skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's practically impossible for the median consumer investor to tell the difference between a fraud and a legitimate crowdfunding opportunity, of what use is it for us to rhetorically isolate the frauds from our discussion?
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I think what's more ridiculous is unpaid overtime and letting employers, who naturally have the upper hand in any employment negotiation, set the rules for all employees in the exploitive manner the US does.
Interestingly enough, none of the consoles in the most recent generation (PS4 / Xbone / WiiU) were ever sold at a loss leader price. They were all profitable at their release prices (400 / 500 / 300) from the get go.
I think most donations come from relatives. AFAIK some donations are also recoverable, e.g. when only a part of the liver is transplanted and it will regrow to its full size?
Yes, sorry I thought that was implied by my question.
Pretty sure this article gets written every new year. :) Here was last year's:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-atlassian-ipo-analysis-idU...

> Atlassian's public offering this week, among the most highly valued IPOs of the year, is expected to renew Wall Street's faith in some tech unicorns and prime the market for more companies to go public. In Atlassian, investors see more of what they want - profits and disciplined spending - which may be just the confidence boost they need to embrace more tech IPOs in 2016, according to bankers, fund managers and investors.
Why is this not there in the US? Why not start in SF?
Java program runs slower when code that is never executed is commented out
Why should it start in SF? You wouldn't happen to live there would you?
Maybe he understood that things got serious and doesn't want to get extradited to USA.
I'm pushing a few examples and documentation this weekend.

To see it in use, take a look at Cascade Components, a library of common components.

https://github.com/sjohnsonaz/cascade-components
All of 2016's top mobile apps are owned by either Google or Facebook
Thank you... that's been my thoughts all along. I mean, does it really matter if this was the Russians, or some guy in North Carolina? The facts remain, and I'd be willing to bet there's been effort to hack Trump's mail by similar foreign actors.

In the end, there was some shady stuff in the emails, and if there wasn't it likely never would have seen the light of day.
Yes...it's exploitation.
Should people be allowed to sell their heart or their eyes?
To be clear, I'm not suggesting that it isn't Ukranian, or whatever, I was just pointing out the fact that the interface, etc., is in English and so there may be a wider "market" for the malware. It's consistent with the sort of malware I see on clients' infected WordPress installs semi-regularly.
Financial Times letter to editor from supposed alien visitor
Sorry if you answered this somewhere else. But does it use LOB's API to send the postcard?

I wonder if there is data/logic on what would be the optimal locations (countries/cities/towns) where it is cheapest and fastest to send a postcard to that country or neighboring countries.
Snowden leaked intelligence to Russia
It uses concepts behind other popular libraries such as React with Mobx, and Knockout, but refines their workflows where possible.

I'm in the process of converting previous projects to Cascade, and so far it has been easier to use.
Great idea, and I like the approach. Something like this can be tricky to pull off.

I did something similar, but as a 30 day meditation challenge: http://tinyurl.com/gskmt7d

Note: my site isn't operational at the moment.
A recurring theme in Larry Niven's writing
Frequent flyer points put at risk by website flaws
They could sell an open variant for more money (+40% perhaps?) such that potential losses in games revenue are offset. Or the open variant could require an always-on internet connection to play games, as is already the case for some PC games (or Super Mario Run, even).
That's how you interpreted it. Since other people interpreted it differently, perhaps it was less clear than you imagined.
I know a tax lawyer who uses stuff like this, apparently just with Microsoft Excel, including recursive references (Excel throws a warning for this, but they ignore it). I don't think that crippling the functionality of the software to force people into using code is a good idea. Better to enhance the spreadsheet metaphor to make it work better.

This ideally would include some kind of understandable version control (git has a lot of usability issues, even for programmers), and a better module system (right now they just copy and paste complicated calculations to reuse them for a new client).
A cascade to react comparison might be helpful in understanding what you're doing here.
9 years ago I heard a NPR interview with the scientist(s) who cracked the code on exactly how chlorine bleach kills bacteria. Something I assumed was known longer than I've been around using bleach to disinfect.

edit: link

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9700789...
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Did any of you make new years resolutions, and if so, which ones?
The Singapore HOTA law works like that. It's opt-out and if you opt out you lose priority
> I am strongly in favor of organ donation being opt-out, rather than opt-in.

You're right. This would be an acceptable approach, with (perhaps) opting out placing you at the bottom of the list (if organ donation is not out of their control).

Question to HN: What is the best method to propose this within the US government? The surgeon general? The CDC director? The United Network of Organ Sharing director? Or just my congressman/senator?

I'm wondering who has the most clout to make this change.
You just became my favourite person of 2017 so far - thanks heaps!
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Know what you know, know what you don't know, and strive to move the latter into the former by asking questions. Someone unwilling to ask a question when they don't know something is a quick way to get me to fire you when that vanity runs into reality.

