skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From before 9/11:

In 1993 the Gallup poll found that 64% of the public agreed with the following: "Regardless of what the law says, a defendant in a criminal trial should be required to prove his or her innocence." In the same poll, 70% of the respondents agreed that our judicial system makes it too hard to convict people accused of crimes.
see also, the book, "On Bullshit" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit )

This book should have a spot on everyone's desk in hard copy. Use it as a coaster, walk around with it in the hallways, take it to meetings.
No need to preach from it though - its very presence will be enough of a sign to others re: your tolerance levels of the amount of bullshit stinking up the current situation.

EDIT: BTW, I do indeed have a copy of On Bullshit, but I use "The Elements Of Style" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style ) book in the exact same way as I suggested above for On Bullshit. I think they are two sides of the same coin :)
Can anyone no matter what their grades move onto college? If not, then the German system is extremely unfair. People unable to attend college end up partially subsidizing those who can.

Can someone clarify how higher education works in Germany?
It's interesting how this article conflicts the narrative (and indeed, Fitzgerald's own narrative) about his life. The narrative was that they lived fabulously until the simultaneous stresses of the the stock market crash and Zelda's mental breakdown in 1929. Turns out that at least from an income perspective, he was doing quite well up until the moment he died. But Zelda's healthcare costs ruined him anyway, and he cognitively backed himself in a corner in terms of making adjustments.

It reminds me of a quote from another famous author, one Charles Dickens:

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."
By my understanding practically all of the generated energy is due to neutrons hitting the containment vessel. Highly energetic neutron, impacting solid matter, will generate quite a bit of heat in the violent collision.

I found one fairly decent source [0] which goes into somewhat greater detail. It's worth noting that if you follow the link to first page of the series, that page explicitly states that what fusion reactors call "neutron flux" would be called "heat flux" in traditional reactors.

And it makes sense even when thinking logically. Energy and matter are interchangeable, and the reactor turns matter into energy; majority of matter escaping from the fusion reactor will be helium and neutrons. These particles interacting with external solid matter turns kinetic energy into heat. That's the power plant's heat source.

Now, as to the fraction of heat transferred by neutrons compared to that transferred by the newly formed helium - I have no idea.

0: http://www.visionofearth.org/industry/fusion/how-do-we-turn-...
Even "pancake flat" states aren't that flat! (Kansas, specifically)

The cows get the bumpy fields, the tractors get the flat ones.
That's deeply unfair in the case of a non-native speaker: almost no one reaches foreign language proficiency at the level you're implicitly demanding, which is basically perfection.

I don't know if this author is a native speaker but his name suggests he may not be. On HN, you should err on the side of charitability about this—especially since grammar peeves, though we all have them, are the quintessence of off-topic.
Every implementation of a closure I've encountered creates a new Capture class which stores references/copies of all variables the closure uses. I think they do this even if the closure doesn't reference any local variables - only class-level ones. In this case, wouldn't it be better to just implement it as a local function of the parent class instead of creating a new class? Or does it not matter because the cost of calling this.foo is negligibly similar to this.parent.foo?
Yeah, I'm not going to spend my time trying to figure out how to exploit a publishers' SEO marketing scheme just so that I can move through the magic referrer to get to the content at a URL.

If there is an easy alternative posted and the linkbait sounds compelling enough, I might try it.

Otherwise, it might get a flag for 'no content at this link'.
Do you get the same sense when you see advertisements for Emirates or Qatar Airlines, or advertisements and guidebooks for tourism to places like Dubai and Qatar?
That's a pretty good 3-sentence summary - reflects my experience as well.

To expand a bit...it's not that nearly everyone doesn't start out super excited about their subjects and motivated by advancing human knowledge. It's that shortly post-PhD, you realize that in order to continue doing this work you find exciting and meaningful, you have to get money (for supplies, equipment, office space, not to mention your own salary), and the funding system is inherently kind of broken. It's not just the disappearance of tenure-track jobs. To caricature somewhat:

1. Funding is limited - grant success rates in my field are currently 10% to 15% - and in order to have a chance you need some history of having done interesting work, the more the better.

2. To carry out more of your ideas (to maximize the chances that some of them will turn out to be very interesting, as well as the overall amount and speed of work) you typically need more manpower than just yourself. You may also need equipment and people to operate it. Since you're probably a bit short of money, you hire trainees (students or postdocs), who cost less. Now you are really feeling the funding pressure since their livelihoods, not only your own, depend on your getting enough funds.

3. Eventually those trainees graduate, or become senior. Now they need to apply for their own grants and you need to find new trainees. In other words, the process of science today inherently increases the number of scientists competing for funding, and because each scientist during a single career typically requires many trainees, this number increases exponentially. There is no way the research funding budget can increase that fast over the long term.

