skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lever Launches Nurture to Help Recruiting Teams Double Sourcing Effectiveness
There's one on the website:

http://horizon.io/faq/
The company is still required to list the health effects of the withheld ingredients.

http://www.ilpi.com/msds/ref/tradesecret.html

Also, note that in the MSDS dated 1998 that I linked above, the surfactant is identified by name.
Could not help laughing
How can you prove a negative? Can you prove that you don't beat your wife?

The MSDS process does provide a rather comprehensive treatment of chemicals. It would be ridiculous to prove that every single chemical doesn't cause a rare pancreatic cancer. How do you test that? Human trials? It isn't the money'd interests, it just practical reality. These chemicals ARE tested to some extent.. It would be ridiculous for a company to have to prove their product doesn't cause any of 10,000 types of cancer, diseases or any other ailment.

Then you have pseudo-science forces working against "industry" regardless of facts. DDT is a great example of what happens when we let people like Rachel Carson have the unrestricted ability to effectively libel a product based on discredited science -- leading to malaria almost being eliminated to malaria killing millions of people each year.

Maybe activists ought to have their claims subject to regulation.. They are guilty of scientific fraud. Vaccines, DDT, GMOs, fracking.. They are opposed to those things not based on actual, credible and repeatable science but because pop culture "experts" want to sell books or movie tickets and organizations have a financial interest in promoting their "non-profits."
We Are Coming for You, Tesla, and You, Too, Google, Says Hacker George Hotz
Are you saying people who smoke weed do it for life and death situations?
Okay, I understand where you're coming from. The police should be allowed to do their jobs, and I don't think the article is claiming otherwise, nor am I.

"This should not be allowed to happen" isn't saying the police can't investigate. The "this" that's being discussed is whether they should be able to storm the situation SWAT style with weapons drawn, not whether they should attempt to locate a perp, verify stolen property, or do the proper paperwork.

The problem I have with your argument is that you're glossing over the threat of violence and use of weapons. You're calling that "investigate" and painting it as something demure. I don't feel like you're being completely honest by insisting on calling it "investigate". Drawing weapons is not an investigation, that's a detainment of a suspect. The investigation could have happened another way, it could have involved asking first, it could have involved checking the serial numbers they already had access to, it could have involved everything without the taser, it could have been conducted in private, the police could have announced their intentions and their names and not tried so hard to scare the guy into submission.

Regardless of what the article said, and whether you like it or not, "this" already isn't allowed to happen under the law, it's just not enforced much. The law is already clear that police can't pull a weapon on someone or detain them unless they have reason to believe that specific person was involved in a crime. We already decided this, it's a done deal. So the article is right, it should not be allowed to happen this way.
I understand what you're getting at, and you make a fair point, but you really don't think there's a trend on HN where pretty much every idea is called obvious or terrible by some of the most popular comments on a given submission?

I was hoping to put some red ink on the trend and maybe curtail it slightly, for what that's worth.
> Weren't the beginnings of cross-US rail lines laid back at a time where regulatory frameworks (esp. cross-county/state, and noise emission) weren't that strict as today?

The major cross-US rail lines were laid down when government (IIRC, both federal and state governments) were handing out money like candy for building railroads. It was no more free market than today, its just the orientation of the government involvement was different.

And a lot of the companies created at that time in the industry were mostly created to funnel money from those subsidies into the hands of investors.

You really shouldn't idealize the early cross-US rail period either as one of an absence of regulatory involvement or one of noble value building vs. short-term extraction by capitalists.

Sure, even with all the outright corruption, rail lines to nowhere, and other abuses, there also happened to get some useful, long-lasting infrastructure and organizations with long-term value built. But its wrong to overly romanticize the process that went into that.
Course 6-3, the "computer science" major at MIT, is officially titled "Computer Science and Engineering". Maybe MIT 6-3 grads can call themselves both developers and engineers?
> I think people get riled up about this stuff because Monsanto is a particular bête noire of some leftish anti-science people.

The reverse is true as well. Monsanto/GMO debates seem to be mostly about posturing/signaling, with the two sides throwing pseudoscience and FUD at each other and absolutely no chance of either side reconsidering their stances or taking a close look at the facts. It's more akin to the argument between different religious fanatics, and agnostics or non-believers don't have much to gain by getting in the middle of it.
Ripple Is Hiring for a Senior Software Engineer's (Blockchain/Fintech)
> Real science is actually hard to find on the internet

I start on Wikipedia and then move to referenced sources. Next I move to Google Scholar, sorting by citations.
Point a camera at the spots when unoccupied.Specify the spots exact coordinates to the camera. Set color as baseline. If the color changes by 50% or more, they are occupied. Send alert when all occupied, or when not all occupied.

