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Why Karma Points Reduced?
I've noticed that after I posted an article from Adobe on their resolution for the Flash vulnerabilities and exploits, my Karma score got lower.

I think people may have misconstrued that I am advocating for Flash, but rather, my aim was to inform people who are still reliant (to some degree) on the Flash platform that the fixes are now available to help secure their system.
They have no green (495-570nm) filter, just panchromatic (400-975nm), blue (400-550nm), red (540-700nm), near-IR (780-975nm) and narrow-band methane (860-910nm).
Thanks! The functionality does not depend on the person's friends joining the app
Years ago I wanted to make an apprenticeship locator / pairing service website. It also was going to have apprenticeship certification mixed in there. I believe apprenticeships done well can replace the majority of (but certainly not all) college degrees. Completing a certified apprenticeship should be as good of an endorsement as a college degree (or better!). So many fields, it would probably be better: advertising, insurance, journalism, programming.

If anybody wants to take this and run with it, please do. Just hit me up to brainstorm at some point, I'd love to flesh out the idea more with like-minded entrepreneurs.
Think about the political clout that the Public School Teachers union carries (with ~2.7m members) (1)

The largest international employer stands as WalMart with 2.2 million employees (2).

Uber just a few days back announced a plan to hire 1,000,000 WOMEN drivers over the next 5 years (3)

Now posturing or not, assuming that somehow Uber pulled that off and they'll be the world's largest employer in less than a decade.

It's amazing that politicians seem so slow on the up-take here and the opportunity to address the people that are caught in the machinery of the sharing economy.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trade_unions_in_the_Un...

(2) As of 2012 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers

(3) http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/10/technology/uber-women-driver...
Agreed, though I would genuinely like to see a rebuttal.
Well, it’s not just that: For the people in border regions – which, if you take Denmark (50% of the population), the Netherlands (100%), Belgium (100%) are especially in small countries a high percentage – it’s important to be able to live in the other country as if it were your own.

Free ability to live, work, retire, buy stuff, sell stuff, etc is extremely important.

For this to work, though, you need a common currency (imagine you work in Germany and live in Denmark, now the exchange rate changes, and your money is only worth half of the original value, and you suddenly can’t pay your rent anymore), you need simplified tax systems (imagine the mess of working in Germany, living in the netherlands, having your funds in Luxembourg, and owning a second house in Belgium).

The EU guarantuees all this. It also helps with unified travel, with unified conservation of natural resources – take the UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site of the wadden sea – it reaches into 3 countries and the EU had a great deal in making it happen.

For someone living in a border region, the EU is necessary for survival. No, the EU can not be undone, we need to get even closer. In my state, policemen of Denmark and Germany are on patrol together to make cross-border crimes easier to process – because it means you always have one with authority, even if you end up arresting them in the other country. We recently made Danish an official language in my state even. A family member of mine works as a public facing official in a governmental institution here and has to deal with people filing forms in German, Dutch, English and Danish every day.

In some cities in the border regions, up to half of the population works on the other side of the border!

No, the EU can not be undone.
Show HN: Mattermark for iOS
The Best Plug-In Hybrid Right Now: The Chevy Volt
> Still though, practically speaking, getting anything into orbit is hard enough.

As the saying goes, "low Earth orbit is halfway to anywhere in the solar system".
That's not even necessary. Look at Yelp's recent fun times. Nothing like a good unsubstantiated rumor to artificially inflate a stock price.
Farm jobs are generally not included in the employment statistics gathered (nor for military occupations) for historical reasons. There was a push in the 80s the change that.
I enjoyed reading this. It was throught-provoking, and managed to find words for feelings I hadn't realized I had.

But the Stream, mobile applications, and moving images:
They all show a departure from a books-internet
toward a television-internet.

