skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's profitable business based on 140 characters messages. Why Twitter is regarded as a disaster just beyond me.

What I add to the mix of Twitter features:

1. Twitter for Newsrooms (like "Facebook for work" but more specified). More precise tracking of twits and streams.

2. Hashtag following

3. Twitter's instant articles

And character limit must be preserved no matter what.
Free Law Project's Radical Approach to Legal Transparency – Creative Commons
My guess is that for a lot of Porsche Design products, these are an answer to the question "What else can I buy that has the Porsche logo on it since I can't buy the car?"
So some competition consideration is taking place when they set prices.
Actually there are people in this thread who think that destroying culture is a positive thing, so people are in fact saying that and sometimes they are pushing for it whether they say it outright, or they do it without knowing it will be the consequence.

And as far as the places that have refugees where people are not happy about it, many people are insisting that refugees "help the economy" as a reason it should continue of course it's a narrow assessment and totally invalidates citizens concerns and that's the problem. Not to mention those pushing for refugees never seem to live in the neighborhoods where the burden or problems will need shouldered. It's always some moral stance rather than an empirical one and frankly a citizens preference to not have to deal with the trouble should be the first consideration but lately it hasn't been.
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Food scientists weigh in on 50% Subway chicken test–it’s 100% weird
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haaretz

"... It is known for its left-wing and liberal stances on domestic and foreign issues. ..."

Yes, Wikipedia is not an original source.

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-political-leanings-of-the...

"... Among the newspapers Haaretz is definitely left leaning, with some columnists in the radical left. ..."

Claiming that Haaretz is 'Repeated only by right-wing groups' is rather unbelievable, they'd be undermining their own arguments by doing so. That is, unless the 'left and radical left' in Israel is actually 'right' when compared to other countries. I don't think this is the case.
Maybe. I'm just thinking the board cannot support a CEO of a $70B firm whose personal assessment of himself is he needs to grow up. It also provides the perfect excuse to remove him, the major obstacle to Uber's IPO.
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Privacy concerns over “Circle with Disney” appliance
Source: https://meetcircle.com/circle/tech-specs/

I work in a small iot company. We usually do concurrency analysis. Yesterday we received Disney's Circle box. It's a device you connect to your wifi and lists all the devices in your network ; then you can monitor those devices, deny them access to websites and even access their browsing history.

While these features aren't new, the fact that it's a portable 3rd party device in your network puts it into a very higher level of wrong ethics :

1. It is claimed to be used in your own home, but nothing prevents you from connecting to your neighbors or workplace wifi and some public places too

2. As it's using "hacker techniques for good", there is NO action on the monitored device to do to enable or prevent monitoring, so you can browse history on your wife's computer or your boss's phone.

3. There's even a battery embedded so you can carry it and monitor on the fly.

This device is intented to prevent your children from browsing porn or using facebook instead of studying ; especially at a time where snapchat and dickpics are a thing... BUT :

1. If gateway manufacturers were caring, they'd make similar features because 90% routers are built with OpenWRT which has the features. It would at least be really limited to your home.

2. How many scenarii could go wrong with that ? What if some child looks for his sex orientation and he doesn't want to tell by fear of judgment? How many wife/husband will buy it to spy on AshleyMadison visits? How many will use in work places for blackmailing?

3. Do you really think a child of today won't find ways to reach the content your forbid? Ways are for people to bypass these rules, and still if not enough, that content is available on public wifi...

It for sure comes from good intentions ; but evil can be found in the best things.
TLDR: "I would have been happy to become a paying Disqus customer. But not without local database synchronization… and not with the level of non-support I’ve received over the past few weeks."
So it is kind of hijacking those charities to be their members?
The good'ol cash or physical check will always work. Don't believe so called the 'new money': you lose all control of your own money and at someone else's mercy.
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So in other words, rather than adjusting tax policy to achieve a more egalitarian society and a price for the roof over your head that could be described as "fair" you think everybody else - the people who do all the actual work - should get the fuck out of New York and London.
First question: what is the feedback from the people you have interviewed with?

Have you considered looking for jobs that aren't in product management? Do you have any other strengths you could leverage? Could you learn and develop a skill that would open up more jobs to you while at your current job (eg in your spare time)?
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I have a perspective of an European. Here on the Old Continent, we've already had that "Uber experience", and it didn't require companies to blatantly ignore the law and burn money to keep regulators at bay (not to say there weren't regulatory tensions, but they quickly got resolved in courts and regulations were updated; that's how a civilized society is supposed to work). So excuse me if I don't see Uber as innovative.

