skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first time I was aware of Larry as a person was in early 2014 when I saw a replay of him on stage at the 2013 Google I/O event. I immediately got an impression of him as being a truly saintly figure, with his gentle, soft-spoken demeanor.

Considering what I have been going through in my daily life, I could not be more in awe of what Larry has been able to accomplish. I feel that Google is easily an order of magnitude more important than the next closest institution, be it public or private, be it a business or a government.

My offering to Larry is a little thing that I've been working on for the past several years called "Linux on the Web". If you stick those four words together and put it into a relevant search engine, then the link should appear as the top hit. It only works in Chrome... a fact that truly warms my cockles at this moment.

I f*ing love that man.

Screw all the haters.

Suggestion to all potential future reporters out there: pay more attention in your math, science and engineering classes, and less in your liberal (f)arts classes.
Not meaning to argue that the wave function is a physical entity but rather that particles aren't required to "exist" as a physical entity to explain experimental data.
V=IR only holds for direct current. The transmission lines can be run at high voltages and relatively small diameters because they carry alternating current, which is a much more efficient way of transmitting electrical energy over long distances. If they were DC then they would be sized more like sewer pipes.
> plants lack a central nervous system

Is a CNS required for sentience? If so, why do most vegans(that I can find online) agree that it would be wrong to eat a jellyfish, which generally lacks a CNS?

> Yes, plants respond to stimuli, in the same way a ball being rolled off a table does

Not even close to correct. Plants attempt to establish dominance in their domain from other plants by gathering more resources, can respond to try and protect themselves from certain types of pests/blight/fire, etc.
Didn't actually make it. Use it and thought it's cool.
Computational Creativity for Computer Generated Cooking Recipes
I'm pretty sure the FSF is using GStreamer and Icecast for LibrePlanet events.
Two months per year? To me that's worth it. I want to live as long as possible, but that is strongly based on how much I enjoy life. If the things people enjoy happen to be a little unhealthy, it may be worth it.
Ok I'm new to this and I know it's still beta, but it seems:

1. Still WAY too complicated (look at all the stuff you have to know and type)

2. Doesn't seem to support my preferred OS (Windows) or web server (IIS) what-so-ever. Which is strange since, from my experience, installing certs in IIS is already far easier than in Apache and Nginx. (Although maybe that's why they perceive it as less of a priority?)
There will be jobs, they just will require more education and/or skill than jobs currently require. This is always true any time civilization advances. The entry level jobs we have currently take more education and skill than jobs took 100 or 200 years ago.

My father, who died a couple of years or so ago in his late 80s, was a high school drop out. This was not a big deal in his day. It was not a mark of shame or a barrier to getting a job. When Lincoln was president, the average education level of your typical American woman was 2nd to 4th grade (IIRC).

Google stats for "big data jobs". It is expected to produce, directly or indirectly, millions of new jobs in the next few years. Trying to fill big data jobs is currently a challenge because of a skill short fall. It is expected to get worse.

You don't want to get that much education? Then pan for gold. Stuff I have read recently indicates we have only found about 5% of the gold in the earth's crust. We are increasingly using precious metals, such as gold and silver, in the electronics to which we have all become so very attached. Gold currently is selling for around $1100/ounce. From what I gather, about 1/2 cup of gold would weigh as much as a two liter bottle of soda and could be readily sold online for about 80% of the spot price, totaling around $60k in income. It is unlikely we will be able to substitute automation for human labor any time soon for finding gold.

Every single human that exists creates a need for labor. In human history, every time we successfully automate or otherwise dramatically enhance productivity, we raise the standard of living for everyone. When we do it stupidly and badly, we breed a situation that leads to a cycle of booms and busts. See historical civilizations dependent upon distribution of river water via some system in order to grow enough food. They develop a canal system and a complex bureaucracy to run it and every few generations the complex bureaucracy that runs it breaks down, causing the civilization to hit its bust cycle.

Edit: Let me emphasize that: The HUMAN piece of the puzzle breaks down, and the whole system falls apart. You are talking about intentionally trying to create that very situation with Basic Income. Automation cannot keep working without human maintenance.

I have no desire to live in a world where machines run everything and the last man who knows how to write the code that runs them or debug that code or do the repairs dies and the rest of the sheeple sit around waiting for it to fall apart so we can rebuild civilization from the ground up like a bunch of stone age cave dwellers.

