skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a question that I'm pretty fascinated with personally. When it comes to communications after a major disaster, we continue to plan to rely primarily on 'conventional' radio via e.g. clear-channel AM radio stations and other major commercial broadcasters which have worked with the government to prepare solid contingency plans. For this reason, it's a good idea to own a portable radio or two even though you wouldn't normally use them, and to familiarize yourself with an AM news station (e.g. KCBS 740 KHz in the bay area).

Of course, for two-way communication we are all quite dependent on our cellphones. The cellular networks own mobile equipment and other provisions for providing service in a contingency situation, and ideally there could be no interruption in service (as the generators at many cell sites could hold them until service crews arrive, in the case of loss of electricity, for example). But in practice it's easy to imagine a few scenarios that would have the cellular network significantly deteriorated in a region for days, such as a major earthquake that damaged infrastructure and made it difficult to get equipment and fuel to the area. In the short term, I wouldn't count on it. In the long term, the effort involved in restoring cellular service could be enormous but it would be a reasonably high priority.

It'd be a good idea for more people to own accessible point-to-point radio equipment with a decent range. I don't know how to achieve this though. CB equipment is bulky and now relegated to its own particular subculture. The amateur radio industry has produced a lot of high-quality handhelds but they're designed to be the opposite of accessible. There have been some ideas based on peer-to-peer relay between mobile phones but the range remains very limited. Maybe someone could come up with a good product in this space.
I think that there are various scales of "open-source"-ness, and these scales are moderately aligned with the abstraction layers inherent in the platform-in-use.

Its quite possible to share your source code with your client, who runs it, completely openly. In fact, this is a successful model for countless decades in certain software markets, as well as a standard model of behavior, in general, in software industry.

The way it worked is, you're a programmer->you write source code->the business paying you to write source code builds your code->they run it->customer.

However, this facet, like all other facets in the big gem of our forever-changing industry, is not as prevalent in certain software markets - for example, web&etc. There are still plenty of software developers who are in fact sharing the source - directly with their customers. As per any one of a scale of licenses.

tl;dr - please don't conflate 'open source' with 'F/OSS', et al. If your customer owns the sources, you've opened your sources to them. This is a scale, not absolute, as other ends of the scale include closed-source business models.
A pig almost caused the US and UK to go to war (2015)
In this specific case, I assume people flagged it, which sent it far down the ranking.

In general, the ranking algorithm has a bunch of (not precisely documented) other inputs against spam and flamewars which also can change the ranking from the expected value.
> My Swedish bank offers the same thing and even has an app to generate card

That's a really great idea that I've never seen before - would love to see more banks have this feature
"As the French economist Thomas Piketty reminds us, this is the kind of dynastic wealth that’s kept Europe’s aristocracy going for centuries. It’s about to become the major source of income for a new American aristocracy."
For anyone else who runs into problems with eFax. E-mail them, say you're deaf and therefore unable to call. It worked for me. Often dark patterns have great dark patterns that work in response.
Ouch, that's gotta hurt: "Surprisingly, the tiny number of models that did not exceed the standard were mostly Volkswagens"
"Dynamometer testing is already supplemented by on-road testing using portable emissions equipment, lab testing of cars borrowed from consumers, audits of other industry emissions labs and examination of vehicles chosen randomly from assembly lines, said Valentine, the EPA spokeswoman."

from: http://www.autonews.com/article/20150929/OEM11/150929807/epa...

So the manufacturer apparently does not get to chose the vehicle, which is one reason why the cheating code was present in all VWs with that engine model rather than just in the vehicles used for the testing.
Easy to use step through debugger is the main reason I use an IDE (Eclipse based because its what I know, and doesn't as far as i am aware lead to lock in). Also I have SQLExplorer plugin for the database. I have been tempted to learn Vim or Emacs but I can't really find a good reason to spend the time learning a load of obscure keyboard commands for everything when my IDE appears to do all of those things.

