skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serious question: if you care about your privacy how can you stay in an Airbnb with little way of thoroughly checking whether the owner has put a camera in the bedroom, bathroom, etc?
Yes, and (1) no longer applies because service locators which locate the master are now easy to do.
> Workers used to do better when a larger percentage of them collectively bargained.

What I find interesting is that the unionization rate in Canada today is more or less on-par with the peak unionization in the USA, and is one of the strongest unionized countries in the world. Yet, I constantly hear Canadian workers complain about how they are unfairly compensated compared to Americans, where unionization has practically disappeared, doing the same job.

Most Canadians I talk to seem to think that labour declined in the late 70s-early 80s, which is actually when Canadian unionization was at its peak. However, those are the years we really started to see union decline in the USA. American workers could understandably make that claim. Canadian workers shouldn't. Those should have been the best years for labour ever, based on union strength.

Is this entirely grass is greener syndrome? Canadians do tend to focus on American media more than their own, and the decline of unionization in the USA may have led them to believe that the decline also applied to Canada. Or are their points valid and higher unionization doesn't bring the effects we like to think it does?
> tons of algorithms and software don't run any faster with more cores.

> The fact is baring major breakthroughs, we are stuck with roughly today's level of performance for the foreseeable future.

That's obviously false. Otherwise graphics wouldn't get any faster when you add more GPU cores, to name one common embarrassingly parallel problem.

Our software is just really bad at making use of those extra cores. Measure real-world use cases with a well-tuned work stealing engine and you'll see how much performance we're leaving on the table.

(Source: I wrote the first version of possibly the largest consumer deployment of a major software component backed by a work stealing engine.)
That's a known problem with the sessionstore.js file(s), http://kb.mozillazine.org/Sessionstore.js Try deleting them? Also if your places.sqlite file is damaged it will cause similar behavior, but removing that will delete your history so maybe make sure it's synced first. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_hangs#Other_causes_of_hang...
> can give you in particular a leg up when you need it. Any broadcast medium can't fill that role, all it can do is disseminate information to a wide group.

If all we're talking about is getting a small number of people a leg up, then is it so bad (socially) that contract work lacks that? In my mind, the whole question is about overall social benefit, thus benefit to the "wide group." In fact, if web forums are as equality-inducing as you imply (which I kind of doubt, to be honest), that would count as a big benefit overall to that kind of system.
My biggest search wish is an option to eliminate any results from online shopping sites. Hell, I want a "give me the old web" toggle that eliminates shopping sites, social media, and any corporate websites so I can just find the hand-written HTML from the weirdos who'll tell me how to change the clutch on a 1969 MG Midget.
Maybe choosing own network and use of own time wisely would help. Filter might be better vs ignore.

If would rather be in a position where I can get potentially useful and useless information so that I can filter vs not having much information.
How do you suggest the artist calculate the pricing instead?
The only thing I found surprising was how much of the HN crowd was surprised at the $200. It's perfectly fine for a unique product to be priced at whatever you the creator feel like it should cost given the time that you have put into making the system and the time you spend making each additional print.
Neat! Btw with my monitor in portrait half the example poster is cut off
Sorry for the confusion I've gotten used to referring to cryptocurrency as crypto as shorthand
We don't feel we can give anything an "A" until TOSDR vets the privacy policy, and unfortunately they don't have a ton of sites vetted yet. However, we are committed to working with them to dramatically increase the number of sites rated.
How the Socio-Demographic Factors Are Driving Political Polarization in France?
Great idea, I'll put that on the list
There is work underway pursuing GB sized blocks (https://themerkle.com/what-is-the-gigablock-testnet-initiati...). I think it is a feasible path forward. And even if it turns out to be difficult to achieve with today's infrastructure and technology, cryptocurrencies won't suddenly have a billion people using it for daily transactions overnight. I think we could easily support 100 MB blocks now - which would be 100x what current bitcoin provides. In my opinion, that provides quite a bit of time to continue to investigate various scaling avenues.
Are you not familiar with lobbying (aka bribery)?
Yes, a correction to the most dehumanized form of employer-employee relationship possible, which is following the logic of the market (dominated by asymmetric information and power) to its end.
Minor comment: Stanford is $16,329 _per quarter_, not semester.
> We are Swiss, we don't conquer the world.

I am curious what such Swiss people think of Nestlé, then. Or other companies and industries where Switzerland has a prominent global reputation?

I would just chalk it up to personal preferences and motivations, but the statement as written suggests it's a Swiss thing in general.
Open Source at DigitalOcean: Extending Go-Libvirt with Code Generation
Thanks. I'm working on this now. I've built the authentication system and user models and will be working on comments next
MIT Scientists Design Artificial Synapse to Power Brain-Like Computer Chips
Very nice idea but it took me far too long to find the YOU ARE HERE circle that presumably corresponds to the detail circle. There should be some clear obvious connecting element so I can find YOU ARE HERE much more easily. Good luck with this!
> "This is a great observation: we need better accelerators to incubate startups that are more realistic and not willing to salt the earth to win at all costs [1]."

