skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it is precisely that. It's very easy to take shots at extremely rich people, because they won't bother to show up and defend themselves and nobody else will either.

The main problem I have with this is that it's not very interesting and doesn't solve anything.
The Real Lessons from Kodak’s Decline
No, actually I think he's just wrong about focal lengths. I have a Rift, and while moving viewpoints can be an issue, accommodation isn't a problem at all.
I'm aware, but a web framework going 3 years without a release renders the distinction between "no releases" and "no development" more or less meaningless from an end user's point of view.
Would it be possible for the baker to distribute bread to customers in such a way that the weight appears to follow a fair curve for any one customer, but is still unfair if all loaves for all customers were analyzed in aggregate? (something like Simpson's paradox?)

After the professor first discovered him he obviously could have started giving him loaves calculated to follow the fair distribution, but I'm not sure if it's possible to scale that technique.
Me, either. Tried on OSX. Thought I'd get away with installing ~ 0.5 Gb when I read up about everything, but still run into problems.

This is a book people. I shouldn't really need to compile it; even if I absolutely must, it should be at least possible, if not fairly straightforward. Disappointing.
And apparently in the US you can be off by whatever you want

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE2lna5Wxuo

The video also deals with calorie count in restaurants. The NYC regulation to require calorie counts directly on the menu really seems like a good idea. Other than the people already knowing the rough calorie count, who checks the obscure and difficult tables on the website?
Overengineering is a label we apply retrospectively.

As a pro-agile bigot, I prefer to avoid it by keeping the work units small. It greatly reduces the temptation to build a 16 stage rocket when all the users need me to throw a baseball.
Conditional variable with futex
I wonder: Did Square/Matasano end up hiring many people from this? It was a super fun challenge either way...
My wife gets sick in 3D movies and she can handle the vive surprisingly well. When the image adjusts to your own movements it's less nausea inducing than viewing lots of motion in a movie while sitting still.
The big issue for you, perhaps - but the reality is that most users simply don't care about that.
By definition, innovation is looking for the next solution to today's problems. We've arbed everything away, exhausted most of the gains from globalization. Now maleate are sophisticated, many more people are qualified and educated than there are jobs, and housing scarcity in the areas where there are jobs is putting downward pressure on potential lifestyle gains for those lucky enough to get a good education. Entrepreneurship doesn't mean I give up, it means that it's our only hope. The alternative will be another round of dictators. I'll side with innovation over populism any day.
Unless subsidized or losing money, the rent is more than a mortgage payment would be. If we had low enough transaction costs it would be better if everyone just owned their homes via mortgage for even short time frames.
Particularly with Windows 10 (maybe 8?), Windows will try to guess when your (desktop/laptop) computer is unused based on knowledge of when you've been actively using it, and default to that as an update install time.

But more generally, it's a balancing act - for everyone who is running in an environment where they have everything locked out and they just want an application to keep running, there's also plenty of people who leave their machines running public services connected to the Internet with no firewall, antivirus, or anything of that nature, and refuse to install updates because it interrupts the service.

I think Microsoft decided they'd rather be shit on by consumers for forcing automatic updates than be shit on by everyone for a poor security record ever again.
Probably lack of demand for people with those PhDs.
Right. And is that Thiel's fault? No. No it isn't.

The reality is that Gawker abused that particular caveat of the system far more than Thiel ever did.

That is part of the reason why this is so delicious. Beating them to death with their own weapon.

This was good old fashioned Western frontier style justice.

"We're not just going to shoot the Bastard. We're going to cut out their living guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks!" - The Warrior Song

https://youtu.be/2Xo3fwddONA
On average.

But unlike NYC, there's actually, well, rural areas.
How does this compare against byobu?
Yes! This is the kind of research I want to see. And I know that this kind of investigations have been done in private by Oculus and others, and they have honestly admitted in the public that simulator sickness and nausea are issues that need to be worked on. We haven't, however, seen any data in public.
If you don't think that the sexual objectification of women is inevitable, and if you are opposed to it, then it seems to me that we are in agreement.

>Feminist pseudoscience has basically filled the searches.

I don't understand what you mean by this. I was asking you to explain the link which you appeared to be making between sexual objectification and limits on information processing capacity.
BUHARI, MINISTERS WASTED a YEAR ON EXCUSES, SAYS BEN BRUCE---THE NIGERIAN PIGEON
Both major VR headset manufacturers have measurements like that, including data on specific optical features which affect the rates of simulator sickness. But I don't think they're sharing any data that's that raw.

