skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They could all be open sourced. Google chooses not to open source them in order to control the platform and develop leverage over their partners.
Do you dispute the chargeback, providing the necessary evidence to the processor?
Worked for me; I gave it an email address and got back an email with a PDF attachment.
You can't set your own rate with uber. There are also penalty's for rejecting to much work.
I noticed the same thing. According to Wikipedia:

On May 30, Stimson asked Groves to remove Kyoto from the target list, but Groves pointed to its military and industrial significance.[73] Stimson then approached President Harry S. Truman about the matter. Truman agreed with Stimson, and Kyoto was temporarily removed from the target list.[74] Groves attempted to restore Kyoto to the target list in July, but Stimson remained adamant.[75][76] On July 25, Nagasaki was put on the target list in place of Kyoto.[76] Orders for the attack were issued to General Carl Spaatz on July 25 under the signature of General Thomas T. Handy, the acting Chief of Staff, since Marshall was at the Potsdam Conference with Truman.[77] That day, Truman noted in his diary that:

"This weapon is to be used against Japan between now and August 10th. I have told the Sec. of War, Mr. Stimson, to use it so that military objectives and soldiers and sailors are the target and not women and children. Even if the Japs are savages, ruthless, merciless and fanatic, we as the leader of the world for the common welfare cannot drop that terrible bomb on the old capital [Kyoto] or the new [Tokyo]. He and I are in accord. The target will be a purely military one.[78]"

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_a...
I don't think the efficient market hypothesis claims that stupid people can't exist.
Sounds nice, but sometimes I'm on a page in Safari (with Click To Flash active) and I can't get a page to load at all after "clicking to flash" once. I think there must be some additional flash file that I don't get the chance to click or some moment that passed so it can't load.
How will the platform wars play out as developers move in on IoT?
As a bit of an aside, not everyone is convinced that there is an ongoing transition to a gig economy. Uber is just replacing one kind of freelancer with another one, so isn't a great example of a net shift. And the macroeconomic statistics if anything are trending away from self-employment towards full-time employment: https://www.economy.com/dismal/analysis/datapoints/255258/We...

I think the questions the post raises are good ones, though.
Seriously, a 12% increase in a low number is not even statistically relevant. As it so often is, there is a relevant xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/1252/
Congratulations! A similar app won Google's Social Impact Challenge 2014 [1] in Brazil. It's named PLP 2.0 [2], and it's aimed mainly at women that suffer from violent partners.

A few friend and I built something similar for a hackathon made by the brazilian Chamber of Deputies on Genre [3]. Our main differentiator was that we didn't rely on having a smartphone at all, as our focus was on low-income women in Brazil, which (we thought) is the class that needs something like this the most. Although smartphone use is increasing very quickly in Brazil, only 20% of the brazilians had one in 2014.

Ours worked by having a phone number where people would call via a fast-dial number (so it would need just one button press), then it would start recording the audio and send an SMS to NGOs that work with women's protection so they could call the cops or whatever was deemed necessary.

Obviously, by not requiring a smartphone we wouldn't have access to the person's location. The solution was based on the fact that ~70% of the attacks occur on the victim's home. We would pre-register the person's number and addresses (home, work, etc.), so that when we received a "help request", we would know where to start looking for her. This was the best we could do with a dumb phone.

[1] https://desafiosocial.withgoogle.com/brazil2014
[2] http://www.plp20.org.br/
[3] https://github.com/thacker/botao-do-panico
> Why do so few people mention that almost 75 percent of Greek pensioners retire before the age of 61?

According to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retirement

| Age | 55-59 | 60-64 | 65-69 | 70+ |
|-----------------+-------+-------+-------+-----|
| Germans working | 61% | 23% | 3% | 0% |
| Greeks working | 65% | 18% | 4% | 0% |
| USA working | 66% | 43% | 20% | 5% |

65% of Greeks age 55-59 are working, while only 61% of Germans are. More Germans age 60-64 are working than Greeks, but slightly more Greeks age up to 69 are working.

> I also believe that we should hear much more about what the country will do to improve productivity and work harder.

Yes, when will the Germans learn to work as hard as citizens of the USA?
Unfortunately not - I picked the name at 4am at the Disrupt hackathon and, at that point, name collisions were the least of my worries. In fact, there's a ton of apps in the App Store with Witness in them. After it won the hackathon the name stuck and it was impossible to change
In my completely unscientific survey of asking my Uber drivers how they like their job, I've never had a single one complain about their employment arrangement. Most of them talk about how much they like the flexibility to work the hours they want. This is across a diverse group of drivers from young college kids, new immigrants, and semi-retirees. Is my sample set an anomaly or have others heard similar stories?

