skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an aside - for a wonderfully complete proposal on how to align corporate and social goals when it comes to IP in healthcare, you should see the literature on 'patent buy-outs', starting with this seminal paper by Michael Kremer: http://www.nber.org/papers/w6304.
The distinction doesn't mean anything though. In both cases it is up to the FCC to regulate usage, not you, or a hotel, or a conference organizer.

It's not their spectrum to manage, and everyone else has just as much right to use it as they do, event or no event.

Deliberate interference of the legal use of the airwaves by others is flat out illegal.
How do you propose having all of humanity fund it? A country could pay for it with their tax dollars, but then it is only a subset of the world having their paycheck decreased in order to help the entirety of humanity.

You need a certain amount of wealth in the country to be able to fund all this research and the US probably could afford it, but since were not going to use patents, taxpayers may become upset that a large portion of their tax dollars are going to foreign aid rather than domestic aid.
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Ask HN: How to handle poor technical decisions by your boss
I hope that this is a question more about "managing your boss" than "I want to be seen as right all the time"

If you are a professional developer and your boss regularly makes technical decisions that you do not agree with, what are the best options you have to improve the situation?

- sometimes it is possible to write tests or examples to demonstrate a clear mistake (decision is "wrong"). But this takes effort.

- sometimes the code is not provably wrong, but perhaps overly complex, likely to be hard to maintain in the future.

- maybe our tastes differ and there is not a problem

- maybe I over estimate my own capabilities

- maybe the pressure to deliver "this week" is as real as it seems and is worth the level of technical debt.

Now I think this is an issue of degrees of responsibility: as a professional I am responsible for the quality of my own work, and for preventing "egregious" mistakes by colleagues (not to do so is probably negligence). However it is the responsibility of the company employing me to prevent "technical debt mistakes" or low quality mistakes by encouraging a culture of high quality over all else.

If that is not done, risking my own position seems foolhardy.

However if I have to code to a sub-optimal design - am I compromising my own quality of delivery - or simply adhering to the culture?

In short when asked to do a job that's not bad enough to say no, but not good enough to be proud of - how does one manage the situation up to the "proud" stage?

I want to avoid picking fights. But I also want to avoid job hunting. What are the subtle strategies of people with an Emotional Quotient in double digits?
IIRC, Uber solves this by letting you rate people after each ride. People who have less than (4? 4.5?) stars get kicked off the service, so if you rate them a 1 then you probably won't see them again. So, in theory, you should only get rides from people who deserve a tip.
Who can find fault with that?

Anyone who thinks that a vaccine that you pay for is better than no vaccine.
Couple of things.

1) Getting a (legitimate) USB vendor ID is already a big barrier to entry for smaller players in the hardware business. The USB Forum is basically a cartel of people who aren't interested in selling you a product ID unless you want to buy 65,536 of them at once for thousands of dollars. Then there's the expensive kernel-mode code signing certificate that you'll have to buy in order to deploy your Windows driver. The world needs fewer crypto-cartels, not more.

2) It's always been accepted as a truism that once an attacker has physical access to your computer, the security game is over. Why is everyone rushing to discard this axiom all of a sudden? Don't people understand that this will lead to a world where your computer relies on third-party gatekeepers to treat you as a security threat?
There's a difference between what you are trying to do (eat), and what evolution is "trying" to do. It's really just a lot of throwing things at the wall to see what sticks. We happen to have bodies with arms that can move food to our mouths, but there was no agency in evolution doing that.
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It's probably even worse than that. I've worked on bank systems. They collect all the things you mention, but also details of your personal finances, where you usually receive money from and how you spend it, guesstimates about your financial situation, 'suspicious' activity, details from every conversation you've ever had with a bank rep, and more.
It's sad that you're being downvoted for a reasonable and factually-based comment. This isn't reddit, folks.
I don't live in a major metropolitan area, are Uber/Lyft really that big of a deal in cities? They seem like something only yuppies would use.
This article is from a non tech/startup related publication so it would seem that they have penetrated the public conscience.
And very likely.. that act of "forcing them to disassociate" would count as interference... and be rather illegal if it went to court.

They have no authority to be able to interfere with your use of spectrum, just as you have none to interfere with theirs.
The HID masquerade attack seems fairly easy to thwart from the OS. My machines all have full disk encryption enabled. They won't boot unless you enter the password. So the OS shouldn't enable any keyboard that wasn't used to enter the password. If you plug in a keyboard later, simply screenlock. If the new keyboard correctly enters the password, enable it. Otherwise don't.