As for their activism, this is the flavour we know from dystopian movies about evil corporations disregarding the laws to eke out some profits. In a way, I can't wait for an Uber in biotech sector - maybe a small engineered pandemic is what people need to understand that regulations should not be ignored on a whim by companies seeking profits.
That is not as surprising as Yahoo even still existing!
It should weigh each visa by the number of people who want to travel to that destination - it's not the same to get a visa to US and Ukraine.
What's wrong with posting as throwaway. Probably the author of the post want to avoid racial bias over his name ?
The deal with Verizon is still on hold
http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/23/technology/yahoo-earnings-ve...
The NES 2:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/v-c-XkVH82w/maxresdefault.jpg
My first thought when I read this was that it sounds like you're struggling against the language because you're trying to use it in an imperative fashion. I'm well aware this may not be correct but it's what I'm going to assume for the rest of this comment, so please forgive me if it's incorrect.

Elixir is a functional language, and while it's not pure, nested if statements deliberately do not belong.

The if statement itself is actually just a macro to a case/switch, the only reason it is there is to reduce the verbosity in cases where only one conditional branch is needed, José felt the practicality of this outweighed the fact it may get abused.

To use Elixir properly is to try and move away from conditional constructs as much as is realistically possible. This means instead using pattern matching, guard classes and multiple clause functions (both named and anonymous).

Once you take advantage of these you'll find your code stays flatter while keeping the individual branches of your conditional logic tied up into small independently testable functions.

If anyone would like to read more, I found these [1] [2] to be helpful.

[1] http://culttt.com/2016/05/30/branching-conditionals-elixir/

[2] http://blog.lucidsimple.com/2016/01/24/pattern-matching-help...
I didn't know that. Thanks for explaining it.
Very clever idea! Nice way to help people out! Storage for one person, a little extra income for another.
Apparently for the web dev generation, writing modular native code across OSes is a lost art, attained by us old druids not worth listening to.
Choosing the right cyberattack response is a complicated game
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1. I would assume it's still annoying to file. I'm Belgian, and if I were to move abroad, I would have to file nothing with the Belgian authorities.

Heck, I have filled out US withholding tax forms in the past, and they suck.

2. If you do make more than +- the $100,000, you do obviously end up paying significantly more. There's no clean and reasonable way to exit for (wealthy) americans, if you would want to.

3. I think people should, in general, be able to move away from their home country if they want to without too much additional burdens. Definitely not the case for americans.
Never mind naming, would putting proper paragraphs in the article have really been too hard?
Ask HN: Eastern european, with accent, with an invention – how to proceed?
<< throw away account for privacy >>

Background:
I am from an Eastern European Country. Since Im from rural parts, I have fairly thick accent and I am trying to get rid of it. But my written English is fine. And am a decent software dev.

Invention:
Company I worked got closed. I burnt my little savings for a year and have come up with an invention. It can help create new ecosystem of its own in the field

Problem now:
Now if I have to take it to next level - it has to be Bay area since the scene for startup in place I live is non-existent and not-helpful.

Need advise:
What should be my approach to make most of my work ? Im planning to get a job in US so that I can pursue my idea with funding. Since there is a gap at work now and Trump's 130k salary rule - Im not getting much responses. Please advise.

Edit: work is purely software and it derives on several of existing technologies with combination of ML and NLP.
Interesting example: http://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/995095
>The ultra high net worth individuals I was referring to were $30M and up, not $1B and up.

They were also just the people who declared their residency as being in NY. Not overseas investors who want a foothold. I don't know about NYC but in London, high end developments are usually ~80% bought by these types of investors. They take up a ridiculous amount of prime real estate with their almost-always-empty pied-de-terre's.

This is not even starting to count prices being driven up by high net worth investors buying rental properties in those same cities.
3-D printing with cellulose
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_military_intervention_...

British Paras showed up to evacuate the city; most people decided to stay because now the city was secure...
I would like to hear your thoughts on:

* Israeli jewish people

* non-Israeli (eg US) jewish people

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If you want to learn Phoenix without Ecto. Checkout my screencasts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_uO5Hv34JImYx9zN73wD... It builds a simple Broken Links application which finds broken links in an input url
"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things, and off-by-one errors."
Interestingly, Portugal (13 on the list) would jump to number 1 (with a score of 115) if they factored in the NHR scheme which gives new residents a 10 year tax break on foreign source income (though admittedly there are some strings attached to this - more info here: http://info.portaldasfinancas.gov.pt/NR/rdonlyres/D0C80C76-3...).
What is a Microservices Architecture?
Why would you do that? Maybe it's a weird question and it's coming from someone who doesn't see upside to having a US passport in the first place, but why keep it if it's that painful?
The IRS had several amnesty programs FBAR-related because so few people knew about them, even those that did send their tax papers as required!
FWIW, the usual terms are "energy density" for energy per volume (Wh/l), and "specific energy" for energy per mass (Wh/kg).