I would welcome opinions on what I am missing out on going the IDE route.
It's not new for the USA. Slave owners did not have to work for a few generations while slavery lasted.
They are all laughing over salad and a half eaten scotch egg. I'm glad I don't have friends like these.
Artificial Intelligence and Music as a Communications Medium
Are Docker Containers the future of virtualization?
Or the ultimate undiscoverable API. It is quite similar to speech input in cars. If you don't know what is valid to say and what not you are quite lost and will probably only use a subset of the total available API. And writing/yelling random things against a device just to check if it will work is something that most people won't do.

This applies to human users, but I think it would be similar for non-humans as well.
That would be about as much of a "bonus" as the Chernobyl disaster was a "bonus" to nuclear power. In other words, a threat.
Thank you for the Farsens link! Really interesting RFID tags.

Out of curiosity, do you know any good sources for programmable, or better yet, open source UHF RFID readers? I've gone through lots of options but none seem quite flexible enough.
Yes! If you put the process covariance aside, then Kalman filtering really just is a linear least squares problem solved incrementally, using Woodbury formula to solve the normal equations efficiently.
Java china bbs
The test is accurate and measures emissions very well. The cars emit NOX at levels lower than the legal limits during the test. There is no mistake during the test and no cheating (apart from VW).

However, when the cars are used by normal drivers, the usage patterns are so significantly different than the test sequences that the emissions profile changes. In the majority of cases the NOX emissions from cars used by normal people exceed the EU limits.

This does not, as I understand it, mean that the cars are illegal. The cars all passed the tests in the test environment. That is the requirement and they met the requirement.

No law is being broken but that is only because the law is not fit for purpose.
I do agree with you that we sometimes feel entitled to something and we shouldn't. However, I remember when Udacity started and it was all ah, yes, oh, uh, free courses, free education, access for everyone.

Charge for it but don't try and fool me with "I am nice and doing good" talk.
"classic feudalism"

I thought that in classic feudalism the lords ("non-working rich") most definitely did have to work to keep their positions - they had to supply men and fight for their king personally when required.

Edit: You can arguably still remnants of this in parts of the British Army - particularly cavalry regiments.
How Does Android Make Money?
Is this using the "LibreOfficeOnline" thing where you can compile LibreOffice to run a server? Or is this something else?

Also, it says it's open source, but I can't find any links to source downloads or a repo?

Otherwise, I'm keen to see how this works. I'd love to offer business customers a way to self-host documents without telling them they have to install an office suite on every single computer.
> ...party inspectors will note active voters who haven't voted yet and report, which generates phone calls or even volunteers dropping by to drive voters to the polls.

Isn't this a great example why it's bad that this data is open.

In Mexico, perhaps volunteers are dropping by to drive voters to/from the polls. With guns.
> If the owners of capital assets whose worth increases over their lifetime hold them until death, their heirs pay zero capital gains taxes on them. Such “unrealized” gains now account for more than half the value of assets held by estates worth more than $100 million.

Those people also derived no benefit from their wealth. They invested their wealth rather than spending any of it.

> The new work requirements haven’t reduced the number or percentage of Americans in poverty. They’ve just moved poor people from being unemployed and impoverished to being employed and impoverished.

I don't know enough about the Clinton welfare reforms to have an informed opinion but having a job makes it a great deal easier to get another job.

> Six of today’s 10 wealthiest Americans are heirs to prominent fortunes.

So 40% of the 10 wealthiest Americans made their own money? That sounds like the mark of a dynamic economy.

There is an interesting discussion to be had about wealth, poverty, work and the relation between them. This article is not part of it.
> [...] don't criticize me for asking valid questions

Your questions are misplaced and have been probably answered before [0]. I'm just astonished by the fact that you are dismissing decades of research by some of the best and most awarded oncologists in Europe. You can't just say that "Manipulating telomeres to investigate aging sounds like a joke", when evidence (98% of the research in the field) points to the contrary.

