skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not? Consumers have a right to know what they eat. If half the population really wants to know whether products adhere to some religious practices, then so be it, print it on the box. In some cases businesses will voluntary do such things because they see it as beneficial, in some cases they won't and then you have to make into a law. I guess in your example with the religions they would do so voluntarily because what are the downsides? In case of GMOs they won't because they - probably rightly - fear reduced sales and so we need a law. And faith and objectivity, that may be a thin line. What about vegetarians and vegans? And even in case of GMOs there is still a small but non-zero risk of adverse (long-term) effects.
I follow a similar strategy. RE your last point, I think where I live I have about equal amount of telemarketers calling from landline numbers and mobile numbers. I don't know what makes them pick one over the other.
Agreed. And if the caller can't be bothered to leave a voicemail, I can't be bothered to care about why they called me.
By no means should you just use prospector as is. The defaults are pretty good, but if you have a huge project it'll make more sense to do a little configuration, and most of the tools that prospector wraps are configurable. I for one don't use the default lint configuration.

I like dodgy and I actually pull out my secret key from settings.py (I pull it from the system environment). Otherwise you can just disable dodgy by using a custom profile (http://prospector.landscape.io/en/master/profiles.html#enabl...)
The problem here is quite similar to the issue of marriage for all. Technically there is (probably) a majority for it but the CDU which is currently in government is against it.

Additionally there are other issues that are considered more important either because they're more popular or affect more people, so the SPD isn't willing to burn political capital.

Given the current political situation in Germany and more broadly in Europe, there won't be any policy change in this legislative period or the next, so at least ~5 years. In fact there is a risk the situation might get worse in the next legislative period. Hard to predict what will happen beyond that, a lot can happen in that timeframe, Merkel will probably retire and the political landscape could shift drastically in response.
Solomon Golomb, who died this month, is an example of a linguist (in the sense of "speaks multiple languages") who also made fundamental contributions to the theory of digital codes and was recognised for this by NSA (mysteriously "for contributions to a program of national significance" which he never heard anything more about). He was a mathematician, while most linguists (however you interpret the term) aren't.
I'm not confusing anything, but I wasn't trying to be scientifially rigorous, either. By "energy of the momentum" I was referring, admittedly imprecisely, to the fact that the kinetic energy is a function of the momentum. Or, to be precise, E_k=p^2/2m. At least as I understand it.
That confusing zoom bubble slowed my browsing experience to a crawl, so I didn't get past the first couple of pages. Really annoying.
So, if these are the same words that apply to Catholic worship, do the priests have to use euphemisms for tabernacle and host?
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Whoops, off by 29!
> These boiler rooms are really a scourge on our society. I know they scam lots and lots of people.

I dead-seriously believe that telemarketing is a much less honourable occupation than prostitution. At least in the case of latter, you have two willing parties who need something from each other and voluntarily engage in exchange of value. Telemarketing lives of lying, deception and ruining people's lives in borderline-legal ways.
The genome percentages in the article are a bit confusing. It is oft-quoted that we are "99% Chimpanzee", so how could we also be no more than "6% Denisovan"? Answer: they really mean 6 percentage points "realigned" vs the African reference populations. I've read many other articles repeating the "6%" and it would be nice if they (and this) were clearer (and used the correct units--but maybe that's too much to ask).

Some cool charts for reference: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tiny-genetic-diffe...
I also agree with this. I am currently in one of those shared hubs (S&C Sydney). My team is fantastic but it is ridiculously distracting have a bunch of flat desks just up against each other in rows, looking into the face of someone right in front of you. Having some stranger on the desk next door talking about crap that has nothing even to do without my company. It's like open plan but made even worse. I find I am working from home about 3 days a week and slack* seems to help the communications a lot. Going in a few days is great for the moral and needed for shared design but takes a lot away in terms of productivity. (* slack, LOL, the corporate world discovered the same IRC I have raving on about for 20 years+ LOL)
I find your point 1 and 2 to be very insightful. It strikes me as why react native is doing so well on it's platform technology marketing. Different enough: mostly javascript and a consistent mental model for ios, android, and perhaps web. Better in the eye of the user: More shared code, faster tooling and workflow due to compile speed improvements.
To me, the perfect balance between aesthetics, reliability and functionality is the Withings Activité. I've used both Fitbit and jawbone up previously. And I'm incredibly satisfied with my Withings watch.
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
Ethereum is defined by a 32-page spec and has seven independent implementations so far, each in a different language, with only one produced by the organization that Vitalik leads. It might be a bit challenging introducing a back door.
> whoever writes the most code writes the most bugs

I'm experiencing this first-hand now. One colleague is writing lots of code very fast. Problem is, this code is far from perfect, and I spend a lot of time to understand it, and I find many bugs quite often. In the meantime while I'm reviewing, the guy writes even more code...
I highly disagree with this.

