skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely not giving welfare in this case is effectively equivalent to punishing the children for being born to parents too poor to support them?

That doesn't seem just, or sensible: disadvantaged children are more likely to end up in juvie or, later, in prison. Either outcome is significantly more expensive for the tax-payer than the welfare that could have helped them avoid prison.
I also hate Youtube embeds that won't fullscreen without watching the video on Youtube.
No, I meant just about the opposite sentiment, thankfully.
Presuming that the browser gates access to USB devices in the same way it gates access to geolocation, what's the risk here? How is it different than installing 3rd party software on your OS?

Except that most people will easily dismiss the "are you sure" warnings to the point that I could see browser developers eventually defaulting that to enabled and not asking ("it's for better UX!")

The desktop is unfortunately moving in a similar direction (witness all the telemetry in Windows 10, etc.) but there at least seems to be a greater notion of user control than with what browsers are turning into.
It's the only way to do it. The light sensor delivers a realtime feed of what your eye currently sees. A website can react appropriately.

It's actually more powerful than monitor calibration. Calibration doesn't account for the viewing condition (the brightness of your environment) whereas this hardware can.
>Let's not make this a discussion about Bernie, though. I recognize he is not perfect, and I'm not even 100% certain he would make a good President.

I'm a Bernie supporter too, but I recognize this too, but the thing is, thanks to our crappy political system, he doesn't need to be a "good President", he just needs to be the least bad one. I don't worry about just how great a President he could be: I just know that with any of the other three in office, it's going to be somewhere between terrible and a complete disaster. With Bernie, I don't think he'll be terrible, and that's good enough for me.

But yeah, I'm hopeful: I think the issues he's raising do deserve a much larger hearing and I think the only way we're going to do that is by electing him. The establishment politicians don't want to raise those issues and at best want to give them a little lip service while dismissing them as "not politically feasible at this time".
I've never thought of Bellevue as a barren wasteland, wonder why he has that characterization.
Seems like the most obvious next step for someone interested in the research would be just to contact the research lead directly:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-stetson-jr-48aa3a50
We already know how to beat jet lag, fasting, then eating at the new time you want breakfast to be: http://harpers.org/blog/2012/03/the-empty-stomach-fasting-to...
As much as I share your sentiment any catastrophe will almost certainly be dismissed as natural or, my personal favourite "act of God". And the massive loss of innocent species and their worlds is too high a price to pay for that education.

Also, it bears noting that these facts have been well understood for some time now. Its simply being ignored because it is inconvenient. Its a great pity that catastrophe is needed to force the masses to force the powers that be to affect change, all the while those powers were very much aware of the coming crisis. How could they not be ?
It's very strange to hear you call it...

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

In the US, at least, an incredibly common opinion is that those people are scum

I've literally never heard this opinion expressed.

Certainly one can criticize the people you describe - they could work, but due to their pride or whatever, they refuse jobs because the nominal wage is too low. They refuse to solve their own problems so we need stimulus to trick them into doing so.

But this is a fairly uncommon position - most people have no understanding of sticky wages and don't understand that stimulus is about lowering real wages, or that people could find a job if they lowered their nominal wage demands.
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He says that he loves Seattle NOW that he LIVES in it.

When he had to live elsewhere in Washington due to work, he only had few chances to visit it (those "3 times in 6 years"), so he didn't get the chance to appreciate it back then.

What's confusing about it?

(Besides the fact that even if somebody already loved some place very much, there's nothing contradictory about them still only managing to visit it only a few times over 6 years, or even not once -- if they had too much other stuff to do. There are people who haven't took a holiday in 10 years, much less 6 -- and even when they did, they might go somewhere else, e.g. to somewhere they have family, or to some beach ladden place).
Agree, forgot about that.
Looks great to build/host your own video archive, is there a similar self-hosting software for audio archive?
"extrAvert"? FUCK! Are you toying with me? I don't care if its a legit variant, it feels wrong. Made me rage more than it should have.
I don't think direct access to USB devices like your suggesting is a good step forward if for nothing other than practicalities. Think about how many individual USB light sensors your websites would have to support to enable this small feature and the amount of low-level code in such a high-level language. Abstractly thats a great idea but could as easily be added with an addon or browser extension.
I planted about 50 fruit trees and bushes when I moved into my new place. I also converted the electric to 100% renewable. Other than dumping my natural gas heater I'm not sure what's left that I can do to help reduce climate change.
Algorithmically generated prior art
Seriously? What they really want is Javascript device drivers?

