skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Meanwhile, the enlightened, progressive people of Toronto elected Rob Ford.

I'm not from Toronto but the fact is that the barely-literate, anti-intellectual, suburban outlying population of places like (edit) Etobicoke elected Rob Ford.

edit: ah yes, the old reddit-style downvote because the truth hurts. The simple fact is the man was a train wreck, and his supporters are basically Tea Party North.
> For example, the confidence interval for the monthly change in total nonfarm employment from the establishment survey is on the order of plus or minus 115,000.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.tn.htm

So 38,000 +- 115,000. In other words, they don't really know if employment went up or down.
"Does not use your microphone (..) to inform ads or change what you see in news feed" leaves a lot of room for other uses. Does it change what you see in other places? Does it affect your advertisement preferences without notifying the advertisers? (what does "inform ads" even mean?)

Why not just say "Does not use your microphone without tapping a record button" (and make sure it's implemented like that).
I believe this is a fake.
They're still pretty common in the US for things like utility bills and taxes.
If you rent an apartment, you'll probably be asked to supply your bond in the form of a paper cheque.
The Swiss Are About to Vote No on Basic Income
> "energy must be conserved"

I like this analogy! Are you thinking of “energy” as some measurement of the amount of freedom a specification gives implementors to make their own design decisions? (Possibly modulo some set of changes deemed “trivial”, like renaming identifiers, reordering independent statements, etc.)
capitalists don't like competition because the goal is to make a profit
ISTM StubHub could end this practice by keeping ticket payments in escrow until a week after the event. Yeah that would be inconvenient for whoever has a ticket to sell (as TFA suggests this is kept deliberately vague), but it would be death for the fraud you describe.
Who's in the Office? (Space-Oriented Personal Location Sharing)
> there are busy streets without bicycle lanes

The real problem is that the lane isn't wide enough for a cyclist and motor vehicle to travel side by side with the motor vehicle remaining in the same lane. When a bicycle lane is added despite that, it leads to a bicycle lane that's too narrow and vehicles will pass without leaving sufficient clearance (at least 3 feet).

> (or even sidewalks)

Riding on the sidewalk isn't safe (and in many jurisdictions, is illegal). Mixing unpredictable pedestrian traffic with cyclists is not safe, and the number of potential conflicts that cyclists have with motor vehicle traffic when approaching an intersection is far greater compared to riding on the road and following traffic rules.

Also having to slow or stop for each driveway and intersection will significantly lengthen the time of the trip.
Firefox's interface can be customized with CSS, without the need for a browser extension, so I'm not sure, how you could be more customizable than that...
For reference => http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/acidpaper.html
> The physical check itself – the piece of paper – has to be genuine,

This is wrong, right? There is no such thing as a genuine check outside of conventions for repudiation(out of order check numbers, not on my check paper). Whether it came from the checkbook my bank sent, or out of my printer, it is just as good. Legally, writing it on a napkin would probably work, but draw lots of scrutiny becuase it looks suspicious and can't be processed automatically.
Critical Values for Internationalization  Testing [pdf]
>Do you really think Trudeau would be PM (now) without his name?

Yeah I do. You've got a young, good-looking, charismatic leader with what look like progressive policies on things like drugs and other social issues who occasionally slips up with the etiquette like calling an MP a piece of shit on the floor of the Commons. It makes him look like a real guy, and less like a standard shitty politician, which is what the electorate are sick of. He's also a relative newcomer and time spent out of the limelight of either the PMO or the Official Opposition means he looks like a fresh change.

That's exactly the opposite of Harper and Mulcair, the former of whom comes off as stodgy, out-of-touch and kind of an asshole, and the latter of whom comes off as one of the most fake, manufactured politicians of the modern age.