There is such a thing as domain expertise. For example, machine learning, compiler design, graphics programming, etc. If you are say, a web developer these people might seem like geniuses to you, and no, you wont' be able to pick up and understand their code. This isn't because it's not documented well enough, or that it's not written well, it's because you lack the domain knowledge to understand it. For example, I've written code that you absolutely will not understand without weeks or more of study in the domain. The code is documented, and has links to science papers that you need to read to understand it. But know that you may need to spend months to learn enough to really know it.

It's not the responsibility of the domain expert to teach you an entire domain. So yes, they may just tell you to trust them instead of telling you to go study some volume of domain work. It would be better if they did the latter, but I suspect that many here would still complain with that answer.
>Rather than selling a product that the farmer can use as they wish, monsanto demands payment for each harvest.

"Demands"? Many GMO products don't create their own seeds so famers have to re-buy them. They do this before the harvest, not for each harvest. I've talked to farmers before and for some types of crops it's a freaking godsend for them.

I don't think "demands" is the right word. It's closer to a subscription service more than a "demand". Are you saying Google "demands" payment when you sign up to Google Apps? etc...
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

HN is for anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. The only time it was purely tech news was when it was called Startup News.
And Room 101 was a meeting room at the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3267261.stm
> When you are poor in Germany you can drastically improve your cash flow by not living in one of the expensive cities.

Well yes and no. I personally find virtually everything is cheaper in a city except that which comes at a premium: rent.

Now of course rent is a big chunk out of your cashflow, but in many European countries housing projects for the poor lock in the rents, such that they don't differ all that much across the country. In some countries, rents float freely, but there's rent subsidies that scale up, such that up to a certain maximum rent, your effective rent doesn't differ much across the country.

But living in the city usually means dramatically higher degrees of accessibility to university education, broad public transport, diverse cultural offerings, job opportunities etc, many of them at a discount to the rest of the country, and subsidised by the rich population and economies of scale.

Take London for example, various studies have shown poor kids do very well because London's infrastructure is so highly developed.

Further I personally feel it's easier to get ahead in cities if you're new, or you're down and out. It's easy to get a restart. Cities are used to strangers, companies are used to hiring unknowns, people are used to meet new people. In rural areas, I feel all of life, whether it's personal relationships or job opportunities, are more dependent on your social connections, relatively speaking. It's harder to start anew, or enter a rural area as a stranger and thrive, in the way one can in a city. But that last paragraph is a personal preference, I'm sure it'll be the exact opposite for others.

Anyway so it depends on the country, I'm not super familiar with the German situation. In the Netherlands though, I'd much rather be on welfare in a big city.
Lions and tigers can mate and have fertile offspring yet no one would consider them the same species [1]. Actually there is evidence that the offspring of ancient African and Neanderthal matings [2] followed Haldan's rule [3].

If this discussion was about anything other than humans there would be no question that Ancient Africans, Neanderthals and Denosovians were anything other than different species.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger

2. http://www.cell.com/ajhg/abstract/S0002-9297(16)30033-7

3. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haldane%27s_rule
They were and the newer arrivals will of course given proper housing. They're still not in any way better off financially than German citizens though. That's just right wing propaganda.
In short, if 1984 must be considered science fiction, then it is very bad science fiction.

But 1984 was clearly not written to be sci-fi; other than the tele-screens it has very little in the way of interesting technology or development. It is intended to be a political story on the dangers of totalitarianism and is normally judged by that standard. Which rightly makes it a classic!
ARIN, et al, provide WHOIS servers that will map IP address information to ASNs. The list of all registered ASNs is also public. Also, there are routing registries which can provide even more information on which ASNs announce which prefixes.

