skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can be a dangerous thing to do, but the company are fully aware and fine with it happening - there are actually a few of us with side projects that we'll sometimes work on during lunch breaks.
I disagree. What would Google Docs look like as a typical post back driven app? A giant text area with markup? No collaboration? No history of changes? No live spellckeck? Are you suggesting we go back to a pre-ajax web? No thanks.

I was developing clunky web applications with way too many text areas, buttons, tables, and pages pre-ajax. I'm much happier with the state of the web now.
Just like with Rosetta, there are always people eager to tear down the accomplishments of others.
Where are the jobs?
Spoken exactly like someone who has never driven a Tesla. ;)

> a used Lexus that cost us $8,000. It's an extremely comfortable luxury car that seats 5 and can easily be driven across the country

How much did that Lexus cost new?

How much will a used Tesla go for in a few years?

> and can easily be driven across the country

Yes, NOW. But, you didn't read the article (or your reading comprehension sucks). If 10% of the cars on the road become electric, at least 10% of the gas stations will start to close (since that business is barely profitable), making it increasingly less convenient to own a gas car.

> A new electric car [1], on the other hand, costs approximately the same but can only seat 2 people and can travel 160 km on one charge.

Yeah, today. What about in 5-10 years?

You consistently use current state to argue against future state. There must be a fallacy named for this.

> It takes 6 hours to fully charge.

Tesla's tech is here now and takes far less time. He also released all his patents.

> The costly lithium-ion batteries will have to be replaced at some point.

Yes, in 10 years, when they will be far, far cheaper, due to manufacturing economies of scale. In that time they will lose only 10-15% of their total charging capacity.

> True, it is convenient for trips around town without much luggage.

Using electric motors over gas engines is a HUGE space savings. Again, see: Tesla. (You really need to see one of these up close and drive one. It may be the only thing that will "show you the light.")

> I'm fairly confident that the used Lexus will outlast and outrun the new electric car.

Nope, because the ICE (internal combustion engine) and transmission has hundreds or thousands more parts (any of which can break) than an electric transmission. The Tesla only has ONE GEAR, for example. Teslas, and other electrics with 3-phase AC induction motors, will last faaaaaaaaaaaaaaar longer than gas powered cars. I've seen 60 year old electric motors running like a top, and in googling the reliability of electric motors, they are far higher than gas motors. Coupled with the "tipping point" effect of many gas stations closing up due to lack of business, that cross-country trip will end up needing to be routed through available stations one day...

Did I mention that a Tesla, going the same distance as an ICE vehicle, has 1/3 the carbon footprint.

Source: I own a Tesla Model S P85+ and fully expect this thing to still be in tip top shape in 10 years while continuing to run circles around gas cars (ohhhh, I can't wait till you experience simply passing people by at speed in this thing... you think the thought and it's like you're a pinball coming off caroms to your destination...)
Would HN freelancers mind sharing your resumes?
I'm a freelancer who's well has dried up. I'm just looking for examples of other fresslancer's resumes. Specifically, freelancers who have done a lot of internal work for companies and can't show the actual apps or code to potential companies. Thanks in advance!
It's worth reading up on the structure of the government of Iran: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Iran. The Iranian President or Ayatollah is often portrayed as a dictator, but the reality is quite a bit more complicated than that. Iran has a functional civil service, with the office of the President, a parliament, and independent judiciary. Presidential candidates are vetted by the theocracy, but are elected in pretty legitimate elections. Though the theocracy pulls a lot of strings, the civil government has significant autonomy in areas such as economic policy and the routine administration of justice. And theocracy itself at least as elements that could evolve into a more liberal system. The Supreme Leader is elected by the Assembly of Experts, who are themselves elected by public vote.