I know which one I'd bet on every time.
If the truth isn't known, Tor could be shooting itself in the foot if they 'decided' that it's one way or another. Makes sense that they would say that.
Show HN: This Week in A-Frame 16
The people that are going to get the difference are the ones that were against the buy out at the price that was offered.
1) Extremely low interest rates combined with government backed mortgages (CMHC) means lots of people now have mortgages they will be unable to carry if interests rates rise by 1% (as that would be a 50% increase in their interest payments...)
2) Foreign investment (Vancouver+Toronto).
"Google Circles, a way of organizing social contacts, shamelessly copied from Facebook’s long-ignored Lists feature."

I thought it was the other way around - circles were based on a research by a guy from Google, who left later for Facebook and they built similar feature.
> It's an 80 dollar cab ride to the airport which is like an hour and a half from the downtown.

There's a bus from downtown to the airport. It takes 40 minutes and costs $3.15. Driving takes 20 minutes.
Facebook Does Not Use Your Phone’s Microphone for Ads or News Feed Stories Yet
Highly recommended that all jetty 9.3.x users upgrade to 9.3.9
Yes. In the US, I write one to my housekeeper every few weeks. I just made an estimated tax payment to my state today. I regularly use them for payments on weekend trips I lead--although Paypal is increasingly used.

So, yes, I don't use paper checks as commonly as I used to, but they're still pretty common.
Is software for handling data really the worst thing about IoT development right now? For me it's the lack of cheap 3G hardware (Particle is about the only thing on the market and it's really expensive), and the lack of tooling for getting data from poorly documented sensors developed by god knows what company in China from the device to the web. Storing or routing data once it's online isn't that difficult.
I also have an Ecobee3. I had come from a 2nd gen Nest. I will agree with others and say that the remote sensors are really nice. I've always had multi floor houses whose temperature differentials (between up and down) would border on 10F. Obviously I could adjust the temperature on the Nest from bed, but I found toward the end of my ownership (middle/end '14) that the service would be down every now and then and I couldn't communicate with my Nest. I haven't experienced this with the Ecobee yet. Another positive you can quickly see the weather forecast from the thermostat, which is great for when you're about to leave the house and don't want to whip out your phone.

On the downside, the Ecobee doesn't "feel" as high quality. The touchscreen shows finger prints, it has a plasticy feel and you don't have that nice orange or blue background color indicating whether it's cooling or heating (not a big deal). It also doesn't have the schedule learning system, but to be honest I would usually adjust the temps manually throughout the day anyway. It also doesn't have the automatic fan function after the AC has run, sort of an afterrun fan which helped continue to cool the house without the AC on.

In the end I wanted to try something different and so far I think it's met/exceeded my expectations. Just hope you have a C wire when you install! :)
Netty 4.1.0.Final released
Debut mereka di Euro2016
Man what I wouldn't pay to see some memes from the internal Google meme host right now.
They're bothered by the precieved threat of more restrictions due to larger community possibly being bothered.
Why not? We've already learned that they make most of their money from concerts. Why not cultivate a wealthy fanbase to attend expensive concerts?
> Software engineerings in Calgary are lucky to make 70k canadian

That's significantly less than I was making as a software engineer in Calgary. Maybe I was lucky, but I suspect your numbers are wrong.
MEMS and sensors: the unsung heroes of technology
You can replace "RPi" with "my Dell desktop" in all of these, and they would be equally true. Does that mean it's embedded? If not, that leaves just the physical size. Does "embedded" only mean "any computer that's very small"?
where does the money come from?
Firefox + Ghostery
I'm not sure ACH is so much less secure than debit. You hand your card out to far more people than you ever send a check to and it has the info they need to use it online unless avs restrictions are enforced by the merchant, which is less secure than a merchant enforcing ACH micro-deposits imho. With both of these authentication methods it is up to the merchant to enforce and they are liable in the end for the most part when they don't. American express doesn't feel the need to enforce micro-deposits because they've already lent you the money so if a payment fails they're not at more risk than they were before the payment was made. In the end, it's easy to obtain the information for both and both have systems for reversing.
Navy develops diver’s helmet with augmented reality
I used to work in bank fraud detection/prevention. In general, adding a small barrier is often enough to cut crime rate drastically. This is why people lock their doors even though a robber can break a window, or why people hide their phones in their shoes at the beach even though a thief can just check under everyone's shoes. These small barriers are actually very effective because they increase effort and the risk of being caught. Checks are by far the most frauded financial instrument and at the highest dollar amounts. It's basically the financial equivalent of keeping your door unlocked or your phone laying around unattended. http://www.stopcheckfraud.com/statistics.html

