skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Until the IRS stops using social security numbers to file, it's insecure.

If it treated SSNs as a username and required everyone to generate some unique passwords...it would work.
I had no idea UN was so bad. I've heard so many stories of their failures. But I didn't realize it was systemic. That makes a lot more sense now, understanding those stories in the context of a nepotistic bureaucratic mess.

Reminds me of modern universities where 75-90% of the expense is going to administrators instead of the core service (education). Which is a big reason why tuition keeps rising.
Intrinsic valuations do not require giving away work for free, though in practice it's uncommon to have access to information required to do this.

For example, say a developer worked on an open source project and was paid market rate for their work. At the very least, the code they've contributed is public.
This specific law requires approval of the federal government before the prosecution can go forward. It was written into that law with exactly that intent.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11330877
Imagine if Obama took actions to interfere with the judicial process to deny prosecution in response to someone wanting to pursue a claim under a law that was on the books?

In this case Merkel was dealt bad cards: A law that should have been removed a long time ago puts the issue on her table. If she had opted to deny consent, it would have been a blow to the principles of separation of powers, the very thing many European governments - including Germany - are criticizing Poland, Hungary and Turkey for violating right now. It would have made her a total hypocrite.

So she has opted to stay out, and taken the opportunity to raise the issue of removing this paragraph.
Could you elaborate on yhe use case that confuses this feature?

I used to plug my notebook to a big monitor on the side, and then I'd switch some things to one or the other. For example, the "external" monitor had better colour rendition, and so it was the prime candidato for photo-editing, while the "internal" monitor was usually closer to me, and better suited for reading, or opening terminals.

Would this kind of use trigger your "bug" and make the DELL monitor turn off? Can you think any use case where the feature works well? Some were asking in roder to avoid said beast in future/near purchases, and while you do have a point, if the use case works well for the user then this feature wouldn't be a deal breaker (and for other use cases, like yours, it defintely is).
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i just tell people i simply don't pick up my phone, and to text instead. at first they don't believe me, then they realize "oh yeah... i guess that's a good idea."

there is some insanity in the human condition that compels people to pick up their phone. i have rejected that shit entirely. i get a dozen calls a day, the fuck am i supposed to do, pick up every one?

try it, it works.
Once a neurotransmitter is released it will continue to activate receptors until it is scavenged either through active re-uptake or enzymatic degradation. While the brain is a pretty efficient scavenger of neurotransmitters it isn't perfect and neurotransmitters that aren't scavenged continue to randomly activate receptors and diffuse out of the synaptic cleft. A neurotransmitter that is part of an pulse is called phasic while a neurotransmitter that is awaiting degradation is called tonic.

It was surprising to me that these tonic neurotransmitters have an active role in the brain. Their random activation of receptors on the receiving neuron make it more sensitive, putting it on a hair trigger if you will. The random activation of auto-receptors on the sending neuron inhibit further neurotransmitter release. And when these tonic neurotransmitters diffuse out of the synaptic cleft they can sensitize other neurons nearby or even trigger cell death (in the case of glutamate)

The way that I like to think of it is that a phasic neurotransmitter carries an immediate signal while a tonic neurotransmitter carries a longer term record of phasic activity.

MAO and COMT are two important enzymatic pathways for enzymatic degradation. MAO degrades norepinephrine, serotonin and dopamine while COMT degrades norepinephrine and dopamine. COMT operates by attaching a methyl-donor to the neurotransmitter which is donated by SAM-E. With some consumer grade genetic testing I discovered that I had a defect in betaine homocysteine S-methyltransferase (BHMT) which is one pathway to recycle SAM-E. Supplemental TMG, also called betaine, simulated more BHMT activity for me.

My guess is that lower levels of SAM-E had the effect of elevating tonic dopamine and norepinephrine relative to serotonin by plugging one of the drains.
I remember the same thing, and as above - already been discussed a lot
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There are services other than bit.ly (like shorte.st and adf.ly) that stick interstitials between clicking the link and reaching the destination. So revenue. That's one reason.
PrBoom+ or Crispy Doom.

For Quake 1, tyrquake. I can't remember what I have for Q2.
> maybe MP4 isn't and is just free to use, I'm not sure

Correct. MP4 is not an open format.