If the workers in the "gig economy" really are generally happy and their employers are happy and their customers are happy, I'm not sure I see a good reason to toss new regulations into the mix.
I think the answer is probably Tamarin[1] which started life as Flash's ActionScript engine and has since been donated to Mozilla. The Flash Player has also had direct GPU support for graphics and video for many years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamarin_%28software%29
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> I like Flash when it's done well. Raw performance and efficiency is one of the things I like about it.

This is some comedy gold.
It's not external exposure that's the big problem. You have to be near a big gamma source for that to be a problem. It's ingesting or breathing alpha and beta emitters. Especially in forms that are retained by the body, such as strontium-90. Or worse, concentrated by plants and animals used for food.
Also:

1. It omits Manicheaism, which as I understand, had a significant following for a century or two.
2. I am kinda doubtful that Hinduism spread to Indo-China and Southeast Asia as early as 1000 BCE. The cultural diffusion happened much later, with the rise of the maritime kingdoms of Southern India. (One cannot really call it a religious conversion, since that concept isn't explicit in Hindu religious cannon)
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I don't know that it's particularly faster than what can/could be accomplished with svg + JavaScript ...

I think most of the speed as a plugin vs native html/svg/js is that you don't have the whole DOM to deal with (including reflows, etc), and that their ActionScript is a much smaller subset of a language than JS in the browser, AS3 changed things a bit though. Today with canvas and an audio api that mostly works, you can get the same.

What I really wish is that Adobe would create Flash-level tooling with outputs for HTML/canvas/js/web-audio and video.
I hate to argue morals over the internet but this policy can make economical sense. If you're willing to assume that companies (including your own company) (unconsciously) discriminate against women then it makes sense to actively recruit women. Demand for women at a particular level will be lower so you get more for less.
Developers required to fix a massive healthcare problem / prescriptions
Managing prescriptions is fragmented, clunky and a pain in the ass. We want to solve this problem.

A team of three (ex Boots, McKinsey, Apple) are looking for a lead dev/CTO to help solve some tough IT challenges. You are an experienced coder obsessed with pushing things forward and capable of inspiring a team to greatness. You are ambitious and able to deal with ambiguity. You recognise the urgent need to improve the NHS and understand the role technology can play.

The tech: Right now we're working with node.js/mongo db but as lead developers/CTO you will be given a blank slate and will be expected to select the best technology to get the job done. This is a leadership position and you will be given the autonomy to set-out our technical roadmap, key hires and ways of working.

Experience of NHS systems and protocols is useful but not necessary; more important is passion, integrity, attention to detail and ability to work at pace. If you love solving problems and are interested in health tech, please drop us a note at project.metabolic@gmail.com
Exactly. This is why the argument of "well, you can't complain about Flash/Java exploits because the browser itself also has exploits too" is not valid. By adding Flash/Java to the browser you are increasing the attack surface of the browser "package" as a whole.
and link it in the title.
Tail recursion optimization is in ES6. Lazy Evaluation is provided in multiple libraries, including lazy.js.

There are also several libraries with pure functional implementations (ex: bilby)
Kyoto was vetoed by Harry Stimson, the Secretary of War, who liked the place (and apparently had his honeymoon there). Nagasaki was put in as the replacement target.
Kevin A Carson outlined in an essay how hospitals justify their prices on everything from saline to surgery on a managerial model which treats every service/good as revenue on the accounting books. Oddly enough, they got this model from the auto industry which did the same sort of model which obviously demands consumers to use the service/good as much as possible.

For example, how many patients actually need a CT scan? Not many, really, but if you dig deeper the reason they do this is to get the maximum value of of their CT scan equipment even if a patient's symptoms don't match anything that would require such a service. Equally, many hospitals also compete with each other thus duplicate services or spend their budget on the look/feel of their facilities (how many people care wth the foyer of a hospital looks like?) which leads to the higher prices. Essentially, each patient pays the full cost of the medical services rendered unlike how consumers in other industries (the price of a meal or a cell phone is not at cost, often it's lower when you factor in everything to bring it to market).

I think the way to clear the system is to do a multi-tier approach which may include single payer healthcare, but if you were to install that system into our hospital system as is then expect the US to go bankrupt in less than a decade. We have to break the back of the monopolists before we can get anything close to sane market prices.
You might be interested in our (lowRISC's) tagged memory implementation. We describe our planned approach in http://www.lowrisc.org/docs/memo-2014-001-tagged-memory-and-... My colleague Wei gave an update at the workshop a couple of weeks ago http://riscv.org/workshop-jun2015/riscv-tagged-mem-workshop-...
If you want to make your Chrome Flash click-to-play:

Enter chrome://plugins/ in your address bar, find "Adobe Flash Player", uncheck "Always allowed to run".

