skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I presented on this three years ago to the state government here in Michigan. It makes far more sense for the state's to do this than the Feds.

Why should there be fifty different software programs to register for a state campground? Or deal with the DMV? When the Feds pass a new law some contractor ends up writing the same software fifty different times for each individual state with small differences.

I believe the key is to have a plug in architecture, like WordPress, that allow each state to adopt the program for their individual laws. I think the savings could be tremendous and its entirely possible with multiple states collaborating the software could be continually improved.

I failed to convince them that day but I think the tide is turning.
Least surprising news ever.
Ask HN: Crowd research ideas with Panama Papers
With 2.6 terabytes of data, I wonder how any data scientists would go about analyzing all of it. Are there any cool computer vision, NLP, metadata, or graph things that could be done publicly? Is anyone interested in doing this?
Paper and pencil/pen.
Relatedly, does anyone have a sense of how far out we are from consumer-grade haptic-feedback touchscreens?

Seems like the obvious next step.
It's possibly an oblique reference to one Lord Greville Janner, who was accused of child abuse by numerous witnesses, but was spared a trial because of advanced dementia - even though he'd been voting in the House of Lords and attending committee meetings.

Tragically, Janner died not long after he was declared unfit to plead. Even more tragically, it was decided the public interest would not be served by a trial of fact which would put evidence from witnesses and alleged victims on the record without aiming for a conviction.

Wikipedia has more of the story:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greville_Janner
I wonder how many drivers actually learn their controls that well. Anecdotally (which I realize is worthless, I just don't have anything better to go on) I see a lot of drivers taking their eyes off the road to look at physical buttons, and I was even in a crash where the driver just drove off the road while fiddling with the radio.
That any new release is not to be trusted.
Gmail is anything but static. Once it loads all the scripts and your email data, it doesn't reload the page, it's almost a one-page app. You can do all kinds of things - search, compose, send, label, chat, receive video calls, make phone calls, etc.

I will agree with one thing though - they could make the initial inbox loading faster, much faster, but you would be limited to just that.
In Most of Canada and a lot of northern states, if you have no insulation then you soon won't have indoor plumbing, but you'll have a nice ice skating rink in your house.
Many sources online say those are the batteries that Tesla uses. Panasonic NCR18650Bs, and before that, Panasonic NCR18650As. Same as you buy on Amazon.

This guy did a teardown[0] and did a single-cell discharge test and got a little under 3Ah.[1]

[0] https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/pics-info-inside-the...

[1] https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/pics-info-inside-the...
That's more in the realm of LibGen, which is related but not exactly the same site.
Man, I'm not one to judge on appearance, but Jürgen Mossack has got to be the most stereotypical "I-am-an-evil-Nazi" face I've ever seen. I feel comfortable saying this given that his father was in the Waffen-SS.

"Mossack’s holdings, according to the files obtained by ICIJ, include a teak plantation and other real estate, an executive helicopter, a yacht named Rex Maris and a collection of gold coins."

Any bets on where those gold coins came from?
>Somewhere there are still peoples and herds, but not with us, my brethren: here there are states. A state? What is that? Well! open now your ears unto me, for now will I say unto you my word concerning the death of peoples. A state, is called the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly lieth it also; and this lie creepeth from its mouth: "I, the state, am the people."

The rule of law is generally good for humanity. Defending it is fine. But you need to remember that the law is a messy human undertaking that is subject to change, not an unassailable universal truth. People can break the law, and still be in the right.

What people like Swartz and the folks at Sci-Hub are doing is making the judgement call that free access to scientific information provides a benefit to humanity that outweighs the cost of breaking the laws keeping the information restricted. Scientists-the people generating the content in question-tend to agree. There is no doubt that the publishers will have the lawyers on their side, but I've always thought that to be the weakest of endorsements.

>There, where the state ceaseth—there only commenceth the man who is not superfluous: there commenceth the song of the necessary ones, the single and irreplaceable melody.

http://4umi.com/nietzsche/zarathustra/11
It seems to come down to him wanting it to be true.
It good to get small business involved, but as it's been said before many times, many people including myself object to the idea of giving advantages to people based on their skin color or genitalia.
You could consider turning the process "on its head":

Do release branches instead of a peer reviewed master branch.

So you would have every developer continuosly commiting into a (CI'ed) main trunk and when you wanted to do a release you would carefully review / quality assure the changes between the last release and the main trunk, taking only the stuff ready for release into new release branch and moving fixes back into the main trunk.

