skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not a fan of it. You will go faster walking the bike than pedaling due to cogging so those pedals are mostly for show (or stealth.) And the $10,000 pricetag is just crazy, you could buy an electric zero fx for that. For reasonably fast speeds I would go with a kit like this from em3ev

http://em3ev.com/store/index.php?route=product/product&path=...

Select the largest battery and fastest speed option, pop that onto a hardtail MTB from craigslist and you've got a fast ebike with the same range for about $1700. Plus this is a geared motor so you don't have any drag from cogging, it just freewheels which makes pedaling and coasting much more fun.
I'm immediately reminded of the background Ze Frank has used in his web series, "A Show"[1]. In the videos, Ze regularly places a single white bookshelf with a mishmash of objects on it, mostly books. He either uses the bookshelf often enough to arrange the objects in unique ways regularly, or re-arranges it for every individual episode of A Show he records.

When I see videos like those Ze creates, I know they're staged but can't help but feel like my life, too, should be filled with knickknacks, books, clutters of inspiration.

There's some sense of: "If my environment looks like that environment, I'll be able to act like that person does." I imagine much of pop culture influences how we imagine our rooms and homes should look.

1 http://ashow.zefrank.com/
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COBOL has an even longer history processing business and financial data. Perhaps COBOL is the secret sauce that hedge funds use for high frequency trading?
I really hope one of them licenses the Johnny Cab name from total recall, and the likeness of Don Knotts. It'd be really cool to see something from the movies come to life like that and it'd probably end up a great way for other companies to sponsor taxis and get more exposure to people.
Mine is a Barclaycard Arrival+ (http://www.barclaycardarrival.com/). It is not a PIN-primary card, but it absolutely works in PIN mode at automated PoS systems.

PenFed (https://www.penfed.org/visasignaturepoints/) also offers a true chip-and-PIN EMV card in the US (again, signature priority, but I've verified the PIN works at PoS).

I don't think your JPMC card has a PIN assigned to the chip. Its PIN can only be used at an ATM to get a cash advance.
"in January" could mean "only in January" rather than "for some unspecified length of time but starting in January".
Does anyone know the case law for services that filter a person's mail for them? E.G if I employ a service that will open mail for me to weed out the junk and send me the good stuff, do my letters become business records?

What if I also employ them to (going a step further), pay any bills that come in from my bank account?

I think that this line has already been drawn.

Tangential question: since the Supreme Court recently decided "do it with software" by itself is not sufficient (by itself) for software patents, can that precedent also be used for differentiating between letters and email? E.g. - letters with software is not enough distinction for 4th amendment bypass?
Well, free for as long as the company is around.
For the next couple years:
Do you expect Google (search) to be free? Facebook? Mongodb?

Companies can build successful businesses around not charging for the core service.
> When a mutation came along that made the receptor not work, that animal was just as likely to survive as one that didn’t have the mutation.”

Then shouldn't there still be a chance of having the mutation because nothing is selecting for or against it? Instead it seems the entire species can't taste sweetness so the gene was removed. Why would that happen? I don't know of any other explanation than, "there is an advantage to not being able to taste sweetness".

EDIT: I removed "50/50" from my question. That wouldn't be the right percentage.
For the genre/topic/market in question, I'm not sure about that.
Email can not have forward secrecy. You receive it in a time, and want to read it later.
Bestsellers are the books that normally wind up in the thrift store for a buck. Ironically, it's the obscure books that wind up being pricey.
This is sadly true, on so, so many levels...
smartass, meet smartass.
Is it better for the journalists that people close the tab a second after noticing the paywall? Because most will.
That doesn't seem too surprising to me. After working on some EEG projects in the past (coincidentally within gatech) coming up with meaningful correlations that generalize across multiple subjects is very nontrivial and for a number of features you're not going to find anything of much use.

Tweets also do seem to be a poor feature to try to track, but generating labels for anything regarding EEG related problems tends to be quite fickle and very subjective.
Still not quite following. You mean why don't the companies that develop kiosks use Linux instead of Windows? I don't know, but I'd imagine the cost of an OS license is a total non-issue compared to what they're charging the client.

As a potential consumer of a kiosk, I don't particularly care what OS it's running.
That's a decisions for the journalists to make, not for you.
>Wash my hands a lot, stay indoors, avoid people.

So just a normal day
It's one thing to have external factors such as stress cause depression. Most of what I read concerning "founder depression" is along those lines. It sucks and isn't something to take lightly, even if some view it as self inflicted.

But there's an entirely different class of mental illness that's closely tied to depression; those caused by chemical imbalances in the brain. Stress often amplifies the symptoms (think of people with multiple personality disorder, schizophrenia, etc) but isn't the root cause.