Now, learn to code it.
Great timing: https://theintercept.com/2016/05/17/new-evidence-about-the-d...
Not everything is a giant conspiracy theory. If society changed to the point where drugs didn't have such a stigma against them, then the politicians would legalize them. They excel at doing things that are popular - be it good or bad things. Case in point Canada with their goal of legalizing marijuana.

It's harder to do that in the US because you have more conservative people who see drugs as morally repugnant. My prediction is blue states will continue legalizing and red states will be the last holdout.
Congrats on the release! I've only hada little time to play with it so far as a beta user, but was super impressed and can't wait to use it on a real project soon. Cheers!
not surprised
I'm shocked!
I did not suggest it caused cancer, I merely provided a spec sheet to back up the earlier claims about a rash.
Seeing things (C) 19100 did make me smile.
> This sounds like things working as they should

This person happened to be able to get the Institute for Justice behind her. Most lower class people do not. They simply get squeezed out, and a la Bastiat we never see them.
I've been syncing basically the same profile for 6 years now. FF lacked that at the beginning.

The Android FF app is also unusable since it doesn't support bookmark folders when using sync, which I don't even want to know what would do to my bookmarks across devices.
To me it's an example of what Hacker News offers people interested in learning [the human, not machine type]. This very article shows how it is a place where there are no long term consequences equivalent to grades: just a wee bit of standard internet asshattery and those complaints about the youth of today that have been in the Western cannon since Socrates was drinking Hemlock.
Although this is about horizon, if you haven't looked at RethinkdB you should definitely check it out.

It's an awesome database for a variety of use-cases.

Personally, I think their query language + support for joins makes it much more useable than MongoDB (which I've used quite a bit).
I think it's amazing that it's working with real RxJS streams for changes now - given how Redux store now returns an observable thing, Cycle is Rx based and Angular 2.0 uses a lot of Rx.

This guarantees that things will interop nicely with eachother and we'll be able to use Rx all around.
No, I really think it boils down to screwed up priorities. You can frame that any way you want, but it boils down to valuing pizza sales (or any other kind of sales) more than solving this.

On the other hand, I have been homeless for nearly 4.5 years. Putting up with classier bullshit has made me question my high ideals. Caring about doing the right thing seems to only bite me in the ass. It neither makes money nor gets respected. Just today a project of mine created to be helpful to people was described as sponsored content.

I am pretty fed up. We live in a shitty world. Trying to make things better gets nothing but shit in response.

I wish I could just check out and stop caring. But, unfortunately, I am not likely to win the lottery, so I am failing to find a path forward on taking the position of "Fuck you, got mine."

Anyway, this was perhaps bad timing on your part for posting this here. My grumpiness about the world isn't intended as a personal attack.

Take care.
Fair enough and thumbs up for actively replying. In my view you could improve my customer experience by reducing the feeling of getting into a sales funnel.
I have a personal line that works for me to determine wether something is spyware or not:

Do I have a universal toggle to shut off all "telemetry" data? If not, then it's spyware.

If it spies on me making it difficult or impossible for me to disable the spying, then what really makes it any different from traditional malicious spyware other than the intention? (if there's any difference to begin with)
Red tape.
I felt similarly about Sun, but then Oracle bought them.
US Navy to Spend 11M on D-Wave Quantum Computing
Very simple and fun little project. Great job.

The main problems to solve that I see are;
1- does not actually detect a vehicle, just motion
2- can only detect motion for one vehicle at a time
3- so now you know cars are going fast, but, what do you do with this data (how do you alert or punish them)

1 is a little tough to solve since it requires training some kind of classifier. 2 is not so bad if you use a velocity field and track individual objects via bounding box. 3 is basically another project. On that note, is it legal to have a speed meter on your front lawn?
Well I've got the raspberry pi, mjpeg, a camera that works. Just need to make the logic work. Here is what I'm stuck on. http://i.imgur.com/pIy3QNt.jpg
That's just new-age bootstrap bullshit. For many of these families, they are one paycheck away from poverty and homelessness. There is no 'suck it up' when your kids are hungry. There is no money to leave behind the communities they know, where their social supports also exist. Your statements strike me as incredibly naive.

That they need training to find new employment is a given. But, that they should be aware of the goings on in technology, or that they should just pull their boots harder to get out of the mud are both very naive statements.
There are two big items missing from this list

Empathy and understanding of users: If you don't know who your building for, and how they will use your app, you have no way of knowing if your doing the right thing or wasting time.

An understanding of business and accounting: Working for a startup and don't know what a cap table is. Does your businesses numbers make sense? Are your efforts going to capex and is it appropriate.

Some of these things can be forgiven of a Jr. engineer. By the time your a lead, you should have a solid grasp on both of them.
Thank you. I did watch it last night. It is excellent. I was unaware of it when I made my remark. I don't own a TV.
Applications of NLP at Quora
> Also, their 'please renew' campaign was quite deceiptful, sending us some kind of "you owe $$$!!!" notice that was really "you owe $$$ if you want to resubscribe".