This approach will give you a messier main branch (rather than messy development branches) and move the reviewing and QA till the time of release.
Why can't we just build a little farther? I am not local to the area (as you can probably tell from my name) so I'm not trying to criticize anyone. I am genuinely curious if that is a possibility. Also I've never bought, sold, built a house. Are these single family zoning everywhere?
I was incredibly lucky enough to recently do a live broadcasted interview where Parham (op) talked about his experience in tech, his country (Iran), and even showed us some of his tools to write and debug code. It was an incredible interview and can be viewed here:

https://www.livecoding.tv/parham90/videos/z8MoB-how-do-blind...

edit: you may have to fast forward about 17 minutes in to get past the intro buffer.

Also part 2 is where all of the demo stuff is:

https://www.livecoding.tv/parham90/videos/nD1Er-how-do-blind...
Fair enough, I won't contradict your experience in the electronic test/measurement sector.

I would like to mention, though, that I've literally never seen a contract issued by a state agency or local unit of government to purchase electronic component testing services or equipment (either directly or a larger contract with a subcontracted piece for that).

That's not to say it never happens, just that most of the contracting dollars I see spent are on construction and personal services (counseling and social work, IT services, and the like).

I would suggest that your experience probably isn't reflective of the disadvantaged business community as a whole, and I suspect any empirical evidence we could unearth (i.e. the public purchasing records, and so on) would support that claim pretty unambiguously.
Yes: with a completely different (much closer) orbit, Planet X doesn't have that problem.
Priscilla Chan's rare interview
The uncertainty already inherent to the existing process is high enough in my opinion, either the software or the hand counter would equally meet the real objective here: providing a point to audit for reportable metrics.

While a dungeon master presiding over a hopeful throw for critical hits would be a solution, I don't think the TSA wants to make security theater entertaining - it makes the accidental nature of the whole endeavor obvious.
Almost any scientific pursuit can be independent, but it's more a matter of dedication and determination rather than feasibility.

It just happens that most people who achieve a lot on their own usually stay out of the limelight or public eye. This is especially true in ecology or biology.
Read the literature, e.g. http://hal.pratt.duke.edu/publications

There's a huge difference between mostly working (especially on a highway) and truly autonomous door-to-door.
Warning: If you click through to the article itself it will automatically start playing music. You might want to turn your volume down if you are in an environment where that would be inappropriate.
This blog post is much more about the authors self-promotion than it is about helping anyone build a blog or even necessarily learn the tools applied.

It'll probably save the author some trouble the next time he's on the job hunt.
If I have to put up with slow charging (and therefore perhaps take an extra vacation day), or have to rent a car or fly, for 2-3 trips, that's thousands of dollars every year, not a $50 delivery charge. If I have to seriously inconvenience my grandparents every time I go to visit them, that generates a lot of stress and potentially puts them at risk (grandpa is turning 95 this year; he doesn't travel well.)

But I can buy a plug-in hybrid like the Chevy Volt for a couple grand less than the cheap Tesla (counting the same tax incentives), and it works for every trip. With the gas generator, it has a range of over 300 miles, and can refill about 280-290 miles of range at an ordinary gas station in 5 minutes. So I can spend a similar amount of money for a much more convenient experience by going with a hybrid and ignoring the superchargers entirely.

Point being, the argument that the supercharger network covers "almost everyone" is flawed. There are a lot of people for whom it still misses at least some of their trips, where other types of EVs perform better, and missing some trips is far more relevant than you seem to give it credit for.

Again, it's not like spending $thousands to avoid the occasional $50 delivery charge for plywood. It's spending basically the same amount on a different type of technology to avoid the occasional flight, car rental, or extra stress on the grandparents. The supercharger network will need to be much more dense before it gets to the point of being a major factor in Tesla's favor.
This might sound ridiculous, but I really just don't want GM to win. The American automotive industry moved ridiculously slowly towards electric and alternative fuel vehicles, and ultimately is only doing so to sell units on what they perceive as a new niche.

If I'm giving money to a company for a new type of transportation, it's going to be the one committing to the broad goals of bettering humanity, not just capitalizing on someone else proving the existence of a market.

I'm not just behind Tesla, there are other companies like Arcimoto (https://www.arcimoto.com/) that are putting significant effort into redesigning transportation from the ground up.
GPL is discouraged in government software (speaking from DOE/NSF experience) but BSD or similar is encouraged. The path of least resistance is private/closed source, followed by open source BSD/MIT/Apache, followed by GPL/LGPL, followed by commercialization.

The reason why there is a bit of resistance with open source as a default is because funding has to be traced.
I think less quality coverage, but interesting to watch the news spread through media here:

- https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-aides-among-world-leaders-e...

- https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/associates-of-...

