skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think about what kind of effect a $300 fine has on your life, and compare it to the impact on this woman's life.

I have. That's why I don't speed.

$300 lost means that I have to find what to cut from a budget to support a family of four, while trying to pay off all my bills with a goal to become debt free before I become this woman's age. Unlike the woman in the article, we don't choose tours of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings over dental care.

I'd like to know how the woman in the article budgeted her money 34 years ago, when she was my age. Then we're closer to comparing apples with apples, even though according to the article she never had children to further strain her finances.

A lot of the discussion in this entire thread involving the traffic ticket focuses on how such a ticket is devastating to the poor and the weakest of wrist-slaps to the uber-rich. I see very little discussion of the potential impact on the majority of us in the middle class, or how personal responsibility factors into the mix.
I'm fine with it as a time saver, but I've run into one two many people who actually play for joint wins.
Thanks for that. My policy also states a reimbursement method (within limits). I would probably go that route given your experience.
Only $74bn short? That works out to $232/yr each, or an extra $20 per citizen per month.

That doesn't sound like all that much to spend to ensure Social Security stays available.

I think if you told people "we need to raise revenue through taxes 1.6% to ensure Social Security stays solvent for all working adults", most reasonable people would agree to that. At least, I would hope most people would think that's fairly reasonable.
Hey I know these guys - what they're doing is AWESOME.
She's living in small towns! What does a studio cost in small California town? $500/month?
Interesting comment thread from r/oculus about this announcement:

https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/43tehp/magic_leap_r...
Assault weapon is colloquially defined as a firearm with a detachable magazine and a pistol grip. I've seen this definition in common use going back 30 years, whether or not it helps anyone's political ideals.

A thorough discussion of the definition and it's history can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_weapon
USB-C does lots of things, including high voltage charging, backwards compatibility, and reversible orientation. Yeah, you could make it simpler, but then you'd have to start giving up some of those features, at which point now you've just reinvented USB-A again.

It's just as complicated as it needs to be. And for godssakes, the pin-out diagram isn't that complicated; it only has 24 pins! There's no excuse for flipping two of them. 24 pins is not beyond the pale of what we would reasonably expect manufacturers to be able to wrap their heads around.

http://bi9he1w7hz8qbnm2zl0hd171.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-c...
> My own customers have seen 4x different conversion rate, when grouped by page load time

Was that a controlled test?

If just a correlation, then other variables might confound i.e. users from overseas, users with a slow connection, users with a slow computer.

Agree with you though!
Perhaps I will try to answer:

1. There is no evidence Boomers did not have enough income to put savings aside; rather, their years of prosperity, bubbles, and behaviors indicate they squandered or bilked each other out of large sums of money.

2. Historical interest rates are about 7% - at least that's the peg for most public pensions rate of growth, which is not unrealistic in a healthy US economy. The Baby Boomer population which did not save enough was tempted by higher returns in the equities or housing casinos, gambled, lost a great deal of whatever wealth they had in bubbles bursting, and now what? I should feel all happy that my government is going to lift the funds out of my pocket?
Thank you for taking the time out to join our conversation. I hope it was worth it.
Please explain this fair welfare scheme which is trivial to work out, because I'm not seeing how "every person has two parents" leads directly to it.
Is it too early to be suggesting Argon2? I've not heard of it until now, but the Wikipedia entry[1] shows that the paper was just released late last year.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argon2
How to utilize Blab and Periscope for your business
I'm pretty sure you can blow up any test equipment with a sufficiently screwed up test subject.
The item appears to have been removed from amazon now.

Clicking the link to the item[1] on the review page leads to a 404.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/SurjTech%C2%AE-Standard-Adapter-Devic...
We're suckers for high-quality historical material that hasn't appeared here before. HN can never have enough of that.
Segment is hiring infrastructure engineers to supercharge our container fleet
This is what Finland does. It's called a Day-fine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-fine
Also, write-up from the winner of the competition: http://deepsense.io/deep-learning-right-whale-recognition-ka...

