skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Company survival does not imply job survival
So does this mean I'll get even more of those annoying messages about adding notifications like in Safari?
I can't believe how excited I am about this.

My only apprehension is will the big vendors not push to their competition? Like will GMail push to IE, Firefox, and Safari and vice versa?
> unknowingly driving in the 'premium' fee lane

Where do yo live? i've never heard of such a thing.
just gugel it
Some studies showing effects of higher wealth on people below. Not perfect, and e.g. the simple correlation between unethical and law breaking is naive, but it's some data.

tl;dr: "Abtract: Seven studies using experimental and naturalistic methods reveal that upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals. In studies 1 and 2, upper-class individuals were more likely to break the law while driving, relative to lower-class individuals. In follow-up laboratory studies, upper-class individuals were more likely to exhibit unethical decision-making tendencies (study 3), take valued goods from others (study 4), lie in a negotiation (study 5), cheat to increase their chances of winning a prize (study 6), and endorse unethical behavior at work (study 7) than were lower-class individuals. Mediator and moderator data demonstrated that upper-class individuals’ unethical tendencies are accounted for, in part, by their more favorable attitudes toward greed."

http://www.pnas.org/content/109/11/4086.short

One weird thing- these and some other studies I have read support poorer people have more empathy/make more eye contact in conversation and pay more attention to conversation partners/etc. Why then does that group seem on the whole to have more antagonism towards wealthier people (than vice versa)?
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But I still do all of my math on pen and paper
This looks great! I like the Comment section. I might steal that idea
The entire narrative is around expanding coverage and reducing costs, which invariably means paying doctors less, not more, for the same work.

Or creating new technology. I wonder just how much spending has been headed off by pneumonia vaccines. Not that a single treatment like that will make a noticeable dent in demand, but at least it usually comes with a good improvement in outcomes.
Very good point.

However, even if the attacker MITMs an HTTP request that would have been redirected, for a site that didn't use HSTS, they won't get cookies marked "secure", and they won't get permissions that require HTTPS. So the browser mechanism limiting those permissions to HTTPS still works even in that case, though the user and site both have other problems.
This could be RSS feeds without needing an RSS feedreader. Sites you are interested in could just send you updates when they have something you might find interesting. Click it open in a tab and read at your leisure.
Check this out: http://filecoin.io/

It's a cryptocurrency where you have to prove that you are retaining a copy of a file. Whitepaper included.

These people are also behind IPFS, the distributed alternative to HTTP (ambitious, huh?)
The detail you're missing is that these hashes bitcoin computes are designed to be something easy to verify but hard to compute. Relatively few productive problems have this property, and there are some which are doing this already, trying to crack proof RSA keys and such... but that's about it.
Thanks, they really need to write a simple summary at the very top that anyone could understand. I guess it's really their first time trying to share something (as far as I know) so they must be accustomed to speaking business lingo.
There is the local (domestic) perspective and the global perspective.

Globalization results in a move towards global equilibrium so that locales with low cost workers will see improved financials and economics for their workforce, locales with high cost medium skills workers will see a decline in economic and financial outlook.

The question, is what's best overall for the global workforce versus what's best for the local/domestic workforce.

Does the EU, Japan and the US among others "owe" third world nations offshoring ensuring they, emerging econs, kick start their economies?

The first world could form a cartel of sorts keep all progress to themselves, ensuring third work countries remain poor but also ensuring their own progress is stunted perhaps net negative.

Could or should the first world and advanced economies provide some work insurance to their low and medium skill workforce? If they can afford it, why not?
I'm personally lukewarm on NH. My general take is that their foundation of freedom heavily skews towards dismantling local organization while tacitly approving larger power concentrations.

I'd obviously welcome any pushback against USG or private surveillance, it just feels more likely they'll destroy more municipal services. While everyone having a generator is self-reliant and robust, it's also indicative of infrastructure collapse.
Apple Reports Slowing Growth in iPhone Sales
Current movements - sure. Praise actions, not the company. Companies change.
Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results, Slowing Growth in iPhone Sales
Except for taxi drivers.
Awesome! Are any of these scripts available on Github? I'd love to take a look and possibly re-use them (especially website stats).
Thank you for the feedback. It was a weekend project, and yes I'm using a yeoman generator for the angular project.
I'm using KOA just as a thin web server and also as a proxy to cache the images.
The main problem is viewing the wealth inequality as a state instead of an outcome. The problem is not in the inequality in itself but in the process and environement that result in the inequality. A country with higher inequality is very likely one where opportunities and power are inequal.

