skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does come out of parents disposable income, eventually.

If the government subsidizes it, taxes will go up and disposable income goes down (though part of the cost gets externalized to childless taxpayers).

If most employers pays for it, cost of living will go down, and salaries will also go down (for everyone, so your childless coworker's salary will also go down and the difference will either go to the shareholders, or maybe the CEO will just pat himself in the back for his brilliant cost cutting ideas and give himself a big Christmas bonus).

All in all, it sounds like the only cases where it makes sense to subsidize is in countries with an aging population. Otherwise, it's fairer to pay living wages to workers and have each parent pay out of pocket.
Perhaps the gender binary is a bullshit concept to begin with.
Great and insightful article. Loved the line about getting larger pants to fix a weight problem.
That space is only going to get more crowded.. which is good!
> Programming is a fraction of the jobs in this economy

Yeah, but they're the fraction that don't suck and aren't going away in ten years. And again, most people with jobs that require knowing how to code aren't actually developers. E.g. it's difficult to get hired as a customer retention marketer without knowing how to code, but most of those folks also aren't coding on a regular basis, if ever. It's just that when you have 500+ people applying for any decent job, the person who thought it wasn't a good use of their time to spend 3 months teaching themselves to code is almost always going to lose out to one of the other folks who did, just on the off chance that those skills actually come in handy or whatever.

Is it unfair? Maybe. But that's just how it works.

If you were to look at my HN comments from the early days of the site, you'd see that I was pretty much the poster child for saying that learning to code wasn't necessary. And back then I don't think it was, because the tools were so shitty that to be any good at it pretty much meant that you had to forgo being good at anything else, including other skills that were potentially much more valuable like business or marketing or whatever. And it's hard to pinpoint exactly when, but at some point over the past ten years that has definitely changed.
Is the precision in the current techno good enough to replace the mouse for non-gaming activities, like web browsing or using a classical GUI with buttons and text fields and stuff ? I'd love being able to never ever get my hands off my keyboard.
>You opened a VAT MOSS account in all 28 EU member states?

No, but my payment processor did.
I can't wait for more cars companies named after scientists! Maybe someday I'll be able to get a car from... Hertz?
It's a weird situation. There are so many tech companies out there and I'd like to work for some of them but I don't think the sacrifice I'll take with my standard of living will be worth it.
>our technology does security via continuous concealment.

IMO, this isn't a castle approach. Its more like you've added a security control to help with Data Retention.
I just tried it and it seems like a pretty good start!

It doesn't seem to have launched publically yet but I hope they will have a landing page with utterly clear copy in a large font written with the mindset that for example this sentence

"Once you have entered your email address, SC4 will automatically provision you with a set of random keys."

is terrifyingly incomprehensible gobbledygook.

...actually I might be confused right now but even I (a total smartypants guy) can't seem to figure out how to paste in somebody else's public key in there. The default option is to encrypt for myself, and I see no way to input another key, only a text box for the message...

Edit: oh, maybe the text box is for the keys, and the thing I want to encrypt should be drag and dropped? Either way, the UI as it is right now is difficult to understand, but I suppose it is a prototype.
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Nothing has to be wrong with CL for me to prefer Schemes or vice-versa, and nothing has to be wrong with OCaml for me to prefer F# or vice-versa. My preference for Chicken Scheme over CL historically has been:

* Chicken has always been free, with almost all of its
library BSD-licensed, whereas CL used to be expensive.
* Chicken has had a really good packaging story (eggs) for
a long time, whereas QuickLisp is new
* Chicken has always been able to produce static binaries,
which, as the Go aficionados will tell you, makes deployment
really awesome.

If you prefer SBCL, good for you. There was a post fairly recently about how CL's library situation is becoming awesome, and I hope that continues.
When I worked at a University I constantly overheard that the bandwidth was doubling every year because the costs were coming down so rapidly.

So it's really no question that any cap that doesn't double at least every few years is a business case and has nothing to do with technological constraints.
Simple reason - because every object or structure in the known universe can emit waves.
My third time reading this, and a new question popped into my head: Are there any volume adjustments (on software or hardware) that take into account the pain threshold curves? That is, volume adjustments that aren't flat, but that will attenuate the frequencies that will cause discomfort at the lowest volumes?
> The US is over 10 times larger than the UK. Guess what, tons of land leads to different expectations.

