skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deaf restaurant Signs offers edible lessons in sign language
Words Are Dying
In the UK, you typically sign a waiver, which says you may be require to work more than the statutory 37.5 hours per week.
From The Wikipedia entry on mobile phones and driving: "The NHTSA considers distracted driving to include some of the following as distractions: other occupants in the car, eating, drinking, smoking, adjusting radio, adjusting environmental control, reaching for object in car, and cell phone use."

When I was a kid and my dad was driving and had to make a left turn or perform some other maneuver that required his full attention, he'd ask everyone in the car to be quiet. This was a man that raced automobiles as a hobby and worked in professional racing at the highest levels his entire life.
Are there any studies showing the same about radios? I remember reading articles suggesting as much.
The site is specifically referencing Justcoin as the exchange.

https://justcoin.com/

I'm sure there will be more following suit; early adopters are first out the gate.

I myself have been on the forums and the exchange rate is pretty consistent with what's happening. From yesterday to today alone things went from 1000STC/$1.00USD to 1000STC/$2.50USD and I see a few folks going higher than $3.00USD. Sellers have smartened up as well and seem to be pretty keen to the supposed "market rate".
Bitcoin Quotes (from financial, political, business leaders)
Why I am leaving the best job I ever had
You're assuming they a: notice and pay attention to the road, and b: they're familiar with how to drive, so know that is a trickier maneuver, and c: that they know how well you drive, so can contextualize a pause based on your ability.

nope, it doesn't happen in real life.
I can imagine a society where you could actually have "nothing to hide," but that's not the society we live in.
Yes. Same parent company. The parent company was renamed to Twitch earlier this year. Twitch was a part of the justin.tv site, but it became popular enough to warrant its own site. Twitch.tv continued to boom while justin.tv stagnated much like the other streaming sites.
Name.com listed on the NASDAQ with Rightside yesteday
> A Map is not type safe, at least, not the default result of a JSON.decode in Dart, actually, the result is a dynamic Map. I don't know what your point is.

A dynamic type does not give you type safety, and neither does a dynamic Map. A dynamic type might give you a little more type safety than a map, but invalid member access would give you as much headache in both situations. So why even bother dragging in so much complexity for this when you can just write your own code?

> It is not a problem, it is a must have.

You say that as if it's a fact. Have I not put enough on the table to demonstrate that what you're saying is 1) an opinion 2) a minority opinion 3) is ignorant of the associated complexities 4) demonstrably not necessary for web applications?

> The associated "complexity" was overcome many years ago with Generics (or templates), Dart has this, so, there is no excuse.

Please explain how generics helps in overcoming this complexity. I'm genuinely interested.
Let me do this via text instead of email, and I'm in.
Hmm. Great suggestion. Will add.
(Edited to be less sure.)

A third reason might be the argument from market power stemming from the fact that if you can personally create $10 million of cold hard cash value using nothing but a bit of time in front of a computer, and with no long-term detrimental effects on you of any kind, then the fact that you are minting money creates a seller's market (just as there will always be a seller's market for legal currency), and it [might be an argument for] allowing you to work whatever hours you wanted - or sleep in the office, be offered legal drugs, whatever. if you didn't like it you could go somewhere else.

it's very different if you were cleaning staff at any of the same companies. they "need" more protection than you do!

Edit: from your responses it is clear that many people it applies to should also be owed overtime. I was just throwing out one "logical reason".

In addition I've thought of the crazy hours residents and doctors put in - so that high earnings / value add might not guarantee that much market power, if the conditions are the same at all hospitals.

on the other hand much of computer labor is absolutely in a seller's market (from the point of view of the employee) and clearly does not need the same level of protection. there is a lot in many workplaces that a "computer professional" wouldn't put up with for a second.
Parse for PHP: A Fractal of Rad Design
Horse riding skills
Yep, I usually wind up using Uber to get from my apartment to the bars, and then there's enough cabs in the street outside the bars that it's faster to just hail one to get home.
Agreed, I don't want to sound like a hater but I think that the product is so much more than just a piece of software.

There are also thousands of extensions for Magento.

What about looking at the gap in between a PayPal button and something like Magento?
> Long series tend to become less and less interesting, and weirder as they go along

Malazan Book of the Fallen. ~3.325.000 words (200-400k per book) and the best series I've read in my life. Not the easiest to read with pretty complex story lines, somewhat weird timelines (see the Chronological order [1]) and certainly not the easiest book for a non-native speaker (never did I have to look up that many words) but rewarding and gripping until the very end.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/sXBYA.jpg
Within the realm of tested drugs, then sure, you won't find any with that mortality rate. But this drug had never been given to a human. There's no safe way to predict the exact effect it will have, and there is a realistic chance it could kill the intended recipient. This wasn't even trial medication, it hadn't reached that stage yet.
What is type in a Ruby context?
I agree. Navdy should round up all the people in Werner Herzog's texting documentary, ask them to endorse their product, and post that video on their website.
Videos with more than 10 views were downloaded. In addition, many videos that people asked to be saved were downloaded.
Goodbye from Justin.tv – Justin.tv Shuts Down
People looking for audio access to textbooks and other printed materials should check out

https://www.learningally.org/

They're a non-profit that provides volunteer-read mp3s of text books and other popular reading materials. Last I checked, they received a government grant that let them give away memberships to blind/dyslexic students.

