skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After a few visits to manufacturing shops, specifically CNC job shops I noticed that the air felt different and I knew it was due to the mist that is created during the machining process. I came back to my office and started some preliminary research on air quality. I wasn't surprised that a machine shop like that would struggle with this scenario but I started thinking about my own office. What am I breathing in, what should I be concerned with? I wanted to get a sense of how other people out there viewed this topic. Would this be something you bring up to your boss? Would you take matters in your own hand and get one of those little air purifiers? Or maybe people don't think about it at all?

For those people who do have control over this issue in their own work place, do you care about your employees enough to do something about it? Is it worth the money? The link to the OSHA site states that $15 billion dollars per year is lost because of worker absences and reduced efficiency from poor air quality. In an age when a lot of people spend most of their time indoors, is this something that people think about on a daily basis?
It's a possibility but it will not be forcibly true. In Belgium you also get taxes deducted from your pay check every month and if you pay to much they just put back the money into your account every year
I hate to sound like a teenager edgy redpill, but social-media-SJW like you are one of the worst things that happend to the internet since hitler.
The purpose of many tax cut/rebate programs is to encourage you to spend money and bolster the economy. If you disagree, want to maybe argue the point instead of just downvoting?
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This is really remarkable.

I've used Transcriptic in a research setting for a while now. From a user's perspective, it's like looking into the future, and it's awesome.

From the business side, this makes YC a more attractive option for biotech startups. The life sciences are still very capital intensive. While the New YC Deal helps in this department, many businesses still need to look toward an STTR/SBIR grant from the NIH to get to the stage where they have a product to show investors.

Moves like this probably won't change that for a ton of companies, but there are a few on the margin who may be able to pursue an idea through YC with the benefit of the extra $20K in fuel.
I didn't say should, I said does. And don't you think it's suspicious that your favorite genre is dominated by white male authors? What happened to all the other authors?

Edit: Sorry if it came across as saying that you should feel bad for reading the books you read.
the post on official blog: http://android-developers.blogspot.com.br/2014/12/android-st...
I disagree with the notion that Numberphile makes it seem like magic.

In my personal opinion they always explain quite carefully, using neat and concise diagrams. My old maths tutor used to have a similar teaching style, which worked very well.

The post editing even adds further explanation when the editor believes certain things haven't been explained clearly.
I don't see how this is much different from the current situation in the United States.

Most people (I bet HN readership included) are paid under a full time employee structure where the employer files a W2 and deducts all (or most) of the federal taxes the employee is liable for from their paychec. Even if you are a contractor, you're supposed to pay all of your own taxes every quarter (or pay penalties + interest), including your employer's half of the Medicare/Social Security taxes.

The big difference in the United States is that you are still required to file your own forms by April for the previous fiscal year for your tax return. You still have to do work to get a nontrivial amount of money back.
I'm pretty sure I'd be dead or locked in a jail cell if not for my four years in the USAF--second to last option indeed. Your point about the selection not being random could not be more spot on.

I feel like we were largely just misfits who somehow managed to find our way to a place where misfits can have one last shot at getting somewhere. Not all of us made it, but we who did were grateful that the opportunity was there.
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To add to sp332's comment:

A common, very large problem in development and other types of foreign aid (military, etc.) is 'expert' outsiders with little local knowledge telling the locals what they should be doing. It results in a lot of wasted money and harm to the recipients.

Also, I'm sure most reading this wouldn't appreciate 'experts' from another country (e.g., Japan) coming to your community and imposing their ideas on your government, business practices, and way of life.

It's far worse with military 'aid', which can result in your family dead, you homeless, and your country in ruins for generations. American assistance to Iraq resulted in >100,000 dead (by conservative estimates), an ongoing civil war, and untold crime and destruction. We thought democracy would blossom as soon as we removed Hussein; one absurd example: We actually had personnel there trying to setup a stock market soon after the invasion.
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95% of that is put into the Government Pension Fund Global (colloquially the Oil Fund) which, contrary to its name, is not used for pensions. It just sits there, and together with the actual Norwegian pension fund it's the largest sovereign fund in the world. The Oil Fund holds 857.1 billion USD. The reason for the arrangement is to control inflation and avoid the dutch disease.

Norway is not Saudi Arabia, in other words. The part that worries me is not oil's contribution to the government balance, but its outsized share of private enterprise, especially technology.
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> He is telling US taxpayers hey keep the country going, I am not going to contribute anything but I want to be able to easily comeback if I need to.

