skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the implication here is just crazy=high, not crazy=irrational. If AI cars end up vastly safer, it stands to reason they will have much lower insurance premiums. (I don't know if it'll be $500/month difference though, that sounds quite high)
when i graduated from university, law was the coolest profession--there were tv shows about them and they got paid a lot. I don't know where cs grad/programmer was on this list but definitely not in the top 10 (maybe around 5,630 or so). In any event, during that time, if you were a senior at a top university with a 3.8 in Elizabethan Poetry but no definite career goal, people would reflexively say "you should go to law school"

A decade or so later, it seemed to shift to investment bankers. (And again, pretty sure programmer was nowhere in the top 5,000)

articles like this make me wonder whether in fact programmer is the new cool job?
Additionally, they are incredibly driven and hard working themselves. They expect the same from everyone below them.
He buys them outright now, but not when he was amassing his fortune.
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It's also a humorous reference to anyone seen as rigidly authoritarian. Where I work we have the neighborhood parking nazis who ticket cars without parking permits. We have the expense nazis who review our expense reimbursement request. Etc.
I recall part of the Triplebyte screening process was to implement a solution to a whiteboard-type problem under a time constraint. It occurred to me that not all companies would necessarily place heavy weight on solving whiteboard problems in the interview process, yet Triplebyte seemed to filter applicants right out of the gate based on this measurement. I am curious if the genome project will alter this aspect of the screening process?
What would be really interesting is Elixir-OS/Erlang-OS where the entire OS can take advantage of a 50 core CPU.
You forgot eg the person I just met, the "willing to pay $75k/year [proposed pay cut] to build my idea but only share in a tiny percent of the upside".
Re: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/switch/, couldn't browsers simply do a better job of showing the address when window.location.href is 'data:text/html;-peak.us/banking_interface/' or any other data URL?

Re: malicious sites linking back to a parent that opened the, could browsers not also disable cross-origin .opener?
I find myself consistently wondering why I pay money for a third party client five years into my use of Twitter (I was late to the party).

What's more is that Twitter knows what I follow, what I read, what I like, and what I retweet. So why is it still suggesting I follow pop celebrities instead of well known developers? It seems that despite everything they know about me, they don't know me at all.
Well, the same European leaders helped create the circumstance too, by playing both sides, selling arms, and undermining the stable government that resulted in the refugee crisis in the first place (in their never ending interventionist plots for control of the area and/or cheap oil).

The US is guilty of much the same thing. Depending on how directly affected one is, this is taken as pretty egregious. Some are angry enough about analogous US activities, they will take lives over it.

And, one could say refugees are just as "ordinary people trying to get by" as illegal Mexican immigrants (or even more so, since they also flee a war).

On this, we're agreed.

To restate my point: It's one thing to have concentration camps as a necessity because of wars happening. It's another thing to bring them about in a nation at peace, when no one's life is at risk and just because the letter of the law isn't being obeyed. No sane person would displace 11 million people unless something as bad a war is happening.
It's still based on the linux kernel.
I think this could be the result of 2 things.

1) This is looking at mentions, so you don't have the context of how 'MySpace' was used, just that it was mentioned.

2) There are, I'm sure, many applications that are completely not well thought out, don't make any sense, from people who don't know the industry and still think MySpace is a thing.
Hey Rusty! If you bring the site back online, we can archive it and push it into archive.org for permanent storage.

Just drop into #archiveteam on EFnet IRC and let someone know its ready for ArchiveBot to ingest when its back online.
The best quote from your link IMO:

"[If the Tesla didn't go into] reduced power output mode, a B-T-G lap under nine minutes is possible. According to the Bridge To Gantry site, that would put it in the company of some really quick hot hatches."

So if the Tesla didn't have insufficient cooling for going around a race track, it would be about as fast as a Honda Civic Type R. I.e. supercars are way out of its league.

Plus, the Type R is about $40 000. How much is the Model S again?
> Conditioned by some of the very same companies that are going to take away the expression

Those companies have been very good at various reshapings of public demand when it served their interests, I'd be very surprised if, when it suits them for automated cars to be the next thing, they aren't just as good as when they made minivans and then SUVs must-haves through marketing (when the real motivation for each was to exploit regulatory exceptions.)
> This implies, given the past and present behavior of law enforcement at all levels of government, "ending up in an interrogation room for several hours during repeated questioning attempts, before being dumped on the street somewhere random after refusing to answer questions without a lawyer present".

