skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference between contract work and being an employee is that you have to pay “self employment tax” - the half of Medicare that your employee pays (2.8%) and social security (6.2%).

The usual difference between part time and full time employment is subsidized health insurance, paid time off, and sometimes a 401K employment match.

At least with the ACA, everyone can get insurance, whether everyone can afford insurance is a different issue.

For people like IT workers in the right market, whether to go contract vs. full time is just a numbers question - can you make enough to compensate for having to pay self employment taxes, health insurance, and unpaid time off.

For people on the other end of the spectrum - those who are getting paid much less and have to pay thier health insurance - it sucks.

The people hit hardest are for some reason some of the same ones who support candidates who want to get rid of the ACA.
I wonder if radio in the 50s used this or if it's the result of change in market (probably due to TV too) that made them consolidate into simpler format and more ads. In which case it would be a metaphor for the faux-death of TV.
>The less authoritarian states, such as Allende's Chile, did not end up surviving for long.

Wasn't Allende's Chile pretty much brought down by external forces, i.e. CIA? Calling it survivorship bias is a bit premature if the said countries are antagonised by the most powerful nation on the planet :)
Can't think of an example with CPUs, but you could unlock an AMD 6950 to a 6970[1]. Some brands would actually add features to help do this.

[1] https://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/vidcard/15...
Has anyone actually been involved in fulfilling this orange juice request? I'm not convinced the author understands the problem well enough to judge what the appropriate response is. It may very well be less difficult than he expects, at least for a hotel with the right staff and equipment on hand.
Ask HN: Techniques to meter usage? (Rails, SaaS)
Does anyone have any techniques or resources for designing a system to meter usage?

For instance, if an application has 4 features and each feature has a limit per-month, how do you go about measuring (metering) them? Any techniques when you incorporate teams into the mix and their usage?
This is incorrect:

You can literally donate just $100K to political candidate and he would pass a law for you that makes your company 10s of millions for many many years. It never ends to surprise me that political donations by commercial entities and ultra-rich is not considered a crime in US. In most other countries they are known as "bribe".

Companies cannot give money directly to politicians and individuals are limited. https://www.opensecrets.org/overview/limits.php

Political Action Committees can accept money, but must be independent from a candidate.
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Which country is that, out of interest?
First of all, as other comments have mentioned it's really not a common sight in Europe. Actually, I haven't seen anybody smoking inside a supermarket during my whole life living in Europe (>30 years) and traveling there extensively. Secondly, even if it were common, your indignation seems strange as you come to a different culture and judge people according to your customs. Do you honestly believe that the whole continent should suddenly start behaving differently just because you went traveling there?
Up to 9.0% now apparently.

Working link to the Seinfeld example on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6i1VVikRu0
Switzerland. Our copyright law allows for private use of media. Software piracy, however, is not legal. Also upload is illegal as well.
Haven't we realized yet that programs do not have a single flow of execution? each program has a few correct paths, and a few paths resulting from error.

Our languages so far pretend there is one correct path, and that the error paths are almost non-existence, or a nuesance at best.

In my opinion, what languages should do is the following, when an error happens: the program stops with an error report. There shouldn't be any errors caught ever. A faulty program should not be restarted; it should be fixed.
> I like to think high tech cars can detect when they're being towed and will activate their tracking system and ping the emergency call center.

My GPS tracker does do this in my daily car, but it only sets it off if the rest of the alarm is triggered (i.e. if the door sensor registers it opening while the alarm is set).

With the race car, it generally gets locked up. Although if I'm out in the town or something with it someone could possibly take off with it if they short-circuit the relay, and use something to clamp on the steering column (when the wheel is detached). But honestly, if someone stole the car like that they'd probably be found a few hundred yards up the road wrapped around a tree and on fire, after hitting boost with no steering wheel.
Well, I’d say the analogy with Arabic vs Roman numerals is a bit of a stretch. Seriously, it is just a matter of shifting by one, humanity has much bigger problems to focus on!
The BBC does not run intrusive ads.

Product placement is not intrusive at all.
It works out okay if you’re married and one spouse has insurance.
I tried out various image labeling APIs, including Google Vision (Safe Search) for exactly this use case (moderation). I was honestly astonished at the pricing of these APIs. Google is somewhere at 1.50€ for 1000 images which is - imo - very expensive. I tried out the default models that come with Tensorflow but well, they are trained on scientific datasets which typically involve species and flowers - no luck there either. Any good tips for pre-trained models that solve this (for tensorflow)?
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To be fair, most Ofo bikes in Shanghai have the same auto-unlock feature in later Marks... maybe about 75% of the ones I've tried.
The "S2 file" mentioned on the liked page gives a look-up table for the cividis scale: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?type=supplemen...