I used to read for them - knowing thousands of people have used the thousands of pages I read to learn is really satisfying.
The Modern Application Architecure and The Demise of the Full Stack Developer
I had this happen to me at a company that I owned in the past. I got the DOL to chop the total amount due in half and then got them to allow us to pay it out over 4 or 5 years. (All without a lawyer btw...)

Edit: Reason for downvotes?
The Big Nerd Ranch books are fantastic. Definitely check them out. I know they'll get something out for Swift sometime soon, but the iOS programming one would be a great foundation even with Objective-C as the sample code.

Some of the bootcamps will do financing. I'm against financing things that depreciate, but if you can get a decent job out of, it's not a terrible option.
It seems this would be bypassed by letting the IDE hit the DB to fetch table information.
I'm a little sad because most of these issues (as I understand your description them) are already fixed or well underway :( It's probably too late for your specific case but I'd like to reply anyway since a lot of this is "conventional wisdom" based on old information. Full disclosure: I'm the product owner for Puppet and before I worked here, I ran it in large-scale production since 2008.

Not quite sure what you mean by 'native support', but gem and pip package providers are built-in. there are high-quality modules for git (puppetlabs-vcsrepo), virtualenv (stankevich-python), npm (puppetlabs-nodejs), etc -- it's a design decision to move much of this into modules and out of core so they can iterate faster.

Totally agree that loops make many language constructs much easier, and there's looping in the rewritten parser -- https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/3.6/reference/experiments... -- which will be on by default in the next semver major.

While the model definitely wants you to describe relationships between resources if you need to send subscribe/refresh messages, there's toggle-able ordering algorithms that will let you run them in manifest order -- I blogged about it here: http://puppetlabs.com/blog/introducing-manifest-ordered-reso...

The parser and evaluator are undergoing a total rewrite to be an expression based grammar, which is explicitly to make better definition around the language and eliminate the gotchas -- https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/3.6/reference/experiments... (this will also be the default on the next semver major)

--eric0 / @ahpook
At one time I had good luck with a streaming app called Bambuser. I switched from Ustream because the latter had issues (at the time) dealing with poor connectivity.
You might change your mind if you ever have the opportunity to rent a car that has a HUD - having just the navigation directions on the windshield is great, your eyes never leave the road.
>'I'm sure there are political reasons, but it is very hard for me to understand why agencies purposefully keep the data obscure.'

I can understand / attest to both of the following stances by experience:

Thinking idealistically, it's a basic deterrent against lazy, disingenuous, 'data out of context' arguments. By keeping that data obscure you're building in a selection process. Requiring potential detractors to put forth even the small effort of cutting, pasting and sorting will deter many before they begin.

Thinking cynically, it's a basic deterrent against uncovering widespread lies and corruption. Keeping the data obscure will encourage the people who might uncover your schemes to look for easier, juicier targets.

>'Opening data stimulates innovation around that data.'

It's an enabler sure, but I'm not so sure about a stimulator.

As best I can tell, most FOIA requests primarily serve the lawyers hired by various agencies to sue each other or the Government in the process of contract grievances.

>'It benefits society by allowing analysis to provide value, and improves the economy through the sale of related products.'

It certainly could, but it's easy to forget that many people working in Government are just as self-interested as anyone else. They're no more interested in the big picture than the next man. More importantly, no one below the level of perhaps a local Mayor and his/her lieutenants have their jobs tied to economic performance or general well-being of their constituents.
Show HN: A global database of mental associations to spark ideas
As I've put in my other comment elsewhere I got hit with a DOL action many years ago. It definitely wasn't willful but we were running afoul of some hidden rule that even some lawyers had never heard of and didn't know about. One employee complained, they investigated and audited, and we got fined and had to pay back wages. I'm not commenting on why or what linkedin did only providing perspective that it can happen for less nefarious reasons.
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To qoute the page:
"Did NSA use this trick when creating SHA-1 in 1995?