Why do you feel like you can confidently say that? First of all, they never say they intend on detaining her. Secondly, there is zero precedent for what you're claiming is implied here. Thirdly, "happen to run into her on the street" does imply an ad-hoc conversation and not a formal interrogation.

You're drawing conclusions without evidence, why do you think that's an okay thing to do?
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This is certainly on the roadmap. I'm thinking that an export button from your profile page would be easiest.
The context might have been "X is like comparing MySpace to Facebook" or some other historical reference.
Exactly, by all means force your students to use different libraries and program in modern paradigms which may be centred around different libraries but I wouldn't do a CS or SE degree where that was the focus. I didn't go to uni to learn any programming languages, it was just a side effect of everything else I learnt about computers.
I just puked !
Ref: http://www.ecomodernism.org
if I could rent a jet + fuel for the same cost as say, a first class ticket? yes, I would.
What is "that little sleep"? 16 hours a day leaves 8 hours a day, you can easily fit 6 hours of sleep there.
Silicon valley is built on naive dreamers who time and time again expect to make money as startup employees against all rules of logic and contrary to historical data.
But the kernel needs to be in javascript. Since anything written in javascript becomes 2X better. </sarcasm>
"For example, take rituals like rainmaking that are intended to change the weather. These were performed over many years and generations, and yet (we presume) never brought about any actual statistical improvement over not performing them. Those people would have experienced that (lack of) improvement directly. And yet they continued to believe i"

That's a great example given it is long-term, repetitive, and even non-experts should understand it. I'm going to try to remember it.
Trump is brash and crude (part of his appeal) but if you listen to him he's always talking about illegal vs. legal. He's said very supportive things about legal immigrants from wherever they come. He does avoid nuanced language when talking about illegals.

If you read his book you know that his mode of getting what he wants is to start from an almost preposterously extreme position, then negotiate. That way he can "give up" things he didn't really want to begin with.

He thinks in terms of deals. Whatever is said before the final deal is signed is just hot air. It's forgotten as soon as the ink dries.
Prove it. Releasee the emails
Honestly I would still rather call a real human to book plane tickets. In fact I would pay a premium for it.

This stopped happening because humans are expensive, not because typing numbers into a 2 inch touchscreen keyboard is actually a better experience.
Conspicuous following is the most famously employed tactic, and obviously where it got its name, but it isn't the sole defining tactic. Bumper lock is the application of stress through overt investigation - and that doesn't necessitate direct contact.
Oh interesting, I will take a look at the sample book for a bit and see if this is something that I will buy. Been needing to relearn linear algebra for some time now.
Thanks for that explanation. I can't speak for the OP (or anyone else), but my take on the difference between them is that euthanasia is suicide, but only once all other options have been exhausted.

I don't see "simple suicide" (i.e. not in the face of terminal disease) as immoral or wrong. The tragedy though, is how often it happens because of poor social support systems, such as lack of access to mental health support systems or, in some parts of the world, bad debts to loan sharks.

These are often relatively spur of the moment, avoidable situations and, IMO, more of an indictment of society than a moral failing of the person. Euthanasia is different in that it is usually a well-considered decision, once there is little hope of any change for the better. I don't see any value in forcing people to live through misery without anyone having a clue on how to improve their life.

(I don't expect you to necessarily agree with this point of view, but I hope it helps understand another perspective.)
At least getting an basic introduction into web development (basic HTML, CSS, maybe PHP and jQuery) is probably a lot easier than mobile development.

Setting up IDE's, learning about OOP etc is probably harder than throwing some Bootstrap components together.
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You can already do this on public transit; why wait for self-driving cars?
IBM's Quantum computer in Cloud
Furthermore, very-high-income areas (North NJ must have the highest furriers-per-capita in the US) tend to have a far higher median maternal age, which raises the likelihood of c-section.
Thank you, I sent this same feedback because on some configurations it would use almost 20% of the screen.

The login proxy (where it checks if you are a user or not and if you should login to track you) really sucked too, I would just use the docs in private browsing mode and it would be 10x faster.

