skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well these jobs aren't worth the pay American expect to be paid. As how LCD tv's costed >$2000 in 2012 and not it just costs ~$500. These low quality jobs pay goes down. If not the low paid H1B workers, these jobs would have been outsourced to those countries. These worker didn't update their skills for changing times. I still keep reading new stuff to keep myself updated and my wife complains that I am always with computer and books. I am an immigrant in H1B, been here over 10 years. I agree like any system people will find ways to abuse it, like Wall Street abused sub prime mortgage and brought the whole world to knees. We should come up with better ways to regulate the system rather than racially profile and oppressing us.
I think the problem is that such statements (and worse) do come from professional adults. So I find assuming such views come from people with just enough wherewithal to type out a comment to be a) pointlessly hostile and b) a distraction from the troubling reality.
> Two things can obviously be true at the same time: that "police officers"† are improperly keyed up as if they're shock troops preparing for a battle

Agreed. People with agendas seem to try to twist this into an either-or situation. But both the "swatter" and the cops who shot are in the wrong here.

> and that calling in a false report with the hope that it will provoke an armed response is effectively an attempt at homicide.

Since the guy was killed, I'd say it was homicide rather than attempted homicide. But I think both the swatter and the cops should be tried for homicide and both should be found guilty or neither should.
Ender versus the hive queen, eh?
No chance of contributing without a thick skin? e.g. maybe there are some infrastructure or generic dev needs as well, which do not involve working on actual "content"?
GAE -> easy to get in...very hard to get out! and expensive...and risky...it's not worth it!
I've seen a lot of fossils-in-China articles this year, quite fantastic articles too. Can anyone answer why there are so many being discovered right now and in such remarkable condition?
Here's the research paper:
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp400001y

TLDR: The initial stages of the electrical discharge that produce this 'plasmoid' have many similarities to lightning. They're just electric arcs - in this case, electric arcs to the surface of this solution of electrolytes. And then what happens is this plasmoid emerges from it. Ball lightning is used almost generically to describe phenomena seen in nature that aren't described by normal lightning, bead lightning or things like 'St Elmo's fire', or aurora. And likely it's not one thing but several things that have similar observables. The US Air Force Academy team hopes its new approach can help science to better understand this strange spectacle.
Interesting idea. The website reminds me strongly of Grubhub from its coloring to the typing-taglines. Did this idea begin as a parody of GrubHub?

Not a criticism—-actually curious.
Sounds like a great local business, care to share the name? In my city, the cheapest lenses from a reputable optician (in Chinatown) are priced 300% more than online, but are ready in a few days vs few weeks for online.

Some independent boutiques are priced for a high-end market segment who don’t have insurance that mandates Luxottica frames or specific lenses. Such independents don’t compete with Costco, Walmart, Lenscrafters or online pricing.
Why haven't advertisers noticed this is why we install blockers?

Deep-tracking, ultra-personalisation ending in creepy ads were bad enough. But the flip-side is if there's only one industry interested in your activities, you only see those ads, whatever you're looking at.

Lets go back to the 2000s, where ads targeted content, not users.

Before you start fretting about CTRs, you can't click what you don't see. That's the hole advertisers need to dig themselves out of. And even before ad-blockers ruled supreme, targeted advertising was sold to publishers as a way of increasing CPM. Truth is payouts have been in free-fall since online advertising began.
This is a really good read.

Note how much of a rarity chicken is. Today I learned the same could be said for beef too. Originally cows were for dairy as well as pulling the plough, they weren't there for eating until 1700 onwards when selective breeding made them 2 1/2 times bigger... Plus selective breeding of the horse for pulling the plough (by the same guy who did the selective breeding on the cow and the sheep...) meant that there was now a market for beef whereas there was not one before.

Also remember that eggs were a seasonal thing - easter - and you wonder what we eat today that they ate then.

Incidentally the guy that did the selective breeding could only really start doing that due to the turnip and clover. The nitrogen fixing qualities of these crops enabled crop rotation to work properly and for it to be viable to enclose the land and farm as we know it, not 'nomadically'.

The guy that 'invented beef' also inspired that Darwin chap to write a little boot about it.
Doesn’t matter. As a simplistic example, if you send the image through SHA-256 it doesn’t matter how many bits are predictable — as long as there are at least 256 bits of entropy in the image, the output will have those 256 bits of entropy smeared across the output evenly (barring breaks in the hash function itself).
Show HN: Nugget Weekly – Newsletter on digestible code snippets
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600
Wikipedia sugggests that the bulk of SWAT deployments are to serve search warrants. This suggests to me that they're not acting at "great personal risk, in order to save civilian lives," and instead that they're acting as a deadly threat for compliance.
Aye hardly seems good spirited when not taking either of those into account would result in unpalatable food a high percentage of time.
Ask HN: What do you need help with in your side project or startup right now?
What is it that you need help with. Let me or someone else point you in the right direction or solve it for you.
I am a flash guy. I used to do BitmapData fun (wonderfl) which was offly related to “processing”. How can I enter webgl?

