skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russia and Russians suffer from the legacy of the strongman/strongwoman.

They do not trust or like fair rulers --they'd see them as unsure, flailing and a pushover. Since the Kievan Rus they have only known strong rulers from the Czars to mr Steel himself --the only break being Gorbachov and Yeltsin.

This is one of the reasons Putin --even if he wanted, cannot look like he's giving in. He'd be seen a sellout to the country ala Gorbachov/Yeltsin.

They are bound to strongmen/women for the foreseeable future. It's not an easy habit to get out from under especially given their historical context.
Drugs are tested on healthy people first. If healthy people with previously no thought of suicide suddenly starts feeling suicidal when in a clinical trial of a drug, it could be outside influence and a huge coincidence, but likely not.
Expert Interview with Srivatsan Venkatesan, Business Head at Freshsales
Likewise. The site has abysmal accessibility.
One of the farms I run has a small 2.5 acre section of the main farm divided by a ditch. If that chunk were much smaller, I'm not sure it would be even worth pulling the equipment into it. If it were any smaller, some of these large implements you can buy nowadays wouldn't even fit.

But perhaps what he means is that with more automation, the new tools would make utilizing small pieces of land up to 1 acre more attractive. I'm not so sure, but there's always the idea thrown around of automation allowing equipment to get smaller (and large operations would buy many of them).
Archaeologists Uncover New Clues to Maya Collapse
"There was a secret URL in WebEx that allowed any website to run arbitrary code. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

What are the chances of this being done arbitrarily, and not just something that slipped out of code review...
The advantage of general-purpose data warehouses is they give you all of SQL, and they are compatible with BI tools. Time-series data is just one of the types of data you will want to analyze. It's best to choose tools that will work for all your data sources, even if these tools are suboptimal for time-series in particular.
Not that similar. The reward-to-effort ratio for attacking LastPass is much better, you'll gain access to the passwords of so many users. With Dropbox, its less likely that you'll find something valuable and therefore less worthwhile to try. Most users would store their vacation photos, perhaps income tax info which might be useful but not as instantly exploitable as passwords.
Because Android is the big dog. Android can and very well may eat the world. It's a very easy distro to abuse.

Chromeos on the other hand is a very well-thought-out distro that is extremely simple and low-level, enough that it could easily form the basis of a great OS like Android
Who knows if you'll be right or everyone else will be right. We'll have to wait 4 years and see if Trump comes through with his promises.

Right now, you're acting like you're the only that is right and everyone is too stupid. You're acting very smug, the same smug that lost Hillary the election.
Hmmm, so as cars get cheaper (no driver needed) maybe we'll see mobile billboards by the thousands.

I wonder how many other possible unintended consequences there will be
I vote for the special and the general theory of relativity.
Ah yeah. I misread the pdf; the rows expire at millions per second and not after 1 second.

I was wondering about the size of the sampling error. Apparently it's negligible.
http://www.dialpad.com
I'm inclined to agree with you. ADHD seems to be simply a code word for prescribing amphetamines to people who are confronted by the genuinely boring reality of sitting in the same room with the same people who do nothing and go nowhere for years on end.

Unfortunately other economies and models of social order demand similarly horrific obedience, and capitalism is not alone. It's just the thing we got stuck with.

Feels like a prison on both sides of the bars.
Nice work! Some of the situations in the drawings imply that the car needs human-level commonsense to perform properly. For certain things like 'fire in a tunnel' or 'tornado crossing the road', there could be sufficient time to warn humans to take control or at least give verbal instructions, while the car is slowing down drastically or even turning away as a safety-first precaution.

