skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it is a given there really is a market for such devices

Reason? From the situation you describe, it is just a small step to "store everything in the cloud; authenticate with your phone" (most locations with a keyboard, mouse, and monitor that people who can afford a fast phone will visit will have fast internet connections, and will easily have the 10W power budget needed to beat your phone, performance-wise)

You would have to trust the hardware you use, but you have to, anyways, the moment you plug a modern keyboard or monitor into your phone.

Yes, you would be ensured that the software you use on your phone is compatible with the software you use on your 'desktop' because it is the same software, but you also run the risk that it is suboptimal for either (the fonts may be too big for power desktop use, or you might need a pen for manipulating some not-too-often-used controls), and in the 'use phone to authenticate' scenario, you run less risk of running your phone's battery dry.
Policy enforcement and law automation -

It's ridiculous that we spend so much money and time dealing with legal issues - both in terms of creating new laws, and in terms of enforcing those laws. Because of the delineation between those who create laws and those who enforce them, we came up with a way of encoding law so as to avoid misinterpretation errors. What if we were to automate the enforcement by programming law into a computer rather than writing down the rules in a book? How would we go about accomplishing that? Would we always struggle because computers lack "empathy"? Is there a middle way that automates 90% of the cases while retaining some human control?
Good point. For that that situation you would want to use something like UTC (or TAI). It is the duration from the starting point that we care about, not the future date.
Nope but great value for people who want to drive political agenda's - mainly to increase the so called "rift" between US and Israel (which always spied on each other mainly because US interests in the middle east almost always directly oppose the ones of Israel) and to "embarrass" the US even further which is something that a large portion of the Intercept's readership wants as it seems.
Umbrage Against the Machine – The Return of Humans
Voting is very broken. You only do it once a year, for candidates with 2,4,6-year terms. Even if the voting machines aren't hacked the political machines are: it's expensive to run, and tons of interest groups have to be appeased.

Social media is quickly becoming a powerful parapolitical means for distributing resources, but it's also broken. It's subject to balkanization, waves of outrage and other attention span-related problems, and authentication is hard.

Figuring out how to improve democratic resource management for even small (<10k pop) communities would be an interesting problem.
> The Russians don't rely as much combat air support -

Russia is not using aircraft in Ukraine because regular Russian military is not "technically" there. It's kinda hard to deny your presence if your planes are bombing the country. Most of Ukraine's meager air fleet was grounded in the beginning of conflict so that whole thing turned into artillery war.

On another hand take a look at Syria. Pretty much everything Russia does there is air support.
Until Google shutters it?
Here's a video of the machine in operation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o3uejzyILY
10 industries that will be disrupted by Virtual / Augmented Reality
Its name refers to its office location in northwest Washington, D.C., on 18th and F Streets.
Great project! Now I can play with canvas :)
Tool by Tool, Skill by Skill (Wood Hacking)
I think https://www.teamwork.com/ covers most of your check boxes if not all. It is a fairly powerful project management tool, similar to Basecamp but with quite a few more features. I haven't used the time tracking features included, but they do exist.

Our company uses a combination of Teamwork (for general project management and task management) and Harvest for time tracking and invoicing.
Great piece by John Oliver. I wonder what it feels like to work for those companies..

Lives were surely ruined by this.. how do you sleep with that.
Thanks. So implied is that the information the Americans got isn't really that valuable , right?
This soundtrack is burnt in my brain.

Great memories
As far as I know they try to deny self-promotion because it leads to a flood of people posting crappy content because it will make them money, rather than good content because it is good.

It's definitely sometimes difficult to enforce & sometimes poorly enforced.
We haven't had a traveler yet that has had to pay for import duties or taxes.
I think a good indication of a bubble is measuring the IT job market using Craiglist and Dice job postings.

I'd like to ask you all about what you've experienced & seen on Craiglist and Dice that would give you an idea on how good or bad the IT job market in San Francisco (and the Bay Area in general) is or was. I hear conflicting stories of qualified people not able to find jobs after a year of searching (like the SOAP architect below) and on the flip side, of companies not able to find people (the so-called 'IT talent shortage').

I used both websites on & off since the late 90s to find contract & permanent full-time jobs. Back then at the height of the dot-coms, the Dice home page showed 120,000+ jobs, right after the crash (2001-2003) that number fell to around 20,000-30,000. Now it's around 80,000.

On Craigslist, at the dot com height, the Software section for the Bay Area (https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sof) had so many job postings per day that the list of postings for that day would spill over to the next page (there are 100 listings per page). A year & a half ago (late 2014) there was a good amount of postings and I got a frenzy of replies when I contacted them. Now, there's only a handful of postings per day.

