skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why we are talking about cash on deposit

Because the companies do not have cash hoards. They put cash in a bank. The bank loans the money out to people who spend it.

The idea that corporations are Smaugs with mountains stuffed with gold coins needing to be liberated by hobbitses and merry bands of dwarves is a fine fairy tail, but is not how modern economies work.

(The amusing thing about Smaug's hoard is it was so ridiculously large that if it was spent by the dwarves, the value of gold would completely collapse to the point where it'd be used to make plumbing.)
Is this still a thing?

I ask in seriousness, as commodity smartphones with small production runs, less than 100k, and earphones, even USB cables, now exist at very low prices, production runs and seemingly margins.

Or has the mold part got easier, allowing different shapes/sizes without burning, and the colourants / dedicated white production line now standardised?
Yeah, bright mostly blue-white in the morning. I also work by a window, and at night move to shades of dark red.
Not really. Hotlink protections at present check the Referer header to see if the request was initiated by another site. Not only can this be bypassed on a browser level, HTML5 allows <a> tags to have the rel="noreferrer" attribute, which prevents the referrer from being set.

This proposal allows sites to set a cookie (essentially, an authorization token), that must be actively sent for data to be available, and which can only be sent when the site being browsed matches the domain on the cookie.
Disable 3rd party cookies and everything will be treated as Same-site cookies. It's how browsers should be configured by default.
I think that in most instances, medical professionals are absolutely right to respond this way. They have just as much right to respond to people who write misleading or false things about them as the baker around the corner does. The fact that they provide medical care doesn't mean that people should be able to walk all over them.

As to the issue of revealing personal medical information, the patient decided to put their information up first (at least in the cases I was able to read about). At that point, any expectation of privacy vanishes completely, and they have no one to blame but themselves.

Alternatives:

1) Restrict how doctors can respond to reviews. Consequences: doctors will sue patients to get misleading comments removed, require that patients sign away the right to comment on review sites as a condition of care, and barring that, doctors would have yet another reason to leave/never enter the profession. (And they have plenty of reasons to leave already! Go ask your doctor!)

2) Restrict what patients can say about doctors. Consequences: patients lose access to potentially valuable information about their doctor.
It's amazing that neither the article nor the 100+ comments take into account that the Olympics will occur in August, which is winter in Brazil. Truly Rio doesn't freeze but historical numbers of dengue infections for example are the lowest during that month. By a factor of 300 in some data.
Of course 1 infection is one too much, but if weather comes in as it usually does, August won't see many mosquitoes attending the olympics.
Frankly I don't understand what are these terrible secrets that people are comfortable sharing on a public web site for everyone to see, but not comfortable with everyone seeing them. I just fail to see the pain. Discomfort, sure, but pain and suffering?
Palantir's (and Facebook's and numerous other "social", adtech, and other current-wave tech companies) roles in depriving individuals of privacy, particularly in contrast with Thiel's actions, goals, and methods here, absolutely bear airing.

I've no love for Gawker at all, I've blocked most of the related properties as not worth the bits. But Thiel's actions here are deeply troubling. In large part for precisely the hypocrisy your parent post notes.

(It'd be nice if HN showed more than just the immediate parent post in the compose page).
Probably means from India or nearby.
It is the idea of unikernels, but the question of "why isn't everybody doing that?" is still valid.

And the answer (IMO) is that in the end your unikernels are just fat applications and your hypervisor is just an emaciated OS. The abstractions are at the wrong places and you can't properly optimize resource usage because the hypervisor has to treat the guest OS as a black box. Otherwise it's eventually going to cease being a hypervisor and be a cruft-laden kernel.
>> is a kid who must work any more miserable than an adult who must work?

