skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just as a counterpoint since this type of comment serves to only shut down what should be rational and unemotional discussions on political ideas and potential policy decisions.

> As for the world’s second major propaganda system, association of socialism with the Soviet Union and its clients serves as a powerful ideological weapon to enforce conformity and obedience to the State capitalist institutions, to ensure that the necessity to rent oneself to the owners and managers of these institutions will be regarded as virtually a natural law, the only alternative to the ‘socialist’ dungeon.

> The Soviet leadership thus portrays itself as socialist to protect its right to wield the club, and Western ideologists adopt the same pretense in order to forestall the threat of a more free and just society. This joint attack on socialism has been highly effective in undermining it in the modern period.

Source: https://chomsky.info/1986____/

I don't necessarily agree with Chomsky but "I was there mannnn" and "if you disagree with me you're young and naive" is not the standard of discussion we should hold ourselves to.
That's interesting. Thanks a lot. I really don't know enough to have an opinion on this stuff. I was just trying to express my bewilderment at the opposition to the ACA which didn't seem to offer any alternatives other than going back to what we had.
> Most men seek the JD to “make a lot of money” which is really just a euphemism for “power over women.”

The first sentence is so wrong, I can't even bother reading on.
*Quadratically more objects.
> "There is no Fourth Amendment violation, because Houston had no reasonable expectation of privacy in video footage recorded by a camera that was located on top of a public utility pole and that captured the same views enjoyed by passersby on public roads", Judge John Rogers wrote for the unanimous court [...]

There are two big differences between passersby and unobtrusive fixed cameras.

• Passersby are generally easily noticeable.

• Passersby pass by.

A level of care that would make one safe with a high probability against being seen by passersby might fail completely against unobtrusive fixed cameras, so I'm not sure that the passersby-could-see standard should be the one used for cameras.

For example at a house my family had when I was a kid we were out in the country in a flat valley. From the end of our driveway I could see far enough up and down the road to see any potential passersby a minute away and postpone anything sensitive I wanted to do in the front yard until they had passed by.

On the other hand, I suppose that even if we decide not to allow law enforcement to use unobtrusive fixed cameras in situations like this it won't stop private parties from using them. Any private property that has a view into your private property could be a place where someone has decided to do some video voyeurism and is recoding.

Maybe the technological cat is out of the bag and we are just going to have to accept that if you don't want something seen you need to do it somewhere where there is no visibility from anywhere outside your property.
You rock Dan! I just posted to Ask HN recently asking if there was a replacement when I noticed it go down and got crickets. Thanks for taking the initiative. You should let Jacques know so he can update his HN FAQ.

On a side note, any idea why YC doesn't bake this into the HN site itself? Dang, any comment?
It has for a long time. I'm technically part of the Baby Boom, but when people talk about "The Baby Boomers" they mean the first ten years. Its always obvious. Those of us in the second ten years are not similar. I find people group well by decade, starting in mid-decade: 1945-55, 1955-65, 1965-75, etc.
A Supreme Court ruling from 2012 will give you hope.

They unanimously found that the government needs a warrant to put a GPS tracker on your car.

Similar to this case, the state argued that a cop didn't need a warrant to follow a car, so why was a GPS tracker any different? It just made the police work more efficient. The court disagreed.

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-1259.pdf
A better solution would be some new constitutional amendments.

Of course not an easy thing, but it's a lot better than hand wringing about what the courts will gin up.
If the gradient is small (as it should be 1 ly away) then the coupling ought to be very weak.
Now that's meta. Using Google to uncover their own secrets / low profile activities.
Good point, but I don't think I agree. I think there is a heavy urban prejudice to the generational categories definitions and a lot of it seems to be directed at what sales categories to use.
Ask HN: What are the future jobs in VR/AR
Just a question to try and position myself to be able to grow with future technology.

Currently, Web Development jobs can be split up into designer, ux, front end, back end, db, etc...some of those can be broken up even more.

