skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about the football players who sell their image rights? They have to stay in the UK to play.
Always love seeing stuff from my alma mater on the front page of HN!
I am all for legalizing marijuana, but the extent to which it appears to be infiltrating the this generations culture is a bit disturbing.

I have seen all too many people who seem to find an identity in pot. All activities and games they play are centered around pot.

Much like alcohol, but it is even harder to participate if you are not one of them. At least with alcohol, I can grab my cider, pretend to also be drinking 'hard liquor' and be a part of the event. Also, alcohol parties always need a couple of sober people as nannys. (This is specific to college aged people)

With pot heads, even if I don't partake in smoking, I am going to come out smelling of weed and inhaling 2nd hand smoke. At least pot heads have good taste in music.

In conclusion, as legal restrictions to marijuana are lifted, now would be a great time to put the role of marijuana in the societal context under scrutiny. It isn't as bad as alcohol, but it isn't as innocuous as some would like us to believe either.
I don't think that pay is anywhere near Bay area rates
Ask HN: Contractors or Freelancers do you bring in your own team / sub contract?
Sorry for the long title.

I am just about to venture into the world of contracting for the second time and I would like to think my personal network is pretty good. I attend a plethora of meetups and networking events within the programming domain. As we all know there is quite a large demand for developers, DevOps and architects and I get presented with contracts and fulltime roles quite a lot as I assume you all do. Do you ever take in your own team to a new project or subcontract out projects or contracts to your network and make some money off the back of it?

Thanks
It's an interesting discussion, but doesn't the argument mean that the problem is ill-defined? I mean, the simplest solution is to walk away from some literature if you don't like it. Literature exists to provide enjoyment, both for the author and the reader.
Electrocution is death by electricity. A shock is different from being electrocuted (to be pedantic, sorry).
Technology (Bluetooth beacons/app) is being developed to help stop some of these tragedies:

https://thevitalsapp.com/

"The Vitals™ app enables safer community interactions by allowing individuals with visible and invisible conditions and disabilities to create and share a personalized digital profile with authorized first responders via a secure, mobile app – improving real-time communication, reducing the risk of misunderstandings, and promoting greater independence."

A number of cities are piloting this.
I do, and I don't think I'm the only one. There is no hint of the bars continuing below the axis, and the effective result is the impression that the relative difference is larger than it really is.

Even the gradients seem poorly chosen, the bar gets to full white by the bottom. My intuitive first impression is that if the gradient cannot continue below the chosen cut off point, then the bar cannot continue either.
There are a lot of problems with the police on the US, but what you are saying is too extreme. Let's say that someone is robbing a store, committing arson or raping someone. A police officer catches them and then the criminal runs away. Naturally the police for first shout "Stop". But, if the criminal continues to run what should the police officer do? They could chase after the criminal but let's say that the criminal is faster or knows the area better. Do you think that the police officer should let the rapist escape?

IMO the goal of the police is to stop criminals using the minimum force needed. But, if required, the police should be able to use their gun.
Yes, we figured it out years ago. Instead of spending a fortune on manned space flight, spend the money on developing advanced robotics to explore space. In addition, the technology will be usable on earth in manufacturing, etc.

We’ve had this discussion several times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4315339

We can iterate faster, making less costly mistakes, and blanket the solar system with robots.

It took about a decade for humans to get to the moon once America entered the space race. Everything is taking several times longer now.
Doing so means compromising the TPM on the BMC module which is much harder to do. It's not something that can be done downstream in the supply chain, as this attack is purported to have been.
To be fair, if you see someone wandering naked and confused outside their home they probably need help. Some well-meaning people may call a non-emergency line to get that person help, rather than out of fear.
Numerical Tic-tac-toe (1990) [pdf]
I'm fairly sure that an electrocution is specifically a death by electric shock, although I suppose at this point we're just arguing semantics.
show bobs and vagene
Port it to ARM == Worldwide success.

Underpowered cheap *Pi boards (the ones often left rotting in a drawer after being swapped with newer ones) are just asking for it to build kiosks and other low footprint embedded appliances.
> Your visibility expires after a few minutes.

Last I checked, it was 6 hours. You can clear it manually, but that might not be obvious to a first-time user who clicked through the explanatory pop-up without reading. (Or maybe that was added later.)
Lambda School Announces $14M Series A Led by GV
It has Alexa built-in. Does that mean that Facebook isn't going to try to compete with Siri/Alexa/Cortana/Google ?

Or that Alexa has won the home automation already ?
I am commenting only on tax avoidance (legal optimization), not tax evasion (illegal, don't know much about that).

