skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a geography lesson for the California crowd.

In some places wireless is a real answer, but it goes nowhere in Western Mass because of two reasons: (i) hills, and (ii) trees. The effect of the trees is to make any towers 40 feet higher.

All of the time in the east we see proposals to build a fixed wireless system and frequently these look attractive, at least in the short term, based on back-of-the-envelope engineering.

Often when the radio engineering is done you find that you need two or three times the number of nodes you did at first, you need to build miles of access roads, and the towers need to be much taller and more expensive than you planned. And then there still are people you can't serve.

We've had ten years of broken promises about fixed wireless, and the gist of it is that: (a) wireless is expensive not cheap, (b) if incumbent carriers can't provide a good 4G signal at your spot, neither can undercapitalized local organizations, and (c) the problem is not that fiber is expensive, it is that it is cheap. Fiber sells for $70 a month unlimited and some places, and no way is Verizon going to stand for anything cheaper than the $10 a gigabyte that they charge for wireless data.
That makes sense. The way my thoughts have been going from reading about this and passwordless authentication is that it's a lot more important WHO you trust than HOW you trust.

If both the user and the service independently trust the security agent, then each of them only needs to trust one actor.

It does imply an important discussion regarding how many eggs should go in one basket.
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An offline editor for generating HTML (from Markdown) written in a framework running on top of a browser?

The irony was lost on someone somewhere.
" Material standard of living can be seen in the increase of real incomes that would increase the purchasing power of consumers, and is characterized by the ability to consume goods and services. Non-material standard of living is more qualitative, and refers to the improvements in quality of life and the environment."

So (assuming that's the same definition they used) yeah, I guess the material standard of living is higher. Seems like that's ignoring quite a bit to sound really optimistic though.
What about replying to multiple ones... or all of them?
Don't forget availability of credit to finance all the fun.
The Jet threat came to a friend of mine, but I think you're right regarding selling items for less. There are a few mitigations for that specific restriction which have allowed some sellers to continue selling on multiple channels, but though some are likely obvious, I'm pretty sure I signed my right away to talk about said mitigations in public.

If not, I'll reply back with more. Will have to check.
I'm sorry this was not clear : I was not talking about taxing bitcoin, but collecting tax payed with bitcoin.
People would be asked or required to pay tax but I didn't intend it to be enforced with bitcoin.
None of that excuses poor financial decisions. Raiding your 401k for frivolous (yes I'm calling a wedding that) expenses is against any personal finance 101. I'm willing to bet that the author's financial illiteracy did not start at whatever age they happen to be and that they likely have made a series of poor financial choices throughout their life. Financing your kid's college when you have no savings will have a crippling effect on you as well as your kids when they have to not only pay back the money you borrowed but also pay for your retirement because you didn't save any money.
I'm not saying that interleaving of execution and definition doesn't happen – it definitely does, that's how library loading works in dynamic languages. However, it is demonstrably not common to define methods for a type, call them, and then define methods that overwrite those methods.
> The algorithm rules all.

> Cross it and die.

Or, differentiate, use these awesome platforms as a traffic source or branding help, focus on direct to the consumer sales and loyalty, and/or build a better product and keep doing so.

Middle men have been around for millennia, these new ones are just that much more efficient. But small fry have more resources now too.
I go to great lenghts to debloat away all of google crap from my phones.

It is perfectly functional
Ask HN: Best BlockChain Learning Resources?
Hi HN!
I need to fill some gaps on my knowledge of the blockchain technology.

Can you suggest some technical learning resources worth reading?
A consulting developer on staying solo v/s taking the agency path
That would be a protein that catalyses its own creation from parts (amino acids) rather than prions which catalyse a change in shape.

There is a paper roughly in this area (polyphosphates and peptides in an autocatalytic cycle) here :

http://cosmology.com/Abiogenesis100.html
"The stakes are higher for Google in the Android case as it made about $11 billion last year from advertising sales on Android phones through its apps such as Maps, Search and Gmail, according to estimates by financial analyst Richard Windsor."

I think it's safe to say that this analyst has no idea.
Well that would be crap :(

However, I did vote Blue, and I agree with the principal of small Government and that more should be privatised. Can't have my cake and eat it I suppose.
In fairness, if a wedding eats up your entire retirement savings, you either had a royal wedding or had no real money for retirement. I put enough in my 401k each year to pay for a wedding.
> They have a rule that you can't sell items elsewhere

That's a pretty anti-competitive rule if true.

Essentially it means you cannot sell on Jet.com because of how Jet.com's pricing is calculacted (any product COULD be cheaper on there if you stack enough of them).
I did a trial for signups for a 'Premium' model and I got about 150 signups in week 1.

