skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bizarre fossil hauled its offspring around “like kites”
The problem with the U.S. is that there tends not to be a complete absence of regulation, but regulation that is often poorly designed and/or executed. It's sort of why for decades the American government has spent huge amounts on healthcare, despite politicians bashing the notion of universal healthcare at every turn. I definitely agree that the solution should be better regulation.
Your choice of what you should be doing after 40+ should be based on not only what interests you but also what your environment may expect when you reach 40+. Looking at what 40+ people doing at your company gives you a clue of what is expected of you when you turn 40.

Hedge fund might be an exception like academics and research. In most non-research oriented companies you will see more 40+ in management than in programming. Like you mentioned FoxPro people having bad time, even if you are skilled in latest 'programming' trend, a company might prefer (IME, most of the time it is true) someone younger than a 40+ in that role. For most companies, the marginal utility of a person plateaus or declines after about 5-7 years of progressive experience.
The Psychology of Designs: More Than Meets the Eye
>Yes, it's less effecient if you're actually using the engine but the aim would be to not use the engine, and purely use battery storage as much as possible.

Yes, but a parallel hybrid powertrain like Toyota's shouldn't be any worse here. The Prius also has a plug-in version which can run on battery alone for a certain distance, and it only spins up the engine when needed for more power or because the battery is too low. Of course, the Prius doesn't have the Volt's all-electric range, but it also has a much smaller battery (and lower price).
He's saying that these "kids" are capable of more than others give them credit for, and that experience is "really overrated".

And he's right, if his claims are prefaced with "can be". Kids "can be" capable of more than the credit given. No one is a whiz kid just because they're young. In fact, most aren't. Most are wet-behind-the-ears welps that can do go work with a little guidance. Experience "can be" really overrated. As I told a former manager of mine who was tasked with managing my test team because he'd done it before, "just because you've done something doesn't mean you did it well". [0] And twenty years of doing CRUD in COBOL with no source control probably won't give you a huge leg up in a Django shop talking to a MongoDB data store using git to keep it all sane.

[0] (Lest you think me rude, this was after the umpteenth jillion time he'd remind me that he'd "managed test teams before", and role he proved time and again he didn't have the first clue about.)
Yep. I've been diagnosed with orthostatic hypotension too. I have bouts of low blood pressure, so it can drop when I stand too quickly or for too long, or when I exercise. My resting pressure doesn't read as low but I still feel the effects of it and treatments for low BP help my other symptoms...
There is a difference here, which I think you're aware of, but ignoring.

The legal concept that we're discussing here is something called a protected class. Protected classes are generally things that are intrinsic to who you are--age, skin color, gender, and so on. While I am aware that some people do not agree with this statement, the majority, both within the medical community and outside it, acknowledge at this point that you do not "decide" to be gay; you are gay. Just like I do not decide to be white, a man, or have blond hair. Conversely, you absolutely do decide to be a member of the Westboro Baptist Church, or a member of the KKK; those are views you are taking that are not inherently something you cannot change. These can and should be treated differently, and we do treat them that way in law.
> I don't disagree that tax reform is necessary but taxes help pay for the infrastructure, safety, and public goods that we all tap into and take advantage of.

People say that, but with specifics to corporate taxation the tax revenues in question flow to US Treasury. US highways are funded by a combination of Highway Trust Fund, gasoline taxes and road tolls, public safety and other goods such as parks and libraries are funded by local property and business taxes.

The way the funds flow is set up currently, increase or decrease in corporate taxation would not result in change of funding for the local services you mentioned. Federal government is not sending a bonus check to Cupertino, CA or Redmond, WA because they managed to squeeze a few extra billions off Apple or Microsoft.
And I'm sure it has nothing to do with the urban growth boundary or increasingly restrictive land-use regulations.
Offline location library for Android
Seriously that was 11 years ago. Yes, a lot of things changed in 11 years.
> everyone buying a device depending on external service should expect this soon or later

It's super unfortunate that you're getting downvoted. Everyone seemed to enjoy their smug hindsight years ago when all the DRM'd music services were shutting down (Walmart, etc), and the principle is the same. Anything that won't run without server-side magic is basically suspect and ultimately vulnerable to bullshit like this.

OTOH, the title is only 'misleading' if the Revolv doesn't look like an empty hummus container.
There's http://noisetor.net/ in the US and https://www.torservers.net/ in Germany.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_water_generator

I thought the same thing but reading their site led me to the above Wikipedia page which suggests there are other ways to do it than just dehumidification but I'm not sure what method they're using.
green screen is a pretty great way to advertise VR actually.
Its time do ban non-essential consumer plastics in America
That's one option; they also offer strict SSL on both sides of the connection: https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl/
Early adopters started moving in 2006 (remember the YScraper?). It really accelerated around 2010, when the economy started recovering. Prices started rising in earnest in the second half of 2011.