Anecdotally, I have a Rift, and do not get sim sickness except in rare circumstances involving at least an accelerating viewpoint, and even then not severely and only briefly.
It sure sounds promising, but it'd be good to see some more efficiency numbers. All there is in the article is this:

"A one-liter reactor full of Nocera’s bacteria can capture 500 liters of atmospheric CO2 per day, he said. For every kilowatt hour of energy they produce, they’ll remove 237 liters of CO2 from the air."

By my reckoning that works out to about 80 watts, continuous. Solar irradiance is roughly a kilowatt per square meter, so to get 80 watts at 10% efficiency you need nearly a square meter, which leaves your 1-liter reactor stretched to a millimeter thick. Hard to imagine a 1mm thick mat of bacteria absorbing 10% of the light.

The limiting factor really is area, not volume. By that metric, solar panels are still twice as efficient. Still, it would be good to have solar panels that grow themselves!
If he is able to control the loaf the professor gets he could buy 1 correct form.
Should extremely rich exist as a thing? What benefit does it bring humanity over the alternative?
But they also list servings per package. As someone who relies on this information out of medical necessity I've never felt it to be that confusing.

The EU/UK, on the other hand, makes it incredibly difficult by listing things in units of 100g. Nothing like sitting in a dark movie theater trying to calculate fractions.
It is not finished, so they haven't released a complete version yet, but previews of the individual chapters are on their website: http://aosabook.org/blog/
In response to the article:

It's a news outlet.

They can use/abuse their position to make hay in ways nobody else can.
I have dealt with a family member getting picked up by EMTs multiple times and every time they used my family member's phone to call me despite my family member being mostly unconscious. It worked - I pick up instantly every time.
Very rich are just average people; meaning there's a mix of types of people that are very rich; aka billion or more.

Feel like most people have never known anyone super rich or for that matter, very poor.

Lastly, while it's true that there are more super wealth individuals than likely any point in history currently - the quality of life is also better on average too.
I don't think this was a major problem -- after all, BD knew in advance that Google isn't working for the military. However, the article claims Google wanted a quiet wheeled robot for household tasks, which would ruin years of research into bipedal (or more) robots -- the foundation upon where BD was standing.
Being separated from other people causes brain damage. This truth works on many levels.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4lianf/whats_a_d...

Read through that reddit thread, can you relate ? Empathy certainly is a function of social distance. The very rich are very distant, have very little empathy, and are therefore mentally ill.
Hardly thousands. 240 000 people die every year in car accidents and no one prohibits cars. Millions died in WW2, but it is not the USSR to blame for it.

How many Indians were killed for the US to prosper?

We are speaking about fhe better system you never tried. No rich, no poor, everyone has a job.
I'm not sure how much someone who wasn't already familiar with vectors could get out of this. This seems to be a common issue with informal lessons like this[1].

The article starts seemingly assuming you have no idea what a vector is, but after showing a few graphs opines "As you can see, a vector by itself is just a set of numbers". I don't think someone who didn't already know what a vector was and how to recognize a vector on a graph would see that. Reading the next sentence about coordinate pairs and referring back to the graph might get you somewhere I guess. It doesn't seem to know who the target audience is supposed to be.

Trying to teach people things that you use every day and have throughly internalized can be an eye-opening experience. If you're trying to teach someone how to count in other bases and discover that they never learned about exponentiation, you're not going to get away with just saying "it's repeated multiplication and the top number is how many times you do it; oh also anything to the zero power is one (except zero itself...), and also negative numbers do this... and fractional exponents do that...". They're not going to suddenly "get" exponentiation the way you do from years of experience from three minutes of offhand remarks.

[1] http://hentenaar.com/dont-learn-c-the-wrong-way (parts 3, 4, and 5 in particular have similar complaints)
Revolution is the final answer, as always, the majority will win no matter what.

Taxes, welfare etc slow-down/mitigate that, but that's not enough for the so-called 99%.
Installing any extensions in Torbrowser that it doesn't come with makes you very trackable.
Yeah this military guy can't see past flight simulators and seated experiences in vehicles. No one gets sick as long as your movement in VR is one-to-one with the real world.

Just like when mobile apps came out, existing games didn't work on the new platform. No one wanted to play an FPS on mobile. VR is a new platform and developers have to adjust for what works on it. Games like SPT, holopoint and zenblade get it right. They're all simple games inside a room but they are all create amazing experiences. I've been using my Vive almost every night for weeks and this is definitely here to stay.
You're saying a force with robot soldiers would have robot soldiers alone, with no human soldiers who would follow up, come in, and commit war crimes?
Programs with Common Sense (1959) [pdf]
NIGERIAN DemoCRACY DAY SPEECH BY PRESIDENT BUHARI ---THE NIGERIAN PIGEON
It's amazing isn't it, the language that surrounds the detailed arguments. The constant attention to recognize the effort put into the designs and ideas, trying not to offend, but clearly still managing to do so.