I think it'd be good to get an idea of SF/SV IT job market's fluctuation over the years by compiling these data points. I did a Google search for charts with these data points but couldn't find any. If any of you used these two sites anytime from the late 90s to today and remember the # of postings for that specific date or time period, please post. Ideally, month to month data with high interest on data points from 1999-2003 (dot-com bubble) and 2006 to today (credit bubble).
While not trying to give offense, this service can easily be seen as taking advantage of the desperate, uninformed and/or gullible.

For your sake I hope you are very explicitly informing your couriers about the risks associated with carrying parcels for you and that you are seeking and getting informed consent.

Any other case and you are a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Hubris and Humility: Gender Differences in Serial Founding Rates
It's usually recommended. Source maps help you still find right line numbers and test changes, while minification+concatenation lets you write CSS across many files without worrying about HTTP requests.

Do note this practice may be discouraged as HTTP2 gains wider adoption.
I think the way to understand design aesthetics would be to investigate actual languages. Probably the place to start is with languages that where people talk about the design. Go, Ruby, Clojure, Perl 6, Forth, Scala come to mind as languages where I've heard their primary developer talk about design aesthetics in particular.

Good luck.
I guess I'm bad at CSS/SASS, but I must be missing something.

Maybe context.
Anyone know how this news affects uBeam?
Node modules as Webpack externals
The Open University has a beginner's introduction to Babylonian Mathematics

http://www.open.edu/openlearn/ocw/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=...

Edit: Here's an audio interview with Mathieu Ossendrijver on this research. The interview starts at the 20:30 mark

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03g0d7b
What popular platforms don't deal with app URIs well?
This is not true. Employers don't have to show that they went out looking for US workers when filing for H1

Yes, they do. They need to show proof of having advertised the job somewhere. At least, I've been through this process three times, with three different lawyers, and we've done it every time.
Also https://backendless.com/
Hm I think less realistic for any major open source project...too many external players who have a stake
Ummm...all of the "conventions" about increasing block size had 5 people from China representing more than 90% of all successfully mined blocks. They won't let the block size increase because then it'd be too hard to get them across the Great Firewall.

China is currently an issue and the network won't route around them.
Someone write cssfmt and put it to rest.
Our office has been using the Lorell Exec High-Back for the last couple years and so far we've had no complaints. Before we got these, we had a lot of complaints... Price is very reasonable at $155.00 shipped from Amazon if you have Prime. http://www.amazon.com/Lorell-High-Back-Swivel-Chair-x28-1/dp...
>Net neutrality means no preferential treatment for any traffic.

I want low latency, low bandwidth for VOIP. I'm fine with high bandwidth, high latency for file transfers. As such I don't think such a simple statement is useful or practical (or even used by anyone).
I've always heard the reddit experience is far superior in the low-key, non-default, not-too-popular subs.
Unfortunately, if the changes you propose are implemented then that means a lot of H1Bs will lose their jobs.

This is true - but there's no need to apply it retroactively. You can just change the regulations for the next batch of H1B participants in 2017 - the visa only lasts six years anyway.
It's still better than Facebook, which groups you together with the people you know in real life, whether you share common interests or not. At least on Reddit you can sequester yourself to topic-related subs and stay away from the defaults. I've learned many useful things from the smaller, more specific subs, which are somewhat shielded from the cynicism of the larger subs (although there are still asshats, it is the internet after all).
The Past, Present and Future of Design Tools
If they did season-long paid sports, everyone would have to be okay with it since they'd be explicitly legal.. ESPN / Yahoo / CBS all have leagues without issue. I don't think DK/FD can afford to do the season-long versions without significant layoffs and restructuring, they're set up like European gambling houses in terms of staffing and advertising, neither of which are as useful for season-long versions.
SENS, first.

Then maybe human gut microbiota and their links to allergies, digestive problems, and mental health.
How NBA shoe endorsement deals actually work
Thanks for the response! That's exactly what I had in mind re: ability to order problems at a more granular level. Didn't realize that arbitrary attributes are supported, that's great
How do your customers feel about your couriers unboxing their iPads, activating them and taking a screwdriver to them to make sure they don't contain anything nasty?

How is it even possible for your couriers to fully inspect the items if they come in your sealed package?
>Reddit is the worst.

Reddit is the best.

In fact, now when I'm searching for random terms or information, I'll often include "reddit" in the query, because I'm confident that on pretty much any subject there are bona fide experts or people who have already done the research willingly sharing their knowledge on Reddit, for free. Wonderful.
A High School Physics Teacher Turns Telescope Repairwoman–at the South Pole
Great marketplace! Now why is it so damn hard to sign up to do government contracts on this crappy website?

https://www.sam.gov/portal/SAM/##11#1
https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/SpiderLabs-Blog/(Updated...