"books-internet" vs "television-internet": I agree in many ways, and yet I find myself reading and consuming more blogs now than I did a decade ago. Still, though, I tend to read them more when they pop up on my "stream" (well, mainly HN ;)) rather than going directly to various people's blogs.
These rules exist in Germany, too. You are pretty safe as long as you keep it free, but the conditions of participation are still a bit lacking:

http://t3n.de/news/internetrecht-15-haufigsten-fehler-gewinn...
Your quote might be correct, but I think Berkshire Hathaway is anything but a boring bank.

Do you read Buffet's yearly letters? They're great.

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2014ltr.pdf
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Well, fear is an emotion, is not rational.

On the contrary I believe it is very rational to fear radon. In Spain or France it is normal for families in some places to have family wineries on caves.

In those places if there was radon(coming from minerals associated to granites) cancer was way higher than normal levels. You have to be careful to ventilate those caves when they stay closed for some time.

My family had one of those. As there are lots of scientists in my family, we were always careful, including using a geiger counter and controlling how much time we played there as kids(it was a very fun place to play) but I had seen pretty stupid people about it(neighbors, friends), their stupidity coming from ignorance. And I had seen people getting ill from cancer and dying too.

It doesn't hurt to be careful.
Maybe that's why. Trailer park girls can be lots of fun.
No money may have changed hands, yet nevertheless the whole thing acted as publicity for Pocket. Whether it was intended to do that or not is up to Mozilla to prove.

Further, I personally fight features in Firefox that could be extensions, because Mozilla has already removed core features that were only of good value to the users, with the excuse that they could become extensions.

You don't get to preach water and drink wine without getting ridicule in response.

Mozilla has to respect its users first before it can even consider asking for ANY kind of respect.
The idea that "gigs" mean working when one wants and being off when one doesn't is a fantasy. Bars don't hire bands on weekdays while the kids are in school and they run open-mike on Tuesday nights and karaoke on Wednesdays.
Cavete cooperatorem.
Because you scroll from top to bottom, duh ;).
Yes that's what the robber barons keep repeating, but why not think of businesses and employee wages in terms of percentage of the profits generated?

Fast food employees earning $15 an hour can still be profitable [ http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/28/pf/north_dakota_jobs/ ]
Based on industry. It is based on industry not category of job. E.e., everybody at McDonalds is classified as food services even if they are sys admins.
This would be a great place to prototype an advanced subway system -- say, one that operated with solo cars controlled by a central system. I think a lot about the subway problem because I'm in Manhattan and everyday, it's crazy packed. I know it happens in other cities, but in my opinion, it's a public hazard because it's a precursor for hostility. Furthermore, the delays are rather absurd and you just know it's from a different time. I hope someone is working on subway innovation; if not, when I make it with all my billions, I'll take it on and this is a perfect place to start.
I applied to one of your engineering positions and never heard back.

Are they available?

Open to remote?
I have a friend I met completely outside of Uber who is a full-time Uber driver. He says he loves driving, meeting all sorts of people, and choosing his own hours. It's obviously just one anecdote, but I'm pretty sure he's not lying.
Why can't they get more?
Sequoia’s RIP Good Times and Their Subsequent Investments
£33B Standard Chartered Bank Looks to Bitcoin
Inline from C libraries won't -- as far as I'm aware -- inline into a Rust function. Inline is a compile-time hint, not a link-time behavior. In theory this could be changed in LLVM, but it seems really unlikely to me. The function exposed from C (with the inline asm) can be naked, though, assuming you are hygienic.
Are you aware IOS 9 will prefer IPV6 by default? And that many browsers already have a "Happy Eyeballs" Implementation? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Eyeballs

IPV6 isn't going anywhere: IPV4 exhaustion is a real concern and with the internet / internet of things growing, the only place to grow is really the IPV6 space. NAT only delayed the inevitable.