4. The constantly increasing funding pressure means more and more people become preoccupied with their own survival above most any other professional concern. In addition to politics and ladder climbing, it hurts the science directly: if some project's not likely to get future funding, you might feel you don't have time for it, even if that's what interests you most about your area.

It's a hard problem...my impression is the reforms needed would be so sweeping that I'm not sure anyone has a complete picture of what things to do instead, let alone implement them.
Gross negligence at best?
You mean like the "Google tax"?
Its quite the opposite. Only after you seriously try to look at the documents and what they provide that you come the conclusion that the "Portable Interfaces" is simply blowing smoke.
> You want criminals punished for the crimes they did commit, not the ones they didn't. You want sentencing to be fair, not vindictive.

This was not the approach taken with Al Capone.
As the only other HNer with more than single-digit karma, I will try to give an objective overview of the project as I see it (this is taken from their FAQ):

-the device is €49 during the KS campaign, even though their FAQ says €59. It will be €79 afterwards.

-the HW has USB, HDMI (or is it eSATA?), and ethernet ports (one each), and 16GB of storage. It is based on the Allwinner A13 which as 256MB of memory.

- it appears they are using kernel version 4.03, though refer to it as Linux Libre (a phrase which I'm not familiar with, but full source code is available)

- DNS will be handled giving everyone a subdomain on omb.one or one can use their own domain; SSL will be handled using self-generated certs and Letsencrypt

- security is handled using GPG with keys being stored on device or transferred via USB. There is also something they call Private Link Message (PLM) which is used to communicate with people not using GPG, and appears to send a one-time-access [SSL] link (either on omb.one or your domain) that expires after it is accessed or at a specified date; the recipient has the ability to respond via a web interface. One can also activate a private HTTPS interface for one-way comms to your specified own-mail account

- there is some mechanism for P2P backup that requires 70% uptime on the user's part (remember, msgs are encrypted), but the mechanism for this functionality is not clear

Overall, I agree with their motivation, and think they have thought out much of their approaches, but it seems they are slightly confused in their target market (it is a mix of non-technical and quite technical). I also am not smart enough to adequately determine the soundness, but it seems quite sound. I would be interested to read what more technical folks on HN think.

Edit: I would also like to see how this hardware could be used for communication other than email, like a web-based IRC alternative (or IM). Gitlab has integrated an interesting project that maybe suitable for this piece of hardware: https://github.com/mattermost/platform.

Edit2: I would also like to see this project look at using mailpile rather than roundcube: https://github.com/mailpile/Mailpile.
I think the defenders should have more. Usually when the DA decides to prosecute, they already have "evidence" Most of their work is done, all they have to do is present said evidence and in most cases win. The defenders tho have to work really hard to counter all and any evidence.

e.g get a ticket from the police? that's evidence that you were speeding. you are paying the fine unless you put in effort to prove you were not.

e.g. get arrested for drugs, guns. those will be seized, the DA will look at the evidence and prosecute. your lawyer, will have to do work to show that those are not yours, or that you were legally able to possess those, or some other way. it seems the public defenders do more work and should have the same amount of budget, if not more.
But not all scientific research will benefit companies. Some will even be detrimental to large companies (disruptive technologies). Therefore blueskies pure science needs funding from some source other than industry.

What I do find disturbing is the trend to push University research towards immediately commercially viable stuff. Industry would/should do this stuff anyway.
I'm playing with these exact things now and it is very enjoyable so far.

My main worry is not on the technical side but on how things are charged for. If I build something that starts to get used I am covered in terms of scalability, but not in a way that protects me from 'cost scalability' so to speak. I know I can set up billing alerts and hit a big 'shutdown' button in response to high load, but what I don't think I can do is throttle these services based on the money I want to budget/spend. With my own services I have a hard cost limit, with a hard scalability limit, or rather I just accept that my response times will go down or fail once I've allocated all I can afford.

If there something for AWS in terms of 'cost throttling'? It may be a gap in their services, especially for people want to build things that might get traction?
Taplytics (YC W14) Is Hiring a Lead Full-Stack Engineer
You're correct that we're more expensive per transaction than Gumroad, which is an excellent service. Now, for some books, the amount earned above the minimum price is more than enough to make up the difference: our price sliders work really well to earn extra money for authors. The Leanpub vs. Gumroad question is actually a really interesting one; there are other considerations on both sides. (Gumroad is what I recommend for authors who don't find Leanpub a good fit. I know that authors like Nathan Barry make a killing using their own sites for the marketing and Gumroad for the selling.)

