skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, working hours explain surprisingly little: France usually has a higher GDP per capita than the UK despite far shorter working hours. They also move pretty much in sync.
That link leads to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InSync_adaptive_traffic_contro...

which is exactly the kind of system I've thought of. I didn't know it existed. Thanks for the pointer! This is great news.
I'm not even able to load the site.
Well, I am most certainly a working security professional. It sounds as if you've given up and become a bean counter.

If the answer you give your CEO is "no," then you aren't giving the proper answer. You are just being a "yes man," saying comforting words.

>> So now Yahoo has a big problem because they had this breach. First of all, is this actually a big problem?

I mean this in absolutely the best way possible, you shouldn't ever be allowed near either a business or a security decision that affects people's lives or livelihood. If you think that disclosing hundreds of millions of records (many of which must contain PII) is without repercussion, then I have a pretty good idea of which end of the security stick you are holding. You are describing a business model where you piss on your customers by transferring 100% of the risk to them.
Yes, so let it be free of charge. Why is there any cost involved here for the app developer?
>QE is debatable, in a sense it's 'printed' loans that need to be returned, there's no direct influence on the exchange rate.

People have this idea that with QE officially over the Fed's balance sheet will shrink over time, but it's not true. Bonds that were purchased under QE are replaced with new bonds as they mature, so it's effectively printed money.

This is just the kind of fiddling you don't want to see when you're holding currency.
Sure, and Google will tell you that by the dictionary definition racism isn't about positions of privilege or power.

These words have acquired specific meanings in contexts like these that carry other connotations than the mere dictionary definition.

In feminism patriarchy is not just about familial structures, it's about power and privilege. It's not about dominance in the metaphorical sense (Homer dominates the show by having more lines) but about social struggle (men dominate the show by minoritizing women).

Yes, this is nonsense, but that's the context in which pop-sociology articles (anywhere from universities to popular websites) exist these days. Whether the author intended the article to be understood that way is another question, but I think it's fair to think that the article might be intended to be read this way.
Comparing European countries to California is actually fairly common. We like comparing ourselves to California in particular, apparently - it's rarer to see comparisons to other states.
That reduces the impact of each query, but doesn't reduce the amount of queries.

Imagine if a few popular models of IoT devices take security seriously and get their time with roughtime. They are still built from cheap components with minimal capability for persistent writes though, because price is key. Any large blackout could mean that millions of these devices power up simultaniously, putting huge load on the list update server.

You essentially make the list update servers crucial infrastructure that has to potentially handle huge load spikes.
USPS pays fairly well, I thought. Don't know much about working conditions though.
Yeah but if that's your last click Google may consider you found what you was looking for. That being said perhaps a comparison with backlinks would make more sense.
I find myself to be smarter and more capable of difficult design work when people nearby shut up and let me concentrate. How would two people constantly distracting each other always add up to one smart person?
You could define an IT company to be a company whose primary business is computer-based storage, retrieval, and manipulation of information, and with such a definition what company could be more IT-like than Google or Facebook?
One area to keep an eye on with this is the Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA) program. If they do indeed take on UPS/FedEx, the FBA program will now be able to store, sell, fulfill and deliver your product without leaving Amazon.
How do you account for the users that saw an ad, and then searched on the app store instead of clicking the add?
If, for some reason, you wanted a list of all of the video IDs (I couldn't easily find such a list), then I wrote a crappy scraper to pull them out: https://gist.github.com/JosephRedfern/d60bdc584d84b1451cc605....

I can post a URL to the output once it's finished running, if it'd be of any use to anyone. Oh, and be warned, there's a strong chance that it's buggy. It's certainly not optimised (no threads).

EDIT: The script has now run. I've scraped ~10,000,000 Video IDs, but only ~5.5m of these IDs are unique, so there's probably a bug in my script somewhere (but I need sleep now). Files containing IDs for various categories are listed here: https://redfern.me/public/yt8m/, some notes are here: https://redfern.me/public/yt8m/README.md, and .tar.gz'd archive is available here: https://redfern.me/public/yt8m/yt8m-ids-probably-incomplete.....
I worked at a software company where we did pair programming and test first 100% of the time. We shipped amazing code in timeframes I wouldn't have believed possible for system than could handle scale unheard of at the time (think of the datacenters powering Walmart). All I can say is this guy has some valid points even though I remain a huge advocate of this process. While I loved my time at this place, I had to quit after 3 years because of burn out.