See here - https://ipv6.he.net/statistics/ - for current statistics on how many IPV4 addresses are left.
What do you call a freely floated RMB?
A political necessity, certainly not a technical one. The default state of content is open, restricting it should be seen for the positive (read: affirmatively taken) action that it is.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with pointing to empirical evidence to support a claim (in fact, that is an excellent thing to do!). The issue I have with the original claim is that it isn't proven that giving away housing is a cheaper long-term solution than other forms of welfare. I certainly don't think we need to wait until something is proven to have an opinion or move forward in trying to make the world a better place (if we did, we would never take action in most cases), but we shouldn't present research in a way that disingenuously overstates our knowledge.
> The choice is to install it by default and make users opt-out, giving the uninformed users' data to Pocket (and thus their "partners")?

Except no data is sent to Pocket unless you actually opt-in to the service by signing up. Unless you login to Pocket the plugin and all its communication code is inactive... It is fine ti not like the integration but spreading FUD is annoying
You got downvoted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9885457

You cannot lose points form a submission.
Twitter Shares Jump After Fake Bloomberg Report
Why don't you just name which "far larger" competitors you're thinking of, so that he can address that?
How and when to use Git bisect
Not quite what you asked for, but "Save our NHS, it is the best!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB5tJNJSER4
HP IPO was about $400 million in today's dollars.
What was once a place where the alternative / arts crowd could meet like minded folks is now awash with spam

I see a Business Opportunity
I don't have any factual link handy but don't a small percentage of startups take off? I remember reading here on HN that a VC will invest a little money in a lot of companies knowing (hoping?) that most ideas will fizzle, some will do okay, and a few will make millions or more.

Having grown up with Google, I had hoped to see Web ads as their first Unicorn and expected more of the side projects they let their employees work on "take off". It's certainly not for lack of trying; it would be very interesting to summarize Google's pushes into other markets and see why they have failed to expand their core competencies.

Google has in no way failed, but I have always expected another PageRank type success somewhere.
Well, they kinda got money, in a different way:

Before, mozilla was implementing their own pocket competitor. Switching to pocket, and existing solution, allowed them to save money.
Interesting. Have you been asked that before? I've done a fair amount of going in and out of the country and was never asked
I used to think it was a failure to communicate, but I've increasingly come to the conclusion that the "average person on the street" really just doesn't care.

You can be the best speaker in the world, but you'll still only end up communicating to a small sliver of the average people.

I think changing the cultural attitudes towards science will do far more good in the long run, but it's very difficult. Ultimately, I think science isn't loved because it's slow, difficult, and filled with probablistic truth that will likely change in a few years.

This compares poorly to the easily marketable absolute truths that fill most people's days. The worst of science reporting happens when reporters try to make science fit into this mold.
The alternative wasn't "no DRM", it was "video distribution is done via apps instead of a browser".
One can just imagine the complaints about the name of that fuel...
> You can be a part of the development process and help make the Firefox you want.

In theory. In practice you get white-knighted to death by people who don't even read to the half-way point of your email.

You're falling prey to the open source fairy tale of "everything is open so you can make it what you want!", which leaves out the part: "but many things you might want can only become reality if you're willing to sacrifice years of your life, and they'll only usefully be available to yourself, thanks to open source ALSO having politics".
Just change "interesting" and "we" in his post to "interesting to me" and "I". Then it's reasonable.
Berkshire Hathaway is a totally diferent type of company (conglomerate ) to an advertising company.

They where v popular in the 60/70's until the wheels came of and corporate raiders starting breaking them up.
The POODLE has friends
“But we have ping pong tables”
I'll check it out, thanks for recommending
The EMH is, as far as I can tell, a tautology. It makes no real claims.

The article was an obvious piece of spam/trollmanship. It was easily verifiable as being a fake Bloomberg article, yet some probably believed it was real and made trades at prices higher than what was transacting before the article appeared.
DCU -Digital Federal credit union , its a bank which will offer credit card without deposits.
Thanks for the post, I was hoping for more discussion of this.

I'd be even more pessimistic about one's ability to go forward from empirical observation of opaque mechanisms.