Stop trying to be perceived as important and focus on actually doing important things... the rest will sort itself out.
I ordered a bunch of stuff from amazon.in when I was visiting India. All the deliveries are via courier like DTDC. But I was in a smaller town. I am not sure if the Amazon delivery network is in action in the bigger cities.
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Seems the democrats did not count on so few people caring that Trump is at least a little racist.
Yandex.Weather relies heavily on deep convnets for short term forecasting.
well it's an interesting point. i don't live in the USA of 1955.

in today's landscape, i don't know how to tell if Apple's location actually matters to me. what if Apple were headquartered in Finland, Japan or China? they don't pay my taxes. they don't employ me. they bring a lot of people from outside the US to do their work. they also outsource a ton of work to other countries.

why would I really care about Apple's location or country of incorporation? i bet people in Ireland care a lot more than i do.
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Counting from Infinity – Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture (2015) [video]
The prices charged for extended support are high but not astronomical and I don't think you answered the question on NASA.
Quite funnny that posts that don't pray as everyone else (eu > us) are being downvoted.
All the Biggest Space News to Look Forward to in 2017
French workers get 'right to disconnect' from emails out of hours
NASA is not a special case. What about medical equipment, weapons , oil industry, stock trading, I bet other people here can think of more examples.
That may be, but first-class cities concentrate a lot more of the most desirable economic opportunities. Living in the Silicon Valley and SF area would be completely irrational on all grounds, except for the fact that you're within driving distance of 900 of the world's top 1000 technology employers (figurative example, I wouldn't have an exact count). Similar arguments can be made for entertainment, music and film in LA, and for finance, fashion and media in NYC.

Yeah, Charlotte, Tampa, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Salt Lake City, and Phoenix are a lot cheaper. But that's in large part because they're not SF or NYC. :) First-class cities can literally provide 10x-20x the value for a lot of folks.

I have no dog in this fight; I lived in Atlanta for ten years and now live in a small-medium college town. Being self-employed for a long time now, I have no intention of moving to SF or NYC. But I can certainly see why someone would.

That said, the US has a unique advantage here compared to most of the world, "developed" and otherwise; it is very decentralised economically. In the grand scheme of things here, life in Charlotte just isn't _that_ different from NYC. In many other economies, a sizable chunk of the GDP is parked in the capital and maybe one or two other top-tier cities, and the difference between life there and life anywhere else—anywhere else at all, even another fairly large city—is considerable. In my native USSR—and as I understand it, its descendant Russia—there a huge chasm between "Moscow" and "not Moscow", even though there are dozens of other sizable cities in Russia. The Soviet economy was exceptionally geographically centralised, so makes for a very extreme example, but I think you get my point.
>>Does India not have a similar service?

Yes They are mobile first services. Quickr & OLX are the popular services in India.
I don't believe you can talk for all unemployed French people.

This kind of mentality is what destroys an economy.
Any research you could link for this?

I get the impression from the 101 child development textbooks that infants display an impressive number of schemas and knowledge despite little, if none environmental exposure, but I'm not familiar with arguments linking these schemas and knowledge to exposure in the fetal stage.
>I am strongly in favor of organ donation being opt-out, rather than opt-in. //

Whilst the state assumes control of a person's body around the time of their death, a little pre- or post- mortem, do you also consider that they should assume control of the persons other material assets?

If you're in favour of the assumption of state possession of [portions of] a persons body it seems logical you should also think the public should be able to assume the good from that persons other cherry-picked assets.

To emphasise the point, suppose a landed millionaire dies, their kidneys prove useful to someone - the state has written in to law that the persons bodily organs will be assumed to be possessions of the state. Would not also that persons properties, liquid assets, and other such non-bodily possessions be beneficial. Indeed they may give far greater benefit than their organs in some cases.

Why the organs but not the non-bodily assets?

Despite bodies being ruled as "not property" in UK law I'm of the opinion that a person's own body should be as much as feasible theirs to control as the other assets of that person are post-mortem. If people get to say what happens to their house, why should they not get to say what happens to their retinas, say?

Personally I find a greater moral good in assuming the possession of the non-bodily assets to the state and allowing people to choose to donate their bodies.
It's short and concise spoken American, I don't see what the big deal is
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Happy 2017 to you.
I've seen the information, none of it represents anything they took action on. It's grasping at straws.
Your feelings assume bad faith.
Nice work! Fun service, Keep it up!
Popcorn Time launches new torrent tracker to fight copyright monopolies
I started doing Hijama (cups with complete toxic blood extraction idk if I described it well) every 3 months. They say it has allot of health benefits. The most amazing thing I experienced is sleep like a deer which I was not able to do and wake up with a clear head.
> ... venture funds trail hedge funds in secrecy by a sideways glance.