The challenge for the autonomous car would be "how to know that it doesn't really know". I wonder if some existing philosophy or theories are applicable for such a purpose in the real world. Does anyone have pointers?
Maybe for some people Google owning their data is worse than the odds that they will be targeted by the latest exploits.
If I were picking an analogy for the office, making popcorn in a small office space on a regular basis, would be it. The smell will linger for hours and it covers a wide area.
Indeed. What I imagined was that if a single acre could produce a high yield, balanced diet, then they could simply be placed in places where it before wouldn't make sense: e.g. interspersed within the suburban sprawl. And since it's just an acre, a few people or a single person could take care of it, no heavy machinery required.
This isn't a great idea for a few reasons, but if you're looking for something like this, its possible to do it with a few lines of bash - Shitty Password Manager (https://github.com/nindalf/shitty-password-manager)
Trump hates PC language. Trump is not about to let corrupt politicians redefine mundane things as "National Security".
Don't scientists and medical people in general tend to lean left?

It's perhaps not too surprising that people who care enough about medicine to make a career of it don't much like the party that, broadly, tends to cut public medical coverage. Gay people lean left for a similar reason.
Right, as far as I understand it, several features are unavailable on T-Mobile pre-paid plans, including proper call forwarding, some voicemail things, and their cheap international roaming. It doesn't really bother me since I only ever give out my GV number. The only calls I get to my "real" number are wrong-numbers.
I/O speed reported in the article seemed highly unlikely for mag tape
Keep it in Dropbox, then it's on all your devices.

I keep my KeePass database in my Dropbox, behind 2FA, with the main Dropbox password being a random string stored within the KeePass database. I have KeePass itself stored on my Dropbox as well, so I don't even need to install it to other Windows PCs, simply run the program. And the KeePass2Android app works quite well with this configuration.
Yes. Totally did not work, but I genuinely appreciate the suggestion
I don't argue with my diagnosis (in high school), but I disagree very much with the immediate decision to medicate. I felt very strongly at the time that the whole point was to sell medicine to my parents (Vyvance in my case).

It was just, "oh, his GPA's low? Seems like he can't focus? Here are some amphetamines, have a nice day!", with zero follow up about whether the medication was doing its job (didn't matter -- I never took it anyway).
Or just ask loud enough so that the potential-asshole and his two neighbors hear, giving you a 99.9% chance of getting a seat, and a 0% chance of getting chewed out because no-one acts like a dick to a pregnant woman on a crowded subway for obvious reasons.
> Average acre in America is $4000 [1], so wouldn't call $7183 an acre cheap.

But presumably we're talking about land that specifically can produce the 200bu of corn and 60bu of soybeans the the parent specified? There is most certainly cheaper land around, even locally, if you are willing to accept less production ability, but there is good reason why that land is cheaper.

The average corn yield in the US is 160 bu/acre and 49 bu/acre for soybeans, so it seems that the average land is not capable of delivering. Not to mention that there is land that wouldn't even be worth trying to grow corn and soybeans on, which would drag the average down even further if you tried.
Yes. For example, you use {PASSWORD}{ENTER} as the custom auto-type command for a simple password dialog.
"If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it) that all things are made of atoms—little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence, you will see, there is an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied."

- RP Feynman, Vol I FLP
Introduction to High-Performance Scientific Computing
I won't do this daily on my Android phone.
"I think we could get them to brush their tongues."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brU_Pp-20g0
Agree 100%. It is not that I am asking them to come up with unproven, novel treatments, merely to think the problem through a little bit more.
Here is the repository which isn't linked anywhere on the site: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc
Oh they are still working on DirectX 12.

Microsoft has the tendency to downside and almost stop development after reaching near monopoly of a niche. Everyone remembers the Internet Explorer 6 years, it took years and Firefox reaching 25% market share to continue development of IE7. The same with DirectX: DirectX 9 was too successful, and OpenGL supported was limited to OpenGL 1 in WinXP and onwards (only tricks like bootstrapping allows OpenGL2+ on Win). DirectX 9 was around for many years. When OpenGL 3 and 4 came around, Microsoft restarted development of DirectX 10. DirectX 11 was merely a maintenance release. When the new AMD API (now Vulcan) came along, Microsoft restarted development with DirectX 12. Nowadays 99.9% of all new games are DirectX10/11 or Vulcan and support Win7+ and are usually available over Steam and/or GoG. And PlayStation 4 is very successful worldwide. XBoxOne is mainly successful in US and has little presents worldwide, Microsoft even stopped announcing sales two years ago - it's that bad. Nor are there any new exclusive games to speak of, PS4 has dozends of exclusive games, Win7+ has millions of exclusive games. Win10 Store is a complete desaster, worst software ever and hardly anyone would use it to buy games, if there are far better alternatives like Steam and GoG. Is DirectX 12 still a thing?
I found this for you...

https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/blog/how-federal-fun...