No one should use checks, and no one should accept them.
(http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/100652-Facebook-CE...)

Zuckerberg: They "trust me"
Zuckerberg: Dumb f*cks.
And they want in to your kernel...
If almost all of your Tor traffic is abuse, exposing it to your users to vote on doesn't solve the problem, it just gives them a worse experience.

Obviously every service has different trade-offs to consider, which is why "Tor traffic is always worth it" is HN comment idealism.
The first number is the anchor. If you can truly support an high number, then you should place the anchor high.

In a good negotiation, if you give an info you can expect an info back, so that's also your opportunity to request something. For instance you may want to ask how the bonus structure looks like, or what's their view on remote work.

And gain from there, negotiation is not just about money.
So... I'm expecting surveillance like driver fingerprinting + that shit Progressive is doing with "Snapshot" to be used to really penalize drivers in the future for the slightest mishap.

I hate driving - especially in California. Automate all the things.
Sometimes you genuinely enjoy doing something, and would do it for free if you had a way to pay the bills. I had a job like that for a few years, and it was nice. Didn't matter to me how much my boss made or who owned what. I was having fun.

Most jobs aren't like that, though, and no matter how much you love something you eventually get tired of it.
So what do they use the data for?
Prices collapsed after the Game 3 loss.

That's surprising. They only lost by 5 on the road!
At my first startup, checks were the industry standard and we naively thought that we could change behavior by introducing modern payment tools to our customers.

It turned out that our customers used checks because it helped with their cash flow. They could tell us they "cut a check" on Friday, mail it on Monday, we'd receive it on Wednesday, and the money would be in our bank account Thursday. They basically were able to hold onto that cash for an extra 5 days, compared to a wire transfer.
I could also use an invite to the Mac beta if you're still feeling generous, WestCoastJustin

email: troygoode@gmail.com
Nonce misuse resistance 101
If the price is below market value, there will be more willing buyers than tickets. A lottery seems the fairest way to address this imbalance. (I mean a true lottery like the grandparent suggests, not one of which TCP connections will time out.)
There are a lot of useful things a smartphone could do with an always on microphone. It could hear you arranging to meet up with a friend, and offer to create a reminder based on the details. It could warn you if the restaurant you're going to is closed. It could keep notes on all your conversations for all those times you forget something your friend said yesterday.

It could be pretty awesome, if only we could trust anyone to do this kind of thing.
> Undulating impossible fabrics with photo-realistic shaders

I am fairly sure they were not using custom software, rather off the shelf tools for both rendering and simulation.
... because people in the country don't have electricity?
> If you intend to torrent, you're not going to roll your own on a VPS that is going to forward DMCA notices right back to you.

I've done this very thing. I wasn't trying to avoid DMCA notices; I was working around the great firewall of China, which blocks torrents normally.
Yes, although they usually demand a bank cheque (which I think is what is called a "cashier's check" in the US), not a personal cheque. You go to the bank teller, you pay them the amount plus a fee (usually out of your bank account), and the teller issues a cheque in the bank's name not yours.

I also occasionally get bank cheques in the mail from companies. If you have a utility account, and you close it, and it is in credit, they'll mail you a bank cheque for the credit amount.