The trick is to have a way for developers to power down somewhat. I'm not sure how you would do that. I never got the chance to figure it out.
Just so you know, Bitcoin doesn't provide strong anonymity either way.
What are some good links to learn more about it? And what's the difference between keto and paleo? Just asking out of interest.
I do the opposite diet, the Fuhrman "End of Dieting" so called nutrarian diet of mainly veg and beans with meat once a week, sometimes less. Saved a ton of money on food, lost weight back to my early 20s levels and have stamina to do 2 jobs, one very physical(climbing stairs all day) and one mentally taxing that I do 5 hours a day before my physical job. I also have energy to get in a research paper after both jobs where before I wanted to crash and burn after eating a heavy meat meal. Complete anecdote but if anybody doesn't want to eat a lot of meat and keep a low weight read that book.
Modern Family though also has Hailey's sister who is smarter than the lot of them and a much younger wife married to the patriarch without falling into a gold-digger/mail-order bride stereotype. Other than Haily and stereotyped mom(s) they're OK on the whole.
We're all soldiers in the War on Bad Driving
No, it's more about the GDP per capita difference between Matadepera (58k EUR) and Montefrío (9k EUR), both Spanish towns.

Source: http://www.lavanguardia.com/vangdata/20150520/54431341415/ra...
I'd comment on the video itself if I could watch it, but local systems aren't cooperating.

That said: discussions can be about the nominal topic, or they can drift, naturally, to other areas of interest. I find the meta-topic of "where is a good place to discuss the things I'm interested in discussing" to be generally on-topic. HN isn't a bad place for that.

With the ability to collapse threads baked into the HN page design, if you're not interested in a discussion, you can simply collapse it an move on.

On which: I'm increasingly hitting long threads from the bottom, for a few reasons:

1. The top-ranked post often isn't particularly on-topic, and attracts diversions posted for visibility.

2. It's easier to tell if a thread is of little concern if you follow it from the bottom.

3. It's easier to track a conversation from bottom to top and collapse going up, than it is to backtrack back to the top and collapse that. There's a subreddit which runs the collapse bars down the side of the thread, allowing a subthread, or entire thread, to be collapsed in one go.

4. There are often downvoted or flagged items which I feel are incorrectly tagged. It's usually faster to assess if something has some merits than to see if it's solid, and I'll nudge stuff up -- even if I substantially disagree with it -- if it seems it's been overly penalised.

HN, as with other online discussions, does poorly for deep and complex posts. One standout was The Edge Question issue a few years ago. There were a handful of comments on the first few essays, but given that there were ~100 - 150 total responses, it's not the sort of thing you can digest quickly.

I've tracked down other issues of the Question and gone through it. I have to say on balance I'm fairly disappointed in the quality -- much is narrow self-promotion of research, another large set is rampant speculation. The short an humerous responses are often disarmingly refreshing. And every so often there's something quite good. Sturgeon's quality estimate though seems generous.
Frankly the problem there is that browsers, even though they are becoming a second OS, do not have a central volume control. Heck, i swear Youtube resets the volume setting at near random (or maybe its some kind of insane AB testing?).
Sakurai: (Laughs)
3-Mile-Long Nazi Resort Being Resurrected as a Luxury Getaway
The style of pair programming that is done as a constant process as part of "extreme programming" is pretty silly and simply should not be necessary in the large majority of projects.

Note, temporarily paring up with someone in order to discuss strategy, give a demo, solve a difficult problem, or anything like that is something completely different and is not what is meant by "pair programming" in the "agile" world.

If you have good developers, a well-factored code base, and are using the right tools and processes, it simply should not be necessary to pair up in order achieve a quality result. I could possibly see it helping when dealing with huge "enterprise" spaghetti code bases where every expression produces a side effect and any change will cause a new defect, but those situations are pretty extreme.
Spotify is in 'advanced talks' to buy SoundCloud
Important to whom? I intentionally do not make a distinction. I'm not going to start, because the point is important to me.

The distinction matters to: decision-makers at the firm in question, shareholders of the firm in question, the sovereign collecting the taxes[1]. And given the the dispute resolution with large corps' tax issues rarely involves people going to jail or even admissions of fault, I'm not sure why anyone outside of that group should care about the (extremely blurry) legality boundaries.

Bottom line: most of the rest of us have no obligation to care about their word-choice sensitivities and are free to use language for our own ends.

[1] Possibly noninclusive list.
Oh I'm so conflicted...I want (someone) to save SoundCloud, but Spotify kind of has a horrible record with user feedback, nuking popular and unobtrusive features, abandoning UX and in general making the platform (kind of) a chore to use (at times). I recently switched to Google Play music, and while I miss the level of integration Spotify has with other services, I feel like my dollar is going farther with GP.
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/robotics-lab-uber-gutted-sa...
Get web, mobile web, and app analytics all in one place
"Not everyone's cut out for or enjoys management or running a business."

That type of thinking will do you in. If you can take technical resources and produce a functioning system, then you're cut out for management. The people problems you'll encounter are largely irrelevant. Learning your charges' quirks, dislikes and styles is like learning a new language or API.