I'm not sure it's just that, it's also I think, that Americans find it acceptable to live in suburbs. If everyone tried to live in the city centers (like they do in nyc or SF), small places would also be the norm.
I'm not convinced that you're saving anything by avoiding nbd. You need to modprobe nbd and start qemu-nbd. Both single commands that you can cut and paste. What you gain is not having to convert an image at the end.
lots of places use the same privacy policy, not just that VC firm
I would love to know the mindset and thought process of Brutalist architects and admirers who see that and see beauty whilst the majority of the rest of the world sees a broken down leaking eye sore.

We are so far apart it is like trying to understand and alien.

I have seen a scant handful of Brutalist building that I consider fine works of craft but the gob smacking majority are pitiful piles of concrete and exposed trusses.
Do you have any live examples?

This caught my eye because I was thinking of making something similar to give a stereoscopic 3d effect like the Nintendo 3DS.
Ask HN: FB type feed for my app
I'm trying to map how our users are using a service.

Looking for timelines/feeds of user events and activity in real time and historically. I’ve tried doing so with mixpanel and intercom but it’s not quite what I need.

I’m wondering if there are any other services or plugins we could use for this.
I found that Visual Studio Code is much faster than Atom, even though they are both built on Electron.
Not really. I haven't worked on any meaningful kernel and my understanding is just from textbooks and toying around a bit (good old hello world level x86 kernel). I try to keep up to date but a lot of stuff in kernel development and low level hardware land is pretty much over my head.
Don't be. The point is something that contains active "probiotics" and not something that is fermented before being sterilized or roasted before consumption (you also missed coffee in your list).
It would make no sense if a Type 2 Civilization this close to earth did nothing to us.
There is no harm in slavery, per se, from a theoretical perspective a slave is at leat housed and fed by his masters.

Theoretical arguments go both ways, see, in the real world, people are being tortued and killed as we speak. Due to NSA surveillance.

See Joe Six Pack, a guy who went to serve his country in the military, doing what he thinks is best, ended up in solitary confinement for following his good Joe Six Pack sense of moral and ethics, those same instilled into him by his country since a young age, freedom and democracy, to do whats right and just, in the land of the free. Well now Joe Sick Pack will not see daylight for the rest of his life, see, because he told something to someone who he was not allowed to by those in power. Couch I mean Chelsea Manning.
Is there anything else that isn’t taught to young students that you wish would be
incorporated into the material, or any other thoughts on education?

I can't comment on the US education system, but back home I think one of the most important ingredient missing from my school education was _Critical Thinking_ [0]. I happened to stumble upon this field by happenstance and was baffled why this is not integral to our education. I attributed this to the assumption that free thinking and critiquing adults is not what an authority/regime would want. Additionally most teachers/adults don't want to be bombarded by "why"s to which they don't have an answer. But then there is also the Hanlon's razor.

[0] Wiki def: intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action
No, mostly business. Those things are typically not criminal so as far as open source goes for the sake of open source, it's easy to ignore
DESIGNING WITH ADA* FOR SATELLITE SIMULATION: A CASE STUDY [pdf]
Hi hanniabu,

I have put up links to demos (live + video) on GitHub page. Please take a look.
Can stock photography be sexist?
This doesn't solve the problem of email encryption, but I made a (web-based) file encryption app with the goal of usability: https://hypervault.github.io/
Thanks! "They" is me :-) And yes, you can paste anything into the text box and the app should automagically do the "right thing" with it.
The law and the courts don't care about the technical implementation; if it works like a link, it's a link. The Pirate Bay defense was much stronger than that, and look at what happened.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and...

Netherlands is number 30. Admittedly most of the others are a lot smaller, but Bangladesh and South Korea are a lot bigger.

San Fran is also denser than the Netherlands, and AFAICS denser than any Dutch city (comparable with The Hague).
Adobe Photoshop CS6 Video Tutorials
Many. Clarke's "Songs of Distant Earth" is a very good one. "A Deepness in the Sky" is another.
Why does everyone and his mother love the X6 design? It's the biggest (though only) design failure BMW has ever launched.

As to the rest of the article, well, competition is certainly good for the e-car ecosystem. Interesting times ahead!
Topological Transformation Approaches to Database Query Processing [pdf]
NASA unveiled a new prototype of the spacesuit astronauts will wear on Mars
Good accountant a small business can't afford to hire. You make a product, you want to sell it. You have no idea where your customers are going to come from or if anyone buys the product in the first place. You have to comply with this madness from day one though.

Oh, and many payment processors won't give you necessary information to comply anyway. You need 2 pieces of evidence from every transaction (address, IP the purchase is made from for example) and you often don't have access to that information.

It's just typical "we know many small business won't be able to comply and we are not going to go after them for now but there will always be something if we need to" kind of thing.
Backwards compatibility is the killer.