We already have that. They're called banks.
Only few companies can "win the world" by definition -- and besides work, it takes tons of luck, relinquishing control to VCs and stock markets, and boards, and all the right stars aligned. Plus the personal toll.

One is better off building something smaller, where work and talent is enough to maintain it.

There are more opportunities in those companies (e.g. a $1 to $50 million dollar business) of which there are tens of thousands, than to build the 1 in 100 behemoth.

You'll have more chances of success, and you'll live and sleep better. Because money, above a certain amount, also has a marginal utility curve and diminishing returns.
Facebook Acquires Confirm – Digital Identity Authenticator
True that J & K do, but Dyalog doesn't and is pretty modern in that it is still very actively developed...interfaces to Python/R, runs on Raspberry Pi, hooks into .NET, can run on GPU...etc.
A fairer exchange would be that all data collected be made public at the most granular level. If there are concerns that it could be abused or is an invasion of privacy, then they're collecting too much.
You say that, but there are cases even in small countries where this didn't happen. Like trademe in New Zealand which was just like ebay. Ebay still hasn't become the major place to do auctions in new zealand.
Net Neutrality or not, phone companies are still terrible
> Am I in the minority here for being a contract developer who is happy to be in this place?
> * My wife works full time so she has our back for health insurance

Being an independent contractor or a self employed business owner is fine for someone who has an entrepreneurial bent coupled with unique skills that are in high demand. Such people can likely charge rates that more than compensate for the lack of employer benefits as a contractor.

However, the contractors described in the article don't appear to have that combination of advantages. Presumably they also don't have spouses who can carry them on their health insurance plans. In a previous era, their jobs might have previously carried benefits, but many of these jobs have been reclassified as "variable workforce" positions, as companies restructure their employment to minimize the carried costs and risk of fulltime employees.
Aren't we already doing beta-testing medicaments big scale in africa?
Any chance you could poke the Hangouts team to get that working in Firefox? At this point they’ve have 28 months public notice that Mozilla would be deprecating NPAPI.
Show HN: ERC dEX, a hybrid-decentralized trading platform for Ethereum tokens
No, but they'll reap the benefits of being decent people.
I've worked a number of tech jobs in the valley, and while the expected work hours aren't exactly European, I can't really think of a time where I worked weekends other than being on call perhaps 1 week in 4 or 5, and I find the work hours quite regular. Then again, I'm not exactly a game developer.
Takes the same 10 minutes on average per block if you include recommended miner fee. binance credits you after 2 confirmations. waiting for 6 confirmations is really overkill for transactions small enough that you are worried about the fee. So in practice, a transactions will either sit for a long time or be confirmed in 10 minutes. Just pay appropriate fee.
We are trying to find ways to make that work. Right now though, all of these apps and extensions are open source, and we would welcome contributions.
Pretty good scratch! Maybe this software thing isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
"Security hole" may have been poor word choice on my part. "Potentially unsafe process recommendation" would probably be a more apt description.

My concern is not a security issue or vulnerability on their site or service. I am concerned that a processes they are recommending may not be safe, and if I am incorrect (I still feel that I may be missing something), I feel that a response may be insightful to others.
Very cool! I did a something using bitmaps a few months back ( https://blog.mattbierner.com/nes-memory/ ) but I really like how he visualized changes here.

If anyone is interested in exploring something similar, here's the simple fceux script I used to sample the memory of a running NES game: https://github.com/mattbierner/NES-Memory-Visualization/blob...
It's named network because you do not need a channel with every individual user. You have a channel with one or more LN servers, they in turn have connections with yet more servers.

As the other guy said, there only needs to exist a path of channels between you and the entity you're paying, and the payment will be routed through the network.
It's a secret society. Propaganda Due got caught red handed. I thinking that had something to do with why mainstream Masonic Lodges distanced themselves from Propaganda Due.
I can work in SV and use great, reliable public transportation to get everywhere I want in my life, often in under an hour? And I can have 5 weeks paid vacation per year? I wasn't able to find these things when I lived there...
Thanks for the suggestion -- duly noted.
"Creating [new/different] products the market actually wants" is a pretty reasonable definition of innovation.

The Riemann hypothesis? That's research, not innovation. It's still valuable, but it's not innovation. (Is it as valuable as innovation? Arguably yes, but it's still not innovation.)
Rackspace is one example of that business, but Amazon is not going anywhere. And there is STILL a lot of space all around San Antonio (far west, anything east) as well as New Braunfels and even (if Amazon spent the $$$ to get land) plenty of space within a mile or two of downtown for a large campus.