(And to address a comment I read about inequality being a reflection of ability and efficiency: I think we're better off with some inneficiency if it means more people have control over their lives. No, farm lands should not go to the most efficient farmers. It should be spread to distribute the most well-being to the most people.)
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Over 40% of UK Security Breaches in 2015 Involved Ransomware, Study Finds
The privacy issue isn't about you being identified as someone who has an outstanding fine to pay. The privacy issue is that the readers are collecting and storing data about EVERY vehicle on the road. That data is then used not only by the police, but also by a third party private company that can do with it as they will. As the article clearly states it is entirely possible to extrapolate where a person goes to the dentist/doctor/work/sleep/etc from this data. And, to top it all off, the private company that receives the data reserves the right to keep the data for as long as it is 'commercially viable' to do so... i.e. as long as there's someone else out there willing to pay them for it.

I'd call that a pretty major issue.
When I saw Day 1 was OpenRefine, I figured that was because they didn't want to teach this crowd programming, a perfectly fine decision.

But then they go and teach them Python anyways? If you're gonna do that, why not skip OpenRefine and teach them numpy/scipy/pandas/matplotlib for analysis and visualization?
it's looks like just control panel for all your clouds. If you have only aws, i don't see any profit of using this.
Ask HN: Weather forecast in your email daily
The problem:
When I wake up, I check my email. Then I get ready. By the time I wonder what the weather is and look it up, it feels like I've missed the opportunity to prepare for it (ideal time to prepare: As I'm getting ready for work).

I want to get a simple email everyday with the weather for the day and an hourly or every 4 hour forecast so I can see if it will get cooler or hotter as the day goes. Any rain.

I don't want any ads or too much information, just a simple highs/lows and a forecast...similar to weathertron (http://media.148apps.com/screenshots/660925162/us-iphone-1-weathertron-live-rain-snow-clouds-and-temperatures.jpeg)

Is there anything that already exists like this?

Solutions I've tried:
- Weather apps: On firing up the app, takes a few milliseconds to fetch the weather. ( I find this annoying for some reason).

- Google calendar which shows the weather each day, but I don't view my calendar in the morning as I get a daily email about my appts for the day in my inbox.

- Saw the free weather in your email sites: lots of ads in the email. I understand it's a free service so ads make sense but I find them distracting.

I'd interested in how other HNers have hacked this issue.
or the township elects to post artificially low speed limits to collect fines from the passerbys

Like the ones in Olney, Maryland: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2015/06/1...
Nope, you're thinking a one level too low in the stack.

The issue is that each object is a reference, and because it's a reference it's position in memory is by nature ambiguous(compacting GCs make this even worse by moving things around).

Until you can guarantee memory location you don't know that the N+1 object you're going to access is in the same cache line(or prefetched) and any sort of cache optimization is shot to hell. Only by knowing your standard execution flow and data set size can you write code that's as efficient about cache misses as possible.

Hotspot only tends to focus on tight inner loops where the stuff I'm talking about involves looking at the larger program(and the structures you choose to put data into). Think Structure of Arrays(SoA) rather than Arrays of Structures(AoS). Possible to do in Java, but very painful.
Anecdotally, I am aware that many in my family who developed alzheimer's (it runs on both side of my family) has surgery a few years before the disease started to present itself. Though the likelihood of there being much of a connection seems far fetched, even with this latest evidence, I have suddenly become much more concerned about going under the knife until this is all worked out. The grafts I get, but that proteins lingering on equipment, which isn't ordinarily removed through standard sterilization, could be a means of transmission... scary.
Well, can't say I disagree. There is no way I could be a maintainer of a reasonably popular project like Hapi. People are just too terrible. Especially software people.
I've put it on my list. Glad to see the amazing feedback. I'll make sure I will add more features in the near future.
Yea, I know. Been on the platform for 2 years. This is AFTER that wait period.
> It takes close to 90 MB of RAM just to start.

A minimal Python app on my machine takes 6MB RAM.
"This is the same Microsoft that writes more apps with better user experiences for iOS and Android than it does for Windows Mobile 8 and so far 10."

To be fair, that's where the users are, and that's how they make their money.
Artificial intelligence leader Marvin Minsky dies at 88
You also go to jail for being too poor to pay the fine for failing to signal.

