skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A common reaction, but I find it inadequate.

You might find both major parties to be not good enough, but that in no way implies their policies are the same. Policies MATTER. Disappointed that Obama didn't do as much as he promised? So am I. Bothered by his reactions to things like Snowden? Ditto. But don't mistake those issues as being exactly what the other party would have done. [And for those that hold more conservative views, while recent Republicans haven't done much for actual limiting government and reducing spending, make no mistake that their policies would be notably different than Obama's or a fully Democratic Congress].

Policies matter, and policy differences matter. Don't mistake unhappiness as making the alternatives indistinguishable - all that does is reduce accountability and exacerbate the problem. (And this is true for liberals, conservatives, and those that don't hold such binary opinions alike)

We're definitely drifting off-topic, but I feel this is relevant to issues like the linked article in the HN space:

http://www.vox.com/2015/8/27/9214015/tech-nerds-politics
Steve Jobs fact vs. fiction: How accurate is Danny Boyle’s new biopic?
Or https://lwn.net/Articles/629259/ , referencing the long-standing issues caused by forcing the use of GCC rather than LLVM (and trying to satisfy someone who doesn't understand why people need to process source code and ASTs for anything fancier than indentation and syntax highlighting).
Is art a realm of love and hate?
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A one-watt laser is pretty powerful (Class 4). Most laser pointers in the US can't exceed 5 milliwatts. One watt is several times what's needed to light various common materials on fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woiTedSKPrk
Infrastructure changed a lot. major emacs packages are now upgraded everyday (I use melpa "rolling release"), so different than the emacs distribution every x years. Not to reduce Stefan role in emacs quality and liveliness. Seeing the praise he received says a lot.
Well, Obama is only the President. Congress alone has the power to write laws and pass them. The current congress we have is not particularly interested in governing.
But lasers are magical future technology though and solve every problem!
Couldn't this trained RNN also be used to evaluate the "clickbait-ness" of article titles (rather than generate new ones)?
Submitter here,

I am a long time everyday reader of HN but I have never posted or really commented. I am a structural engineer with a few years of work in the space program. I have spent a great deal of time building something that I think can redefine the way we do engineering and I am close to finished with an initial version.

I am extremely nervous about posting this, but I would love to hear what everyone thinks. (There is a video in the overview section)

Thanks
Agile hardware sounds dauntingly expensive!
That's true. But of the total student loan debt of $1.2 trillion, and $1 trillion is federal student loan debt. Private loans are a comparatively small problem.
I think most companies that try that get some backlash from candidates who feel the company is taking advantage of free work. I have had clients who pay candidates some reduced rate for this project time, which I think is a good equalizer.
yes, I noticed. I have updated my comment to match :)
You don't see the people who are doing much better than their parents. The more self-aware of them know that there is nothing good that comes out of drawing attention to their good fortune. The less self-aware just assume that's how it is for everybody and don't think it's remarkable.
> Everyone should take note of this person's excellent structure: he put the decision first.

Going by my twitter feed, they implemented the decision first, with people discovering they were locked out of their twitter accounts and RAS before the announcement was made.
Worked for open-source software. In a relatively short time (10 years +/-?), the traditional capitalistic model which worked for centuries seems to have been supplanted to at least some degree. I was thinking of several things: 1) Modern technology to provide direct communication, 2) Sheer numbers of people in each age cohort and 3) The desire to effect change.

Social media can slaughter a movie in a day or two. I would think it would have a useful effect on its users, assuming they were willing to make the effort.
V2 of On-Demand Economy – Are we there yet?
Could you explain how virtual memory makes a process more secure? My intuition is that it would be another source of contention to manage (like CPU, RAM, IO, etc).

Maybe you're considering non-sequential address space an improvement for security. That I could see. ASLR would be another, which, you can see the effect of by multiple runs of t/_end.exe in rt0.
Fifty, and sixty year old's are not that old. I thought 50 was ancient in my twenties, but it comes quick. As to actuarial tables, we have not made that much progress in 50 years. I believe we added seven years to life expectancy, but that sounds high?

I do see guys my age in menial jobs, and I believe it's the economy. Companies just fired people. They fired them for various reasons, but technology made it possible. It's result of decling availability of good unions, or any unions--hence no real retirement. A changing workplace. Less jobs.

If anyone should be worried about their economic viability, I believe, young tech workers are high on the list.
No unions. Training/work that can be farmed out. Training that can be learned over the Internet--well. I don't want to be an alarmist, but I know too many former Programmers. Too many unemployed/close to homeless Programmers from the 80's and 90's?