We had better find a way to educate people and distribute the work or we are incredibly, amazingly fucked.
The Soviet Union did pretty well in its early years, with GDP growth faster than that of the US for a time. Cuba is still doing pretty well compared to similar Latin American countries at the time of the Cuban revolution. Don't know too much about the others.
Another system is no longer "solar", just planetary, as it evolves around another star, not the Sun. Or am I making this up?
I do wonder if back in the day, the JVM had access to the DOM in the same way Javascript did, what would have happened?
Accusing Google of slowing down the field is laughable. Google has opened up a ton of AI stuff, in every category imaginable, from Inception (pre-trained model), Street View House Numbers (giant dataset), gemmlowp (infrastructure for fast matrix multiplies), deep dream (implementation of a specific deep learning technique), all the way to TensorFlow (complete production-ready neural net framework with examples and a free graduate-level university course to go with it). And of course they're publishing open access papers for everything in addition to the code releases. Furthermore, they're also employing core contributors who continue to maintain important libraries like Ceres Solver, Eigen, and Keras, just to name a few.

Google has even open sourced DeepMind's previous most impressive achievment, the Atari player. Based on that track record it's probably only a matter of time before the Go player is released. I'd expect it not long after the upcoming match, if they win.
The wisdom teeth industry is probably a scam
Why was this down-voted?

Ask yourself this; If tptacek's comment had the races reversed, would you think it racist?

If it's racist to say, 'most crime is committed by African Americans' why isn't it racist to say 'middle class white people are responsible for levying default judgements and financial catastrophes on others?'

I'm a middle class white person. I don't wish ill on any black people, or any other people. I don't wish late fees, high default judgments or financial catastrophe on anyone.

Why do I feel bad for typing this?

Political correctness is ass-backwards.

We want to be nice to each other, we want to live fulfilling, and 'happy' lives. Political correctness as it is actualized today lies in stark contrast to those goals.
Not a single comment so far has mentioned Karl Marx.

I did not mention Karl Marx, but I did, in fact, mention communism. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10983248

/pedant
The Startups Hiding in UBS, Citigroup and Barclays
Should static content be encrypted over https? I think it's fair for chrome to call out with an x as I've literally seen local lunch joints take orders with credit card info over http but to serve mostly static pages like the new yorker over http only means that the user's privacy is compromised in that people can see what you're reading - does that warrant down ranking searches? I'm just curious - I work mostly on platforms so I'm not too aware of all of the incentives for trying to move everyone to https as it's not my problem domain necessarily.
>Does key auth protect you from a MITM on the first connection?

Yes. Key auth will protect you from your SSH connection being listened to, and will make credential theft reliant on social engineering. However, someone could still pretend to be the server (potentially stealing your commands), but there really doesn't exist any way to solve that.

>is precisely the point: that's a lot of people. SSH doesn't work for those people. We can play the blame game, but at the end of the day, clearly something is "not right".

Nothing works for those people, at least generally with SSH users you can assume that they should know better.

>Again: there is a way to use SSH properly, yes. But rare is the person who does this.

I'd hardly consider SSH key auth users rare.

>(But key auth is orthogonal to host fingerprinting anyway, this is kind of a red herring)

But it almost completely fixes the main problem caused by MitM, someone gaining access to the server you're logging into.
I seriously think instead of centralized office space there should just be a bunch of coworking spaces. You pick one that's convenient for you, and your employer subsidizes it instead of paying for the giant office space for you to come in to work.

But I think part of the problem is that giant office space is psychologically useful when you're bringing in potential clients for business (or judging how successful of a company you are). The managers want an office full of busy worker bees so they can show off their workspace to clients and the world.

Even small startups are guilty of this, although usually they want to show their workplace off as being cool and having fun things like game consoles, ping pong tables, and bean bag chairs.

Basically we need a different way for managers to show off. Maybe they can just create some giant park with amazing sculptures as they grow to show off how impressive they are. Maybe have a single conference room in the center of a hedge maze for when those important clients come visit the office.
I certainly don't disagree with your analysis, but surely most of the blame should be placed on the shoulders of those that controlled the pension money ?
I suspect it wouldn't be difficult to program a computer to beat humans at League, but no one has put real effort into it because of anti-cheat and the fact that it would be looked at more as "hacking" than an intellectual challenge.
>will be able to get a job is to have some form of education or skill.

AI tends not to work like that. High-skill jobs tend to be easier for machine-learning than low-tech jobs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox
I agree. I didn't remember it being so bad till I listened again.
Google has a service for this: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/...
> Pretty shady.

Sort of, but in the global order of shadiness, this ranks pretty far below what your typical multinational corporation does to track an individual. It's pretty ingenious actually.
Of course, but there's a general expectation that stuff served over HTTP isn't sensitive.

