skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The umpires have to see whether any crew taking part makes an objection (typically because another crew interfered with their racing) before they can raise a white flag, and the jury has to wait for that white flag before announcing a result (AFAIK, results never are corrected, except for doping related reasons)

That has to happen "after the finish of the race and before leaving the area of the finish line"

Given the physical state rowers can be in at the finish line, 'immediately' isn't measured in seconds.

Correction: results can be overturned after a race, but not because of new objections, only when an involved party (may be the original objector or another crew) objects to the decision made after someone made an objection.

Also, for such objections, to show that you are serious, you have to put money on the table (CHF 100 or equivalent) that you forfeit when your objections is rejected.
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I've never set it up but I believe that you can get it to work the same way.

Install the desktop application: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2374987
Change sync settings: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375083
From a practical standpoint, what's the difference between js_of_ocaml?
Generally agree here, but I'm thinking about real scenarios in which I may never be able to recover anything.

One scenario is traveling abroad and having my phone stolen/lost.
Beyond just echoing the sibling commentors RE: don't sign a contract with such a clause (I've personally never even been asked to sign one, out of 4 professional jobs post-university), I'd like to point out that there are much cheaper areas than Silicon Valley with bustling tech scenes.

I myself work in the Research Triangle Park in between Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina. The cost of living is low, and the starting salaries are slightly higher than what I've seen in the Northern Virginia / Washington, D.C. area. I was also able to climb the pay ladder fairly quickly in my so-far short career, and I'm making way more money than I need to facilitate my (admittedly rather humble, but comfortable) lifestyle.

Similar things can be said of the San Antonio, TX; Burlington, VT; even Fayetteville, AR; Fargo, ND; Twin Cities, MN; and many other places in the country you wouldn't necessarily associate with tech. One thing I learned the hard way is to always consider the cost of living when considering a job offer. $X is worth far more in Raleigh, NC, than it is in Washington, D.C..
Or people who use a "mixed tabs and spaces" indentation, e.g. size 8 tabs with 4 characters wide indentation, and spaces for uneven indentations. (Which IMHO is broken because it leads to unreadable code when you don't have the same settings as the person who wrote the code).

Also, I guess C-style block comments could cause an over-counting of spaces (but looking at the numbers, it seems that either the query takes this into account, or C code simply has a poor comment-to-code ratio)
Works fine for me. Using FF48.0.1
Currently, we make money of managed hosting. But we have big dreams where everyone keeps their data and runs apps on their own server. If we can get enough users with such interest, I think there are lots of ways to make money.
Is this about comparing products that also kill people, or about discussing ways of reducing gun deaths?
A laundry service is kind of passé; surely what we'll see next is a laundry-sharing service. Not only does that save money by using washing machines belonging to members of the public - otherwise idle capital assets - but you could extend that to wearing other people's laundry.
Since I moved to a place where the nearest laundromat is 2 blocks uphiilll and pricey ($5/load), I admittedly did take a quick look into Washio, but noticed there was a minimum order of $20. It was a luxury service, or a good for fresh graduates who believe too much in the "your time is money" mantra.

If you want another "wtf, do we need this" service, check out TrashDay.co, saving us the indignity of taking out our own trash.
You don't even seem to be reading my comments anymore. You've invented a disagreement that we don't even have, so you could reintroduce politics. I'm not interested in having a political argument with you.

Incidentally, you may be chuckling at the tenor of this conversation and where it's going, but as I've told you repeatedly, I am taking offense. I am not enjoying it, and I wish you'd stop.
A laundry service seems like a labor-intensive business (as in, 99%+ of the work is physical labor). Reality likely is that there just isn't much room for non-laboring founders and investors to collect money off those performing the service of the business.
I definitely want to enable it on the most important accounts, but I worry about the scenario where I lose my phone/wallet when traveling abroad.
1Password has a "Watchtower" feature that "identifies websites that are vulnerable to Heartbleed". Also under Security Audit are sections for Weak Passwords, Duplicate Passwords, and groupings of password ages (3+ years old, 1-3 years old, 6-12 months old for me). It does not appear to keep track of leaks/hacks.

https://watchtower.agilebits.com/
So, it's like camelcamelcamel, but for more sites?
You guys should consider donating to the International Anti-Poaching Foundation[0][1] which fights these poachers. The founder, Damien Mander[2], is an Australian ex spec-ops sniper who is using his military experience to train the park rangers since they, unlike the poachers, tend to be poorly equipped and trained as well as understaffed.

There is also the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust[3][4] which takes care of elephant and rhino orphans (most of them are orphans due to poaching). For $50 a year, you can become a sponsor of a particular orphan and they'll send you photos and updates about how your sponsored animal is doing. You can for example sponsor this little fella [5][6]. It's a great gift.

