skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the widely documented increases in the cost of a US college education at rates far greater than inflation, it's easy to dispute your claim that getting educated has never been easier.

Paying off historically unprecedented student debts for recent US graduates also disproves your claim that it's never been easier to invest.

Of course it's possible that you weren't talking about formal education but, like it or not, credentials matter and employers are still more impressed by degrees from recognized institutions than they are by the fact that you've read a few Wikipedia articles.
BMI and fat percentage have nothing to do with why flights want heavy people off. It's purely because of the weight. A 200 pound 6 foot male costs the same as a 200 pound 4 foot female.

Spend a little more time hitting the books instead of the weights before posting stuff like this next time.
Google has a timezone API: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/timezone/in...
Not until you demonstrate that they are correct. Hard to dispute platitudes.

I'll start, that first one regarding education. Is it easy to learn now with the internet? Sure, undoubtedly true. Is that measurably better than before for any person? Probably not. Cost per semester hour at a college I went to 10 years ago, is over four times as high now.

That is just the first bullet point. I tend not to even consider the rest if the first point is so... out of touch might be the best way to phrase it.
You have hidden information that was only revealed much later in this conversation. One cannot be expected to divine this information.

This thread would have turned out better if you had stated something to the effect of "I have watched this BBC programme many, many times and I have always felt that Feynman's minute of Socratic lead-up to his answer to the interviewer's question about magnetism is inappropriate and rude." in your original post.

I doubt that many folks will read the comment you made to me in which you reveal that your opinions have been informed by multiple viewings of the source material in its entirety.
Long time ago, I've did some experiments with luajit and branching (well more like the CPU). It was based on this article: http://igoro.com/archive/fast-and-slow-if-statements-branch-...

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/malkia/ufo/master/samples/...

local ffi = require("ffi")
local band = bit.band

local function test(n, m)
local count = 0; for i=1, n do if band(i, m)==0 then count = count + 1 end end return count
end

local function timeit(m)
local t = os.clock()
test(0xFFFFFFF,m)
local t = os.clock() - t
print(string.format("%08X",m),t)
end

timeit(0x80000000)
timeit(0xffffffff)
timeit(1)
timeit(3)
timeit(2)
timeit(4)
timeit(8)
timeit(16)

--[[
-- This is on OSX 10.7.2 MBP 2008 Jan build
./luajit samples/badif.lua
80000000	14.067395
FFFFFFFF	20.252955
00000001	13.497108
00000003	17.337942
00000002	14.142266
00000004	14.221376
00000008	14.42377
00000010	14.708237
--]]

Results now - 2015 (again Macbook OSX, much better than before and also luajit 2.0.4):

80000000	0.247822
FFFFFFFF	1.253168
00000001	0.664586
00000003	0.974336
00000002	0.676823
00000004	0.679609
00000008	0.675207
00000010	0.673961

without jit, just interpretter (pretty much the same results):

$ src/luajit -joff ~/badif.lua

80000000	3.329909
FFFFFFFF	3.553143
00000001	3.440378
00000003	3.484646
00000002	3.424834
00000004	3.424539
00000008	3.616981
00000010	3.598598
definitely post to https://www.facebook.com/groups/delhistartups/ or https://www.facebook.com/groups/blrstartups.connect/

If you want any more information about India - dont hesitate to mail me. It's a great startup ecosystem and great food. Yes, we have our shit - but fairly democratic and good opportunities can be had in general.

Tech work in India can be used as a stepping stone to the middle east, Singapore or the US.
New infrastructure deployments is not "packet routing" and QoS is usually as strongly tied to policy as BGP is.

If you have an example of QoS relying on ML, I would be interested in reading more.
Drones Getting in the Way of Emergency Responders
Download any website from the Wayback Machine
But Forbes doesn't include any state or state-affiliated families. Considering the influence that is packaged with a billion dollars, it shouldn't be surprising that in many places wealth and political power are more closely tied than they might be in the US or Europe.

How many billionaires in the Middle East aren't counted? High ranking government officials in many countries also are likely billionaires via corruption.

It's unclear what proportion would be inherited vs new wealth, but it's another dimension worth considering.
I believe "neoliberal" (socially liberal, fiscally conservative) is the label for the "so-called progressives" you are arguing with.
Any more recommendation for books on Math? I am a web developer and I wanted to learn Math from the basics (I only did Math till my 10th Grade)

I have a keen interest in neural networks and it requires good foundation of Math.
Please don't be uncivil on HN, even when someone isn't googling.
This is in contrast to this article, that states, "Drones can help in two ways: They can safely gather more information about fire conditions than is currently available, and they can send that information to firefighters on the ground quickly." --- http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/19/technology/innovation/fire-f...
I've been living in the Netherlands for nearly 7 years and haven't even tried to learn Dutch yet. Completely concur that it's an easy and wonderful country to live in, and there's tons of work for good software developers.
> ...Feynman didn't teach him a lesson...