Thanks for your hard work, the new docs look excellent.
I think success, even greatness is possible with a more manageable work/life/sleep balance. It's just far slower and more expensive. SpaceX and Tesla are brute forcing greatness at the expense of a few people that are also impatient for change/success. If they are on-board with the mission, they are probably okay with it until they get their gold and can rest (if they last that long).
Did you really have no ideas of your own of realistic scenarios after reading that page? I find that not entirely surprising, I guess, but your tone certainly is.
the flip side to that is that such people think the idea is the overwhelmingly valuable part, and that all they need to do is find an interchangeable technical person to build it for them.
Because SaaS is a business model and Cloud is a marketing term for those who don't know about servers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11627922
Others might read that as 600% change, not 1.5%.
What about something like ChromeOS? Does it need multi-threading?

If each app is running it's own thread, and can spawn new threads, maybe that would work.

Also, though Node.js is currently single-threaded, there is the Nexus project https://github.com/voodooattack/nexusjs which is doing multi-threaded javascript. Maybe this or Node.js will support multiple threads in the future.
Your loose definition of "bumper lock" includes every single interaction any LEO has with anyone, anyone related to anyone else, and even anyone's lawyer, and is therefore worthless.

This would be bumper lock if the FBI had actually contacted Isis at all, directly or indirectly. They haven't. What the hell do you want them to do if they need to talk to someone?
This is somewhat true for me. My first exposure to coding was with Action Script back when I was animating stick figures in Macromedia Flash, which led to me discovering what CSS/HTML were. I never went anywhere with it at the time, I must have been like 8 or 9 years old, but I like to think it's helped lead me into my role as an iOS developer.
Let me see if I'm thinking on the right track about potential applications here.

First thing I thought of was proactive defense against someone patenting an idea by proving your prior art without necessarily divulging the information (or divulging it, while proving its chronologically prior existence).

After that, my mind jumped to media, such as the ability to be provably certain a given piece of media hasn't been altered after the fact (docs, images, contracts, video, audio, etc.), and that it provably existed when a party claims it did.

A bit on the nefarious side, I thought of being able to prove the existence of certain media a party wishes to use for blackmail or some other purpose.

Maybe applicable to the HN/YC crowd—especially given a certain case that recently made news here about a YC alum—a means of proving the existence of, say, founder agreements when establishing a company, so that protracted legal disputes over ownership could be aided and possibly shortened by irrefutable proof those agreements existed at a particular point in time.

Disclaimer: not a Bitcoin user, and know practically nothing substantial about it.
Interesting approach. How do you plan to scale this since you also need data points from the actual interviews done by companies?
Sure...but that is another thing that needs to be added to all browsers; it begins to feel like a game of whack-a-mole. In the end, browsers rely on an admittedly fragile premise...the only thing that guarantees your current location is a persistent awareness of what domain you are on. Most of the time that works for savvy users (normal users have no fighting chance/nor should they be expected to have to do this). But, these various edge cases break the reasonable expectation that the domain I'm on will stay the domain I'm on until I explicitly do something.

In my opinion, the better place for a more holistic fix to this is within Conntent Security Policy. That could, theoretically, address all attacks that somehow obtain a window ref. The CSP policy could say "window-ref: 'none'". That would be a declarative policy that the browser could enforce in any situation where a window ref might be available.
I had not even started, but now I have. Thank you!
Having something like this accessible to harm reduction groups could save a lot of lives lost due to fentanyl overdose, which is currently epidemic in North America.

On the other hand, groups switching to this method from traditional chemical reagent tests would basically be building evidence for the police to use against them by creating digital records of exactly what chemicals they had in their possession (even briefly) and when.

Legally, posession is posession, even if you're at a festival trying to save some kid from OD.
thanks for the input, yeah I think I need to do more "inbound marketing" before attempting adwords (display). I have a 4 to 6 quality score, and nothing is displayed unless the CPC is astronomical.
> At some point, corporations convinced consumers that buying a whole service contract everytime you play a song is more convenient than just playing a song.

It's more about not needing to buy a piece of music to build a library. And it is more convenient to pay <$20/month to avoid piracy. Having a diverse music taste is incredibly expensive to satisfy legally.
What would be the point? Who would enforce them?
I'd love to see information on founders over time: % applications with 1/2/3/many founders; % founders by highest educational qualification and university; % founders by city/state/country.

And of course separate graphs for all applications vs accepted applications.
<< Die heart Node.js fan >>

As much as I love Node.js, I have grown to dislike npm. Git + Github is a much nicer way to publish.