I know a number of people here who are praying for a tech crash so they can afford housing again.
The Ideology Is Not the Movement – Scott Alexander
> Out of curiousity, would you consider GPL Affero sufficiently FOSS?

Of course it's a free software license (although I have my doubts about the enforceability of the Affero sections in the AGPL). GitLab EE is proprietary (even though you can read the source).
It has Wi-Fi
Tesla had to first build the market for their electric vehicles by proving that they were powerful enough to satisfy the "petrolheads". Even starting at the high end, they had trouble breaking through the public perception [1], but nowhere near as much as if they had started at the low-end (IMO).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_controversies#Tesla_R...
Yeah, but I wish they'd give more credit where due.

On their markdown page they claim "For GitLab we developed something we call "GitLab Flavored Markdown" (GFM)." while that is obviously a ripoff of GitHub Flavoured Markdown.
I wonder if there will be similar political consequences in other countries.

Somehow I feel like the really big fish will just shrug it off by flexing its political muscle a little and get out clean.

They will point their fingers at a plot by CIA to destabilize their country and scream that the west is a lot more corrupt than insert name here.
End-to-end encryption
how's that boot taste?
I think if a Rails-type framework is what you need, and you're doing Web development, your problem might be better solved by Elixir and Phoenix[0]. My only caveat to that would be if you need some sort of extreme CPU efficiency as Go has better CPU throughput than Elixir/Erlang. Otherwise, I think you'll find Phoenix's parallels to and lessons learned from Rails along with some nice abstractions around PubSub/WebSockets.

0 - http://www.phoenixframework.org/docs/overview
He is accused of not disclosing his 50% stake in Wintris when he is elected to parliament in April 2009, in violation of a law requiring all members of parliament to report companies of which they own more than 25%.

(I can't find the law in question.)
no proof without open source
Reporting Security Vulnerabilities: Making It Easy (Avoiding Early Disclosure)
I think the authors chose the wrong narrative to discuss in their motivation for the paper. Anyway, it's easier to just shoot a movie / VR content with multiple cameras than go through frame-by-frame to make sure the AI isn't introducing blurry regions etc.

However, being able to extract 3D scene features from a still 2D image is a super useful feature to have. Perhaps in the near future, inference models for image-based tasks (i.e. ImageNet, robotics) will make use of 3D features learned during end-to-end training.

The disparity predictions generated here remind me of spatial transformer layers http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.02025 which Deepmind is using pretty heavily in their sequential attention models. I wonder if they would offer an improvement over the deconv layers.
I would have said the same, if it were not for the police's unnecessary and demeaning execution of their warrant at 6:00AM. If the police knew he was a tor exit node operator, then surely they could have executed this search at a more reasonable hour?
What is your point? That being awful is ok? This is a religious thing in this case so a government should not be in the business of protecting one religion or any religious belief - or we should discuss how far to go with it - this ... is too far
For me, a character like Lord Vetinari springs to mind.
i'm with you on this. claims of e2e encryption are easy to make and without open source, impossible to prove.
Just out of curiosity, this update isn't just magically available for current versions. Users need to actually update their apps in order to use the new protocol, yes?
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I don't think it is just for show. If they'd gone ahead and set up an office as planned in North Carolina, it'd mean their employees working there would've been directly affected by the law in question. As far as I know, Paypal don't have offices in Uganda, DRC, Kazakhstan, etc and they're still doing business with North Carolina, just not willing to set up an office there and force LGBT folks to live and work somewhere with such hostile laws in order to work for them.
I suppose "personal" might not have been the best word to describe this. What I meant to convey is that Servers are a fragile highly configured entity. It doesn't matter if the server in question is in a corporate environment or if it's your "personal" server - you don't want junior people editing configurations.
I'm blown away that someone (obviously so security savvy) would willingly hand over their passwords. There's little sense accepting their assurances at face value in potentially serious matters. LE can and will lie pursuant to their duties. I suppose I'm even more surprised they didn't end up impounding all the equipment anyways.
That's probably true, though I'd argue that experienced developers tend to produce more maintainable code even on easier projects. Perhaps that's not enough to convince business folks though, who tend not to value maintainability highly.
You have no understanding of what was actually passed
HN meetup at NVidia confrence? Wednesday at 5?
Entrance to Hall 1?
Well, the stock was owned before the banks collapsed, so no matter what it's a loss. The only "benefit" you could get is trying to get back as much of your investment as you can.. in which case this begs the question, would these holdings have influenced decisions in things like deciding whether the failed banks should repay the debt owed to the UK / Netherlands, etc.
This is why I run full disk encryption. I wouldn't have given them a damn fucking password.
Personal Bot by machine learning training
I am just wondering if it would be possible to use machine learning to create a bot that emulates a person texting by training the model with the conversation history log.
How CERN Fights Hackers
If he does not answer does it mean whatsapp or signal servers can see the message?
Understanding the magnitude of Tesla’s $11b+ triumph
> GitLab Runners do not offer secure isolation between projects that they do builds for. You are TRUSTING all GitLab users who can push code to project A, B or C to run shell scripts on the machine hosting runner X.