Most of what you'd want is out there, but you might have to obtain it all and doing a bit of work to combine/correlate i all.
He didn't leave a voice mail message? He didn't call 911? He staked his survival on the chance of reaching the son/daughter of one of his employees? Really?
That's not quite true. Restrictions on commercial speech are subject to intermediate scrutiny, whereas the default for most other restrictions speech is strict scrutiny. That's not nearly the same as totally unprotected, like obscenity for example.
It's also possible that Facebook has prefixes they use that are announced by ASNs other than their own.
> (aka 6 month winters)

That's Canada, not Germany.
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I hope people are checking this is actually true. Websites have made this claim when introducing VigLink before and it's turned out not to be the case.
I wrote a Greasemonkey user script to always show any advanced, hidden settings in Jenkins.

I haven't tested it with the newer Jenkins 2.x versions, but you may want to try it to see if it helps.

https://www.opsfordevelopers.com/2015/03/jenkins-show-advanc...
Interesting. Yesterday I came across Greg Egan's hard science fiction novel "Schild's Ladder" (after reading about authors that inspired the story of the swedish game "SOMA"). The main plot is about loop quantum gravity theory (LQG). Egan uses the word quantum graph theory and it seems LQG uses the notion from graph theory.
Nah, this is the direction I'd hate for it to go. I don't think isolating people in bubbles of their direct social networks is good for society. Being able to get called by someone you don't have in your phonebook is a feature, not a bug.

Now I would very much appreciate if calling meant sending a lot more metadata. Like full name/surname and organization to which the number is registered. And then make phones capable of creating filters based on that data. Oh, and companies faking the metadata should be open to lawsuits.
He's a college-educated electrical engineer with IT consulting experience. Why can't he find a job somewhere?

Because ageism is real. I finally got hired to a good job, with a boss who appreciates what I do, but before that happened, I got (rather snidely) accused of "googling the answer," had people blow off my phone appointment, was basically called a "fake programmer," and had people angry at me or look at me like I'm a piece of crap during interviews.

I have never, ever, been treated like this in my professional life, except in the Bay Area. Knowing what you don't know is generally best learned by getting some bruises in the process. Really, the lesson is that not knowing what you don't know can be very extremely painful. It's one thing to know that abstractly, another to know it from direct experience. There are some people who just knee-jerk say you can't do this or that. There are other folks who have enough experience to have a good feeling for how to navigate what they don't know, in such a way that the team can see it coming.
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The 99% is basically wrong. What it is referring to is that for 99% of genes you can find in humans you can find an ortholog in chimps. It tells you nothing about the function of the genes in the two species and is basically meaningless from a functional perspective.
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Then what's the whole point of using this blacklist at the first place?!
So what's your theory as to why this Indian Call Center Recruitment Situation (tm) is so prevalent? One big agency, Mitchell Martin, just got on board. Surely they would know that contacting a NYC or SF resident for a job NOT in NYC or SF but in a small town in Rhode Island, Ohio, Texas, etc. is truly a needle in a haystack? Someone is paying someone else money to get people to talk on the phone with people who live in the former places, to chat about positions in the latter places.

Either the world has gone mad, or there's a business reason for the above discrepancy given how extremely widespread (I say, daily and via numerous agencies) it is.
The housing may be free, but much of it is nothing even the poorest Bavarian would want. I volunteered at a converted old Praktiker (big box hardware store that went out of business a few years ago). It was a huge open space that had hanging curtains to make rooms for families. We tried to teach them German, but it was so loud that it was really hard for them (or for us) to hear and concentrate. Gradually, they got moved out to better places, but we've still got a container building of refugee apartments in the town where I work.

I'm glad my tax Euros are going towards sheltering them, though. I'm from a very Baptist part of Texas and find it deeply ironic that living in Germany puts me much closer to living in a Christian society than where I grew up.
Is there python for Arduino? :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_(Internet)
> Their economic model depends on uninterested parties hanging up as quickly as possible. To disrupt their economics, take their call.

You're right, though in all fairness, your solution doesn't scale fast enough. Most people won't altruistically do something like you did. We could use something that would be easy to set up and that would start generating significant costs for the callers without bothering callees much.

RE Lenny, how is one even supposed to use that? :o.
The article does mention advances in supercapaciter design as one of the enabling technologies, but I suspect just charging the things requires a ton of power. Let's do some back of the envelope physics with what we know (and reasonable ball park guesses when we don't)!