Like so many things USB, it will be half baked at best...

USB couldn't even design a proper connector, had data rates (USB2) 4x below specs, etc. I wouldn't trust them to guarantee any level of security...

Also, USB's main argument has always been "yes but it's cheap"
The problem here isn't that jobs don't provide job security, it's that they lie about it. How many times has someone called your company a "family"? Why is talking about a future in which you don't work for your company taboo? I'd have no problem working for a company that I knew wouldn't hesitate to fire me, except that there's no way to judge when that might happen. I'd appreciate hearing, "If we don't get this next round of funding, we might have to let you go," but instead the funding talks are done in secrecy while we go out for drinks and talk about how the company is such a family and how you're doing a good job, until suddenly someone is getting laid off.

The flipside of this is that if you do have job stability, it's usually not worth it to stay anyway. I've always worked for companies who needed me more than I needed them, so I've never really had to worry about job security. Over the past decade I've switched jobs 7 times, each time getting a 10-20% increase in income. In 5 of those cases I wanted to stay at my employer, but when I asked for a 10%-ish raise and explained that I could get more than that by leaving, they came back with 4-5% answers. In two cases they noted that 3% was "standard" (which was true for them--I talk to my coworkers about pay). In many cases, never giving significant raises works for companies: I still know people working year after year at my previous employers and accepting their annual 3% raise.

The underlying problem in both cases is that companies simply don't care about your goals. You're an equation to them, which can be tipped in their favor either by treating you like a liquid asset and firing you at their convenience, or by not paying you what you're worth. It's not an "alliance": that implies shared goals. It's companies using their workers for the company's goals, no matter what that entails, even if it means pretending that it's a family or an alliance when it's not.
>A typical passenger cars idles at 1200RPM

No, they don't. 750rpm is pretty typical these days. They'll idle at higher speeds when cold, though, to warm up faster.
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For a lot of people (not saying this is the case for you), headaches are caused by stress, and fixing the problem (e.g. quitting their job) does completely resolve the headaches/migraines.

Looking at your bio, it looks like you're in a pretty sweet work situation right now, running your own business, so I would imagine that workplace stress isn't a major factor for you right now. Have you noticed your headaches decrease recently? Do you take sufficient breaks from your work, get exercise, etc?

Also, caffeine withdrawal will guarantee that you have a splitting headache for about 24 hours. If you do consume anything with caffeine, make sure you consume it every day. (IMO caffeine is best avoided, as it doesn't have any positive effects when taken long-term).
Awesome. Now you could help other people do similar things.
I had half of such a reply written, but when I got to than massive insult I couldn't proceed.

I think it's worthwhile to inform people when they've gone way too far.
Has anybody tried this? https://www.udemy.com/react-redux/ Is it worth the money?
Before I started on development on this idea I run some surveys in order understand if people would use this. Not to mislead you I surveys about 60 people and the response was say 45 out of 60 responded that they would use this app, the demographic surveyed was 19-30 singles that have used mobile social platforms like Tinder.

User acquisition is always a little daunting and considering this is a user driven app it is always very important.

My game plan is to:
1.) Target the specific market above via Facebook and other advertising means, primarily people that have moved recently. (Targeting as a social app, not dating as Facebook restricts this)

2) Social Validation - I intend on getting bloggers with long reach in the travel, dating and social genres in our launch cities to talk about the app and give their opinion in order to reach their followers. I expect high conversions in a short time frame from this.
(This can go both ways I understand that)

3) I plan to start launching city by city in order to acquire users rapidly in a single market. This is to avoid churn from having a location based app in which users are unable to find enough people near them.

4) I would like to take large communities and target them specifically; for example large corporations, universities and the like. I intend to target them because these potential users are usually going to spend a significant amount of time close to one another and will have a level of comfort with each other which can help drive high activity on the app and organic growth.