What exactly is untrue in my posts? Happy to learn more. My posts are quite generic for the topic, since we're on public internet forum but they come from my knowledge on this topic (which might be obviously invalid).
Consciously repeating a lie requires intent.
Consciously telling half truth requires intent.
Something I read or heard on a podcast was that a lot of the trading stratgies don't last forever so I guess you could say having enough brain power to keep creating performing strategies. However, I am not in the HFT world and I could be totally wrong.
Canada and New Zealand, possibly.
Ask HN: Systems you think should be decentralized?
Maybe that's because the story in the linked article happens to a vanishingly small proportion of the populace but life under the Soviet Union was terrible for a huge proportion.
> Sarno's theory is that [...]

What do scientists say about that? Is there any research regarding that? If it's so well working solution, why doctors seem to be not aware of that?

I don't have back pain, I'm just interested in topic.
or VB.net (relevant to VBA users if they want to move 20 years forward at little learning cost)!
No, you CAN NOT buy citizenship in Switzerland, not even in Zug. You can however get a permit to stay that is renewed every year, if you're wealthy (defined as: sustain life here without the need of work). The threshold is way lower than 5 million and is decided case-by-case.
Can We 'Predict' the Future of Religion
In fairness...

>a complicated network of genetic branches...

kind of implies a tree.

I haven't read the other papers, but, at it's root, the paper that is the subject of this posting seems to imply that the root species came much, much earlier than we typically believe. I'd need more access to the genetic data they are basing that conclusion on to know if they are right? But it sounds right. Why could sapiens not have risen in Africa millions of years earlier? (At the same time, we have to be careful. Sounding right is not how we should be evaluating scientific theories.)
as a side note, keep in mind that with the option of downloading your entire messaging history, it will be sent as an unencrypted zip file to your email address. a surveillance dragnet dream come true.
Do you imagine that Apple has finite engineering resources? The last I heard was it is the richest company on earth. They’re just satisfied with the status quo in which Google does all of their security work and nobody cares because of decades-old misperceptions about Mac vs Windows malware safety.
Fair enough, thanks for the reply.

I guess I should say, it was really bad for me so I don't support it. The same could be said in the other direction though, if it was really bad for me I'm sure it was really bad for others. So maybe it wasn't universally a step in the right direction or a step in the wrong direction.

I suspect it was bad for people who were healthy and earn enough money to be disqualified from any sort of tax break or assistance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_spread_function

The light is blurred, with a fairly predictable pattern, so if you fit a function to the shape, you can find the peak of the function and that is the most likely center position for the point source.
The term "electrocution" means "death or serious injury caused by electric shock", "electric shock" being the thing a taser is designed to create.

They're obviously not designed to cause death or serious injury so in this case saying tasers are designed to electrocute people is probably not appropriate (depending on how cynical you are about the western world's increasingly militarised police forces). It's far more accurate to say a taser is designed to deliver a "non-lethal electrical shock", and make a note of the absurdity of expecting non-medical personnel to consistently deliver painful electrical impulses to a person without killing them.

At any rate; the amount of energy the taser attempted to deliver was exactly the same as every other taser; however, due to the significantly decreased resistance of moist skin, the voltage drop across the body was a lot lower than the "normal person" the taser is designed to hurt therefore more energy made it to the victim's heart, thus killing him.

... This comment got a little more political than I expected. Sorry about that.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-chi...

Police try to keep peace downtown, along lake by 'directing' large groups of troublesome teens to express trains

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2012-06-13-chi-pol...

Chicago police have released surveillance photos of a group of teenagers who they say attacked a man after stealing his wife’s iPhone on the Red Line subway downtown over the weekend. The couple were on a train near State and Lake streets about 10:20 p.m. Saturday when the woman dropped her iPhone and one of the teens picked it up, police said.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/ct-xpm-2011-06-06-ct-e...

The flash mob phenomenon has taken an alarmingly dark turn on Chicago's Near North Side. Teenage posses, some apparently assembled via social media networks, are visiting chaos on retail and tourist hot spots in and around the Gold Coast, Streeterville and Michigan Avenue's Magnificent Mile.
How international the workforce is there? and How hard would it be for a -non religious- middle eastern family to work/live there? from my experience in Germany it seemed with the exception of Berlin and Cologne people won't view you as an equal in the workplace until you work very hard to prove otherwise.
I highly recommend clicking through to the second post in the series. It discusses optimizing the models -- an area where I've had some success and a lot of failure. There are some really complicated tradeoffs to be managed, and it can be incredibly hard to measure whether you've made a genuine optimization or whether you've accidentally tipped the solver into a happy path for one particular instance of the problem you're trying to solve. Some solvers use PRNGs, and you have to be careful to try enough seeds to get a clear picture of the solver's performance. This can be challenging when the time to solution is exponentially distributed with a mean of several hours. The most important thing OP does, in my opinion, is to solve a smaller (but not otherwise simpler) version of the problem. This is crucial if you're going to find a tractable representation -- or rather, if you're going to eliminate completely bogus representations of the problem.
> Except in America.