The whole design of PGP is to be the envelope to make email private, versus the plaintext postcard that everybody can read. It works with existing servers and existing mail clients.

The biggest Snowden revelation is the importance of metadata. Just knowing whom you talk to, when, is frequently enough to compromise the parties involved. You might be doing something legal now, but you can’t tell when some despot takes over and makes your activity illegal. When data can potentially last your lifetime, you need to consider this sort of thing. Illustration: Using Metadata to find Paul Revere. [1]

So, we need a new mail transmission protocol that limits the amount of metadata that can be seen. Something like Dark Mail [2]. I don’t think Open Whisper Signal hides the metadata.

The problem is that Dark Mail needs to be developed and its security reviewed, and people need to adopt it. It needs new servers and clients, and the prevalence of Windows shows just how difficult that problem is. Also, any new messaging program these days needs a story about web and mobile.

In practice, I heard someone say that the biggest improvement in people’s privacy has been use of Gmail. The clients connect to it with SSL certificates controlled by Google; Google promotes 2-factor authentication and access tokens; and Google’s legal team challenges subpoenas. As long as you are not leaking national security secrets, I think this is adequate until a better system is deployed.

[1] http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metada...

[2] https://darkmail.info
What a wonderful Saturday read. Thank you for posting.

The article does make a very interesting point I had never considered: Mathematics as machines. Which absolutely makes sense when you see it from the point of view of input-processing-output.
Didn't know about ayran, will try it, thanks :) . Do you prepare it just with by "mixing yogurt with iced water", or do you add flavor to it? (like Indians do with lassi [1]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lassi
33sq.m. was the norm for two adults. When you had a kid, you submitted paperwork for extra 10-15 sq.m., but usually got moved to a new development, not in a desirable area.

My parents went through it in 80s. By then this mostly worked for military/otherwise connected families, but has broken down for the rest of the country with wait list numbering in years. In theory you gave up smaller apartment for a slightly larger as need arose. In practice, most families did not want to move far and construction pace did not keep up for economic reasons.
> Do you advocate for eugenics so that smarter genes get further? For that you might first want an equal beginning for every semen-sack and ovary. Currently nobody has good idea who has the "smart genes" and who has just good upbringing.

No, I cannot earnestly support eugenics. I just think society doesn't need any given couple to have more than x number of children and if people want x + n children, they should be able to fully fund for the rearing of the n children themselves. Personally, I believe that the ceiling for x should be no greater than 2.
I am with mwcampbell. There's something to say for the minimalism/lack of dependencies - even if it is not much more complex to use nbd. You don't need qemu to create a sparse file, mount it as a loopback device and manipulate it as a new device from there. If someone needs a qcow2 file afterward, fine. But that doesn't /need/ to be involved in the build step.
Boils down to the question - who wants to go work on security for the government?
Never thought of the Apple connection before... Seems plausible
Emscripten has an option to chunk the typed array,

https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki/Split-Memory

In that mode, memory allocation is basically like in C and C++: each block can be allocated and freed independently.

Of course, this does have a performance cost, so it's a tradeoff.
Hillary Clinton May Have Just Committed Election Fraud (Part 1)
> The question is why do we have the most talented people in a certain industry having to live in confined spaces while paying through the roof for it.

Because it's their choice.

Right now the housing market in San Fran is redic. However, there are other major tech areas that don't nearly have the same problems.
But also:

"But this gets weird, because most Italian-Americans can trace their immigrant ancestors back to that time between 1861 and World War I, when the vast majority of “Italians,” such as Italy even existed at the time, wouldn’t have spoken the same language at all, and hardly any of them would be speaking the northern Italian dialect that would eventually become Standard Italian."
I'd love to buy their performance model: The 8 Gigahertz turbo.

Sorry, I had to.
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I'm confused - your phrasing suggests you disagree with me, yet your numbers fully support my claims. There is no reason a student, a retired person, or a part time worker can't exercise and cook healthy food. I recently learned how to do a clutch flag from a retired person who always seems to make time for his health.

I would have brought up a different citation [2] but it wouldn't have differed significantly.

You also bring up an important additional point - disability. Folks who are truly disabled (as opposed to engaging in disability fraud [1]) have unfixable reasons for being unhealthy and the same unfixable reason for being poor (a person unable to work is poor by definition - most wealth transfers are excluded from poverty calculations). The solutions here are a) cracking down on disability fraud and b) figuring out how to cure all the different disability types.

(Of course, some types of disability are also caused, in part, by the actions of the disabled person; consider a diabetic person who lost their feet. )

[1] http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/

[2] My numbers count people who worked 27+ weeks in a year, rather than a point in time snapshot. No major disagreement though: http://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/cps/a-profile-of-the-working...
HELL NO.