If you have any suggestions I would appreciate your input as user acquisition will play a key roll in my success and it will be challenging.
Well, he says compared to Seattle, not Sao Paolo, and he probably means culturally, shopping, things to do wise, etc...
Huge engines aren't feasible in cars. More mass to carry around means lower fuel efficiency. Stationary plants don't care much about mass, and with ships it doesn't have that much of an effect.
Talent mobility will improve things for top talent wherever you are; but talent mobility will hurt you if you are not top talent unless you live in the lowest cost place to hire people. In other words if you are not top talent things are going to get worse not better.
I concur on the potential, quite staggering infos. However, the key word here is "can". It is very interesting to me to monitor progress of the young nerdlings I cross paths with regularly. There is hope, but there is also a shit-ton of distractions and general malaise. Where human nature + freedom of will are concerned, the difference is, again, "can". For better or worse the die is cast. To say nothing else, the digital renaissance makes for very interesting times.

edit: typos & clarity
Looking at the ammo channel for I think the same ammo the results don't seem that remarkable. The foam article quotes "less than an inch", the ammo test article has about 1 inch for mild steel and 0.319 inches for AR500 plate

http://www.ammochannel.com/30-06-30-cal-m2-ap-armor-piercing...
The problem I see is that you're ignoring the real world decision making problems many people have.

Lets assume David owns and lives in a house where the roof has a leak, one which is slowly causing damage to the structure. David can't afford to repair his room. We have the option of David 1) giving David $1,000 or 2) giving David a $1,000 credit with a roof repair company or 3) repairing David's roof for him.

For the vast majority of Davids, all three options are equal as far as getting the roof fixed, but (as you noted) 1 > 2 > 3 as far as utility (since David could find someone to repair his roof for less, or he could learn to repair it himself).

The problem is that there is some subset of David's that will just spend the $1,000 on going out to dinner instead. David enjoys going out to dinner at nice restaurants and it's worth more to him (instant gratification, etc). However, next year at this time, David's entire house structure has rotted down and now he needs us to repair the whole thing. That's going to take $50,000 of our money.

We want a solution that is the most beneficial for the general case ($1,000) while still preventing the cases where the cost to us (society) isn't negatively impact. There's a lot of factors that go into that decision

1) What percentage of Davids would spend the $1,000 on going out to dinner and let their house rot?

2) What percentage of Davids would trade the $1,000 credit for $800, go out to dinner, and let their house rot?

3) How much are we willing to be negatively impacted by Davids with poor decision making skills? If it costs us $1,000 to repair the house later, we've only wasted $1,000 by giving him the cash at the start. If it costs us $50,000 to repair the house later, that's a much bigger impact.

4) How much are we willing to negatively impact the Davids with good decision making skills (reducing the utility of what they get from us) in order to mitigate the negative impact of the the bad-decision-Davids?

5) At what point are we willing to cut off the Davids with bad decision making skills? Are we willing to say "Here's the $1,000 dollars you need. If we come back next year and your house has rotted, you get to live in a cardboard box"?

6) lots of other questions...

There's a LOT of factors that going into making the "right" decision, if there even is one.
I really don't understand the message here. The blog post seemed an incoherent pointless ramble. Am I missing something?
> Airbus, as of last month, reports having received 777 orders for the aircraft

Wait is that a typo or a dig at Boeing?
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You must have worked with some pretty bad designers in the past to have that much contempt for them.
and only works in a browser... which makes it useless for all the people who care about color.

It should really be the responsibility of the OS only... and browsers should all be ICC aware to begin with (a few years ago, only Safari was)
I knew Design[tm] had won the world when a generic fast food joint near me had words like "Burger" and "Chicken" styled in classic designer fonts and sandblasted into frosted glass on its windows.

Definitely no Comic Sans.
Of course, but it needs to be modular in order for users to omit parts. You may have misinterpreted my note.
Are there any examples of that happening on the web yet? All browser vendors agree that most of these new features need to be behind explicit permissions.

Hell people are still complaining about full screen permissions pop-ups and no browser has gotten rid of them yet because they know the problems that could come from it.

If anything there is a push to go the other direction, making previously "enabled by default" things behind permissions.
I don't think we will see significant change until people are dying by the millions, in first world countries.

If Japan is losing population to climate change, if the US is losing population to climate change, if the EU is losing population to climate change, THEN we will see change.

Deaths in Indonesia, middle East, Africa, South + Central America won't be enough to inspire change. The people who have the power won't act until they feel directly threatened.
All you really need for that is a smartcard and a (USB) card reader to plug it into. Those could be integrated into one USB device also. That is an existing technology which is already deployed and in widespread use.
>Why not just take a picture of your paper?

Moleskine has this in partnership with Evernote.

Onenote has an app called Office Lens.

Additionally, this has already been done. Livescribe has the exact same product. By the looks of it, it's better.
Actually, it's not a small feature. It's a feature that seems small until you experience it firsthand, similar to the Apple II.