Not sure this sounds like the best idea.
go back to breitbart sev - the ladies are waiting
Yes, let's take it in context:

>Brian Halligan, explained to the New York Times that this age imbalance was not something he wanted to remedy, but in fact something he had actively cultivated. HubSpot was “trying to build a culture specifically to attract and retain Gen Y’ers,” because, “in the tech world, gray hair and experience are really overrated,” Halligan said.

Had he said that he'd actively cultivated a race imbalance and was "trying to build a culture specifically to attract and maintain white and Asian employees", would you still be cool with that? This seems pretty open and shut to me and it's pretty discouraging to see people defend an openly bigoted statement.
That is one of 3 major parts to the bill. You can read for yourself (with the handy diff-like format available here: http://www.ncleg.net/Applications/BillLookUp/LoadBillDocumen...) or read any or the huge number of analyses of the bill.

It is far beyond transsexual citizens of NC, though that aspect of the bill is ridiculous, too. Or will police have to inspect the genitalia of M2F/F2M transitioned people in the presence of a birth certificate?

Please, by all means google pictures of transitioned people, both male and female, and look at their outward appearance versus their chromosomal sexual identity. Then imagine them being forced to use the bathroom with other people sharing the same genetic sexual identity.

Everything was working just fine before this bill. There were laws about public indecency, sexual assualt, and invasion of privacy that covered any and all bathroom misbehavior. It solves zero problems, and lost NC $20M in annual salary.

Again, and please look at the details of how it takes rights away from cities and states, and completely guts state level discrimination protection for all classes (veterans, race, religion, et al).
> just bought another book on the subject, everything became easy

What book? I'm the same way (formal treatments usually aren't sufficient).
> People have easy buttons to push regarding their gender, orientation, race, etc. So even if your primary motivation wasn't to express hate for their whole category, you can contribute to * ism that way.

Sexism and racism aren't dependent upon another person's buttons being easy to push. That just means they're more sensitive than others.
Light Pollution Map
As a non-gamer, can someone please explain why the character is even mentioned as being trans? What does it add to the game, other than free advertising and drama?

Are other players mentioned as being straight? Bi? Political affiliations? religions, etc... ??? again, I'm not a gamer, I don't know this game so I can't say what benefit it brings to the game/story line.
WhatsApp Security Whitepaper [pdf]
I lost you at "inwhere".
Well you're not going to pick up spec errors with same-developer unit tests, so either you have someone else write those spec tests or you wait until the customer picks them up on initial delivery / QA.
That's one option; they also offer strict SSL on both sides of the connection: https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl/ as well as keyless as slig pointed out in another comment.
There are several problems with it:

1. the certificate is not generated by you (in the Free or the Pro plan) but by them and these certificates are for multiple domain names. So you end up sharing your certificate with other domains / websites of dubious nature that are also on CloudFlare's network.

2. CloudFlare only secures the connection between users and the CloudFlare network. It does not secure the connection between CloudFlare and your hosting service, unless your hosting service also supports TLS/SSL connections and you activate their Strict SSL option.

For the purposes of hosting a project website, secure connections are more important than ever due to the potential of external attackers, which could very well be a government institution, to infect distributed binaries or source code. Instances like XcodeGhost will become more common imho. And a secure connection between your user's browser and your hosting server is not 100% secure, but it's a good start. And towards that purpose CloudFlare Free in front of GitHub Pages isn't very good ;-)
Why type vitxi (visual inner tag delete insert), when cit (change inner tag) will do?

Indeed, why use visual anything in a pipe :D?
Indeed, it is energy intensive. That can be addressed with the implementation of the power supply module. Ideally, we'd like to use gasifiers and build upon the open source work by http://www.allpowerlabs.com/

If it takes a lot of energy, and we implement carbon-negative power generation, then we increase the rate of carbon sequestration :)
>Because a company invested in Go?

I hardly can imagine a company that had invested only in Go and will need fat Go gramework. Seriously.

>Because they wouldn't want to have to maintain a lot of different technologies/languages, unless it's really necessary?

Not a lot of, but a number - once again, pretty hard to imagine something serious going on here. And startups will hardly chose Go as their starting point for obvious reasons.