Also the whole left-pad fiasco.
Update: I spoofed my user-agent string to get the normal mobile version in Firefox. It mostly works except images don't load! I'm done digging into this for now, but it's kinda bizarre.
https://github.com/aio-libs/aiopg should work.
Joins in distributed databases all must make some sort of unsavory tradeoff be it speed or space or limiting what you can join.

So, while any distributed database can do a join, it may not be fast or flexible enough to be worth it.
Throwing a generation of fathers in jail for trivial offenses not only erodes confidence in the judicial system, it leaves children without a role model.

Like if dad's in jail, who cares if you end up there eventually.

Prison isn't a deterrent any more. In some communities doing time is just part of growing up.
Very less people think Microsoft is a threat. This shows, no body wants to build an office app(like Excel or Word). We don't really see a lot of innovation in slide show applications(I used powerpoint in 2006 and now I also use the same).

The world also lacks innovation in Desktop App. Web Form and C# is very popular and Java Swing seems slow or not attractive. Qt has confusing Licensing terms.

I guess someone should think about some good frameworks for Desktop(like a universal look and feel in Javascript or some open specification).
Illegal where?
I am curious about why India - the only country is in there and why it's at #30.
Not every random number generator has to be cryptographically secure. Sometimes they just need to be properly random.
Amazing free market research. I am going to make good use of this :-). Also note there are 2 links to other free research in the github repo.
Moments is a prime example of how out of touch Twitter is. I've clicked on it three times to see, and each time the stories are celebrities or sports. They know enough about who I follow, what I tweet about and the hashtags that come up to target enterprise technology ads to me, why can't they use the same data to customize that page? It's utterly useless in its current form.
> Most of them are already applying for developer jobs, or will start applying within the next year.

I think the possible answers for this question bias towards that conclusion. Out of the five options, four refer to a time frame between now and a year from now.

Also, for the "Which learning resources have you found helpful?" I'm surprised that the official documentation for the language one is learning and "random tutorials I found on Google" aren't options. I know that's how I initially learned to code, and I was under the impression that it was somewhat common.
yeah, and it's a lot less than $5! basically I had to stop adwords display ads. It doesn't seem to be usable by startups with non-traditional keywords, at least until I SEO the site more (then will try again)
Electrolysis is too inefficient for in-place energy storage, but economies of scale could in fact make this acceptably efficient for long-distance energy transport; available solar resource varies by more than a factor of three even within the contiguous US. LNG tankers are already a worldwide business, and LNG equipment can be used to transport hydrogen, albeit at much lower energy density. (Generating methane or ammonia from the hydrogen to improve its transportability might be worthwhile.)

Transmission losses in the electric power grid are around 6.5%, but that's because the energy is typically only transmitted a few hundred kilometers; about 4000 km is the longest cost-effective distance for AC power transmission. LNG tankers can travel further than that.
CockroachDB doesn't currently support joins, but it's been designed so that it can potentially support them, unlike most NoSQL databases. In particular, it supports cross-machine transactions, which are a critical building block for both correctness and performance.

For instance, suppose you want to join on a column that's not a primary key. No big deal in a typical RDBMS; just do an index lookup on the join column. But if your data is sharded across machines, that doesn't work, because you can't update the index without running the risk that readers will observe it in an inconsistent state. Unless you can do transactions, that is.

So I'm optimistic that Cockroach will get join support before too long. The necessary primitives are available, making it "merely" a matter of figuring out the engineering details.
A little over a decade ago I founded a community driven website, after some growth I started work on the site full time but discovered I wasn't the right person to lead a business, induced by stress I sold the website on condition I would remain in position. True to their word I remain in position to this day, yet in the years since I've found that business interests and community interests diverge and the community I am passionate about has suffered for profit. I'm burned out, the community is my life, everything is connected, skills, contacts, how do I move on? Matt found his future in writing, where do I find my future?
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Hard to believe I had to scroll this far down the comments to see this sentiment. I've been working with .NET since 2001, and I avoid MSDN because most "documentation" is nothing more than class definitions and member signatures pulled straight from the compiled code or XML documentation. There tends to be no useful information like detailed samples, possible use cases, how the class interacts with other related classes, etc. If I just want to see signatures I can decompile the class with ReSharper. Make it more like Stack Overflow and they'll have some converts.