skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few years ago I landed my first programming job as a COBOL programmer, I had no professional(programming) experience or a college degree but the company offered an in-house training type deal. It was several weeks long and they had a trainer come in every day and teach us COBOL and it's accompanying technologies(SQL,JCL,REXX), the pay was 50,000 a year starting out and it wasn't a bad gig. Would I go back to it? Probably not, but you can certainly make a decent living getting into COBOL these days. The work was boring and nothing cool or cutting edge but at the time employment was employment to me. My resume is online and I certainly get my fair share of offers for COBOL work. So learning it could certainly have some merit if you're looking to make some money.
This is how I imagine most people who lead with, "I'm a veteran", think.

It boggles my mind that someone feels deserving of respect because they found themselves in a low income situation and joined the military because of it.

Relative to other low income, low skill, employment opportunities, joining the military is rather safe. Compare it to entry level construction workers for instance.

So I'm supposed to pay tax dollars for your salary and then give up my seat on a plane because you're working just like the rest of us?

By the way, thanks to everyone who is a contributing member of society. That goes for roofers, factory workers and military members alike, but please don't ask for special treatment from me, because I'm not likely to give it to you.
Bytecoin 1.0.5 Release: Unconfirmed Transactions Pool Synchronization Solution
3-D printed food
HPX system for parallel and distibuted applications becomes more reliable
Even though this is the first time this article has been posted on HN. Security advice is so quickly outdated that this article very likely isn't relevant today.

I don't know how prevelant some of the password management tools and two factor authentication was in 2009, but it's common to use them now. Browsers are more sophisticated and the landscape has changed a lot.

That all said the sentiment of the article still stands true. Users (like my family) hate worrying about security.
‘Smart clothes’ for personalized cooling and heating
Interesting post, and I'm not surprised to see a diversity of opinion on the design. Question: does anyone still use the CRC validity check for client- or server-side validation of payment card numbers?
Cowboy 2.0 – Loïc Hoguin Talk at Erlang User Conference
3D Printing in Ceramics
Sounds a bit like the planet from A Deepness in the Sky. Are the spiders in hibernation now?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky
Would seem that this could tie into Lucid Dreaming and Dream Control. Wonder what would happen if the same workouts were done while dreaming. Same results?
Oh OK. I thought all of them required masks lol. I didn't know they shortcutted around that for 90nm. That's awesome! Thanks for the tip.

Far as FPGA, that was my model: prove it with FPGA, get to a certain volume, and then do a S-ASIC run. Important to note that I'm focused on security-critical apps. A FGPA's reprogrammability is a risk here. I thought there was a chance I might be able to skip the FPGA off and go straight to S-ASIC if I sell customers on fixed logic being safer. The anti-fuse FPGA's are my backup plan on that although I haven't thoroughly evaluated their actual security.
I've been interested in this but, as of now, it's completely unaffordable. :-(
There is a benefit to the appraisal process in that it is well-defined and somewhat predictable and rational. In a state with less clear process or case law, a dissenting shareholder's path of recourse against a transaction they disagreed with is shareholder litigation, which is costly and may result in a jury trial with very unpredictable results. The DE appraisal process means both sides know what will happen if a shareholder dissents to a transaction, and there is generally confidence that the DE appraisal process is rational. That mitigates some of the risk of shareholder litigation with unpredictable cost and outcome. If you are a shareholder in a company going through a transaction in which there might be other shareholders that dissent, you definitely prefer the predictability of DE.
600$/month pretax is not that bad, but I suspect you can do better. https://www.ehealthinsurance.com/ has lots of plans starting at $264.45 /month for a 35 year old.

Granted the deductibles look high, but unless you have ongoing heath issues your generally better off using a higher deductible and putting the difference into a savings account.

PS: Don't forget the high ROI part of health insurance is simple negotiating power, the risk mitigation part is less useful.
I'm interested in the data formats and image processing used for all this. I've heard a couple mentions in passing that they're "not in your standard JPG" but I'd like to know more.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned justworks.com. Are they only beneficial for small teams, not individuals?
Code insights in Bitbucket
Does the fact that this article drifts up on the HN front page not inherently make the submission worth while?
Or should all up-voters clarify their reasoning behind doing so?

I mean, many people may have many reasons that got this article to the front page, does it really matter what they are (or what the single reason of the submitter was)?
NASA Releases Stunning Color Images of Pluto and Charon
This looks nice enough as it is but what I think Go needs now is a more direct OTP clone suitable for new projects. If GoWork grew into that it could very well eat into Erlang's market share. Many people want their distributed systems language statically typed and fast. With Erlang you have the prospect of having to rewrite parts of your applications in C for speed looming menacingly on the horizon at all times. (Edit: I rewrote the last sentence to be more clear.)