Similarly for power.
I know, I run postgis+mapnik on OSX. It is quite PITA to build, postgres clients usually link against wrong (system-supplied & ancient) libpq[1], everything links against wrong (system-supplied & ancient) zlib, half the things link against wrong (system-supplied & ancient; see the pattern?) sqlite, etc. Yes, it is problem with the build scripts, but I don't have an ambition to fix all the packages, and Linux packages do not have this problem. Actually, they have usable and maintained binaries just a single yum command away, so you are up and running in no time, compared to solving build env problems in OSX.

[1] - /usr/lib/libpq.dylib is especially annoying offender. Most dylibs are at least fat ones, but this one is x86_64 only. That means, when you want to build a fat binary of some libpq client, and it is being linked against system one, the build will fail. That includes building i386/fat version of postgresql itself.
Mine barely lasted a few weeks. Threw it away and made a note never to touch anything by Razer ever again.
That's interesting but, AFAIK (and, believe me, I'd be happy to be corrected), what you can't do is create a canvas element (even one not attached to the DOM), and paint directly to it using the standard 2D context and drawing primitives.

Like I say, more than happy to be corrected, because that sort of thing would be incredibly helpful. Really, anything that lets you mess with a disconnected DOM in the background and then attach it in the foreground could be useful but (and, again, I'm very happy to be corrected), I don't think you can do this.
I look at it quite simlarly, and I'm 38. It isn't that I don't wish I had done things differently, it is that I did the best I could at the time. I learned things I wouldn't have learned otherwise. Some of this is things like dealing with my ex, after a suicide attempt and major mental health diagnosis.

But alternatively, I fully like my life. Had I taken a different path, I might not have this life. (I might be happy with whatever I wound up with, but I'm happy I'm where I am).
/searches flickr for photos of undersized stringed instruments...
I believe most of these situations get resolved diplomatically. That doesn't work with IS, but the vast majority of cases are criminal rather than terrorists, or the result of general instability. A country like Luxembourg can usually find someone who has their money in their banks and is in a position to resolve the situation. There's also quite a lot of European solidarity in such cases.

Mass evacuations usually get several governments involved and they all contribute proportionally, or France sends a few planes and basks in the glory.

Regarding military operations to solve such situations it seems to me as if it's a matter not just of capability but of willingness as well. Europeans tend to think 50 cents to the foreign ministry is a better investment than $1 to the military, and that approach carries over in crisis. Empirically, my impression is that military action has about a 33/33/33% rate of success/dead hostages/"we just scared a grandma and couldn't find any hostages". Diplomacy has a higher success rate but it can take years. That's the sort of trade-off I don't envy politicians for.
Acquired on the Snap IPO- what's the future for this plucky “camera company”?
Sorry, that's overly simplistic. We don't live in the 1950s. Modern discrimination is "he doesn't really fit into the team culture" ie can't really fist bump him and have a few kegs after work bro. The fact of the matter is teams are tribalistic and often that's synonymous with racially homogenous.
If the information you can provide doesn't match, what would you prefer they do? (Going off the picture you shared here)
H1-B visas are dual purpose; they support intent to transition to permanent residency, and have a defined procedure for the same.

In particular, I don't think many skilled employees with a global choice of employers are going to move to a country for a 3 or 6 year stint with deportation waiting at the end of the period. The costs and trouble of moving don't make it worthwhile, and it's hard to predict what life will bring - it's best to maximize all options. So I think anyone migrating to the US on a H1-B visa will also end up going through the permanent residency application process, just so they don't face a cliff edge after 6 years. That would make them migrants at the start of the process, rather than some kind of seasonal workers.
I've written code numerous times to deals with files, and if there's anything more than feeding the path as given into open()`, then
the code inevitably gets filled with variables of related names, and if you stare at it long enough, they all blur together. 'filename', 'name', 'file', 'files', 'file_handle', 'path', 'dir', 'dirname', 'parent_dir', 'file_ext', 'basename'...

Do I want 'filename', which is whatever was given?
Do I want 'file', which is the file object?
Do i want 'name', which is just the name of file, with directories, if any, stripped off?
Do I want 'files', which is the list of files, as given?

If copying/moving is going on, then there's a source and a destination and it gets even worse.

The obvious way out is to refactor by renaming those variables, but 'unsafe_filename_as_given_by_user' or 'list_of_files_as_given' doesn't quite roll off the keyboard.
Shouldn't you always have a breach? That way you get some of MM's bonus.
Also, almost every sentence is a new paragraph. It makes the article feel like a rambling stream of consciousness.
This.