While Feynman was speaking to the interviewer, the person to whom Feynman's words were truly directed was the person at home watching the interview, rather than the interviewer.

This is a critically important point that you appear to have missed. :)
"privileged" and "diverse perspectives" are terms from recent "social justice" theory -- which is newer than "progressive".

It's of course very slippery to try to attach labels to any informal political groups, and probably better to discuss ideas, not people's labels.
Detailled London transport map
Making the Grade (Separation): The Bermondsey Diveunder
tl;dr for those who don't want to read the paper in detail:

* Interpreters are conceptually a big switch(bytecode) statement in an infinite loop. They use various tricks to make it easier for the processor to predict the target of the next indirect branch

* This previously had a dramatic impact on performance, because branch mispredictions are very expensive and it was difficult for the processor to predict them accurately.

* Recent Intel architectures have improved branch prediction, so the aforementioned tricks no longer have a very big impact (on Haswell x86 processors specifically)
I've spent significant portions of my life in rural MN as that's where I was born. I'm in rural MN and WI for 2-4 weeks a year now. My father is buried in a speck on the map that has no stoplights or stop signs. So no bubble at all.

I understand anti-Americanism plays really well at a lot of places online though. So keep the shtick going, I'm sure you'll impress someone.
Having lived in the US and three different European countries, I now live in what is supposedly one of the poorest European countries, Bulgaria.

Apart from the few third world countries I had visited, I had never seen real poverty until I went to the US. I had expected the US to be like Western Europe with bigger cars and more fast food, but I found infrastructure such as roads, airports, bridges, railroads that were seemingly left unrepaired for decades, public institutions like schools or government agencies were in worse shape than in the better Eastern European countries. They even had power outs not unlike the Eastern European ones. And just about everywhere we drove, even in wealthy areas such as Orange County or Manhattan, one wrong turn would take us to neighborhoods where we literally felt unsafe.

A few months ago I visited the poorest regions of Bulgaria, which happen to be (one of) the poorest region(s) of the entire European Union, Severozapaden Region, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severozapaden_Planning_Region. It's just South of the Danube, in the North western part of Bulgaria. And yes, it is poor, barely any businesses, and young people are moving out of there to find a future elsewhere. But a regular lower middle class suburb in America feels vastly more hopeless, rundown and outright dangerous.

I love the US and the US is a great place to be wealthy and I still believe your chances of making it really big are better in the US than in Europe as a whole. But Europe provides for a better life right now, not only for the poor, but also for most of us regular folks with no or little wealth and with lower or upper middle class income.
Are these facts well noted by the favourite HN news rags, Washington Post and New York Times?
If they're in no / shitty jobs, poor health / broken families, they need to figure it out like everyone else!

Like everyone else who isn't in a shitty job/poor health/broken family? And, by definition, haven't had to figure it out?
Many people here talk about how 'terrible' the US is as a country. Yet, we see people like the OP trying everything in his power to get into the country.

It should really put things into perspective.
The rich are not just the billionaires. Try anyone who has enough that they'd never have to work if they didn't want to. Which is anyone with about $10 million and up.
Unless you are granted asylum and therefor have to live in a prison camp...
If you want to work without problems, Isn't Europe the steadier solution? I'm from Belgium fyi and Belgium is currently re-enabling "shelters" where fugutives of war can reside/stay.
> "We like to boast of America as a land of opportunity, and historically there is truth to that"

I keep hearing this, but where is the evidence? Was there any objective research done to figure out whether at any point there was really some sort of magnificent economic mobility in the U.S.? There's lots of anecdotal evidence, sure -- stories of people who immigrated here with nothing and made it big, movies, novels, etc... but how do we know we're not just hearing about the exceptions, and that in the vast majority of cases, which do not capture people's imaginations, the poor stayed poor and the rich stayed rich?
Keep in mind this has a dual socket motherboard. My colleagues bought 2 of those boxes with 4 titan-X and they are actually cheaper than the price on the web site.
codeornocode best of luck man.
The Internet in a module
> ...your assumptions about me can't be clearer.

I see you saying this a bunch in your replies to this thread.

It might be time for you to step away from the thread for a few hours, then go back and level-headedly re-read it, starting with wtallis's post and working your way through each sub-thread before making any more replies. You might see other people's replies in an entirely new context.
>> Esser put people at risk.

>That's non-provable until we see it instantiated.

That's not how risk works. I don't even know where to start. If you play a round of Russian Roulette and happen to hit an empty chamber, do you say it's impossible to prove you were at risk? Do you see now how dumb that argument is?