Webgl and “shadertoy” is why I am in computing, I am not here for Angular but this is how I make money.

My fascination is pointless processing of pixels and without it I feel bored.

I need to learn webgl but there seems no definite guide.
How to add Google pagespeed on Apache
"Should a driverless car kill its driver if it means saving the lives of your spouse and two children?"

I somehow get the feeling that the majority of people would give wildly contradictory answers to the two questions.
I've made my new year's incentive to grow a tiny service to at least 50$ MRR and publically document it.

My current problem is that I need a problem to solve. What do people actually require? What sort of value can I provide?
This saddens me to see this. The USA is supposed to be the land of the free, not the land of do what we say or else.
I wonder of those involve Dominos "deliverator" van.

http://www.dominosdxp.com/
This exists on some other axis than fear.

Whimsy or something like that.
There is a portal for connecting startup CoFounders. http://www.cofounderslab.com
While this portals connects anyone with inclination towards startup, you might also find enthusiast developers for your side project.(which can later turn into a startup if you are interested)
> the constant barrage can‘t help but make you consider your own body.

Apart from the method of using ads and tracking, which I despise, I wonder if this is actually such a bad thing - at least in this particular case: If you aren‘t satisfied with your body there are ways to change that - eating healthy, being active. Of course, that‘s a whole different discussion. I‘m simply wondering if someone should be offended if confronted with healthy and fit people.

Or put differently: Would you complain about ads that show people succesful in their career? A status that is probably harder to achieve and than being fit.
I hope serverless matures. Devops is the bane of my (and many of my colleagues) existence.
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This is why we all should be skeptical of the media ( traditional and social ) as public skepticism is the only thing preventing mass hysteria. If the public were a tad bit more skeptical and didn't believe everything they read in news or social media, we would have avoided the wars of the past 15 years.

But every criticism of traditional media here gets flagged. Which is ridiculous for a "hacker" news site when you think about and the hacker ethos.
I don't disagree that this type of advertising is unsavory, but I do think it is a bit simplistic to call people like the author victims of evil oppressive Instagram and call it a day.

I notice that in today's society people make an awful lot of demands on the services and apps they use, while not directly paying for hardly any of what they consume.

Facebook/Instagram definitely has a lot more power than any individual user, but it doesn't have more power than all of its users. If people were offended enough to actually walk away from the platform en masse, I bet we would see substantial reform pretty quickly.

The "if you don't like it, leave" argument is cruel when applied to cities, countries, or essential services, but I think it is pretty fair when we are talking about totally superfluous apps that don't even cost anything.
With some encouragement from fellow HNers I've been working on startyourownisp.com. It's a free guide to starting a (wireless) Internet Service Provider in your garage.
So, I think there's a couple ways to look at it.

If you have (nearby) friends who play, and you're dealing with physical games; if you get a console around when they do, you can share newer games and reduce the risk of buying terrible games at full price. You'll probably buy some of the great games at full price so you can do multiplayer games though.

If you don't hang out with people who play, you can just buy a year late, and get the benefit of lower prices, more finished games, and a clear indication of what's cool and what isn't. You might miss out on online features/community, but that really depends.

Was it stupid to buy the 3DO for $700? Probably. But, it wasn't much more than the Neo Geo home console, and the games were probably cheaper?
I've been working on a media player/browser. I'm going to put it on the shelf and move to the crypto currency stuff to get rich. See you next year!
I would be interested in getting more feedback on the article from yourself, what is it you dont feel and I could improve upon? Cheers, Elliot
For apps where an ad blocker doesn't work, I tend to click on ads that I want to see in the future. This means someone is paying for my clicks even when I go back immediately instead of reading the content, but at least this leads to less annoying ads in the future.
Couldn't another response to someone attacking with 51% mining be to physically destroy their hardware? The Kuwait oil fires were a result of someone wanting to limit control of wealth production.
Hyperkalemia can kill you by stopping your heart.

Which is why it’s impossible to buy potassium supplements in some parts of the world.
Environment Agency LiDAR data has a vertical accuracy of 5-15cm +/- RMSE and a horizontal accuracy of 40cm +/- RMSE [1]

These kind of accuracy measures are usually relative to the national datum. They can be more accurate relative to other points in the same survey.