And if you believe in Alan Turing's compelling philosophical argument that people are just fleshbound Universal Turing Machines, then it's easy to carry over from development to management. You just end up putting a fleshy, slower, intelligent computational layer between you and the dumb, fast calculators you normally solve problems with. Program the people to program the machines. Abstraction is a core concept in development.

At some point you'll see that you can create bigger things by commanding a team or department. A single person rarely ever makes a huge contribution on their own.
None of that will happen, what might happen is better technology, like having to take a photo of the delivery address that gets OCRed and compared before the package is confirmed as delivered.
No privacy policy on the main or "About" page.

If you upload an image, who knows what the site operator will do with it? Without any kind of limit spelled out, we must assume the worst.

OP, unless the main goal of this site is to harvest images from oblivious people, please add a privacy notice.
What we call this in the industry is "attribution" and there is a whole sub-industry to deal with this bc it is a complex problem. In short, gaming right now uses last-click attribution so the last advertiser gets credit. FB does influence behavior for sure, though that is difficult to quantify.
Much less expensive than San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Those are in the $3,000-$5,000 range if you don't want to commute.
Having worked on software which received audits from a "natonally recognized security company", this statement on their part gives me no additional confidence. I performed what I would consider a "light" audit on the same codebase and found database injection attacks, auth forging attacks, denial of service; and the infrastructure it was deployed on used versions of libraries which opened the service up to plausible remote code execution.

Ditto, it just basically says "trust us"; no offense to the authors.
Exactly. I mean everyone has a horror story from UPS/USPS/FedEx, but for each of those, millions of packages get delivered every year without a single hitch. Amazon running their own service just adds another one to the list.

Personally, I stopped shopping on Amazon after I returned to the US. I realized they had become the new Wal-Mart, and I haven't shopped there since 2009.
Show HN: Simplified Continuous Deployment with Docker
Um, there was no root on Blackberry
I'd love a list of IDs - I'm doing a research project that is a search engine for lectures (https://www.findlectures.com) and I'm interested to see if there is any overlap.

It seems like it'd be interesting to explore their tagging compared to what is in video transcripts.
This is nothing but a win for Amazon. They have themselves as customers plus all the other online retailers. Also, they can better optimize to fit the online business environment with the latest tech. UPS and fedex have to deal with the old ways of doing shipping plus the unions. If they fail, at the very least, they force the other delivery companies to be better competitors.

But ultimately this is a loss for the everyday worker. The loss of the unions means the standard of living will fall for those that work in the delivery business. Walmart has always been seen as the enemy because of their never ending fight to lower prices which means lower salaries for their workers. I think Amazon is done a good job in not only lowering workers pay but destroying jobs. Why has Amazon escaped the same criticism? Not only that, but they are admired by many as the future of doing business and in effect employee treatment. What gives?
Yea, they're not know for their wages or working conditions, unless you're in IT ... or a robot.
Actually, the DeepMind people seem quite idealistic. Whether they can maintain that idealism in the face of corporate pressures is another story.

The character of the founders and engineers matters. Would you rather have GAI developed by DeepMind / Google, or by Lockheed Martin?
He was the focus of the marketing for sure. I remember Bart Simpson t shirts everywhere, video games starring Bart Simpson. "Do the Bartman" etc.
Awesome app idea. Are you going to put up an arxiv preprint about it?
Show HN: CurrencyFormatter.js – easily format currencies in JavaScript
Daemonized sequential command execution tool for heavy load tasks
Urban heat islands and street trees in Philadelphia
Having struggled to find a JavaScript library that can format Indian Rupees properly, we created one! Covers pretty much all currencies and locales, and has no dependencies :)
Some traditions deserve to die. Another one that I will not be sad to see go the way of the dodo is Surströmming [1]. I love the quote from Wolfgang Fassbender "the biggest challenge when eating surströmming is to vomit only after the first bite, as opposed to before”.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surströmming
Elon Musk's Ticket to Nowhere
I think you have that backwards. Unions work best for unskilled work. They're not really necessary in most skilled jobs where worker demand is high and wages are competitive.
You don't pay me. The C-suite pays me. Thanks for making this personal when it has no need to be, by the way.

Personal attacks aside, let's you and me go out to a bar and sing songs of how things should be. Tomorrow, we have to go back to how things are. In the land of how things are, to the business, the disclosure doesn't matter. Full stop. Does it matter to the customers? Oh yes. Dearly. It's a really big deal to humanity. The business and humanity are discrete.

Is that a tragedy? Yes. I weep. I go home and drink every night for this reason. Until I don't want to work for people that pay money, though, you have to think about the business first. Humanity second. Anything else is a fairy tale or communism.
I wouldn't think so, not if they're saying a percentage of all downloads come from search, as opposed to a percentage of all searches lead to a download.
I think that's a cool idea. It would have the downside that error recovery could take a while though, depending on the permdown period, so during that time a driver would be stuck; while in a request-based system they can immediately try again and it would work (hit a different instance). But it might not be too bad.
Blackberry Bold (classic) was barely able to run the OS and hold more than 5 (small, simple) apps.