You'll then have to right-click flash content to play it.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9882122

(I didn't get why this story didn't get upvoted more, it seems like an interesting shift.)
We serve Zesty everyday at Flexport and I consider it to be one of our best investments.

1/ The team enjoys having high quality, healthy food served right here in our kitchen, they barely have to move to eat.

2/ People end up talking about work stuff during lunch most of the time

3/ When they are not talking about lunch, they're still hanging out with co-workers, which is good for our culture.

4/ Our team takes shorter lunch breaks than they did when they went out to eat, which means we are getting more hours of productivity from everybody.

5/ Hosting meals daily makes it easy to invite folks in for lunch, so it helps with doing external meetings as well--if you are interested in working at Flexport, come have lunch with us anytime :)

6/ It's pretty affordable, b/c we're getting economies of scale by everybody purchasing together, so for the extra hours of work and bonding, we get an insanely good deal.

I love Zesty and hope they can scale the business and make it very profitable because it is one of those companies whose value proposition for its customers is a no-brainer.
Why is this even downvoted? He's correct. Germany, as a country, was first established in 1815 with the German Confederation. The US confederation predates it by 34 years. The parent comment already mentions Romans, so you can't count the various Roman tribes collectively known as Germania under "Germany".
I must live in a different society than you. I see no issues with children understanding consent, respect for each others' bodies, and empathy. In fact - the society I live in actively punishes those who do not follow this code of conduct. We place them in prisons and have them sign a registry as a "sex offender" where that knowledge is made public and they never live it down for the rest of their lives. We treat sex offenders, in many cases, as worse than murderers.

But that doesn't prevent people who do not wish to follow this code of conduct from breaking the code of conduct. Education about theft and robbery does not prevent theft and robbery. These individuals do not care about "the rules". They care about themselves - and not others. Asking them to kindly stop robbing your store isn't going to get them to return the items they stole.

How does this device buy time? That isn't explained and I don't see how it could. Are you counting the few seconds before the criminal smashes the alarming/lighting device as "buying time"?

It could get help from family/friends, but this is assuming you aren't out alone. I imagine most crimes happen "while walking home alone" rather than "walking with my group of friends/family". Ignoring that statistically, most sexual offenses come from someone a person knows well, ie: a close friend or family member who might even be their emergency contact to begin with.

Authorities...quickly get help? I can order a pizza and call the police about a B&E and the pizza will get to my house first. You'd have to fix response times - police arriving to the scene of a crime after the crime has been committed isn't going to prevent the crime and in many places, the police have terrible response times.

The idea of mace, pistols, self-defense courses, etc. Are to prevent the woman from being raped. Not responding with help after she was raped. I feel like that concept is being ignored. I'm much more interested in a device that would prevent a rape rather than respond to one after it has happened.

>We believe that we're not successful until there's no longer a need for these type of products.

Society will always need these type of products because there will always be those in society who do not wish to follow the same code of conduct as the rest of society. Until society has a crime rate of 0% (government brain washing has been a success!) we will need these devices.
3/ * not talking about work...
A friend of mine did this. To provide a little more technical info on how it works: He wrote a Lua plugin for the VBA emulator which reads the emulated Game Boy's RAM to find out what's on screen and the state of the game. It blew me away when I heard about it. Of course, the reason screen readers don't do this for modern software is because modern systems are just too complex. And of course, this is for just one game.
I think the axis of evil was designated after 9/11 ( world's biggest terrorist act) and both Iran and Iraq rejoiced, after having spread anti-american ideology in their countries and outside for decades, while commiting terrorist actions for decades throughout the world. It didn't come from nowhere.

Now, to answer the question of why is usa being called the great evil by the iranian regime ( and not why you would find it logical) you simply have to listen to their spiritual leaders : they just hate western values, period. They think our sexual and political behaviors makes us close to the devil.

And that, unfortunately, is not going to change anytime soon.
> Stoneage lefties [...] anarcho-communist-syndicalist grufties

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well there are attacks in the vein of this: https://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste
Seattle's Angle Lake light-rail station might open earlier than fall 2016
> you know nothing about economics or finance

Please don't do that—it only makes the thread worse, and adds nothing of substance to your comment.
Open case. Dump out the cams, cogs, and gears. Insert custom PCB, e-ink display, battery, and user input devices.

The 555 was first sold in 1971. Why the hell would you still rely on complex mechanical linkages to track the time when you could just start believing that digital watches really are a pretty neat idea instead?
Typing on an n4 here..