My guess is strategies like this but it isn't clear. [e.g. Requests designed to slow/increase the processing per-request to create a log jam at the web application level ]
Alternative currencies independent of central banks.
Great article!

Here's a question: What other books that were written for a popular audience (or that achieved a largely popular audience) also served as works that affected science itself? E.g. the article talks about The Selfish Gene being both a pop-sci book, but also a book that profoundly changed the field of Evolution.

Are there other good examples?
> Reddit is run by a bunch of leeches who rely on moderators to create content and never reward them.

I think sites like Reddit emerged at a point where infrastructure for sharing was very valuable for users in its own right. It seems amazing now that the submit/upvote/downvote flow was so novel and we all lapped up the spirit of freedom. But actually the powerful feature of sites like Reddit and HN is the moderation rather than the technology. I would pay for some of the better subs, and certainly HN.

Good moderation is invaluable and it's a shame that it is hard to make money out of. I have a hunch that Google Contributor is aimed at this market as a sort of Netflix for content.
Podcast: Fly Girls
What would you have preferred? The Forward-Looking User-Experience-Focused Group -- FLUEF for short?

I mean, I never would have guessed that Apple would be a major computer vender. Or that Sears would be a store. Or that Kellogg would be a food company. Things get stuck with opaque-looking names all the time, if you don't know the history behind them.
The problem with that is that it would immediately prioritise areas with a high cost of living - San Francisco, New York, etc.
Better way of sharing the state of the world (upgraded news sites and/or journals) -

If you open newyork times or any news website, its clear that they are stuck in the 19th century. They are organized on the basis of time rather than on topics/people/metrics. What if we have a news website that's actually a dashboard? It can

- Highlight the current metrics of the world - crime/stocks/happiness/weather, etc.,
- Highlight the currently active topics and people - what's happening/what did people say, etc.,
- Journal the world in different axis - geographical, temporal, personal, emotional, national, topical, cultural, etc., And let people see the trends in each of these dimensions.

How does such a thing look like? How does journalism evolve in that kind of a world?
As my math phd adviser once told me, 'Those who do not understand homology are doomed to reinvent it.'
>Layer 7 attacks are the new hotness in DDoS

Maybe 10 years ago.

>Fundamentally, layer 3/4 are usually amplification. Those are still effective, and very efficient for the attacker, but they will someday (5y? 10y?) be blocked by closing up sources amplification. Address spoofing address at layer 3/4 might get addressed by BCP 38, Vixie's good fight, etc., but not holding my breath.

Sending "raw" UDP floods from bots still has several benefits over amplification attacks provided you can amass enough bandwidth, which isn't that difficult these days.

>By the time all that happens, attackers will have moved on to layer 7 attacks. Those can target the weakest parts of your stack, and with a large botnet, even the act of blocking the IPs in the wrong place can add enough overhead to hurt. With a huge botnet of hijacked browsers, blocking everyone affected becomes a DoS vector in itself, since some of those are your own legitimate attacks.

Unlikely, it'll take a fundamental change on how networks work for network layer attacks to become irrelevant. Especially considering volumetric attacks have the added benefit of potentially getting your target kicked off by their hosts and causing added damage in BW bills. And as internet connections become faster, DDoS attacks become bigger.
I enjoyed your phrase "often said to be unhealthy."

I'm glad the nutrition field is willing to admit errors and update guidance. I'm a little disappointed with the high frequency.

I did 30 seconds of research, and found out dietitian and nutritionist are not synonyms. Dietitians seem to use nutrition to achieve specific medical or performance outcomes. In that context, it makes sense to have lots of changes as the bleeding edge advances.
> Couldn't be, Babbage never finished it, switched to the Analytical Engine (burning his government funding bridges) and never finished that either.

And thus the computer industry was born.
These are not my claims, they are taken from Israeli sources. They probably have there own interests too.

The only event I found from 2012 is labeled as 'regular collects of Heron TP carrying weapons' I'm not sure what it means.
I mean, that's cool. It'd be interesting if the article mentioned how much they made from selling their home. They could have sold their house underwater and are still servicing their old mortgage too. We don't know from the article what the story is.

Suppose they made money and have a million in the bank, how long can they ride on that before they have to pack it in and move back to a place where they can get jobs? What about their kid's future expenses, how are those sorted out?

The article mentions a couple things about their B&B:

- 3 rooms

- they get overflow from other B&Bs, not their own business.

- they only operate during the summer

So that puts an upper limit to what they can earn from that.

Going rate for Milford, ON B&B is about $200/night.