I literally 'LOLed' reading that. That's an especially apt characterization.
I think the article implies that the totality of evidence is not compelling. As the article states, other institutions like the Guardian and Washington Post have issued retractions about Russian involvement.
Yes time and a half. Which was sweet.

Factory sent from 2 8 hour shifts to 2 10 hour shifts. They got quite a bit more production without the full cost of adding a third shift.

As a programmer I'm not sure extra pay would help. My brain can only code so many hours.
A lot of Americans live in Norway:

https://visitnorway.no/

https://nav.no/workinnorway/en/Home

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Americans
At first I actually wasn't sure if you were joking or serious, but gifpop.io looks awesome. I'll start looking into how/if I can integrate.

However, If I sent my grandma a postcard that moved, she'd probably collapse :p
Obama Signs a Shadowy New Anti-Propaganda Center
True. OP said overtime NEVER works. I think it works. Just differently in different fields.

I can code 80 hour weeks for a bit. Put out a ton of code. Can't do it for a month straight. But I could do manual labor overtime for a month straight.
Rofl this is the first time I've ever read something that refers to "wipe your device" as a "moderately painless hoop to jump throigh".

This is customer service these days?
As long as we're linking personal GB emulators... :-)

Here's mine, written as one file of less than 5000 lines of C: https://github.com/binji/binjgb. It's very accurate, based on few of the most commonly used GB emulator test suites (Blargg's and Gekkio's).

Interestingly, there are still many questions about the specific timings of the Gameboy PPU and APU. An interesting case pointed about by LIJI128 is that no accurate emulator can run Pinball Deluxe; they all crash in some way: https://www.reddit.com/r/EmuDev/comments/4n71ea/gb_pinball_d....
Did you try MediaMonkey?
It's just it's so obvious I don't see the need for reporting. What about vaccines or hygiene notes ? They avoided millions of new "organ donors" too.
The OS install was sandboxed iirc, you couldn't use the graphics subsystem or something.
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The Allwinner R8 is available in eLQFP176 and also has a built in audio DAC, ADC and headphone amp. Of course, it requires external memory and all the routing headaches that go along with that, but so does the i.MX233. Power management is generally done by a companion chip from X-Powers, the AXP209.
> Do some research

To me, doing research is the lowest hanging fruit with the highest return on investment. From a journalism context, I push students to hit LexisNexis and Google hard before they do interviews. Whenever a student complains that they don't have any interesting questions to ask, or the subject had nothing interesting to say, almost always the problem could have been mitigated with pre-interview research.

The benefits of doing research for interviewing:

- You can learn the boilerplate of the subject, which serves the dual purpose of making you more nimble in interpreting the context of responses and saves you from wasting valuable question time of basic info ("So when did you start directing, Mr. Tarantino?)

- You can learn the current or ongoing controversies of a subject, from which almost all interesting questions arise.

- You find other interesting people to interview.

When your questions are derived from research, you save time by cutting through the boilerplate and any bullshit that might be offered as a response. Furthermore, there's an unquantifiable benefit in increasing respect -- that is, your subject will give you more serious, thoughtful answers because they see that you've put serious, thoughtful effort into understanding them.

You can gain this rapport if you're in a position of authority, or have the chance of multiple interviews. But in cases where you're just another possibly-threatening interrogator, doing your research is an easy and accessible way of increasing your authority, and thus, the quality of answers you receive. It can more than make up for in-person skills, depending on the situation and subject.

Edit: the OP suggests not being so strict on Gogling-before-asking, because she likes to ask basic questions during casual conversation, like over lunch/coffee. I think you can have your cake and eat it too. Sometimes I'll ask questions that I already know the answer to, as an icebreaker. But again, this requires research for the domain knowledge. Ideally, you want your icebreaker questions to be one that you anticipate the person is enthusiastic to answer. While they're saying what you think they'll say, you can spend that time gauging the person's mood and think of segues into other lines of questioning. Of course, once in awhile, they'll respond to your softball basic question with something that you didn't expect...and that in itself leads to potential insights.
I have, scored poorly. There is only a slight advantage to comp.sci ability, but with a significant downside risk.

There is a tendency in STEM to solve the class of problem (e.g. abstract it then derive the answer) to get the answer, when what is required in the LSAT is to be able to execute the logical sequence laid out by the question in less than 90 seconds.

Doing the exam training course will make you better at a lot of things. It is a lot of fun, and you will develop a broader appreciation for non-STEM professionals.
I'm not sure how to make my statements any clearer. I've even added emphasis to attempt to do so. The actions known about and discussed by which people are upset were actions within the DNC. Given that an action is something a person does, the content of the pre-convention leaked emails, and the act of writing and discussing the contents of those emails, constitutes actions within the DNC. You're attempting to dismiss this as non-action because there perhaps were not actions observable or taken outside the DNC. That's not what people are arguing in this case.
Guilty as charged, with the stories.
I love the idea, and had no idea this data was available. However, the visualization is close to useless (except it looks good on news sites). I wanted to examine @Theodores comment about Brexit, but I can't even do something as simple as figuring out whether the UK is a net importer from / exporter to Europe (or approximately equal).