They use a very similar technique, I like the emphasis on the white pattern on the head to help distinguish each whale.
It seems like FCC-regulatory compliance would not be a top priority for people who believe that the federal government has no authority....
Uber drivers' rates protest takes to the SF streets
I guess when too few people are buying your crack anymore, and there are too many competing sellers, you drop your price until the addicts pick back up.
The Etherkiller
> The thing about food riots is, they are over quickly because, starvation.

Food riots usually happen well before mass starvation, and usually are over quickly because one of four things happens:

(a) The government accedes to the demands of the rioters, or

(b) The government distracts the rioters, often with a manufactured external crisis, or

(c) The government convinces the rioters that continuing the riot will lead to more pain than whatever provoked the riot and no positive results (often, by fairly direct demonstration of this),

(d) The riots escalate to outright rebellion, and the government is toppled and replaced (often resulting in [a], but sometimes this becomes a distraction along the lines of [b]; this often follows an attempt by the government at [c].)

> And in this modern age of transportation there's really no need for anybody to go hungry. We can feed everybody. If somebody in North Africa is hungry, its their politics at fault.

Even granting that, manifestly people do go hungry, particularly in nations that don't generate enough domestically to feed their people and would have to rely on imports to do so (though, even in the most developed countries that are also net food exporters, some still go hungry.)

Climate change, even before considering increased variability, changes which countries political deficiencies produce major food distribution problems and the accompanying pressures, which, historically, have led to mass violence, both internal and interstate. That its a political and not technical problem might be emotionally satisfying, especially when the problem is mostly in distant countries, but it doesn't actually magically make the problem go away.
RSI Notes
They aren't based on off the investment of those contributions, but yes, they are based off the income you earned over your lifetime.[1]

[1]https://www.ssa.gov/retire/estimator.html
What is the operating temperature of such lenses? Is this one of those magic devices that only exists near absolute zero?

I assume these can be built into sheets to focus light onto masks. No doubt intel might be interested.
Sure, but the magnitude of that cost matters a lot. You were saying a dollar or two in raw materials to protect against 100W, now you're saying three or four cents. A few cents to protect hundreds of dollars in equipment from electrical faults seems worthwhile to me.
I went through Stanford in the 1980s, just as it was becoming clear that logic-based AI had hit a wall. That was the beginning of the "AI Winter", which lasted about 15 years. Then came machine learning.

AI used to be a tiny field. In the heyday of McCarthy and Minsky,
almost everything was at MIT, Stanford, and CMU, and the groups weren't that big. There were probably less than 100 people doing anything interesting. Also, the total compute power available to the Stanford AI lab in 1982 was about 5 MIPS.

Part of what makes machine learning go is sheer compute power. Training a neural net is an incredibly inefficient process. Many of the basic algorithms date from the 1980s or earlier, but nobody could hammer on them hard enough until recently. Back in the 1980s, John Koza's group at Stanford was trying to build a cluster out of a big pile of desktop PCs. Stanford got a used NCube Hypercube with 64 processors (1 MIPS, 128KB each). The NCube turned out to be useless. There was a suspicion that with a few more orders of magnitude in crunch power, something might work, but with the failure of AI, nobody was going to throw money at the problem.

At last, there are profitable AI applications, and thus the field is huge. Progress is much faster now, just because there's more effort going in. But understanding of why neural nets work is still poor. Things are getting better; the trick of using an image recognition neural net to generate canonical images of what it recognizes finally provided a tool to get some insight into what was going on. At last there was a debug tool for neural nets. Early attempts in that direction determined that the recognizer for "school bus" was recognizing "yellow with black stripe", and that some totally bogus images of noise would be mis-recognized. Now there are somewhat ad-hoc techniques for dealing with that class of problems.