Now, you might say that not doing so would just incentivise poor people to not ever obey traffic law... In which case I would have to ask - what incentive does a billionaire have to ever obey traffic law?
I agree that'd be cool, but _only_ in a hyper-local context like a physical library. I don't think I care about meeting the enormously distributed group of people buying similar books on Amazon.
That's funny. The firebase database I'm using it's the public Hacker News API. Should not have this limitation
Game theory. If you think you might in the future be threatened by an extortionist, you're better off if you can remove your ability to pay because then they won't have the incentive to extort you in the first place, and so they won't. The same principle applies here. You get an additional option in a bad scenario, but it makes you much more likely to end up in that scenario in the first place.
Removing “apologize to customers for downtime” from the schema change process
We don't live in meritocracies.
New distributed currency system sponsored by the NSA: breaking RSA keys for profit.
Asia-Pacific pact will boost US exports, wages, report says
I think it's great that Walmart is posting OS libs, but this page design could use some TLC.
Sunshine delivers exactly what you are looking for on iOS. You set up a time and a location (like, 7:30am, for "Work address") and you will receive a notification in the morning that describes the weather for you. It takes into account your personal comfort zone (what temperature range feels comfortable to you) and uses your Work address instead of just your current location.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sunshineo/id959396618?mt=8

And more info on https://thesunshine.co
When I needed to create some pixel art for my last game, Antigen, I used DPaint 4 running on an emulator. I still hit DPaint keyboard shortcuts by accident in Photoshop.
Tickets should not be used for profit generation. It's a form of punishment and determent.

Plus, for how long +25%? For the time it paid off the system or perpetually? Is there a price on other "commercial" usage of collected data?
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There's no reason this has to be strapped to your face. You could build for a tablet and mount it as your dash. I'm sure this has been done to death already
[Shameless plug. I'd tried to write about this as well.]

We got into this journey for humble reasons: So that we don’t have to worry about surviving. So that we could take care of things once and for all.

What does it mean then, if that is what’s really disconnecting? This cheap sense of comfort, and not having to care about unfairness?

https://medium.com/@pierre.flying.squirrel/on-inequality-1e7...
In New Zealand the law requires any child under the age of 14 to have supervision. This can include anyone above the age of 14, provided adequate care is given.
Python lacks the tail recursion optimizations common in functional languages like lisp. Seems like the language designers favor iteration instead of recursion, because recursion is limited to a depth of ~1000 on the default implementation (see sys.getrecursionlimit).

It is always possible to convert recursive into iterative, and most of the time doing so is trivial. I recommend doing this unless your algorithm is O(log n) or better.
I am not questioning the moral aspect of it, but technically speaking three events happened.

1) Disney decided to outsource a project (a program? entire department?) to Cognizant.

2) Cognizant brought their own staffers onto the project, those staffers were brought into the US on an H1 program.

3) Disney included mandatory training of Cognizant employees into severance package of their departing employees.

Neither (1), (2) or (3) are illegal by themselves.

The outcome of 1+2+3 suggests there might have been fraud happening at stage 2, where Cognizant had to prove to US Department of Labor that they could not find an appropriate US resident to take the job and that they were paying the prevailing rate.

Considering Cognizant received an approval on H1 visas, they must've indeed advertised for the job paying prevailing wage and found no one. The loophole seemed to allow them to advertise for an opening in the city they're incorporated (Teaneck, NJ) for prevailing wage in Teaneck, NJ, which might (or might not) be the prevailing wage in Burbank, CA or Anaheim, CA.

What do you expect the court to do in this scenario? Forbid Disney (and related companies) from outsourcing anything in the future? Forbid New Jersey contractors from winning contracts in California and bringing their consultants on-site? Forbid Disney (and companies in similar situation) from including mandatory training into severance packages? Mandate H1 employees are bound not only to the employer in question but specific geographic location they were hired for, so a New Jersey employee is forbidden from working on a project in a different state?

Each one of those decisions has some unintended consequences when you look at the larger picture than Disney+Cognizant.
PyInstaller, Py2exe.
@wanda Great list! I already know couple of those, but they have the same thing in common, it's just a list with a link.
I've tried to offer the user a little bit mode insight into the page, by providing a preview.
Hope you will put my implementation to your list :)
I'm not sure if that's something that he wrote or you wrote, but a `sum` function which has a side-effect of emptying its input list seems like a terrible thing. I hope you wouldn't use that in production.
Oh! Good call.

Below is kind of "my story" in a way. I'm going to put up a medium article with the full thing. :)

http://hi.remotetogether.com/t/remotetogether-why-now/20
>Color and terminal graphics are the work of the devil.

Or you know, it's 2016, and it's npm who does it badly.
This exist in one city I lived for a while in Canada. It was quite annoying, but after 8 tickets or so, I learnt to drive within speed limit.

The system was quite robust and nobody seems to have really bad things to say about it, other than curses when receiving a ticket in the mail.
Could it be linked with the terminal being used?

Edit, reminds me of this, which is why I'm wondering http://stackoverflow.com/q/21947452/923847
Why doesn't anyone ask why kids in China, Korea, India etc. don't 'disengage' from math as easily as American kids?
Hey, I help make YesGraph!

This is exciting because of what YesGraph's social graph backend can get done. We can cross polinate data from your Android app to your iOS app, and vice versa.

