skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stop tying health insurance to employment. One way or another, the tax loophole for health insurance needs to go away. This benefits both the salaried worker (easier to switch jobs and get a raise) and the freelance worker (doesn't have to unfairly pay higher rates).
> after you are finished copying the atom data, the old copy must be deleted to prevent endless dopp[el]gangers appearing

Why would we need to prevent this?
I'm not making myself clear. The EMH does require information for any of its formulations. It doesn't require the market to magically determine what is "real" vs "fake" information and disregard "fake" information. In fact quite the opposite.

The EMH is based on the idea that lots of people react to incorrect information all the time, but that just as many are working on correct information such that the aggregate is efficient.

That is precisely what happened here. Some people reacted incorrectly to new information (ie they believed it) others reacted correctly (ie they saw it was nonsense) and the market in aggregate self corrected. I'm not sure that the correction falls into the semi-strong form as I'm not sure what the boundaries for speed of market reaction are.

I think it is smart to be skeptical of the EMH, lots of people are for very good reasons, but this event is not evidence one way or the other.
Insane IP assignment clause in contract
I was offered an interesting job in California (but at a large face less company). It has a clause that any "inventions" 60 days from my last date with the company belong to it unless I can prove otherwise. I've never seen a clause like this ... won't this make me unemployable for 2 months if I ever change jobs?
Getting Your iOS App Found (Or, Growth Hacking or iOS 9's New Search Capability)
Of course it has experienced territorial aggression from its neighbours. Israel has fought three wars against its total annihilation in its 70 years of existence. If the arabs had won one of those wars there wouldn't be an Israel anymore.
By that metric, the US should have had single payer health care years ago.
Credit card fraud detection is actually the "good working system." The author complains that he has to enter the new one on all the sites he uses. Well duh, the reason he got the new cc number is that only the vendors he really needs get the new one. And he complains that the sites don't know that "it's he" so he has to write down the passwords to which I answered that the alternatives are central authorities and they appear to be the worse solution than the problem.

Is there anybody here who'd like that Google or Facebook or Microsoft or Verisign or the government opens all the sites he visits? The named entities would be happy, it seems.
While I do understand where you are coming from - it can be more convenient to target a single implementation - the fact is that Flash has not been what you describe, for a while now. Flash officially announced it would no longer support Linux, and Flash is not usable in most mobile browsers either, for example.

Even plugins can't really get you what you want here. Yes, HTML5 has limitations, as you described, but plugins aren't the solution. HTML5 is closer, and moving in the right direction at least.
> It's like trying to show how to do OOP in C. It's a different paradigm than the primary of the host language, so any educational aspect will be severly diluted

Says who? I've taught OOP, as a concept, to people using C. It's incredibly obvious when you see it written--once you've implemented inheritance through structural composition, it's strikingly easy to reason about how traditionally OO languages handle their object models.

(This is basically what GTK does!)
Baidu is only popular in China, not the rest of Asia where it doesn't appear on the radar at all. Also, blocking Google probably has something to do with Baidu's success. And it's a crappy search engine, the Chinese I know use Bing for serious searches if they don't have a VPN to use google.
It's the degree of market saturation, so we're both right... 99 Designs is on the extreme saturation end whereas physical ones like Uber are not. But ideologically, the problems they share stem from "more providers = dilution of profits".

And it's terrible because they only way to compete as a business against Uber, is by "forcing" the participants to offer more services at an equal or slightly higher price, or do the same services for cheaper. And that is inherently not good for either a business or it's product (which happens to be us humans, in this argument) - and that is why you don't see identical services popping up.
That GObject stuff is really complicated. You can get pretty far doing simple OOP in C without inheritance and just containment.
Do you know why that is/are you Pakistani?

If I had to guess it's probably because they look a lot different than most Pakistani's...looks are usually the strongest influencer when it comes to discrimination.

I wonder why more of them don't go to Tajikistan/Uzbekistan/Kyrgyzstan where they would fit in ethnically. Probably because the socio-economic conditions there are still pretty poor, and the majority of their (usually very large) families are in Afghanistan/Pakistan/Iran.
It is very interesting to see how Android is a pyrrhic victory for Google. As they grab more market share, they are debasing their own products because profit margins on mobile are so low compared to desktop. At the same time, they practically give away the top of the market to Apple, which makes more than 90% of the profits in the smart phone segment. Retrospectively, it would be much better for them to be partners with Apple and other companies in delivering search technology, without any of the costs associated to developing mobile software.
Sketchiest ask HN I have ever seen. Might want to provide some more information weshouldtalk.
So...don't write code that mutates data and has side-effects?

It is, again, like saying "I don't see how this helps me in my world of uncommented code". You could just comment your code, right?