If he publicized a vulnerability, the risk to all of the affected systems is increased. Period.

It's the same way that EMPs are a risk to airlines. If someone releases a method to generate them very easily, they increase the risk to all airlines. You don't have to wait until an airline is brought down before you say the risk was increased.
why is the 1st page narrower than the others? oversight?
> I still don't understand how you consider talking about "magnetic fields, spin and electrons" is name dropping in the case of magnetism, but is perfectly acceptable in the rest of the series

The distinction is in whether you are pretending to explain those concepts, or merely referring to them as the causes. When answering some other question, you can mention those concepts and then go on to explain the consequences they have. In this case, after mentioning those concepts there's nothing more to say unless you're going to explain those concepts. There are no layers of understanding to be built up from unexplained assumptions about those concepts, because the original question is the very next layer up. And the next layer down is university-level.

He didn't balk at giving an explanation about trains, because there was useful progress to be made there. That wasn't the case for magnets. The fact that you can keep digging into either subject given sufficient study is irrelevant.
Consider coming to Germany. Berlin has a nice startup scene and both English and Arabic speaking communities.

I don't know how easy it is to get a Visa in your particular situation!
Sync iBooks with any folder on your Mac
I am an Indian national on H1B with a top company in US. By all means please do not come to US with H1B. The U.S. has broken immigration system. My visa is locked down to my employer and I cannot ask for a raise or get promoted. I accepted the lowest payment as per DOL from my employer just to stay and work in US with my 6 year H1B validity. By all means apply for a Canada work visa. They have now something called Express Entry system. You can also apply for permanent residency. US immigration system is broken and they are not going to fix it anytime soon. Immigrate to Canada. H1B is indentured servitude.

I have started my Express Entry application and very soon I will say goodbye to US , I don't mind the cold in Canada. I will have freedom to change jobs, won't be an indentured servant. I will also get permanent residency fast. US green card for Indian citizen is around 10 years backlogged.

I suggest it's best for you to apply for the Canadian Express Entry for skilled workers.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Good god that was uninteresting.
https://www.iana.org/time-zones

"America/Chicago" is a standard timezone name.
Think and grow rich by napolean hill (read his golden rules as well), psycho cybernetics by maxwell maltz, Tao Teching by Lao Tsu (written centuries ago, it will give you deep insights on leadership), power of now by eckhart tolle, jonathan livingston seagull by richard bach, and of course the alchemist by paulo coelho!
A straightforward explanation of quantum computing [pdf]
Regarding MOOCs, part is that is likely cultural - some groups are more likely to have been enculturated in communities where independent learning and self-study is acceptable, if not actively encouraged, versus being discouraged by social ostracization or physical violence in others.

The broader issue of drastic differences in outcome, where some people can't get a job scrubbing toilets while others are getting 250k job offers, is also probably due to the winner-take-all employment environment that an increasingly developed economy creates. Use of technology amplifies productivity, so that differences between different quantiles of worker productivity become larger, and companies have more incentive to hold out for the potential employees at the top of the food chain. And as it becomes a more competitive environment, there's less incentive for the less competitive members to bother participating whatsoever. Since increasingly more of society's functions can be performed by smaller segments of the population it shouldn't even be that much of an issue, except that, especially in the US with its widespread "screw the non-contributing zeroes" and "let them die" attitudes, no one wants to consider restructuring the system to support the huge portion of the population that didn't "make it," despite that being the same population that the same highly productive individuals are being produced by and drawn from.

So my suggestion is it results from productivity differences due to technological advancement, and social welfare programs will not eliminate those differences, they can just help sustain the necessary population that will never be making 250k a year working as a senior engineer for a large tech company.
Well, the numbers are similar for millionaires. This is for individuals deemed in the ultra high net worth category, which is $30 million and up....

"Sixty-five percent of the ultra-rich made their own money, while an additional 16 percent inherited a portion of the wealth that they grew to a larger fortune. The self-made rich have an average net worth of $142 million, versus $130 million for those who inherited their money."

http://www.bankrate.com/financing/wealth/myths-about-the-ult...
You said many people today believe that the poor deserve their lot in life. I think the people who believe that are ignorant or indifferent or both.

However, an ugly bit about the poor that no one wants to confront is culture. What is to be done about the culture of the poor that locks them in poverty? I don't think throwing more money and resources at the poor helps -unless- it is somehow coupled with culture change.

Wasting money/health on cigarette smoking and booze and drugs, credit debt and payday loans and living paycheck to paycheck, dropping out of school, lotto, endless streams of chaotic drama-filled relationships and unprotected sex and babies outside of marriage, junk food and fast food and drinking pop instead of water at every meal... These things to me aren't -only- an education problem, they're -also- a culture problem.