My technical correspondence is nowhere near this kind, and I know that it offends in some cases, but I also find that anything over 2-3 paragraphs these days is generally ignored.

Email, texts, slack, etc. have greatly abbreviated our conversations, allowing for many more, but reducing their quality.
Bit different answer: Yes it is possible. While it is true that two individuals eating the same food will gain weight differently, if you count your calories and measure everything you'll eventually learn (In the body building community we usually say two weeks) how many calories you need to keep your weight. With that information, you can adjust your calorie intake to lose weight. Say your maintenance is 2500 calories, then by eating 2000 instead, you'll lose 1 pound a week.

Keywords if you want to look it up more: TDEE, 1 pound = 3500 calories, calorie in calorie out
The whole momentum section has been solved. If you take an existing video game where you use a controller to move an avatar that will make you sick, however if you map the games controls 1:1 to the users motion then the problem disappears.
Unless they've changed their seat layout or the entire population of the region shrinks by a few inches I have no idea why Qantas belongs on this list.

I'm only 6' and my knees always rub on the seat in front of me on Qantas flights.

Thai, is a fucking dream boat by comparison.

Edit: and yes I've done the MEL-LAX flight on Qantas, knees rubbing the whole time.
New technique produces real randomness
HN tends to be extremely reactionary to posts like this. Perhaps because the tech/startup scene is all about getting rich quick, or perhaps because HN has come to partially reflect the personal views of PG.

There will be a reckoning. The world is 'unsustainably unequal' at the moment. There are huge problems on the horizon - superbugs, climate change, resource depletion, environmental degradation, overpopulation. These problems can only be solved when governments act in the interests of all of humankind. This will not happen when the 1% hold all the money and all the power (which is the same thing).

I hope we can reign in the rentiering, tax-avoiding, propaganda-publishing rich and reclaim democracy before Something Bad happens. Otherwise, when the SHTF, the 1% will deservedly shoulder all the blame. And that will be the reckoning.
Hi, I'm the editor of 500Lines. Thanks for posting this! A few notes:

- Code golf was strictly discouraged throughout the review process. When authors were faced with implementing functionality poorly to fit more in, we generally cut scope instead.

- 500 lines was selected as a limiting criteria because it is easy to specify and understand. You will see that the chapters written e.g. with Clojure do "more" (for some definition of more), but that does not make the lessons learned in the other chapters less interesting.

- The "or less" moniker is grammatically a bit offensive but sounds cute on paper, so we kept it.

- If you'd like to learn more about the philosophy or story behind this volume, Ruby Rogues hosted us a little while ago: https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/256-rr-reading-code-and-the-a...

- The print version of this book (and the official launch on aosabook.org) should happen sometime in the next 4-6 weeks. You can follow this issue if you'd like to know when that happens: https://github.com/aosabook/500lines/issues/212
There is no 'humanity' when we talk about power and wealth. There are those who can do everything for power and there are those who cannot. 'Humanity' is abstract. Wealth and power are always attributed to certain individuals and are very often drectly inherited.
What exactly a CDN can do to increase the qps throughput of your backend? I thought it's used to reduce it...
"In the example of home rental, making homes available for rent enables families to live in accommodations that they would not be able to purchase. These accommodations are not without cost to the owner: Taxes, utilities, maintenance, security and administration are all associated costs that rent payments offset. What the rentier provides in most cases, is a better quality of life than the family could have if they were forced to own the property they lived in."

In many parts of the UK this just isn't the case any more. There is a serious lack of housing due to many factors (the bigots will tell you it's all the fault of immigration) but the short story is that the competition for rental property is so fierce now that in many places, monthly rent to the private landlord is higher than a monthly mortgage payment would be to buy a similar property.

So why don't people just buy? Well, there is a shortage of houses to buy, and you can't usually get a 100% mortgage. You need to put down a substantial cash deposit towards the purchase price of the house, for example 15, 20 and even 25% in some cases.

So why don't people just save up for a deposit? Well, if you need to spend £250k on a very modest 3-bedroom house, you are looking at anything from £37.5k plus fees.

Housing is so expensive now in relation to average income, that people are effectively priced out of the market forever, unless they win or inherit a lot of money. It is not possible to save that amount in any reasonable time scale.

So why not get a second or third job? Maybe they'll work themselves to death before they need that house? Only joking, people have to work long hours at their main jobs nowadays. The contract may say 37.5 hours per week, and that's what you get paid for, but "You're all professionals..."
> you can not get agreement from the federal employment agency to take that position if there are German citizens, or people from other EU countries, who would be qualified and interested in that position.

I'm also from a non-EU country, so this rule applies to me. I've been living and working in Germany for a few years, and while this rule does exist, I've never seen it used to deny me a work visa.