That's the thing, something in the US doesn't square. Either you have the police being first responders and focused on deescalation and help, or you have some other agency responsible for such calls where violence has absolutely no place as a solution.
I kins of agree. If people are defacating in the streets then the solution is public bathrooms and not jailing people.
Flaskr TDD (Intro to Flask and Test-Driven Development) – Updated to Python 3.7
For someone leaving Google he sure did spend a lot of words telling everyone how awesome Google is.
Found Scripting.com (1999) searching for a scripting language -> JoS (Joel on software forums) -> pg essays ~> ycombinator a thing ~> Reddit -> news.ycombinator.com (was not called hacker news then)
We do? Maybe a tiny fringe does. Most tech workers want to know the same thing nytimes employees do. The salary and benefits. That's it. That's what workers care about at the end of the day.

Does the nytimes tech team ask "Why are we spamming HN everyday for"? I doubt it. They just do what they are paid to do.

The same thing for all tech workers and all workers in general. The construction worker building a luxury tower isn't asking "why are we building this for". He just wants to get paid and paid well.

"Do no evil" is no more real in the tech world as "fair and balanced" or "all the news fit to print" is real in the news world. It's just empty slogans for PR.
No, it is not just the risk inherent to their job.

In France, the police officer, since the Paris attack, got more and more power, and can now carry their work firearm outside of service.

Since this decision has been made, the number of people shot by a police officer (in or out of service) has increase by +54% in one year.

But their job didn't get any more dangerous, there is no significant increase in firearm possession or, globally, criminality between 2016 and 2017. Nothing at least that would be close to a +54% increase in one year.

But, on the other end, officer are more and more protected and usually don't even end up in court, even when they blatantly violated the police instruction.

This tend to show one thing, that I thing have been proven time and time again: Give more power to someone and none of the responsibilities that should come with it, and you get people who will abuse their power over and over again.

EDIT: Source for the +54% (in French): https://www.lemonde.fr/police-justice/article/2018/06/27/le-...

EDIT2: The +54% is the increase in firearm usage by the police, not the number of people shot.
For work we find the technology community more diverse and deeper. Also for internationals choosing to move to somewhere attractive Spain offers a great balance of lifestyle and work. I would argue Lisbon is sort of the exception in Portugal; and even then it is a bit limited with no real domestic scene more people seeking low cost or nearshoring.
I hate to be the one to ask this because a clock-less CPU sounds like such a neat idea... but wouldn't it also open up a whole other world of timing attacks? (I'm very happy to be enlightened as to how it would not).
Why did you link to archive.org when the original article is still live on Ars Technica.
The leading causes of death for officers almost every year are car accidents and medical emergencies such as heart attack, etc. Death as a result of being killed by a suspect is always 2nd or 3rd.
> Standing next to an unknown car on the highway is the most dangerous position they'll be in that day

Who in their right mind stands right next to a car on a highway? Seriously, driving to the next exit or rest spot would be far safer. Didn't they get taught that at police school?
I did my entire PhD and five years of a career without using a desktop computer whatsoever, using a laptop instead, so this isn't true is it.
Is it going to be enabled in all countries that allow access Facebook? Some Middle East countries have banned free VOIP services.
Tragic? Haha...wow.
Aye. I care slightly less about this from my perceived threat model (if you go into the business then you know what's coming to you, whereas your end users are a lot less likely to understand the risks) but it's still worth thinking about.
> (super annoying)

Also found it very annoying using it. Coupled with the multi-whatever repos, that they make backwards incompatible changes, and they use IPFS paths in some of their imports (iirc) made for a non-welcoming library experience.
https://patch.com/illinois/chicago/chicago-among-most-conges...

Chicago ranked No. 8 in the country and No. 22 in the world, with each driver spending on average 57 hours in congestion in 2017.
Hey Koen, congrats on you and Corno making front-page on HN!

I can definitely confirm for others reading this that it indeed has been something like 10 years in the making; I was working with a prototype of it 8-9 years ago and found those data models so nice that I actually reimplemented the core idea in a repository on GitHub, though it didn't really go anywhere except for my own web site. I have also been able to reimplement it in TypeScript more recently, so that there is a non-Turing-complete subset of algebraic data types (though maybe I'll be able to add a fixpoint operator, who knows) as runtime objects with highly specific TypeScript types that are inferred from the functions you use to construct them. So then a parametric TypeScript construct,

ValueOfType<typeof mySchema>

embraces values that match the schema that you just specified. You can use this trick to write functions like

myHTTPRouter.get('/objects/by-id/:objectguid', {
params: {
objectguid: {
type: 'guid'
}
},
async handler(params) {
// inside of here, params has type {objectguid: string},
// and VSCode knows this, because params is ValueOfType<schema> where
// the schema is specified in the `params` key above.
return response.json({success: true})
}
})