The site is in sports data/betting data/tips
Private label products are generally made by the same manufacturer as premium label.
A test for new traffic?
Now that's a valid point. So it's 2/3rds instead of 1/3rd but the guy doing the language is a languages/compiler guy (used to be professor at Brown) and he loves this stuff. So not a big money win but definitely a big karma win, he's having fun.
Recently I read a report done by the national agency for higher education in Sweden, on order by the government, to study why there are so few male teachers. As part of the study, a poll was sent to each of the teaching districts in Sweden with question like "what strategies do the district have to increase the ratio of male student for the teaching profession." Out of 19, only 3 responded that they had any strategy at all to increase the ratio of male students, and out of the remaining 16, only 6 had some strategy regarding gender equality at all. One university simply replied by saying "in order to have a strategy, we first need to figure out why there is so few men who want to become teachers. More research needed.".

If it comes up often in the teaching community, its not something which much money is being directed to, projected being run, and time being spent on. There is no political pressure to apply affirmative action, no ear marked funds in the budget, and no policy changes in order to change the dominated female culture that the teaching profession has (The report attribute the culture as a major cause for male teacher having significant higher exit rate both as student but also after they have worked a few years).

As for campaigns "running for a long time", the report says the exact opposite. It explicitly say there hasn't been any significant effort to bring male student to female dominated professions, while the opposite has existed for about 50 years. It suggest that university programs should look at the past and current efforts to bring female students to STEM subject and use it as a guide in order to create programs for gender equality which also include male students.

Personally, I think the recent decided policy by Norway is a good step in the right direction. A simple policy that dictate that minority students, that is when the gender ration is less than 20%-80%, will receive some benefits/incentives to counter gender discrimination.

(The report is 2009:7 R, by the Swedish national agency for higher education)
Why not poach an engineer?
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I'm surprised the author didn't mention the connection between Kong (孔) and Confucius, as Confucius' family name was also 孔.
So what was this like 30 years ago? No algo with no internet. You make a business, you try to sell it around your town. If you do really awesome you can get 75% of X business in your town. If you do really really really awesome maybe you can franchise it across the country. But most people topped out at ruling a town.

Now we are competing on a world market. Gains are much bigger, but everyone has 500 competitors. You tend to get nothing or $billions.

Good for the consumer I think, as they can get the best version of X. Not so good for the 499 other businesses that close.
The CEO of Ford made over $17 million last year in compensation, but it was worthwhile to write an article about a 200k R&D expense, with a senior industry analyst giving a quote seriously questioning the $50k spent over sticker price in order to get the vehicle immediately instead of waiting in line.

Is this really a story? Or just clickbait because it has Tesla in the title?
Seems a simple answer to me - require every rider to have 3 - 5 uniquely identifiable bikes.

Require that all rider's bikes - irrespective of position, etc. be kept by the race organiser at the end of the day. Randomly select bikes for testing with x-ray/millimeter rays, electromagnetic sensors, and even destructive testing.

An extended "post race parc fermé" if you will...
the software has to be compiled with symbols... which I don't think the binaries in the default repositories have (I could be wrong)
Unaffordable Housing Limits Social Mobility for Children of Low-Income Families
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German automakers who once laughed off Elon Musk are now starting to worry
The title makes more sense as: "Got a Hot Seller on Amazon? Prepare for Amazon to Make One Too"
No, in Germany they complied with the law, they didn't pull off the service
Why is this a requirement?
They don't have to eat rotten meat, for example.
I would definitely agree with that. In the US large parts of the country seem fairly alienated from each other. Not only do they seem to not be able to relate to each other but often times actively vilify. I have only lived at the West coast which largely seems at odds which some other parts of the country. Parts of the South come to mind immediately. The circumstances people live I seem so very different and thus are their needs and concerns. I rarely meet people who have social bonds to the South who fondly talk about them. I fact that might have never happened.
For contrast on Iceland life also send to be very different if you live in Reykjavik rather than I a farm in the rural South East. However, even during my few visits I've heard people talk about how they will go to their cousins farm in spring scabs help with the lambs. I think that that kind of relationship is needed to keep political discussions from resulting in discontent if there is a conflict of interest. That's something that send took be lacking their larger the country is. Originally being from Germany I found my home country to be somewhere I the middle in this regard. There sometimes would be a little bit of conflict between regions but never even close to the almost dehumanizing things I hear in the US.
Anyone got a dump of this shipping data ? Saw it on enigma.io too and it looks like you have to pay to get it (exactearth.com is their source).
They don't survive bleach though. Which is helpful.
'Sneaky' supermarkets selling shrunken groceries at the same price
Well, for the thought model I mentioned the manager would not get the benefit of increased exposure and fame, so an increased pay seemed an easy replacement incentive. If a good manager is somehow 'rare' (I have no idea) then I suppose that they should be compensated somehow for their relatively rare skill.
This isn't really a Made In US vs China thing. Almost nothing sold in US is made in US.
I'll probably just stick with Sublime or VIM, and not be deploying my own markdown text editor to Heroku. But neat, I guess?
He actually claims to be making a decent income, the issue is his spending habits, not his career choice.
I just released this project. Please, let me know what you think. I will be more than happy if you comment with an idea how the site could be improved, or if you notice a functionality that is missing.