FTA: "My “in-person final loss of citizenship appointment” is scheduled for Jan. 14 at the United States Consulate here."
Thanks! That last use case you talk about is the one I'm definitely thinking is what we won't be pursuing. Lots of money there, but hard to come after an entrenched competitor that is heavily optimized for it ;)

If KX is making moves into sensors are they competing more with Informix? Or maybe Vertica?
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The top programs the Federal Government pays for are Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and the military. Everything else is in the small single digit percentages.

If you're not fighting a war or retired, it's not a surprise that you don't see much direct benefit from federal spending.

State operations like schools, streets and roads, airports, transit, and police are much more visible in daily life. Still, state budgets are supplemented with grants from the federal government, too.

But the big point here is that retirement and health care and war are the biggest federal operations. And, to reference op, you don't get much benefit of that living overseas.

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Incidentally, the TSA is paid for by air ticket taxes and the interstates were paid for mostly by federal gas taxes and maintained by state taxes. Only new highway construction is paid for out of federal income taxes since the gas tax became unpopular in Congress in the 1990s and was allowed to drop too low to pay for highway grants so it was replaced with income tax money. So even your visible federal tax benefit examples aren't really paid out of federal income tax.
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Presumably that means many people think it, yet nothing is being done about it.
Ha, I actually read it as "uneven" didn't realize what you were talking about until I looked again.
Please. The zone transfer thing is what's been the most burdensome. We'd love to have a github repo that we could create a post commit hook to tell a bot to update the syncing.
Norway has a 25% VAT rate (lower for food and other items).
+1 to interested. Michael's charging 350$ USD for a 30$ poster is absurd. This space needs change.
A lot of calls for discrimination are also jumping the gun in assuming that what they're witnessing aren't just expected statistical outcomes. I have yet to see someone making claims of bigotry in cases like these actually compare their cause with a sound mathematical model of the situation to see if there are any significant differences in outcome.

Maybe the problem isn't bill gates, and it's just that there aren't enough minority authors in the US to begin with, due to our school system turning low-income students off from reading?

There's so many plausible explanations for the patterns we see, that any immediate call to 'unconscious' racism/sexism is likely to be a red herring.
I'm sorry if I gave that impression, but just because I didn't respond to those four particular words doesn't mean I didn't read your post at all.

I have to believe "These variants can fill various niches, such as security, speed, or ease of use" and "many will succeed" were also there for a reason, and those are what I was responding to. My point is that for most projects, you don't end up with a bunch of viable forks. It's rare even to end up with two viable public forks, much less several. It's not much like sexual reproduction because sexual reproduction requires there to be multiple breeding entities.
I wonder if this theory implies that the formation of black holes in our 3D universe would trigger the formation of 2D brane sub-universes? Otherwise, it would seem weird that 4D universe has this special propery, but others do not.

From a more philosophical perspective, even if this does explain our Universe, it really just shifts the goalposts for the question of how things came to be – how did that 4D universe come to exist?
If you can speed up serious financial sector spreadsheets - hideous baroque constructions of formulae and VBA - they will pay you any amount of money for this.
I'm not a fan of Uber's tactics, but it's not "clear they aren't doing anything". Just because they're offering a safer alternative doesn't mean that nothing bad could ever happen.

There's something to be said for the user rating system as well in instances of grey areas. My (American) sister-in-law swears by Uber specifically because she's experienced unwarranted advances when taking both regular cabs and Uber cabs, but in the case of Uber she felt she had more recourse when something went awry.
I'll only respond by noting for other readers that frogpelt made those claims, not me.
I'm living in California.
California has a considerable amount of Spanish speaking hispanics for historic reasons.
For greater SF/LA areas, actually non-native English speakers communities are growing very fast due to hi-techs and relatives immigrants.

Just to mention a few:
Monterey Park, 20% whites, 66.9% asians (50% Chinese).
Milpitas, 20% whites, 62.2% asians.
Cupertino, 30% whites, 63.3% asians (20% Chinese, 20% Indians)

Just been to Monterey Park in LA area two weeks ago, and found I can live there naturally even if I can not speak an English word. At the contrast, I think that city would be a bit harsh for non-Chinese speakers...
Do you have a pension fund? Some kind of health insurance that behaves like a bank account? Anything that looks like a mutual fund investment? If so, either your CPA is undercharging you or he is not doing his job properly. I you live a "standard" European life, following the us tax code to the letter is going to put you at a 50-100 page filing.

And if you don't follow the letter - well, depends how much the IRS thinks they can extract from you.
This one is actually true and interesting for real. If you haven't heard of this before i highly recommend reading up about it.