I imagine the founder you're quoting has never had a close friend or family member that suffers from the latter. I get that they might not understand but it's unfortunate they hit "depression" with a sledge hammer by generalizing it so much.
At first glance at the title I thought this was going to be quotes from Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Sam Adams, John Hancock and so on about how to cope with depression.

That would've been great. I still think it's a good idea for an article.
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Well now you're just taking the argument to the opposite extreme. The company chose a business model and this add-on infringes on their rights.
I do not get it, you take someone else's work (photos), put few stupid lines on it and make some $$$?
Except that with a cloud-based product, she won't have a choice. She'll wake up a morning and the product will be different, she'll have to accept it.

Just like all the changes in gmail are not welcome by everyone, but you can't just choose to stick with the 2004 version.

Or, maybe, she'll get an email saying "we're sorry but we'll shut down the service, the company is closing". Or "we're glad to announce we're acquired by our competitor, see how you account will be migrated."
That's called "danger prime" in Europe when you apply for a V.I.E.
Important rule of ecommerce order conversions - never require an account signup / login before getting to the checkout screen from cart. And allow guest checkout. I'd take a guess you are hemorrhaging sales because of this
>I think it goes off the rails in step 2.

This went off the rails well before I started to write it. But let me push back on your thoughts.

If I am understanding Microsoft's argument correctly for this court case, they are trying to equate e-mails to letters. And, by extension, equate themselves to UPS/USPS/FedEx whathaveyou. E-mails are private correspondence, just like letters in the post. And please, correct me if I'm wrong in this assessment.

It is also a felony in the US to open someone's mail. So wouldn't that same protection exist in email? Which would mean nobody can look at an email correspondence unless they were either the sender or receiver of said email.
There are plenty of use cases were the localization efforts won't justify the returns. Like the case where a single developer is working on a weekend project. I run several websites that are English only because I lack the resources and motivation to run an international business right now. There are also plenty of successful Chinese only websites.

The website we're talking about doesn't even have any ads, it looks like a side project, not a business venture. Yet, half the comments on this thread are outright demanding he support their specific needs. Maybe he thinks 300 million Americans is a large enough audience, and he's not willing to put in any more work.
Lowering Postcard Pricing
I would, viva la cuba
Google the headline.
I haven't had to sign one for a hackathon before, but meh. It's probably just so whoever's running it can have something to show off afterwards - including in articles and etc. that could be beneficial for you if you wanna get people using whatever you end up making.
Any Christians here? Anyone following any religion? Please act
Guess it happens when the company hires a certain level of managers/MBAs.
I think get what you are trying to say, and as someone who has dealt with panic disorder, severe depression and addiction in my life, I certainly am glad that there is support, that people take it seriously and that there were some people that didn't judge me along the way. That being said, the way you are express your arguments yields some unintended consequences in logic.

I believe that your implication that a broken arm and a "broken" brain are synonymous is over simplistic if not outright wrong. There is very little debate as to the proper functioning of a healthy arm and how to return a broken one to that state. Obviously this is not true for "mental" issues. The idea that all "mental" issues are a result of something "broken" in the brain is something very much up for debate.

There are serious, fundamental open questions in neuroscience related to consciousness, memory and disease. Also the assumption that our "mental makeup" is entirely physical without any "meta-physical" component certainly isn't known. That last part maybe a bit outside the scope of neuroSCIENCE but it doesn't mean it is incorrect. I actually got my Ph.D. studying problems in neuroscience and I often found myself pondering some pretty strange ideas as possible explanations for observed phenomenon.
That doesn't sound like a fundamental difference between Baidu and Google so much as it sounds like he has a lot more authority within Baidu. A lack of red tape is not inherently a good thing- if we read some other story about some other Baidu employee who asked for and received 1000 GPUs within 24 hours for a project that ended up being completely pointless, that story would be about wastefulness and lack of oversight at Baidu, not about how refreshingly free of bureaucracy it is.

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with any of the points here- there are just many different ways of looking at these data points.
Fahrenheit is pretty easy. The key temps are 30, 60, 90:

-30 is dangerous, hibernate.
0 is frigid, wear a thick coat and warm pants.
30 is cold, wear a coat. (freezing point of water)
60 is cool, wear clothes.
90 is hot, no clothes.
120 is roasting, God help you. (melting point of humans)

Bonus Temps:

72 is room temp.
78 is time to wear shorts.
48 is time to wear shorts in cold regions*.

* That is, in any place where people don't understand why finding outlets to plug in electric cars is a problem. Sure, you can't currently plug them in at the store, but your garage has power. What's that you say? Well, of course many people live in apartments and don't have garages, but they can just use the outlets in the parking lot. What, you don't have outlets in your parking lot? Well where do you plug in your gas powered car? You know, for the heater? To warm it up enough to start when it's 30 below? What tropical island do you live on?
At risk of sounding cynical, I would find an entry titled "The Medium Blog Entry" even more compelling.