It's a really fun perspective on programming to have these schemas available at both runtime and compile-time, very DRY.
Random google searches. This is how I find out about a lot of things actually

I was really interested in learning more about ML and math. I normally run queries like "Best way to Learn X vs ____". Normally, I get a lot of reddit articles. Sometimes quora or stackexchange. But hackernews came up a few times. Was curious and the rest was history
Oof, it takes several seconds to load on Android. I think it's particularly heavy JS rendering the page and the PDF. I do recall iOS JS being particularly bad under certain loads.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/02/28/a-summer-vacation-in-ch...
The culture war in action. I don't know why, but Mozilla is one of the few corporations that has fully embraced the toxic ideology of "diversity" and "feminism".

So much, that it will probably perish of it.

Their corporate culture has been overtaken by what one could call toxic womanhood.

I want to emphasize this with a quote by famous thinker Hannah Arendt:

"I was actually old-fashioned. I have always been of the opinion that there are certain occupations which do not suit women, if I may put it that way. It does not look good for a woman to give orders. She should try not to get into such positions if she wants to retain female qualities. I do not know whether I am right or wrong about this. I myself have somehow, more or less unconsciously - or let's say better: more or less consciously - directed myself accordingly. The problem itself played no role for me personally. You see, I just did what I wanted to do."

This quote to highlight how the cultural perception of reality can change within a mere 60 or 70 years.

The culture war has progressed to such a state that I don't even know if such matters are allowed to be discussed here anymore, because the "progressive forces" don't want to accept that there is anyone that could reasonably be against their ideology, that is, the counter-ideology gets suppressed.
> Birds today share same genes as tyrannosaur rex

Really? Surely this claim would require the sequencing of the T-Rex genome, which I'm guessing is an impossibility.
Only smack in the city center. The area where I live is average rent around 900€, and just a 15 min bike ride from the heart of the city.
Bitcoin Cash Contentious Forks Outcome: Deficient UX and Double-Spend Attempts
It's annoying that it doesn't clearly specify a feature comparison with a device like the Amazon Echo Show. I don't want yet another screen in a room that can't be multi-functional. Recipes, TV, third party music, browsing etc. etc.
Back when people could be organized for a protest...
Does this actually solve a problem people have? The biggest problem with video calling right now is that the networks are garbage, not that I can’t have a video call while doing something else.

Just another gimmick Facebook is trying to make themselves more than just an app.
Cloudera and Hortonworks merger means Hadoop’s influence is declining
The Reuter’s article [0] this points to gives more info. Basically the judge felt the plaintiff was unrepresentative of the claimed class and any benefit would accrue to plaintiff and their lawyers while also finding Google’s action wrongful.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-google-court/lond...
Fwiw, I went to a free Fado concert at the big castle that overlooks Lisbon. While I was there, the city hosted a Guns and Roses concert. Additionally, there was live music all over the place on the street. It's by far one of the best cities in Europe for climate, beach and culture.
Graph databases are much more powerful and a better fit for our modeling language. However, the platform can create a live SQL database mirror if you need that kind of thing.
500k EUR (roughly 575k USD)
If you don't mind some growing pains, Nashville TN. The tech scene is growing very rapidly so there's no shortage of work, and the population is well educated. Vanderbilt is here as well as other excellent universities nearby.
Winters are very mild, living is cheaper than most places, and the nightlife is great.
The anti-virality features are designed to limit the spreading anti government messages.
Larger groups require one leader with verified id. He is responsible for the messages posted in group when government want someone to be sued
> Nobody lives downtown because there are no supporting services downtown like grocery stores or anything like that. You 110% need a car to live there.

Is this by design? Or is there an opportunity for grocery stores, etc. to address a city planning deficit?
Ceremony and tradition, parades and costume, medals and ribbons exist for what reason?
Depends on the point of view. For example you can swear for a very long time and not repeat a word :)
It's really cool how they solved it without breaking backward compatibility or the interface: unless specifically requested, mandoc(1) will work as before, but the overall capability of the software has been enhanced. That's what I call system engineering.
It makes me sad to see that is the current culture of US police force. It would interesting to know why and how the European and American cultures have grown apart so considerably on this matter. I think in 19th and 20th century we were both pretty blood-thirsty although I'm not sure were the American police force then already considerably more accustomed to use lethal force. Now it seems that it's such an integral part of the American police officer's identity that the stereotype already feeds itself by people expecting them to behave that way and them in turn behaving as they expect them.

Of course in the US the people have more guns so police for sure has more reason to fear for getting shot but the use of lethal force still seems excessive.
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WHY TEDROS ADHANOM GHEBREYESUS a CORRUPT HEALTH OFFICIAL
Most likely, it will be officially sold only in a handful or first-world countries, like hardware from Google and Amazon is.