skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like Virginia is currently one of those states where you have to turn in the license plates -- so how would the camera ticket get to you? https://www.dmv.virginia.gov/vehicles/#selling.asp

In California, the plates stay with the car (unless they are vanity or you are attached to your plate number)
It's not a pyramid scheme, because people who buy stolen bikes are also subject to having their bikes stolen. Pyramid schemes are acyclic, the market for stolen bikes is not.
That post makes two correct observations about social issues with nuclear power: it is expensive to build new plants and the latency for building a new reactor is high, 6-10 years.

It also makes a neither-here-nor-there argument that nuclear power does not directly replace liquid fuels that are currently critical to transportation, but this is true of any electricity source.

The rest of the arguments presented are lousy ("too dangerous", "peak uranium", "low EROEI", and "breeder reactors are too dangerous" which is a repeat of "too dangerous"). There's no sign of peak uranium and it takes some real gymnastics to argue that nuclear power has low EROEI (energy returned on energy invested). The danger of nuclear power pales compared to unmitigated global warming or the widespread societal collapse that the Energy Skeptic site seems dedicated to prophesying. But if you've already made up your mind about conclusions, like the Energy Skeptic apparently has, you'll deploy whatever arguments you can scrape up to justify it. Even if they are poor arguments.
It's a common misspelling in America, similar to incorrect uses of your vs you're.
38% + about 1 month of net income to pay each year as income tax.
There's absolutely no visibility on retirement plan. You just know that you earn "points", with no idea what they're worth.
Also, when you rent in France you have to pay a tax (similar to property tax) which, depending on the city, can be quite high (~1 month of rent/year).
VAT is 22% on most products. Gas is expensive (highways too!!!). Train (TGV) is ridiculously expensive.
For those interested in very hands-on advise on using artificial light, the Strobist [1] blog is amazing. David Hobby is a working photojournalist and does fantastic work on-site. It's one thing to control light in the studio, but quite another to bring your flashes to a random site and improvise.

Hobby used to have a DVD set for sale which was probably the best money I've ever spent on photography stuff, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to be available anymore. (It appears he's got some videos on Lynda.com, however.) I understand technical aspects of photography quite well but I learned a ton about creative, improvisational lighting from Hobby.

[1]: http://strobist.blogspot.com/
Pencil and paper is where it's at.
For computation-bound processes, having more than one thread per CPU just means you pay task-switching fees unnecessarily.

In fact, "I'm just starting with Erlang/Haskell/Go and I wanted to play with parallelization so I took the first 100 million integers and spawned a thread to add each individual pair together in a distributed fashion and it's ten thousand times slower than just using a C loop, WTF?" is a very popular post on the relevant language forums. In that situation what happens is because the "payload" of each thread is a single machine-language instruction (give or take loading and saving to memory), all you see is the overhead of starting, stopping, and joining threads. (Or processes or greenlets or whatever.)

Key search is embarrassingly parallel, which is basically a term of art that means "it's so easy anything works".
lots of refactoring/rewriting in/for ES6

https://gist.github.com/sokra/27b24881210b56bbaff7
PyDev of the Week: Cameron Simpson
There was a book written near the death of Harvey Wiley, first head of the FDA, where he was already talking about regulatory capture by industry, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Washington_Wiley & https://www.google.com/search?q=the+history+of+a+crime+again...

> Wiley soon became a crusader and coalition builder in support of national food and drug regulation. His work, and that of Alice Lakey, spurred one million American women to write to the White House in support of the Pure Food and Drug Act ... Wiley was nicknamed the "Father of the Pure Food and Drugs Act" when it became law in 1906 ... On March 15, 1912, Dr. Wiley resigned his leadership of the Chemistry Bureau because, from nearly the beginning, he had been antagonized in the enforcement of the Pure Food And Drugs Act, and worse, he had seen the fundamental principles of that act either paralyzed or discredited ... After his resignation from government work in 1912, Wiley took over the laboratories of Good Housekeeping Magazine, where he continued his work on behalf of the consuming public.

