skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"They're not saving 25% on payroll taxes, benefits, workers comp, PTO, training time and management overhead. In fact, more people working fewer hours increases most of these costs."
* Payroll taxes: OF COURSE they're saving the same amount on taxes! It's not like they pre-pay taxes on an assumed amount. It's a % of what they pay you. If they pay you less, they pay less taxes on your behalf.
* Workers Comp: Firms play insanely low rates on workers comp for programmers, and workers comp is generally calculated at (RATE for job class) * ($100 payroll allocated to job class). If you pay the employee less, your workers comp premium decreases at the same rate.
* PTO: If the company wishes to offer full time PTO benefits to a part timer, they may, but many businesses have separate PTO policies for full and part time employees, including slower accrual for part timers.
Training time and management overhead are probably the real costs here.
> In fact, more people working fewer hours increases most of these costs.
More people working fewer hours could also increase productivity (that's the point of this discussion) thus could increase revenue and profit, as well.
If you pay 10% more and make 20% more revenue, that's a GOOD DEAL
To answer your question I googled the Italian web and found more details than I knew. The story is a little different and I couldn't put together all the pieces of the puzzle.

According to the sources the cars are either designed in Italy and made in China or designed by a Chinese company with Italian designers (not only the style, but at least the navigation system and battery management).

I found some references to the Xin Da Yang Electric Vehicles and the Shandong Xindayang Electric Vehicle companies, which should be part of the same group anyway. The model is called ZD1 and it's a custom version of the iCar0 http://greengomoving.it/prodotti/
That car was sold in Italy at 13 k EUR but didn't sell enough. The business was relaunched as car sharing and it's doing well enough judging from the number of cars I see around. I plotted the invoice numbers against time and it's a line, which could be OK given it's limited to a few cities and they have competitors. They could already have saturated the market unless they open in other cities.

I think they have at most 2000 cars in Italy but the Chinese companies could be making more. I found it on alibaba https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/China-eec-l7e-80-elec...
They say up to 5000 cars per month, unit price up to 8000 USD.

Sources, all of them in Italian

http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/motori/2015-05-21/share-ngo-p...

http://www.veicolielettricinews.it/sharengo-il-primo-car-sha...

http://www.alvolante.it/news/milano-il-car-sharing-elettrico...
Could this possibly be due to other environmental factors than nutrition? (i.e. epigenetics, location, lifestyle)
Am I the only HN reader whose bullshit detector has gone off and, admittedly without reading the study at this stage (I will attempt to do so when I get home), thinks this has all the hallmarks of future non-reproducible results?

A photon? Really?

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence...and to me that's a pretty extraordinary claim. And yet when I read the report it sounds like a probability based argument from a group of 3?

ESP trials all over again anyone?

I mean, as scientists, I feel we should be cynical/skeptical...
Birthrate in Finland hits hundred year lows
Regarding the Microbiome, I'm currently reading Rodney Dietert's "The Human Superorganism: How the Microbiome Is Revolutionizing the Pursuit of a Healthy Life". I haven't finished it yet, but it's been a great read so far.
[https://www.amazon.com/dp/1101983906]
Well, it's literally seen as a medical revolution.
"There is increasing evidence that the microbiome and its output (our interactome) touch many, if not most, pathways that affect health, disease, and aging. It is reasonable to propose that the composition of the microbiome and its activities are involved in most, if not all, of the biological processes that constitute human health and disease, as we proceed through our own life cycle"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4191014/
Africa is a prime destination for second hand cars coming in from developed countries. I'm skeptical there is much growth opportunity there for car manufacturers.

