skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Semi-related) I'm an L-1A spouse. It took my work application 10 months to get processed, when the USCIS' own regulation stated that the it should have been closed in 90 days.

You call them, ask them, plead with them. Nothing. "Your application is in the system and is getting processed."

Nine months into it, it turned out that they lost my digital picture taken at a USCIS facility. How in this day and age one loses digital pictures is beyond me.
Oh, I can't prove anything, but to explain what I mean a little better, renting the first is a much more natural progression. Like a hermit crab moving up in shell sizes. You rent the first property as a consequence of buying a new house, rather than as the entire purpose of the second purchase.
CGT only applies on the sale of the property. As the property value rises, buy-to-let landlords will often use the equity generated to leverage another loan on another buy-to-let property, rather than sell the first property. So as they keep on collecting properties, they're not paying CGT because they aren't selling.

Especially as CGT is typically lower than income tax, so investors would prefer capital gains over rental profit. (And if their rentals are generating profit, might be tempted to buy more rentals that are not profitable but rising in capital value, so that their rental profit is lower but capital gains are higher).

You hear stories of investors who keep on acquiring and end up with dozens of buy-to-let properties and are leveraged up to the hilt.

Bradford & Bingley, which was the UK's buy-to-let mortgage specialist, was particularly hard hit by the GFC.
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You miss the point. I'd rather share a fire with living people, than a glowing screen. Even if those people are less witty than the glowing screen.

Not to mention the internet tends to form echo chambers. It's good to meet people who are not like-minded...
Stunningly cool; worth reading in full, including the sidebar discussion. It has math equations, code, sun coronas, clouds, and FPGA design schematics! May I suggest this soundtrack while reading: http://www.makingthenoise.com/music/
Of course there is! After all, the majority of Japanese developers don't speak English.

There's also a lot of offline activity: meetups, study groups and (less commonly) hackathons.

For example, look at JAWS-UG (Japan AWS User Group)'s schedule:

http://jaws-ug.jp/
Easter egg spooked me:
"I'm killing your brain like a poisonous mushroom"
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Tegra K1 “Denver” Will Be First 64-bit ARM Processor for Android
Traffic Signal Timing Manual: Chapter 4 – Traffic Signal Design
Having an HTML5 client built-in doesn't mean that it's "clientless" but it's still impressive. MIT license doesn't hurt, too.
Nice read, thank you. See also Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0061994952/
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It's just slightly more complicated than that. :)

The main thing healthcare.gov does, which esurance and others don't, is to tell the user which government programs they're eligible for and what their subsidy will be. The law makes that calculation is actually surprisingly complex, for example:

* there are at least eight different state- and federal-level healthcare programs (advanced premium tax credit, medicare, medicaid, children's health program, children's rehabilitative service, Tricare, VHA, IHS)
* which programs you're qualified for depend on your state
* the subsidy is based on which plans are available in your specific area and their cost, your household size, the ages of each person in your household, whether each person smokes, and whether you want a dental plan
* for calculating subsidies, different sources of income are treated differently. E.g., tribal income for Native Americans is subject to different tax treatment, earned income is treated differently than capital gains in some cases, etc.
* insurance is usually bought for a household, and there are precedence rules among different state/federal programs, so if any member of a household qualifies for a non-APTC assistance program, it affects the subsidy received for the whole household
* to get the tax credit, your immigration status needs to be verified with the Department of Homeland Security and your income needs to be verified with the IRS. This is the work done by the "Data Services Hub."
* by law, open enrollment starts in November but taxes are due the following April, so you can't compute the subsidy as part of the tax filing.

So you can see how something that seems like simple e-commerce task--buying health insurance--would turn out to be much more complex than a static site. You could argue that the law should be simplified, and I agree, but that would require an act of Congress and the cooperation of all 50 states. :) So, realistically, the software has to be complex to capture the complexity of the law.

(You could also argue that this complicated eligibility calculation should be exposed as an API, which would unlock innovation in the private sector. We want to do that, but need more help. :) )
From the talk:

> If you technology people can either build a working website that actually serves the needs for a billion dollars, or build one that doesn't work and totally fails for merely 100 million or 200 million or so. If you can do either of those things, then the government is coming out way ahead.

hahaha
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I can think of 2 solutions to this issue offhand.

- Accept general input from a keyboard or mouse only after the user's password has been entered into a confirmation window. (Even just a yes/no would work here.)
- Change all key shortcuts and menus that can execute things (WinKey+R, Alt+F2, etc.) to something nonstandard. You could also remove them altogether or prompt for a password if afraid of a targeted attack.