Apart from the comment on line 1, that file contains 256 lines with a colour. I suppose to get a finer scale, you can interpolate with any reasonable function you like since the differences are so small.
Fancy that. The EU making some good laws to protect the consumer from the corporation. Lovely stuff.
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Startup that uses visual &spatial data to simulate reality,picks up $4.5M seed
Retool (YC S17) is looking for software engineers
Hi - you might've seen us recently on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17725966).

We're looking for our first software engineer! We'd be particularly interesting in chatting if you:

* Enjoy programming - a lot

* Enjoy thinking about product (engineers at Retool have to, because we don't have any "product people")

* Are fairly industrious - and like the get things done

* Enjoy working on tightly-knit teams, where we're very close to each other

We're profitable, growing quickly, and have raised money from Y Combinator, John and Patrick Collison, Elad Gil, Greg Brockman, Daniel Gross, and Nat Friedman. These are all technical founders who know the pain of building internal tools! (Ideally, you'd find the space interesting as well.)
We don't know?
Or just configure https://www.awstats.org/ to parse your server side logs. It's one of those things that worked for the past 18 years.

EDIT: server side logs have serious advantages: no tracking cookies needed, so no cookie consent needed. Once the parsing done, the actual logs can be purged, so GDPR compliance is fine. It's not fancy, that's true, but it gives you quite a nice overview; enough for most blogs out there.
Worse than that, it can provide an avenue for people who commit crimes to ... shall we say encourage what, for them, would be a solution.
Matplotlib has some nice colormaps as well:

http://medvis.org/2016/02/23/better-than-the-rainbow-the-mat...

http://bids.github.io/colormap/
I found https://giordano.github.io/blog/2017-11-03-rock-paper-scisso... to be a pretty good attempt at that. Of course, the code's elegance will probably not be immediately evident to a beginner, but a link to the full explanation could suffice to complement that.
Is this a variant of plasma wakefield accelerator, or something else?

If so, staging is an issue from what I understand. Even at 100GeV/m, you'll need many stages to reach interesting TeV territory, so this is a crucial aspect if it wants to beat the LHC.

Some relevant discussion on PhysicsForums: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/two-stage-electron-wak...
Good.

I absolutely do not want any old hacker to be building software that can talk to bank accounts. I want a minimal level of regulation and insurance, to make sure that they aren't doing terrible things with it, and that they are easy to track down and deal with when they mess it up.
Having suffered at the hands of bad consultants, I'd definitely rather risk losing a good one if it increases the chances of me not working with a bad one again.

Ultimately, a consultant needs to pitch themselves to me if they want my money. Don't want to pitch because you're already established and don't feel like it's justified? That's absolutely your decision.

EDIT: this only applies to new consultants I've not worked with before. If I've worked with you before, I already know whether or not I want to work with you again. I don't need a filter like this.
There may be two effects going in parallel, but: for chronic migraine sufferers reducing blood pressure can be effective in reducing attack frequency, and ketogenic (and other very low carb diets), can reduce blood pressure frequently. Blood pressure being a big factor in the effects of vasodilation.

Honestly, I've long dismissed the claimed benefits of ketogenic diets like 'reduced inflamation' as... minor and uninteresting. A few weeks into a low-carb diet for my migraines and my sedentary butt is suddenly running and with my untrained knees never having felt better. I would not be shocked if there were other beneficial effects of ketosis on migraines.
That's probably why people think it's okay to listen to music or have conversations on speakerphone. I'm not saying you are obligated to attempt to stop antisocial behaviour. You are proving his assumptions that people don't really mind.
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Fine work, might try later.
Any clue why this is not a built-in feature anymore?
Without a non-linear activation function, it wouldn't be an ANN, because multiple linear layers are equivalent to a single layer applying the composition of their transforms.

The article gives no clue about this part. I have no idea if the optical domain can compute non-linear functions.
Which in any case you'd have to do in other languages. What Elm provides is a way for library users to decide whether to upgrade the library or not and more importantly not automatically upgrade to a library which needs code changes.
You poor sucker.
Adva
Is uploading legal too? Because downloading is legal in other EU contries too, but uploading is not, so you can't use torrent to download, because that uploads too.