> I think the company also had to agree to allow employment agency to, either anonymously or publicly, publish ad for the job themselves for a couple of weeks.

Yes, the company has to prove that they at least tried to hire Germans or other Europeans. However, just because there are potentially people who are qualified, doesn't mean the company is obligated to hire them.

The company is obligated to show that they published the job description and allowed Europeans to apply, and that they made some amount of effort (e.g. interviews) for Europeans, but none of them had the skills, or fit the team, or were willing to be paid the salary offered.

> Note: There are different types of visas, and this might not be a requirement for all of them, but it was the requirement for me.

Typically you can avoid this if you have studied a Bachelor or Master degree in Germany, as then you are viewed as a preferred candidate and are basically on the same level as native Germans (some restrictions apply).

We've actually been trying to hire another team member at my current company, and of all the applications we received, less than 10% of people were German, and probably only 60% were part of the Eurozone. This isn't a job which requires rocket science, but seemingly no Germans want to apply, so we're going through the process to get a visa for someone from a European (but non EU) country because they were the best candidate and didn't have ridiculous salary expectations (someone said they wanted 120k EUR for a mid-level IT position... mmmmmmkay, no)
Yes, many - but it depends how practical you want it to be and what tradeoffs you can accept. Broadly speaking, you're asking about the class of data structures for (almost) minimal perfect hashing. For example:

* ECT, or Entropy-Coded Tries, (paper: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hl/papers/ect-alenex2013.pdf ) are a static data structure (no insertions after you build it) that are very fast to construct, take about 7 microseconds of CPU time to lookup, and have 2.5 bits of overhead per item inserted. This is the best data structure I know of for external perfect hashing, where you want to store the key/value pair itself on something expensive to access, like an SSD. Implementation available in SILT: https://github.com/silt/silt

* CMPH (http://cmph.sourceforge.net/concepts.html) and friends are very fast MPH functions when you want to store the key value pairs in memory.

* There was a really cool paper at SEA a few years ago on Retrieval and Perfect Hashing using Fingerprinting (http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-07959-2...) that came out of SAP. I don't know if they have code available. It's also internal, but uses the same fingerprint-centric idea as ECT, but in a faster way that doesn't require the expensive huffman coding that ECT uses.

There's a ton of very fun research in this area -- this is just the tip of the iceberg (and I haven't really looked at it for two years, so there's probably been more since).
> 9 Kcal/g for fat. [...] These numbers were originally determined by burning

This method for calculating the calorie count for fat has in my opinion allowed the demonisation of fat.

Our stomachs are imperfect at digesting globules of fat. Burning-until-gone releases much more of the energy than surface acting acids and proteinases.

Effective calorie count for fat just has to be so much lower than the listed value.

Constrast that with sugars, where the absorbtion mechanism is crystaline dissolution. Disolving crystals is an almost perfect 1-1 process
Lol white male privilege. Because that's a thing
> If you buy some shares in M&S or BP on the stock market, the money you pay goes to the previous owner, not the company. You are what Keynes called a ‘functionless investor.’ When such so-called ‘investments’ pay off they extract wealth from the economy without creating anything in return.

This doesn't seem very coherent. How could a company ever sell stock to raise capital, if the people who bought that stock didn't have a functioning market to resell it on?

Obligatory link to Hans Rosling's economic play-by-play of the last 50 years: https://youtu.be/hVimVzgtD6w?t=4m12s
It's not even a complete data source, which for the price is an embarrassment. I tested it with a nearby college that had a full terminal, and they are missing data from expired options. For $2k/month I'd expect it to at least be complete!
IIRC Twilio use Flask, and contributed the flask-restful library [1]

[1] https://github.com/flask-restful/flask-restful
This is definitely true (not German, but with a German SO and a German sister-in-law ...)
You can still somewhat use it, but it does not work well. Groupchats do not work at all anymore, and there is no message synchronization over it so any Hangouts client will populate messages an XMPP client never sees, and you cannot request chat history from the remote.

It is definitely not a high quality XMPP experience. If you want to use XMPP, you should probably be using duckduckgo's XMPP offering.
>Unless subsidized or losing money, the rent is more than a mortgage payment would be.

That is demonstrably false. Renting is more than a mortgage interest payment would be. Unless you feel like you have some special knowledge about the local real estate market, your capital is likely better off in the stock market.
They use phone number as account name rather than email on mobile.
I found their prose to be quite good. It's sad that it seems long-winded to modern readers. These letters are not long. Maybe attention spans are too short.

Some of the "verbosity" seems to arise from their apparently mutual concern to preserve their relationship by delivering criticism of ideas or behaviors without attacking the person. We could certainly use more of this style of communication today, but all it earns now is a "TL;DR" at the beginning or the end.