What do you see as the future jobs in creating custom VR experiences for companies? Would it be similar to positions in game development? How would it be different from game development?

What do you see happening to Web Development? As far as business and wages are concerned?
I bet you've never gone up against a T-34.
Why as a queer woman? How's that relevant?
They actually have decent amounts of entrepreneurship relative to their populations, a higher average living standard than the US, longer life expectancy, far less crime, all despite having nearly no resources. Oh, and more equality. But GDP/total wealth is all that matters, right?

And a little note on HDI (used to measure quality of life/human development) - its skewed in favour of the US because it measures average income, not taking into account the fact Americans pay extra for health care while Europeans include it in taxes/exclude it from income calculations. Even then several Euro states beat the US.
20 years ago, a computer first beat a chess world champion
Agreed that the quoted account on Lehman is wrong. Bernanke was clear in his book last year:

“In congressional testimony immediately after Lehman’s collapse, Paulson and I were deliberately quite vague when discussing whether we could have saved Lehman,” Mr. Bernanke writes. “But we had agreed in advance to be vague because we were intensely concerned that acknowledging our inability to save Lehman would hurt market confidence and increase pressure on other vulnerable firms.”

Now, however, he appears to have some misgivings about some of those early statements. “I wonder whether we should have been more forthcoming, and not only because our vagueness has promoted the mistaken view that we could have saved Lehman.”

See http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/business/dealbook/in-ben-b...
When you work on any medium-to-large Rails project, and you want to run a quick unit test to test some new functionality for your new class that inherits from, say, something in ActiveSupport, and AS pulls in a bunch of gem code that is opaque to you, and your class names a module that wasn't loaded yet and so it gets dynamically loaded (warning: global mutable state has been altered, causing weird load-order bugs), and then THAT module triggers other loads of things it depends on, and one of those monkeypatches a bug in an old version of some gem which has actually since been fixed but is still being monkeypatched with old code and causes a corner-case bug that you haven't discovered yet (shameless self-plug: I actually wrote a gem to help manage that stuff: https://github.com/pmarreck/pachinko), and your unit test ends up taking, like, 30 seconds to just load your stack of dependencies... (I've actually seen 40 sec stack loads, in the wild, at past jobs)

... Ruby is still slow.

Sure, there are band-aids to assist with that stuff (Guard, Zeus, etc.), but you're still dealing with spaghetti-dependency, mutating-global-state, side-effecting hell.

Which is exactly why I now want to work with Elixir and Phoenix instead.

Note: It IS possible to write Ruby in such a way that almost none of this stuff actually comes to pass. But even if you do, you'll have to deal with an entire library of code that does not.
Plot.ly looks better to me as well. Specially the 3D stuff.
They'd have to build 4, actually. Imagine 3 intersecting spheres, there would be 2 possible positions remaining (just as with 2d triangulation, having 2 circles would leave 2 points remaining and we'd need a 3rd to find out which was correct
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Also a physicist. I may have let my passion for what the guys at virgo have been up to bias my judgment - visited years ago when they were commissioning the place, and had a long, long discussion about the problems they overcame, mostly around optics and noise, which they shared solutions for with the ligo folks. Now the paper is out I've untwisted my knickers as I can see they've cited the teams around the globe. The media up until that point kinda gave the impression it was a sole effort.

Giant's shoulders and all that.
Most likely in a very narrow decision which does not put the issue to rest because, like many things, surveillance technology now is quite a bit different than the authors of laws could have imagined – making sweeping decisions in either direction would very likely have broad and ridiculous consequences.
Upstream updates can add bugs just as easily as bug fixes.
Part of the reason for that is that LIGO isn't exactly a Michaelson interferometer in that it has an extra pair of mirrors in each arm. If you look at this schematic [1] then in a traditional Michaelson interferometer you would only have the mirrors that are at the end of both arms.