None of this prevents malware already on your system infecting your legitimate keyboard, but at least random memory sticks or other non-keyboards can't spoof keyboards.
Would 802.11w have protected the guest from this?
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Tipping is not discouraged or hidden at all. Its right on the screen. I always tip 2 dollars for Lyft. Last Lyft driver said the average was 3-7 but some people don't tip.
Also, there isn't any good evidence that gluten causes inflammation except in celiac disease.
It sounds like you talked yourself into doing it the way the author in the article suggests halfway through your post :)
I appreciate HN most for insights or debates on non-technical issues. So I wouldn't flag for it being OT. You may flag however for it getting too controversial. However, this will just a continued reality for anything in relation to Israel and Palestine for our life times.
Much faster than a cab and Lyft at least is cheaper than a cab too.

I don't have a car right now. Most people though use it in place of a cab for a ride after drinking.
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raising min wage would price people out of jobs!

on another note, most people assume incorrectly that this bottom portion of earners is a fixed group of people year in year out. Simply not true. look at us bureau census data. Over half of people earning minimum wage are under 24. If you don't have skills for a job, you work for min wage, gain skills and experience so you can get better jobs. When the government makes companies pay more for these teenagers they will hire less. these would-be workers will have more difficulty gaining skills/experience.
Your response was pretty well thought out.

I also immediately had a red flag with....

" We're supposed to believe that only 5% of business majors make more than $100,000 a year"

Totally Agree
Oh yeah, after getting the direction, figuring out the numbers is the next step :).

Having i as a base means "we plan on rotating 90 degrees" which actually means pi/2 radians.

e^rt models growth rate of r, for time of t. so e^(i · pi/2) creates a 90 degree turn (we intend on rotating, i, and do this enough to get a full 90-degree turn, pi/2).

This is all a fancy way of saying:

90 degree turn = i = e^(i · pi/2)

Now, with i^i, we're planning on modifying that growth rate (e^(i · pi/2)) that we just figured out! We're going to twist the "rate" from i (90 degrees) to i · i (180 degrees):

i^i = e^(i · i · pi/2) = e^(-pi/2)

which is the real number less than 1 (about 0.2).

I'm summarizing on the fly, but the full explanation for i^i and i^i^i are here: http://betterexplained.com/articles/intuitive-understanding-...
I would remember that knowledge is not fungible, while prestige and money are. Do enough things for prestige and money, and you'll have time to do things for knowledge. </darkside>
It should not. That sounds like a bug or configuration problem somewhere.

SPDY and HTTP/2 can multiplex their data streams across a single connection. That is to say, they can receive 2+ datastreams on the same TCP connection at the same time.
When I'm debugging HTTP, 98% of the time it's either with curl, Wireshark, or by dumping state in my own server-side code. Things like curl will work just the same. Wireshark has an HTTP/2 plugin; given their history, I'm sure it'll be excellent by the time there's much HTTP2 in the wild. And anybody writing server-side code is hacking together their own tools anyhow.

The rare occasion where this will be a big difference for me is telnetting to port 80 and typing HTTP by hand. Honestly, I only do that out of habit; I can do the same things just as well with curl. But even when HTTP/2 ships, I'm sure it will be at least a decade before servers stop supporting HTTP/1.1. Probably longer. So I'm not expecting this to make a big difference to my debugging habits.
There really isn't a slippery slope argument to be made.. they already have that power.

If they determine you are deliberately interfering with lawful use of the airwaves, it doesn't matter how you are doing it.
No hidden agenda, obviously. Just pointing out the obvious which most on this thread can't seem to see.

Startup probably not the best place for unflexible person, especially a small one like reddit with history of being bought and sold.
It seems (and is logical, I suppose) that you have to match the symbol pretty closely to get what you're looking for. I drew a car twice, the first time getting absolutely nothing relevant, and the second time -- trying to be more precise and using all the space available -- got automobile, taxi, bus, etc, etc.

edit: The primary problem here, I mean, is that if you don't know what the symbol looks like and want to see if it exists, you might not get hits the first time you try to draw, but it might not actually exist anyway.
I think the numpads exist because just about all laptop screens are 16:9 now, which forces the keyboard area to be wider (compared to a 4:3 screen, for example). Without a numpad there would be lots of "dead" space to the right and left of the keyboard, so manufacturers added a numpad to avoid the wasted space. Personally I'd rather have a 4:3 screen and no numpad, but this aspect ratio has ceased to exist.
'若' is closer to 'as' or 'equivalent to'
If prostitution is so degrading, risky, and low-paying (for those in the lower tier of the system), why are there still prostitutes?

If working at McDonald's or Walmart is so shitty, why does anyone work at McDonald's or Walmart?