From [1]:

> MPEG-4 contains patented technologies, the use of which requires licensing in countries that acknowledge software algorithm patents. Over two dozen companies claim to have patents covering MPEG-4. MPEG LA licenses patents required for MPEG-4 Part 2 Visual from a wide range of companies (audio is licensed separately) and lists all of its licensors and licensees on the site. New licenses for MPEG-4 System patents are under development and no new licenses are being offered while holders of its old MPEG-4 Systems license are still covered under the terms of that license for the patents listed (MPEG LA – Patent List).

> AT&T is trying to sue companies such as Apple Inc. over alleged MPEG-4 patent infringement. The terms of Apple's QuickTime 7 license for users describes in paragraph 14 the terms under Apple's existing MPEG-4 System Patent Portfolio license from MPEG LA.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4#Licensing
I've been looking at the Lenovo P50 for myself. Looks like the ThinkWiki site is a little out of date with the P-series models.

Anyone have any experiences running Linux with this or the P70 model?
What will humans do when cars drive themselves?
Those are temporary events, a canceled bus route would be a better comparison.
> Or, better yet, eliminate payroll deductions entirely and ensure everyone has a liability come April. Pretty hard to defraud a liability.

Much easier to not pay a liability -- especially if it's a double-digit percentage of your annual income, and not just a small rounding error like it typically is today.
Yup. And, as vc dollars start drying up and companies get pressure to become profitable again, employers will figure out where to go: out of San Francisco.
> Java 1.0 was released in 1995 and we haven’t had the need for another general-purpose programming language ever since.

Riiiiiiight...
I've dreamed many times about starting a cafe with a no-cell no-laptop policy, but just assumed I was a cranky bastard and the idea was insane. Your post suggests that maybe it's a thing, though - would you mind saying where you've found such cafes?
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Not a stretch at all! I spent many nights playing factorio trying to make an efficient static typing (dumb inserters but smart belt routing) system to replace a costly dynamic typing quick hack (smart inserters with big bus belt routing). Drawing the parallels has been half the game for me and has given me more insight into how everything fits together in programming.
Really? If you could make 1,000,000 requests per second, exploring 2^56 URLs would take you 2000 years.
I think it's less about the URL itself and more about the services which automatically generate them for content without the user being fully cognizant of what that implies/means. It has the potential to publicize information without the user's intent or knowledge; in the case of OneDrive from the article, it exposed documents with sensitive information when the URL itself wasn't even shared, it was just brute-forced. Prior to Google's changes to the URL shortening, it sounds like it was possible to get quite a bit of personal identifying information just by guessing at the shortened URL, even if the URL itself was never shared.

Even if URL shortening is a feature that users are aware exists, the consequences of it certainly aren't immediately clear, and to my knowledge, not many of these services include a way to disable the generation of a shortened link or have a means to prevent this type of scanning from happening.
Hi, I manage the team. Do you have some recent examples I can show to the higher-ups? Our incentives are built around quality of work, not speed, so what you're describing is definitely not working as intended.
Indeed, but supply & demand says that less inventory in an otherwise normally-operating market should see prices increase. Yet, price-to-list is < 100%.

It's hard to know what that means. Are sellers pricing the low-inventory situation into their list price and then only getting a fraction of that markup? Does the inventory suck, meaning lenders won't even finance it, thus reducing the price? Are all-cash offers at the $1mm+ price point so tempting that sellers are giving up 8%? Are buyers just giving up?
No, it's just shows that Merkel is desperate not to cross Erdogan, for whatever reason and is ready to make Germany look weak to salvage whatever deal she made with Turkey. It says a lot about our euro politicians. Unfortunately there is no strong freedom of speech tradition is Europe, unlike US where you can say almost everything without risking getting prosecuted by the state. And it makes all the difference in my opinion.
"SF on the other hand is just seeing their ceiling come into play. Only so many people can justify raising a family and purchasing a home in The Bay. Why not change jobs to Seattle or Portland and make around the same money, but spend half on a house? I think that's what we're seeing."

It's more than just tech workers. SF real estate prices have been influenced significantly by foreign speculation (especially from China). As the Chinese market slows down, so too does speculative offshore real estate investment. And these were buyers with virtually unlimited purses, ready to drop all-cash well north of asking prices.