I see a trend towards doing well with less employees, and no one cares as long as they get what they want. What's App has a handful of employees? Twitter will never have the amount of employees they had a week ago, even if they do really take off. We are making programming/Web developement easier daily. I'm happy with DRY. I like Bootstrap. What will it be like in another ten years?

I don't have an answer, but I don't forsee a bunch of 50-60 year old employees bagging groceries. I just see the more Homeless. I believe it will get so bad, the rich won't be able to fully enjoy their wealth, unless they beef up entitlement programs? After all, driving your sport's car past homeless can't be fun, and then you have to think about where you can park it? It's kind of like eating a fancy dinner, while the person across the table is starving? And let's not turn into Mexico, where if you have some wealth, you can't leave the house unless you have body guards.

Got off track, but the future does not look rosey. I do think we need to resind some of these treaties that make opening up shop overseas so easy, or at least raise tariffs?
I know it's selfish, but the way we are moving is scary.
Loveland's founder is running for Treasurer of Detroit
That's never going to happen. Too many people are affected for congress not to act before the tax bill comes due.

The economic effects are too large for them to ignore.
once a band reaches profitability, it's not customary to go adding 2-3 new members.

Sure it is, if they want to grow. Writers, managers, session musicians, stylists, PR people, I could go on. Just because you don't get on stage doesn't mean you aren't vital to success of a big name band.
HN is no place for religious flamewars.

Fortunately your comment history looks otherwise fine, but please don't post anything like this to HN again.
And: It's true that DOM manipulation could be seen as "lower level" than HTML generation, but the main difference for programmers is the API. A framework that forced you to call createNode('b') and createTextNode() and appendChild() would not get the adoption that one which lets you say "return '<b>Foo</b>', all other things being equal.
At a minimum, vote AGAINST the corrupt. If that means your vote gets wasted, so be it - if you're worried about legitimizing it, instead legitimize your opposition. If there becomes a sizable (and measured!) block of disaffected votes that politicians can try to grab, maybe they'll just do that.

Not voting just legitimizes the view that you complain but don't act.

(And if you're sick of your options being so bad, start trying to get different voting methods in place locally in the interest of getting them in place on a larger scale. First Past the Post is a terrible voting system)
No, if you are below the poverty level the monthly minimum is $0.

You pay 10% of what you make over 150% of the federal poverty level.
Because you can't legislate facts.
A single click can ruin all your embedded SlideShares
Incidents like this are not common in developed nations.

You mean like those comprising Western Europe, and, say, include Canada to pile it on? The former has had more of them in recent decades than the US. Here's the detailed accounting I did for Western Europe 2+ years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4970408 and with more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5070201

Wikipedia seems to have rearranged their previous lists that made this a lot more clear, but see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_massacres_by_de...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting#Notable_school...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers#School...
I've been using Emacs for only four years. I would love to have a peek at you guys' .emacs files.
A stunning “fluid experiment” on your screen
Neural structure generates pockets of sleep within the brain
Ah, well, that's a design issue we've been grappling with, and haven't yet come up with a definitive solution. The opposing forces are convenience vs. repeatable results, and hopefully we'd like to provide the former without harming the latter. The way I see it, there are three options:

1) Allow a more elaborate description of dependencies
2) Improve the build-tool plugins to make generating the full dependency tree in the build tool and passing that on to Capsule more convenient.

I favor option 2, b/c the precise resolution already happens in the build tool, and seems like an easy and complete solution. We can continue this discussion on the mailing list if you like.

In any event, as you can see, we are always open to suggestions and happy to accept PRs.
yep, that came in really handy. Timelapse + eshutter works great together, you can get thousands of captures on a single battery.
See the other posts in this thread, where this has already been covered: solar and wind are not a replacement for coal. By rejecting nuclear, you are choosing coal, de facto, for the base load.

Why build a reactor? Because it's safer than solar, and cheaer in the long run. Why do you want a power source that kills more people per kWh?

Nuclear has very low running costs (practically no fuel) and a lot of the startup costs are temporary (new design approval). Intermittent technologies like solar and wind need expensive extra redundency and battery storage. Show me the batteries you are going to use, at a price cheaper than both coal and nuclear, Not some vaporware future technology, something we can buy right now. (the grid isn't a battery, even though most people using solar right now use the grid as if it was).

Nuclear isn't easy or cheap, but it's the least worst method we have for generating power. Other technologies will always have niche uses, of course, but choosing to wait for some mythical future technology to become available is choosing to let coal plants continue polluting the world.
Isn't drawRect: working at a different level of abstraction than React? In React, the view function constructs a virtual DOM tree, which can contain links, buttons, form fields, tables, etc. The equivalent on OS X would construct NSControls or NSCells, or objects that ultimately got translated into those, rather than just drawing on a canvas.
That's called drinking the koolaid and it's very effective. Especially for establishing a career path. Once you "make it", you can loosen up.