The next big issue is to develop something that has more of an overview than a neural net, but isn't as structured as classic predicate-calculus AI. One school tries to do this by working with natural language; Gary Markus, the author of the parent article, is from that group. There's a long tradition in this area, and it has ties to semantics and classical philosophy.

The Google self-driving car people are working on higher-level understanding out of necessity. They need to not just recognize other road users, but infer their intent and predict their behavior. They need "common sense" at an animal level. This may be more important than language. Most of the mammals have that level of common sense, enough to deal with their environment, and they do it without much language. It makes sense to get that problem solved before dealing with language. At last, there's a "killer app" for this technology and big money is being spent solving it.
Facebook Opens Up Registration for Its F8 Developer Conference
Canada and Russia are mostly empty.

Canada will be fine, they have a long history of cooperating with the US.

Now, Russia on the other hand...with China right next to it? I smell trouble ahead.
Yes, and it's ok. (I'm a moderator here, btw, so it really is ok.)

The 'gaming' in question was about getting people to upvote one's stuff. That's against the rules, but we saw no evidence you did it. This is why I chided the user who made that accusation. It's corrosive of the civility we strive for here when people make accusations without real grounds for them.
So you got Parsed?
(Debt Awareness Week) Debt in Great Britain
Bill Staines – A Cowboys Hard Times

Well, I once was a cowboy, and I used to run wild.
And I rodeoed, wrangled, and rambled in style.
But I'm too old for horses, too old for the show,
And I'm too young for Heaven; now where shall I go?

You young whipper-snappers might think that's quaint. But get ye into the position of manager, guru, or entrepreneur, or this can happen to a coder too.
Banned by Tesla!
They'll say "I don't trust the government to spend that money properly. Take $232/yr away from some entitlement program that services people who aren't directly related to me."
Improvements in the security of Microsoft desktop operating systems is sucking all of the oxygen out of the desktop security marketplace.

3rd party browsers have also had an equal impact on the desktop security marketplace by competing with (and replacing) IE.
I think if anything you're being too kind here. The way dependencies are typically handled in the Node/NPM ecosystem is horrendous, and this has serious negative implications for the stability and longevity of almost any project built within that ecosystem today.

Unfortunately, modern web development is led, at least in publicity terms, by people who think phrases like "move fast and break things" and "living standard" are cool. The trouble is, what actually happens if you follow those people is that you break lots of things very quickly and you have no stable standards the help everyone do better.
"Just over two years ago, PhD student at Swinburne’s Centre for Micro-Photonics, Xiaorui Zheng, tried fashioning a lens using graphene oxide — a variation of the super-strong, atom-thick carbon material, graphene. The team, led by Associate Professor Baohua Jia, developed a three-dimensional printer that could quickly and cheaply produce the lens using a sprayable graphene oxide solution. Lasers were used to precisely pattern the surface, creating three concentric rings of reduced graphene oxide, which enabled its extraordinary focus"

No I think it's purely geometrical.
>I doubt you'll be espousing this same view when you can't walk due to a bad hip and can't afford a new one possibly due to factors outside of your control.

Sigh, this is unfortunately a subject I refuse to go into much detail about, but this view was entirely crafted under the auspices of having an expensive, lifetime handicap. Pre-ACA, I lived constantly under threat of medical bankruptcy and pre-existing condition rules that were written to benefit big companies at the expense of my health. I had to make a lot of compromises, and still do, and I have very little sympathy for those who have lived a long and productive life and will do anything to stay alive, I just don't feel that way personally.

I know I take more out of the health care system than I put in. At least I can admit that. What we're dealing with in the case of the elderly is straight up denial that they could have any responsibility for their station in life now, and I'm not buying it.
Is this another Theranos? I hope not but all we are hearing are promises, NDAs and big rounds/valuations for a product not yet on the market. One kinda grows suspicious after so many howls.
Interesting concept, but why? Why would I use this?
Winners and Losers in the Global App Economy
I talked to my apartment mate about it. He said that when he showed the article to his advisor, she had the reaction of "they're pay to publish". I can't speak to the reputability of the journal, just providing his response.
It’s not that they’re stupid; it’s just that they don’t know anything
Is "they" a large enough voting cohort for it to matter?
>(why carry a 7" tablet when you've got a 6" phone screen everywhere you go already?

