skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
South African Reserve Bank Will Consider a National Digital Currency
Isn't this just coffee lounges?
I disagree. I think safety and ethics standards are important and I don't think it's reasonable to expect every citizen to be able to completely evaluate every single product or service they consume.
This is about as clickbaity as any headline can get
I think this is what people are missing. The laws of thermodynamics are not being violated with these various diets, and like you mentioned, for certain individuals their metabolism is being increased.
But they are equivalent to smart pointers in Rust. For example even in Rust using std::sync::Arc can result in memory leaks just like in C++ with std::shared_ptr.
There is the Dot language:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOT_(graph_description_languag... The files can be viewed with Graphviz.
Got him to admit to me that he exaggerates for "effect" in the talk.

Personally, I see "exaggerating for effect" as dishonest. Manipulating facts in order to generate a response is manipulation.
A Spanish startup postmortem
This one is cool also (conveyor belt that can do all sorts of fun stuff): https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLKfWL8IXgKBte4TfD53pLaHO...
The Netherlands Closes Prisons Because It Doesn't Have Enough Prisoners
That's the thing. Most new tech jobs are only being created in the tech hubs of the country. The rest of the country is seeing a decline in good IT jobs.
It's not helpful because some food are more calorie dense than others? How does that make sense?
7 Key Actions to Align Business Elements for Change
I worked on a cranberry farm one summer where they used a cranberry grader to sort remove the fruit from the vines and separate the good from the bad. It is basically a bunch of boards at a slight angle so that any damaged or very small cranberries would bounce out, away from the good cranberries. Next the fruit rolls down a large comb like board where it is sorted by size. It is generally sold at that point and Ocean Spray would sort it by color depending on the final product. It was amazing how well such a simple and easy to repair machine worked
im a hb1 worker paid 150000/y. this is slightly less than some colleagues, slightly more than others (though slightly less qualified arguably)

it ist is hard to find qualified employees for that job. the last person we found works remote from canada, because that's all we could find that had the right minimum skillset and was available at all.

for the past 2y we no longer hire via h1b. why? because we cant. the chance than an applicant gets a visa is now ridiculously low.
this is because of the flooding and first come first serve system this article is mentioning: we can submit for 2 or 3 100-150k jobs a year. others submit thousands at 60k no chance. (this is because we do not fire lower skill jobs to replace em by h1b)
This is not news... https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/825205236956483585 and https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/827720686911291392
Rm-protection: A safe alternative for rm with minimum difference
Isn't this just what's known as an Outliner (e.g. OmniOutliner, but various other programs exist)?
The "And Casinos Have No Fix" part of the title seems exaggerated; if nothing else, it appears that only a small subset of 5+ year old machines are affected.
>By the 2030s, large swaths of the state—particularly along the coast—could become geriatric belts, with an affluent older boomer population served by a largely minority servant class. How feudal!

The irony of California having anything in common with Florida would drive some people insane. Those are exactly the kind of people I want to see driven insane.
I think there will be a growing need for things like this if housing spaces continue to get smaller (and cheaper). I think a service that offers several revenue streams would do well (and able to adapt to a changing market). Perhaps food and necessities could be sold, maybe part entertainment space (part arcade, coffee shop, sports bar, movie theater). Sort of a public living room. Maybe a modern take on the old fraternal clubs.

May be a bit early yet for this though. Would tend to displace other "hang-out" locations and businesses, so might be best to fit in with what's there (bars?), but offer something new and different (so people have an idea to anchor on rather than going entirely new concept).
PyCon 2017:  List of Approved Talks
Workflowy is a list manager or am I missing something?
The technology to help with obesity is hilariously bad.

I'm not obese in the meaning that I am very unhealthy. I am mostly okay but I can definitely lose 15kg and feel much better (done it before).

But when I tried using some tech, what happened? Yes, sure, scour an app full of thousands of meals to say what exactly I am eating every time? Sure! (Especially having in mind it's not at all tuned to Bulgarian cuisine.) It's comical and it's so bad. Motivational reminder apps? Gosh, I want to smash the head of the people who thought this was a good idea. I guess they work for many others, definitely not for me and a whole large group of humans though. It's annoying and corny and nothing else.

If I can put a bracelet on my wrist and it can track my pulse, sleep and maybe scan my veins for the chemicals coursing through my body, and if I get a smartphone app that can photograph my food and do precise automatic calorie counting, then I am in. (Also if the bracelet can detect my workouts.)