You can also participate in an upcoming hackathon this October 7-9 in London, San Diego, Seattle, Sydney and DC that will aim to fight poaching. [7]

[0] http://www.iapf.org/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Anti-Poaching_Fo...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Mander

[3] http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sheldrick_Wildlife_Trust

[5] http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/asp/orphan_profile.asp...

[6] http://instagram.com/p/sigT3IAUKb

[7] http://www.zoohackathon.com/

P.S. You should subscribe to http://reddit.com/r/babyelephantgifs and http://reddit.com/r/babyrhinogifs for a daily dose of adorable pachyderm content.
IIRC it has limited linux support, but works that way in windows/macOS. Another article today mentioned rclone, if you need linux support.
Many times I'd look in my bag to find someone else's clothing. One time I ended up with a young ladies lacy underwear which kinda made me feel like a creep.

During my move from SF to Ann Arbor I made the mistake of outsourcing the washing of pretty much all of my clothing and linens with them. They lost all of it and couldn't find it for about a month.

Let's just say I am very glad I have a washer and a dryer in my home. Certain things just shouldn't be outsourced.
"Note that LZFSE has a somewhat different goal, however: it's designed to be the most power-efficient compression algorithm out there, in other words on mobile devices LZFSE optimizes for bytes-per-watt rather than bytes-per-second."

Sure, but is that even relevant? I mean, is there any way that lzfse could possibly be more power-efficient per byte than zstd when zstd is 3-4 times faster for the same compression ratio? According to the docs zstd doesn't have any support for multiple threads right now, so it should be a fair comparison.
>what about the web

The browser sends the server a request header indicating which compression methods it understands. Current Firefox for example sends

Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br

meaning the server is free to send a response compressed with either gzip, deflate or brotli. Or the server can choose to send the data uncompressed.

This means the adoption path for the web would be an implemtation in at least one major browser, which advertises this capability with the Accept-Encoding header. Then any server can start using Zstandard for clients accepting it.
They shouldn't pay their employees less - that's the point (though they often do because they can).

In many cases, executives at non-profits make MORE than their for-profit counterparts simply because there aren't exactly shareholders, and people who sit on the boards of non-profits tend to be less experienced than corporate board members (often non-profits are seen as "training" for corporate board membership). This is especially common in health care. It's not universally true by any means, but it's common enough to be a real problem.
It is absolutely irrational
Flipword is in beta
They mention that they searched for Python but it isn't represented in the charts.
You should probably audit the list and disconnect any you don't recognize, but you should probably be doing that periodically anyway with everything...
Yes it is a Southeast Bias [1].
Check the map and choose the lowest IDH regions. and google it.

and "For some other kinds of medication, it's probably true that people get them from the black market (think benzos)."

Please, the market does not care what kind of medicine is dealt with, the black market is there to provide anything.
You just need to go to the country side to see it.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Brazilian_federative_u...
Why couldn't busy people just hack this on top of Uber? Call Uber to pick up your clothes and take them to the dry cleaner of your choice and pick them up the next day. Maybe Uber's TOS don't allow for pure cargo, but surely there are courier services that do. Maybe it would be more expensive than Washio, but there are a lot of people in SF with more cash than time.
let's not mince words. The catastrophic acceleration in decline of elephant populations is directly correlated to the rise in wealth of China and Asia in general. For countries with such advanced IQ and engineering skills, this is a massive stain on their reputation. They need to address this massively.

Now I'm fully aware that most of the decline in the Elephant (and other) species in general in the past 200 years can be blamed squarely on the West. But this does not excuse snuffing out these absolutely priceless brethren of humanity for the most base of barbaric reasons, now that there are so few of them left.

Asia needs to sort this out, like, yesterday. The West has huge historic baggage on this and thankfully was able to turn itself around at the last minute. Now china and Asia seriously need to do the same, pronto. PRONTO.
much more readable transpiled output, really nice (and getting nicer) FFI to javascript.
but it doesn't interface with existing ocaml stuff as well (doesn't use `.cmo/.cma` so it needs to compile everything from source afaict)
Very cool. I haven't looked at what Meetup has available for an API but I've rarely ever seen its data used as a way to find out about a city, even though it's a great way to (manually) look up interests. You'd miss out on things that are on Eventbrite (but no reason why you couldn't combine their data...), but otherwise, it seems like a solid way to at least find hotspots for interests, particularly regional cities (i.e. not New York/SF/Chicago) that have, for whatever reason, an especially strong group.
"Security" is a big topic. For cryptography, a good (but inadequate) starting point is _Cryptography Engineering_. If you write cryptography the way this book suggests you should, you will implement egregious vulnerabilities.
There's certainly precedent for that:

http://www.geek.com/news/amazonbasics-is-copying-all-the-bes...