Etc. etc.
For potentially lethal and widespread problems such as cancer or infectious disease, I have to disagree-- even in the most cynical of research spaces, there is a baseline of good-faith effort and desire to improve the human condition by offering a permanent fix. Additionally, whoever is able to provide a functional cure for a big name illness will ascend into the hallowed halls of science-- a fact that nobody forgets. I don't doubt that a prospective cure would cost a tremendous amount of cash to buy for yourself, but I think it'd still be a win for the pharmas. If a pharmaceutical firm was able to cure one kind of cancer with one drug, they'd be able to shutter all of their other production facilities for the myriad number of drugs which formerly targeted that cancer, amounting to a big decrease in their operating costs. Pair that with an entire market of people needing your one very expensive product, and I think it'd work out in their favor.

Unfortunately, there is another side of this coin-- mental health. I believe that currently the problem with the profit motive which you identified is actively harming further research and development of effective cures. Cynically, the biotech companies want to make money, and psychopharmaceuticals are the ultimate cash cow as things are currently. A diagnosis of depression or ADHD means that they have a life-long customer. Thus, in order to maintain these customers buying the drugs at high prices, they must re-invent their cash cow drugs with minor changes in time with the patent cycle. There is no incentive to develop a cure, specifically because the system can be gamed in a very profitable way by rolling over patents and offering bandaid solutions.
We've been working with the kernel folks on trying to get support for forwarding ASICs into the kernel, but it is probably going to take a while. For now, ASIC programming is done from userspace by a daemon we call "switchd", which observes changes in the kernel's state, and programs the hardware accordingly.

whiteboxswitch.com is a fine option, though bm-switch.com seems to have lower web pricing at the moment.

Most of our customers are concerned about support, and thus aren't interested in unsupported optics. I guess as long as Juniper doesn't find out... =)
> It's a marketing play.

I hope there's no one in this thread naive enough to think otherwise. Of course it's a marketing play. That doesn't mean it can't benefit you.

Your initial point concerned vendor lock in and how this was a cheap way for companies to impose it. My response to that was "lock in to whom?" due to the diverse hosting providers on offer. Granted no mom and pop VPS provider is amongst the perk list (to my knowledge), but you have a several serious options to choose from.

In terms of my company the perks provided did anything but impose vendor lock in. I put parts of my infrastructure where it made the most sense for our business. This actually ended up being multiple providers amongst the list of those offering perks. If anything the benefits on offer from TechStars (and YES other accelerators that join these incentive programs) led to a more diverse and robust infrastructure setup which I hope will benefit us more in the long run.

But yes, fine, I acknowledged in another response lower down on this page that I should have qualified my original statement. The perks on offer were a game changer for my business because it gave us the freedom to choose providers and technologies that made the most sense for the product. For us this was crucial at an early stage and benefitted us immensely. I would assume our company was not necessarily unique in this regard, but perhaps I'm wrong.

In either case, who cares? You either were or weren't going to join TechStars or some other accelerator because the accelerator's terms made sense for your business when weighed against the benefits. Perks are just that...perks. Not fundamental lynchpins upon which you hope to run your business. My only initial argument was these perks are substantive and helpful, and shouldn't be dismissed outright. Apologies if that initial argument was not well-formed enough to get that point across to you effectively.
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The info bubble for this laptop: http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Satellite-S55-B5292-15-6-Inch-...
incorrectly described the resolution as 3840x2160 but on the Amazon page you can see the max resolution is 1366x768
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This theory of patents as the method to fund medical research can be tested pretty simply. Let's assume an alternative universe where the market fully funds the medical research bill, and see if it succeeds.

That is $26.4 billion of tax money not going to NiH, nor would tax funded universities spend their budget on medical research. Medical research would no longer be considered tax-deductible, so fewer donation based systems.

Now let's ask how much would the current level of medical research decrease, and which areas of medical treatments would suffer the most. My guess, based on statistics that NiH published, is that research for curing life-threatening conditions (like Ebola) would grind to a halt, together with fundamental medical research. In the longer term, the lack of common research would slowly drive the collective research to a halt, basically killing the industry as it is.

If patents are carrots, government money is the base nourishment for the medical research industry. That makes carrots the optional part, not the necessary part.
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Actually it shows that the current hospital system doesn't work.
>>The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank attributed the abductions to the Qawasameh clan [...]

AGAIN: See my link. Hamas already admitted their cell were responsible.

It was big news in international media. I got the link from http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29323163 (I noted this, since it wasn't mentioned much at all in my local Swedish media.)

Now, bye.
so I did some calculation here: the fine seems way to small for the number of people the issue might have been affected.