The first head of the FDA resigned to work for a private laboratory that evaluated consumer products. Smartphone spectroscopy ("tricorder") with cloud analytics is being productized to enable mobile identification of food & drugs, http://mashable.com/2017/01/07/smartphone-with-scio-sensor-c...

Can new regulatory frameworks lower barriers to innovation (in drug discovery and feedback loops for consumer safety), beyond large incumbents and VC-backed challengers?
Wait a minute... if this is a Schengen visa, what's stopping people from just getting it and then going to Germany to work on a startup?

Not that it's a bad thing (well, it is for France I guess)...
"unless the emotional pain is a desired outcome"

Seriously, who are some of you people?
I don't understand your strong objection to the phrase "potentially permanent position". Do you believe that the AIP is trying to mislead students into believing programming jobs in the private sector have tenure!?

To me "potentially permanent" seems like a serviceable phrase to encompass positions in academia and in industry that do not have an end data built in to them. It contrasts them to "temporary" positions like postdocs in academia or contractors in industry where you know going into the job that your employment ends on a certain date.
Using Material Design with Vue.js 2
And high rents, but then they're also among the highest earners. It's not like you can easily find a $200k+/year software dev job in Montana.

edit: s/mo/year :D
A pricing technique that works even if you're an introvert
My favorite change is how configuration has been clarified. For example, see how loaders are configured now - instead of using a giant string delimited by special characters like this:

'css-loader?modules-true!postcss-loader!sass-loader'

Loaders are configured with an ordered list:

[
{
loader: 'css-loader',
options: {
modules: true
}
},
{
loader: 'postcss-loader'
},
{
loader: 'sass-loader'
}
]

It takes up way more space but it's also entirely clear what's happening.

More config changes are summarized here:

http://javascriptplayground.com/blog/2016/10/moving-to-webpa...
They don't "legislate" they "regulate".
Wow, this might be Trump's worst pick yet. Dude took $120M in VC money and just flushed it down the toilet.
Revolution Pi for SCADA / IoT applications. Mounted on an industry standard EN 50022 top hat rail with a 24 VDC power supply.

https://revolution.kunbus.com/
I just want to see the use of diaereses come back for words like coöperate and reënter.

> I'm not terribly keen on reſtoring 'ſ', ſince it really is eaſy to confuſe for 'f.'

Depends on the font, really. It looks great in italics, especially when using a font that gives it a descender... looks more like the integral symbol than 'f'. It irks me, though, when fonts give ſ a half-crossbar in the roman. Fortunately, the monospace font I'm using when writing this reply doesn't do that, and it also gives ſ a sharper curve at the top left, so ſ and f look pretty distinct in it.

I want the ſt ligature to come back, though. It looks really slick.
Seems like the headline feature is tree-shaking to remove unused files.
As an individual consultant, it's not terribly uncommon for the contracting company to interview you and get a feel for how working with you will be beforehand. At least that's been my experience.
The "Yelp for drugs" pull quote is missing the second part: "with MD star ratings." i.e. only medical doctors would be able to review/rate. Which IMO is a reasonable and interesting idea worth exploring.
I think I'm a pretty average consumer and I can say without a doubt that I would not trust my ability to make a well reasoned choice with regard to unapproved drugs. I'm not a pharmacist.
"5 years in school" means Nothing

You'll get better results within 1 month living in the target place
HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13398068

It's hard to take Eric S. Raymond seriously. He starts by claiming to be responsible for the open source development model, continues to make some generic remarks about library quality that applies equally to many other established languages (including C), then has the gall to offer advice to the designers of a language that he is openly struggling with [1].

His arguments aren't all wrong, but it's weirdly presumptious to level them so unequivocally at a new language/community that is still finding its feet and whose adoption rate hasn't even reached the point where you can talk about library curation/fragmentation being a huge problem. One has to give Rust some slack just for being young and immature.