For the middle class, I can't help but wonder if it'll make much sense for them to actually own cars in 50-100 years if there are company-operated fleets of cheap self-driving vehicles - or at least more than one car per household. Time will tell.
5 for $2? what a rip off, I can buy a complete assortment of values - ~1500 resistors for $5 - you wont go back for resistors for a decade or so

30 seconds found me this:
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Hot-New-Arrival-High-Quality-...
This is the correct answer, and I'm speaking as someone who got a large raise last week as I was forcibly switched from part time to full time. I'm working in a generally low-profit area and the numbers stopped working. I started it because I'd repeatedly burned out of full-time jobs. Working 3 days/week was a great 4.5 years for me, far more rewarding than the added salary I passed on could have been. Aside from lower work anxiety, I had time to write two books, give three conference talks, get engaged, get married, take up several hobbies, and enjoy life thoroughly. My work has been overwhelmingly better: I stay out of rabbit holes, I recognize deep patterns, I prioritize ruthlessly, I deliver the things my users didn't realize they need. It's not magic, it's just downtime for my unconscious to noodle around with problems without pressure. I think working part time is a hugely valuable experience for anyone who doesn't have a pressing need for dollars in the door (eg to pay off US medical bills or student loans). There are plenty of blogs out there on frugal living + investing (I recommend MrMoneyMustache and Bogleheads wiki), so you can live comfortably and still save significantly towards retirement. I can't argue the financial math of why it rarely works, but I'd do 3 or 4 days a week again in a heartbeat. (15 year dev, currently Rails/Django/Haskell, Chicago/Remote, peter@valent.io if anyone's looking.)
I can point to one service Apple has done right, Messages.
If this was the main reason, then surely it would only be a matter of negotiation on salary? Out of experience I can tell you that this is not the case, most companies won't even discuss it. I have asked for half time at a half dozen places, and actually got it at two (those that accepted were not pleased but they really had no choice as people with my skill set are hard to find).
In my experience, the real reasons are (in order of importance): 1. It would hurt morale (or so they fear) 2. It complicates booking meetings and such 3. They suspect that you're doing something creative on your "other time" and thus they don't have your "full attention"
> switch to the "type in the TFA secret" mode, and store that in your password safe

Oh that's a great idea! Never thought of that, thanks for sharing.
Kanerva has discussed alternative computing styles as well. Especially, he asks, why it is hard to encode intelligence in such a rigid setup.

> The disparity in architecture between brains and computers
is matched by disparity in performance. Notably, computers excel in routine tasks that we - our brains - accomplish with effort, such as calculation, whereas they are yet to be programmed for universal human traits such as flexible learning, language use, and understanding.

He focuses on the representation problem and develops a more flexible representation of concepts with what he called hyperdimensional computing[1].

[1] http://redwood.berkeley.edu/pkanerva/papers/kanerva09-hyperd...
Jony Ive gets around in his chauffeured Bentley Mulsanne.
IIRC Australian aborigines, Europeans, and native Americans share most of their DNA, this is across many different landscapes and chances for isolation.
Also, civilizations are quite recent compared to the length of the genetic drift.
New  Policies for iOS
People want to believe that there's some sacrifice...some payment made for people like Bill Gates to have earned their wealth.

I think Bill Gates is a great businessman and he has worked for his wealth, but let us not be delusional. The son of a well-respected Seattle lawyer from a long-standing Seattle family that could afford to send their kid to the most prestigious school in Seattle was never going to have issues having a comfortable career by going with "Plan B".
Because you can't actually buy 100% of Tesla for $33B.

Elon Musk owns 20% of shares. Does he want to sell?
Why don't you conduct another experiment with paramaters to answer that question, thus observing and collapsing the possibility space of distributed photon wave collapse observations into a single reality state?
I am in skywatcher group, we travel to Atacama desert...

One of the experiments we did was determining maximal visual magnitude. My friend was able to see 8.1 magnitude star with 90% probability. We counted stars in triangles, 2nd person prepared maps and validated results.
Hint: don't just scan the QR codes on one device, switch to the "type in the TFA secret" mode, and store that in your password safe

I just don't use an authenticator app at all. Some password managers (e.g. 1Password) have support for storing TOTP. So, as long as I can access my 1Password vault (use a strong password!), I can access my TOTP codes.