-- If Marriott charged minimum $250 for its own wifi then ($600,000/$250), it paid the fine equaling to 2400 guests.

-- If Marriott charged maximum $1000 for its own wifi then ($600,000/$1000), it paid the fine equaling to only 600 guests.

Seems to me that Marriott got away very cheaply.
Newer macs have the ram soldered onto the board.
It's a casual yet deadly serious precaution, much like looking both ways and listening before crossing the street, or being careful whenever I smell smoke.

"Any" effort? You admit the risk is non-zero (and it's certainly a lot greater than that meteor), for me the effort is rather low, since I keep that gun handy for whenever I go outside and carry it concealed.

Let's add an additional dimension: this precaution is so easy it would be downright embarrassing to not take it and then get bushwacked.
This is interesting. Jordan Mechner's work and blog is documented at his blog at http://jordanmechner.com/blog/2010/02/tp/

I like these "making of" web pages. It helps to see other people's experiences.
Awesome writing. Reminded me of Kerouac, with some good historical tidbits and photography dispersed throughout. Its a shame and predictable that the top rated comments basically say "Amtrak sux" obviously the commentators failed to actually read the piece.
May as well plug my basic, bare-bones library too: http://charbase.com/
Exactly right. Humans only exist to serve their tools.

No, wait a sec. That doesn't sound right. Could it be that our tools exist to serve humans? And that rather than putting effort into accommodating ourselves to the limitations of our current tools, we should instead put our effort into making tools that work the way we want?

Nah, sounds crazy. If HTTP/1 was good enough for my grand-dad, it's good enough for me.
True. Now the question is how much is "so much"? Answer: if you have a near-monopoly as the middle-man between people in a market, you have almost all the power. In this case, "so much" is "SOOOO much".
I love tabs and use them heavily, but I wish they behaved on the desktop like they do in Chrome on Android, where hitting the back button when there's no prior history closes the tab. Sometimes I open a link in the same tab (plain old forward navigation), sometimes in a new tab. I then need to remember that the first one requires a back button when I'm done, while the second requires a Ctrl-W. If I forget and use Ctrl-W when I should have used the back button, then I lose my history (and have to go to the "Recently Closed Tabs" menu to restore it).
Keep in mind the FCC isn't regulating the specifics of the WIFI protocols.. just the use of the spectrum.

It's not a technical limitation on a certain type of packets, but about the results.

The problem is only when the end result is that you are deliberately stopping other people from making valid use of the spectrum.

There are valid cases for doing what they are doing (preventing spoofing).. this just wasn't one of those valid use cases.
The stories are mostly the mundane sort of terrible, rather than of the outlandish and entertaining variety. You know, impossibly buggy software plagued by decades of half-rewrites and no documentation or tests, the sort of stuff that's typical for most big companies except that this particular big company is responsible for shepherding untold quantities of earth-scorching chemicals via an infrastructure so archaic that they often have no idea where the trains actually are unless the conductors call in personally and read out the signs of the towns they're passing through. Hair-raising close calls. Problems that we have the technology to affordably solve, but are merely too apathetic to. I'm enough of a non-expert that if I attempted to relay anything more specific then I'm afraid that I'd just be talking out of my ass.

I should note that my friends do not work for Amtrak specifically, or even necessarily have anything to do with Amtrak. However, I can tell you that there are definitely major companies involved, if you're looking for a particularly Fight-Clubby response.
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Yes it does.

http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/guide/walking-for-exer...

http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-living/fitness/in-depth/wa...

If you're particularly overweight or have joint/back or other health issues you may want to consult your physician about how to improve past a slower paced walk. But if your joints and heart are otherwise healthy, it's pretty good exercise for getting in better shape, losing/maintaining weight, and for getting to spend some time outside in the sun and fresh air.
I think this the first Angular article I read that actually showed a functional difference between Factory and Service: factory can return a constructor function, service can't. Personally, I have my factory be an actual factory by having it posses a method that returns a new instance of an object.
You can still fleece them, you can still demand they use yours, you can still try all kinds of stuff.

You just can't actively jam their use of that spectrum.
Approximately half of Flash's design decisions and APIs were extremely well-designed and well-engineered. There are still many things that Flash does better than pure HTML and their view framework API was actually quite lovely.

That said...the other 50% was frequently so bad that it more than cancelled out the benefit on the other side. Which is why no one uses Flash anymore [1].

[1] Everyone still uses Flash.
So really: Anybody with more than two braincells to rub together. Impeding the development of a vaccine because you fear that you personally will not be able to afford it is the worst kind of stupid. The kind of stupid which leaves you feeling self-righteous but harms others.