Most importantly, Iranians are used to and expect those hallmarks of modern civilization. That makes them very different from the people who live in the other Middle Eastern theocracies, who, prior to establishment of the monarchies, did not have nations with functioning national governments and civil services. Those attitudes towards government are what enable friendships between countries, moreso than relatively transitory conflicts. For example, the U.K., France, and Germany live relatively harmoniously within the structure of the EU, even though as recently as 70 years ago, they killed millions of each others' people.

I don't want to whitewash Iran (it's still a place that executes homosexuals, after all). But I think it's important to look at the example of England, the originator of modern western democracy. It evolved very methodically from a divine-right monarchy into a liberal democracy. It did so because it had the political structures in place to enable that transition. Long before the monarch was relegated to ceremonial status, the civil government was actually running the show. Countries like Saudi Arabia do not have that. Their governments are intimately tied up in their monarchies. Iran, on the other hand, does have the structures in place to enable a successful transition into democracy.
> and to sign up for a cheaper energy usage plan at home

Wait... What is this??
One of the EZ requirements for negotiations on a third package is that ELSTAT becomes independent of the politicians...

("Oh no! Evil Germans! Austerity!")
Ok. Just noting that the product discussed here, doesn't actually fly. It's not a drone.
Yeah, as compared to the string if presidents before him to did both jack and shit to stop Iran's nuclear development efforts.
Qatar – Turkey pipeline
I've resisted using an ad-blocker for years because I'm happy for the sites I visit daily to earn revenue that way, and for many it's the only way they can. I limited myself to running Privacy badger and blocking Facebook/Twitter tracking cookies, that kinda thing.

But this is the straw that's broken my camel's back and it spoils things for those of us who don't mind a few ads here and there. uBlock now installed, sod the ad networks.
> For references, here's an example of a website that was simultaneously blocked on a bunch of providers because it matched domain name patterns of a Russia propaganda site:

Not sure what this demonstrates. If you look at the comments it seems pretty clear that this was just an ordinary case of mistaken blacklisting, possibly because the administrator had never heard of an SPF record. And, worst case, it was blacklisted because it was mistaken for a Russian spam site. There is no credible allegation of governmental involvement at all, and no reason to think that there was. Moreover, it looks like the problem was long since corrected, through the usual means for becoming un-blacklisted.
How can grasshoppers be pink: why animals are born the wrong color
> We'll use the world's most popular functional programming language: JavaScript

Then you won't be doing functional programming. You will be doing "somewhat
functional programming" at best.
It is a problem for cycles too - at least road bikes with thin tires.

I found these figures for road bike theoretical max cornering speeds - road bike with Continental GP4000 700x213c tires, rider weight of 180 lbs., tire pressure 105lbs, clean, dry, and smooth blacktop flat surface - not cambered.

Radius Speed
30 ft. 45.325mph
20 ft. 34.569mph
15 ft. 23.547mph
10 ft. 18.3675mph

However I've fallen off at under 15mph when taking a bend in the rain - very big difference from 45mph!
Rosetta/Philae were all over the news here in Germany for weeks before and weeks after the approach, landing, etc. Once again here as they came back into communication.
Here’s how data caps really affect your Internet use, according to data
I don't understand the request for freelancers to have resumes. I have always pushed back and attempted to provide the company with a statement of work about what I would do for them. I understand you want to make sure I am qualified, but unlike employees with a freelancer your paying for services rendered, if I am not rendering the services you need you don't pay.
Does Germany offer free, higher education for international students? That seems like it would be a significant cost, assuming they don't cap the number of international students at a low number.
Choosing Request Tracker Software to Exceed Guest Expectations
Uh oh, you're right and I was even in Poland not that long ago, I meant in the EU, but still an egg on my face.
You can use this page to see if your browser will use HTML5 by default, and set a cookie to try HTML5 instead of Flash if it's not the default. https://www.youtube.com/html5
Absolutely my reading of the situation too. I hear these two sides of the argument "Greece is a petulant and lazy bad state, hit them" and the one I subscribe to "let's forgive Greece, it was on the banks to lend stupid amounts of money to them".
In addition to clipboard access flash is also used to provide alternate upload mechanisms. See Dropbox for a good example (and the failover UI).
This animated map shows how religion spread across the world
Electrolytic capacitors were harmed in the making of this video
Groundwater is bad in Greenpoint but that's not where tap water comes from in New York. Nearly all drinking water in New York City comes from reservoirs & lakes upstate.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/wastewater/wwsystem-history...
Inside New Horizons
Well, I presume that's why they offer an API, but does then allowing unlimited use outweigh the costs?
The ones who were asked by Greece to cough up money pretty much agreed with Germany.