It's judgey for a well-to-do guy like me to talk this way, sorry in advance. I just find this culture thing very depressing because I don't feel there is much that can be done. It's very tempting for me to pick a single group to blame, like the banksters (especially re: payday loans) for being the secret hand in causing all this. But in my heart, I know the culture of the poor just really sucks in America, and there's a lot of wasted human potential. Nothing is being done to change that culture based on what I see on the boobtube.

If you ask me, the victimhood status we confer upon the poor only serves to lock them in their place. The greater society could do well by shaming bad behavior and try to steer poor culture people onto better paths.
Aside: I met Rick Goff when I was in high school. My dad lived in Yamhill and was friends with him. One day we drove out to his place, turning off the gravel road toward a barn. Stepping inside the barn was a surreal experience. There, out in the middle of nowhere, in a fucking barn, was a freshly painted 1950's Rolls Royce. It was beautiful.

I don't know if he's a good example of the economic class divide, though. I understand Kristof's larger point and that he's writing from his own life experiences, but I think Goff's situation is more demonstrative of the rural-urban economic divide than a class divide.

He had a skill that people were willing to pay him for, but he chose to restore cars out in the country, in his barn. I can't speak for Goff's life choices, but during my summers in Yamhill and having relatives that lived in rural areas, I met a lot of people who would rather eke out a meagre existence in the countryside than move to where the jobs are. Part of economic mobility is just plain mobility.
it's astounding to look at something so delicate put together by human hands 380 years ago

these flowers are particularly catching: http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-FH-00910-00083-00098/305
VietNam
What's anti-American? Do you mean the racism? Or being against racism is anti-American?
Forbes 400 lists only Americans. It has nothing to do with Middle East billionaires or foreign government billionaires, who are listed under a different category.
The refugees in the prison camps haven't been granted asylum.
Any decent library provides free internet access. When I volunteered at ours, most of the people there interested in the computers were job seekers who did not appear to have lots of money. Some of those were also in our free computer classes, some of which I taught as a volunteer.
And more commonly, EST doesn't mean just Eastern.
Reversing Powersaves for Amiibo
> Is ground-breaking, high-risk research discovering that the algorithm in the latest Intel processor matches the one other researchers (which I respect much more) discovered in 2006, and variant of which won more "branch prediction championships"? I'd say no.

That appears to be a pretty reasonable criticism of the process by which the grant was awarded.

My somewhat unfair characterisation of this research from skim reading the abstract and conclusion is: "we point out that the understanding in the academic literature is lagging behind the understanding already built into systems that are sold commercially and are in operational use".

edit:

There's something slightly humorous in considering the grant-allocation process itself as some kind of optimisation problem:

Problem (GA) : How do we best allocate resources to promote high-risk, ground-breaking research?

...and then observing that grant resources have been allocated to perform research on another piece of optimisation that already seems to have happened.

I wonder if one could obtain an ERC Advanced Grant to study the effectiveness of the current process by which ERC Advanced Grants are awarded, and suggest improvements? It is plausible that such a study could be very valuable and yet not have much political support.
Both sides would be fare better off if they came to out of court agreement and sell domain to Nissan Motors.

1. This is not usual cybersquating, a legitimate, but far less popular business.

2. Given Nissan Motors financials, paying few mln USD is a drop in the bucket:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan

3. On the other hand that would be a lot of money for Uzi Nissan.

4. Spending 10+ years in court is counter-productive and probably already cost several times more in opportunity gains. Both sides losses. Business equivalent of prison dilemma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma

5. Low-cost meditation. Send each party copy of book: http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Yes-Negotiating-Agreement-With...

Book a weekend trip to some luxurious place, where each party can get comfortable and try to strike a deal.
Oh, no, it's not your IBAN. It's a number that looks like a credit card number, but the card it points to is actually a debit card.
I hope you never find yourself in dire circumstances, and at the receiving end of this kind of callousness.
As a member of a civil society, you have a responsibility to be charitable to those less fortunate than you. Civility is about considering other people in your own decisions.

This does not mean that you must donate all your worldly goods and live the rest of your days in poverty. What it means is that, when the time comes to vote in a property tax increase to fund education, or public transit, or any of a host of things that you think don't affect you personally, you have a responsibility to consider how these decisions will affect people who are not you, and that you should at least try to decide in favor of those people, if at all possible. I'm asking you to consider providing some resources as part of your duty to the rest of society, so that those less fortunate can have some hope of bettering themselves just as you did.

If we have any hope at all of maintaining an orderly society, we have to stop thinking only of ourselves.
That only applies to refugee unable to afford a plane ticket...
That has been solved quite some time ago.
I've spent days on this stuff. ow xcode will do almost everything for you