It amazes me how the entire magazine industry is like this. The most staid and respectable publications have circulation departments that make my local used car dealer look like a saint. It's a huge disconnect, and has always bothered me.
Coding school 42 plans to educate 10,000 students in Silicon Valley for free
Isn't this something that could be fixed with an extension?

A quick google (heh) brought me to the FXChrome add-on [0]. 100k+ users.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fxchrome/
Home Wifi Alert Pro APK v8.3 Download App for PC
Facebook Democratized the News, but New Changes Do the Opposite
How does this differ from Meteor?
Rich User Experience, UX and Desktopization of War (2014)
Computer Science and Engineering:

https://www.eecs.mit.edu/academics-admissions/undergraduate-...
The challenge, of course, is snow.
Don't forget that the cost estimate included drilling holes in mountains for magically minature amounts of money than current technology provides.
> Being racist

That word doesn't mean what you appear to believe that it means. I do not hold the belief that one race is superior to another, nor do I hold the belief that society should exploit or disadvantage individuals based on their race. Therefore I am not being racist, nor was my statement.

It's perfectly within the bounds of reasonable discourse to question the underlying assumptions of another's worldview to show that their assertions come from a biased perspective that requires examination.
Hey it's my life in a nutshell.
I pretty much agree as someone who does UX UI and design for some of the biggest companies around.

I look at something and if it annoys me I know it annoys a lot of people out there, then I rip it out or figure out a way that is less annoying.

Rule 1-10 don't annoy people with your website
Rule 11-100 keep it simple

I don't suggest my personal approach for everyone because there is no accounting for taste, and I am way more cynical and easily annoyed than most so that helps me in this field lol
Thanks for this. I would have been happier if the authors had phrased their findings in term of differential privacy rather than the effectiveness of the algorithms they were able to achieve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy

When setting policy, it is better to have theoretical mathematical results rather than empirical effectiveness, since you can bet the technological frontier of privacy violation is a moving one. As with cryptography, you want solid foundations in unbreakable maths -- not 'we can't break this cipher with what we know today'. Probably, someone can.
It's a place where metadata can prove useful.

Sci-Hub works largely through an applied identifier, DOI (though URLs also work), which is a unique-per-article identifier present since the 1990s. Earlier gets a bit difficult.

Title, author, date, and publisher, you know, what your uni essays instructor always insisted on for footnotes, are pretty good identifiers, and will likely be meaningfully unique. Adding a publication location (as in a newspaper byline) also helps.

Ironically, many news organisations fail to include such information not only on individual articles but anywhere apparent on their website. You'll get city, and possibly county, but not a state or province or country. This in an age of, literally, worldwide access.

Otherwise, The Internet Archive does yoeman's work in creating a permanent record, where they're allowed to.
And PubMed is pretty good for health related things:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

Cochrane reviews are about as good as it gets, but it looks like they don't have anything on glyphosate:
http://www.cochrane.org/
True, but morphine and opiates in a known bad along with cannabinoids not sounding much better. Acronyms and "compounds" don't set off the hate generally.
> I think people get riled up about this stuff because Monsanto is a particular bête noire of some leftish anti-science people.

Monsanto is also a particular bête noire of lots of pro-science people working in the same industry.

For a tech-industry comparison, think of the worst views of Microsoft at the height of its monopoly.

Unfortunately, some people use (sometimes legitimate, sometimes not) issues with Monsanto to attack the idea of GMOs generally.
The ship has sailed, Microsoft. You had your chance and you held the Web back for a decade. Where would we be right now if you didn't hinder the progress. Nice try anyway.
Oh Rly? How about this.

First Bloomberg news is partially owned, and much run by Micheal Bloomberg a liberal politician. It's 'news' pieces are highly slanted with a liberal bias. It's nice that they have positioned itself as financial news, as opposed to being something like Slate, take a look inside your self, in how you would respond to a news article coming from "Trump News" in another universe and decide if you would be so critical so somebody making a disparaging comment about that.

As for this particular article, it's first sentence makes the declaration that if you agree that more should be spent on infrastructure, your part of the "all right-thinking", which of course implies that to not think so is definitely "wrong-thinking". Great, glad we got this bit sorted out early.

Then I get to hear the author talk about why he doesn't think unions are the problem. While he has a couple lines relating to why they might be a relationship there, he doesn't really think so because he will use the ending line in the paragraph to explain why that premise is wrong. Ya know, a simple debate tactic where I entertain your silly notion for a minute before leaving the audience hanging on all my reasons why that notion is false.

I suppose it was low hanging fruit to simple knock Bloomberg like that, but in the quest to learn about the world you find quite a bit politically loaded junk, that it deserves to be called out, just like this piece.