A disclaimer may be appropriate here: I am aware of the limitations preventing one from reimplementing the entire OTP in Go. I still think that what you could get would be "close enough" with a few code guidelines (or a purpose-built static analyzer).
mynoise.net seems to have more features and sound.

My "noise stack" when I'm really trying to concentrate is usually: pink noise + rain storm + c418 on spotify
I certainly care about people outside of SV. I'm in SV.
Interesting. I know a freelancer couple whos cost when down dramatically with the OC plan. Could the federal prices be different per state?
China Intercepts U.S. Restrictions with Homegrown Supercomputer Chips
This is cool, but it's using so much CPU on my machine that I can't see myself using it often (Chrome 43 Mac, scrolling the page is jumping it to 40% & sometimes even 80% CPU).

Coffitivity does something similar as a Mac menubar app with minimal CPU use - or they used to, looks like they've gone mobile only now?

Love that you have a Berlin cafe in there, more of those please!
"A 2007 Canadian study targeting hip muscles had the same outcome: a group of college students using weightlifting increased their hip-muscle strength by 28.3%, a control-group doing nothing to their hip muscles exhibited no change in strength, and a group working on the muscles only via mental imagery showed an increase in the strength of those muscles by 23.7%."

I wonder if you get all benefits of workout/cardio by just imagining. Would love to go for 10 minutes imaginary runs while sitting at my desk when my brain needs a break.
"The only advantage of obamacare is that if you cannot buy insurance yourself that easily with things like pre-existing conditions etc."

It has vastly improved the health care the poor receive.

I'm not a huge fan of Obamacare, but it is all he could get past the Rebublicans at the time. He tried to push for a sensable solution, but Republicans fought it. I am waiting for anyone to propose a better solution to Obamacare, but keep bill's core requirements.

As to what how for-profit insurance companies have explioted us, while blaming Obamacare; I hope there's a special place in hell for these heathens! In the original Obamacare bill there were measures that would limit rate increases, and out of pocket fees--the Republicans got rid of all of them. I recall them saying, 'Get ride of this language/requirement and we might pass it?"

What I am trying to say is get rid of Obamacare, but replace it with something better. I haven't heard any real alternative plans proposed by the Rebublicans? I though the the Rebublican Doctor(Bobby Jindal) would have a thoughtful, pragmatic plan--yea, he has a plan, but it just sounds like basically going back to the free market system we had before?
That worked so well?
Hacker has two meanings:

person who breaks into computer systems (legally or illegally)

person who codes or generally experiments/tinkers with computers

Now the 2nd meaning is quite common on HN, though only OP could tell you the exact meaning.
Mobile Textfield UX
someone should redo this, but break both arms, and only imagine working out with one of them.
> With coffee bars, free beer and well-used communal spaces

Beer, while working? What a good idea... or maybe not.

Reminds me of 10-15 years ago when we'd have a pint or 2 at a local pub during lunch on Fridays. Nobody every got anything done on a Friday afternoon after that.
Searching for Approximate Nearest Neighbours Using Python
Analyse Asia 45: The Rise Conference 2015 with Mike Harvey
they're all different per state, because there's no real 'federal pricing' or 'federal policies', AFAICT. The fed govt gives subsidies to insurance companies for low-income folks who sign up to the plans in their individual states/locations. There's no 'federal health plan' (more's the pity, imo).
Love the idea of having unintelligible ambience in different languages.

I'm a little amused by the fact that no one seems to be talking in in the Berlin one. Makes me imagine stereotypical Germans staring straight ahead drinking their coffee as efficiently as possible.
Show HN: StackHut – Your code as a cloud API, powered by Docker
> Edit -- why downvote this comment

Sorry, reflex; every time I hear a bell ring, I downvote one of your comments.
How Marketing Is Changing SaaS
Synopsis: With Mike Harvey, head of strategic communications from Web Summit, we discuss “behind the scenes” for the upcoming Rise Conference 2015 in Hong Kong and his thoughts on the Asia digital landscape. We hear the story of why they decide to bring the conference to Asia, the key people who will be speaking in the event and also the activities which will happen before and during the conference.
>copyright and trademark are poor excuses - if the search engine wants to be in the default set of search tools provided by the browser, they can trivially authorize the redistribution of a a simple icon

Debian's policy does not allow them to accept "special dispensation" for copyright and trademark permission - either everyone has to get it or Debian can't accept. This is part of why Iceweasel was split from Firefox in the first place:

Per the Debian social contract:

>License Must Not Be Specific to Debian

>_The rights attached to the program must not depend on the program's being part of a Debian system._ If the program is extracted from Debian and used or distributed without Debian but otherwise within the terms of the program's license, all parties to whom the program is redistributed should have the same rights as those that are granted in conjunction with the Debian system.
The danger of setting the wrong goals and going down the wrong path
Does anyone not? It's a dead stupid simple way to check that the card number entered could possibly be valid, so you can let your users know earlier in the process (during client side validation) that there may be an issue.
A small portion of the country has to make the ultimate sacrifice (health & mental stability) in order to keep people like you safe, happy, stable, and employed.