GP comment was downvoted into oblivion, but he had a point. Compose (at least, v3/v3.1) is a reasonably simple system, that can describe a fairly complex setup. Kubernetes has a lot of complexity to it. And the question "why do I need it, if there are simpler options?" is left unanswered.
Why we cannot go faster than light – video
Regarding the actual service provided: it's a better service in a way that has nothing to do with cost, and it would remain a better service even at a higher cost than a taxi. (And due to efficiency improvements, it could also theoretically provide better rates than a taxi while paying drivers the same, or pay better while charging riders the same.) The entire experience of requesting a ride and getting one represents a massive improvement over taxis.

I don't know anyone who uses such services because they cost less, rather than because they work better.
Efforts are underway. Unfortunately, it's a tedious slog.

There's a book by Steve LeVine, The Powerhouse, that describes the current environment of battery research and some of the main players (Argonne national lab, DoE, Startups, Korea, Japan, etc.). (It features Goodenough.)
The EB-1 requires that the person is already successful. But why would such a person come to the US? There are better places to live, once you have enough money.
Running Python in a Browser Is More Awesome Than You Think
It is not an imperative language. You can't hit a nail with a screwdriver. Well, you can, but... ;)
Yeah, and it's especially puzzling since they've given up one of the major hassles of going natively cross-platform anyway: having to support a native look and feel.

Which makes creating a similar (uniform looking across platforms) native UI lib even easier than catering to the intricacies of each platform.
<pre> tags are not meant for block quotes. HTML has a <blockquote> tag instead. <pre> tags force mobile users to read in snippets as they scroll horizontally along the entire line. If you want your block quotes to use a monospace font, you can use CSS, and then you don't have to give up on semantic HTML and line wrapping.
Change your name to an americanized version. I know someone who did this. Lots of research that proves this point

That is clearly not the problem, since the OP is making it to on-site, and even being offered other roles.
he probably didn't go 86 years without sex, he just might not have had sex with another person.
> But, alas, humans mostly don't care.

Humans mostly do. But not all humans get to vote in the US elections.
How about phosphor?
Yeah, this ticked me off as well because the use of Web Workers feels extremely un-idiomatic, but what you've said makes sense. If you just passed a function it might dupe people into thinking closures would work or, and this is perhaps worse, force the standard down the route of copying all the values available in the current closure into the worker's scope, which just sounds like a terrible idea to me.
I see any reason to distribute this as a .deb package for Linux. Why is this not distributed like Sublime Text? As tar.gz or tar.bz2 to extract and run?
People fall in love with colleagues all the time.
> Curiously, if I had to come up with stereotypical descriptions, I'd say I'd come with something similar. :)

That's the whole point of stereotypes, isn't it? ;)
Some company is trying to determine if you are worth spending $1MM on over the next 5 years. Some humans are trying to figure out if you will be good to work with and make the company stronger.

Ignore marketing yourself in the interview process all you like, but you're doing that at your own peril.
And we wonder why some people don't trust scientists...
> It sounds like they already have a team manually collecting information on charities.

Probably not. There are many online databases of registered charities already, and I wouldn't be surprised if new ones get scraped into them automatically. It seems likely that PayPal would have used an already existing dataset.
I get that you don't want to tell us what it is, because you're worried that someone will just take the idea, run, and leave you with nothing.

But you need to tell us something. Is it software? Hardware? Does it build on something that exists? Is it an painkiller or vitamin?[0] What would the ideal time-scale be? How do you know there is a market?

Something.

[0] https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/230736
There are several legal documents that it might be wise to create in addition to a will. My sister (an ICU nurse), has been agitating recently for us to think about creating some kind of "advanced healthcare directive"[1] as she sees many cases where lack of this is problematic. My mother (retired, getting older) also wishes to set up an "enduring power of attorney"[2] as another relative had a fair amount of trouble last year due to not having something like this in place before the time of need.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_healthcare_directive

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enduring_power_of_attorney
What models specifically are you talking about ? My company buys high end ASUS and Dells with AZERTY (fr) layouts...

I've never heard of a major vendor not shipping ISO layouts before
I've noticed a definite increase in companies doing bait and switches

Noticed that too. The job ad will have Haskell, OCaml etc listed but all that shop does is crank out Java.
On one side, 'OpenSource' even on hardware is needed, on the other, if you have no benefit for the one that innovates, you end up with less incentives for innovation.
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>> You can opt out

At least that's an option. When they first introduced the body scanners in my local airport (UK) I checked if that was a possibility. If you opt-out, you don't fly.
Leaking Space: Eliminating memory hogs (2013)
If you're referring to his blog post entitled "profound apology" where he makes no mention of this very public sexual harrassment thing and on the whole apologizes for a video where he did nothing wrong: yeah, don't do that.
> Statistically speaking, most bankruptcies are caused be medical expenses.

Worldwide they aren't. In the USA they are, but it has rather unique problems.