A respectable piece calling for more spending & greater efficiency in infrastructure spending should have spelled out how many hundred of billions of dollars are currently spent, what are the serious infrastructure problems effecting us today are, and what our realistic options are for prioritizing a getting more for our money.

This piece is nothing more than a shallow reinforcement for a certain type of thinking regarding spending more government money and how unions are great.

//that's how
Fellow Seattlite here... Do you have details on those building restrictions? I'm trying to come up to speed, but the complications of building in the city are more than I was bargaining for...

Context for non-locals: Seattle is on track to become SF with about 100k new residents each year and an already large housing shortage. The city is struggling to combat it, with regulations designed to force new construction to include affordable units, rather than letting existing inventory move down market with age. If they're taxing dense construction on top of it, I'm inclined to make a few calls to learn more...
How Do You Get Ahead of Your Competition with Live Audio Chat on a Website?
Personally, I'm all for fighting pedophilia and every other form of child abuse, but this: "every person who is in a position to fight the unnecessary consumption of [your condemned choice] and doesn't, is complicit in the destruction of [whatever]" is a nasty fallacy that should be stopped on the spot every single time! Otherwise there is no limit to the liabilities under which anyone can be subdued!
Or maybe just show a spinner to communicate "doing some intense computation"?
Forget encryption, below the noise floor data modes like JT65 must be ridiculously hard to detect.

Of course, what really renders this all moot is the Internet. That giant blind drop in the sky (cloud?).
On paper that's interesting. I'm skeptical that the national government can do that well, however. The rollout of the ACA websites makes it clear that the government isn't good at producing that sort of product.

Furthermore, the premise of the article is that the government is very inefficient. I'm not sure $1.6M is a fair estimate for the cost of this sort of product. There are millions of teachers in the U.S. not to speak of parents, administrators, and kids.

I'm open to providing incentives to make this sort of progress more feasible. I'm partial to better support of open source software that meets these ends (like tax deductions for time or cash contributions to OSS projects the government uses).
I'm wondering how this works (or if it does) with GraphQL subscriptions. https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/3711
You appear to be making a false equivocation, stating that Monsanto's Roundup is safe because glyphosate is safe. On the other hand there are lots of studies showing that Roundup appears to cause health problems, which are likely to be based on the additives. The study from the University of Caen:

>POEA was recognized as a common inert ingredient in herbicides in the 1980s, when researchers linked it to a group of poisonings in Japan. Doctors there examined patients who drank Roundup, either intentionally or accidentally, and determined that their sicknesses and deaths were due to POEA, not glyphosate. (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/weed-whacking-herb... cf http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/tx800218n, http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/tx200072k) //

So presumably you consider POEA to be completely safe as you said Roundup is safe and that, what, the medical authorities reported of here are either misreported or mistaken?
A lot of it seems to be the anti-science folks who are against GMO's and the like, and Monsanto is a convenient bad guy. Most of the actual science and law doesn't seem to look that bad for them once you get past the "outrage!" articles.

Of course, like many a large company, they do have some ugly history in their past, and I'm sure they're not perfect, so I guess that makes it more convenient. However, yeah, it does make discussing specific things kind of difficult.
It's off-topic, but I'm deathly curious - what kind of sexual misconduct is so serious that two people consensually meeting warrants a jury trial, complete with subpoenaed phone logs?

I suppose if one of them were underage...
The IARC calls _many_ things "probable human carcinogens".

I assume you drink alcohol (and if you don't it's likely not because the IARC classifies it as a "probable human carcinogen")?

Here's a quote that I think sums it up well:

"To take an analogy, think of banana skins. They definitely can cause accidents – but in practice this doesn’t happen very often (unless you work in a banana factory). And the sort of harm you can come to from slipping on a banana skin isn’t generally as severe as, say, being in a car accident.

But under a hazard identification system like IARC’s, ‘banana skins’ and ‘cars’ would come under the same category – they both definitely do cause accidents."

http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2012/06/14/diesel-fu...
Here is a paper from 2011 where they claim 7 or 8 bits/cell
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=587322...

This research seems to take program/erase cycles into greater account.
Do we have a better source on this claim?
Engineers design passenger aircraft, rockets, cars, and medical devices without needing licenses - the products themselves are strongly regulated. Requiring the engineers developing the product to carry licenses will just raise the overhead cost of developing such products.

I think the key difference is certifying the product when there are multiple instances of the product being made is cheaper. For civil engineering, most of the projects are unique (and even if the design is something of a copy - then the sites present unique challenges). So maybe it makes more sense there to license the engineers.
PostgreSQL at OSCON 2016
> In regards to fueling, would you make that more efficient by adding a larger fuel tank or fuel car.

Or have someone at the gas station fill up the trucks like it was decades ago.