You're also correct that one of the main points of Leanpub is the one-click "make all the formats and sell them" approach. We do offer PDF upload for authors who find Leanpub's workflow preferable to more DIY sites like Gumroad.

Specifically, in terms of LaTeX support: we do support LaTeX math, but you're correct that there are some limitations. I'm not sure if the work we're doing on Markua (https://leanpub.com/markua) will help with this or not. I think that it will help with some of it (making equations into figures and referencing them from other places), but not others (probably the alignment isn't good enough). I'd really appreciate it if you could contact me with specifics if you want...
It's funny. This page strikes me as the height of bullshit.

It's basically a manifesto written by an individual interested in being another absolute arbiter of taste. It completely ignores the nuances, relativism and circumstance of how people internalize ideas, make decisions and generally connect.

It even go as far as to say that it is the reason why being a great engineer or creator of things is am anti-pattern for NOT ultimately adding something worthwhile to society.

There is no absolutism to quality of ideas or structure of communications. Their is genuine hard workin taking what you create and weaving into people days and narratives.

This manifesto will one day embarrass it's creator with it's naivety when they are older and more experienced.
> A goes as B to the power of C over D orders of magnitude.

As a non-native English speaker, am I correct in assuming the above to mean this:

A = B^C, A < 10^D

I've never heard this grammatical construction before, and the images are not showing.
Great to see Lambda stepping up their serverless game. We're big fans of this approach and are hacking on something similar to this at StackHut[1], but:

* Mostly OSS to avoid lock-in

* Git integration

* Full stack specification (OS, dependencies, etc.)

* Python/ES6 support (Ruby and PHP coming)

* Client libs so you can call your functions 'natively' in other languages.

It would be awesome to hear what people would like us to build for them. Here is a blog-post on how to build a PDF -> image converter: http://blog.stackhut.com/it-was-meant-to-be/

[1] https://stackhut.com
It does seem unlikely that any random group of scientists (or people in general, for that matter) are going to be of one mind with respect to Dawkins.
>You have to ask yourself why people have lost the innocent-until-proven-guilty concept. We still teach it in school, so it's not lack of exposure

I would argue they dont actually. While they may say the words they ring hollow in the face of other lessons in schools, lesson around the hero worship of police, and government in general

Students are at the same time told about "innocent until proven guilty" while at the same time filled with all kinds of propaganda about how wonderful and infallible the government is.
Beware, link-bait! Title should really be "Microservices without non-Amazon Services", which if you remove the double negate really says "Microservices with Amazon Services", which is well.. not that interesting IMO. I'd rather write against CloudFoundry which abstract away AWS.
Exactly, everybody deserves a fair trial. A defending lawyer is a very important part of it. Normal people just don't know how court works, and have no chance whatsoever - even if not guilty.
I believe this submission vindicates, to some degree, the 'nostalgia' for pre-2012 internet that was so condemned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9960730
This seems apt: http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/
> Imagine if Facebook adopted this strategy, and thus, never hired the extremely smart engineers responsible for things like Hack, or their optimized PHP runtime.

I don't think Facebook's success depends on their optimized PHP runtime. I'd imagine most of the cost savings disappear when you factor in the engineers that are needed to build and maintain the system. I also don't know the comparative effectiveness of hiring brilliant engineers versus brilliant salespeople versus just hiring average folk all round. Hey, maybe I'm wrong. But it certainly doesn't feel like an absolutely obvious kind of thing, the kind of thing on which to base a theory of how to build and not build a tech company.
He gave that line to Mr. Micawber and of course was intimately acquainted with poverty, but by the time Dickens wrote that he was as rich as a 19th century rock star. Indeed he made piles of money by touring—writers used to moonlight as performing artists. Once movies came out, that dried up, so they wrote screenplays instead, like Fitzgerald.
If you get a good art history degree from a good university, you absolutely can get into an investment banking or management consulting graduate program.

If you get a mediocre degree from a mediocre university, not so much.

The basic idea behind this is that doing well at a good university requires decent general intelligence combined with the ability to understand exactly what is expected of you and deliver exactly that, at the expected time -- and this is obviously independent of the actual subject studied.
No, it's because dentistry is _not_ part of public healthcare for adults in most European countries (or the provision is only for the most poverty stricken).

But children's dentistry is usually free. Here in Norway dental checkups and treatment are free for under 18s, students (I think) and pregnant women.