Also, feel welcome to contribute if you know a valuable library that isn't on the list. Thanks!
It's not the total price that's a shocker rather they needed to pay $55,000 over the list price. That's way above average even if it's chump change for a major car company.
This is great. Some ships seem to fly over continents just like satellites or airplanes - bogus data in database?
It would be cool if you could also edit the right side.
Those are unenforceable in most (maybe all?) of the EU.
I would imagine as time goes on and with increasing advances in automation and AI, even those jobs would require less hours, though probably not doable in 3 hour workdays. More likely, those jobs would require "checking in" 10 or 15 minutes every hour around the clock.
No cash? No credit? No problem!
I wouldn't touch Viber with a ten foot pole, even if their entire crypto implementation was open source (which it is not). The company was founded by an ex-military (some sources say ex-Mossad) dude. He is also connected to several spyware applications.

“Talmon served for four years in the Israel Defense Forces and held the position of CIO of the central command. He graduated Cum Laude from the Tel-Aviv University with a degree in Computer Science and Management.”

More here:
https://viberphoneapp.wordpress.com/

http://www.moh10ly.com/home/security/viberisaspy

http://www.jpost.com/Business/Business-Features/Japans-Rakut...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/30/viber-fou...
It's possible that some of the data came from that spreadsheet. The sources of the data are cited at the bottom of the post. You're right that it is all self-reported and unverified. We tried to clean and standardize the data as best we could. The biggest source of error for us in the process might have been the level, particularly because some of the reported bonuses and stock compensation seemed out of line with the stated level. But we took the Level as it was in almost all cases. It may very well be that companies overpay in certain circumstances.
I'd argue most of the Joneses he's trying to keep up with aren't doing that well themselves.

The median household income in the US is ~$55K/yr. Most Americans don't send their kids to private schools or pay for expensive weddings.

He's not trying to keep up with the average American, he's trying to keep up with the upper-class. And guess what? There will always be someone richer than you.
how frequently will you update this report?
Co-Author here. If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask!
If you are interested in a Markdown Editor App for OS X, Linux, and Windows (not browser based), which also support custom themes, and also supports emojis, and also supports GitHub Flavored Markdown and proper GitHub styles, then go star this repository of mine <https://github.com/niftylettuce/seuss.md>. While I appreciate that this was built with React.js, it still does not solve the problem of the need for a better Markdown editor. I'm almost positive Mou still doesn't have GFM support, and MacDown still has 100% CPU issues.
Makes logical sense that it would be a part of life (once you can synthesize a few things from a given one thing you can build all sorts of logical structures...), but I see there are tons of biological probabilities at play that I don't understand.

How did school manage to make biology so boring? They did it with math too, so I shouldn't be surprised, but damn.

Would love resources on an intro to bio for the CS folk. I'm sure there are some good ones out there.
I connect a large external screen, keyboard and magic trackpad. On the road, 12" works fine for me for doing work. As some others here, I mostly live in tmux.
Legally - you can do some things you figure out in reverse engineering that you could not do if you had the engineer.

Plus, does 1 engineer really know all parts of the Tesla? Can he tell you about the types of lugs used on the wheels? Can he also tell you about the type of glass used in the windows, or the type of leather used in the seats? If cars are anything like software, each engineer knows like 5% of the total product..
> We'd have to look at a meta-study to weed out problems in individual studies

Or we could try not generalising outside the scope of an experiment. The experiment doesn't even cover all faculty hiring.
Totally implausible scenario, but what would happen if Google were to say "to hell with this" and just completely pull out of the EU? Like full-stop, nothing Google touching the EU.

Would there be riots? Would governments try to force Google back? Like, are they so essential to digital life that a complete withdrawal would cause some amount of chaos?

And if that's the case, isn't an antitrust suit a bit disingenuous? Isn't that like saying "hey, you guys are dominating over here, we want you to stop, but we also are going to continue to reinforce your dominance by continuing to use all of your services"?
See my other comment about MacDown having 100% CPU issues, it's a relatively known issue with that app.
But everyone is looking on Amazon first. I know I would. Most have Prime and want to use it above anything else.