However it may be a risk worth taking: on the one hand, you have a distribution channel that could help you take off, but might compete with you later. On the other, you'd have to run your own distribution, and it's less likely your product would ever take off in the first place.
Please try to avoid writing useless comments.
No. I agree that legislation doesn't work. You stated you don't take drugs, and I asked how you define "drug". Caffeine et al can easily be classified as drugs.
Sat phones are quite common where I live in Montana (you only have to drive 10 miles out of town to lose cell reception). The geosynchronous Inmarsat service is typically better/cheaper than Iridium today. I pay around $35/mo for more call time and SMS than I need to use. The phones are reasonably small but very old-school (like a 2000-vintage GSM handset). Because it uses satellites over the equator you need a southern aspect to connect. Folks rock climbing up north-facing cliffs or sailing north of 70 degrees need Iridium :)
Who buys ivory? Are the customers mainly in Asia, and for aphrodisiac purposes, or is this a stereotyp?
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Except the one to your password manager :)
I tried washio within the last 2 months for the first time. It was much harder than using a neighborhood laundromat IMO.

I scheduled for it to be picked up and had to wait 2 days, versus the neighborhood folks who do it same day.

I paid $100 to do the laundry (plus a $15 recommended tip). I was expecting it to be cheap since I had a coupon but was blown away. I didn't do the math to estimate the costs going in. My SO and I, I guess, had a ton of laundry.

All in all, it's expensive and not a wonderful/magical experience. It serves a fairly basic need and with the price I paid, after 2-3 trips, it is cheaper for me to buy my own washer and dryer in no time.

I can now use this as a "look I was right" to my SO, because after I got the bill I said "they are going to go out of business with these prices".
meantime, people are hunting mammoth tusk

recent report (Russian):

http://www.currenttime.tv/a/tusk-hunters/27948066.html

quote:
``Оборот слоновой кости тщательно контролируется, поэтому особым спросом сейчас пользуются бивни мамонта '' The ivory market is tightly controlled therefore mammoth tusk is in high demand right now

quote:
``Этот 65-килограммовый бивень только что извлекли из вечной мерзлоты. Впоследствии его продали за 34 тысячи долларов.'' - This 65 kg tusk was sold later for 34 thousands dollars.

old report (2013 English):
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/04/125-mammoth-tusks/...
> I think this claim is BS. I've worked in enterprises large and small for about 18 years and I've never seen any company invest in training H1Bs, specifically. If a company offers training (which most don't these days) it is offered to all employees. Not just H1Bs. <

There have been many incidences where American employees had to train their H1B replacements. [1]

There are many other ways this 'training' is implemented, When I say training, I mean the task of converting a less skilled employee into a higher skilled employee. One way of doing it is, a third party sponsors H1B, does the whole headache of hiring a foreign worker, and then they send those people to client location. The third party often exaggerates the experience of their employee, and most of the time there is a quick and fast training program in place (this training program is a proper training program).

Many times these H1Bs are blatently lying about what they know or for how long they know, and most clients have a rough idea of how this works, they also know that these noobies are really under pressure to learn according to what they're claiming and that they are cheap.

Consider it to be this way, imagine if you have a bunch of friends who currently work as a waiter, bus boy, chef, and dishwashers. You get them to join your company, you make them go through code academy style bootcamp, train them into knowing every crazy thing about Jenkins CI tool, and then send them to clients by claiming that you have a guy who is a Jenkins expert.

Great business plan right? Maybe not, but this is exactly what Indian IT companies do, except the people they pick all have engineering degrees and decent Mathematical training in high school (otherwise they'd have never gone to Engineering school).

> Most H1Bs are employed by the likes of consultancies (e.g. Tata, Wipro) and are brought into companies for terms of six months to two years (sometimes three) <

The main job of Tata and Wipro is to train these people to be good enough so that they can work at a client location. If an employee fails, then they just send him to more training.

1. https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/02/disney...
Mylan’s Price Increases Weren’t the Problem. Its Implementation Strategy Was
I tried lastpass and it's been nothing but a pain in the arse. I still use it but I frickin' hate it.
I used to sell hardware to amazon. Here's my take on this.

This boils down to a whitelist which allows companies to skip the traditional sales/retail-contract process required for a manufacturer to become a vendor.

This is not a service that Amazon will sell, essentially a loss leader to get vendors into the network.

Normally for brands that are new, Amazon requires a unique product line or price or some differentiator. A well established rep can easily get them in the door.

I typically recommend that brands:
1. Start selling online ASAP
2. Start selling on Amazon ASAP
3. As sales grow, become an Amazon vendor
> and is in no way transparent

They are pretty fucking transparent. And they are still a public regulatory body, appointed by people appointed by the public.

> There is no discernible reason that competing ISPs would choose to limit free speech of their own accord.

Unless that ISP wants to create a streaming video service. So they block access to Netflix so you can "enjoy" their video service as well. If you want the internet to be run the way cable service is, then great, good for you. But the rest of us enjoy the freedom of being able to access any resource connected to the network for one price.