Badly misaligned teeth in a child would be corrected free of charge in both the UK and Norway as far as I know. I had a brace to correct a couple of teeth as a child in England and that was free but that was a long time ago (1966), luckily my own children here in Norway haven't needed any such treatment.
Love that analogy
I am gonna make my t-shirt that.
Granville T. Woods (Black Edison) – Inventor
> First, a lot of jobs in the UK require a degree, although it is not clear to me why.

I knew a couple who wouldn't hire a babysitter that didn't have a four-year degree with a GPA of at least 3.7. They weren't wealthy or eccentric. Their combined family income was probably around $65k a year and the job only paid $8 an hour. There were simply enough people looking for work that they never had trouble finding someone who met their requirements.

Granted, the above anecdote was from the USA, but I haven't found things that different here in the UK.
NO it's not harder to understand. If you are doing anything remotely serious, then your php script needs to be on multiple servers for redundancy, it needs to be behind a load balancer, you have to be responsible for the security of the VMs the php script runs on, and on and on and on and on.

Edit: well, unless you run your php script in a PaaS like Google App Engine.
This article only makes sense if you don't know what servers are, and believe "the cloud" doesn't use them.
Me, too. Got my CFW loaded up on my PSP-1000...it's lovely wide screen, really nice Sony-quality controls, great battery life (with homebrew...) and superb homebrew and emulation support, it's not a wonder

a) I still use it for GBA/Sega Genesis emulation nearly every day but

b) I've never used a single UMD with the device and

c) I don't know anyone who has.

Kinda like the Dreamcast, which was also amazing but had even the most inexperienced users rushing to Wal-Mart to grab a stack of blank CD's to make their very own Kazaa-downloaded copy of 'Seaman.'

If Sony had actually pandered to the homebrew scene (yeah, I know that sounds like a joke, but I'm saying 'if'...) they could have opened up something like the App store even earlier on, where the barrier of entry for indie developers is existent but small.

I'd be interested to actually look up some numbers, but I imagine software sales for the PSP, especially the early generation, must have been fairly abysmal.
One person's "bullshit" is another person's "positioning", and positioning is arguably one of the most important communications skills for founders.

I sympathize with the author but I'm not really sure what to make of this.
alright, im getting my old PSP's outta the drawers and getting them back up and running.
I remember being in HighSchool charging people to install custom firmware on their units. good times.

I started tinkering with hardware after buying someones psp that had a broken screen for like 20 bucks, and replacing the display through ebay. good times. although the analog stick sometimes broke.
Congratulations, you already have a semi-autonomous self-replicating metal-finding and collecting drone that also happens to produce meat and/or milk. Virtually zero additional overhead beyond the cost of the magnet.
The system was sufficiently functional to nurture enough knowledge and enthusiasm in you that you were equipped to attend and thrive in a PhD program. On a societal level, I don't think academia's sorry state is much to worry about.

On a personal level, it's pretty terrible. If you do decide to leave academia, there are plenty of opportunities for smart, committed people. I bailed on a PhD program shortly after starting my dissertation, and having Ivy-league graduate work on my resume has opened a lot of doors.
Thanks for the links, much appreciated! How does CF compare to go.cd? Will there be a lot of setup work required?
Encrypted Email Service Tutanota Celebrates One Year Open Source
Interesting, I hadn't noticed that until you pointed it out but they are indeed further out than normal.

I don't actually use them that much beyond Alt-F2 for synapse and Alt-F6 for rename which I've had no issues with.

The escape key is out the way but I can it reliably without thinking, I have large hands so I wonder how people with smaller ones would deal with that, I can hit escape without moving from the default position.
MegaFuse: A linux client for the MEGA cloud storage provider
The other thing that would be interesting to look at would be the cost of running an alternative implementation on a more standard platform. What would be the cost of running the same application on AWS VM's, for example?

Is Amazon trying to extract a profit? Unless they are using specialized hardware, can they really execute this service any cheaper than you could? Or do they pad the billing to fund Amazon?

Why would I go with a likely much more expensive option (I'd be pretty surprised if Amazon's billings for this service scale linearly with their costs) instead of the option that provides more traditional cost scaling?
'Hedgehog' Robots Hop, Tumble in Microgravity
I think for this to work you just have to create a shell and a terminal, to have a killer app that your terminal is the paltform for (realizing this is what kept me from ever moving on the idea). But my point is that I think the shell component absolutely must communicate with the terminal component over the tty subsystem using an extension of ANSI Escape Codes, defined in a terminfo page, so that the terminal component is only concerned with how the information is displayed, and not what the information is.
Close; two minor details though.

1. A = k*B^C. We can have an arbitrary constant k in there.

2. 10^N > A > 10^(N+D). That is, A need not be small, it just has a constrained range.

The "goes as" language is common, but a little loose/imprecise.