I find it unacceptable that the phone's life is now limited by the battery. Where can you buy a new n4 battery now? Nowhere.. Yet the rest of my hardware is fine

At the time of purchasing the n4, I had tried to find another decent smart phone with a replaceable battery but didn't find anything suitable. My next phone won't be with Google and I'll instead be looking for something whose replacement battery will still be around, manufactured and not out of date in 3+ years (a guy can dream)
Hey, thanks for replying! This all sounds pretty cool and I think you made the right choice regarding UX markup :)
The referenced XKCD chart: http://xkcd.com/radiation/
I don't think this is the best idea in terms of solving the labor problem. It's more likely we need to make it easier for workers to form cooperatives and/or unions to minimize the excess economic rents on labor. That way, the workers can economize better in terms of healthcare or anything else really. Benefits is just a stop gap that should've been replace by better wage regulation or worker owned businesses where a worker's daily wage doesn't come below their cost of living (housing, healthcare, and food being the core line items in it).
> Iraq inspections all over again.

The big difference being that Iraq had started a war (violated UN rules) and so was bound to the treaty while Iran has not violated UN rules and "volunteers" to this treaty.
It was. Before the revolution.
Yes, that struck me too.

Turns out that the target for the second bomb was Kokura, and they did three bomb runs over it, but they then diverted to Nagasaki.[1]

Reading the report - with the rationale for each of those other targets - and then the story of the Kokura raid (which ended up hitting Nagasaki) makes it very dramatically obvious how "contingent" everthing is.

Edit: In fact Kokura, which I'd never heard of until today, got pretty lucky - as well as being the main target for what became the "Nagasaki bomb", they'd been the backup target for the first bomb

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_a...
They have already said that after the feedback they will make pocket into an addon (installed by default but easily removable like any addon).
Isn't the point of background radiation that it's in the background and you can't avoid it? Where does one find a control group not exposed to background radiation?
Journalism is generally exempted from securities regulations (if they are not trading). Comedy the same I presume.
CERN’s LHCb experiment reports observation of exotic pentaquark particles
re. microsoft: they are, just bundled into a small area. Look closely.
Of course supply and demand determine the price on any electricity market.
Yes, I'm already working on an Android version and an Apple Watch version. I'm really excited about the new Apple watch which is rumored to have a camera because it seems like the perfect medium for Witness to run on
“The people can always be brought to the bidding of their leaders. All you have to do is tell them that they are in danger of being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.” Hermann Goering
it's the only app I've ever used where I don't end up fighting to make the splines do what I want them to.

It's truly a gem.
There is such a thing as constructive competition vs destructive competition. Sadly, some do not know the difference.
There is no safe level of radiation. Latest research suggests that any kind of exposure has a lasting effect. [1] Naturally, that effect is small for small doses but does compound over the individual's lifespan.

[1] http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhae/article/PIIS2352-30...
This reminds me of Streetpass on the 3DS, one of my favorite featueres of that Nintendo handheld. This opens up all sorts of awesome possibilities for mobile games if it works as Streetpass currently works.
As a fun point this magnificent building was chosen as cover for Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming:

https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/bookcover.html

They did so because it's a pretty good example of multi-paradigm architecture, and the book is all about multi-paradigm programming.
Are the republicans really that dumb that if they see Iran telling their people "It is a great deal for us" they think they are telling them the truth.

Guess what, they have to spin deals to their public too.
Plus, it's only a sample of the first 5 chapters.
See, natural allies! ;)

Really, the difference here is trust and competence. The Iranian government doesn't seem to have the trust of it's people (that is, trust it has their best intentions at heart), or the competence to adequately hide the corruption. The U.S. is fairly competent at hiding the corruption, and thus has garnered quite a bit of trust. In the U.S. we know we have corruption, but we don't really know how much, because the politicians and the system are fairly competent and providing alternative narratives that make it hard to come to a definitive answer.
Which is why Uber drivers are employees. Uber should just accept that. They're being shut down, country by country and state by state, because of their resistance to labor law. Just since the beginning of this month, Uber has been shut down in France and two cities in Florida.
Minor point: The way that these high energy particles 'pop' out an atom is by ionizing it. Essentially, it interacts with the electron, raising the energy of the electron, and allows for transitions to previously too energetic states of the molecule. This may pop the atom out and rejigger the molecule, or it may just allow for a rejiggering of the molecule and not allow it back. Essentially it can break or kink the DNA very badly. There are many modes of cancer formation and progression, and ionizing radiation is but one that itself has many modes besides genetic damage as well.
Why didn't it stop to look around? Smell the proverbial roses?
Wasn't that its main mission? Or is it now going to check out other Kuiper belt objects?
Jews don't feel threatened because of netanyahu, but because of antisemites ( this word has an historical meaning, which is why i'm using it).

And unfortunately, antisemitism doesn't take its root in the palestinian conflict, but in religious books ( both christian and muslims). Which are much older than Israel, and won't change no matter the number of square kilometers of the palestinian state.