(Full disclosure: I own a modest condo in SF, and when Chinese speculation was at its frothiest, I would get hand-delivered letters from real estate agents on more or less a quarterly basis. They would state that XYZ buyer in China is willing to purchase my property, sight unseen, and they would ask me to get in touch if interested.)
I could never subscribe to such a dystopian outlook of the future. Sure, we could augment ourselves with tech, but that will not ultimately stop things like automation in transport. Millions of jobs are set to be made redundant and there is no clear replacement for them. No amount of tech augmentation to ourselves is going to fix that. More importantly, we are still trying to understand what a majority of humans would do if their basic needs were cared for. That's the purpose of studies like this. Humanity has never truly broken free of its evolutionary bond to fighting for the resources it needs to survive, it just changed what resources it fights over. This is truly uncharted territory and UBI is currently the only viable idea on the table to deal with it.
Agreed, and alpine is the official Docker base distro at this time. I've built some very small images for haproxy and iperf with it.
There will be no more single core performance increases — laws of physics forbid it.

This is just plain wrong. Look at any Intel CPU generation and you will find that the new one is faster than the old one clock-to-clock.
It's still merit based, though it might not yield the world's best candidates, since they might not have the time. And that's going to be a problem, of course, but other things you might do to demonstrate merit except for actual paid work (open source projects etc) also take time. The exception being technical interviews, which for various reasons are undesirable or at least seen as suboptimal by many.

I suppose a system like stockfighter can try to take into account the fact that not everyone has time to optimize their solution, but also, at the end of the day, how you prioritize your time I suppose is a factor in the whole merit-equation - the more driven you are the more 'passion' you are seen as having.

Stack overflow is different in this respect, though, I will admit that - although some answers are really high quality it is probably the people spending the most time there that end up with most reputation. And I guess that's fine as well, if some recruiters want to use SO points as a basis for recruitment they know (or should know) what kind of people this process singles out.

I hope to see many projects like stockfighter in the future, each focusing on their own aspects of work in software so that employers can look for their candidates in the appropriate 'pool'.
For what it's worth, the BotBuilder from Microsoft is open-source: https://github.com/Microsoft/BotBuilder - could be worth a peek.

As the website states, this SDK is only "one of three main components of the Microsoft Bot Framework", and I'm not sure if the other two are open-source, but it shouldn't be all that significant given that it's just integration with Microsoft products, like Office 365, plus the bot directory, which I imagine consists of some ready-to-use bots one could possibly piggyback on.

This is not voice recognition, but once you're past that stage what you have on your hands is a piece of text anyway - which has to be parsed and processed.
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If they know what you're up to and you don't coöperate you still end up behind bars or executed. If you do coöperate, they might let you off the hook somewhat.
The thing is, this incident will be heavily used in favor of Erdogan here in Turkey. Next time he publicly suggest prosecutor action against some negative comment against him (in 1 or 2 days, mind you) he'll refer to this. And his supporters won't know the difference if Merkel will also change the law, if the case will get dismissed etc. Erdogan won this case domestically. It might be an intelligent move for her but definitely not for us, sadly.
The right to grant a federal pardon lies in the office of the President of Germany, but he or she can transfer this power to other persons, such as the chancellor or the minister of justice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon#Germany

Pardons are a vital check on the justice system. I don't know all the details, and this might be a lower level judgment. But, if she had the power and said no, then that's a terrible sign regardless of the words out of her mouth. On the other hand if the government gave up the right to pardon that's also terrible.
surely Kafka would disagree with you. being subjected to this ordeal is maltreatment, regardless of what legal wizardry will transpire at the eleventh hour.
Of course they do! Just look at the chart here: http://www.sacbee.com/site-services/databases/article9349178... and the referenced franchise tax info.

I am really tired of seeing sensationalist headlines like these. The top 1% of income earners earn an absolutely massive portion of all income in the state, but only pay 45% of taxes. We should be asking if that's enough, not implying that the wealthy are somehow propping up the state's finances when inequality is accelerating every year.
But, well, we can't assume that Kyle has totally forgotten about him, right? So he has quite a bit of responsibility for this as well.

While Jeremy's timing gives him the most leverage possible (and it's definitely not the most honest thing to do), we can't just treat him as the villain, especially without knowing the full story.
As an experiment to see if it's economically viable, yes it's flawed. But to explore possible benefits it still has value. What originally made me more open to the idea was reading about a similar (I think) experiment and all the indirect outcomes like kids staying in school instead of working to support their families, more families with one parent often with the children, etc.
A different market, but I think the Chinese Money thing is a bit overblown.