It is a platform made for entries to be authored quickly and cheaply. The droll full-page lead image sets it apart, the color palette muted and neutral, simultaneously making it exactly like every other Medium blog entry you've seen lately. Many intermix videos and viral media to tether off of other's fame.

The air of grandeur of the platform allowing people to post with pomposity while simultaneously sharecropping. To post judgmental observations by carefully cherry picking the evidence.

Medium. You and your predictable blogs.

As an aside, it's curious that this entry talks about "suburbs" a number of times. Most condo and apartment rooms have the same 8' ceilings, the same muted palette, and virtually identical construction. But...you know...suburbs and temporary workers, or something.
especially because it is a near shore, I have worked for several years with Costa Rica, and the selling point is the time zone, another is language, and thirdly culture, CR is a very American country. I would need to research the community in Cuba and understand its needs and desires before i would start working relationships, another question is money transactions and accountability. Things would have to be paid post delivery and the price would have to be cheap enough to entice Americans to take the financial institutional risks.
This seems much sillier than the anthropic principle, however. (And I've had a professor thunder at me that the anthropic principle itself is silly, anyway.) It's not as though we know of any nuclear-capable civilizations besides our own.
I've rented a bunch of places in my life and rental rooms almost always looked pretty bare. Landlords do not want tenants painting their own colors for those same reasons. Tenants that frequently move each year do not accumulate furniture/furnishings because they are too annoying to move year after year and get damaged. You can only speculate how big a factor rental vs ownership plays in determining if rooms look like this.
This blog post provides some good, straight-forward information about epidemiology, clinical characteristics, and infection control recommendations for Ebola: http://haicontroversies.blogspot.com/2014/07/ebola-hemorrhag... (It's written by an infectious disease physician.)

"Contact and airborne precautions are indicated for suspected and confirmed cases" refers to:

- Contact: wearing disposable gowns and gloves to interact with the patient

- Airborne: putting the patient in a negative pressure room (to avoid spreading air from the room around the hospital), and wearing a N-95 respirator or PAPR (http://www.3m.com/Product/information/Powered-Air-Purifying-...) in addition to the contact precaution stuff.

Source: http://www.cdc.gov/HAI/settings/outpatient/basic-infection-c...

That gives you a sense of what you'd need to do to safely interact/care for someone with Ebola. However, remember that several doctors treating Ebola have come down with the disease during the current epidemic. Hopefully (for the rest of us), there was some sort of infection control lapse that lead to their infection, rather than these infection control measures not being sufficient.
When you restart, it would be disabled. There are two ways around the block. The first has been mentioned above - load unpacked extension.

The second is much more of a hassle and didn't work for me. It involves using group policy to whitelist the extension.
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You always voice the same concerns, I always hear the same concerns. It's crazy to me that people get hung up on the liability issue.

1) Liability is assessed exactly as it is now. We use the same system to determine which car was at fault. If it's your car, you are at fault. Someone will insure a self-driving car, especially once the safety record is established. Your current provider might not, but someone will. If you were using the self-driving system improperly (e.g. in weather it can't handle well in yet), you may also be subject to different rules or even criminal prosecution.

Vendors may also be willing to pay for that insurance as part of a monthly fee just to shut people up over this very easy-to-solve "concern."

If no one is willing to insure your self-driving car, I'll start that business. I could charge a premium for a service that costs me less to provide!

2) People seem to think self-driving cars should be perfect before they're introduced. They won't be. Neither are we. It just has to be better (under given weather/traffic conditions) than we are to save lives. We'll have steering wheels in the cars for a long time which you'll have to use when the car can't safely drive itself.

The Wired article is just clickbait using the fear angle. We face the same decisions every day, and "unavoidable" accidents will be even more rare than it is now as this technology evolves.
This is great news for the PHP community, and I for one applaud their effort. Contrary to what many HN hipsters seems to believe, PHP is quite a capable language, and HHVM / Hack is really pushing things forward.

* Hack introduces type hinting, imo the major lacking part in PHP.

* HHVM introduces speed to php. On a personal project calculating perlin noise, I got about 8x speedup on HHVM.

* The specification helps pave the way for more implementations of PHP.
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You should also check out Moo[2] and Mouse[1]. They both try to be simpler versions of Moose without the compile-time (and runtime) performance issues of Moose. They do that by dropping some things like metaobject protocols and other things that are great for introspection but may not be something you really care too much about. They both try hard to keep syntactically the same as Moose when possible so that you can most of the time use them all interchangeably.