So if uploading is not legal then you can't use torrent.
The importance of your balance diet
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A K8s multi-node test cluster based on kubeadm
Oh the classics. I've started to use http://goaccess.io/ a lot these days.
Journalctl uses less as a pager by default, you can set the env variable SYSTEMD_PAGER to specifiy what pager to use (or just PAGER) and SYSTEMD_LESS to specify parameters to pass to less.

journalctl has no own pager implementation and if no pager is installed then none is used.

I give you validation and error messages, systemd is a bit sparse on that front. Would be easier if there was a way for programs and services to signal back error messages to report.

edit:

You can actually enforce non-wrapping by setting SYSTEMD_LESS to FRXMK (the S option that is otherwise included causes truncating, if omitted you get wrapping)

This can all be configured in /etc/profile, .bashrc and friends
Twitter: Infowars hasn't 'violated our rules.' It looks like that's not the case
Even more bizarre when you consider the reports that Pakistan was taking money from the US, giving some of it to the Taliban who then used it to fight the US.

Why the US public isn't angry at Saudi Arabia and Pakistan is a mystery to me.
The image at the top of the page loads fine. But the rest an so encumbered with Javascript to load you literally have to reload the page at least 4 times (to load the JS domain, that loads the JS domain, that loads the JS domain) to see them.

I gave up and closed the tab.
When advertising cigarettes became illegal in many western nations, tobacco companies shifted their attentions to developing markets like Indonesia.

Smoking is a big and growing business over there.
A couple of days ago I started testing with WireGuard and installed it to my Omnia Turris router. Mullvad provides WireGuard servers[0] for testing with a reasonable price, and I've been routing all the traffic from our apartment through WireGuard without any problems. The speed is just amazing after seeing the disappointing performance of OpenVPN, I can easily push 300-400 MB/s through the router, finally removing the last reason to not use a VPN for all the traffic.

[0] https://mullvad.net/en/guides/category/wireguard/
Not sure if it’s a EU wide rule though. IIRC the rule in my country is just a maximum of 12 minutes per hour.
Given the relation to "business lunch" in their conversation, I suspect it's down to asking 700 staff to give up their morning with their families, setting up their day with their regular morning routine, and instead spend that time at work.

I don't think he hates breakfast, I think he hates having to give up his breakfast to be at work.
Bzip.org is gone
The python interpreter can choose not to call it. I've had to register essential cleanup with `atexit` instead.
Congratulations on launching!

Don't worry if you don't get much positive feedback here -- this seems like the kind of functionality that doesn't impress the HN crowd, but could become very popular among more often less-technical, actual Ghost users, quietly making you lots of money if marketed/advertised properly.
"The unbelievable reason republicans HATE the EU. Click here to watch this sped up video!"

The EU tends to be more considerate of its citizens than "capitalism" would dictate. It's what gives it a bad reputation among republicans, especially those with very little understanding of the intricacies of a society.
This being said the fact that stations are not forced to disclose this for every single show that is being showed other than "real time" is still a bummer.

I don't watch TV though but I feel compelled to have an opinion about it :).
"Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia."

Sorry your comment just really made me think about the book 1984.
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Yes, although I wish there was a blog/aggregator as good as theoildrum was. The quality of discussion there was terrific.
Maybe it is because they were developing Lockbox.

However, it seems they decided not to support it officially anymore 3 days ago: https://mozilla-lockbox.github.io/lockbox-extension/release-...
It's very heavy handed. The characters don't converse like real people, it feels like they're just vehicles for hitting you over the head with the author's message. Always with the befuddled idiot and the enlightened but exasperated one coyly dropping wisdom. Just didn't find it compelling.
Big difference being that most of the packages in Julia are written in Julia itself (unlike Python, where they're often written in some more performant language); so the aspiration is that you have to leave Julia even less frequently than you have to leave Python.

At the same time, calling into other languages (eg C) is super straightforward (disclaimer: last time I checked).
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No disregard of your personal position - I respect your right to choose your own outcome and hold life sacred for you and yours.

I get uncomfortable when it's others imposing the belief that a life is "sacred". I might then be forced to die slowly, and extremely painfully, over some years having been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Having seen that with my father, though he received superb palliative care, no thank you.

I've heard the killed for cost argument many times over the thirty or so years since it became a regular media topic in the UK. It;s roughly 20 since Netherlands legalised euthanasia, maybe more. The reality doesn't seem to bear any resemblance to your predictions; the vast majority in the Netherlands are still in favour of the law (over 90% I think), yet the numbers taking euthanasia are still low. The requirement for medical second and third opinions should prevent unpleasant relatives pushing granny under the bus or the state seeking to save cash. A universal healthcare system undoubtedly helps distance the patient from the cost implications.