The question then becomes this: Are there other attacks that can use USB to execute code beside mimicking input devices?
They both charge $5 for a cancellation, but only after 5 minutes.
'GPS built into cars, ... Do you care about that? As I'm sure you know, the most common reaction is "I live a good life, I have nothing to hide."'

Doesn't GPS lack reverse channel by design (i.e. receive-only)? I thought GPS is safe, as all it can do is receive satellite data and has now way to disclose your location.
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"The following year, the company would lose $25 million from Starbucks transaction costs alone (and will continue to incur losses until the contract expires next year)."

I can't find the link but I distinctly recall Keith Rabois claiming that Square would make money on the deal. I thought this was highly dubious at the time -- it just didn't make sense when you considered how big Starbucks was already, meaning could already demand the best rates possible.

Not that that means it was a bad deal.. it was clearly a marketing move. "Starbucks uses Square". But that kind of marketing quickly loses its value once the public knows it was a result of loss-leader promotions, not intrinsic product value.
The article seriously misrepresents the Australian sociologist and the community response to the Queensland floods.

Here's the Australian sociologist's article (you can find both quotes in the piece, but quite out of context):
http://theconversation.com/do-you-know-your-neighbour-lendin...

The sociologist describes the community response to the floods as

"the overwhelming message that flowed from events like the
floods in Queensland and Victoria last year was one of neighbours,
friends and even strangers rallying to assist flooded residents in
their hour of need

As the waters rose, neighbours banded together to sandbag each others’
homes and move possessions to higher ground. Once they receded,
information, food, homes and equipment were freely shared. Observers
lauded the spirit of community that prevailed.

So, why are neighbours still there when needed even if their noise,
smells and habits are cause for complaint the rest of the time?"

But what does Brian Bethune summarise the article as?

"An Australian sociologist investigating community responses in the
wake of the 2011 floods in Queensland found relations in “a precarious
balance”; neighbours were hesitant to intrude even in emergencies—leading
the scholar to conclude that “we are less likely than ever to know” our
neighbours."

Which is quite the opposite. The sociologist was investigating the contrast -- a tremendous community response in an emergency, when we're more private than ever the rest of the time. But Brian Bethune make it sound like she was bemoaning a poor community response to an emergency.
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Machine predicts heart attacks 4 hours before doctors
So, I interviewed a prostitute from Amsterdam
Fiverr Raises $30M for Online Services Marketplace
When I worked a few months in Silicon Valley, I noticed something similar there:

There's a McDonalds in an area dominated by software and engineering companies. At lunch, people would go through the drive-thru, park in the McDonalds' parking lot, and eat in their cars. The parking lot was full; the large dining area inside was usually empty.

The saddest part is that I myself started doing the same thing after a while. Although Silicon Valley is the center of the universe for my profession, I found that it is also a lonely experience compared to other cities/countries.
Frankly, almost every single word in the stated bears no relevance to the reality. Glucose role in lipogenesis is so well known that I won't bother going past the most obvious source:

«Lipogenesis is the process by which acetyl-CoA is converted to fatty acids. The former is an intermediate stage in metabolism of simple sugars, such as glucose, a source of energy of living organisms. Through lipogenesis and subsequent triglyceride synthesis, the energy can be efficiently stored in the form of fats».

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipogenesis
Why Stealing Cars Went Out of Fashion
Sure, it's not as free as platforms in niche markets. I don't have access to much of the equipment I own, but I don't care about a lot of that. My phone falls into that category.

Anyway, it's all about relative freedom. The 30% tax is not the 5% royalty of yesteryear.

$100 to push to the App Store is not the $30k to licence developer kits of 10 years ago.

A market of hundreds of millions is significantly higher than anything ever seen before.

The level of censorship that ecosystem owners exert is much, MUCH lower than before e.g. http://www.jjmccullough.com/Nintendo.php

iOS' ecosystem is experience rapid Glasnost. Android's is tightening up. Both are immensely more free than anything else, historically and presently. This is a question you have to look at over time.

How is this not exciting, and at the same time, completely compatible with the existing and unthreatened harder-core PC market?