(Or if that's too much work, or it's a shared code base and you can't get buy-in, just start going forward?)
I would love to apprentice someone at my next job but please, theoretical future employer, leave me time and energy enough to actually train them.
It's surprising just how specialist conventional FE college courses can get for those inspired to get into a particular field. A flatmates' sister moved to England to take a course in piano tuning and repairing at a specialised musical instrument craft school within an institution that apparently also offers regular A-levels...
Understanding and mastering lens compression
Well, do you buy property to live on it, or to "invest"?

Real estate speculators hardly seem to add any value to the economy.
Link is broken. Here's the actual link: http://eugenezhulenev.com/blog/2015/06/15/feature-engineerin...
"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."

Yea, I think this sharing economy caught some of my
politicians off guard. After 2008, they just wanted any job creation. I don't think most of them realized how technology works, or it is just a fad?

I'm a fan of this sharing economy, but I am not a fan of exploiting naive/desperate people. I am for protections on this sharing economy. I was very happy when Uber was called out by their cute claim of Independent Contractors status.

I think most politicians, who care, recall a America where people had good jobs? Those days are probably gone? I think politicians, who care about the poor, and middle class, know the party is over? They see how divided the world has become, and at least here--want to soften the blow? Meaning they want to regulate(minimum wage, working conditions, etc.) companies that exploit desperate/naive workers.

I am glad Wallmart finally raised wages in some localities though.
No, but researchers agree that self-mapping or map-unassisted autonomous cars are much further off into the future than are perfect-map cars, like the ones Google is demonstrating. And the equipment (e.g. LIDAR) on the car is super-expensive. And has lots of moving parts. And is easily foiled. Etc.
There is a major reason for this: Obamacare

Small companies are more reluctant to hire for fear of having to pay employee insurance if they have over 50 employees, under the employer mandate.

Other factors include the inexorable trend towards more efficiency and productivity. These are forces beyond anyone's control.

Then you have huge competition for for even low-level service jobs, leaving many job seekers with no option but to choose 'gig' jobs. But you also have instances of people making more money with gig jobs than they would have in a regular job. Some people also hold gig jobs and regular jobs.
Also "cognitive dissidents", which sounds the same but is a noun and thus maybe better for a band name. Both already have hits on Google. :)
The gig economy will only die when humans price-gouge each other so immensely that robots are the only viable option - even though they can carry a higher entry cost.
In Manhattan, almost everyone carries water bottles (CambelBak is common) or they refill their store bought water bottles which are carried in bottle pockets on their knapsacks.

Columbia University (at least some schools there) give out water bottles and have special water fountains which have an overhead spout that fills water bottles and has a LED counter.
I believe HDMI CEC is a potential solution to this. It is a way to send keystrokes (remote-strokes?) back up the HDMI cable from the TV to the set-top box.

This means that there's no need to have a separate remote. Now, all that needs to happen is the number of buttons per remote need to be reduced as the menus improve, and as some features are automated.

It works well with the Nexus Player, for example.
Aren't hard to produce everywhere?
Play Sims 4 with the "Get to work" expansion. Having 8 me's in a house is a real problem.
There is a very high correlation between needing to know the exact time of day and having easy, commoditized access to electricity.

If you don't have electricity, and you are not navigating an antique wind-powered ship, you probably don't need a mechanical timepiece.

Also, I recall, from way back in the 1980s, a digital clock that was "powered by a potato", using zinc and copper probes. Even if we lost all grid power, and solar cells, and low-head hydro, we could still manage a zinc-copper cell battery.

Didn't you see that episode of Breaking Bad?
If Iran can benefit economically from the removed sanctions then the quality of life will go up and hopefully override the hawkish sides that desire warring.

Iran is better off more like Japan/S. Korea/Israel in terms of commerce with us rather than shut down and sanctioned. This is also a boon for oil prices for consumers. The oil production also balances against Saudi/Russia power in the region.

Iranians are very great, smart, innovative people and they have lots to share and innovate in. It is saddening that sanctions have happened for so long when speaking about the good people there being overridden by extremes.

I just hope that the economic benefits overpower the hawks on either side via market solutions and shared quality of life increases.
Isn't this powered by phantomjs more than docker?

Surely docker is just a deployment strategy?
Memory and Batterys?
Or Batterys and Memory
What an utter bunch of nonsense. Israel's military takes the most care to protect civilian lives of any military, probably any military ever in history. But if you want to castigate Israel for responding at all to rocket attacks on its civilians then please go ahead and do so.
"What else are you supposed to do when you conquer your market?"

Pay out massive dividends.
It's an awfully quaint notion that you should be able to take money from someone's account (credit/debit/checking/etc.) just by knowing the account numbers. This unauthenticated, default-trusting system needs to be entirely replaced.
same, got a beefy one in 2008 with the core 2 quad q9400, only upgraded the videocard midlife as the 8800 gts overheated and died.

