tends to be a quick bug release, and will probably try to get new versions out faster than it took 9.4.
The service definitely looks interesting and I see how it could come in handy.

One remark: it would be great if each of the steps had a title/description.
That way, the author can make clear what each of the steps is doing.
Cool new Tech
Hey guys. What are some really cool new startups with fun tech?
Suggesting a $5M piece of military hardware capable of carrying a single 100lb missile pretty much emphasises my point about trucks (or even motorbikes!) being far superior options for medium-long distance transit.
No matter how much research goes into developing commercial alternatives, carrying books through the air over long distances at speed rather than driving them along roads will expend significantly more energy and cost more money, because physics.

And whilst getting goods by parachute might have novelty value if I'm around to watch or be extremely useful if I'm stuck somewhere up a mountain, for everyday goods delivery I'd frankly rather have them handed to me by a person that considers the goods "delivered" when they're in my hands rather than probably in the right garden. It's also why their current delivery drivers aren't encouraged to save time by throwing non-fragile items at customers' houses as they drive past.
I sorta hear you but not the best example since transportation data benefits greatly from geo-locating which works much better in apps.
I have a passion for money. And sex. Yeah, I have a passion for those things. How about you? Do you have a passion for that stuff?
While I disagree with drug testing, there is a legitimate reason to do so: if an employee is consuming illegal drugs, that greatly increases the risk of said employee being caught with such drugs and being arrested and imprisoned. This means that at any time, an employee could be here one day and gone the next, which means that costly adjustments to overall workload must be made at the drop of a hat. Add in the possibility of multiple employees consuming illegal drugs together after hours and you run the risk of an entire team being the equivalent of hit by a bus.

Many recreational drugs aren't bad. Marijuana is not harmful, psychedelics are generally non-addictive, and nearly everybody who's not Mormon or Muslim drinks. The problem - and risk - for an employer, is illegality.
That’s like saying “We haven’t needed ‘TLDR pages’ for the last 30 years, why do we need them now?”. Times change.
Swiss Banks Publish Names of Owners of Very Old Dormant Accounts
> (in fact, librarians become ever more valuable as the volume of available material increases)

This cannot be overstated. It really hit me hard when I realized that Cloud Imperium (a video game developer, Star Citizen) has a librarian on staff.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cherie-heiberg-15015859

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXsc_LYZf0I
More thoughts on the matter.

I have relatively high income, I come from affluent family, I have some savings, I'm kind of well-off, I have no troubles finding jobs.

This means I can quit a job over drug testing. A lot of people can't - they have mouths to feed, no savings to cover it up, not too desirable on job market.

This means I have an obligation to abruptly terminate my employment in such situation.
This will make employers consider drug testing policies against losing people like me. Which makes world less bad for everyone, even people who could not just quit.

This is where middle-class privilege comes in handy to shield us all.
It's easy to think of the past as being more primitive than it was. Maybe there were things analogous to modern factory farms in 1900 as well, and those things were worse than modern equivalents.
Because is unsustainable when you cross some point. Other possible and realistic scenery could be "I suspect that a hundred years from now humans will look back on the vegan ideas as barbarous in their treatment of plants, overgrazing and human gut flora". Is not a fact, is an idea that casually gives social cookies when is repeated, so is popular currently.
I would also say that believing in yourself helps a great deal with b as well. Sales is very harsh on the ego. I am always impressed with how sales people can handle the level of rejection they get day in and day out. I am a very good closer, but I am not too good at taking the abuse and rejection that is involved with cold calling.
Ok no worries, it was quite a while ago that the article came out (I think around some of the early Snowden leaks). It that claimed that the NSA used a 3 hop rule to establish a 'targets' network. They claimed to only use 3 hops to protect the privacy and constitutional rights of US citizens ie 'this is not mass surveillance guys, we promise'. (paraphrasing from memory of course)

To the authors point, 2 hops could just about be anyone.

To your point, 2 hops could be a very tenuous link.

If you put both points together you get effectively mass surveillance of just about anyone whilst still claiming to be on the right side of the law.
> to the planned construction of an ultra-deepwater natural-gas pipeline across the Arabian Sea, from Iran to India’s west coast.

Pakistan's exclusive economic zone extends 370km (200 nautical miles) from its coastline except where it runs into another nation's EEZ. Given that the distance from the easternmost coastline of Iran to Oman is 340km, this pipeline is going to have to run through Pakistan's exclusive economic zone unless they take great pains to stay within Oman's and then run out past the continental shelf. Even then, I would be shocked if Pakistan's navy lacked the ability to cut a pipeline that was only 400km off its shores. That doesn't seem like a prospect that would make any of the three countries happy.
OTOH full work days involve fatigue, which you won't run into only working for 30 minutes. And there's a good amount of context switching that goes on at the workplace as well.
Of course the captain of the ship should be held responsible. An ignorant ship hand should not.
I'm not the poster, but having tried my hands at both D and rust, I chose D over for my new project at $work. There is far less upfront mental gymnastic with D compared to Rust and that is a nice benefit when you are trying to get things done.