Actual personal cheques - my grandparents used to give me those for my birthday. That's probably the last time I can ever remember encountering one.
One aspect missed is that the government is getting juiced by leveraged PE deals, so a good chunk of PE returns are the tax deductions from the interest on the debt that gets split between debt issuers and PE firms. Why isn't everyone becoming a PE firm then? They did at some point in the 80s (re-watch Pretty Woman), when there was a plethora of private companies with lots of "fat" cash reserves on them and management that would rather spend that on private jets than return them to shareholders.

Well-off corporate executives inspired PE activity. Well-off PE managers drained the market of cash cows and tightened corporate rules. The funny thing is in the real world, if you advertise how successful you are, you attract competitors, which is why I find it quite puzzling that the first thing startup founders do is advertise on TechCrunch when they've raised a big round. It's like saying "Look how much money is in that pot of gold over there, we are running for it." Does the value of the signalling increase the risks/damage from it? Would love to get your thoughts.
It sounds impossible to make this browser secure. They're allowing Java and NPAPI plugins as an explicit compatibility goal.

Granted, security isn't a stated goal here. XP users unfortunately can't expect that anymore.

Are there any modern HTML5-compliant browsers that support XP anymore?
Here's a way to win: don't play. I see all the live music I want to see (and for cheap!) because I've expanded my horizons past the radio and pop fare. I guarantee you for every Kanye or Kendrick, there's a Chester Watson or Isaiah Rashad or Joey Bada$$ that will just as handily blow your mind.

I get the sense that most people go to popular music acts to check in on Facebook. That's not a crowd you wanna fight for tickets. Support small artists.
Cash? Those bills have serial numbers on them! I'm not sure exactly how frequently they're checked or scanned by banks, but a scanner in the ATM you withdrew from + scanning the daily deposits by the gas station would paint a pretty clear map, even if a few of them get tendered back out as change, and a few more aren't tracked due to OCR failures.

Best stick to bills tendered as change only. Although who knows what red flags someone trying to hide their spending habits might be able to trip, alerting the feds that someone frequenting your favorite restaurant is trying to hide their trail...
I really wish I knew about this before I set up a VPN on my DigitalOcean droplets recently.
What's privacy in the absence of security? Last I checked, there is no ASLR support for Windows XP. You really do not want to run something with Chromes attack surface on it.
> Name one relatively successful person who's done something wrong or criminal who hasn't been caught by the most insanely stupid mistake, even after not being caught for days, months, years even.

This is an extremely fallacious argument. How are you supposed to know who they are before they've been caught?
Ah! You see, you have entered into a disagreement amongst them!

Plenty of neoliberals, aka folks who think competition is the best and that competition brings out the best in everything, still believe that you still have to first organize markets and make sure they are competitive, i.e. It is not the natural state of things in each and every realm of life.
Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath.
Salesforce's data centre team 'fought' AWS cloud outsourcing
I would even go so far as to say that a lottery is the fairest way regardless of the price or market value. Charging a very high price that only a few people could afford would negate the need for a lottery but it wouldn't be fair.
It has been a year now. I moved to a high-cost-of-living area where even owning a car is expensive. There is a cost to moving back as well. A lot of it is psychological - I cannot believe i allowed myself to be fooled so badly, it has really shaken my confidence in HR and hiring managers.
> what can they do from that domain that isn't done from other domains?

Nothing, but many other domains attack web clients.
TicketMaster owns the largest secondary market, so this conspiracy theory doesn't make much sense.
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As a funny side note, having just one outfit to wear everyday eliminates the cost of that decision, giving more resources to other decisions. I believe Einstein did something similar simply because he wanted to focus his energies on the interesting stuff.
iOS randomizes MAC addresses when not connected to wireless networks. The stated goal is to lower the probability of being tracked by third parties in, e.g., convenience stores. http://www.imore.com/closer-look-ios-8s-mac-randomization