Breaking HTTPS where it's deliberately used is something that certainly deserves a warning.
> if the startup bubble pops

Therano's problems neither indicate a "startup bubble" exists nor would it pop it if there was a bubble. The bay area economy is larger than the economies many countries and one company that doesn't yet have significant revenues doesn't have make much of an impact. Theranos isn't the Bear Sterns of San Francisco. The problem many troubled unicorns face is that they guaranteed results to get high valuations in their late stage investor financing. Their problems are exactly that, just their problems.
People who obsessively check social media get less sleep
For a commercial vessel, if you want to carry cargo from one US port to another. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Marine_Act_of_1920 though that also requires the vessel to be US-built/owned/crewed...
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP7jMXSY2xbc3KCAE0MHQ-A
I think you just described homeless shelters.
well, what I want is that everybody has the same 'right' to get some of the worlds resources. But once you have used them, you got your share and the money must disappear.

However, if you work for something and add value to the world you should be rewarded.

It doesn't feel right to me to let people who work hard pay money to people who do nothing. By having to pay for natural resources generated money will not devaluate (quickly?)

How to keep such a system balanced is not trivial, but impossible? I can't tell
Anecdote. My uncle (in Sweden) lived his whole adult life on the "basic income" he got from the State. He played the guitar, beautifully, wrote poetry, and never held a job in his life (why would he? the State was providing). He died in his early 40s, worn out by alcohol abuse and probably drugs. His "basic income" happened to be higher than what I had left after paying taxes as an engineer working for Ericsson.
That was worth my time. Thank you. I wrote down Cowen's laws for future reference.
Except for the prices. :-)
One issue is content injection. You never know what transparent proxies are between you and the server, any one of them can add / remove content, scripts, tracking stuff etc to the static pages. You can't even be sure if your current DNS server resolved to the actual server and not some shady proxy.

I believe Comcast has been accused of doing something shady like that but I don't live in US and have no idea. Just read the news.
I think a lot of people are suggesting these days that interfering with gut biome with things such as anti biotics can have far reaching effects on the rest of your system.

Maybe you don't agree with this but I think there is research suggesting, for example, having the wrong gut bacteria can make you more likely to be over weight, be a factor heart disease and even diseases like Alzheimer's are implicated.
Another thing that would be helpful to most people is fixing the affordable housing issue. The problem is that lots of people are deeply invested in making housing increasingly less affordable (alternatively phrasing as "improving home values"). Housing is the single biggest expense for many people, especially those in economically productive high wage cities, and cutting that would dramatically reduce the remaining gap that something like basic income would have to fill.
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I think colleges should educate people and not only train them for a job. This is only really viable with free education and much harder to do with the alternatives which are discussed right now.
> You don't need to be a trained phlebotomist to do it.

Yes, but Theranos still had phlebotomists doing their finger pricks. Also, phlebotomists aren't that expensive. Even in the Bay Area I think they only make around $18 an hour. Cheaper than a nurse, for sure.
None of this relates to the "universal basic income" idea.
Something else occurred to me: DC-DC switching is an inherently noisy design. It produces switching spikes which are notoriously difficult to filter.

If you are working on an electronics project which is sensitive to noise, you currently have the option of ditching your cheap, efficient DC-DC bench power supply and instead using a linear power supply, which is far less efficient (instead of producing the desired voltage by converting power, it does so by turning the extra power into heat), but is a very low-noise design.

If we switch to a DC grid, there'd be no point in using a linear bench supply to develop a low-noise project, because those nasty switching spikes you were trying to avoid aren't coming from your supply, they are coming from the grid!
I guess they are still hiring for their Copenhagen office: https://www.zendesk.com/jobs/copenhagen/
I work from home often. I like working from home. I fight to work from home. I've worked from home off and on for over a decade.

That said, in my experience there are some things that are just done better face to face. Not many, but some.

* meetings where you want to sketch something out--I haven't found a digital solution for sketching say, architecture diagrams, that works as well as a whiteboard.

* the chance to meet and interact with someone outside of your team/department by happenstance, say at a FAC. Of course, you can go onto different slack channels, but I think the interaction wouldn't be as fluid.

* one on ones. While I guess a hangout might give you some of the face to face time, video conferencing isn't as high bandwidth as face to face conversation, including all the nuances of pauses, body language, etc.

I think there might be others, and I bet they all have the component of physicality that can't be delivered digitally. (Yet? Maybe VR will deliver it.)

I'm not a fan of required in office work, but see the tremendous value in it on occasion.

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The idea that "emasculate" was a bad word choice was a foolish media bandwagon. The secondary meaning of emasculate is "make weaker or less effective" and holding a fragile and valuable object does do that...
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Did you mean to reply to someone else? It doesn't sound like you disagree at all.