[1] http://www.getmapping.com/support/height-lidar-data/how-accu...
Counterstory: I went to my local optician for a check-up. He's fourth or fifth generation: Shop's been there, same address, since the eighteen hundreds (and so far, they haven't seen the need to join a chain, or to start one, for that matter). I got the works. Very thorough test of my ocular abilities. Yes, I needed new reading glasses. But no, he didn't really think he would sell me any. "Listen, you'll be fine with some cheap over-the-counter stuff. I haven't really got any in your particular strength - try the bookstore across the street".
Me: "Well, in that case, I should pay you for the test".
"Nah, don't think about it. Come back when you need real glasses".
And you know, I do believe I shall.
What would a world without death LOOK like to you? How would people vie for this immortality treatement? For food? Seems like something only an absurdly rich person would want for the world.
> one thing no one mentioned is to arrange data in cache-friendly format

I said: reducing pointer indirections and other cache friendly code (just saying!)

I agree that it's harder. It's harder because the platform is unpredictable and capricious, it's liable to change from one release to the next, and if you have C-oriented ideas around mechanical sympathy, they can lead you astray. For example, manual loop unrolling is seldom a win in Java (often, the array access checks kill you). What you want is to make your code simple enough for the JVM to unroll it (it'll be able to prove to itself that you don't exceed the bounds and elide checks, especially if you help out with an explicit comparison up front). You're in a dialogue with a reasonably smart compiler, and it's a bit of a guessing game hunting for the happy path. That's why my step 2 and 3 involve incrementally building up your algorithm: you want to stay on the happy path, because if you stray off it, you need to get back on to it again before you change more stuff.

Usually the way to go is to write straightforward code (common idioms get more optimization effort from the JVM team) and keep it simple enough to stay in the optimizer time budget (splitting it up where necessary).
Noisebridge: Inside San Francisco's Anarchist Hackerspace
Can you share a python example of replacing boilerplate code with advanced features?
Yep just give everything to the Google machine. What could possibly go wrong?

IIRC Google used to scan your emails to serve personal ads.
The market value of their pollinating services is likely built into the damage figure (It's a competitive market and there probably won't be a shortage due to this one act of vandalism).

A lot of field crops wind or self pollinate, so bees aren't doing anything for them anyway (corn, wheat, soy, stuff like that).
lines of code is a poor metric for effectiveness.

That's one of the central arguments of the paper. The metric it uses is not LoC, other than as a comparison to other metrics.
Ad 1. I am really interested of about the progress of development of your service. I would love to see it as "Show HN" submission.

Personally, I am thinking about developing an online service, which will be offerring general-purpose providing distribution of content to Kindle or other ebook-readers. Initially, I thought about creating only a app which will extract a article tag from website and create ebook from it (pandoc) or exactly a Pocket-to-Kindle. But when I was thinking more about it more ideas had come to my mind, HN-frontpage scrapper, simple notebook/orgmode adapted to Kindle Experimental Browser, markdown-files-to-ebook, arxiv-to-ebook converter, some kind of IFFTT pipeline (stream X from Y and save it as a ebook) and even trying to implement most of features known from Calibre application... If I could somehow help you as a developer or you are interested in bootstrapping some online service together I really would like to receive an e-mail from you. My e-mail address: (put my HN nickname here) at gmail.com
Weird, this seems like a valuable comment. I wonder what's going on. I hope you keep commenting.

Government regulation could drive Bitcoin underground inside a given country. Wouldn't be hard to imagine globalized regulation, a la the US treasury sanctions list.

It'd be tough to enforce a ban on cryptocurrency, but doesn't strike me as impossible. It's not hard to take out exchanges like Coinbase. Then could do sting operations to try to catch people willing to transact with Bitcoin in person, etc.

One exception: it might be very difficult to enforce a ban on using cryptocurrency to purchase services that are purely digital and don't require identity. No way to run a sting.
Would there not be different, added charges if the perpetrators were competitors trying to sabotage the victim?
> Only if you think that unbridled growth is an inherently good thing.

This has nothing to do with growth, but with welfare not being created due to otherwise willing seller and buyer not being able to transact due to artificially restricted pricing in the market.

> That's fine but the prescribed solution is to devalue the notional amount people get paid.

I think you confuse inflation and interest rates. Negative interest rate does not devalue money (price of bread says the same over time), but if you happen to have savings, those will of course be deminishing over time. Obviously, almost by definition, it is rich people, not poor people that have savings and bear the pain of negative rates.
When you make an emergency call on a GSM network it specifially uses the tower which provides the best signal, which may be on a different carrier. In most countries you don’t even need a SIM card to make an emergency call.

My point is there is no technical reason why the emergency sevices couldn’t put up towers for 911 calls only.
Who gets to choose who is an attacker? Are there limits in place that ensure only once someone owns 51% the can steal their funds? Who gets to decide what a single entity is? Sounds like a pretty huge centralized point of failure in my mind, but I'm admittedly pretty ignorant on the subject.
Wish there was a list of local gems like that one, it’s worth fitting them into your travel schedule. Not many left in big cities and they often price themselves for high-end customers, in order to differentiate from retail chain stores.