Maybe you don't not agree with Bioviva's highly dangerous and non-standard methods for circumventing slow and expensive trials (I do not either), but that's another whole issue.

> I can share deep insights after talking to over 100+ people in the pharma industry, visiting labs, and much more.

Thanks but I have a well formed opinion about what happens inside the industry. I've also worked in the space for some years.

> It does not cost a minimum of 1 billion [...]

Current average seems to be $2.6B. Could you share your sources?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2013/08/11/how-the...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2012/02/10/the-tru...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/upshot/calculating-the-rea...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2014/11/18/cost-bringin...

http://www.patentdocs.org/2015/03/guest-post-26-billion-per-...

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/3ocsbi/ama_my_n...
Play's the Thing: How Video Games Taught Me to be Brave
I have been in that situation before. I send them an email stating I wanted to cancel and I got the run of the mill "call this number". The reply proved that they're reading it so I send a reply back that I was unable to call, that they must forward the mail, and they're welcome to call me if they think it isn't me that is canceling. Then I refused any future CC payments and that was the end of it.
She might be able to liquidate some of her founder's stock, donate it to a university, and get an honorary PhD :-)
If you get fallout into my sough dough starter I'm going to to be pissed. There is a small amount of evidence that brewers yeast may be helpful - mostly from sites like the link below.
Simultaneously awful design and alarming advice. Check these highlights.

"Apple Pectin Capsules
This can force strontium through the body, without its being absorbed.

Sunflower Seeds
Eat for radiaiton[sic] poisoning. Source of pectin to attract, bind and eliminate radiation from the system."

http://www.newfoundationspubl.org/shepherdspurse/archiv10.ht...
Using an abandoned free software project is rarely going to be much fun, either. In fact, using actively maintained free software projects is rarely much fun, since many of them tend to often abandon old features and introduce new incompatible ones, and you either have to keep using old versions of everything or update everything at once, breaking a ton of things. (Of course at times you're way better off with a free program than you'd be with a proprietary alternative, but the reverse can be true just as much in other cases.)
It's the same as in C.
An Amateur vs. ISIS: A Car Salesman Investigates and Ends Up in Prison
dupe, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11559616
Google, Facebook have working products people are willing to use and largely based on open technologies, where the competitive advantage is speed to market, network effects, and good execution.
Errors in Go [pdf]
The truth, is modern medicine treating about cancer (chemotherapy, immunotherapy, ..) is putting a bandage on a real underneath problem. It will comes again, may be take some years. One of good actor from my place is passed away with cancer few weeks before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jishnu. He also did chemotherapy few years before.

We should care about these deadly diseases, or DNA mutation, what causing it. Any bug happens, we can resolve it, but losing a person we can't recover.

I am the one of person who also suffering from autoimmune disease.

Sorry for my English.
It's interesting to compare HN's usage frequency of particular xkcd comics compared to elsewhere on the internet (https://xkcdref.info/statistics/)
More central planning!
Why do you need to burn the biomass? Wouldn't simply growing lots of biomass remove the CO2?
Snapchat is hosted on GCP [0], and api.snapchat.com subdomain points to nonexistent App Engine instance [1] so I guess it's GCP's 404

[0] as shown on homepage: https://cloud.google.com/ + more info here: https://gigaom.com/2013/05/07/snapchats-act-of-faith-in-buil...

[1] simply check CNAME record of api.snapchat.com
My customers usually don't look at the code I wrote, only at the pixels on the screen. Some of them even make me use their repositories but I think that in the last few years there was only one quick code review, after a customer got bought by another company. Nevertheless I keep writing tests and all the right stuff because they make my job easier.
Founding or running a slave plantation both required a lot of work. Just because one thing about someone is repugnant doesn't mean that everything else is. Most plantation owners worked at their disgusting trade.
I'm trying to say that this truism of "expensive = worse" is wrong in very many cases. I assert that except software that's a) trivial, or b) "by developers for developers", expensive software is usually better.