[1]http://search.cpan.org/~gfuji/Mouse-2.3.0/lib/Mouse.pm
[2]http://search.cpan.org/~haarg/Moo-1.005000/lib/Moo.pm
Something else occurred that removed those that didn't have that mutation.
I agree. I've battled with all types of "mental problems" throughout my life and honestly, the poeple around me that cared accepted that I needed help well before I did.
what about internet access? my understanding is that is very limited
For the motherboard+processor I would predict at most $200 for the quad core and $350 for the 8-core version.
How about one that only runs ads for a true universal healthcare system in America?
Aren't there still trade restrictions? I wouldn't inherently be opposed, anymore than anywhere else, but I wouldn't want to step on legal landmines.
While OkCupid plays with your heart, researchers are in love with the data
In these niche markets, to succeed you need to understanding the business well. Having something that is technically good is secondary.

Sure, if you can nail both that's better, but the "domain expert with some vague computing knowledge" beats the "technical expert with some vague domain knowledge" any day.

Add to that the fact that tech people often want to work on sexy projects like social/mobile/bigdata/api/whatever, it doesn't help bringing quality products to these users.
What made you go back to plain javascript?
The future of urban transit?
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>Hack introduces type hinting, imo the major lacking part in PHP.

Hack extends PHP's type hints, it doesn't add them. It also makes PHP statically typed.
My co-op’s luddite response to Airbnb and my solution
Ask HN: Have 1 offer. Waiting on another
I recently decided to seek a job where I can grow as an engineer.

I interviewed at Company A (a top company in the bay area) for their core team, a stretch because that team's work is not in line w/ my professional experience. I was interested because I would be able to grow more on that team. No offer for that team but was invited to interview for another team doing work I'm familiar with.

FWIW at the time of the first interviews, they asked if I was looking elsewhere. I was not. However, after not getting an offer for the 1st team, but before interviewing w/ the 2nd team, I approached Startup B.

I didn't want to put all my eggs in one basket w/ Company A, but more importantly, at Startup B I would be building developer tools and working on real computer science challenges and w/ multiple languages. There is more room for growth w/ Startup B, but like w/ the core team at Company A, it's a stretch.

Next step w/ Startup B is to wait until they open source 2 libraries in a few days, then submit pull requests to improve them as the final hiring criteria.

Yesterday I interviewed w/ the other team at Company A, crushed it, and they are prepared to make an offer.
FWIW, I planned on telling the recruiter at Company A about Startup B yesterday after the interviews, but they were unavailable.

I don't want to accept an offer and re-neg, since that is unethical. I don't want to accept it immediately because I am already talking w/ Startup B. It would be unethical to start talking w/ Startup B and then accept another offer before completing the process. All offers being equal, the best position is where I will grow the most as a developer, which AFAICT may be Startup B. This isn't a judgement at all on Company A. Startup B simply presents more novel challenges.

How do I best handle this situation when I talk to the recruiter from Company A about the offer?
Linked resource is first rate; tone of comment not so much.
Corporations are legal entities and don't have qualities like "loyalty", so it doesn't even make sense to anthropomorphize them. The people that work at corporations, including managers and executives, certainly can have those sorts of qualities. Whether or not they do is another story, and that's going to vary widely from one organization to the next. Loyalty is something that's given to and accepted from people, not legal entities. I have absolutely felt degrees of loyalty to some employers and a lack of it to others.
I stand corrected.

PHP does not have type hint for their internal datatypes (int, float, string). Only array is supported. Type hinting for your custom datatypes is supported, when used as function arguments.

Also hack introduces type hint for function return type.
Incidentally, if you're looking for a niche software opportunity, you could do worse than appointment software for dentists. I spent a fair amount of time speaking to dental practice managers about that specific product idea (I was teaching myself to place cold calls, not really interested in it).

Almost all dental office managers I spoke to 1) used something called Eaglesoft (www.eaglesoft.net) and 2) hated it.
"rather than these infection control measures not being sufficient."

Per my understanding of things, that seems frighteningly unlikely[1]. As I understand it, there are a substantially greater portion of health workers getting sick than in previous outbreaks, and those health workers are not tied to a particular location. If that's the case (and mind you, this is all very much Nth hand what-I-got-from-the-radio stuff - either of those could certainly not be the case) then it seems to follow that probably this strain of ebola has some attribute that makes the recommended countermeasures inadequate (at least the countermeasures recommended for deployment in the field, which may or may not be this set of countermeasures).

[1]: That isn't to say "tremendously unlikely", just "unlikely enough to be frightening."
No, the "deep web" is real in the sense that there are billions of network addresses that contain content or services which are not accessible through the 'standard' discovery services (Google). In many ways things like Usenet are still part of it as there are netnews groups, and they get used, but there isn't a lot of indexing going on. Further there are at least two 'separated' NNTP type networks that are invitation only.

So it is a "collection" of secret societies, each with their own quirks. As a collection is constitutes a 'web' and perhaps the only commonality is the desire to not be part of the "public" web.

[1] http://begthequestion.info/