Beyond that, I don't understand any of the other objections. Low level code in a high level language is one definition of power.
C++ static analysis tools
I have the feeling this blog article wasn't meant for HN.
2-3 non-sugary drinks plus a melatonin (which i never take regularly) work wonders. Bring good earplugs - the soft, squishy kind. And of course, try to get that business upgrade - i found the latter to work the most :)
Are you referring to the BE-4 engine as the thing that's scheduled to be flight qualified in 2017? Sorry, a new engine doesn't really excite me either. A new rocket would. It looks like their orbital rocket is scheduled for 2020 at the moment.

As for not wanting to read about what excites me, the comment up there explicitly asked why people aren't excited for both companies, and I answered the question. If that's not what you want to read about, I think you took a wrong turn.
This is an almost tautological position though. Films have a gender bias because society has a gender bias because, among other things, films have a gender bias. The reality is human beings have agency to make new things, dismantle previous stereotypes, and create an equal footing. Female action stars are not a concept that puts us at an impasse for creating gender equality (in fact, I'd argue with things like the Hunger Games, some of the marvel films, etc. the trend is to begin featuring women incrementally more in action films). I still haven't seen any evidence that gender stereotypes or prevalence of women are a causal factor in profitability, but even if that were the case I think we need to ask ourselves if that's a just position to take for defensibility.
They've banned plastic bags in the UK too.

Of course any wasteland or street is still littered with fast food plastic, plastic bottles and the excessive packaging found in most supermarkets.

We have slightly effective recycling schemes for a tiny proportion of what we use, and massive amounts of recycling end up shipped to the developing world to be dumped. Manufacturers of TVs, appliances, IoT toys and any thing else using plastics aren't required to own their debris at end of lifespan.

So, as is typical with modern politics, we've had a token gesture that affects the public but utterly avoids the real issue.

The oceans are doomed unless we grow up and own our debris as a species.
Have you tried something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omeprazole when eating ibuprofen? I am not a doctor, but I have understood that it is recommended if you have issues with ibuprofen and stomach.
I have a sneaking suspicion that you will have to give permission for this app to harvest your data in order to analyse it.
The lack of whitespace is maddening. It contributes to the reputation that Perl is write once read never.

That "print and return with postfix" is the gold star. /s
Well then functional doesn't mean very much :P.

Python's iterators are mutation-based, so not really functional. `yield` is based around pause-resume of function execution, so not really functional. `permutations` is just a function that wraps a list (or iterator coercible to one (which mutates the iterator)) and returns a (mutable) iterator.

A `for` comprehension desugars to a `for` loop with `yield` if it's a lazy comprehension, `append` if it's a list comprehension or `add` if it's a set comprehension, which of course involves mutation.

Basically nothing here is mutation free. That, at least IMO, means it's not functional.
The fix for jet lag is to fly in business class or better.

EDIT
Not sure why the down votes. Being able to properly sleep while on a plane is absolutely the best way to beat jet leg.
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I'm currently using a combination of Jetlag Rooster (http://www.jetlagrooster.com/), fasting, drinking lots of water and eating the first meal after arrival with their time (if you arrive at 9am, you'd eat breakfast there) - this has worked very good for both me and multiple people I've recommended it to.

I usually fast between 12-24 hours, depending on the traveling time, drink lots and it has worked for going both to the East and coming back from it. I wrote about it in more detail here: http://bitehype.com/how-to-successfully-avoid-and-hack-a-jet...
What is your commute like? What politicians do you support?

Those are both ways you can affect climate change.
Hmm, so there is this thing where physical theories seem to predict that each piece of matter should be complemented with an according piece of anti-matter (because those then make themselves "whole" by turning into pure energy), but we don't know where the anti-matter is. Your description made me think, could it all be in black holes?
I'd love a place to find great writers/writing.

Are you talking about fiction/short stories or other kinds of writing (e.g. politics, business, economics, etc.?)

Why would I go to /this/ site as opposed to the many other sites that have great (professional, paid) writers? If I want a great bit of fiction, I'll go to a bookshop. If I want a great bit of political analysis, I'll go to (e.g.) the New York Times. How would you convince people like me that /this/ is the place to find great writing?

Most people don't make for great authors: will you allow just anyone to publish work on your site? If so, how will you make sure the really good stuff gets to the top?

Good luck with everything with this!