PP doesn't have a monopoly on federal funding. In Oregon, at least, one provider for Medicaid services is Providence Hospital. Providence is a Catholic hospital which means they don't provide surgical or medicinal abortions. I can get a routine OBGYN check through Providence but if I'm pregnant and don't want to be, then Providence will refuse care.

On a personal note, I have a medical condition called endometrial hyperplasia which can be treated with an progesterone infused IUD or difficult-to-manage progesterone pill treatment taking only some days of the 28 day cycle. Due to the need for routine biopsies, I ultimately decided to go with the pill (although I'm 2nd guessing the choice because it's so easy to screw up the pill dosing). I could tell the Providence doctor was really uncomfortable with the idea of providing an IUD. Many Catholics believe the IUD is an abortive type birth control and refuse to provide it. I may be going back to PP if I decide that an IUD is the better way to handle my condition. If I were more stupid or less able to deal with remembering odd calendar based dosing regimes, the IUD would be the only solution.

(Edit: I'd also recommend reading this article about the oversized impact of Catholic hospitals in Washington State.

https://www.propublica.org/article/catholic-hospitals-grow-a....

Apparently PP was paid $2million to open a branch across from a hospital being taken over by Providence! Also note lack of emergency contraception for rape victims and mismanagement of miscarriages in Catholic hospitals.)
I thought that way at first. But the program breaks when (getenode znode) is called on an item of type "node", not a list. This happens when (interntimes) takes the path which
ends

(or (setq znode (tellz l node)) (return t))
(or (eq node (getenode znode)) (zmerge node (getenode znode)))))

and (tellz) has taken the path which ends (return (baserowz* i)). "baserow*" is an array which contains links to "node" items, not list cells. What "z.lisp" and "ze.lisp" are doing, by the way, is solving systems of linear inequalities by using linear programming on a sparse matrix.

Also, see

(defun isznode (x) (and (hunkp x) (= (hunksize x) 8))) ; original

(defun isznode (x) (equal (type-of x) 'node)) ; CL version

which indicate that znodes are hunks/structures, not lists. This is inconsistent, yet somehow it used to work.

(If you want to talk privately about this, I'm at "nagle@animats.com". Too much detail for HN.)
> But that doesn't actually contradict stale2002

stale2002 said the article is talking about level 5, and that level 4 is around the corner.

Yet the article is talking about level 5, 4, and below. It is saying some car companies are overhyping their capability to reach levels 4 and 5.

Pratt feels even level 4 is not right around the corner.

> Level 4 systems that are available to use 60% of the time are still revolutionary

To reach a certain level, you must operate under the definition of that level 100% of the time. You can't be level 4 60% of the time. That's level 3.

I agree it would be revolutionary to be at level 3. Right now no car is there. They're all at level 2, which require human monitoring of the driving situation.
Python best practice: figure out the correct directory structure by reading docs and looking at GitHub repositories, learn how to write setup.py & setup.cfg & requirements.txt & MANIFEST.in files, setup py.test and tox (because Python 2 still lives), write your README in RST format (as used by nothing else ever), and for bonus points: write your own Makefile. Get depressed when you realize that target platforms either don't have Python or have the wrong version.

Rust: type "cargo new", README and doc comments in Markdown, type "cargo test" and "cargo build".