If you're only applying for a paycheck and not a career then I agree. You should just keep doing what you're doing.
Do you know why money matters in politics? Because it buys votes. Politicians are willing to sell their opinions for money because it is expensive to run a campaign convincing people who are otherwise apathetic to vote for you. And that is were most political campaigns are won because most people who aren't apathetic about an election have already made up their mind before the campaigns' marketing efforts even start up.

It all comes back to votes.
>There is no shame in slinging coffee.

The shame isn't in the work, the shame is in having no money to do anything: get a decent apartment, raise a family, go on vacation, provide for a spouse.
I thought I was one of few who thought this way; this is a good thread. "Front-loading" messages, especially company-wide emails, give the reader confidence. And by getting to the point, ironically I want to read the whole thing instead of have my eyes glaze over after the second sentence.

Bravo, all!
Let's try to predict what it will look like?

My guess: Borland Delphi.
(author here) The graphs are stock graphviz output, the linear layout is called "dot" (the default), and the nebulous layout is "sfdp". For your googling pleasure it's a "force directed graph layout", and there are many libraries to assist with it. d3.js has a force layout built in, for instance.
There's a big difference between knowing something off the top of your head and doing some basic research before giving strangers your money.
> The obvious benefit being that you don't actually have to give Kickstarter "investors" any money back.

This is pretty interesting, so what's stopping new startups to make apps and publish on kickstarter to avoid paying the investors back later? Also, why do these "investors", more like donors, so willing to throw their money at the screen?
The two are not mutually exclusive. "Countries" can be all sorts of things, including Principalities, Monarchies, Republics. Luxembourg, the country, is also a Grand Duchy. Sounds pretty spiffy. But if the Grand Duke stops being in charge, Luxembourg remains a country, but no longer a Grand Duchy. Country is geography, governance is political. Wales, the country, ceased to be governed by princes in 1542.
WebP anyone?
One solution to this is to create a plain text resume to be used when submitting through an applicant tracking system. You can still perform some basic formatting in plain text (e.g., string of hyphens for a horizontal line, asterisk for bullet, carriage return at 60 characters to prevent erroneous line wrapping, etc.).

At the top of the plain text resume include a line stating something like "MS Word/PDF formatted resume available at http://ExternalWebsite..."
According to that wikipedia article they have been accused of pro-muslim and anti-muslim bias. Also, there isn't any evidence that there was actually any bias found in that report. The BBC's arguments for keeping it secret sound reasonable. The entire thing is based on one journalist crying at Yasser Arafat's death, which seems to be clutching at straws.
There are a few ways to create many openings:

1. Legislate a maximum working hours (probably < 40 ) . 3 jobs at 40 hours per week becomes 4 jobs at 30 per week, 33% expansion, problem solved.

2. Allow humans to undercut automation in price competition (eg abolish minimum wage)

3. Expand government to employ people for whatever, just print the money you pay them.

Clearly these all come with unsatisfactory side-effects.

Maybe the fix is to end our obsession with creating jobs and jobs being the form of survival we offer our species. Imagine if we just created 600M jobs automating all the things so that those jobs would never (or nearly never) need to be done again? The future generations would need Billions of jobs! But no one would be worse off for it. Its like when a dishwasher became common place, suddenly kids were free to do more homework or facebook or xbox etc. Suddenly parents were more free not to have kids (to complete household chores). Etc etc. By automating and reducing the work that human kind has to do, we're enabling better lives all involved, including the displaced workers. Change hurts in the shortrun, but can bring utopia in the long run.
Hopefully the bubble popping looks like University of Phoenix and its for-profit brethren going out of business. The looming student loan crisis has been reported for a while, but what's more recently been reported is just how large a percentage of it is these for-profit schools.

We hear scary numbers and naturally associate them with expensive private school educations from the ivy schools or similar institutions. But there's really no crisis there...people graduating from an ivy league school will almost certainly pay off their loans, large as they might be. The bulk of the defaults will come from people who've gotten largely-meaningless degrees from those for-profit schools. It's sad, but job screening skills are so bad in most industries that they basically just use the college admission screening process as a proxy. And the fact that basically anyone can get into the University of Phoenix means that there's almost no value placed on having graduated from there.
Sure, and now everyone who wants to compile your program has to install clang, which might take forever to compile for someone on a source-based distro, or require PITA manual work such as on Windows. Not to mention that you have to figure out how to configure your build system to (a) depend on clang and (b) build a helper program (including overriding the normal target architecture choice) - the difficulty of which depends on your setup, but if you follow the common practice of maintaining separate Visual Studio and CMake/etc. project files, in order to cater to IDE users while still being cross-platform, you have to do it twice!