You also have to give Rust some slack for just being more different and complicated than the languages you are used to. If you read his previous post about Rust, it's clear that he's blaming Rust for his inability to grapple with its fairly advanced concepts, and his complaints mostly amount to knee-jerk reactions, not carefully reasoned criticisms.

While it's true that Rust doesn't offer a learning experience that's as friendly as Go, by far, Go has the benefit of having a head start of several years, a larger organization funding its development, and of being a much, much simpler language. Based on his skill level, it sounds like Go would be a better fit for him. (I use Go myself and see a huge benefit being that it's easy to learn for any developer, not just highly experienced ones.)

[1] http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7294
Ask HN: Does bootstrapping a clone within an established market make sense?
Fresh account here created to ask this question. I'm in my late thirties and I spent my entire career at tech startups (as founder or employee up to CTO and VP Product positions). I never scored really big, but I earned well. I'm currently free to start something new and I might look for a new job as tech or product lead, but I'm also entertaining a thought of launching a SaaS business.

I don't have a groundbreaking or innovative idea, but I'm great at execution. I'm more than happy to bootstrap something small, without ever taking outside capital, a company which will never grow over few dozen employees. I'm looking for a quite likely path to build a $5-25M company rather than a quite unlikely path to build a $100M-1B company (the latter seems to be the dominating goal in startup community).

Considering the above, can creating a clone within an established area be the way to go? Something like another website monitoring service, another ticket system or another ecommerce CRM. None of these is actually something I want to pursue, but you can get the idea.

I understand that building a product is just the beginning and that much more effort is required into marketing and sales and I'm prepared for that (I know that underestimating it is a common mistake made by techies wanting to launch their own business), but they are also the areas I'm least experienced (although not totally inexperienced), so I'm unsure if this is a good idea.

I would love your opinions on whether what I want to do is viable. Or should I forget it because I will just do better by launching a software house or by creating an offshore development center for some US/EU company (I'm from the Central/Eastern Europe so it's the best place for this considering talent/culture/salaries mix)? Let me know what do you think or share your experiences if you've done or tried the same. Thanks!
immanent doesn't mean what you think it means :) even though it still makes sense in that sentence.
How would you recommend searching for those sorts of roles that aren't just cog-in-a-machine but require a good bit of technical ability and creativity on the job? No offense, but if you look at most job listings (even on hacker news), they often specifically mention technologies and languages one should already have a background in, and it's definitely not clear they would take someone that has succeeded in differing technical challenges.
Perfect, and it shows how 36 antenna get correlated down to 2.5 gigabytes per second.
Revealer: Automatic URL Expander for Chrome
My first boss's boss told the story of how he got into finance from being an assistant physics professor.

For a few years, he started checking the median age of physics professors, and noticed it went up every year instead of down. Tenured profs decided to stay in their seats instead of retiring, and there were no new positions being created for young professors. That was his indication to get out (this was during the mid 90s).

The real crux of the problem is that modern PhD programs were originally designed post WW2, in the era of the GI bill and fast expansion of college education where there was high demand for new professors. That's no longer the case, but we still train PhDs as if they would get a job even though most won't.
Then maybe they should not exit the union? The brits have to come with all the answer, and can expect no help being given since they are the ones breaking up the relationship.
There might be many who can, but those who can't and/or will fall for the even most stupids scam will be multiple more.
System on Module is a very old hat, chances are if you weren't aware of it, you are not the market.
How does using an enum help? You still have a string literal in your code. Shouldn't that be easy to find?
Raw salary comparisons miss the point : you can't really compare pre-tax salaries between countries with such a completely different taxation and benefits structure.

The take home pay certainly is much, much lower in France than in the US, but it comes with access to top-notch free healthcare, free university, pension contributions, 5-7 weeks paid leave and generous unemployment insurance amongst other things. It all adds up.