I am about to replace it but it had incredible value for money. while waiting for the next intel cpu iteration I got a cheap samsung 850 and it feels like new!
"In the pocket of" is a broad statement.

Most of the _politicians_ in this country give undue importance to Israel. cf, Hillary's recent statement that she'll be better for Israel. They seem to fall over themselves to out-hawk the hawkish Israelis.

As far as the Iran deal is concerned: many top Israelis are actually in favor of this deal. See:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/06/efraim-halevy-netan...

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/israel-middle-east/i...
I have never really seen Google investing on the Next Big Thing. Google Ads is what they do correctly. Google Maps, certainly strategic. Driving cars? Awesome, but why not wait for a thousand startups to invent it and aquire. Android? It's a defensive position. The rest goes in decreasing order of size and revenue and half of it could be shut down.

If they want to make an impact, AirBnb, Spotify, Uber, Facebook, MongoDB, iPhone, AWS, those were the next big thing in the last 10 years. On all those topics they're on the second step. None of them were particularly hard, especially when you have the funding.

At least with that many talent, they have good chances of inventing a human-grade IA; with that much data they could decently feed their IA; with that much computing power they're ready to host the IA. If they don't, then they should have settled with the first 5000 employees who made the Search, Maps and Android.
Even Apple didn't bother to put in any thought into their remote control design. They ship the Apple TV with an IR remote (in the era of Bluetooth LE!) which is too painful to operate. Luckily, the Remote App works pretty well.
it isn't, it's pretty easy to measure CPU usage along with energy usage with the exact same video file across multiple browsers on the same computer and across different players (html5 vs flash).
agar.io, are you kidding me? What a f*cking ugly game. Might be fun, but is that the standard for HTML5 games?
Except the ones that are well regarded, as pointed out by a reply to your post by mattybrennan ....
But they will be way better than humans really quickly

I'm naturally suspicious of faith-based engineering.
I feel like The Scale of the Universe did a better job at giving a sense of scale, and it goes all the way from plank length to the edge of the observable universe!

http://htwins.net/scale2/
Great comment, personally I do rock climbing and Ashtanga yoga for my core strengthening and I agree that you should work on improved overall strength. A big win on the standing desk is the allowance of high amounts of movement (especially when very focused on the screen). Things like the SI joints and the sacrum which get zero movement from sitting. Lots of swaying helps keep everything loose as well as keeping focused on using the leg muscles to support yourself instead of relaxing and letting the cartilage do all the work.
What about women who are already in relationships? Or platonic friends with the guy? Or not into men?

There's a lot of situations in which this dynamic would work just fine.
"Of the big emerging business lines at Google - Android/Play, GFiber/Loon, YouTube, self-driving cars, Nest & home automation, enterprise Google Docs, and AppEngine/Cloud - YouTube is the only one where the money comes from advertising."

As opposed to the others, where the money doesn't come from anywhere.
The easiest thing I know of to do with dried out ink cartridges is to use steam to open the nozzles.
1: Correct, though since the majority of jobs, infrastructure, and population gravitates around urban areas, building further infrastructure near populated areas would be reasonable.

2: Why do societies agree to build and maintain public infrastructure projects like sanitation, water, roads, schools, etc?

There will always be the economy of WANTs, buy a house wherever you want!

Consider the excessive amount of tax money going into the Prison Industrial Complex economy, it seems a much better option to build low cost / public housing infrastructure and job training rather than prisons.
> Remote controls. Why are they terrible?

They're the pinnacle of 1980s consumer electronics technology. Or, well, they're close to the top of the digital electronics we put into analog TVs, anyway.

> Why is no one fixing them?

Because "TV" manufacturers haven't fully internalized the idea that all screens in a consumer's home are, fundamentally, display devices for various computing equipment, all of which is likely on a WiFi LAN, or should be. Some of that computing equipment includes an ATSC tuner, and is likely built into the display itself, but we have HDMI for a reason.
> It's easier in Trades, where things are fairly static and there's set standards.

You obviously haven't been following the National Electric Code for the past ten or so years.
This is a false dichotomy. Google has to pay to be in particular platforms because they're viewed as a competitor. Even nowadays Apple doesn't seem to have any interest in search technology. If Android didn't exist, Google could concentrate their efforts in being the known and trusted source for web search and partner with Apple and other companies, the same way this works for Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, and so many other web-based companies.
I don't understand people with a bajillion tabs open. If you're referencing a bunch of man pages, sure, but generally it just seems like people load up with the intention of reading later, and never do.

Just read the damn page, close it, and move on.
Here we go again. I'm sure you'll point to Ahmedinajad's "wipe it off the map" speech again?