If there was a basic income, people who do things that currently aren't paid for, like what you mentioned, could be done and "paid for" by the basic income.

If you like the work, but just want to be paid, that should solve your problem.

If you don't like the work, don't do it. The basic income would mean that jobs that people don't like doing would have to increase what they pay until someone is willing to do it. Nobody would be forced to do work they don't like for a barely or non-livable wage.
Several sources have claimed that they have raised $750M in funding.

http://fortune.com/2015/10/28/theranos-is-seeking-to-raise-2...

IIRC, the $88.4M figure comes from their publicly disclosed funding as at end 2010.
Ask HN: What's your favorite physics demonstration?
Specifically ballistics, but feel free to mention others.

Personally I like the hunter and the monkey, showing deviation from a straight line exactly matches distance fallen in a given time under gravity. I also like the cannon firing vertically on a (uniformly) moving wagon and returning to land in the cannon.

But what's yours?
> I work on an open team with quite a few women and other folks who would immediately react negatively [...]

No you don't. You're just an attention whore. Or you probably do not interact that much with people, or else you'd know nobody sane would react negatively to some nine headshots of a person. Stop tumultising stupid things.

And Lenna is a good image for testing for various purposes, and it is a nice, beautiful image to see when doing a boring thing like learning an image processing software. And it contains some nice colour work.
I read this a few days ago and learnt a lot. It might shed some light on why some countries' banking systems are slower than others https://getmondo.co.uk/blog/2016/01/20/how-do-bank-payments-...
Probably better to link here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_professional#Discrepancies_...

The difference between an amateur 2D and 9D is not the same as the difference between a professional 2P and 9P.
What is your measure (e.g. spending as % of GDP) and what do you consider "our compatriots"?
To me, it feels like common sense not to megadose any particular thing, especially when you don't understand the effects said thing can have on the body.

This is a great comment, and hits the nail on the head.

I've spent much of the past 10 years trying to understand and overcome a somewhat mysterious fatigue illness that seems most likely to be a general autoimmune condition.

One of the approaches I've tried along the way is to consume large amounts of various supplements, including vitamins, minerals, amino acids and herbs (basically, whatever was the latest thing I heard some convincing-sounding "expert" recommend).

What I ended up realising was that any high-dose supplement intake might initially make me feel better, but after a while it would actually make me feel worse.

As I understand it now, having devoted a lot of time to researching and experimenting with this, is that a deficiency in any nutrient is less to do with a lack of it in the diet and more to do with the body's ability/willingness to absorb and utilise it [1].

And so the more of any given nutrient that you try and shove into the body, the more you actually throw it out of balance, as it now has to deal with an excess of something it was already struggling with or resisting, as well the increased presence of that nutrient relative to other important nutrients.

More recently I've had much better success at improving my condition by learning how to match my nutrient intake to what my body actually needs and can handle at any given time (via diet and very sparing, selective supplement intake), and that seems to now have me on a steady path to full recovery.

[1] Sure there are many people in the world who are ill due to inadequate intake of certain nutrients from their diet, but that's more of an issue in poverty-stricken societies, as opposed to developed-world societies where most people have access to healthy-enough diets yet many still suffer from chronic illness.
The same people who shot Kennedy hide the plane. You will be disintegrated in 3 minutes.

Or you could use the grey matter between your ears. Modern airliner hulls and structure are made mostly out of aluminium, which is -suprise- antimagnetic.

And finding a Submarine or anything else is hard. Like really hard. You need to know where to look. Because of that, NATO would have to had stopped Red Fleet at the GIUK-Barrier or it would have gotten ugly.
Or, look at the problems people had to find ships like Titanic or Bismarck, where they had much more precise locations to start searching for.
> Suggestion to all potential future reporters out there: pay more attention in your math, science and engineering classes, and less in your liberal (f)arts classes.

No. You do not create technology that serves real humans by refusing to study the humanities.
Do you feel that being an asshole will make you more acceptable to the community?
It's an industry sponsored survey of scientific research. That they included a result in it does not impugn the research.

(the citations of scientific papers are on the bottom of each page...)

Note the in industry material in my comment above. I anticipated this response, I didn't have to edit it to put that in.
Did you mean to reply to someone else?

Nope. To my mind, Basic Income = permanent slavery for women, with no hope of getting free as the expectation that we should "care" out of the goodness of our hearts will just become more entrenched and more doors will close to us.

If women want male privilege, they need to take the entire deal, including the risks of failure.

“Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.” -- Benjamin Franklin
I&#8217;m all in: how not buying in can cost you more than you think
Berlin also sees housing prices surge drastically, so the problem exists there as well