Before that, forget it. It turns something that you should feel good about, into a series of awful menial chores. The current state of affairs is, as I mentioned in the start, straight out hilarious. The tech is primitive.
You can certainly put a non-compete of existing customers in the contract with the "independent contractor" and make it clear that if the platform finds out you'll lose all your existing contracts and get sued. You could offer a way to buy themselves out of the contract too.
I live in a suburb where you can see the downtown buildings from our front porch. I could walk if I wanted to. Our mortgage is roughly 25% more expensive than our rent was when living downtown, including the property taxes.

I think a lot of people on HN would do well to remember that any time you're discussing real estate, places like NYC and San Francisco are very much the exception, not the rule.
Local employees are part of the equation. The body shops like Infosys and Tata always have onsite workers who interact with the client and then use their offshore teams to perform the work. Many clients are not capable of using offshore resources in any other model due to time zone and language barriers. The onsite typically works around two hours a night beginning at 10 PM to resolve all the questions and issues from offshore.
It is technically not incorrect, but incomplete.

We know there is conservation of mass and energy in nature. Any chemical engineer can write mass and energy balance equations that represent this conservation.

Calories in = Calories out is an simplified form of a more complex energy balance equation that looks something like this:

(Enthalpy in) - (Enthalpy out) + (Heat/Energy crossing boundary) - (Work) = (Change in Internal Energy/Accumulation)

... plus a few more equations that represent component energy balances.

Calories in = Calories out makes some naive assumptions and neglects all the internal biochemical reactions, and hence presents a skewed picture of the thermodynamics.
Yep. I've thought about this off and on.

I lived in Taipei for a couple of years. The "third space" is super common there. People would hang out at coffee shops (loads and loads of coffee shops), get "afternoon tea" with friends, or go to a park or even a subway station lobby and socialize.

The Taipei metro even embraced it and set up specific places / spaces for shopping or socializing (that were dual purpose rather than simply being a corridor).

I feel like this is missing in the US, and genuinely miss wandering around with my backpack for a Saturday. It was a load of fun to head out for an early lunch, go find some random coffee shop to "work" (aka "surf the web and people watch"), then find a place for a beverage and maybe go see a movie or have dinner. Those days were genuinely the most fulfilling, especially when I'd run into random acquaintances.

Bringing it back, a river runs through downtown Austin with a great hike / bike trial along it. There aren't really many cafes (I can think of one) along about 10 miles of trail that are good "destinations" to wander toward while enjoying the scenery.
An economist from Chicago
It also has org-mode which seems fairly similar, but offers additional (optional) features for doing things like tables and due dates within the tree.

I pretty much just use indented text trees for all but the most complex parts of software design and I find it works very well.
It's still unclear how the organization broke the PRNG in the first place. Were they somehow able to get their hands on a machine for hardware analysis? Or did they just have their "operatives" play slots and capture video which they then manually analysed for patterns?

Offloading the computation to a remote server is a smart idea though. There is a lot of cool stuff happening in the game cheating space.
Sure, you're right. I just meant that the real challenge is how to skew (and keep) the balance in the direction you want, in a sustainable, significant and achievable fashion.
>I'd much rather sell a $500k house and move because the monthly tax bill is too much for my cash flow than stay there and have the thing repossessed because I owe $15k, then I get nothing.

You might feel differently if you spend the last 40yr there and intend for your children to inherit it.
While I don't disagree with the overall content of your post, but the world is not so black and white as you paint it with "Nobody wants to share things". Look at long running projects like Couchsurfing for example. Also, from a personal perspective, I always liked to share my possessions with other people. Interestingly I'm much worse at sharing my time.
The issue with the simplifying "calories in == calories out" is that conservation of energy is being applied over the wrong system. Our bodies are not 100% efficient at extracting energy from food, and to GP's point respond differently to different types of foods.
The only problem is that calories in = calories out assumes a steady-state where there is no change in internal energy (dU/dt), which is not a good assumption.
They may not, but their friends might... https://www.washingtonpost.com/c281c2f4-e3eb-11e2-a11e-c2ea8...
There's a cafe near me in Brooklyn that has a nice interior space and free wifi. It's always packed and everyone brings a laptop. Coffee prices are normal if not a bit low for high-end coffee (their coffee is really good). They serve snacks, but not much else. I have no idea how they turn a profit with all the people lounging for hours with a little espresso or cup of tea. There's a morning rush, but it's really small compared to places nearer the subway.
Came here for this angle.

The extreme abuse of that rule would be to bump the price to $1T and thus create secret laws. Without review by the People and their representatives, it's not a democracy.
> I spent an afternoon messing about with Rust and found it infuriating. The compiler kept (quite rightly) telling me how crap my code was and wouldn't compile it for me. I found it frustrating but thoroughly educational.