Any number of events could have led you down the same path. What if your parents had died while you were young? What if you were born poor & the military was your ticket to decent pay and an education? You're lucky that you get to live the life that you do.

You should show some respect and practice a little empathy rather than picking on a lonely, disenchanted, divorced, PTSD-afflicted vet who was ordered by your government to kill your enemies.
> the military assessed the risk [of including] a single additional strain of "harmless" bacteria to the many that live in a city

This does not seem as if it should have a very high risk...

> Just like the NSA concluded that it was reasonable to do what they did [...] they do these things without concern for the moral implications

Which NSA activity do you mean? Bulk collection of phone metadata on US residents? If the legal folks said they have a way of defending it as long as certain internal checks are in place, I don't think there are many "moral implications" to collecting data as an agency devoted to signals intelligence does all over the world, aside from the moral implications of signals intelligence itself.

> rarely does the government do atrocities without considering the moral implications

Now you're really escalating. "The government doing atrocity" usually involves intentionally killing a lot of people, not spraying the equivalent of sugar water or collecting phone records.
Query Throughput on Analytics on OLTP (Postgres)
reminds me of "Epic Win" which i thought was a great idea but never managed to hold my attention.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/epicwin/id372927221?mt=8
> The entire idea of the Bitcoin blockchain is to provide anonymous consensus...

>Participants in regulated financial markets are all known, which makes the entire design of the Bitcoin blockchain moot.

My understanding is that one of the major ideas of the Bitcoin blockchain is to solve the Byzantine generals problem, where it's irrelevant whether the participating generals are known. What is relevant is that the generals cannot/do not necessarily trust each other, yet they must still reach consensus. It's the trust issue that's important here, not the pseudonymity that one particular blockchain (Bitcoin's, in this instance) can provide.

> The only reason you see NASDAQ playing with such "colored coin" solutions is that there is currently very little expertise in this space in financial institutions, and there is a monumental hype machine behind Bitcoin.

I can't read the minds of any NASDAQ VIPs, but I suspect they have more than one reason for experimenting with emerging technologies. Maybe they don't want exposure to counterparty risk such as we find in TFA with regards to DTC/Cede & Co. Or perhaps they're attempting to quantify the tradeoffs in risks among different possession and clearing mechanisms. Or, sure, maybe they're being distracted by the newest hotness.

I welcome being proven wrong, but I'd be very surprised that the "monumental hype machine" behind an emerging technology -- whose market cap is less than half of NDAQ's -- is what convinced a group within NASDAQ to consider some use of Bitcoin's blockchain.
from the VA? nope, you get more drugs than is wise after you wait over a year for the paperwork.

At this point, closing all the VA centers and paying for the same medical insurance that Congress gets for our veterans would be cheaper and better.

A lot of the problems is the US's approach (or lack thereof) to Mental Health issues. We attack symbols instead of dealing with the actual problem that we have some folks with broken brains. Some of those folks are veterans and the US needs to deal with the breakage. The current system is a disaster. Lord help our Native American Veterans who not only get to deal with the VA but also IHS.
I was using it for quite a long time and it worked well but then I made a mistake and everything went wrong. The main problem with this app in my opinion is that there is no way to reset things if you made a mistake.
Please link to your sources.
See also πfs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6698852
If your credit is decent you can get a traditional mortgage. It takes a little extra effort but you can still do it. You'll have to provide tax returns and usually around 4 months of bank statements plus a P&L for the business (if you are a corp) but that's about it. Plus of course your down payment proof.

If you have less than decent credit or have very unpredictable income it can be a little tougher, but there are secondary and private mortgage markets to help there and while more expensive they aren't horrible, but a little more buyer beware. I have used this market before for income properties and you will find that there are assholes that try to take advantage of you because they think you are desperate. Then there are those that are there to make a good return but are totally reasonable. If you have to go this route, find a mortgage broker that deals in this market, it isn't that hard and a reputable one will help keep you out of trouble.

EDIT: BTW -- debt to income ration is a little more important here depending on the type of debt.
I have some spare rubber bands but I am afraid I don't have the means to ship worldwide.
The iPhone reformats phone numbers as you type them, and I personally don't find it jarring at all.
Just discovered pink noise because of you and my mind is blown! It's very calming and hypnotic!
For color noises (there are 6!), try http://concentr.me
For programming (or other work that involves intense logical thinking), nothing beats silence for my productivity.

Complete silence is, unfortunately, unachievable. But music of any genre, the buzz of people talking, a droning TV - all seem to interfere with my ability to concentrate on a hard problem.
I think there is a deeper Problem with our attention span and concentration ability when people need this type of "noise".