Besides that, I prefer U2F, which is supported by GitHub.
Moreover, did you ever try to port Authenticator data from one device to another? There are rumors it's possible. I work in the industry since forever, if anybody can be called qualified for such simple task, it's me. I gave up, too much trouble. Imagining that a regular person would even think about getting into these woods is laughable.

Sure Google allows you to port authenticator data with an easy 5-step process. Almost nobody else does even this.

Without portability, it means losing access to your Facebook, Instagram and Pokemon Go when you change your device? People would revolt if you do that.

So what's the alternative? We either use SMS, or we use email (which will have like order of magnitude higher failure rate with no added security) or we don't use 2FA at all. Or we think really hard and invent better 2FA than SMS that works on every mobile device and is simple for the user. Then we can deprecate SMS.
In addition to what yosefk has written: I really don't see the advantage of trying to fit the round peg Haskell through the square hole FPGA design – it even seems to add friction (see the bundle/unbundle stuff in the examples).

Besides, if you thought that getting C programmers to use a pure, functional language like Haskell is difficult, have fun convincing an FPGA designer (which typically come from an electrical engineering background, due to historical reasons) to do this. Their UART example [1] uses monads, monad transformers, and lenses...

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/clash-prelude-0.10.10/doc...
> we're not going to do that by saying "my privacy is more important than reducing terrorism".

You are absolutely right. That is the wrong dichotomy to make.

The message should be "you cannot reduce terrorism by taking my privacy; you maybe can reduce terrorism by acting on the terrorists".

A lot of this has to do with the fact that people in general are very tired of a situation where criminals and illegal immigrants cannot be deported. For instance, in my country, an asylum seeker was convicted of violence and firearms offences but couldn't be deported nor detained; eventually he went on to a shooting rampage to murder his former girlfriend and kill four of her colleagues shooting around at a mall, using a pistol he obtained illegally from the Balkans.

Action by politicians? Make it more difficult to get a legal permit for a firearm.
The more important question here is, why Bob? Does it mean Apple has an culture problem that is hard for other high rank managerial grade to fit in? Why has Bob Retired and then Un-retired?
From the history page:
2007-06-12 – Project start

It's pretty cool seeing these long lived projects going from strength to strength
For me it's about creating something so beautiful and unrepeatable that no other human being could have ever created.

It's not about solving problems or finding more elegant solutions... It's about creating something almost from nowhere, as if it were magic.

And it has to be unrepeatable. Beethoven himself wouldn't be able to create the same piece twice. It's just that one-time miracle in a moment of inspiration that you'll always look back in awe...
>I would consider that a failure of the company, too many responsibilities are pushed down to the developer. If there are strict compliance regulations then there should have been some sort of QA process and/or a domain expert validating the results.

This is detached room reality. There arent many jobs (other than junior level programmer) where you just churn out code without actually having to think about the requirements, use cases, security, etc. Having responsibilities is a very common thing as a software engineer.
NewsTab's Android BETA
Android only had that opportunity because Apple changed the basic design of smartphones. Until the iPhone, Android was more like the Blackberry of the time. Of course, it wasn't until a few years later that Android phones were decent as the initial ones had issues.
> There are many horror stories of non-Apple consumer laptops breaking, and it taking weeks for them to be repaired. At Apple they fix laptops in the store in a day or two, depending on whether they have replacement parts in stock.

The only time I ever went to an Apple Store for support on a laptop it did get get fixed within a couple days, but they also replaced my fully-functional hard drive (with all my data) when the only thing broken was the SATA cable. The conversation I had to have with them to convince me to put my original hard drive back in the laptop was pretty mind-numbing, going through stages of "we don't know where the hard drive is" to "we have it, but we can't give it back to you". I did eventually get the original hard drive back, but that experience kind of soured me to the whole "Apple experience", one of the many factors that eventually led me down the road to learning Linux and basic PC repairs, allowing me to order SATA cables and the like from Amazon and replace them in laptops myself.
While it makes it a bit insecure (as I know they must store the data), using Authy as an alternative TOTP client makes for easy syncing.
Um, you need screenshots for a cross-compiler? :)
> Right so at this point your opinions are essentially worth less than nothing.