Prime isn't sustainable on its own. Amazon can make the loss and still convince investors to stick around. Mom and Pop can't ship you something via airplane for free AND cut price by half.
I would, as long as selling my products with their platform still gives me more profit than not selling with it.
Maybe so, but that definitely didn't used to be the case

What makes you say that? I talk to my parents and my grandparents and they all had to sacrifice for their family.

I can't think of a single time in history when people generally had so much disposable income that they didn't need to worry about money.
I built a version with googly eyes last year. Was the most successful "stupid" project I've ever knocked out.
http://www.cnet.com/news/googlifier-chrome-extension-adds-go...
For money flowing out, if your bank allows you to create "virtual" credit cards/sub-accounts you can use those to make it easier to track where your regular expenses go or at least to notice if something costs more than expected.
We actually suspect that people who are paid less or are underpaid are more likely to report their salaries. For example, it seems like Glassdoor data skews low.
Interesting. Do you have a link to his book / paper back then?
I've a BMW i3. I think the manufacturer said that the majority of people buying the i3 had never been BMW drivers before. . . . Over-priced

It mostly seems to be overpriced, though perhaps tax incentives and gas costs make it more competitive in Europe. In the U.S., it's hard to imagine buying one over a Nissan Leaf or Chevy Volt (especially because the 2016 Volts are getting stellar reviews).
Apparently Manhattan weddings are on average your 401k contribution and then some more expensive than the next highest, Chicago.

http://www.businessinsider.com/manhattan-weddings-are-us-mos...
http://www.today.com/id/5479931/ns/today-today_health/t/how-...

"Incineration is possible, but it isn't as easy as burning the carcass in a fire. Temperatures of more than 1,100 degrees Fahrenheit — sometimes up to 1,800 degrees — are required to effectively neutralize prions. Unlike most bacteria, regular cooking won't help at all.
"Disposal issues are tough," says Barbara Powers, director of Colorado State University's Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory."
What about retirement/pension plans? This also has cash value and should be part of the comparison.
Lot's of new (1 comment) accounts who are giving vaguely positive one-liners around the same time. Can't imagine that's a coincidence...

Looks like a nice website, but the product probably should be a feature among others (email, chat, ..)? Great start though. I could definitely see companies that like to do price quotes (for all customers or just enterprise) wanting this.
Only last month I was talking to someone about one in Scotland ...
I can't comment on the film.

but if demand is strong then exploitation should go down by economics.

Exploitation is rife in all society, the US is unusual in that the welfare state encourages exploitation of the poor. Restaurant staff getting paid $5 an hour in Florida for instance. [1]

But back to your question :

> Have you ever wondered if the women that you're classifying have any reservations about being exposed for your titillation

I provided you with direct evidence that the answer was "no". You seem to have shifted the question to "exploitation" not "reservation".

JJ famously called out the industry but she seems to have few reservations about going back.

[1] http://www.paywizard.org/main/salary/minimum-wage/florida
I wonder what the mechanism in honey is. Normally if you put seed crystals in saturated solutions they'll just grow bigger.
Aiming for once a week, but depends on how much more data we're able to get.
No only that, walmart will use their purchasing power to force manufacturers to make products specifically for them. Examples of this include things like specific SKUs that are smaller so that walmart can sell similar products at a lower price (e.g. 12oz versus 16oz).
These days, it seems like XSS/CSRF are just as common.
This is a company with a $54B market cap and a 2015 pre-tax net income of $10B out of $150B in revenue. Yeah, I think they can spare an extra $55,000 now and again.
You can also argue this same point from a security standpoint. Having a single centralized authentication that users must always sign in to and they are never required to sign in elsewhere will make users more aware of any phishing attempts. If a user suddenly sees a prompt in a different location or from a different service for their credentials they are less likely to just provide the credentials there and question it's authenticity.
Can people who are down voting this please explain edgy? I find the comparison to neighboring counties very ingesting and would like to hear why people disagree.
I did a quick search and this result seems interesting http://www.marinetraffic.com/fr/p/ais-historical-data
Proteins aren't destroyed by cooking. Otherwise you would not be able to get any proteins from cooked meat or beans.

The only reliable method that I'm aware of to denature proteins without making the whole thing inedible is hydrolysis. Gelatin is made from collagen in the skin, bones, and connective tissues of various animals, but Jell-O is generally considered safe.
The wealthiest kings probably didn't have to either.
My understanding is that the fact that viruses are not alive is more of a convention, similar to Pluto not being a planet. This is more of a question than a statement, I would love it if somebody with some knowledge on the matter could chime in.
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The Gamification of KPIs
CoreGeometry for CoreGraphics
Lousy weather after lousy weather is correlated with an increase in suicides (look at the statistics for Norway). So he is right, in a way. The same way that breathing clean air and drinking clean water isn't correlated with anything.