Microsoft Office is a good example of software that a) has a very broad audience, b) pretty much every computer user has seen, and c) somehow nobody can make a decent free replacement of.
Google Play Store May Be Coming to Chrome OS
That's what it's like here in Japan: http://www.tokyobybike.com/2013/11/how-to-register-your-bicy...
If I remember correctly, the ranking algorithm penalizes stories that have more comments than upvotes.
Half Your Brain Stands Guard When Sleeping in a New Place
My understanding is that most slave owners where 'middle class'. Sure they could afford a few slaves to help out with the heaviest work on the plantations, but certainly not enough to completely free them of having to work themselves.
s/slavery/company town/
Yeah and especially Coursera is still waving the banner of "free education for everyone" (and asking to pay to support it...) while employing more and more dark patterns to prevent you from getting viewing the for free.
پکیج تور کیش در هتل های ۵ ستاره ویژه ۱۰ اردیبهشت ۹۵
And the paper: http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(16)3...
How to create a service marketplace website like Thumbtack and Taskrabbit?
On the Timing of Time Zone Changes
What's even more interesting is that there is some experimental evidence to suggest that the human brain uses Kalman filters for certain things. I think this was one of the papers about it: http://papers.nips.cc/paper/3665-a-neural-implementation-of-...
Screencast your Linux terminal session in style
“The Software Bits We Release Are Not Our Product”
No idea, and the author didn't have any clue too. Maybe it alludes to Rails being a collection of gems. The part about assignments is hard to figure out, and I'm a Rails developer.
OpenStack Mitaka – What’s New? (Part 2)
Yep. This has made Subscribe & Save nearly useless for me. The convenience factor is entirely wiped out when I run out of laundry detergent because I missed the e-mail stating the product is now no longer eligible.

Amazon became a killer app for me (and most, I presume) due too the UIx. You clicked a button and you generally got pretty-close-to-cheapest priced product delivered very quickly.

Now it's just getting complicated, and you have to expend energy to ensure you're not getting actively ripped off by looking at only Prime items/etc.
In the UK at least, the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations of 2008 imply that it is an illegal sales technique. There has been some success in courts prosecuting this to a degree that most subscription services will also display the full price, less they become the example case.
That guy existed - his name was Ian Gibbons and he killed himself in 2013 apparently.
BUSY.VC – Glassdoor for Venture Capital
One more idea*

In Europe many founders report that fundraising takes too long. While in San Fransisco you run into VC after VC, the decentralised nature of Europe makes fundraising much more of a remote process. In survey entrepreneurs often note, that the biggest problems are (i) that they don´t know where in the process they are, (ii) what their probabilities “odds” are, and (iii) what else the VC is working one. Especially for life science this is a problem, as founders always run risk of disclosing solutions to competitors.

Solution: BUSY.VC

A glassdoor for venture capital. Founders can rank VCs and business angels by (i) how quick they reply, (ii) how helpful their feedback was and (iii) if they would recommend these investors from their experience.

Business model: Pitch 50 VCs at once
The moment a startup decides to raise funding, it´s a difficult to create momentum and demand / competition amongst investors for the opportunity. We help by sending every week a hand-picked newsletter with startup recommendations to a curated pool of investors (approximately 50 investors per startup). There are currently 6000 investors in Europe - founders reach with us all in less then three month (if even needed).

By our peer-review startups can be sure that their pitch, product and value proposition is good and delivered to matching investors - VCs will know that there is a market taking place.

For startups it´s free to judge VCs and to apply to pitch - but we don´t accept every startup. If we don´t think a pitch is ready yet, we provide direct feedback and help in building the pitch.

Investors pay for early access to startups.