With LIGO there is an extra set of mirrors within the arms this allows the light from the laser to bounce between them ~100 times or so increasing the effective path length greatly.

[1] https://www.nsf.gov/news/speeches/colwell/rc03_ligo/img009.j...
What's the legit way to ask people if they'd be interested in testing a app?
I don't want to be a douchebag and just post something that looks spammy. Therefore I would like to ask what would be considered and ethical and legit way to ask hackers if they would want to test a new app?
Thanks
Wow, I identify with a _lot_ of that article, though as much as I love(d) The Oregon Trail, I'm not sure I could call myself a member of the "Oregon Trail Generation" while keeping a straight face :)
This is good to hear. Before the announcement, I was starting think it might necessary to migrate some of my projects to hapi: http://hapijs.com/
Yeah, but it seems like you listed most of the platforms most people actually use, all in the X column. How do we get from 100MB Electron deployment and fat, partially used jars and dlls to this magical tree-shaking world?
Teachers and Nurses appear often simply because there are a lot of them compared to all other occupations. There are, say, 100times more female teachers than female X for all other X.

Most common human Bayesian fallacy: forgetting the priors.
Roubini accurately predicted seven of the past four crises.
That makes it sound like the "bug" (lack of support for updating TLS session keys) was known for a long time, and the original "fix" was the client admitting it didn't really fully do TLS 1.2, which based on your experience seems to be a typical "fix" in SChannel.

(or, I'll admit, it's more likely the fallback after a "failed negotiation" was a "robustness" behavior that essentially hid problems)
Most things never made it to stone, paper and magnetic tape. We're recording more data now than ever before because it's so cheap to do so. Sure we lose some, but more information will be created and stored today than existed in the entire world not that long ago.
Fairly certain this calculator fails to account for Sanders' proposed lifting of the Social Security tax cap for (presumably household?) earnings over $250,000. That's a fake 6.2% and real 12.4% marginal income tax hike.

Also the brackets don't match up with this analysis[2], though I have no idea who's right. That analysis also suggests Sanders' plan adds another employer-paid payroll tax of 6.2%! I'm not sure how that overlaps with the "Medicare for All" tax. Let's assume they're not cumulative. The result is still something like a real 60% marginal rate on a household with two $150,000 earners. Before state and local taxes, of course.

EDIT: No, of course, the 2.2% employee and 6.2% employer taxes are cumulative! It's disingenuous to imply that your wages aren't being taxed if your employer pays the tax instead of you.

[1] http://taxfoundation.org/article/details-and-analysis-senato...

[2] https://berniesanders.com/issues/strengthen-and-expand-socia...
But email addresses aren't meant to be private, so even if that deduction is true, everything it appears to leak is still public knowledge.
> The voters had very little recourse like they do in the free market where they can just go to a different healthcare provider

Many have no healthcare providers.

> It's not just about how much in taxes you would pay; it's about the risk of you actually getting quality care for what you are forced to pay in taxes.

Americans face the same risk now. Many Americans have no effective access to health care, and, for example, hospital error is a leading cause of death (as of a few years ago, at least).

The rest of the rich world manages to implement national health care systems, pay (very roughly) half of what Americans pay, and get the same results - much better because all of their citizens receive health care. It seems unbelievable to me to suggest that the U.S. couldn't do the same.

Why would anyone insist on paying twice as much for a worse product? It is really a choice of dogmatic ideology over rationality.
Didn't know what an offload engine was, so I looked up TCP offload engine (TOE) on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_offload_engine

The page states:
"""
A generally accepted rule of thumb is that 1 hertz of CPU processing is required to send or receive 1 bit/s of TCP/IP.[3] For example, 5 Gbit/s (625 MB/s) of network traffic requires 5 GHz of CPU processing.
"""

Question for people in this line of work: is this accurate / reasonable?

Thanks
I have yet to see a "modern" JavaScript project that wasn't a witches brew of shitty decisions and dependency hell.