Aside from your incisive observations, there's the point that if you have a "good" "working" "theory of how neural networks operate", what is it a "theory of"? It's dependent on the mechanisms that gather the test data, the sort of answer that a certain kind of person wants out of the test data and so-forth - the "epistemological" questions you didn't answer and couldn't answer will come to bite you.

I'd add that SVMs do seem more firmly founded but their ultimate tweak, the kernel trick plus projection onto feature space, is basically ad-hoc too - still much closer to a "real" probability model etc. The problem with SVMs is that they wind-up more or less equivalent to a 1st order neural network and thus they don't scale - once data becomes truly huge, they require too much storage.

Ironically, I think the best single overall critique of AI efforts was articulated by Paul Allen[1]. The problem is that in building large systems, people encounter a "complexity" barrier that prevents further progress[1]. Creating more complex systems to tackle that tends to fail as people wind-up understanding less and less of their own complex systems.

The problems with all the neurophysiological models is that raw neurons are very complex things and one doesn't know immediately which parts even carrying meaningful signals, a problem made worse by not having a model of what those "meaningful signals" might be.

Consider that if aliens looked at human-made microchips and tried to model them fully, they get the clock signal and various nonlinearities in the transitors right but have enough computation errors that no program would run on it.

Another good argument is that just all our methodology hinges on classical Western epistemology and a change in that may be necessary[2].

[1] http://www.technologyreview.com/view/425733/paul-allen-the-s...

[2] http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/david-deutsch-artificial-...
Most taxi drivers in the USA are also 'independent contractors'. Tomato tomatoe?
To avoid inflaming the situation, I have deleted my erroneous (sibling) comment after @aroch's reply. I was not aware that Pocket sent no data without opting in.
The same reason that people still paint, sail, ride horses, read books...
Mobile ads also account for PPC. And "mobile ads have lower conversions"? I think the opposite is true.
The problem is that each state had its on set of laws and definition of what is and is not a game of skill. DFS is legal under federal law; however it may not be under each of 50 different sets of state laws. Additionally, if the state determines that it is illegal, then it becomes illegal under federal law, since that is how UIGEA works. It essentially just puts federal enforcement behind state gaming laws.
One of the things that might be bad about this is competition. If I'm trying to start a startup and I've noticed a common problem and there's zero competition for solutions - that would be the ideal scenario for a new startup. But a service like this could have multiple people inadvertently working on duplicate solutions for the same problem. There is no mutex.

Don't get me wrong its a cool idea but probably nothing will beat basic observation and creative thinking when it comes to finding new ideas.
But if you want to work at hours convenient to you, then you probably won't make much money.

Most people aren't out driving people to the airport at 5am for the fun of it. For people who drive Uber as a primary source of income, sure there's some notional freedom. But in practical terms, there are times that you can productively work at and times that you can't.

Same thing goes for PostMates.
This right here pretty much kills any sympathy I had for Adobe in this matter. They sit on their hands for far too long when vulns are announced, and when they do get updates out, they use a completely backwards and useless update model in the name of extracting a few pennies per user.
Density Near Zero Acoustic Membrane
Putting something else in orbit is the hard part.
Both, I guess. I resolved ~2 months ago to stop buying Reddit Gold for myself or others. Haven't donated to Voat yet.
Reconsider preconceptions of what cities and society can do for humanity.

Basic needs like clean water, sanitation, and streets could be extended to public housing and food. Public housing might be a bare minimum room in a crowded building on cheap land around urban areas with public transit connecting the community into the city.
If you can get the the same diagnosis without a CT, then wouldn't it be better to skip the known risk in the first place?
1) Open the menu

2) Click "Customize"

3) Drag pocket and / or hello from the tool bar into "Additional tools and features"

4) Take a breather, phew that wasn't too hard was it?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customize-firefox-contr...
> Number of birds killed/year in the USA by cats: 3 700 000 000

If there are 74MM cats[1] in the United States, that figures out to about 50 birds per cat every year. Seems high to me.