Just because I don't believe in intellectual property?

I'm a programmer just like you... piracy also "hurts" me. As long as you support the authors in some way, then it's okay in my book.

Also, that Github project may have swayed me.
Nice, good job! :) Would you like to share since how long you have been learning to code and how's your experience been?
The absolute growth in average height? For sure. But a lot of these changes in lifestyle happened in steplock with other European countries (sweden, norway, germany) so they don't necessarily explain why we had such massive growths relative to other European countries. Epigenetics are interesting, offspring of survivors of the winter of 1944 (what we call "de hongerwinter") had a tendency towards obesity, more so than people who were born slightly before that winter. I'm not aware of any studies on height and epigenetics. Our country has always been prone to flooding, but if anything, such "evolutionary" pressures have gotten less as we developed more technology to deal with flood-prone areas.
Authentication in this context means baking in a way to verify that what you receive is something you encypted and has not been altered. Or, in other words, it lets you know that the data hasn't been tampered with.

As a practical example, imagine using encrypted cookies for a session store (like Rails can do), but imagine that they're not authenticated. It's possible that with clever manipulation of the encrypted cookie, I can alter the cookie such that it still decrypts into the structure ecorcyed, but with different data. For example, maybe I change the initialization vector a bit in a clever way and that makes the userId stored in the cookie change.

For a more detailed explanation and hypotherical, I thought [1] was a great article. It uses PHP for the examples, but it's mostly the theory that's of interest.

Of note, things are actually worse in Magento's case than this hypotherical since you can, as an attacker, get Magneto to use some pretty bad crypto when decrypting your message even if they used something decent when encrypting their payload (remember: since it's unauthenticated, what they give you and what you give back are not necessarily the same).

[1] https://paragonie.com/blog/2015/05/using-encryption-and-auth...
Authy stores your TOTP accounts, so you can sync up using a new device.
Tesla has been working hard to raise additional capital so they can deliver Model 3. Apple has a lot of capital. Perhaps they could come to an agreement. An acquisition he didn't agree to would probably be unwise since he's so key to the company.
Every time I get a call from a number I don't recognize I do this ridiculous dance where I try to Google the number (usually on my phone) before the ringing stops. If it shows up on enough spam caller sites (whocallsme, etc), I don't answer and add the number to my "SPAM" contact that currently contains about a billion phone numbers.
It's ridiculous that it took Google so long to implement such a basic feature on their phones.
In Switzerland this has been possible for quite some time now on both iOS and Android by installing the local.ch app - http://tel.local.ch/en/advertising-calls
>You pay as little as possible to run

If that were the case people wouldn't be using 'the cloud'. For any non trivial size of compute load that isn't on demand, paying aws or gce is flushing money down the toilet.
Why are you saying the exact same thing that Harkins said to dangrossman?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12161852
I think it's ridiculous you have to have a Nexus phone to get this capability. Anyone with a Google account and Android should be able to get this functionality.
Right now with Google Voice I get a dozen hang up calls per day, it's always from a different number. When I don't answer, Ive got a dozen 2 second long voice mails. I used to spend a lot of time setting these to spam or being blocked, but between Google Voice and Hangouts simply asinine and beyond incompetent integration where some calls show up in Google Voice but not Hangouts and vice versa, I'm losing interest.
So recently I just decided to make the default behavior for the Google Voice number not ring any of my phones or Hangouts, but set up contact groups where friends and family should ring through. Well that's not working, I'm still getting spam and hangup calls, and some friends ring through, others don't, and client calls don't.
It's really craptastic.
What you're describing is a UX problem that Google and Apple could easild solve, using the phone camera to scana QR and call some URL. I think that for the avg user that would be simpler, and in terms of security it would be better.
Firing or handling a gun isn't critical, but it does make it clear the kind of damage different kinds of guns will do to targets. Assembling and disassembling them makes it clear how easy a crude gun is to make at home with a machine shop. Handling it will help you judge how easy it is to conceal it.