The last one I looked at, had an npm dependency tree like crab grass. No less than 9 copies of the same module, all different versions between 0.x and 6.x - and all that module does is parse query strings.

The best part was when the developer of said module release v6 changing all `var`s into `let`s and `const`s and then basically responded to people who filed bugs along the lines of "fuck you not my problem".

The last few years have seen both JavaScript and PHP gain community powered package management tools that actively encourage this type of behaviour, and until cool-kid developers understand that they need to actually be aware of the code they're relying on, nothing will change.
I'd rather teach them to play with blocks. They can learn to code later.
Airbnb allegedly purged more than 1,000 New York listings to rig survey
You're probably more experienced in java development than me. But maybe a good rule of thumb is that most Java libraries shouldn't use reflection or dynamically loaded classes (i.e. using Class.forName or ClassLoader). That rules out most dependency injection frameworks.
Out of curiosity, what was the change that you made?
I was expecting the punchline to be

"Turned out the key only has 9999 combinations, so he found the 1/10000 car that shared his same combo, and the guy got made the cops were called on him"
The skin effect should result in a high-frequency AC current propagating at lower tissue depths than a lower-frequency AC current. Why would RF AC propagating in flesh not follow this general rule?
>>Were the "Ruby will always be slow" people simply wrong?
Well, yes. It was slow in the same way that python was slow. If you move all of the slow stuff to C or JIT it or whatever, it can be as fast as almost any language can be, with a few minor caveats.

MAth is tricky in pure Ruby for example, the spec does a check on integers to make sure they can ben contained in what we'll call Int, and don't need to be transformed into BigInt. Ruby does this check every time an integer changes, which is wildly expensive, but super convenient. Its really nice for small N, but you shouldn't add n-dimensional arrays this way.

Also, run time meta-programming is pretty slow, especially if you lean on #method_missing, that's hard to fix.

Those two things aside, there aren't any reasons that Ruby can't be made much faster, in fact for many use cases JRuby is presently very fast and with Java interop you can leverage Java libs.
Males generally dont marry up?

Couple things come to mind. Throughout my time, I've seen that women have their fair share of not wanting to marry down either. You want to say generalizations generalizations. Sure, but I think the age old stereotypes do have a hint of truth to them and the Bloomberg page here also states, "High-earning women (doctors, lawyers) tend to pair up with their economic equals, while middle- and lower-tier women often marry up."

You say problem in quotation marks and I don't know why that is? If people are not finding their partners, that's a huge problem.

Here's the anecdotal:
My sister and her friends are all pretty educated women. Unfortunately, their standards have really gone up since receiving said education. I'm not saying this to bash, it's simply my observation. These days, they're all still single and reaching/past 30 and no man can scratch their itch. The whole thing is problematic.
Sikulix looks pretty good but it seems it takes screenshots with the OS. For us the tested device is a black box so we need a camera.
ACA is a surprisingly right-wing idea. Obama is a moderate for pushing it so hard. ACA will only work if the free-market steps up its game to rectify the price-discovery problem.

Its mind-boggling to me that the right-wing doesn't like Obamacare in general. The major 'left wing' portions are:

1. Individual Mandate (but all Republicans agree that pre-existing conditions are bad, but they have no idea how to get rid of it)

2. The health care exchange website (Republicans don't seem to like new government programs at all)

And... that's about it. Everything else attempts to leverage the free market infrastructure to solve the problem.
one of my biggest gripes is how physcists always say that science for the superconducting supercollider led to the superconducting MRI. This is totally not correct. Commercial NMRs had superconducting coils long before appropriations for the supercollider, and the oil industry long had its eyes on NMR as a tool for quantitative analysis of petrochemical product.
It definitely would work. The distance to the event is irrelevant, it's the light travel time between the detectors compared to the accuracy with which you can pin the event down in time that matters. The light travel time across the Earth is of order a hundredth of a second, which is a significant fraction of an event that takes ~ a tenth of a second.