Even having passed all the the hurdles, with an advance directive completed beforehand, it's not guaranteed euthanasia will result. If you haven't completed an advance directive and are not in sound mind, it's simply not available. In other words it's not a policy decision, it's a personal and medical one.
Thanks, this looks about as I expected. The real problem occurs when you have an array of union types, where sum of the union cases are themselves way, which it does not look like Julia does anything clever about (because it's not even clear to me that it's even possible).
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I don't watch TV, that said I find product placement a pain, all those Apple and Dell laptops shown for no reason, the Nikon cameras thrust into the view, perhaps I'm to sensitive but some shows I'm annoyed by product placement shots every 10seconds.
I read "sounds funnier" as funny-strange not funny-haha. :)

Another common practice years ago was simply to cut parts of a movie. They'd go to commercials and come back skipping a few scenes.
Would Cosentyx also help bring Hashimoto thyroid disease into remission ?
AFAIK you need 500 points to unlock "downvote" functionality.
Yeah, when you finally book said venue, be sure to ask for a bowl of brown M&Ms at every table, just to be extra-sure. :)
Or is the TV just left on while no one watches? I know I have been to relatives with Cable/Satalite and it gets left on all the time even if no one is watching. Netlfix Hulu Amazon (usually) eventually check to make sure you are still there to save bandwitdth/licening fees.
Weirdly some shows on netflix don't seems to ask too play next episode having woken up 8 hours latter and a season or so farther than I was before.
Bye!!!!
Even the LA Times warned about this back in March[1]. The problem with many big government projects is that politicians love to cut ribbons and build legacies. Even the routes the projects follow are more determined by political needs than real needs. So even when costs explode it takes changes in the top levels of government to reign projects in or even cancel them.

When initially announced many critics stated that the costs would be double if not more and were constantly mocked. However it cannot be ignored that it is not just the cost to build that is important but maintenance will be in the billions. Just the rail systems many cities use across the US have deferred maintenance totaling over one hundred billion dollars combined.

With regards to nations who truly have a lot of established high speed rail, while the average Japanese traveler will have nearly two thousand miles of rail travel only about twenty percent is across high speed rail. When it comes to freight less than fiver percent moves by rail in Japan with the rest by highway and other. In the US over a third of all freight moves by rail versus less than a quarter by road.

tl;dr Politicians love their legacies and reality has little input. heavy rail systems are incredibly expensive to build out and maintain

[1] http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-bullet-train-c...
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Looks like custom skins for applications, doesn't matter on programming language at all.

IMO they look horrible because they diverge from the standard OS themes. Reminds me of 10 years ago when every application had it's on "theme skin" running on WinXP.
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If they are this desperate, prepare for net neutrality to become more important. I’ve already started to experience delays in streaming speeds and reliability. Please call or write to your representative and express concern that your internet service provider has a clear incentive to inhibit the free flow of information to your home, and that you are deeply concerned about this.
Some people think we don't need sysadmins nowadays. It's all in the cloud nowadays so we only need developers and some of them can do devops. Then you end up with systems where people all log into the same user with a shared SSH key, who has sudo root access, and access everything by IP address because who needs DNS, where there's no automated or regular patching because we just roll a new release with a new systems image because everything is ephemeral, or I mean will be ephemeral when we are done with it and in the mean time perhaps someone will run ansible on it again if they are brave since no one has run it again since system build. Oh and we are on call because we get outages since the disk space fills up since who needs to monitor and automatically manage that sort of thing if we never use persistent storage.
Given that they knew exactly which system to disable, they probably also knew that the call center will be contacted the second they broke the window, and the police could be there within minutes. I don't know how well secured anything stealable is nowadays, but I can imagine it'd take a few minutes to remove e.g. the navigation system.
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Can't say I've ever spotted anyone smoking in the supermarket in my 32 years in Europe.
It doesn't have to be "over FUSE". There are microkernels out there like QNX and L4 which solve the filesystem in userspace problem, are extremely fast, and have done this for decades. You likely have a realtime L4 instance in your phone doing the real work talking to the phone network. Heck even my Nintendo Switch has a simple microkernel OS, with an unspectacular ARM processor, and it runs games - one of the most performance sensitive applications that regular people use.
Yeah. Uploading is not legal. That's why I use Usenet!
Finding startup ideas by looking at features of big companies
If it continues like this Ryanair will be in trouble.

I'm starting to get scared when buying Ryanair tickets. Will there be a strike?
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