And firing a police issue revolver will make it obvious how much harder it is to fire accurately than a regular, civilian issued one (and possibly lead to fixing the policy that ensures officers end up with guns handicapped to endanger bystanders; I'm against police being armed with lethal weapons, but if it's going to happen, I'd like them to at least hit their targets).

> For example, is a low-power firearm with hollow-point bullets more dangerous than a high-power firearm?

How does knowing how a gun is purchased tell you this? This seems to be another argument for teaching regulators against guns, and not against it.

The simple fact of the matter is that to effectively regulate guns, you need to know about them. The legislation proposed to curb gun violence is (almost invariably) written by people who are very obviously flying blind, and as a result, the laws proposed are the equivalent of banning rubbing cocaine in one's hair while leaving crack smoking legal.
Hi, it's been 10 months since I began coding and I absolutely love it. :)
It's not brave if you know that you'll be laughing all the way to the bank no matter what.
Another advantage of sms over dedicated 2FA apps is that even a 10 dollar phone or decade old phone running palm OS can be supported through it. (provided there is network coverage).

A problem with sms though is that you need cell phone coverage. I have been in situations where my transaction has timed out while waiting for the sms text to arrive.
Pokemon Go on the Gameboy Pocket
I would expect this to run afoul of any investor-state dispute resolution agreements that Canada has signed with other countries (NAFTA, Canada/China have an ISDS as well) - since it is a stamp-duty rather than an import duty.

Typically those agreements require that investors be treated as locals once the asset is purchased.

Edit - Since this is typically aimed at Chinese buyers instead of Americans, here's the link to the agreement Canada and China have: http://www.international.gc.ca/trade-agreements-accords-comm...

Important Text:

1. Each Contracting Party shall accord to investors of the other Contracting Party treatment no less favourable than that it accords, in like circumstances, to its own investors with respect to the expansion, management, conduct, operation and sale or other disposition of investments in its territory.
Magician cuts arm off prank (SplitMan Andy Gross)
Anyone else figure this was the underground auction site Silk Road and not the iconic route?
Actual article is somewhat different, given the correct context.
Not compatible with my S6
It's about time , good job.
Interestingly, when you sync a new device with Authy, one of the options to verify is SMS.
There is this messaging technology called SMS, you should look into it.
Wasn't it the case that the original iPhone was not, in fact, carrier subsidised?

That was where the big price cut in the iPhone 3G (at $199, down from $399) came from?
PCWorld: AMD Packs 1TB SSD into a GPU for Better VR and Gaming
In a sane system the health insurance costs scale with wages.

Do the US ones not do that?
SMS auth is atrociously bad compared to offline 2fa:

- Requires a telecom provider in the first place (in some countries, that legally requires a passport/national ID tied to the phone number)

- Offers no means of backup

- Forgot to disable 2fa on that one account you log into once a year, before changing your phone number? have fun with that

Nevermind Google Authenticator. Android and iOS should have a high quality TOTP app installed by default. One that permits backups. "Users won't install it" should NOT be a factor and if Apple/Google want their users to start using 2FA it's in their own interest to do this anyway.
Just to note, they do hint at that in the end of the article, so you bet your socks scientists are thinking about it. It certainly was one of the first thing that entered my mind.
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I would like to be able to make this experience with my google apps and accounts please
This is a robot account attempting to build up its credibility so it can spew some shit later to sway people's opinion about topics this robot's controller cares about.

Note that another (fake) user has also said the exact same thing.