I've thought for a while that commuter rail lines:

Along the freeways: 35, 10, 281, 151

Between big retail spots: Downtown, Quarry, Rim, Stone Oak, 1604/Bandera, Forum

Big Business: Rackspace, USAA, Downtown (again), Amazon, Lackland AFB, Kelly AFB, Brooks

And new parking areas near big residential centers: Bandera/Tezel, Helotes, Boerne, Stone Oak, Great Northwest, Brooks City Base

Along with parks renovation, school improvements on the South Side and small business incentives would make San Antonio the best place to live in the country.

There's a lot of potential here.
> A business cannot operate a payment system that isn't working for them for "months" until a long-promised alternate solution arrives. Be realistic.

Who said Bitcoin isn't working? I use it all the time. At the most, it's having tps and fee issues, but that doesn't mean "it's not working".

> There is also no guarantee LN will ever see required adoption and scale to the level to solve the problems.

If you think people, who are already using Bitcoin, won't jump at the efficiency of a properly functioning Lightning network, you're the one who needs to get real.

> If they were smart they'd just move on to an altcoin and leave Bitcoin, at least till LN is up and proven working at scale on mainnet.

I suppose you think (or know of) ANY of the alts have solved this problem while retaining the properties of Bitcoin that it was invented for? If you do, please let us all in on the secret.
>I think of Go as a better self-checkout.

Yeah, I don't think this type of thing is actually that big a deal for a supermarket where stuff needs to be bagged etc.

But it seems like a qualitatively different experience than self-checkout at a convenience store/small grocery store.

I also expect a lot of US readers tend to think in terms of either supermarkets or fairly junky 7-Eleven style convenience stores. But there are a lot of places in Europe where there are more intermediate options like the Marks and Spencer markets.
A little faith in humanity and in your ability to judge character. If you’re absolutely paranoid about this sort of thing, how do you even use a public restroom? How do you know your own house doesn’t have cameras watching you? Even James Bond lets his guard down now and then.
What does "cutting edge" mean? They don't use modern deployment startegies? They don't use recently popular web frameworks? "Cutting edge" is so vague it's not clear whether SV just cargo cults more or whether it's actually more technically innvovative.
Or multiple hours for those of us who are still plagued with slow internet at home.

Luckily it's not that bad for me anymore, but I still sympathise with everyone with slow connection speeds, because you can't "just" download an update.
Great idea, I actually had this before. I was feeding the articles into google's natural language processing API to get a sentiment index from -1 to 1 (-1 negative, 0 neutral +1 positive). The issue I was having that it wasn't really that accurate. Google NPL has trouble analysing contextual news articles. e.g. if a headline says "Bubble in cryptocurrency markets", it doesn't recognise that bubble is negative in news contexts. I have been looking for some different NPL libraries that might be better including AWS Rekognition. I'm not a data scientist so don't think I'll do very well building my own machine learning algorithm. Any suggestions of good libraries people have used for news sentiment would be greatly appreciated
Very true, interchange plus is the way to go outside of Europe or Durbin-regulated customer bases.
Ursula K. Le Guin has died
>> (I guess not having to worry about health insurance helps somewhat, though)
Reducing Memory Usage in Ruby
The US appear to rank highly in the "opinion of themselves" category /s
The hope is to work with them and their process in such a way that we can dramatically increase the number of sites rated.
My place is in the middle of nowhere, there is nothing detailed to show in the circle, so although the circle is the fanciest feature of the poster it would still be nice if there was a way to disable the circle. That would make it useful to me.
Cool. Ill add that to the list. Please provide suggestions of other topics and I will add it in :D
Very interesting. Thanks for being candid with your freshness to this experience; it's valuable all the same. A few more questions, as your availability permits:

* Have you considered an S-corp? If so, reasons against listing it as an option?

* Any recommendations in general contractors (even if not specific ones, just things to look for in a general contractor)?

Thanks for your time and response(s)!
The paper says this:

"Movements or tensioning of either the middle ear muscles or the outer hair cells modifies eardrum motion..."

So at least this study says the eardrums "move" in response to muscle change elsewhere. To detect the eardrum moving required a microphone placed inside the ear.

It seems this is not a human noticeable thing. Which makes sense; I'd imagine if it was, we'd have know this already. Most cases of such obvious ability to us are well known, at least.
I worked for a major biotech company in Silicon Valley that was part-owned, then later fully-owned, by a large Swiss pharmaceutical company. Well, it wasn't really a pharma company so many as a collection of wealthy Swiss families that maintained cross-investments in each other's pharma companies because it was a profitable sector. But I digress.

Anyway, every year, the Swiss would send their top IT people to come look at our IT systems, and ask us questions about how we did things. What software we ran, how we administrated it, etc. They generally thought we were quite lazy and lax; noting that our sysadmins were from a wide collection of countries, one commented "At Roche, we only hire Swiss citizens to administer the SAP servers."