I'm being deliberately snarky, but you get the point: there has been a slow accretion of complexity over a very long time, and most of it is not the language itself.
Because they learn a lot of academic stuff about computer science (or maybe not) but very little about coding.
I think s/he meant "scrolling marquees seem like the least of our problems in a world of auto playing video ads, flash animations and unnecessary javascript"
Not a real answer but I consider myself lucky I had my first one in the ER (which I was in at the time for other reasons). The medical staff could in a calm and collected manner explain to me exactly what I was experiencing and what mechanisms in my body was activating and it all became so much easier to deal with.

I can only imagine having your first one alone or among inexperienced people and how much more horrifying that must be.
Google violated my privacy dozens of times today, and there is nothing I can do to stop them from trying again tomorrow. My machine has been pwned due to browser vulnerabilities exactly zero times (as far as I know).

I get that protecting against hypothetical exploits is good, but it's probably best to stop the ongoing security breaches first.
> Is DirectX 12 still a thing?

Unfortunately, while MS will require DX for Xbox, it will remain a thing. It's not needed otherwise.
>So if your child isn't as promising as others, oh well, they'll get to go to a "lesser" school.

Get rid of Common Core. Force schools to compete. Now, every schools will have to teach their students better.
> The comment I replied to was arguing against high fines, with a recommendation to use that formula

No he wasn't. He was arguing against scaling up fines based on a company's general profits. The formula given simply said that the fine and the chance of being caught should be greater than the profit from the illegal activity. How much greater was unspecified.

> Personally, I feel there's a disparity here between punishment for the rich (make the fine slightly higher than the expected profit) and the poor (put them in a cage for years).

I agree with that, but don't feel that scaling fines resolves the issue that poor criminals land in jail while wealthy criminals don't even pay their own fines (instead the corporation does). You don't fix this discrepancy by raising fines on the wealthy.
excellent! I hope that Google eventually merges ChromeOS & Android into one, such that any generic linux mobile device can run any Chrome app and any Android app easily.
I don't like the name, too. KeepassX is terrible and KeepassXC odd even worse. Maybe we should start a contest to find a better name.
I doubt anything will beat property ownership, agriculture, and money, in that order. I reckon if you remove those these three things and wait a year and the human race will be unrecognizable from a cultural point of view.
Well the vast majority of the money from bundling goes to ESPN. If you don't like sports, or only watch during one kind of sports season, then much of the money from cable is a waste.
The "worker class" can't break the social order, or at least not in a way that improves their situation.

It's far too soon to say how Brexit and Trump will ultimately play out. Scrapping the TPP for example (the TTIP already having been killed by the same forces).
We're going to at least see a nuclear push under the Trump Administration. They've touted that on numerous occasions. [1] The carbon sequestration I suspect is entirely off the table.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-09/trump-s-t...
Having worked on eHow I can say pretty confidently that's what they're doing. Probably helps their ad sales people too.
UberEats gears for India launch, wants restaurant recos from users
Taking it from left to right is not that hard. From top to bottom (or bottom to top) is where the devil lies. :P
That's a fair argument. Since this page loads as fast as AMP it should get the same nice thunder bolt.

But that's different from the argument being made in the article, which is that AMP as a performance booster is "bad" because it "breaks links".
Unfortunately aquaponics and vertical farming are often advertised as "the future of food" with bloated claims of yield increase. While controlled environment agriculture (CEA aka greenhouse farming) does have increased yields and an elongated production period, the gains are nowhere near the claims that are being made (factor of ten to factor of hundred). Apart from that greenhouse production is mainly used for produce and leafy greens. It does not make sense to produce grains in a greenhouse. Yet the bulk, like 90%, of our calories come from grains and leguminoses.

Plant yield without artificial lighting is limited by light influx. Prof. Bugbee from NASA co-authored a paper on this titled "Exploring the Limits of Crop Productivity : I. Photosynthetic Efficiency of Wheat in High Irradiance Environments" (DOI: 10.1104/pp.88.3.869). The gist of this paper is that one gram of dry biomass needs at least in Mol of (sun)light (for lettuce, other crops need even more light per dry mass).
Same here, and the apps I care about do exist as UWP anyway.