I think the OP's problem is we're living in a dark age of gaming, much like the Atari bust in the mid 80s. New ideas will arrive and fix the gaming aspect of this.
Nomachine also has been doing this for a while, and NX is really darn smooth on spotty connections: https://www.nomachine.com/node/2473

I do love that this is open source though. Someone will probably add NX support soon. Sound support also looks pretty impressive.
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From the conversations I had with the creator of Toga at PyCon AU 2014 and before its release, this is understood, and the current dev was towards 'it works on ubuntu', and more will come. The system is extensible so down the track the issue will be more "which do i pick" not "i can't find a way to render" ... since nothing stops this using some kind of text mode terminal UI rendering library, or a raw frame buffer one, its very awesome.
Panasonic is currently marketing their 4k wearable cam in Japan [1]. Pretty impressive for that size I'd say.

[1] http://cdn.camyx.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/panasonic-hx...
at first it sounded like a team of problem solvers (fun), but ended up sounding like more techno bureaucracy (boring).

setting standards across federal agencies? single sign-on? may god have mercy on their souls.
Exactly, the plant is not being given any kind of selective advantage and the genes in fact incur a metabolic cost on the plant so it will lose out to natural selection. The domesticated analogy is a great one, plus remember we took the genes from the wild in the first place!
I actually enjoyed it. Yes there was stuff that could have been explored more, but I still enjoyed it.
Ask HN: How much equity should we split?
My friend came up with an idea for an app, and he would like 40-50%.

All he is doing for this idea is coming up with the original idea. I make the idea (an app), design, and updates/changes.

What do you think is a fair equity split?
I'd love to. You aren't as smart as you think you are.
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The gene gun inserts randomly. We do a large number of insertions and will then test to see which are the best plants and take those forward to production. All the seeds shipped will however come from a single parent.
I trust you. I know he was still married and wasn't "out" when it sold to Novell (at lawyer, not publicly), but by '95 that could have changed. I last read up on this stuff (including Peterson and Ashton's hateful comments about him) seven years ago or so.
Here’s Why Stealing Cars Went Out of Fashion
Interesting that the site mentions (several times, very prominently) that the assistants are all over the USA but the tasks they can do are only virtual ones. Why does the location matter then?

Also wondering about the set number of requests per month. It seems like by allowing people to buy tasks a-la-carte, you could charge more per task (since the tasks would usually be horrible things like dealing with cable companies or renting cars). Why the decision to only allow three different task packages?
you can already control rtorrent via ssh, though admittedly it has a steeper learning curve.
The Github repo for the client says it's 50% Java, can someone clarify, is this an HTML5 client, or are there other things happening?
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The founders met at Biocurious, a DIY Bio space in Sunnyvale, and many of our early backers came from that community. It's also a key influence behind us offering the DNA open source and behind offering the maker kit so that others can do their own plant engineering. DIY Bio means many things to many people, eg education, community, fun, but I personally see it as the foundation for entrepreneurs launching such businesses.
So let me get this straight.

It's a Python program that uses a C core to inject the entire V8 engine, which then lets you use JavaScript to debug a compiled binary?

Awesome.
What are the evolutionary steps that you think Square had to take before launching Appointments? I'm curious how it had to involve payment processing.
I run Guacamole on my home network as an RDP client to my Windows and Linux boxes. It's a fantastic piece of software. It beats VMC widely in terms of speed, and RDP narrowly when used across the internet. I run guacd on my home server and use that to access my interior network from any computer. It's stable, consumes low memory, and works nicely over HTTPS with apache reverse-proxying the Java webapp. A+ amaze your friends type of software. I am a huge guacamole fanboy.

Edit: I used a Linux VM on my home windows box over guacamole from a Chromebook as my primary mobile computer for 6 months. Browsing in Firefox on my remote VM was always faster than browsing the web locally on the Chromebook. If only it worked well on tablets...
Physicists create water tractor beam
Good JS library for email (PM) and task management?
I need recommendation for a good library for email (PM) and task management on a per-user basis. So far I've only come across Hoodie but it seems to be in beta and people are having trouble getting it running on Heroku.

I'm thinking about using the library on Heroku + Node.js backend and AngularJS front-end.

I really don't want to go solo and do something like a Haraka setup with MongoDB (or resque etc.)... it's cool as a side project but I'd rather use a library that's been tested by the community. Plus I don't need a full-fledged email service -- just private message capability that can be managed with minimum effort.
If you have a healthy pancreas there is zero reason not to get a load of your calories from sugar.

If you have healthy pancreas and keep overloading them with sugar, you will quickly develop insulin sensitivity and eventually kill your pancreas.