Over-time busyvc sees this way as a “fair” knowledge-broker the early stage market much better and more efficient then every small VC.

(…)

* I thought about the idea for a while - thought it could be interesting to hear here what you think :-)
I don´t own BUSY.VC - somebody snapped it recently
This appears mostly to be a summary of a summary of an Intercept piece.

The content of the article was almost decoupled from the title. There's no mention of why two planes would not make a air force. The Belize Defence Force Air Wing had 5 planes in service, so I guess a private air force needs somewhere from 3 to 5 planes before it counts?

In any case, the The War Is Boring piece mentions that these would be the first 2 of 150, if there were a market need. The WIB piece also comments that the 2 planes under discussion are a bad fit for the possible market.
> I've been here since the beginning and I think comments have gotten more hostile since then.

I've been reading HN since around 2010 and to me it seems that there is now less hostility about technical topics but more hostility against anyone who isn't 100% politically correct. I also think that the quality of comments has decreased dramatically since.

> No one outside of HN that I interact with discusses HN, and if there's ever discussion of this stereotype here, I've missed it.

Many IRC communities I'm part of know HN and sometimes discuss it and the stereotype in those seems to be that HN users are overly sensitive, hypocritical, greedy and toxic. Many of them are also former HN users who now hate the site.
Another possibility in contested elections is party members tracking down opposing voters with a comprehensive list of who to threaten/kill and where to find them.
Thank you, feedback always helps us make things better! The next iteration will do this! :)

It's a major overhaul.
The typical approach is to get loans with the "unrealized" stuff as collateral, and then deduct the interest payments from tax owed on dividends from said assets.
info@bostonglobe.com in this case
That's way too messy when you can just threaten the poll workers with guns and stuff the ballot boxes. Or better yet, just be the poll workers yourself and skip the guns entirely.
Yes elva-1 is a Russian company, most likely they're trying to obfuscate that on their English language web presence. It is sort of a shame because they are just as competent as many of the California based microwave engineering firms, and have been around for 25+ years. Their roots are in military radar systems much like some of the Israeli RF companies (Ceragon, etc).
Good similar libs on github :

https://github.com/zurb/joyride

https://github.com/heelhook/chardin.js

https://github.com/linkedin/hopscotch

https://github.com/sorich87/bootstrap-tour

https://github.com/HubSpot/shepherd

https://github.com/usablica/intro.js

Once I had a requirement and ended up trying nearly all of them and unfortunately, had to write my own (took about a day and a half) that accomplished the tour exactly the way I wanted. Off the top of my head, I can't recall what each of them missed but primary reason was that often they take off with a great experience and then the lead developer can't devote enough time to meet the diverse requirements of a huge community. The library ends up with a huge user base with lots of open issues, some critical to the user experience on the myriad of mobile devices.
MARIA RUSSIAN ESCORT – escorts |
Q&A: Bill Gates
I agree that the iCloud brand has generally been a failure. Does anyone ever proudly use their @icloud.com address anywhere? MobileMe is considered an embarrassing failure by many, but I still see @me.com email addresses from time to time.

But technically, iCloud is not really one "thing". iCal, Reminders, Notes and Photos work pretty well, whereas iCloud Core Data is an unsalvageable afterthought. Working on some parts might still be fun.
Adventure Game Gibbous Offers Authentic Transylvanian Soil on Kickstarter
The tests simply don't match modern real-world driving patterns. For example, apparently real-world drivers tend to accelerate much more rapidly than in the test sequence. It doesn't just affect diesel cars either; they tend to over-estimate the fuel efficiency of all cars and presumably under-estimate their pollution levels too.
The web consultants and senior (non-journalist) execs will make money. The Boston Globe itself will lose respectability.
They're getting shafted too but don't realise it.
> It is strongly worth nothing that there has been a shift in comment sentiment/quality over the years.

At least, the feeling that HN changes in one way or the other and some sentiment about these changes is almost as old as HN.