On a positive note, I am seeing on consumer stores here in Germany the space that was used by hybrid Android tablets, being increasingly replaced by W10 netbooks and hybrid tablets.
Ask HN: Are there any APIs that provide SSN/EIN validation services?
I'm looking for a solution to fully verify TIN(SSN/EIN). Just verifying that the TIN is in the right format is not good enough.

What do you use to verify TIN? Are there any API services that provide TIN validation?

I've searched up on Google and found a few, one of them being https://www.tincheck.com/, but I'm wondering if there are other alternatives.
https://github.com/iridium-browser
Cool app, something I've been looking for. But what I really want is travel destination discovery, for flights (or other modes). I am in Sri Lanka, what are all the flights leaving in approx 2 weeks that I could take, under $200 (one way)

Haven't found an app that really does this well. Tried adioso, sky scanner, kayak, anyone knows something else let me know. Adioso is closest, but I still find I have to be too specific
> but I don't think this is good evidence for ohstopitu being underpaid

That's a fair enough point. My original post was just to point out that the answer to ohstopitu's original question is not some great mystery, and all they need to do is answer the question I posed back, because it's exactly the same answer to both questions.
I'm not sure I agree with the conclusion, but my god the writing is hysterical.

From my point of view (early 20s, grew up with computers and learned typing in 3rd grade), I really can't imagine that typing is that much of an issue in the development world, even back in 2008. Surely every who types for a living has learned how by now?
In Black Swan doesn't he talk about how terrible it is to be an entrepreneur and how much better it is to be an employee?
This is extremely meta and only tangently on topic.

I don't use Facebook and live in SV (Redwood City). I have lived in many places but have never had so much trouble maintaining meaningful connections as here.

If someone local would like to meet up for coffee only on the basis that we both read HN and neither use Facebook, I would be interested to meet you and share stories. I've temporarily put my email in my profile.
>What has he promised...

Repeal ObamaCare.

>...and how could it work?

I no longer have to pay $1,000 monthly premium for a health care package I can't even use.
I've done that for a long time now. I still remember the first time I realized that I could buy a new printer AND spare ink for less than ink refills on my Lexmark alone.
Yes, this is the case. And Cherenkov radiation is visible, too. My first reaction on seeing the title was "this has existed for years". I think here they're actually talking about the setup used to image a "mach cone" in cherenkov radiation (the use of dry ice creates a non-vacuum medium in which the radiation may occur)
Trackers work in amp too.
It says in the article that they also replicate the dermis.

Although I'm no expert, it seems to me that the dermis does have nerves: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Skin_lay...
Microorganisms as a source of disease seems a pretty important concept; we take it for granted now, but ignorance of this was a huge deal up until about 150 years ago.
Nanobox Portable Micro Platform for Developers
> I don't even remember the calls to string split and console display in some of my favorite languages.

On a whiteboard you don't have to, pseudo code with "print fizz" is sufficient. Aside from that, it does sound like you are too framework/tooling dependent if you can't work without maven and an IDE.
Nonsense, just have to make more rain.
There are lots of interesting agriculture use case being enabled by drones. "Ground" robots are still too expensive and unreliable, so they are not widely used yet. On the other hand, there are estimates claiming that 5-10% of farmers are using drones[1]. In addition to providing analytics, some drones already perform active tasks. E.g. take a look at spraying drone from DJI[2]. As another example, there is a startup that produces a drone that shoots weed in your field with the laser ;).

1. http://bestdroneforthejob.com/drone-buying-guides/agricultur...

2. https://www.dji.com/mg-1

Shameless plug: I am a co-founder of the startup working on deep learning from drone imagery - http://tensorflight.com. We primarily work with agriculture. Please get in touch!
Agreed about Toyota's puzzling lack of sense in pushing hydrogen over electricity. I guess they've completely given up the game - they were innovators with the 2004 Prius (still a decent car), but have stagnated since then.