If people feel the need to hear "café noise", maybe it's just a sign of loneliness?

And if you need white/pink/whatever-noise, maybe your office should integrate some noise policies or try to reduce noise by giving offices to small teams of people.

I get that people use those audio streams and soundfiles to "shut off distractions", but to me, this is only a fix to a bigger problem.

Edit: Maybe someone should start beerbarsound.com, so you feel like you're out drinking with your friends, but in reality you're sitting at home/the office, working, without any friends.
I've been using it for a bit, I think there is something that allows you to reset some things[0] (health level and gold).

[0] http://habitrpg.wikia.com/wiki/Settings#Fix_Character_Values
They are all differant per state, and if he/she is poor with a pre-existing condition/smoked/smokes, over weight, its very likely that his costs went down.
It'll come full circle. People will start getting murdered / seriously hurt in Uber cars, maybe they'll be filmed without their consent while in the car, probably a few rapes along the way.

Then customers will cry out for regulation, insurance, etc. And it'll put the prices up.

I don't understand why you'd put your life completely in someone elses hands without any sort of vetting, regulation, insurance etc. Just so you can save a few $

Maybe a startup should disrupt the medical industry. Just provide "doctors" to patients based on online feedback scores. After all, all that regulation and training just pushes prices up.
Ambiance is not just auditory input but visual cues as well.
What do you mean by "OTP"? Do you mean "One Time Password", or is OTP an abbreviation for something else?
People who know what they're doing may have better security, but when I have to return to the "mundane world" nothing's changed. Passwords no greater than 8 characters... case insensitive with no symbols allowed with a mandatory number... getting mailed my password back in plain text when I use recovery mechanisms (or, well, my wife actually since my password management generally outlasts my accounts)... it's all still out there.
I'm relatively confident I can, even as an outsider, give you some insight on their situation. All my closest friends were in the military in different branches even and they all shared a pretty similar story.

They spend years of their life excluded to mostly just people in their team. They chant words of brotherhood and tell tales of hardships and emotional struggle. They daily reaffirm to each other that their only hope for life is to rely on their brothers inside of this team they are on. They are given uniforms, they are given mottos and they are regularly put through emotionally and physically demanding situations. This is just the training phase.

The sign-up for such a job is promised acts heroism and tales for the grandkids, but then after all that hard training and attitude altering for this promised adventure, you end up sitting on your ass and doing mundane crap in another country. In an attempt to keep your dreams relevant you start making up hardships and talking about your brothers who died in combat (usually people they've barely even met) and then you come home and find out people don't think you're quite the hero you we're promised you would be.

You come home and find employers pissed they had to make special accommodations for you and you come home expecting people to pat you on the back. You come home with promises of bonuses you never got because the military lied to you and the VA doesn't give a shit about you.

You joined up as a bright eyed young man looking for adventure and spent so much time being fed that bullshit that when you come back home it's hard to cope with the fact so many people lied to you.
As much as I hate chaining functions, I do like the idiom of declaring that a function may panic with the 'Must' prefix.

As long as there is an alternative function which returns errors :)
You should visit your local pet store, in the aquarium fish section, and check out the products available for maintaining the health and well-being of your fish.

And you should also learn the generic drug names or IUPAC chemical names for the commonly prescribed antibiotics.

I'm not saying those two suggestions are in any way related, other than the possibility that doing both could save you a great deal of money, in certain situations. Otherwise, grocery stores and big-box stores with embedded pharmacies often sell generic antibiotics at prices below your drug co-pay, but you would still need a prescription, and therefore an office visit co-pay. It pays to shop around.
For anyone looking for a good resource for improving their mathematical problem solving (especially for the Olympiad level), I highly recommend the Art of Problem Solving wiki. [1]

That homepage isn't very informative, but you can search for any topic and find explanations and problems that can be solved from that. For example: radical axis [2]

If you're looking for a book, The Art and Craft of Problem Solving by Paul Zeitz is the most recommended.

[1] http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

[2] http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/Radical_ax...
Preventing burnout – Recognizing that people can quit
Sorry - the pi thing was reference to Carl Sagan's Contact.
Pre ACA for a 30 year old non smoker with zero heath problems my plan was over 500$/month. Granted, VA health costs are probably higher, but that's a long way from 84$/month. Can you give details such as a link to the actual coverage?
The issue with incorporating elsewhere is that Delaware law is understood. It is the baseline.

If you go with some rarely incorporated state's Corporate law you don't even know what traps are there, and there are a lot fewer experts. Also it is perfectly possible that no one will have done what you want to do.

This is why some states more or less slavishly copy Delaware corporate law. Of course the weird and complex case law isn't there, but often it is sort of "ported over".