I'm French, working in London and I've been happy with the trade off of more pay for a thinner social safety net, but I know it would be foolish to compare wages directly. I suspect the difference is much less spectacular with everything taken into account.
What did Old Norse sound like?
Very true. Silly of me to overlook this obvious point! :)
Startups don't hire generalist to do anything.

More anecdata. I've worked as a generalist my entire career, always in companies with < 200 people. Mobile, web, desktop, api, windows, linux, embedded, javascript, sysadmin, netadmin, whatever. It's all the same to me. Point me at your weakest spot, and I'll make sure it's not your weakest spot, until the pain is gone, or you find a specialist. Rinse and repeat.
I've never heard an American spell out "etc.", correctly or not, in conversation; I'm having trouble believing that doing so, much less a particular incorrect way of doing it, is common generally among "Americans", though there may be some narrower regional or other subculture in which it is common.
A responsible MD wouldn't rate a drug without basing their rating on a review of the research. Seems redundant to me.
Don't Design Databases Without Foundation Knowledge and Conceptual Models
There are many consumers who think they can make an intelligent decision when it comes to anything medical, not that many actually can. I'm personally willing to trust doctors and scientists more than random people reviews.
We hire people with your exact profile for data science jobs all the time. You should be applying to DS jobs like there's no tomorrow.
AI Pioneer Wants to Build the Renaissance Machine of the Future
Imagine the little perverse incentives that companies offer to leave a Yelp rating (rate us and get some free breadsticks! or whatever), but with pharmaceuticals (leave us a five star rating and get a new car, or a new medical device, or whatever). That sounds really, really bad, and it would require a lot of regulation and oversight to make sure ratings weren't being manipulated. I suspect those two things will be in short supply in the incoming administration.
You can easily find $2,400,000 / year software development jobs in California?
This comment is so incredibly misleading. Predator drones were new in 2001. The idea that it makes sense to directly compare drone use in the Bush administration to drone usage in the Obama administration is just wrong.

Furthermore, I never really understood why people focus on drones as particularly egregious. Drones are significantly more accurate than cruise missiles and airstrikes because they can get closer to targets.

If you want to question the whole "deliver ordinance to places in which intel suggests there may be 'enemy combatants'" then I'm with you. But that criticism is totally separate from how the ordinance is delivered.
firefox is awesome but it allows you to screw up. you are probably running a bad extension that makes it that slow. if you have ad blocker, make sure it is ublock origin.

also, it is the only browser that allows extensions on mobile.
It really depends on the field -- fields with labwork tend to have more PhDs per professor because there's an incentive to get cheap labor.
Not-yet-approved implies that the research isn't finished. How are you going to 'intelligently' assess the risk?
You can, but only if Google thinks your IP address has a low likelihood of spam.
If I was purchasing these for a business, this would definitely be a consideration for me.

I don't get why you'd buy hardware that packages something with a 5-15 year life (the TV display) with something with a 2-5 year life (the compute capability). Integrating the compute both raises the cost and decreases the usable life. Lose-lose.

This is happening in the consumer space too with TVs, fridges, washing machines, etc. The people buying this stuff are going to feel burned in a few years when they realize they need a new TV not because there's anything wrong with the display, but because the software on it stopped getting updates a few years ago and doesn't have an app for the very popular NewFlix service, can no longer search YouTube because the API changed, and perpetually shows an error on part of the main screen because the service that provided content for that space no longer exists. If this hasn't already started, I'm sure we're on the cusp of it and it'll only get more prevalent as these things become more outdated.
Which is ridiculous, Pharmacists are often far more knowledgeable about medication, and even then crowdsourcing reviews for medicine is a crapshoot.
There is a startup scene in Toulouse and this city is really nice (and close to the sea and the moutains)
What's to stop "innovative drug companies" from buying fake reviews to boost their numbers? It already happens in places like TrustPilot and others.
"I dont have a fixed telephone number anymore. How to handle that?"