We believe this is unlikely, for

- Our results rely on state-of-the-art differential cryptanalysis research, as of 2014, based on techniques that were only publicly developed since around 2004"

I'm not a cryptographer but I wonder how they truly can believe that's unlikely since it's entirely possible for the NSA to be 10 years ahead of what was "publicly developed".
Also can be phrased as: "Rarely used, low-level Socket class intentionally doesn't perform automatic SSL certificate verification, and is documented as such."
Yes. It's also old news. The new news here is that FBI used regular warrants to infect everyone who visited a certain website with malware, which I think is inexcusable under the 4th amendment - and common sense.
Great product. Surely a matter of time before buyout from a big car company.
It's safe to assume such well funded attackers will use zero day.

You could force all your traffic through Tor with a router. That way your compromised end point won't easily reveal your public IP. The attacker would be forced to generate some traffic they could fingerprint or use the microphone and camera to spy on you.
How a Tiny Chunk of DNA Can Keep Two Species Apart
Fantastic. I feel like I could send this to my family who are clueless about cryptos but fans of Harry Potter. Now all we need is for someone to explain monads by way of a conversation with Harry Potter.
TLDR on behalf of patio11;

> Have I mentioned that I don’t like Bitcoin? I don’t like Bitcoin.
They are also banned out of urban zones in Spain. There is a survivor sign that was allowed to stay, "El Toro de Osborne". That's how we do it...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_bull
There are a lot of comments like this in this thread, the gist of which being "people who don't demand overtime pay are deluded/stupid/victims of false consciousness/act against their own interest."

Pretty much everyone is an at will employee, free to go find another job. Since these exempt positions tend to be high skill, the logic behind these laws is that these kinds of employees don't need this extra layer of government protection between them and their paycheck. They have the wherewithal to go find another employer if they feel they're being treated unfairly.

The left wing side of this argument is certainly getting a hearing, but coming to a different conclusion doesn't make you a deluded member of the under class (if I'm interpreting your claptrap correctly).
For 2) I would guess that it wasn't unlimited LTE when the contract was signed, but probably EDGE or 3G, no?

I believe that is the justification behind the trotting.
> Even "this type is an integer that must be non-negative" is a problem if that type allows subtraction.

Well, no.

Its a problem if you assert that the result of subtraction is the same type, because the non-negative integers are not closed under subtraction--if the definition of your data type relies on something that is internally incoherent, you have a problem; but you can define subtraction of non-negative integers in a way that is general, not problematic, and doesn't require compile time knowledge of specific values, e.g.:

data Nat = Zero | Succ Nat
data Neg = Neg Nat
subtract :: Nat -> Nat -> Either Nat Neg

But, yeah, attaching arbitrary predicates as restrictions to types brings the halting problem into your compiler implementation.
One thing cryptocurrencies bring us is is computed trust. A good blockchain will deliver an accurate representation of the current state of trust between entities. With privacy, you enjoy the lack of that state of trust, or what I call 'inverse trust'.

When you enjoy privacy, you trust I don't know anything about you.

It feels like privacy advocates gloss over the actual cost of implementing good privacy. Given it is related to trust, and computed trust costs something, one would assume that privacy is something you should be willing to pay for. The correlation is that if someone wants to remove your ability to remain private, they should have to pay an equal or greater value to do so.
> I read the first Song of Ice and Fire book in the middle of 2013, and I finished the fifth book this past March.

I started reading ASoIaF after episode 2 aired, finished book 4 (the latest at that point) around episode 4. I didn't get much sleep^^

> Does anyone have any suggestions

goodreads.com and Reddit's /r/Fantasy as well as /r/sciencefiction are my primary sources of new books. goodreads has an okay suggestion algorithm and the reviews are very helpful if you can read between the lines.

The subreddits are both well moderated (especially r/fantasy) and have many authors doing AMA's and popping in to answer random questions. Probably one of the best sources to discover new authors.

For specific novels, I second Malazan (said a bit about it here [1]), anything Gaiman and for a newer slightly dark (and finished) series Mark Lawrence's debut, Broken Empire (Prince/King/Emperor of Thorns)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8138420
A big issue in innovation research is to attribute patents to particular people. Patent disambiguation is an attempt at creating some sort of person ID, when the underlying data has no such information. One application is to find the same person inventing under the same name but at a different company (signalling that he has changed jobs) and so on. In doing analyses like these that disambiguation becomes essential. There is no "definition", everyone tries to come up with their own algorithm to unify S. Smith, Microsoft Corp from Steven Smith, Microsoft Corp, there there are always false positives.
You've never had someone pause a conversation while you merge onto a highway?
You are comparing apples with oranges. I'm definitely not anti-vaccination. But this serum is highly experimental and not widely available or even tested on humans. I even doubt that your FDA has the right to give an exception here. Who is responsible when something goes wrong or worse? Your FDA? For Liberia? Europe would e.g. never allow usage of this serum on humans (it's totally illegal) and there is a big reason to avoid that usage even if two individuals die. Would you say ok to every experimental serum which could cure and it is not well tested (for aids? for cancer?) ... and what about the 1600 Africans who are dying at this moment and are not US citizens?
I want to like AeroFS but the "Searching for dinosaurs" and "Performing some magic" messages during install and sign in seem really unprofessional..
This is really nice.