The same is true for Ada and Haskell. You point to a typical problem of people who are interested in Rust. They like the syntax and features but the compiler gets in their way to be productive in a short amount of time. That is frustrating.

The Rust community should not point so much emphasis on its beloved borrow checker like the Haskellers praise their monads. Both things are attractive only if their is real practical value in everyday coding. If devs need three to ten times more time than in C++ to develop something then they won't switch, even if C++ has no borrow checker. They could compensate this lack with verification tools, FramaC and the like.

I agree with Andreas Bergmeier's comment in the author's blog. Experienced developers may barely have problems with lifetime issues, in particular if they use a language with garbage collection which really makes sense for most business applications.

Rust would probably have much more convincing power if the community would go the way which Microsoft went to promote their C++ and C# compilers. They provided a very convenient Visual Studio IDE with excellent documentation.
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What's right with government spending continuously increasing, necessitating the increase in taxes such that people are forced to sell their possessions to pay for it?
Ah, I see. That is a thing Trump did, but has no relationship with the "USA PATRIOT Act", hence my confusion.
No, I don't think that's necessary. It immediately seems like a platform specifically designed to support things like EU-wide compliance, marketing, payments and other business functions could potentially be beneficial to a wide variety of businesses.
Sure, but then we have streets filled with taxis, out-of-towners renting space in areas not built to accommodate them, an increase in sickness due to poor sanitation, people getting scammed or worse by shady drivers or landlords, and so on. These things affect me, too, even if I'm not participating in the service.
Am I reading this right? Rethinkdb is now under apache 2? That's awesome news - such great software.
Microsoft fired it's QA department so that doesn't seem to be a reasonable explanation either.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2878026/microsoft-to-bu...
How to set up free SSL certificates with Let's Encrypt
At what point does a scheme like this go from just being a way to outsmart the slot machine to felony fraud? I know you are allowed to use those blackjack cheat cards at the tables in Las Vegas but what if I started using a calculator and my own crazy algorithm? Is that fraud? What if I had an ear piece and hidden camera glasses to stream video to some blackjack guru outside in a van? I'm guessing that would be fraud. Is it the fact that he's using an outside source to determine his actions?
The US has a big exemption and credit for foreign taxes.

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...

The filing requirements for US expats are onerous, they are hardly "pretty screwed" when it comes to earning income.
Either thermodynamics is wrong, or you are undisciplined. Which do you think is more likely?
Yes they did. Says so in the article.
It depends on your definition of blindness.

About 10-20% of the US population self-report vision problems. About 20-30% of them reach the definition of legal blindness, which is vision that cannot be corrected to above 20/200 in at least one eye. About 20% of that population are totally blind, which is to say that they cannot even perceive someone shining a light in their eye. In the US, that amounts to about 200,000 people.
Thank you for this. I am changing these three things:

1. Contract document signed first before any work is done (even free work)

2. Never appeal to emotions

3. Kill Phase clause

Great advice.
Boston's space like this (The Lawn on D) is extremely popular. It's even a running joke that most young people on a dating site/app in Boston have a picture of them at the Lawn on D somewhere in their profile.

I believe it's owned by a local bank, but I don't know if it makes money (or if it's intended to). Entry is free normally, sometimes there are non-free ticketed concerts and a cash bar.
Good, hopefully people are realising how exploitative a lot of these platforms are. We need new laws that require gig employees to get sick/accident pay and net pay at minimum wage or above.
> "A calorie is a calorie" violates the second law of thermodynamics

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC506782/
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There were some interesting conversations on GitHub during past few months. In the end, everything is in it's place, I am really glad to see RethinkDB standing a chance on their own as an open source project!
Study suggests improving posture help reduce depression
Yes, but usually you have to get H-1B or L-1 visa first.
Saved you a click: the internal state of some slot machines' PRNG can be predicted after observing a few of its outputs.
The tricky part is the platform finding out. The customer isn't going to out them, and the provider is going to do everything possible to not out themselves. Unless our hypothetical service is hiring PI's to follow all their contractors around, it seems unlikely they could catch even a small fraction of the offenders.
Denmark to name an ambassador to deal with increasingly powerful tech companies
If you're looking for oppportunities in different industries, I send out a daily email filled with short interviews.

I ask about industry problems, and the software that could solve those problems.

You can check it out here:

http://www.oppsdaily.com
P/E ratios are around 20 on average I suppose. Meaning earnings are 5% of the market cap of a stock.