I hate build systems.
The euphemism "restructuring of our workforce" (versus more direct and explicit language) is the exact type of corporate speak he disclaims. It's dishonest.
One thing that helped me was to move. That's obviously a big step. I was unmarried at the time, no kids, and knew I wanted something different, so I found a job in a new city and just packed up and moved.

If that's not in the cards, maybe you could look slightly farther afield in your geographical area than you would normally, or look farther afield in your technical area than you normally would.

It might also help to work on some either open source or other public-facing projects (assuming you can and they don't conflict with your current employment, etc.). Then you show that you have experience other than just what you might have from your day job.
> We'll never know 100% but Ukraine controlled the air so only the rebels had motive to shoot down planes, and had bragged about it on social media.

At the time, Kiev was complaining that Russia was sending out spy planes into its territory.

Knowing the state of the Ukrainian military, to me it's much more likely that they mistaken the plane for something it was not and shot it down.
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In this line of reinventing the wheel of UI programming in web dev, I am waiting for Borland Delphi reincarnation.
The problem with c-sections was figuring out how to successfully sew up the uterus afterwards. In 1876 doctors started just removing the uterus after c-section.

The woman who gave herself a c-section was able to get medical care soon afterwards. Otherwise she certainly would have died from the wound.
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Since 1980, the number of colleges has gone from roughly 2000 to roughly 3000. That doesn't account for increases in class size.

The demand is still very strong. The millennial generation was told, go to college or you'll have to flip burgers your whole life.

One huge problem is college demand is fairly inelastic. Another is that colleges are mostly non-profit institutions who aren't out for institutional profits. Instead they compete for prestige. If they spend a bunch of money on useless shit, USNEWs will rank them higher.

Students and parents aren't urged to consider price. In fact they are encouraged to ignore price. Just get in first! then worry about "financial aid." Which is mostly just loans at this point.
> Has this place suddenly turned into the Dr. Phil show ?

Please don't post dismissive comments to HN.

There's a place for the occasional personal article like this on Hacker News. For one thing, it provides a thread where people can compare their own experiences. Struggles with what the author calls intrusive thoughts are common to many of us here.

Obviously the subject is not to everyone's taste, but what is?
This is proof that you can counter-argument anything. Just proofread your damn resume (or engineer yourself a spellchecker).
That's not an adequate comparison. You're comparing one simple solution to one complex solution. The actual comparison is one complex solution to several thousand simple solutions. What you're comparing is running oracle on a grid of mainframes using some esoteric programming language compared to running about 2,500 MariaDB servers (based on comparisons of modern wind turbines to modern nuclear generators). Oh, and that's just for one site. So you can manage a couple hundred unwieldy Oracle servers, or a quarter million MariaDB servers.
I find it hard to believe that anyone actually holds that opinion. Am I misunderstanding you?

Withholding my own opinion, I think this is a very common sentiment in the US. Among other things, this is used to justify the lack of action on inmate-on-inmate violence in prisons. More generally, you commonly find people cheering the violent deaths of anyone deemed a terrorist by the government. I don't think this is restricted to the US.

Separately, I don't think 'agarden' is intends to make any normative statement about the correct attitude. Rather, he's pointing out that "innocent" victims tend to receive greater sympathy. If there is a bank robbery in which 4 hostages are killed, there will be greater outcry than a bank robbery in which the 4 perpetrators are killed.

This doesn't mean necessarily that people don't care if the criminals are killed, but does mean that they care less than if non-criminals are killed. Do you doubt this?
I think they do. Only explanation: time travel
The New Day pays Cincinnati a visit (2015/10/13)
Wouldn't this DRM require every implementation of the JPEG standard to honor the DRM or am I missing something?
While not scientific, the example I can think of is in How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (published: 1936). In the section dealing with how people read your messages, he lists an actual letter from a company apologizing about a delay [which reads just like any corporate e-mail].

Then he rewrites it focusing on what the person reading it is concerned about: themselves. The key was to focus on the questions a reader will ask, "How will this effect me?" and "What should I do?"
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Well, you should be able to find references to kids that continued this sort of thing, storing them in their vehicles, who got sweep up in the post-Columbine zero-tolerance bullshit. I know I read more than a few of those, and to this day kids still accidentally forget and leave their hunting gun in their vehicle and get punished.

I have no idea of how pervasive it was outside of Joplin (MO) High School in that period, but given that Joplin is somewhat urban, with a population of 39,000 then, I'd expect it to be very widespread when you add more rural districts.
Around that time I used gosling's emacs. I remember switching to gnu emacs a few years later and having to port all my .el files. Fun times.