Do you think you could add one really silly little feature? An option to score by counting the number of dice which roll over some threshold, rather than summing the rolls. Defaulting to 5+, but adjustable. Perhaps by adding a ">5" to the end of the "NdM" string. This would make this actually really useful for playing Arkham Horror.

If you could add super eldritch skins to the dice models, that would make it really, really useful for playing Arkham Horror.
It's not actually the same marketing trick as AMD's new CPUs. The two cores in each unit of those CPUs are genuine, full-fat integer cores with their own control flow that can execute unrelated instructions from two different threads or processes at the same time; only the floating-point unit is shared between them. CUDA "cores" are more like individual lanes within the SIMD/SSE unit of a CPU - the control flow and instruction decoding are shared amongst an entire "warp" of 16/32/62 "cores" and all the "cores" execute exactly the same instruction in lockstep on different data.
I think so, yes, but I feel this way primarily for aesthetic reasons.

I actually find those permanent-installation LED government road signs warning of lane closures and advising of average travel times to be worse because the angle at which they're viewable tends to be terrible and require you to pay more attention to read them than they should.
Misnamed - this was more about general principles than the how missile guidance systems work.
For whatever it is worth, I am a software developer and I'm as guilty as any of working 80 hour weeks, especially in the first 10 years of my career.

I'm just older now (41 this year) and while I still work as a software developer and have avoided the management route (since I still love coding), I've become somewhat jaded on the business end of things.

Don't get me wrong, I think in certain situations (eg. developer is a founder or has meaningful preferential equity in a company) that working very long hours toward a goal without directly being paid for those hours is perfectly acceptable; but I cringe when I think of how many hours of sleep I missed in my younger days for a pat on the back or token meaningless non-monetary perks when I was a common-stock-holding pleb being constantly diluted out of equity in even the moderately successful companies.
Hope you can appreciate the tongue in cheek blog title... Had a good time building this, and very open to criticism and contributions. Just keep it in good taste, please. :) I think this opens up a lot of neat avenues for working with Parse, such as import/export, integration with other systems, another avenue for background-job-type maintenance, etc..
This is (wonderfully) reminiscent of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality[1].

Both are well worth the read.

[1]http://hpmor.com/
I think he's asking the right crowd, because the only people who care about whether a platform is in PHP or node.js are other devs. And it's also the right question, because there may be devs who would be better served by a node.js tool than by Magento, which is a bloated and outdated piece of software.
How the World's Media Covered the Collapsed Humanitarian Ceasefire
Companies would like some free labour, and to not have to pay for free overtime.
The Developer's Guide To Simple Screencasts
The USA is a bit of an odd outlier in the developed world when it comes to employee rights.
I think there are sanctions (you are pissing of Liz II) and of course it might effect the senior mangers if their name came up for a gong or other honour.

They have discussed making it mandatory for employers to give paid leave to TA members for annual training.
Yes, I totally agree. It is important for it to be a collaborative effort, but the PM must surface the customer and market feedback and suggest what new functionality is required. After that, a deeper team discussion benefits everyone -- including the customers. Good comment.
We changed the title (from "How missile guidance systems work") to be the HTML doc title.
They were essentially the same company. The parent company, Justin.tv rebranded as Twitch.tv earlier this year.
Yes, especially the super bright flashing ones. Extremely distracting.
any ideas where the map data comes from? OpenStreetMap?
Quick question; when characters appears as blocks on my screen, they can still be copy-pasted, right? I would imagine so since the required font is missing but the data, which is the important part, is still available.
That doesn't seem that esoteric to me: in general the problem is that repr() can result in execution of arbitrary code, and that there's no way to cleanly and reliably terminate arbitrary code. This includes Python code: it's possible to terminate it at an arbitrary point, but that leaves things in an indeterminate state.

I think it's pretty important that you shouldn't add features with unpredictable behaviour into the core of the language, particularly into error handling code.
Good job Fosco :)
That's @lonelysandwich, he is the director of a lot of tech startup demos: http://sandwichvideo.com
Yes, and Magento is many many thousands of dollars in engineering costs. Celery is two lines of code you paste into a website. Or it's an API. Which is the platform, and it takes live orders. It just so happens that many of its clients started post-Kickstarter with pre-orders.
Interesting.

Question: What do you guys think it'd take to get the other N% of email providers, clients, servers, and whatnot onboard?

Is this an ipV6-like situation?
The old adage "Knowledge is power" would appear to be relevant.
1Password too. http://vimeo.com/88901304
What did you do to fix it?