It's traveling 4K mph or about 1800m/s, let's assume since its 24in long and largely tungsten it has a mass of around 60kg. 1/2 * mass * velocity ^2 means it needs 97.2 megajoules of power. That's about 4 seconds for a 25MW reactor, so I guess you're right something smaller could fire it less rapidly, though the one every 6 seconds they cite as desired would require that much power.
That conception of what a species is has been my understanding as well for a long time. It's a very simple and clear concept but apparently biologists have given up on it for various reasons. There's actually a whole wikipedia article about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_problem
I'll admit to not reading the article, but I would not be surprised if a real judge ruled that way almost as fast. It seems to me that it doesn't matter what it is (pieces of paper, bits of metal, whatever); the important point is what it is used for. I suspect that cigarettes or bottles of laundry detergent would also be considered currency in a money laundering case if that is the purpose that they served.
"If two organisms can mate and have viable offspring, and then the offspring can further reproduce, you say the two organisms are part of the SAME species."

Firstly, that's not true.

Even if that were true, there is no evidence of reproductive success between human males and Neanderthal females.
DNS propagation on the public Internet has been 20 minutes or less for the past decade (unless you set a long TTL on an existing zone record, obviously.)

You can get a cheapo SSL certificate in about 5 minutes if you've made one recently, otherwise it takes me about 30 minutes to jump through all the hoops.
Apparently, that number doesn't have any real research behind it to begin with. What's being questioned is the seemingly arbitrary number itself, not the concepts, as far as I can tell.

Of course getting out and walking is good for your health. Keep it up!
The thing is that there's already a huge amount of manipulation by billionaires. Read up on George Soros and Carlos Slim.

Thiel funding a lawsuit against a website that specifically wronged him is so mild that it's just not worth getting upset about.

To me the story seems to be that Gawker was wealthy enough to crush libel and slander lawsuits for years. But in the end, there's always a bigger fish.
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I was never bothered by the Pinterest:

Affiliate links are added if none are present.
If your router runs dnsmasq, it should be possible. It would depend upon your router, however, and how much control it allows you over the dnsmasq configuration.
This was settled back in 2013. Here's the judicial decision, from the Trendon Shavers case. Shavers was running a Ponzi scheme ("Make 1% a week") denominated in Bitcoin. The judge ruled that, no matter what thing of value your Ponzi scheme uses, it's still a Ponzi scheme and illegal.

The SEC and the CFTC have agreed that Bitcoin will be treated as a commodity for regulatory purposes, so the CFTC regulates it.

[1] https://ia800904.us.archive.org/35/items/gov.uscourts.txed.1...
I guess, maybe universal salaries, and free school, medicine will make our societies engage in what is important in life. Be happy, engage with your families and friends.

From what I have seen, this will also result in hordes of people with tons of free time who have useless degrees who haven't been properly trained to think and aren't armed with basic knowledge about how the world actually works. They will then proceed to engage in social media to manipulate their democratic governments to their advantage and to the detriment of their society's future well being.

This has already been happening, but the amount and degree of free time such people have will be increased dramatically, as will their impact on the political system.
Is the problem then that telephone network was designed to be too trusting and lacks robust authentication methods?
In my country, the spammers started to work around the law by saying the number they're calling was randomly generated by a machine, and thus does not come from any database. It's utter bullshit, and AFAIR it got addressed by the government very recently, but no doubt they'll find something else.

In the domain of e-mail spam, we have a law against unsolicited business offers. So what do companies do? They send you their offer, write below something that amounts to "we do stuff like that; if you want to learn more and get our offer, contact us", and then add a disclaimer at the bottom: "this e-mail is NOT a business offer, but only a question whether or not the recipent is interested in receiving one; as so, it does not fall under the regulation #somenumber....".
Because it's considered to be requisite to interact with society, it's necessary to initiate force to collect funds for a safety net? I don't really follow.
Why are the cellphone companies not responsible for these calls? I am paying to receive these calls, in coming calls are not free. Isn't there a class action lawsuit here?
Tap into a smaller sector that you can develop software for. Something that will automate things for them or software that will make them money or save them money.

I would suggest starting with the clients you are freelancing for. My first SaaS came about from a freelance gig.