When measuring random things in nature, regardless of what unit and base you use to measure (inches, cm, m, feet, etc), measurements with lower first digit appear more frequent than others! This is due to things in nature usually being exponentially distributed, when you have an exponential distribution you will "move away" faster from higher valued digits and reach the next power of ten faster, there you will restart with a low first digits which is slow to move away from. For example, assuming a spread of about 50%, then 1+50%=1.5 (still starting with 1) but 5+50%=7.5 (not starting with same digit), and 8+50%=12 (starting with 1 again).
> Ugh, there are a lot of countries, including big ones like china.

The table in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_taxation#Individu... states "no" for "taxes foreign income of nonresident citizens" for China. Is that incorrect?
Do you really think Bill Gates selectively reads book only by white males?

How could you tell if he didn't? The result is indistinguishable. And GP never recommended artificial inclusion of anything.
Unfortunately I do not have any close friends or family who know much about computers at all however there are a lot of good people over on some of the subreddits that are always happy to help out. The C and C++ subreddits are particularly good.
How bad are the German tax forms? I'm considering moving there. Is it just that you have to do it by hand, or are they more complicated as well?
The problem with the case you are making is that the majority of this so-called 'epidemic' is among non-active duty men, and there is some debate as to whether the suicide rate is higher than a comparable sample of the general population.[1]

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/02/02/but-there...
The federal government spends mostly on SS, Medicare/Medicaid, and military.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Federal_Spending_-_F...

Presumably if the fed wasn't paying for social security and medicare/medicaid, your state would have to, or you'd have bands of sick and elderly wandering the streets like so many zombies. If the fed wasn't paying for the military, I guess your state could also do this, lest the Brits march in and put us all under the rule of the king again.
That's very well put. If you uninstall an app, all its data is gone. Unless you stored that data somewhere else of course, but the main thing is how Apple approaches data storage is not very professional or confidence inspiring.

For me this awkward storage makes it difficult to take the device seriously. I don't consider the iPad a work device, more of a device to surf the net on the couch. In Q4 2014, iPad sales were down year over year from 14M to 12M. Maybe other people are starting to think along the same lines?

The sad part is that this does not have to be that way. The iPad has more than enough resources to be a fully functional computing device.

But until Apple grows up and removes all those mandatory training wheels (can't develop equal citizen apps on the device itself and give it to anybody I like without Apple having the power to party pooping any of it), I don't consider iPad + iPhone real computers.
Any interest in working with expression re fermentation down the line? CROs working specifically with .25-2L tanks are very tricky to find, price and deal with, and are not local to many biotech firms in the bay. About 25% of my time is spent just managing our CRO/CMO, and they only have 4x2L tanks. I used to work for a place with multiple parallel tanks (30+) that made DoEs expedient and was a great resource - but sadly not something I can tap into at my small biotech firm.

Combining what you're building with something with a ambr250 or even just a bunch of Applikon micros or wellplate fermenters could see a lot of action (though something like the ambr250 would fit your business model better, robotics > people).

I'll be contacting you for information about FACS, protein quantitation and cell viability work. Stuff I definitely want to farm out.
I really liked the substance of this book and would highly recommend it. I did struggle through the content of tech support work and other minutia.
Yes it is supported, but java 8 has strong improvements like lambdas and closure and default methods in interfaces, and the java 8 is still unsupported :(
I think you live in a fairly unique situation if you consider citizenship becoming old fashioned. With all the speak about globalization, shifting ones recidence from country to country is not something people generally engage in often. Family, work and living permits, cultural background, language - these are still quite real limitations to most. It's probably a bit different with top experts but by definition most are not...
Maybe I've just been out for long enough now, but just this morning I found myself missing that life. I would have retired with 20 years in 2016 had I stayed in.

Now for sure I don't miss power-drinking in the dorms or on TDY, but the work was fun and the people were awesome. I still keep in touch with alot of them. In contrast, I haven't spoken with anyone I went to high school in years.
You haven't been around much I take it? Calling people without citizenship "non-citizens" is not a purely American thing.
You forgot to include a Yupik potatokin author you disgusting bigot.
Right - if I understand correctly, it can depend on what crypto packages are installed on your target.
I read this with great interest - I'm the founder of ApiAxle, an API proxy that actually has a timeseries system built in for the collection of various statistics. I've always had a little seed in the back of my mind about building a stand-alone TS system.