Get a fixed telephone number.
Not really interested in finding a study that happens to support that particular claim, especially since "quality" in this case is 100% subjective, so someone else could very reasonably disagree with me. All I can talk about is my experience; take it as nothing more than an opinion. The NHS sucks, Canadian healthcare sucks, US healthcare is good but expensive and overcomplicated, Mexican healthcare is great. I have heard from friends how Indian healthcare is similarly excellent, and French and German healthcare suck (unless, in the German case, you are a US citizen with US insurance, then they'll actually treat you well because they can get paid for it).

> If you can afford it, can the Mexican and Indian citizens afford that health care in "tourist hospitals"?

That's completely irrelevant. We're comparing the quality of care at the same price point. Obviously poorer people in poor countries won't be able to pay for the luxury healthcare that your average first-worlder can. They also wouldn't be able to afford the kind of socialized healthcare we could afford.

Just to give you a price point, 2 hours with a doctor (not a nurse), 2 x-rays, and an ultrasound was under $250 in Mexico. No paperwork, no waiting, no bullshit. Happy medical staff, happy patients. The exact opposite of any red-tape-encumbered first-world hospital.
You feel consultants shouldn't be interviewed? I wouldn't hire a consultant for a task without an interview.
I suppose we should write off the leaders of all the other failed entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley as well? A place where 9 out of 10 startups fails.
Adding to your point, the thing that is often overlooked is that those people who are unable to exercise informed judgement are also a huge burden on society as a whole. The ailments resulting from their "stupidity" means:

- they're not as economically active

- they're dependent on healthcare, driving premiums upwards and placing undue burden on medicaid

- many have minors and other people who are unable to make informed decisions in their care, etc.

I'm troubled by the "us vs them" mentality that seems to pervade the superficially-reasonable position of "let the consumer decide". Nobody wants a nanny-state, but a free-for-all isn't good for anyone, either.
Genuine question--doesn't domain fronting make it difficult for states to censor Signal? Or is the idea that it's a cat-and-mouse game and the state will find a way to censor even with domain fronting?
Just speculation but they could be used elsewhere in Google for test/dev or pre-prod environments.
Ask HN: Do you wear ear protection or noise cancelling headphones while working?
I am considering purchasing Bose's noise cancelling headphones to block out constant street noise while I work. Is that overkill given that I do not plan to listen to audio ? Has anyone tried earmuffs worn at gun ranges instead and if so are they uncomfortable if worn for prolonged periods ?

Just to share, there is a loud traffic control device right by my office window that plays a cuckoo sound whenever the north/south walk light is on. It plays from 6AM to midnight at wildly varying volume levels. I find it comically ironic that I am slowly losing my mind to the sound of a cuckoo.
You think the average consumer is going to read (let alone understand) dense clinical trials and review data from NIH and elsewhere to make their own determination on the risks and benefits of a drug? LOL, give me a break.

Efficacy and patient safety matter. That's why the FDA exists.
A certain % of my paycheck is already going to those people via soup kitchens, and the like.

It would be nice to know, assuming UBI is more effective, that the redistribution is not done in a condescending way. Such as empowering people to make their own decisions and be more autonomous vs. high overhead bureaucracies interfering with peoples' lives at the micro level.

I think your expression of "greater freedom and autonomy" is in line with UBI (once again, assuming there is clear evidence that there is a net benefit and no more money leaves my wallet in either system)
This lets you design devices with a fairly powerful CPU, but still stay within the bounds of cheap manufacturing (2 or 4 layer boards, >0.5mm pitch, 6/6mil traces, no BGAs).

These kinds of modules are enabling lots of new appliances that were too difficult to build before. I'm saying "these kinds", because lots are appearing, for example the Samsung ARTIK line or boards produced according to the 96boards.org standards.
Except in my experience (and others as well) the tree shaking hasn't been working.
I wasn't making an argument about the size of the state.