>Because a fat framework in Go is going to be lighter than a fat framework in python/ruby? (memory reqs, cpu, servers, etc)

Absolutely not necessary. You can build framework in C and had results that will make you sad compared to that of Python. But even if it is - most likely it will be more expensive and you will have to make a choice. But okay, let's say it has some point.

>Because Go is easier to reason with/maintain in large codebases?

How so? In comparison to Python, for example.

>I can't understand how someone would hold such strong opinions in such matters

Hey, I'm not saying people shouldn't write fat Go framework, or stop doing if they've started already. If stars are lit - it means there is someone who needs it. I just don't get why would you use something like Go for this.
That's what I meant by "overlooking the company's context".

I think the case you describe is where consultants can be a net win, for the very reason you mentioned: dev departments at non-tech companies. These companies are usually happy with "its quirky but works" software since it gets the job done and allows them to focus on their core skills. There's nothing wrong in not having programming as your core expertise.

What I was describing is my experience seeing consultants and Agile brought in at companies where software development is their main area of expertise.
The offender is the original article author, not the HN entry. The former goes on and on piling fluff until you want to hit him in the head with a hammer. Then you see the actual content can be summarized in a single phrase.
http://www.zillow.com/phoenix-az/home-values/

http://www.zillow.com/sunnyvale-ca/home-values/
It went "ok" because he consented to giving them unfettered access to his computers without his oversight when they had no reason to be there. This is more akin to police searching you car with no evidence of drugs, not finding drugs, and then letting you keep your car. It's still a hideous violation of your privacy for no reason.
Same in Boston, especially South Boston and the Seaport area.
Oddly I'm in the market for a "neighbourhood electric vehicle" - a cheap, limited, electric car that can get two people to the station and back daily (a distance of around 4 miles).

There are really no good options. The closest is probably the Renault Twizy, essentially an enclosed electric bike with 4 wheels. It's very expensive, and more worryingly there are lots and lots of them available on the second hand market, almost new, at greatly reduced prices.
For reference, 1 lb (454 g) of beef requires between 3800 L and 9500 L of water. This implies a typical beef restaurant "value meal" demands on the order of 10000 L of water.

Another important point is that fresh water is neither created nor destroyed, although entropy leads to more energy being required in the entire supply chain for its consumption and in external systems to treat/move/reclaim water for other purposes (increased competition / water prices).

There's also pesticide and fertilizer runoff, deforestation and reduced rainfall (Brazil) and antibiotic resistant, pandemic disease emergence (swine flu).
I'm the founder of StoryWorth, happy to answer any questions!
For simplicity and adoption, we're utilizing mechanical refrigeration since parts and HVAC(R) skills have been widespread over the past several decades.

EDIT: Spelling is hard. Clarification is hard.
What's more, my client says "You aren't secure because X needs to upgrade WhatsApp", but the other party is seeing "you are secure", complete with fingerprint and everything.

I wonder which of the two devices is lying.
Sort of. He signed his 50% share over to his wife the day before that law went into effect, so 'technically' he didn't violate it.

Luckily the public doesn't care much for these sort of technicalities as everyone can see the obvious conflict of interest that was trying to be hidden.
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When it comes about to games about transgender experience (I would say at some fundamental level), there is SOMA. I mean, it is not the main thread in this survival (and existential) horror (with all things geeks like: x-risk, grey goo, mind uploading), but an interesting take on that subject.

SOMA: A Trans-Simon Experience (warning: some spoilers)
http://genderterror.com/2015/11/09/soma-a-trans-simon-experi...
For robustness sake, you may change $@ with "$*".
> So you snap at Fred. "Get away from that -- it's mine, not yours. Please do your job and leave me to mine."
> Doesn't seem out of line to me.

Do you snap at your customers or bosses if they don't behave the way you want? If not: Why do you snap on your juniors?

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.[1]

[1]Various possible sources
Using R's text mining (tm) library for Author identification
This is insanely cool. For everyone (very rightfully) worried about the PATRIOT act, the NSA, etc., etc. this is absolutely huge.

One BILLION people just got their messages encrypted. Facebook was under no obligation to do this; for the vast majority of tech history the messages sent by 99% of people were very insecure, and when the tech giants responsible were asked their response was "ehh". This suddenly cuts into a huge portion of that. Pretty much everyone with a mobile phone in Europe or South America, as well as large parts of Asia, suddenly now has completely encrypted messages.

Kudos to Whatsapp for this fantastic move.

On a related note, if anyone is inspired by this announcement to start using encryption in other parts of their life, I have a handful of Keybase invites available (to bypass the 25k+ waiting list.) Keybase's security depends on lots of people tracking other people, so only ask for one if you'll track other people. I see too many people that make an account and nobody ever tracks them/they don't track anyone. My email's in my profile.