I'm not so sure about that. Phones are always battery starved and even the big ones are small compared to the tablet experience.

Heck, I have a 6p and an iPad Mini. The mini is "only" 2 inches wider than the 6p but its a massive difference in perception and a completely different experience.

If anything, my larger phone has kept me from buying a kindle. It makes for a decent ebook reader anywhere I go.
No, no, I don't claim that having macros is required for popularity. I claim only that the growth pattern of "simple" markup languages is to add features which make them no longer simple. At that point, new simpler markup languages appear, and the cycle repeats.
I've had temporary enemies. People trying to break up relationships I'm in, for example. People lying and stealing from me. As soon as I cut them from my life (which is almost always the best solution), I try to forget about them and move on.
SunElec already has sub 50 cent/watt panels in stock: http://sunelec.com/

As far as times without production, how about using the over-production to lift really really large weights or pump water up a hill?
> Why did Boomers not have enough income to put savings aside?

Many of them did have enough income to put aside, but chose not to. My father is one of them. He was making 6 figures back in the 1980's when that was a lot of dough, yet he finds himself at 74 still having to work and living essentially paycheck to paycheck. I'm pretty sure he is not the only one like this.
British Telecom broadband and POTS outage affects much of UK
State of New York Seed
> This doesn't make using their apps a "non-starter".

I don't think the parent meant a "non-starter" in general. This app seems really awesome, but I primarily develop on Windows, so it's a non-starter for me, which is really too bad. I was really excited looking through the page until I noticed it was only on OS X.

That and I'd prefer my electronic notebook to be available on my phone as well, so that's another reason I wouldn't use it. But if this ever comes out for Windows/Android, I'd definitely be excited to try it out.
More specifically, requests are routed through HAProxy to Varnish, and then, if not cached, they'll hit the backend. I'm surprised they couldn't get up to 5-10,000 req/s, honestly. Maybe payload size/bandwidth limited.

500+ req/sec is decent for a Symfony app, so they should've focused on that metric and the app itself.
Yeah I knew the other human consumables were the main issue that's right there in the article. I didn't know and didn't want to assume how long the orbit would last though since it didn't seem to be covered with a specific time. Also even if it was a small amount how much would be eaten up rendezvousing with a hypothetical dumb supply bag?
This is the best narration/description I've seen so far => https://www.technologyreview.com/s/534971/magic-leap/
> Are you talking about the scenario where the banks deposit money to the Fed?

Yes, I thought that was what negative interest rates refer to.

> I was talking about the scenario where the Fed gives out a credit in exchange for securities.

Are you describing quantitative easing? Because my understanding that was just the Fed buying securities (usually government ones) on the open market at market prices like any other buyer. I think the big difference in the negative interest rate scenario is the selling bank would have less incentive to then take the cash and park it in the Fed afterward.

If it's a straight bailout, my guess is the Fed would be in a strong position to set the terms so it wouldn't have to pay the bank to take the money.
Charlottesville, VA: New Capital for Venture Capital
Very cool, but I'm struggling to see the purpose of this. The time it would take to focus on the textarea/ contenteditable field, then press the icon just to begin typing from a different program seems like a waste. Either that, or it has extremely narrow uses; none of which are readily apparent in my eyes.
As a user have you never clicked the back button because the page was taking too long to load?

Businesses won't fail outright, but they will probably lose users/customers who decide not to spend time on the site because of load speed.
>Good luck, remember me when you make your million!