- http://www.usatoday.com/ (prominent on front page)

- http://time.com/4280200/panama-papers-vladimir-putin-russia-...

- newyorktimes.com buried under politics http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/04/us/politics/leaked-documen...

Nothing on CNN's front page as of yet. Don't know if on TV. Imagine editorial staff doing catch up, but wonder why they weren't collaborating earlier. Maybe AOL/TimeWarner are in there?
You are overlooking weight distribution. The traction of a given tire on a given surface generally increases as the weight on that tire increases. Given two otherwise similar cars, one with the engine over the drive wheels, and one with the engine over non-drive wheels, the former will generally have an advantage in snow, especially on hills.
I wrote a thing for this!

https://github.com/josefdlange/doit

To be fair, I don't use it anymore because I'm a disorganized wreck (but that's just a personal problem!). Despite that, I think it's a neat tool. It was inspired by Zach Holman's "Boom" -- and its Python port, "Bam" (credit goes to Ben Tappin for Bam). It borrows a handful of code from the latter for data persistence in particular, and for the scaffolding that the CLI rests upon. Thanks Ben! I haven't updated it in almost two years but it serves its purpose when I choose to use it.

I wrote it because I found that switching context away from my terminal was detrimental to my workflow. My day-to-day work has since evolved from being buried in a tmux session, so it doesn't really make sense for me anymore.

Feel free to contribute to it, file an issue, or generally bitch about it; it was honestly a couple-hour job to play around with creating something from a nascent idea, and with learning how Python / PyPI packaging goes. I'd love to revisit it and improve it if there are reasonable issues/features worth fixing/implementing!
I wonder if the precise amount is closer to 3.14
The problem, as is often the case with stories like TSLA, is that the "investors" are often momentum chasers and unsophisticated. If you doubt it, go read some message boards in Reddit or elsewhere. Very little analysis is actually performed.
Is there a torrent available for us to download the documents?
Since it's unlikely that Amazon's security is up to par with Apple's, a good middle ground would be an application that always ran and was always sniffing the Echo traffic, and would keep a log of when the Echo was sending traffic out of the network. Maybe it alerts you when it is sending traffic. Then you can compare the times it was talking to Amazon vs when you were talking to the Echo and figure out if it communicates without you.
I would agree with the other comments here. Pushing the limits in an area means getting all the help that you can. Peers help you on some blind spots that you are not aware of.
"I view the stable/equilibrium compensation level as between 20 and 45% of the value created for the company. Want to get paid more? Create more value. I'm ideally paying for output not effort.
The obvious problem is that you can't easily put a dollar value on the contribution of engineer A vs B or engineer C vs project manager D vs product owner E vs manager F, and if you survey people for their personal contribution and add it all up, the sum will be a significant multiple of the total enterprise value created. Even with these challenges, I think it's usually clear how to find the rough buckets of "well above average contributions", "average", and "below average contributions"

Exactly, quantifying and justifying the value that you bring is difficult. Could you give me an example? I know this question will depend on person to person, but how aware are managers of the value you are bringing them?
Didn't some place in New Jersey get roundly hosed around here when they pulled eminent domain on some properties and then turned them over to developers?

Something about property rights?
So you think prison really isn't all that awful then? And that everyone who tries to simply commit suicide instead of spending their life in prison must have "mental problems"?
Is it just me or is this expose surprisingly low on American citizens?

Is this one of the times when conspiracy theory could be conspiracy fact? It feels like this is an extremely selective release.
Thank you, those both seem like convincing evidence that, at minimum, it's not quite as bleak as I had believed.
No leaks involving Americans (yet).
http://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/articles/56febff0a1bb8d3...

>Generally speaking, owning an offshore company is not illegal in itself. In fact, establishing an offshore company can be seen as a logical step for a broad range of business transactions. However, a look through the Panama Papers very quickly reveals that concealing the identities of the true company owners was the primary aim in the vast majority of cases.

This makes it sound like owning an offshore company solely to conceal your identity is illegal. Is that true?
What about memory safety? are c++ smart pointers equivalent to rust in safety ?
There are banking details, passports, drivers license info for thousands of people.. It'd be hugely irresponsible to publish all of that in a Torrent.. Redacted docs are accompanying all of the news reports.
I tried to reply to you but I'm on my phone and accidentally hit something else, to get back out I tried to hit the back button but that hit yet another link. Aren't touch screens fun!
With having some products, ThoughtWorks does consulting and custom software development (services) as well.