Yes, if that working deprives them of an education. Or if they work in conditions that an adult would not tolerate. Or if their pay is paid to someone else (ie parents renting out children). Or if their status as "children" or "wards" of their employers results in them having fewer rights than adults in the same employ.
Clickle raised a bunch of money from high profile people, and it was nothing but vapor.
The Yelp clone was scary, yes, but this is pleasant. I'll try this when I get back home today.
As long as universities and funding bodies - i.e. your potential employers and the people who give you money - judge you by the quantity of your publications and the impact factor of journals you publish in I'm afraid this won't happen.

We'd need a different way to judge someone's scientific output which is definitely hard - do we start to check Twitter or blogs for scientific outreach? Do we judge scientific "novelty" (of which maybe only the author herself/himself is the expert in, so only s/he can properly evaluate)? Do we start to evaluate preprints (biology doesn't do this much)? Many open questions, and not much is happening in terms of change.

(Edit: This is, by the way, one of the reasons why there is so much more Arabidopsis than Wheat research - Arabidopsis is easier to manipulate and grows faster, so you can get more publications out for the same amount of work)
What about white with texture? Definitely understand white shows artifacts on glossy textures very readily, but we've had decent luck with Mold-Tech textured whites at admittedly very small volumes (1-5K).

Color match is still rough though.
Fantastic tool! I wish more code visualization tools like these were available.

Great job.
There was a long article (maybe Vanity Fair or Esquire?) that pointed out how Apple put up 1B to Foxconn for building an Apple dedicated factory where the factory processes would be dictated fully by Apple.

In the lost interview of Steve Jobs, Jobs says this:

I’ll give you an example. When we were building our Apple computers in a garage, we knew exactly what they cost. When we got into a factory in the Apple II days, the accountants had this notion of a standard cost, where you kind of set a standard cost and at the end of the quarter, you would adjust it with a variance. I kept asking: why do we do this? The answer was, “That’s just the way it’s done.”

After about six months of digging into this, I realized that the reason they did this is that they didn’t have good enough controls to know how much it’s going to cost. So you guess. And then you fix your guess at the end of the quarter. And the reason you don’t know how much it costs is because your information systems aren’t good enough. But nobody said it that way.

So later on, when we designed this automated factory for the Macintosh, we were able to get rid of a lot of these antiquated concepts and know exactly what something cost.

If you know what exactly something costs during manufacturing, now you can optimize it.
hmmh... the CPI is for many items the source for the GDP deflator, which incorporates all the hedonic adjustments.

The weights are different (reflecting the different weight in the GDP vs. the CPI reference basket, also depending whether you refer to the implicit GDP deflator, the fixed-weight deflator, or the chain-weight deflator.)

Also, to compute real GDP you additionally have to estimate prices for a lot of things that aren't in the CPI, but might be in the PPI, import prices etc.

GDP just takes all the other stats on prices, consumption, investment, government spending, brings them into a consistent system of national accounts. Nothing generally superior or inferior, and all these stats including a hefty dose of judgment and a large margin of error.

http://www.bea.gov/papers/pdf/NABEspeakernotes.pdf

There's always someone will argue it's unsound, just as someone will argue the merits of one programming language over another, but the people who make the judgment calls are pretty well-versed in what they're doing and do the best they can.

if you think the GDP contribution of owner-occupied housing, i.e. imputed rent, corresponds to a physical quantity proportional to entropy, more power to you!
> As opposed to reasonable racism?

It strikes me that both "racism" and "anti-racism" live on an axis that is orthogonal to "reasonableness". Both views seem to commit the believer to strongly-held assumptions that cannot be falsified.
No, deuterium-deuterium fusion reactions usually produce helium-3 and a neutron. Due to the conservation of energy, producing helium-4 requires the emission of a gamma ray. This happens rarely because, since the strong nuclear force is stronger than the electromagnetic force at small distances, fusion reactions tend to release energy as protons and neutrons rather than gamma rays.
A robot that sorts and folds laundry.
How much would their $400 6x9 rug cost in the US after markups?

I'd love to have a few nice rugs but that price seems very low. I'm curious at what volume does it make sense to go there, buy, and ship back rather than buying ones that have already been imported.
SmartOS is really just a distribution of illumos; so are OmniOS, OpenIndiana, etc. We are all very similar as we push and pull from our common source base.