The San Francisco and San Jose metro areas ranked ninth and sixth from the bottom, with all-cash deals representing only 28 and 24 percent of purchases, respectively. All-cash sales in San Francisco peaked at 36 percent in the first quarter of 2010, Zillow said.

http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/networth/article/All-cas...
Optimistically, yes. Realistically, it doesn't seem like it to me, and even when it is actually as described on the tin it doesn't seem super useful for predicting future performance.
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Bingo, the best part of these games (TIS100 and HRF in particular) is having a well chosen instruction set and glossing over the other annoying parts of working this close to the hardware. I want the puzzle to be figuring out how to make do with only 2 jmp variants, not remembering to use a different instruction to access memory below address 0x100
Re 2) Speech Recognition: it seems like using the new Google Speech API is the way to go but I wonder if you can obtain access or if it is very expensive for small companies. I applied a few weeks ago and haven't heard anything from them.
> That's exactly the opposite of how supply, demand, and prices are related.

Just add in a dash of human behavioral economics.

There's a pretty strong narrative that the process of buying in the Bay Area is intense and demoralizing. There's only one winner in each of these bidding wars and many losers. At some point the losers may get fed up and stop looking. They'll also tell their friends and family how awful it was to look for a place.

Note, this is all speculation on my part. I am nowhere near an Economist just someone living in this depressing home/rental market.
She's a coward, plain and simple. You don't compromise core principles just to push an agreement through.
As much as I despise Cameron, he's smart enough - or has smart enough advisors - to realise that having the claims in question discussed at length in court would have kept it in the news far longer.

It of course helped that most people - including those of us who very much would have loved for it to blow up much more than it did - realised that Lord Ashcroft very much had an axe to grind.
Anyone tested this? I'm not expecting a lot, since most of our systems are 1 or 2 nodes (run numastat to see how many nodes you have), and neither 8 nor hierarchal. Anyway, it doesn't apply cleanly to 4.1 (so I'm assuming this is for an -rc).

arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c: In function ‘set_cpu_sibling_map’:
arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:452:16: error: ‘sched_max_numa_distance’ undeclared (first use in this function)
&& sched_max_numa_distance == -1)
^
arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:452:16: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
make[2]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.o] Error 1

Really wish they'd post this to lkml, where the engineers who wrote the scheduler, and engineers to regularly performance test Linux, can reply.
Lots of people in the suburbs want to remove trees near their houses to increase the sunlight they get. It always struck me as crazy, but a close friend was a city planner at (at various times) Sunnyvale, Mountain View, and other cities, and she dealt with tree removal permits. It's a big thing.
I wouldn't hold your breath just yet. In the peninsula prices are up $100k in my neighborhood. Interest rates are still low so it will take some time.
What is it? Some kind of real estate brokerage service? It's not merely a research site like zillow or trulia?

EDIT: ok, it looks like it's a real estate agency that's salaried instead of commission -- err, scratch that, they take a less-than-industry average commission. Sounds a little disruptive.
>There need to be better solutions here than the gas guzzling monstrosities that people drive everyday.

There is a better solution, it's called SkyTran PRT. No one in this country will even consider it, but they're building it in Tel Aviv now.
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Tryshop: You can order clothes online and try them on in a real fitting room. Of course, it’s completely free of charge. You can even order multiple sizes of the same items.

How: Behind the scenes, we work with brick-and-mortar stores and operate like Instacart. We collect the orders from local stores and deliver them to our fitting rooms or to your home. You can then try them on. This way, we can benefit from the best features of both online and offline shopping. In other words, all the stores in your city connected by one online shop with one fitting room. As for the fitting rooms, we can use the fitting rooms of local stores or we can open our own fitting rooms.

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Some useful statistics:
67%- The conversion rate of customers who try on clothes in real fitting rooms.
69%- The percentage of people who look up products online, but then choose to buy them in a physical store.
62%- The percentage of online shoppers who were unhappy with fit.
I found these guys after being advised to find a Sales Guy for my side-project:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11453802

Disclaimer:

I'm not associated with them in anyway but the link is my referral link.
Gaining reputation by contributing to a public good seems OK in some situations. It's unfortunate that we need reputation to find work, but I'd rather answer SO questions or contribute to open source then many other ways of doing it. Both of those can often be of real benefit to others at the same time as building a reputation.
> Nah. Certain types of political satire in Germany are pretty much a contact sport.

It doesn't mean you can't get sued by the German state for these. Actually i'm pretty sure you can. You couldn't in US (be sued by the federal state for that). That's the difference between actual freedom of speech (USA) and some vague tolerance that could change anytime (Europe). As a french, I can go to prison if I insult the president publicly, a state prosecutor can sue me for that, that's not freedom of speech. Now is it likely ? no, but the risk is enough so that most people don't even attempt to do that, that's the vague tolerance I'm talking about.