"Anti-sugar thinking" has started out as diabetes research and over the last few decades has turned up plenty of evidence of how unrestricted sugar heavy intake leads to a number of health related issues and degenerative diseases. Role of sugar in endogenous glycation processes can't be underestimated either.
This would certainly be a dick move by Uber, even in the land of hyper competition. But how the heck was Lyft unable to foil it?
I really hope Nvidia will open up their K1 driver completely following Intel's approach.
Previous poster's description sounds more accurate. Yes, they cost 250k. Yes, there's a 10+ year waitlist. Yes, groups of medallion holders own valuable assets. Yes, medallions are shared by drivers.
I haven't used it but http://www.omdbapi.com/ looks like your best bet.
Here's what I did.

When I was learning C++ and Win32 API, I would implement small applications that would draw some graphics, because I loved graphics programming.

When I was learning java, I would go to freelancing sites like elance (and the now dead rentacoder), read project descriptions, design solutions and implement them.
They'd be all kinds of projects - from CRUD web apps to custom compilers for some exotic languages.
I'd never bid on any of those projects. For me, they were just real world problems that someone had and I figured that if I could solve their problems, I'd become proficient.

When I was learning python, I had also developed an interest in scientific computing. So I'd implement algorithms related to graphs, trees, linear algebra, machine learning, etc.

Initially, I found that if I couldn't come up with a clear roadmap of how to implement something, I'd dismiss it quickly as too tough and search for an easier project whose implementation roadmap lay inside the circle of my existing knowledge.

But then I realized that that's the wrong way to learn new things. The way to learn is to persist with tougher problems and expand that circle of knowledge. It requires some self discipline to stay the course because it can be frustrating, but in the end I feel that's what improved me as a developer.
Although I can only perceive them through specialised devices, pack of electrons trapped in a cell or magnetic wave patterns on a platter sound perfectly physical to me.
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Many modern cars combine the onboard GPS with so called "value added" services that uplink data over wireless networks whether you subscribe to the service or not: OnStar, and several custom manufacturer networks. In particular, Tesla vehicles do this. I know my Volkswagen does as well.
Server side is java
LinkedMDB (http://linkedmdb.org/).

The API is called SPARQL.
Oh dear.

I already wrote an emulator for the MSP430 from scratch just to try out an approach for the current challenge's final level.

And now you tell me the next one is going to be pretty intense.
From the github readme:

> guacamole-client is used to build the subprojects that make up Guacamole, and
> to provide a common central repository. Each project contained here is
> completely independent of guacamole-client and can be built separately, though
> the others may have to be built first. If all projects are built using
> guacamole-client, Maven will take care of the proper build order.

My reading of this is that the client repo also contains the server, which is written in java
I think you could just sit in the back if you wanted to.
> I bought a couple of computers in the early 90s and neither came with Office installed.

I thought it happened later, maybe with Windows 95. I wasn't thinking of the Novell suit, which I'm aware of. However, I'm still not sure I recalled correctly, though I'd be surprised if I remember something that didn't exist at all.
Guacamole is a Java program. It's basically a proxy between RDP/VLC and HTML5. Guacd (the java bits) connect to an RDP or VNC server on your behalf, and then you interact with the remote machine through guacd. Here's a simple text diagram

[Windows RDP server] <--RDP protocol--> [linux Guacamole server] <--HTTP or Websockets--> [HTML5 client in your browser]
How much of the real money actually came from stolen credit cards? I bet it was a significant percentage.
I can only guess that top traders in TF2 make the same kind of money as in this article
google maps, gmail and google docs would be tough to replace, but I think we'd adapt pretty quickly. waze is pretty good, outlook is different but not necessarily bad, and I could probably use Dropbox more. And to be honest I search more on DuckDuckGo now than I do Google. I don't think google is indispensable, it's just consolidated, which makes it more convenient.
Neat. On Android it's easy to believe Dalvik/ART generated code leaves more performance on the table compared to other platforms.

Another "what's different this time" point: compared to Transmeta era, CPUs now typically have idle core(s) waiting for work to do. This may enable more ambitious optimizations as you're not constantly stealing cycles from the app.

Does anyone have a link to the paper?
It's "clientless" as in you don't have to install any software on the machine you want to connect from. No need to fiddle with RDP software on your parent's computers, or worry about access control restrictions from a locked-down corporate network. As far as permissions go, if you can browse the internet on a computer, you can remote control your servers with Guacamole.