When Oracle took the source closed again, they essentially forked their own private product. They have diverged significantly enough from everybody else that it's not really helpful to include them in the same family anymore.

tl,dr: we just call it all "illumos" now.
Ask HN:Suggestions for accepting payment in India
I am a full time dev , with a side project . My side project is complete and I would like to put it online and collect payment . Are there any good recommendations for payment gateway ? Most of them require to register a company . I would like to have custom branding if possible and transaction fees is not an issue as long as services are good .
ARM were not really a chip company. The parent, Acorn Computers, produced the BBC Micro. They didn't sell the physical chips as a product.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Computers
It's just a data point. I have no idea how they really compare, or which one is in "worse" shape. As a DC resident, I know the impending metro shutdown is going to be a disaster.
They're just simple IR sensors - they can detect when IR is shining on them, but not from which direction. Put another way: each one is the equivalent of a single pixel in a camera sensor.

Position is determined by watching the timing very closely of when each sensor detects the IR sweep, and then doing the math given those timings and the known orientation of the sensors relative to each other.
In a Louis CK "Everything is amazing and nobody is happy" way.

Because in a non-agrarian-utopian way, we've managed to eliminate food insecurity. I think completely. If we could actually move it all around properly, nobody need starve.

People starve because food is ... inconveniently located.

So I am an Okie. I got an orange every year in my Christmas stocking. Okay, so it's an orange. Only years later did it dawn on me - people didn't have oranges. My parents didn't have oranges. In my lifetime ( or perhaps theirs; don't get too detailed on me ) , this happened.

The sheer mass of human activity behind that symbol is .. terrifying. Throwing it away... I don't know how that works.

My uncles, granduncles all farmed. It like to killed 'em. Now, it's just ... button pushing.

We have no idea what we came from and what is at stake. And that is what makes me sad.
Here's another:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w8J5BWL8oJY
How is its execution considered "poor"? Do you have any idea how difficult it is for an American to open a non-American bank account outside of America due to FATCA?
My quoting the word "anyone" was meant in the context of the parent post including its additional filtering of the set of people being referenced.
You seem to be missing my point, which is that just because 10 years has passed, does not mean it took 10 years to make. Did you try it last year? Was it good then (yes)? Then now we know it only took nine years to make. Did you try it the year before? Was it good? If so, then we know it only took eight years to make. And so on.
The culture of software development and the open-source community
"Palmer owned most of the company"

Not really. Even before that whole kickstarter campaign he was just a founder.

Roughly, the deal was: Palmer giving full power to Iribe, Iribe helping Palmer with investors/kickstarter.
The idea of the transistor was patented in 1926, but it took all the hard work of making a transistor by the Bell Labs team for discrete transistors to become a reality.

See [1] for an excellent summary of the birth of the transistor.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Crystal-Fire-Transistor-Information-Te...
Experience with PornHub's bug bounty: Scornhub
"Our" might be a stretch; the children of Mother Europa are quite diverse unto themselves, so one person claiming to be "European" only begins to make sense under "enemy of my enemy..." conditions.

But "all of Europe" seems feasible to me. Facebook does have a massive outreach coming from the Internet, after all.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six had a created virus released at the Olympics as a plot point.
Simple GUI manipulation is easy.

Repetitive or complex GUI manipulation rapidly gets tedious or intractable. There are reasons people adopted powerful symbolic representations and operators. These have learning curves, yes, but also very high payoff functions.
I've actually been thinking of filing several of such complaints for a while, but it's sort of been on the backburner. However on monday I'll see if I can get copies of the original communications and get the complaints filed.

Rather unlikely that any prosecutor would pick them up, but who knows?
really cool data visualization
I only learned this recently, but it's actually spelled "just deserts".

Although desserts (sweet confections) are often associated with rewards, the word "deserts" refers to the element of distributive justice.