However, the error ellipse will probably be quite larg, and given that they come from cosmological distances it's unlikely that they would be anything but isotropically distributed (like gamma ray bursts are).
It tells you in the introductory paragraph. You need to be a CEO. So better improve at reading the executive summaries.
Sophie Germain
The casual link between tree-shaking-compatible-languages and accepting a large number of dependencies is not that clear. It could be that those who use large number of dependencies just prefer less dynamic languages when dependencies are very explicit and manageable.
Supercell, Cfengine, Meltwater, SnapTV, ... Even Opera and Nokia are/were based out there. There's actually a lot from there.

Finland: http://startup100.net/
Norway: http://torgronsund.com/norwegianstartups/
Super 50 halftime show as a parable for software development
Thank you very much for the clarification and links.
Wefunder (YC W13) is taking Amtrak across America to fund companies outside SF
That is the JVM startup time. If you allow the vm to warm up and and JIT to kick in, you'll see significant gains.
GO BACK TO BUZZFEED YOU FEARMONGER
It doesn't matter. If I were Einstein, and von Neumann disagreed with me, I would take that seriously, even though I were a super-genius etc.
There are a few "art installations" where people put fluorescent tubes under power lines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXhZvyGtMrk

http://www.richardbox.com/press.htm

If I lived close enough I'd be trying to work out some kind of trickle charger for phones.
Finland has actually done OK when it comes to startups (Supercell, Rovio, Nokia and now offshoots, etc...). Norway, not sure, but they're a petro state with a tiny population.

Plus, even if there were hundreds of hot Finnish startups (there is a site that measures them actually, but I'm not Finnish so I know little about their scene) they wouldn't have exposure in the US since the US is so US-centric. Hell I'm not American so all I know of startups in the US is what I see here.
Well, nobody expects the Russian roads to be up to German and Austrian level, but then, in many other countries, including US, they are not up to that level either.

That video was from Rostov - and Rostov has actually fine roads. The Ukrainian side is in much worse conditions (and it is not due to the war; it was worse before the war in Donbass too).

Of course, going through Siberia has it's problems. Just few days ago I was reading article about Vasyugan Mire - http://siberiantimes.com/ecology/casestudy/features/f0207-sp... , marveling about it's beauty and hoping, that nobody will try to find out how to make a road through it ;).
Just to add a sense of scale, the co-moving distance to that back hole merge is roughly 1/60th the diameter of the observable universe!
If novelty-based searches were better at developing "exploratory skills", shouldn't they outperform the traditional approach when ranked on how well they explore the new maze? But the video shows that they don't.
It might be that those professions are so dominated by one sex that there is very little data. Finding a female welder, pipefitter or lineman... er, person, is like finding a unicorn.
Iceland has Sigur Rós. Don't be greedy.
What you posted was against the HN guidelines not because it was an ad hominem but because it called names ("you are clearly ignorant", "naive almost to the point of being moronic"). It's particularly uncivil to say things like that and then add "don't take it as an attack on you", as if you hadn't added to the problem.

You clearly have experience and knowledge. There was no need to make this personal. If someone is ignorant, show them that by responding factually and stop there. Don't rub their face in it.
Perhaps I wasn't clear. What I meant is that in environments that do support tree-shaking, you can depend on large libraries, and/or many small libraries, and the run-time impact will be no more than if you had written or copied and pasted just the functionality you need.
Equinix, the World's Largest Colo Provider, Embraces New Data Center Design
Having trouble getting past the unreadable font and broken scrollbar in order to read this article about how difficult ggplot2 is to use.
No, because "warp drives" in the sense of "Alcubierre drive" requires negative mass, which is not observed anywhere.
A "competing theory" would first have to match the GR predictions in all the other regimes where it's already been tested. But doing that is an extremely strong constraint on a theory, to the point where the only theory that can meet it is GR itself. Physicists know this because alternative theories to GR have been constructed and tested, and they have all failed. See, for example, here:

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