Mossad's former chief himself supports the deal. I would trust him over a politician any day: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4644691,00.html
So far I believe side-effects as we think of them are unavoidable[1]. But they can be reduce to a minimum (the maximum being writing programs as a big set of global variables, and jumping GOTOs between mutations). Using functional style avoid a lot of nasty side effects like unnecessary temporaries, uninitialized values and their modification afterward (local assignments or across procedures). This is a thing one can do in C, whereas in FP languages, you're constrained to write this way, giving a culture of combinators and patterns (tree rec, map, fold, streams, monads, ..) hugely solid and tiny, thus reusable.

I understand what you mean, because even though I love FP a lot, I still struggle to conceive whole systems (other than simple map-filter dataflow ones) this way. So far I keep the FP principles for small pieces, hoping later on I'll find a way to close the gaps.

[1] John Backus tried to design purely functional languages a long time ago and he hit the IO wall (he mentions it in some article). Haskellers had issues at first and found that Monads were a nice functional way to express IO-like logic. It's still something weird, a lot less clean than purely functional expressions to be evaluated.
With pay per click prices generally trending downward, and competition going up, Google has to focus on actually making money - not a huge surprise there. The bigger problem for them, I think is that their ad business is still heavily trained on search intent, and search behavior. Certainly, google understands search behavior better than any other company, but as an end user, I find that my web behavior now is far less predicated on the functionality of search than it once was.

With search, I show intent, frequently looking to purchase something. However, as google's results have become worse and worse at surfacing useful information for me, I increasingly rely on my bookmarks, or other favorite places to start. Because the search is not getting better at the same rate that the internet is getting bigger, I find I don't bother with extensive search-based shopping, and instead hit standard review sites or shopping sites.

This wouldn't be such a problem if I still got to _those_ sites through advertising, or search, but I don't do that much at all.

IMO, google really needs to change their tactics with search in order to put themselves back into the purchase intent stream a bit more.
If you're listing a core language feature as something that "can't be done in that language", you may not understand the language as well as you think.
So, my multi-file upload flash button stop working today? Bummer...

Any suggestions for a simple milt-file upload JS library? Something that works on new browsers, and falls back to flash on old browsers.
The Gig Economy happened before. In the 1930s, itinerant workers called "hobos" traveled the country looking for work and food. Despite the negative reputation of the word today, hobos were actually considered to be some of the hardest workers. They had to be; they were barely surviving.

The difference now is that corporate executives, flush with VC money, are able to monetize the emerging desperation economy (oh, I'm sorry-- I forgot about HN's anti-"negativity" policy-- sharing economy) more effectively than ever before.

The transition started with FMC (Former Middle Class) driving for Uber and subletting their apartments for extra cash, but it does seem to be spreading. For the record, I'm not especially against its existence. I would rather see our legislators interested in fighting the meltdown of the middle class itself than being focused on something that is, at worst, one of the symptoms.
Given the estimates for time spent closing a deal with ARM, You could probably be actively engaged for those 6 months, and get your core in the same time frame.
Lots of swaying helps keep everything loose as well as keeping focused on using the leg muscles to support yourself instead of relaxing and letting the cartilage do all the work which is the only real concern I've come across for a standing desk.
At the risk of being pedantic...if you're not familiar with data/math work in Python, the `np` word refers to "numpy", which is an extension to Python that includes array and matrix math...so the OP needs 12 lines, the first being:

import numpy as np
Yea I'm pretty conflicted about my opinion of that remote

On the one hand it's simple, it's sleek, and it works.

On the other hand it's so small it gets lost all the time, typing is awful, and for a while when I was getting used to it I'd hit the arrows when I was trying to click the center button.
Random question: is there any way to disable that menu from popping up when you highlight text on Medium? I could write a little chrome extension to strip it out but would rather just turn it off for good.
Emoji translate
... which is about as practical an observation as the organization (I forget which- was it the skin cancer foundation?) that maintains there is no safe level of sunlight exposure, and that any and all forays outside should be accompanied with large sun hats, full-body clothing and an inch of sunscreen.

Technically correct, but so unreasonably stringent as to be pointless, and so lacking in perspective as to be laughable.

You cannot escape radiation, and frequently there are benefits that far outweight the risk. See: Bananas, x-rays, airlines, living in Colorado, using a computer, having friends.
That could make for a cool park. I imagine you'd have clear line of sight between the planets (either by having a clear path between or by raising them up on monuments), and telescopes setup at each planet in such a way that visitors could look at the other planets without people getting in the way.

The Sun would be 1.5 meters across, the Earth would be 1.2 centimeters across, and the whole thing would be 4.5 km from the Sun to Pluto.
About the intentions it was paved with, we have to ask to whom they were good.

I'm fairly certain that our well being was not a high priority.