Source: I wrote a paper about this for a class and got a C+.
My first thought was a pop singer\model from the Tutsi ethnic group but that didn't sound right, so i googled it.
Life in the fast lane: Businesspeople are learning from Formula 1 drivers
This makes me think of Peter O'Toole wearing that shining white ... garb in the middle of "Lawrence of Arabia" in defiance of all the filth in the desert.

Lean did it because he could and because it reinforced the messianic oveure into which the character had fallen. And because it looked amazing in all that light. It still does. The failed theater at which I first saw this on posters kept that image for ten years or more.

But understood in the context of all that history, we gain that Lawrence was the agent of so much destruction. Destruction that we barely understand now.

So I hope all that gleaming white was worth it. Because I'd hate to think of the price we paid to get away from putty color.
Has anyone tried Hound? How does it compare with Echo/Google Now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2RK3z6aiQc
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXVfDSAcpnhMCYGPuFGFIMw
True, but this would change in an instant if anti-consumer practices were used by Valve.
At first I defended the Facebook buyout because it seemed like a logical move. I feel Oculus was pressured into the buyout because valve was about to kill them. Truth is, Carmarck joining the team made it all that much sweeter.

If you read through the lines of some of Palmer's communications, it's obvious that there is a rift between Oculus and Facebook that no one is talking about. Carmarck, being Carmarck keeps pushing even when the top tries to push you down. Reading the tweets, it's obvious that he remains focused on the technology, which is a good sign.

In the end, I think Oculus is facing a backlash because of the buyout, and their 'simular' to Origin approach rings bells of many gamers and how EA continues to alienate them.

Microsoft proved it could compete with the Xbox. Oculus just needs to change its game or get away from its overlord. Blizzard had some fallout with Diablo 3, it happens.

The real question for Oculus, now is, what is your next move?
Deep learning and robotics qualify as far fetched tech? Anyone with a laptop and one of a dozen open-source frameworks can get started with deep learning today. Rendering a 3D object that blends in real time with a person's perspective of their physical environment and beaming it directly into their retina seems far more far fetched.

Perhaps the deep learning using robotics is simply related to this larger task, for example controlling the projecting element to account for retina movement or something similar.
Sensitive code _is_ in the repo, you just can't read it. This allows you to change library code, run the tests of the sensitive application code, and know that it worked, without being able to read the sensitive code.
Not sure you recall correctly. I checked the Kickstarter [1], and I didn't see anything along those lines in the video, the description (which doesn't seem to have been modified, per archive.org), or the first few updates. If Luckey talked about that, I think it was somewhere else.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-...
Seriously? Where's American sense of humour? btw, I am Asian, and seriously speaking down vote is racism.
The point isn't that this is uniquely a product of the internet; it's that the internet (and the other features of the Information Age in general) magnify our ability to propagate inaccuracies, fruth-y myths, and blatant falsehoods faster, more widely, and more convincingly than ever before.
Dying Infants and No Medicine: Inside Venezuela’s Failing Hospitals
Yep, that's the ring Harry Porter is on.
I feel very bad about comparing Schneier to Raymond. It's not a valid comparison. I was less clear on who Raymond was when I made it.
Just a fair warning, setcontext is horrendously slow. It seems to be doing kernel transitions or something. It's about 600 times slower than longjmp with jmpbuf stack pointer hacking, which is itself already about twice as slow as an ideal assembly version.
>(more ideally) an Asian woman center frame

Why? What's so special about them?
I am actually going through this right now, as I have begun to take female hormones this year. I don't cry as often as the author does (not yet, anyway), but it's increased noticeably.
Canada Is Using Lasers and Robots to Study a Mysterious Curling ‘Frankenbroom'
Stuck in Your Parents’ Basement? Don’t Blame the Economy
Carmack tends to not particularly care what the business side are up to. He wants to focus on pushing the tech forward and not get bogged down with the office politics or PR spinning beyond what he's forced to do.

Hence John Romero...