BUT, if you add in the 50MM feral cats[2] as well, then the per-cat number is 30. Still seems high, but would make more sense if feral cats are disproportionately doing the killing (e.g. if feral cats kill 60 birds per year, and domestic cats kill 9)

The source for 3.7B[3] seems to actually be a range (1.4 - 3.7), and also estimates a cat population somewhere between 114MM and 164MM.

And at the end of all this verification, your point still stands, and it's still four orders of magnitude more. It also makes me happy that my past cats didn't decide to make a "present" out of every single kill.

[1] https://www.avma.org/KB/Resources/Statistics/Pages/Market-re...

[2] http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/11/6/us-is-overru...

[3] http://phys.org/news/2013-01-cats-billions-birds-mammals.htm...
Yes I totally agree that its not as easy as residents , but in IT there are lot of opportunities.
Thanks for pointing out. Still learning how this Karma points works.
Interesting. I've created problems.club (I posted link to HN yesterday), because I want to find a problems, which new startupers and other people like me can solve. Your project pursues the same idea.
Part of the reason New Horizons is going so fast is to reach Pluto in "only" ten years. A Hohmann transfer (which you would need to make a ballistic capture) would take about 124 years just to reach Pluto.
You made the claim. I provided a link with my own claim because it's the polite thing to do and furthers the conversation.
Not an expert, but I'm reasonably certain this is evidence in favor of stronger forms of the efficient market hypothesis. New possible information was accounted for in the price effectively immediately, in both directions without bias.

We know that the US equities market cannot be an instance of the strongest form of the efficient market, so we certainly shouldn't be surprised that new information causes changes in prices even if we believe that the US equities market follows weaker forms of the efficient-market hypothesis.
> Google gets the best of both worlds here. As an open source project, Eddystone gets lots of hardware support from vendors, but if developers want to give users the best experience and have an easier time themselves, they have to submit to the walled garden. Eddystone doesn't need to be tied to Google though, and if developers want to use their own cloud solution or client API

This is a killer. This isn't really open source at all [0]. Google controls the eco-system, and has most of the other vendors at its mercy (like how they flip search algorithms, give Google products a prominent listing in the search page, blacklist developers/websites etc). More than Search, its the mobile OS and API monopoly that Google is trying to build that's going to hurt even more.

I work on AOSP, and I think it is ridiculous that Google owns so much of the eco-system [1] and continues to get praised for being "open" as well; very much like how this article seems to be praising them now.

Besides, whatever happened to proposing to a central body and getting stuff standardized (I get that its political and slow, and no ones like slow)? Google works with W3C to get stuff in the HTTP standard [2], with ECMA too [3], but seems to have problem engaging standards body for other things where it has a near monopoly. Not long after Chrome has taken over a large market share, Google would start treating W3C the same, if it hasn't doing been that already [4].

[0] http://techcrunch.com/2009/12/22/google-open-when-convenient...

[1] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-...

[2] http://www.tomsguide.com/us/google-spdy-http-internet-w3c,ne...

[3] https://brendaneich.com/2015/06/from-asm-js-to-webassembly/

[4] http://www.neowin.net/news/microsofts-pointer-events-becomes...

/rant /offtopic
Uber (and other 1099 companies) don't want to do that, because their businesses are based on moving risk from the company (employing employees that they might not need) to their labor force (you can work whenever, but the amount you get paid is solely dependent on the demand that we may or may not generate for you).
David and Chris are extraordinary entrepreneurs. I learned a lot watching them build Zesty week over week during YC W14. This is a hard business to build. Providing consistent service in terms of restaurant relations, food quality, and delivery is non trivial. Zesty is the best at it. All of thedogeye's points about the value of serving high quality meals to your team are spot on. Congrats David, Chris and the Zesty crew!