If you need to, generate HTML et. al. from TeX.
But HTML is not a substitute for TeX. Forget it.
From the rumor mill from people who moved from Tesla to Faraday. They're going for the mid market vs. Tesla's high-end market. Also, from the same source the quality and feel is no where near Tesla yet. So don't expect Tesla, but expect something 30-40% cheaper.
Striking, but hardly common.

You should clarify that in Russia they operate in "living space" sq.meters, meaning that 400 sqft will not include kitchen, corridors, bathroom, etc. Just the bedrooms and the living room.

Secondly, you are over-generalizing. While a part of population did in fact live in cramped conditions (or even in shared condos, whereby 2+ families shared a single apartment), more than enough people lived in a very decently spaced apartments, with living space ranging between 28 sqm to 40-50 sqm. So "400 sqft" apartments were nowhere close to being "luxury".

OTOH, a bathroom with a window - now that was indeed a true luxury (because how the vast majority of buildings where designed).
There are no other major countries from Europe on that list denser than Netherlands. Monaco is super dense, but consider that it's really really small.
PGP's UX is so dismal I could almost believe the whole project operates under an NSA false flag.
Given the usability and technical problems with PGP, do you think it's worth saving?
Anecdote: back in 2009, I had a Comcast account in a metered market and didn't need cable service for a bit, so I tried an experiment.

I plugged my cable modem into a dumb switch. It had a link, but there was nothing else attached; there was no router to act as a DHCP client, no frames being sent to the cable modem at all. In six days, my usage meter incremented by 0.5 GB. Plugging in a protocol analyzer revealed a constant stream of ARP requests for other subscribers' IPs. These were apparently counted against my cap, and presumably they were counted against everyone's caps, making 250 GB/month 1% smaller than advertised.

Comcast sent me to a document describing their metering methodology:

http://www.netforecast.com/documents/NFR5101_Comcast_Usage_M...

Their reps defended the practice of counting Comcast-generated broadcast traffic against everyone, even though there's no way for subscribers to prevent it.
Yeah, Ikea furniture seems to be designed for apartment living. Because their designs use glue-less fastening I can tear down all the furniture in my apartment and fill a truck without a lot of work. The only thing I wouldn't be able to move by myself now is my mattress.

The compromise is that the stuff they sell that has significant decorative elements is extremely flimsy. The malm series is probably the most durable furniture they sell, because it's just 3/4 inch or 1 inch osb sheeting that's cut and joined in different configurations with bolts.
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IMO the bigger change in the short term would be that Depth of Field and "HDR" effects in games could actually work correctly, rather than being unrealistic imitations of videocamera limitations.

Currently, the computer has to guess where you're attention is (e.g always on the crosshair for you weapon/hands) and any attempt to peer elsewhere is punished by unyielding blur and darkness/bloom.
I ran a $150 million Internet P&L for several years. The general trend is that customer use of data doubles every year and actual cost of goods sold halve every year. This trend has gone on for much longer than most people thought reasonable.
Or, as I like to think of it, the amount of mass you've got to substitute for with engineering in order to create sustainable fusion.

Useful also to consider that even at 1.0 solar masses, the energy throughput achieved per unit mass is on the order of reptilian metabolism -- that is, about 20-25% of mamallian metabolic rates. Something tells me that viable power generation is going to require more than this.

Working in our favour: gravity is by far the weakest of the four known forces.

Working against us: gravity's one-way. All other forces work in opposition, with positive and negative vectors. Containers built with them tend to have leaking edges. Which plasmas have a fondness for exiting via.
One question, what about the sugar that doesn't get fermented? Two percent doesn't seems like an insignificant amount, although maybe I've been somewhat unfair, if we compare them with sodas or a candy.
Note though that the blogpost is 5 months old, and the comparison is out of date. For example, as also noted in other comments, Emscripten can handle memory as either

1. Singleton fixed typed array (what most users use; the fastest)

2. Singleton growable typed array (aka asm.js memory growth; still not optimized in all browsers, though)

3. Split memory, in which each chunk of memory can be allocated separately, which allows fully dynamic memory usage the way C and C++ do natively (allocating and freeing pages to the OS), https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki/Split-Memory (but the flexibility makes it harder for JS engines to optimize)
Man builds giant computer at home
How about Excel?
Most "users" don't care about end-to-end encryption and instant messaging has already become the "better e-mail" on phones. The only way I see of breaking into this space is to make something for companies, because they still have reasons for a "better e-mail" and value encryption.