Looking forward to seeing how this all plays out. Best of luck!
Thank you, I will definitely check those out.
Sorry, in what way? Because Yik Yak is pointless?
https://dns-api.com/ is a Git based Route 53 reseller (https://dns-api.com/docs/). Netflix's denominator is also a great project for managing multi-provider pushes: https://github.com/Netflix/denominator . It even supports advanced record types, such as geo and weighted sets.
He can vote. He just doesn't know how. The only Americans that can't vote are in the non-state regions within the territory of the United States. I live overseas and have no problem voting in every election held in Massachusetts. Your district where you vote is the place you last held residency.
1. Right now we're only doing analysis (no sorting). Eventually we'll develop an interactive UI where you'll be able to eg draw gates and get feedback in real time but right now it's just setting up analyzer runs fed by an autosampler that takes a microplate just like every other device.

2. You can send them in or buy commercially available reagents through us (sadly mostly not covered by the platform credits).

3. Yes! Lots more on tissue culture capabilities coming soon.

4. The only parameters you can set are the ones exposed in the low level API docs. So, we don't let you configure for example custom spatial reading patterns right now. If that's a deal breaker send me an email and we can discuss.
Foreign countries might or might not have freedom if the US were not subsidizing their security with expensive US military operations around the world.

Some say the US screwed up so much under Bush it would have been better to loose the world without American protection, and Bush did do a terrible job. But we don't know either way.

In any case, many other countries would pay more for military operations if the US paid less.
In Canada, if your working for the canadian government in an embassy or similar in a foreign country, you are taxed according to canadian tax law. Same with temporary assignment abroad. I think the USA can continue taxing it's government soldiers in a similar fashion.
The awesomest part about Norwegian taxes is that they don't have to pay for everything because of all the Norwegian North Sea oil. I'm happy for the Norwegians, but this is not apples to apples.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Norw...
Let me get this straight. I can put any old file on iCloud via Finder on OS X or using iCloud for Windows, but somehow on iOS this is dangerous and not allowed?
I've never taken Lyft or Uber, but are the drivers required to go where their GPS tells them? Or do they just not know the route?

Being used to traditional taxis myself, I find the need for these full-time drivers to be so dependent on GPS a bit surprising.
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Sorry, but it was of a personal nature so it's not something I want to share.
Hofstadter is a wonderful writer and illuminates his topics with much creativity and wonderful analogy. I highly suggest you look into his more recent books, especially Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking.

He is also incredibly receptive to emails; as a first semester freshman he responded in depth to my email to him.
Rent and utilities are approximately 40% of my take home pay. That's for an average one bedroom apartment in San Mateo.
Sometimes results won't replicate because the people or equipment at the second lab aren't skilled enough to do the experiment correctly. You can get type II errors on difficult tests because of impurities, noise, etc. But most of the tests listed on Science Exchange seem like standard tests, where the labs doing it are probably better at it than you are, so this wouldn't be too much of an issue.

I think another effect of this experiment-for-fee model would be to level the playing field for smaller labs that can't master every tool simultaneously. Whereas before a researcher would have to choose between (a) learning a new technique and buying new equipment and (b) finding an alternative way to demonstrate a result, presumably with older or less reliable methods, now they can do a very simple one-off collaboration of sorts without any of the overhead of real collaborations (esp. negotiations over authorship).
That Apple could come and shit all over your hard work is simply a risk factor to consider amongst all other factors a developer should be looking at when deciding what platform to develop for. All platforms have drawbacks and advantages. It's just a matter of picking your poison.

I'd be interested to hear why you think the cons outweigh the pros of developing for iOS. Universally, across the board for every software developer? Really?
Yes, that's true, search doesn't work.

However, your starred items do remain even while offline. So for travelling without data, given some planning time, you can star a bunch of stuff while you have wifi, and then navigate using the offline map without search.

I've tried many other solutions, and this really was the simplest and best for me.
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The Art of Asking, by Amanda Palmer

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20980987-the-art-of-askin...
Good. The officer's story was completely destroyed by the video evidence.
Definitely, especially for a business focused app like this.
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Thanks for sharing. It inspired me to read more into the article. All we really get from it is that there has been a drop in combat deaths. I'm not a fan of the military but this article is just white noise.

There's no denominator or basis for understanding what the numbers mean.

If we're looking to investigate suicides in the military then we need to compare it against appropriate baselines, accounting for the types of issues daveloyall raises, and even the economy.

Here's wikipedia's suicide rates for comparison:

US Men: 19.2

US Women: 5.5

Military: 17.1

What surprises me is that the military suicide rate in combat zones (17.3) is lower than military in the US (19.2)
I note with some amusement the difference in the way that foreign income for private citizens is of interest to the IRS and yet foreign income for corporations can be left abroad and remains untaxed. One would have hoped that it may be the other way round.