Even without apps, it would run out of RAM, CPU, etc.

For a company which makes both the device and OS, there's no excuse for that kind of behavior.
>To reverse the gov must buy the bond back with money from general taxation, on doing so the bond is redeemed and destroyed, and the central bank erases the money it received back in tandem with the bond.

But this is already a normal part of the process. The government rolls over its debt as bonds mature, so the Fed can just take the money when the bond matures and not buy new bonds. That would force the government to borrow existing money from individuals and other countries instead of creating new money through the Fed, effectively taking that cash out of circulation at the cost of an increase in interest rates.

Also, the Fed bought corporate bonds under QE, so this isn't just a question of the government printing money to cover budget shortfalls.
Funny, I've taken it as justification for releasing often. If I have a hard time changing one thing without breaking the service, it's nearly impossible to change a hundred things without breaking something. Since it's a given that I will have to change things, I'll try to stick to a scope where I stand a chance of doing so successfully.
My real point was that it's a spectrum. Type information should go where it clarifies and should not go where it obscures.

We should omit the type from intermediate expressions when (and only when!) it will be sufficiently clear from context and it does not serve as a clearer specification of intent than your terms. I contend that this is not a special property of expressions.
I disagree - because on another level it's also a story about hacking and making, and society's fundamental misunderstanding of this sphere of activity.
I had my wife's birthday present delivered two days after her birthday, and no one at Amazon Customer Service knew of a way to contact Amazon Local (the carrier). None of the two phone numbers Google returns work.

At least with FedEx and UPS you can talk to someone and sort things out. I recently dropped by the local FedEx warehouse to pick up a packet that was on its way to be returned because they'd miss me at home. Amazon Local? You can't even know what are their business hours.
I was Bart's age when the show started. I'll be Homer's age in two years.

I had seen some of the shorts on the Tracey Ullman Show and the Butterfinger ads. I knew enough to make sure to watch "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" when it first aired.

It really was perfect timing.
For another memorable one try .localtest.me
See http://readme.localtest.me/ for more details.
Isn't that because a surgery, if it fails, will result in the patient dying immediately, rather than some random time later? If you do more surgeries, you will increase both the failed and the successful surgeries, whether your success rate is 10 or 90 percent.

Compare: "bomb explosions tend to increase around the time when we send in the bomb squad. I guess bomb defusing is pointless."

IOW: Surgeries and bomb defusing tend to move forward a lot of the death-probability-mass (while, in theory, destroying some of it).
The healthcare wouldn't even account for half of the difference.

And you're not taking in account the payroll taxes. France has a combined payroll taxes of almost 40%, while Switzerland is <15%.

So not only Swiss workers make more money, but they also cost less than French workers.

Source: OECD, http://taxfoundation.org/article/comparison-tax-burden-labor...
The same with me.

Before, my problems were generally when USPS was making a Sunday delivery. They'd often leave the package outside the entrance to my apartment building - otherwise known as "the public sidewalk".

The last few weeks, most of my packages were handled (well, mishandled, to be more accurate) by Amazon's delivery service. I finally cancelled the two remaining orders that were somewhere in transit, and cancelled the auto-renew for my Prime account.

Now, I order directly from shops, and might get a Costco membership for bulk items.
Paleo diet is not necessarily Keto, though.
'We will continue to use security features to protect the quality of our customer experience' sounds like they are saying that the same thing will just happen again
As long as she isn't using internet banking, is it really that much of an issue?

Assuming she doesn't fall for any scams (which is a big assumption).
A few other things, like interstate commerce, which the supreme court interprets as so broad as to cover a whole lot of things. The amount of shared laws are staggering compared to the EU equivalent. There's also how medicare and social security are national, which makes a world of a difference when it comes to interstate mobility.

The shared taxes that you mention are also huge: how different would Europe be if Germans were really on the hook for Greek budgetary issues?

Look at this in practical terms: if the US states really resembled sovereigns, you'd have far wider differences in economic performance. Outcomes would diverge more widely if states were really doing things that were really all that different. We'd see incredibly different unemployment rates too. But in the US that can't really happen, because ultimately the federal government has everyone's back, and you don't see big, country threatening arguments about how California federal taxes are spent in other states: Those situations were possible back when the federal government was really weak, but the aftermath of the civil war took care of all of that.

Along with the legislative differences, there's also a far more unified culture across states, if just for the shared language, and thus media. I can move from Missouri to California pretty easily: Better weather, higher taxes, but most of the rest stays about the same. Moving from an EU country to another is far more traumatic in comparison, which also makes each country be far more unique than US states.