Later, Roche bought Genentech because it was far more profitable than any other investment Roche could make, and they generally adopted Genentech's approach to IT throughout the larger company. Pretty sure the SAP servers are still administered by Swiss citizens.
Nothing in adult for now. I'm not sure what "those currently operating in the unknown" means.

Hoping to expand to more business categories as we grow.
What the heck are you talking about? It's only recently come close to readiness. Bitcoin secures a huge amount of capital. The people who actually know what they're doing in this space aren't going to hurry a solution to market which has not been EXTREMELY rigorously tested. I understand that takes a long time but we're talking about people's livelihoods here. You're so confident it's not ready, but can you actually answer the question of by what criteria it would even be deemable as ready? It's literally already being tested. [1, 2]

Maybe I should get some more downvotes first though.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7ieuki/how_to_test...

2. https://discover.coinsquare.io/digital-currency/lightning-ne...
Seattle has always had homeless people, from the time "skid row" meant the place where you skid freshly cut logs to the waterfront to be cut. Likewise, Portland, Vancouver (BC), and (to a lesser extent) Spokane have and have had very similar homeless problems of roughly the same nature. Basically, these three cities have acted as a catchment for almost anyone in BC, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, that fall through the cracks (and ya, you'll find homeless people from places like Bonners Ferry).

Basically, its the red rural areas around these cities exporting their problems to the cities that actually provide services to deal with them. Couple that with kids from these areas with little education going to Seattle to make it, and not making it.
Because cooperation only happens in the repeated version of the prisoner's dilemma.
I love this. Thanks for adding the free image export option!

A word of warning: Your Foursquare API client ID and Secret are completely visible to anyone and can easily be abused. [1]

Also, currently the client ID is exceeding its rate limit, so I cannot add my own locations.

[1] You are making these kinds of requests:
https://api.foursquare.com/v2/venues/suggestCompletion?query...
This is satire, right? You're suggesting that ideas don't make it from SF to mountain view in less than 6 months with thousands of people commuting between the two each day and cross pollination of meetups on both sides.

Containerization and its orchestration all started in the south bay. Pray tell, what was in use in SF for 6 months before it hit the startups based in MV, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, etc.
The H (English) (2013)
> Hopefully an HN admin will come and fix it soon. [..] It's been fixed.

No, I fixed it myself because despite what you might believe, the intent was never to mislead and I maintain that it didn't. :)

> Because they didn't fire on it? And had no intention of doing so. You make it sound like the actually intended to shoot it down.

They absolutely did intend to shoot it down when they thought that Arafat was on it. They didn't when they learned he wasn't. At any rate, you know that's not what I was comparing, this is just what you've chosen to interpret my superlative as being in reference to.

Did you even read the article, though? There was never a belief that he was alone on that jet. And there were many occasions where Israel signed off on assassination plots that would have lead to the death of even Israeli citizens just to kill Arafat. There were even plots to blow up a stadium then time car bombs to go off outside the stadium as the people were fleeing.

These weren't aborted or called off except by the reluctance of brave individuals in the Israeli defense ministry and air force that deliberately mislead their superiors and put off pulling the trigger or confirming the identification so as to avoid the civilian collateral damage.
Free Webinar: In the Line of Fire-The Modern CMO
> No-one associated the label with the Westinghouse poster until the early '80s.

I assure you, to many born after the '80s it's the Rockwell cover and the song that are obscure.
Why don't companies just give everybody a pay cut and pocket that difference, too?
I reached the same conclusion after looking into the matter for a while. I've mentioned it several times on HN and elsewhere and have yet to find anybody offering a rebuttal. Worse, there are very little simulations being done on how it's going to work in practice (admittedly that was about 6 months ago, but the decision to implement segwit/lightning had already been taken at that point anyway).

We're talking about a $100+ billion market cap cryptocurrency and nobody knows how it's going to work. It's hype, speculation and memes all the way down. The power of greed.
Yes, that's correct. If you are going to use sync rep because you can't lose transactions, you really want to use the latest version of PostgreSQL, which supports quorum sync (i.e. "one of these three replicas must ack"), even in complex configurations ("one replica from each availability zone must ack"). Note, though, that the existing HA automation solutions (Patroni, Stolon) don't currently have support for complex topographies, so you'd need to do some hacking.

It is a tradeoff though. With synch rep, you are at a minimum adding the cost of two network trips to the latency of each write (distributed consistent databases like Cassandra pay this cost as well, which is why they tend to have relatively high write latency). It turns out that a lot of users are willing to lose a few transactions in a combination failure case instead of having each write take three times as long.

Postgres also has some "in between" modes because write transactions can be individually marked as synch or asynch, so less critical writes can be faster. I believe that Cassandra has something similar.