France and Italy didn't (at least not in public), because they would also at some point like to have access to taxpayer money from the Northern/Eastern EZ countries.
It would be interesting to theorize these models in order to spread them. Nevertheless the model of a startup growing and hiring still feels attractive to me given to the current economic situation.
It has no real bearing, but it does provide us with a view of what is going on behind the scenes in the tunnels of power in Brussels. Remember that Britain is planning on a referendum to stay or leave the EU, not join the Euro. That is highly unlikely to ever happen, and after recent events I think it is absolutely clear that the ECB cannot be trusted not to use the Euro as a weapon of mass economic destruction.

I was a vehement believer in the concept of a united Europe. In some ways I still am, but only with regards to the base concepts of freedom of movement and freedom to work.

I am British and I have taken advantage of the freedom of movement. I have lived in several countries in the EU. I haven't returned to the UK since 2004. That freedom is incredible, and I hope it doesn't change.

The Euro though is a different matter. It is dividing the EU. It is creating the have's and have not's. It is being used as an economic nuclear weapon in order to force the will of one nations economic culture and expectations on to others.

Greece made a mistake back in 2010. At that point they should have embraced the Grexit. They should have crashed and taken all the German and French banks with them. Now the foreign banks have no risk in Greece. The ECB has bought them all out and the ECB and IMF hold the Greek nation by the balls.

If I was Greece I would implore Tsipras to follow Varoufakis' plan. It might not work, but it might just work, and I guarantee that another bail out is not going to change a damn thing, but move the current shit storm into a larger shit storm three years down the line.
Beginner Tutorial: A Neural Network in 11 Lines of Python (or Less)
For American Psychological Assn, National Security Trumped Torture Concerns
The Euro notes has codes for both the issuing central bank and the printer facility.

http://www.eurotracer.net/information/notes.php
I think you're missing a tremendous amount of context in this observation. Varoufakis is speaking a close approximation of the truth in this situation. The point is that the Euro as a union is an economic disaster: Capitulating to the German electorate because they're bigger/richer is not much of a union, it's hegemony.

The USA doesn't let Alabama and Arkansas rot if Californians would prefer it that way, it has automatic transfers and laws in place to help its members out. Yes we are a tighter Union politically, but that's the aspiration of the EU and Euro, and they've just proven they really would prefer a regional hegemony than a group of political equals.
Yeah Microsoft has at least put a bullet in Silverlight (admittedly it was use a LOT less).
> I'm not sure why you'd expect that apartment owners wouldn't put chargers in their garages?

I've lived in many apartments, but I've never lived in an apartment that included access to a garage. Many of the apartments I've lived in only had parking available on the street.
Hi! I helped build a competitor to FanDuel in the daily fantasy league niche as well.

While our app did also allow real-money wagering with payouts, the focus of play was to be social and game with your friends rather than to make money or gamble with strangers. It is totally normal for people to play and nkt wager any money - maybe for you and your friends bragging rights are enough, or maybe you assign your own real-world prize to the winner if you want. but if you wanted to 'sweeten the pot' with dollars, we also made that possible through the website.

It was definitely 95%-100% game, and optionally 5% real money wagering if you even did that. For example, I have 'won' $25 I probably can't legally withdraw from the company by playing, but Ive never wagered a penny and dont even have a card hooked up! So it is possible to play with real money without paying if you win enough too!