If you want to go old-school, see http://shuron.com, the last major US frame manufacturer, since 1865. They still make frames in many different sizes for each style, instead of modern one-size-per-style manufacturing. They offer lenses (including glass!).
Or from the other angle, imagine how many fossils aren't being discovered because so much of the world is underdeveloped. In the west, many of our discoveries came from people digging things up to build condos, pipelines, malls, etc.
Left a career as an IT Architect to begin a new life as a Ethereum developer. I'm so much happier now :-)
>Look up a Youtube channel called PoliceActivity.

I was actually watching a bunch of videos on this very channel the day before last. And I totally agree with your characterization of it. It did make me more sympathetic to cops as individual people with hard jobs, seeing all the crazy bullshit people put cops through on a daily basis.

But it doesn't negate my critique that there's a systematic flaw in the way police are trained. I don't hold the individual cops to blame for acting as they've been trained. but in watching a lot of the videos I get the sense that because of the warrior mentality of the cop, they simply cannot allow themselves to opt for the de-escalatory path, because they think failing to dominate a situation will put themselves at risk. Which may be true in many of the situations!

But why is this? Why are there criminals who are willing to initiate gun violence against police, despite the overwhelmingly bad odds against that ending well for them?

It's a complex question, but I suspect one significant factor is because they have also been trained indirectly by the warrior mentality of other police they've encountered or observed. I think it's fair to say almost all people who pull guns on cops are not having their first brush with the law. They know that once a encounter with a police officer becomes adversarial, the only possible outcomes are: suspect in custody, suspect dead, or suspect escaped by incapacitating the officer. People hate to lose control, and being seconds away from indefinite, total loss of control over your life on the shoulder of a road creates a situation quite analogous to the first strike problem in nuclear strategy. Except unlike in potential nuclear conflicts, the initial deployment of force is a very common eventuality so the perceived need for counterforce is that much higher.

Now admittedly, the warrior mentality isn't the root cause of this dynamic - criminals on the run would still have a first strike incentive during encounters with police, but the presence of a warrior officer ratchets up the potential for escalation nonetheless, because the criminal is now credibly worried about losing their life in addition to losing their freedom.

I don't know where to go with this, but, the point I wanted to make is we can both maintain respect for police as individuals and critique the aspects of police institutional culture that exacerbate these problems.
Random between 0 and 4 toppings? 0 toppings is a pretty boring pizza...
If you have young people around, you should watch this: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbfmhGxamZ81CaHeEGKMt...
How would you scan a barcode without a camera? How do you identify the store you are scanning in to determine price without knowing location? How do you conduct a payment transaction without an internet connection? It’s not like the app is asking for gratuitous permissions like contacts, calendar, camera roll etc.
> The sole way a government can kill it -- any government -- is to invest >$2B into getting >51% hash power, then launching coordinated malicious doublespends for the purpose of shattering faith in bitcoin.

I am not a bitcoin expert at all, I'm actually only starting to look at these things, so I am a bit surprised you sound so confident when saying $2B, because my reaction was: that's all, 2 billion US dollars is all it take to take down Bitcoin? That's pocket money for the US government, and easily achievable for most private banks, very rich individuals and even organized crime.

> That's it. There's no other way.

Also, it seems to me that Bitcoin is based on softwares. Softwares have vulnerabilities. I guess of course if something big happens, like SHA256 being broken, we would have bigger problems than Bitcoin.
I took it as a story about his journey to maturity. As a young lad he saw only one aspect of gaming, the part that focused on entertainment. As he got older he saw more of the 'cost' of that entertainment, and it was summed up by taking the majority of the video games he owned and their consoles and selling them, to buy one super console, only to have that choice turn out to be shockingly expensive.

He not only saw the 'value' of his console drop more than 90% he saw that he had 'lost' a bunch of things he cherished (his collection) which he would still have had he kept them.

The economic reality that he had essentially sold his 'collection' for $50 really affected his self image. And rather than say "Gee, that was stupid! I sure learned my lesson!" he finds he has to take it out on the video game industry that 'tricked' him into giving them all of that personal wealth in exchange for what was now perceived as crap.

Some people don't recover from that sort of shock, some do. Hopefully at some point the author will forgive himself for allowing his love of the vision that 3DO presented to cost him so dearly.
> would result in unpalatable food a high percentage of time

That's the point. Do you understand what 'roulette' means in this context? When you play roulette you more often than not lose all your money and have nothing to show for it. Like an inedible pizza.

If you made it so you always got something nice to eat... it wouldn't be roulette, would it?
The article is published by the Los Angeles Times, but the incident occurred in Iowa.
That was my counter argument to him, and so far he hasn't had anything to say about the durability of my "cheap" frames versus the prior set.
Don't prevent them from buying them, prevent people from riding that fast on sidewalks.