Oldest trick in the book: fove out free advice and take a share of the wins, but don't pay a share of the losses ;-)
Wow. It kinda boggles the mind that a company can (or would) ban a user from buying a physical product.
You don't have to strangle the youth to feed the elderly. IT is always a false dichotomy to think that you need the poor to provide for the poor.

Here are numbers to consider. Per capita real GDP in 2015 in the US was $51,143. Fourty years ago it was $24,693. We have more than doubled our per-person wealth, and are continuing to increase at 2%, roughly twice the rate of inflation.

We are absolutely wealthy as a country. Beyond measure. At some point, it should be reasonable to say some things about how advanced your society should be now. In the past, there have been many points where people and leaders together agreed we were advanced and prosperous enough to invest in our own country. Just in the US, some examples would be:

* Public education. Spending money to make sure no matter your means you have access to a generalized curriculum of schooling.
* Transportation infrastructure. Be it rail, canals, trollies, roads - even the old dirt roads dug out for carriages, airports, subways, bike paths, or sidewalks.
* Clean water.
* Sewage
* Electricity
* Twisted pair
* Coaxial
* Fiber?
* Welfare that tries to insure people do not starve, or sleep in the streets.
* Prisons to remove from society those who cannot participate (and for some reason people who like smoking plants).
* Guaranteed access to healthcare. Oh wait, only first world countries do that.

All of these are expenses, that we pay for in taxes and rationalize as being worth the cost, because our economy can bear the cost. And it has done more than weather these costs, it has exploded even with them upon it, and often because of these expenses - these investments - we are more productive as a result.

Peace of mind in retirement may not be as obviously beneficial to the econonmy as having an interstate highway system, but the benefits now should be apparent in how we can easily see that when children are not burdened to care for their ailing parents they prosper.

So the question is not if the young are suffering for the rich, because social security has existed for going on five generations since the 40s and has had provable economic benefit in the intervening years. It is important to distinguish the benefits of the expense (social security) from the means to pay for it.

This of course ties back into growing wealth inequality, but it is important to separate why it is good to do something and why you might be getting the money to do it the wrong way.
I really like the idea and atom is my editor of choice but I struggling to find a use case where I would use this day to day.
Federal Debt is $59K per person.
http://www.bloomberg.com/visual-data/best-and-worst//most-go...

So that's about $120K per taxpayer.

It takes a long time to pay that kind of debt down on stagnant wages.

It's more than the annual GDP and one of the worst in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_de...

The right alternative to raising taxes might be to moderate spending and trying to pay down the debt. We need to not leave the kids with a bum debt.
Such a great advice! Thank you.

Do you engage yourself on different hobbies such as you suggested? When do you stop one hobbie and move to another one?
Messed up text formatting on Chrome for Android (CyanogenMod 13).

http://i.imgur.com/2Mcv5a5.png
Etymology of Screw the Pooch (2014)
EDIT: sounds like a misunderstanding more than anything.

Here's [0] a link to the rankings of nature journals. Nature Communications is 3rd in general science, and Nature is 1st.

Tim Gowers and the freedom of knowledge group are pushing hard on journal fees.

[0]http://www.nature.com/npg_/company_info/impact_factors.html

Old post :

I can speak to the reputability of your friend's program. The statement is jaw dropping. It is so wrong as to make it hard for me to believe he goes to an accredited university.
> Is it too early to be suggesting Argon2?

Most environments don't have an implementation for it yet, and the ones that do will probably only get it through libsodium for the first few years.

> I've not heard of it until now, but the Wikipedia entry[1] shows that the paper was just released late last year.

Argon2 was the winner of the Password Hashing Competition, a several-year cryptography competition to find a new password hashing algorithm that would be secure against an attacker armed with a large GPU cluster.

The judges included a lot of famous cryptographers and security experts. Of particular note: Colin Percival, the author of scrypt, and Jens Steube, the project lead for hashcat.

I've read the paper and I think Argon2 will stand the test of time, but I could (of course) be wrong.