Though you could hook up a card and wager tons of money, theres no additional reward to that, and it wont give you any advantage in how you perform in the game. Its not designed to entice people into gambling.
I remember reading that this spacecraft would not have been launched without a Russian rocket engine, and that the plutonium fuel also came from that country.
Had to laugh at the last sentence.
I've been called an idiot (even here on HN) for being paranoid about loading scripts from all over the web. I think it's a losing battle and my side is going the way of the dinosaurs.
If Match group is really really serious about bagging more singles, they should acquire Reddit.
In retrospect it seems he could have saved himself a Fiddler session if he just opened console debugger in browser and used `?"-(function(){debugger}())-"` in URL instead of `?"-prompt()-"`. (I would not have guessed this either, but may come handy next time.)
Rosetta/Philae was all over the news a few months ago. Not sure what news sources you read but I saw it everywhere, including cool animations about their lander
Wouldn't it be better to disable third-party scripts?
There's no guarantee they are going to finish that project either! I certainly hope they do as that are of Manhattan desperately needs another line.

The time and costs though - it makes you wonder how we used to be able to build things and now we can't so easily.
Well I have autistic tendencies and I'm an academic; and I do believe in democracy although not so much the mob rule variety; so 'it takes one to know one' is rather apt here...
Breaking free of Internet and Things
"don't have a garage where we can install such things"

Why? In the frozen north its, maybe not customary, but not overly unusual, to have parking spots wired for engine block and battery heaters. Theres a whole cultural thing of not blocking other peoples access, a legal framework of not blocking sidewalks, when its OK to share, or not share, someones extension cord, stuff like that. Its just not a serious issue. The cost of one parking spot was rolled into my bachelor pad, but when space was available I could get another spot for $25/mo or whatever it was, surely a charger spot would have some minor additional costs, but chargers are pretty cheap compared to land and pavement and buildings.

I guess the only technological limitation I can think of is service drop size, if you wire up 200 parking stalls at 25 KW each you're probably going to have to upgrade the service drop or implement something "interesting" involving partial charge rates. Presumably someone will start shipping an apartment charger that can bluetooth pair with its neighboring chargers and cooperate such that the total average draw of the entire lot never exceeds 100 KW or something like that. 100 KW is a drop in the bucket for an apartment building, thats like 1000 watts worth of TVs or lights in each of 100 apartments. Dinner time on a hot summer night is a large multiple of that draw.

House service drops used to be just 60 amps a few decades ago and now 200 is pretty standard... if you think service drop upgrades for a house are expensive, imagine the cost of an entire apartment building upgrade LOL. Of course this may be a short term thing... solar panels may mean apartments will be net producers while the sun is up, soon enough.
The grandparent is basically right.

The Euro is flawed by design. Flow capitals works against the Euroarea. For instance:

The interest rate convenient for Germany is not the interest rate convenient for Spain. What do you think are the rates chosen by the Central European Bank? (clue: the ECB is in Frankfurt)

This shouldn't be more problem that the Fed rate affecting New York and Florida for instance, but there is not a common fiscal policy like in the States.

What happens is that capital in the banks of the north search bigger returns in hot economies (south countries) and create bubbles (Florida again?).

When the crisis arrive, we lend public money to (Greece for instance) so they can return the money to the (private) banks and, in a sleight of hand the fault is all of the lazy south Europeans.
I can't wait for HLS support

http://www.jwplayer.com/html5/hls/
Every borrower of money has to come to terms with the lender, or there will be no money.
Pinterest Marketing Benefits for a Small Business
Happy memories! Mike Lee's talk was amazing, Laura Savino basically gave a masterclass on presenting, and Maxim Cramer had Twitter on fire. What a wonderful week :)
Yeah, I agree. Also, the US has much more in common with Russia than China. I don't understand painting either of these countries as "the enemy".
I can't upload a picture, getting "An error occurred while uploading the file"
Deutschland deutschland uber alles, but with banks instead of tanks.