GDP doesn't directly correlate to earnings though.
Show HN: Simple image resizing/optimization service
It's great to see commercial bodies as well as CNCF not only take interest in these sorts of things but actually push them forward for the benefit of all.
"The Linux desktop killed itself, by playing on their terms instead of its own. The best thing it can do now - once denial and recrimination are done with - is turn the killing process itself into a virtue, and slice not only the DE/application mess but also the cultural one right back down to the bone and start rebuilding from there."

One of the key features of Linux is the way it was always supposed to run noticeably better than Windows on much older and/or lesser hardware.

If everyone involved had at least prioritized this one feature without compromise (I know, infiltration of open source by those who felt the need to kill this advantage), that would still be part of the playing field that other OS's would have to contend with instead.
FTA it says that used machines proliferated at cheap prices after a 2009 country-wide ban on most forms of gambling.
I wonder if there's enough variation in how people pull the handles and push the buttons that they could be used to partially re-seed the PRNG frequently enough that it the seed can't be determined by a video?
> But there are many options outside of the U.S. that are less complicated to reach..

Less complicated to reach if one is based in EU or is from USA, Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland.

So basically 85% world population is excluded from working there.
"Transferring copyright to The Linux Foundation, relicensing RethinkDB under ASLv2."

https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/commit/b0ec8bc5a874d5...
There is a fix and it is not crazy. The gist is they were able to brute force the PRNG of the machines and predict their future state. Hardware RNG is thr answer. In crypto it is obviously bad if someone can predict anything about your random values (keys / IVs). A hardware RNG, "cryptographically strong" RNG algorithms, and resetting the RNG very often make this problem go away.
Yeah i cant disagree that this opens missuse but i also dont really see the issue. Except a few countries (like the U.S. recently) the world is pretty free already and shit did not go to crazy until a certain war made basically a complete country moving west at once. The general consent, except the phanatic freaks, was "we've done that, we deserve that"
And casinos can have people arrested over this so that's another fix
It would be quite possible to develop a plugin that provides a user input oriented editing experience.
That's great news!

Honestly I'm more interested in stuff that involves some degree of heavy-lifting like real-time audio processing etc. for which JavaScript is going to be slow(no SIMD).
Sure you can do this. You can also set back the development work on these genes by a long time with someone patenting something they know nothing about just to get rich from it.
Ah, must have missed it.
Readers complain that ebooks cost too much, and then readers complain that publishers don't want to spend money on technical stuff.

But some of the problem is that there's not a lot of payoff for technical development, because only some platforms will support it. The Kindle doesn't handle Javascript or math at all, has very poor support for tables, SVG art, and video. So there's half your market gone right there.
An example of one of the responses:

"I work in the microbiology field.

One of the things I have to do in the quality control department is to count the number of individual colonies that are streaked on a media. Most of the time the count can go up to the 1000's and the colonies are small and close together.

I would like software that can recognize the individual colonies, like a camera would detect faces, and would automatically count the number of colonies available. This would give more accurate readings for tests and cut down on time.

I would definitely pay for this software."
The change in internal energy is negligible. The only exception is medical disorder.

If you want to lose weight and you are not, eat less. If the amount you eat goes below say 1200 calories and you're still not losing weight, go to a doctor.

It's that simple.
Many passengers are the same from one day to the next. (They might even be counted twice a day, coming and going.) So it's more like $220 every time a traveler goes through the terminal, which could be tens of thousands per year for some people.
If choosing to mitigate taxes is wrong, is it also wrong to choose not to donate additional money to the US treasury?

It seems unlikely that the legal tax rate is the precise amount of money that you should owe society if you calculated it from first principles somehow. And so either mitigating taxes or donating additional taxes would be the 'moral' thing to do.
There are two problems with this diet:

1.) You will underperform in work and life in general. You will be constantly tired, appear lazy to employer (practically speaking be lazy) and will make slower stupider decisions. You may end up weighting less, but will have hard time to keep up at work.

2.) Your body will adapt and become much more efficient in extracting calories from food - people who lost weight through fasting tend to gain weight very quick. Most of them can not keep the weight long term. That practically means you gain weight first time there is longer stressful period in work or life - when all your focus goes to project you are working on o family care or whatever.

3.) You do not eat just for calories - you need also various proteins, vitamins and what not. You are damaging your body by not giving it what it needs more then by being slightly overweight.

Yes, people who don't eat at all loose weight, but there is price to pay on their health and performance. It is true that western people tend to eat way more calories then necessary, but "just eat small portions till you have target weight" advice does not work long term.