Apple device uDIDs are generated by concatenating the serial number, the MAC address, and some other things, then running the result through a hash function. (I don't have a source at the moment, sorry).
A Guaranteed Income for Every American
Amazing levels of cynicism here on HN.
Because, past a certain point, recording artists usually care more about other issues besides money. Having your loyal fanbase of screaming, ecstatic teenage girls replaced by a bunch of rich old men in suits sounds like a real buzzkill to me.
i agree with your comment. limitation is what gives rise to creativity. however, consider that one can impose their own limitations. i can restrict myself to a subset of assembly, or c.

i would guess that even with today's popular verbose languages with hundreds of libraries, most programmers only know or use a subset of the language and libraries. strangely when i try to use these languages i feel too constrained. only because i feel i am trying to fit my own thinking into some other programmer's thinking.

sometimes this seems worth it. other times (most times) not.

whereas with assembly, i only have to fit my thinking to what the computer can do. this seems like what i should be doing if i am trying to program a computer.
Ok, I'll bite: You realize that Markham is a separate municipality and it's residents aren't eligible to vote in Toronto municipal elections?
Using Reviewable.io for Code Review
About the only holdouts here in Australia is the real estate industry. When you buy a house at auction you have to write a cheque for the deposit (5% or 10%) on the spot. You normally can tell the agent to not bank the cheque and then pay by electronic transfer on the Monday.
“Programmer, you can do anything you want if you prove it's correct and I can understand the proof.”
I've used a coworking space in Tokyo for approximately 2 years, including my entire tenure at Starfighter. It costs approximately $350 per month. A++ would use a coworking space again. I have visited the WeWork office that Erin and Thomas work out of in Chicago, and it is better equipped than my office and has a variety of features which make it better for doing the kind of work that I'm routinely doing, including a) vastly more space per person, so that other people's conversations don't intrude into focused productivity time and b) closed offices with decent acoustics for calls.

Previously I did substantially all of my work from either my apartment or from cafes. Offices are better than apartments: you can bracket all time spent in them as "work" and then go home from work. Offices are better than cafes: it is expected that you will be working at an office, and you don't have to play a constant am-I-paying-enough-to-keep-my-table game with the cafe. Relevantly for Tokyo cafes, offices (even cramped offices) are substantially more spacious per seat than cafes are, have much better power/Internet situations, and often include printers and fax machines, for when you need a printer and/or fax machine.
How do you differentiate between legitimate new users with no record, and a returning shitposter's 10000th spam account with no record?

How do you differentiate between legitimate new users with a bunch of existing users vouching for them, and a returning shitposter's 10000th spam account with a bunch of existing stealth-mode accounts vouching for them?

I think you're using an extremely weak definition of "solve".
Successful Alps double crossing with less than 18 kWh energy: Elektra One Solar [pdf]
...They have to drive farther.
The point is to avoid a Stasi-like spying future and to CYA. What if the official "PC" public opinion changes in 5 years dramatically and a witch hunt starts on anyone expressing a certain opinion that was considered normal in the past? Look at what happened to Brendan Eich. So officially you can generate "approved" traffic by visiting "safe", publicly endorsed and usual established sites and in private you can browse whatever you wish, e.g. discuss political issues without a fear of repercussions, invent a new science that would pose problems to established ones and group with similarly-minded people as much as you wish without blowing your cover. Frankly, what I am doing is none of your business if I try to adhere to the golden principle as much as I am capable of; I don't need my biometrics taken by Facebook, stylometry learned by Google, coding style footprint generated by GitHub , my online history stored by my ISP, my opinions revealed by Reddit etc.

And for your point - I am sure we hear only about the "stupid" ones that made a silly mistake; we would never hear about the clever ones that can restrict themselves when they don't have 100% control of the situation. They do exist. And most men can't even spot clear signals when their wife is cheating on them, not mentioning the ones that can blend in perfectly... Often the balance of power is achieved by secrets the ones in power know on each other via MAD, so when there is no deviating data, there is no secret to crucify you for.
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11749338