"The European Union as we have known it ended over the weekend. That EU project was all about the gradual convergence of equal nations into an “ever closer union”. That’s finished now."

http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/tormenting-greece-is-about...
Awesome resource for learning it seems!
Better title: "CERN's Large Hadron Collider has discovered two pentaquark particles".

From the research paper:

> The significance of each of these resonances is more than 9 standard deviations.

9 sigmas is a lot, I guess they waited because pentaquarks are a polemic topic. Usually the discussion is about if it's really a pentaquark particle with 5 quarks, or it's only a baryon with 3 quarks traveling along with a meson with 2 quarks.
The Disney Recipe (2013)
> Maybe Europe would benefit from having a bit more American-style "rah-rah" patriotism around the good old "12 stars on deep blue" EU flag.

Something most americans don't understand is how repulsive blatant patriotism is. A lot of europeans, along with their nationality, have a sense of being "european", just like most americans have a sense of being "american" (rather than just "Californian" or what have you).

There's nothing wrong with being proud of your country (or continent). There's everything wrong with an "in your face, my country is better than yours" attitude.

If you're a citizen of any EU country, you can just go anywhere else in Europe, no questions asked. You're welcome, anywhere in Europe. I travel a lot. I move a lot (I've lived in several different countries in the EU). This is one hell of a wonderful feeling; and even though, by distances, EU countries are similar to US states... there's really nothing like being immersed in a completely different environment. The weather is different, the language is different, the customs are different.

Singing the national anthem in schools? Chanting "<country>! <country>!" whenever something cool happens which you want to be a part of? It's alright I suppose when you aren't constantly crossing national borders. When there's only [edit: realistically] two other countries on your continent. Nobody's going to be offended (well, nobody that will be able to tell you). But it's the last thing Europe needs.
It definitely plays into the hands of the anti-EU brigade. Their whole spiel is that the EU is a bullying, un-democratic bureaucracy. The last few weeks have made it kind of hard to make the argument that it's a warm and fuzzy family of equals.

Whether or not it'll have much of an effect on the vote, I'm not so sure. I doubt if many British identify with the Greek situation (in the sense that it could happen here, there's definitely a lot of empathy about). It's definitely seen as a consequence of the Euro (which we aren't part of) rather than the EU (which we are).

My guess is that it's likely to have hardened those who were already in the pro/anti camps and confused those who are undecided.

Possibly of more practical effect will be whether it makes the likes of Germany etc more inclined to negotiate the EU T&Cs with the UK prior to the referendum. The UK government want more flexibility in the arrangements. I can see political arguments both for giving a bit of slack so that the EU definitely stays together and for the Eurozone saying that it's flexibility that got them into their current mess.
As a child, I loved reading about space and astronomy. I think I pretty much read every book about these topics my local town's library. (It wasn't a large {town, library}) Isaac Asimov's non-fiction books were among my favourites.

I never imagined that now we'd be getting the level of detail seen in these photos of Pluto (level of detail akin to a Moon shot), which until now, only existed in my mind from various artistic impressions. I can only imagine how the folks on the New Horizons team feel after seeing the results of their work after so much time and effort.
But people also see this as a demonstration of the problems with the EU. As someone who would like to eventually see a federal EU, this whole situation has been exasperating because it has driven a lot of really pro-EU people I know to question whether the EU as whole ought to even survive if it doesn't reform after this.
And yet Flash persists.
This is an interesting idea, as it does attempt to solve a problem. Filling out applications can be very tedious.

I have a couple of questions:

1. A lot of job applications require information like a social security number. Is there a way you can do what you need to do without that information?

2. None of the links in the footer work. I think any business that is actively engaging in the collection of personal data, even if the clients are willfully giving it to you, should provide access to all of your legal docs and maybe even an FAQ.

3. Potentially there is a large % of your customer base that are short on cash, since I think it's safe to assume that a lot of them don't currently have a job. Do you collect the fees up front? If so that can be a problem.