Carmack is more of a Woz type character, hence why there is great respect for him in the industry. Many a developer merely dreams of being let loose on the tech and not have to deal with any of the "bullshit".
Texture makes any color much easier to deal with, as it makes mixed colors, materials, and shrinkage less visible.
It has an ARM implementation, but there are lots of subtle ARM variations. You'd probably have to tweak it a tad, but the core ARM cothread switching code is a mere three instructions, so it shouldn't be too hard to adapt:

0xe8a16ff0, /* stmia r1!, {r4-r11,sp,lr} */
0xe8b0aff0, /* ldmia r0!, {r4-r11,sp,pc} */
0xe12fff1e, /* bx lr */

If you do, send me a patch and I'll merge it upstream.
Or, you could create a separate issue for designing the project and for implementing it. Then cc the PM on both. Done!

At the end of the day, someone should be responsible for completing the issue. Is it a PM? Assign it to them. Is it a designer? Assign it to them.

We use Codetree as well, and it's wonderful. But the key is to use small, focused issues with a single individual accountable for each one.
Udacity?
> Many instructions of machine code can be written as one C statement.

I'm quite aware =) Nested loops, some pointer calculations (dealing with real mode pointers), conditionals with more than one condition, and multi-step math statements seem particularly verbose, compared to their higher-level equivalents. If a piece of code gets kind of complicated, I usually hand-decompile it, and it's usually much shorter, even in fairly-naive C code.
Pong Project [video]
Thanks for posting this, I otherwise I would never have learned about dry-rb, hanami, trailblazer, and rom-rb!
I think several of us are interested in some insight into this world. It seems like you have it and are able to convey it in an easy to understand, compelling way.

I suggest you write a series of blog posts that explain interesting bits and quirks of manufacturing processes that the rest of us outside of the industry don't really think about.

It's a way that you can help inform the world, and also capitalize off of your knowledge! Please consider it :)
Let's flip the question. Why SHOULD a company pay taxes on foreign countries? Why shouldn't the foreign country get to collect the tax because the economic activity is completely part of their nation?

The US is the only developed nation that has this ridiculous tax system.
It needs more public-spirited pigs: TS Eliot's rejection of Orwell's Animal Farm
...yeah, by closing down the Freebase website and its community. Now they use it inhouse.
> I have an idea about why you did not find a job in America.. consider,

I worked as a programmer in States for 2 years. I decided to go back on my own will.

> If existing H-1B holders are not measurably adding enough value to the American GDP, then there's no reason to increase the number given out.

And I am not complaining the number of H1-B visa. In fact, I think the current policy works okay.

What I was suggesting was that people cheated their way out of U.S. colleges would most likely spend zero effort looking for jobs in States. Their goal was to get the degree so that their parents could have reasons to put them in some position back in home.

All in all, both group (kids in [1] and kids in the article) were doing very poorly academically in China. And all their struggles wouldn't be such a big deal if they just learn their places in the society.
They're photodiodes, so each one is only capturing a single luminance value, they're not capturing an image.
Why do you feel [1] is a silly reason? You can build my software right now in one step: "install TDM-GCC"; anything additional complicates things and reduces portability. There's also versions that don't require assembler code at all (setjmp/longjmp version), and you can also make an ios.c version that has inline assembler since that target will only ever have a single compiler anyway.
Without a company a "true" merchant account for mainstream credit/debit card processing is impossible, even with a company banks are picky about underwriting the risk (due to chargebacks the bank is essentially on the line for 6 months after they've paid you).

I would suggest looking at the middle men such as 2checkout.com, paypal, braintree, worldpay.
* buy bitcoin on coinbase with just a debit card and driver's license (<= $40/day).

* convert this to etherium downloading the etherium client and sending the bitcoin to an address given.

* go to the DAO site, where you are given a different hash to send the eth to to get a hash of DAO tokens.
It's not a dealbreaker in computer science, where the norm is for blind peer review. And in any case, you can just list your undergrad institution or a company.