We're starting to do the heavy lifting normally only LinkedIn and Facebook could afford to do. It's also a huge machine learning problem, which is what we spend most of our time working on.
This article is garbage.

This quote:

> Spread by mosquitoes whose range inexorably expands as the climate warms

is the only claim that Zika has anything to do with climate change. And it is extremely tenuous: are we just supposed to infer that Brazil had significantly fewer mosquitoes before the industrial revolution?

> And now think about the larger, less intimate consequences: this is one more step in the division of the world into relative safe and dangerous zones, an emerging epidemiological apartheid.

This has been true my entire life, and far moreso in the lives of older generations. There were regions of the United States people were reluctant to go to out of fear of Malaria and Polio.

But the lack of any support for a factual connection doesn't stop them from the real point of the article: moralistic finger wagging:

> But America is rich enough to avoid the worst of the mess its fossil fuel habits have helped create.

OK, sure, maybe industrialized nations did fuck up the planet's ecology. But poorly thought out appeals to emotion aren't what's going to save it.
By our own I meant family, I do not think it is a social fiction as human beings are born helpless and would just die if there is no family to take care of them. I do not mean family from a cultural perspective, I mean family from a biological perspective.

Now, my comment may sound silly to you because we are comparing apples to floppy disks.

Have you read GED? One interesting understanding I gather from that book is the concept of "levels of meaning". His example goes along these lines: an ant colony seems to act with intelligence from our point of view but such interpretation is out grasp from an ant's perspective; though a smart ant could imagine the colony viewed from above! Therefore, what you call social fictions have a meaning in the layer we all call society and if such layer was our only reality I would definitely agree with any moral argument against Globalization and Capitalism. But if you just move one layer above, if you switch your perspective a bit higher and see our species interacting with millions of other species in a planet with a certain expiration date: morality has no meaning. In that layer of meaning, the goal of each and all species is one: survival. This ecosystem couldn't care less if we leave the economically poor behind.

In conclusion, I was commenting from a layer above, you replied from a layer below. If we both speak on the same layer most likely we would agree. If we speak from different layers (perspectives) time is lost.

Now, speaking from my perspective, my best guess is that we humans are evolving from bio to bit. We know now the planet will be gone and at some point we would want to leave looking for a new home. These bodies are not the ideal spaceship. A computer is a good alternative. The drive to evolve and develop the technologies that will make this space trip happen may be out of the control of ourselves and our consciousness. It may be genes programmed to do so. It may be bacteria in our guts driving us to do so. I do not know. However, it seems that whatever the social system we invent on the layer below in order to keep us ruled and moving forward, that invented system simply responds to a higher drive.
> dailymail.co.uk

If the Daily Mail published an article saying that snow is white, I would check the next winter in case I've been wrong all these years.

In the present case, even if it weren't an issue perfectly calibrated to suit the Daily Mail's preferred varieties of shit-stirring, that 15x figure should cause doubt. Those immigrants would have to be impossibly rapey, or else the previous inhabitants (even though some of them were presumably immigrants) would have to be startlingly un-rapey.

A more likely hypothesis is that something else changed; perhaps the Swedish authorities changed where they draw the boundaries between rape and other sexual assaults? Or perhaps some procedural change has made Swedes more willing to make accusations of rape? I can think of several other hypotheses, all of them more likely than that immigration made the rate of rapes go up by 15x.

So, let's look a bit further. First of all: this comparison is between 1975 and 2014. Forty years is a long time, and many things have happened in Sweden (and everywhere else) since 1975. Why blame it on immigration? Well, because someone wants to blame it on immigration, so far as I can tell.

Well. Did Sweden change its definition of rape, or its treatment of people who report rape, or its thoroughness in collecting statistics, or anything of the sort, since 1975? Yes, apparently they did. For instance, near the start of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_Sweden you will find this: "Sweden reformed its sex crime legislation and made the legal definition of rape much wider in 2005, which largely explains a significant increase in the number of reported rapes in the ten-year period of 2004-2013."

And, a little further down, this: "Sweden also applies a system of expansive offence counts. Other countries may employ more restrictive methods of counting. The Swedish police registers one offence for each person raped, and if one and the same person has been raped on a number of occasions, one offence is counted for each occasion that can be specified. For example, if a woman says she has been raped by her husband every day during a year, the Swedish police may record more than 300 cases of rape."

I know you've got a data-science background. Put on your analyst's hat for a moment and think about that claim of a 15x increase. Do you really find it credible? At all?

There may indeed be lies being told about immigrants and crime. I would not advise you to assume that they're all coming from the same side.
I'd be cautious about relying on anecdotal data here. This may be a bit like the "my kid got autism after vaccines" confirmation bias issue - as people get older, they're more likely to need surgical interventions.