I continue to dabble in Rust, but D is so much more comfortable.
Programming in BASIC on the TRS-80
Ask HN: Ex-founder looking for work, any tips?
I worked on a failed startup as a technical co-founder for the past ~9 months. I'm now looking for work. Are there any special things I should/could do when looking for a new job? or effective ways I can market my experience? Experiences from people in similar situations would be helpful.

Additionally, if anyone knows of opportunities in the South Bay (Palo Alto/Mt View/surrounding area), feel free to contact me. My email is in my profile.
Just click on the "web" button at the top of this page. I think you have to be logged in.
I am the lead author of Elemental and am surprised to find this here. I'll try to answer any questions.
I think you may have a point - but national reserves and American's love of camping in the "uncontrolled wilderness" is also a strong counterpoint.

I was also careful to specify "where I live". The U.S is rather large and I'm sure moss gardens are popular in at least one region. Something I find people often forgetting is just how massive the U.S is. Including the people who live in it!
Sadly, no. I read the FF source code and couldn't find anything, although I'm far from an expert in that code base, so it might be hiding somewhere.
Speaking about mobile first. Are there plans to slim down D3 itself?

d3-scale is just 18KB, great, but d3.min.js is 149KB and d3-scale relies on some more d3 addon JS files like d3-array, d3-color, etc. - so to sum up: 187KB minified JS for d3-scale including all dependecies, correct?

Tests have shown, the optimal goal is to keep a web app smaller than 300KB minified JS size.
Yesterday, journalists weren't the class of employee that these policies are targeted at, but today they became so.

If this shit becomes the default (megacorp drones will think: why not extend this inexpensive procedure to everyony) we'll just live in even worse and more humiliating society than we do already.

You think, therefore you resist.
Whatever. The fact is, the viaduct has access to surface streets that the tunnel will not have. Existing functionality is being lost in a time when additional functionality is needed.

If you live and/or work in the area -- and I have, although I don't currently -- this is not a good thing.

Only on HN would someone mod down the assertion, "The whole reason for building roads is to get people and goods where they need to go." Next up for refutation: color of sky, followed by the wet-dry nature of water.
I read an article about the similarities and differences between data art and data visualisation a short while back (couple of weeks?), but I really can't seem to find it right now. Mike Bostock's visualisations, though very visually pleasing, always tend towards the functional side of the spectrum, serving a purpose of enhancing the comprehension of concepts or relationships that lie in the data, rather than being designed for purely æsthetic aspirations.

There's obviously a place for both visualisations and art, though, and the line between the two is not always clearly defined.
Late update: read through some of the webpack source code. As near as I can tell, it completely ignores most of the options passed to it via the CLI. (For example, --colors seems to have zero effect on anything.)
What's really bad is the app that is a carbon-copy of the corresponding website, except slightly better designed in such a way that would be trivial to implement on the damn website itself.
The real story here is that they activated someone's Internet without putting them on hold for hours.

P.S.A. - Don't forget to message @ComcastCares on Twitter if you need customer service from Comcast. They actually help you if you tweet them.
Ask HN: How would you invest 2M USD
I've built up 2 Million USD which is currently in Panama (no international taxes were paid). I'm now looking to invest this sum, but its hard. It does not look like a good idea to bring it into the country where currently living (Portugal) as here the tax is high and the Euro is crashing. How would you invest this money to bring in a stable return over the rest of my life?
they will unintentionally leak your confidential personal data

How?
Depends. How's that nuclear fusion project coming along in Germany?
> I know HN is mostly interested in computers, but plants have some very interesting things to learn about.

Indeed, and you can even study them in the context of algorithms: http://algorithmicbotany.org/ - discovered this while reading about L-systems, I find it really fascinating.
You also have the risk of your employees quitting over drug testing, including entire team at once.

Naturally you should consider what you fear more. Especially in the world that rapidly progresses towards decriminalization of recreational drugs.
Being a remote developer (again)
I recently watched this episode of Japanology [1] about moss. There is a really interesting and refreshing fascination about moss over there.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBIdOWd9qEM
John you make a very good point. Look for industries where the current market has not kept up with advances in technology due to the business structures of the incumbents. Even if they want to change they can't (e.g Kodak).

Hearing aids might fall into this category, but unlike the others on your list you need to deal with the FDA. The FDA should really be called the IPA - Incumbent Protection Agency.
A year of Linux has already happened. You missed it
> Of course unquantifiable (psychic) profits are different and unrelated. Value and profits are not the same thing

Then perhaps you should stop asserting that "There is nothing wrong with pursuing profits", as you apparently are well aware that increased profits and increased value do not necessarily coincide?
I'll give you the first two, but surely native apps can have more access to data stored on the device than a website can. And can do more damage, too.
The idea has been to use the naive (in the sense of being distribution agnostic) batched interface to filling/querying Elemental's distributed data structures to interface with Julia's `DArray`. This essentially boils down to one all-to-all communication of the row, column, and values of each update and should have a runtime that looks like O(n^2/p) + O(p) for n x n matrices over p processes. Ideally one performs such redistributions as few times as possible if wanting to use routines that only require quadratic work or less (such as matrix-vector multiplication); for dense factorizations the overhead should be reasonably ignorable.