It makes me want to play around with the data [1] myself, although getting all the data looks a bit involved. And it's not an easy visualization, either. Not only is there a geometry problem and a dimensional problem, it looks like countries might import from and export to the same country in the same type of good. In 2015 for "26 - Ores, slag, and ash", apparently the UK imported $187m from Canada and exported $155m to Canada. (But maybe the units are $1k, as the UK importing $2+ billion total seems a bit low?) Not only does that seem a little counter-intuitive--what ores is the UK even mining, let alone exporting? Anyway, representing both directions seems challenging.

[1] https://comtrade.un.org/data/
There are crates like https://crates.io/crates/strfmt which let you accept a non-literal.
Unfortunately you can't. However, when was the last time you were genuinely affected by breaking "news" that you read or watched on television? I've learned that if I read 3-day old news, a lot of junk tends to be weeded out. But then again, will so much partisan in news it's all become entertainment and ad revenue more than research and facts.
I basically agree with the author, to a certain degree. Only looking at local problems reminds me very much of Biedermeier, when people grew so frustrated with things happening in the wider world that they retreated into their comfy personal world: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biedermeier
So it sounds as though the reasoning is circular.
You are taking the exactly correct way to think about savings: asset-liability matching, and being realistic about it (not imagining you can move to a new place because 'retired', so do, but many can not do so successfully).
Yeah it was always pretty nerfed. Cool that you could do it but it performed as well as a potato really.
> They could sell an open variant for more money (+40% perhaps?) such that potential losses in games revenue are offset.

1) Developing a second SKU is expensive.

2) It seems that much of the PS4 hacking has been enabled by the minimal "open" surface provided by simply having a browser available on the PS4. The protections of an "open" SKU would likely be a roadbump.

3) Piracy is not the only problem. Hacking undermines multiplayer competition, the value of leaderboards, achievements, ...

Frankly, the cheapest option to solve all these problems would be to simply bundle an extra PC to make your "open variant". But of the question is: Why would they? What's the profit in it?
The Game of Life is probably the first program I ever wrote. I (somehow) managed to get it working on a Timex Sinclair 2068 using a BASIC compiler which could only support one dimensional arrays.
Old HP lab equipment is the bee's knees. I recently scored an HP 6261b power supply for free from work, and it is awesome. This monster delivers up to 50 amps DC at up to 24 volts, can also be current limited; rock solid with very very low ripple and noise. Mainly because it's linear regulated and the six big capacitors inside are the size of beer cans.

I didn't know it at the time, but these still go for $1500+ on ebay. A new equivalent performance unit would be $5000+. Only downside is it's huge (4U rackmount) and weighs 80 lbs.
Interesting concept. Will be interesting to watch what happens.
> You have evidence he built one house correctly :) That tells you literally nothing about the previous performance of his houses.

Only if you believe that his performance on the one house has no correlation whatever with his performance on other houses. That seems highly implausible to me.

> he could have fixed it all

Fixed what? The problem wasn't that the house was actually built wrong. The problem was that the inspector wasn't competent enough to make an actual engineering judgment, so all he could look for was some particular label on the lumber instead of assessing its actual structural strength. An independent inspector, who did have the competence to make an actual engineering judgment, said the house was fine (in fact he said it exceeded the building code standards).
I tried to Google "pas web shell" and "profexer pas download" (with option to search pages in any language) to understand the audience of a project. What I saw were mostly links to forums in russian (with reviews of the software or tutorials on how to use it), one chinese github account with a collection of web shells and english posts from people who found the backdoor and tried to understand what it was.

So I got an impression that posts in english were mostly from victims and posts in russian were mostly from users.

You can try google these words and see the results yourself.
The Liberal National Party is electoral only at the national level, but parliamentary at the state level (Queensland). In the other states the Liberals and Nationals are only in an electoral alliance and parliamentary coalition, and haven't actually merged, so LNP politicians are split into the Liberal and National parties. The Country Liberal Party is similar to the LNP, but it only operates in the Northern Territory and its only Senator sits with the Nationals.

Wikipedia shows LNP MPs as being a part of the LNP, with a note stating their affiliation.
Yes, it was the 33rd annual Chaos Communication Congress (To prefix "C3" with the number is the chosen nomenclature, ie. "33C3". I've never seen the "CCC" prefix used in the wild).
Depends on how interesting the work is and how motivated I am. I think on average 20 hours of progamming a week + a few hours here and there for email and random things are optimal.