ThoughtWorks has developed Mingle - a project management tool, Go - a continuous delivery tool, Snap - a continuous delivery tool on cloud, Gauge - test automation tool.
But you can also hire ThoughtWorks for consulting on agile organization transformation, programming practices, etc. If you are looking for teams to help you develop custom software with these practices, ThoughtWorks can help you with that as well.
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/716795010751049728
You bet it is! It is still actively developed with new CPAN modules being added every day.

I love perl, it is far and away my favorite language to hack stuff out in. Which is really where this language shines; quick prototypes or duct tape type hacks for pulling data from somewhere, transforming it, and sticking it somewhere else.

While there aren't as many perl centric jobs as there once was for building an entire application with Perl on a large team. That was never really Perls strength. Perl can still play a central role in your toolbox.

Much like Bash, sed, awk, grep, and the litany of other Linux tools, knowing Perl is going to enable you to do things that appear to be magic to those who don't.

We use JavaScript/Node.js, C# and SQL to develop the application my company is building, but I still reach for perl almost every day. Because it makes things easy.

I've used it to generate JavaScript and SQL code from data specification given in Excel or PDF format.

Python comes close to enabling developers to have this kind of magic up their sleeve, but I think Perl's built in CLI flags for implicit loops, helper operators for reading files, first class regex support, and such make whipping up a couple line script to solve some problem much quicker.
So grab gnome, pusbullet, a dock, paper theme, powerline and maybe play on linux, profit?
> I am interested what makes you say it "provides computational grunt comparable to an i7 for a few milliwatts"

I've been quite interested in Green Arrays, but I'm quite sure that's basically nonsense. The Ga144 can do lots of interesting stuff, but comparing it with an i7 is ill adviced. If for no other reason than that you have to provide your own dram interface, while the i7 typically comes with that in the form of chipset support.

The Ga144 can do md5, but I'm not convinced that it can do it better or equivalently than 4/8 i7 cores: http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/documents/pub/AP001-MD5....

In short, I think such a claim is misbranding the Green Array chip, setting potential users up for disappointment and at the same time selling the chip short.
> "it can easily be a net win over a gas car"

oh, I agree. I just don't see it as a win over a plug-in hybrid with a gas generator, yet. In ~6 months of ownership of a Volt, I've been to the gas station about 4 times (all on a trip to/from another state) at 5-10 minutes per stop, and have never lost time waiting for a charge.

The supercharger network is a nice step, and combined with electric vehicles with a 200+ mile range, we're a step closer to electric vehicles becoming the norm. But there are still obstacles to be overcome -- still some inconveniences that are better solved by other technologies.
I think it is selective. They say they will reveal more in May.
Why does every non Tesla electric look so ugly? And why does every article written by supposedly competent journalists not mention how ugly literally ever other electric car is when they discuss tradeoffs?

It could very well be a close race between 2-5 electric cars. But attractiveness could be another reason 1 is the big winner.
i think coding by voice is solving a different challenge than blind developers are facing. Blind developers have no issue with manipulating a keyboard. I feel the most immediate accessibility issue facing blind and low vision developers is quickly being made aware of context changes and making sure the element you expect to have selected is actually selected.

An IDE is pretty much useless to a blind developer if the screen reader cannot adequately relay the current context to the developer.
Well, traveling really depends on project. But you can actually ask for non-travel project.

I would recommend talking to the recruiter and let them know your preferences before declining.
The problem is that people think that because I do not get offended by "mom" in the title, I can't also have men, women, gays and the disabled in my life whom I love.
- Passports: Not Secret.

- Drivers Licenses: Also Not Secret.

- Banking details of the people who have been ripping off the rest of the world...sorry if I fail to see the downside of dumping all of it :)

EDIT:

At the same time, I understand where you're coming from so thanks for the info mikeyouse!
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/people-cured-blindnes... might be of interest.

One particular point that seems obvious after reading, but would not have occurred to me: If you ask a sighted person to imagine a nearby and distant object (say, a car), the distant object is imagined as smaller than the nearby one. But that distance / visual size relationship is a totally visual thing because you're imagining seeing the objects; a blind person's mental model of the object would be built from touch and is the same regardless of distance. They don't have the visual perspective cues. (If the object make sounds, I suppose it's imagined as quieter?)

To take that a bit further, I'd guess that blind people's metal models of geometry, whether it's a small object or navigating within a building, is purely orthographic in nature. They wouldn't have any use for our ideas of visual perspective, field of view, lines of sight, or any of that. Artists didn't work out how to replicate it properly until the renaissance, so it's not as though people have an innate conscious grasp of how it works; we just understand perspective as an innate part of our sight.

And on the other hand, the blind probably have a much more developed model of spatial acoustics: changes in reverberation as you pass an open doorway, move from a corridor into a larger space, etc., which our brains for the most part don't learn to build.