That's about $600/day. That's $54k/year before costs assuming full occupancy 7 days per week during the in-season.
Unencrypted transmissions are easily received by scanners (note, though, that older scanners can't pick up P25) -- they aren't cheap, though (I think mine was ~$450 USD). In my area, one local police department is the only agency that has chosen to encrypt their communications.

It is, supposedly, also possible to pick up P25 using RTL-SDRs, though I've never tried so I can't say for certain.
What about items that you can only buy online?

Even if you do meet some of the vendors, how is that going to help? All it takes is one black hat in the delivery chain and you are toast.
Show HN: Git-vendor, manage dependencies with git-subtree
It's interesting that this time around the bids didn't bottom out at the min. All but one are in the $300-$500 range. The first time they tried this the winning bid was one (1) dollar[1].

[1]: https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/11/06/micro-purchase-lessons/
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So you'd also prefer

if wrapper and header:
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if wrapper and body:
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to

if wrapper:
if header:
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if body:
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when coding?
He's not suggesting that.

He's suggesting that the correct solution (recursive descent parser) is not inherently hard, but CoffeeScript makes it hard enough that people reach for less good approaches.
>If it's already a pop culture topic, like Tesla or Netflix, the topics will drive interest and thereby upvotes.

And HN is different...how exactly? There's a definite air of superiority here, but I don't find the commentary any more insightful. Besides, "reddit" isn't a single entity.
I think someone posted this on another thread somewhere (and sorry I could not dig it back up). With MongoLab and Google Cloud Platform, I literally just re-specified the Parse App ID and Keys and got the Parser server up and running in matter of minutes: https://cloud.google.com/nodejs/resources/frameworks/parse-s...
Yes, with limitation on quite a few things now. But it's a good start.

Next thing to explore is how to scale this thing out.
The endurance of borders and the nation states they seal is an issue of cultural and political inertia, much more than an issue of finding the optimal economic policy to allow them to open up.

Frankly, and somewhat sadly I might add, I think even if you somehow proved - proved - to a nation's voting population that they would be better off economically (in aggregate) by opening their borders, the perceived cultural and political effects of such a policy would prevent it from ever passing into law through any democratic process. Culture and politics are intertwined in a feedback loop, and it will take many more generations to have grown up in the globalised, internet and cheap-air-travel connected world, where almost every person interacts with, makes friends with, works and does business with people all over the world, for this default to finally go away - only when it does can we ever hope for an open borders policy to even be a remote possibility politically.

With that said, I think aiming directly for an open borders policy might be missing the wood for the trees slightly. Might I instead suggest that we pile research resources and efforts into things like better remote working technology, practices and protocol that might eliminate many of the problems (certainly not all - and mostly economic - but many) that an open border policy should aim to solve in the first place?

In my view the world would be a much better place if we did simply have an open-borders policy throughout much of it, but we can get a very long way towards that goal by allowing people to work from anywhere, for anyone, in a completely effective manner. Not only will this actually solve some of the problems that you talk about a lot more quickly and easily, it should have the effect of flattening out the global distribution of wealth somewhat, such that open borders actually do become more palatable politically, simply because the figurative pressure on the borders of the wealthiest nations would be reduced significantly.

In other words, open borders is not something that can ever happen all at once as a result of a policy change. No matter how much research we do into those policies, they just won't succeed politically as a step change. Rather, it's a positive feedback loop of gradual cultural and political change that has to start somewhere. In many ways of course it's already begun, because of the internet, and I believe the next stage to chase is better, really effective, remote working. I think that's where research effort towards the solving the problems you talk about would be most effectively invested.
Lem! And, uh, you know...
On the origin of species by Charles Darwin
> I checked the Steam Store page and it seems .. to be not my thing. ... Can someone explain why 'The Witness' is interesting?

If it's truly not your thing, then you won't understand why it's interesting. If it is your thing, then it's very, very, very interesting.

ROT13'd probably-spoiler-free-but-maybe-contains-tiny-spoilers overview of what makes the game good follows:

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This has nothing to do with techniques. This has to do with what those techniques are used to create.

For instance. The difference in taste between a tomato I get in my already overpriced but well stocked supermarket here in NY and the tomato I pick up from a local farmer nearby is night and day.

One of them can litterally stand on it's own the other is bland and tasteless. They cost around the same.

The problem become when optimization get higher priorities than the result of the optimization.

I am well aware that there are many reasons why we don't want 100% organic farming unless we can do it at scale like conventional farming, but currently the difference in taste is night and day and if you care about that then it's a big deal and techniques can be used to fix it.
Thanks, that's good to know. :)
So only small ticket items then? Or have your couriers been smuggling in the stuff? ;)