> So switch ISPs

(You'd inevitably bring it up)...most ISPs are a monopoly so there goes that idea.
I had no approach, it just happened. But you have to be out and doing things for it to happen, they're not going to show up on your couch one day while you're playing video games or watching TV, that is for sure. Well, unless you order a bride or something.
Welp, maybe you shouldn't have commented on a political article then? I'm really not trolling you here. I'm reading everything you're writing.

I suspect others will notice that it is you who have been ignoring me.

This is my biggest problem with people in the tech industry. You can't divorce the systems you build, or the tradeoffs made by companies and policymakers, from the underlying political ideologies that inform those decisions.
It is like with long term weather forecasts, people just want to have it regardless if it makes sense or not.
Those may only be mind numbing for you who have to go through it every day, I really enjoyed the first two pages. Couldn't imagine having to do the replies though - a suprisingly large number had been customised!
It really, really depends on what the comment is saying.

Comments that explain what the code is doing are usually a travesty. With the possible exception of hairy performance optimizations. Also implementations of algorithms that aren't well known -- oftentimes the original paper is dense, academic and behind a paywall, and the Wikipedia article are a muddled mess. You really owe it to your readers to give a sane and comprehensible explanation instead.

Comments that explain why the code is doing what it does, though, are HUGELY important. There's nothing worse than coming into a legacy codebase and seeing it littered with obvious special cases and workarounds that are all undocumented, so that you have no idea what they're for or whether they're obsolete or not. Skipping these kinds of comments leads to inexorable technical debt, because eventually you'll end up with a codebase where everyone is afraid to change the code.
Yes, it's mainly in Asia but it's not uncommon in the US either (one of the biggest opponents of total ban is, surprise surprise, the NRA). China is number one, US is number two.

It's not bought as an aphrodisiac (you are thinking of rhino horn), ivory is mostly to make decorative trinkets.
It's an interesting idea, I'll say that much. A way to find email addresses associated with a certain domain is a pretty neat thing to have.

That said, isn't this a spam nightmare waiting to happen? I mean, if you give a spammer or two hundred access to this site, then all hell is gonna break loose (especially with popular websites that spammers and scumbags might want emails associated with).

And with your crawler taking email addresses from blogs, articles, comments and other such sources, it seems like this is a doxing tool just waiting to be used. It's not uncommon for people to post email addresses associated with those they don't like on a personal level, especially if they're in the middle of a large controversy (like say, the recent US elections).

I really hope you've figured out a way to avoid that side. And considered adding a way for sites to opt out (either on a domain level or an individual email address level).
> I paid $100 to do the laundry (plus a $15 recommended tip). I was expecting it to be cheap since I had a coupon but was blown away. I didn't do the math to estimate the costs going in. My SO and I, I guess, had a ton of laundry.

That is bonkers expensive. At my old place in Somerville, MA (not exactly a cheap place to live), $100 would be four large hampers full of laundry and my shirts would be pressed.

Of course, it's not a VC-backed startup, just an actual business, so it's not cool.
Yup it's me. Not a frequent poster on HN, mostly a lurker.
So, please give some rough stats :)
I know of at least three laundromats within a few blocks of my apartment here in SF that offer dropoff wash and fold, at last check at about half the price of the pickup services I looked into (standard pricing, not promotions). I think the market for people willing to pay significantly more for what is honestly not much more convenient (they need access to your building or sometimes apartment, you have less control over the dropoff and pickup times, etc) is quite small.

Investors funding "Uber for X"-style startups generally seem to miss the things that make Uber work so well -- on-demand low-trust service that fully replaces the alternative. Cleaning my house or doing my laundry can't effectively be done on-demand, and done in a scheduled manner involves a trust relationship too extreme to rely on reputation/rating systems.
While it's a cool concept and agriculture is ripe for technology disruption, the enterprise software product marketer in me finds it to be a calculated marketing stunt, if not an disingenuous one.

TensorFlow is, in no way shape or form, ready to be used by anyone but very technical people with a solid knowledge of both software engineering and machine learning. In fact, it's probably unfair to single out TensorFlow because every deep learning toolkit I have seen is still in the same "extremely early adopter" phase. Yet, this article makes it seem like a line of business user (farmer) with some background in technology (former embedded systems engineer) can use deep learning to transform his/her business -when, in reality, much expert help is needed to make it work. In other words, it would have been a lot more plausible/genuine if the article read like:

1. A progressive farmer got in touch with Google.

2. Google dispatched their solutions architect to work with them.

3. Hey, a cool, early prototype is working!

I am not trying to be a hater. Deep learning has huge potential, and Google, among others, is doing a lot to make it accessible. That said, this type of over-promising ahead of market reality is what gives cutting edge technology a bad name.