skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In which case the "bare minimum" signaling will just move up to the next level, and then graduate degrees will be required. At which point post-graduate will be required.

definitely. In the future where all "simple" jobs are automated the basic necessary skill level would be an ability to do research, ie. the post-graduate level. Without it, one would be able only to enjoy the life provided by the automated systems and wouldn't be able to contribute to the society. It has already happened several times for previous levels of education - from reading/writing as a sign of being "educated" hundreds years ago to manufacturing jobs (K-12 level) which were middle-class jobs just a few decades ago.

>A 4-year-degree in teaching or social work just gets you in the door; you are very much expected to keep going and get masters degrees if you want any sort of raise.

these are government jobs, not subject to market forces, it is more like armed forces in that regard.
There were 1.07 fatalities every 100M automobile miles last year. Compare that to 1 fatality in 130M autopilot miles. This is not going to be the last fatality we see but it's not clear that autopilot is any worse than a human and statistically this still looks to be the safer option.
Yeah, they had to show bank statements.
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Isn't the thing to do is set up a sole proprietorship under your name and become a contractor for the US company?

At least in Japan I know several people with that sort of arrangement
Usually, the people who espouse such views are never the speakers of dying tongues.

I'm not saying your view is the wrong one, or that it isn't rational. The sentence in the beginning of my post was spoken by an anthropologist who studied a tribe who was losing its language, and yet didn't completely grasp the other, mainstream language, fully. I never forgot that sentence. The youths of the tribe, he said, were in a constant limbo, their language and culture dying, and never part of the bigger, dominating culture. Their children's children will probably be ok, will probably be fully assimilated, but to not think of the fate their parents and grandparents is not right.

Many efforts are futile, but it doesn't make them all wrong. Sometimes it is the right way to act.
How else are they going to prove they don't owe the $16k charged for lawyer fees?
Sounds like a $16k "don't poke around where you're not wanted" punitive charge. The $1.6M lawsuit was pretty offensive, also. None of this smells good.
Google seems to turn up numerous people having no trouble disabling Secure Boot and installing Linux on that model computer. I wonder if the problem is confined to particular sub-models or particular revisions of the BIOS?
Yay, another set of regulations for business owners to navigate (it's pretty hard to keep up with the existing ones) and another government agency to manage and enforce them.

I'm more than happy to let the free market work this one out.
What a puff piece.

>Prof Cronin admits that creating even small aircraft out of chemicals "would be very challenging".

Hey then goes on to say it might work "some time in the future". Well sure, along with cold fusion and eternal life. "Someday" is not much of a prediction, especially for a business!
Or the "free market" solution would be to allow those calling tech support to pay an extra $50 per hour fee for priority service with a knowledgable human
That's a good point, I've ran into problems with that before too. Thanks.
What specific regulations do you have trouble navigating?
There are different kinds of fatigue though.

When I go running, it's some kind of aerobic sensation, but eventually my thoughts shift when it's time to stop.

If I lift heavy things for an hour, I can also be quite winded but there's usually some gas left in the tank I just know it's better to get some rest and allow muscle to repair.

Some kind of crossfit style workout, yet another sensation.

Sometimes I can take a nap as soon as I get home after the above, especially a vigorous run in the Arizona desert during summer.

Knowledge work has its own fatigue for me. If I go deep into flow state while working on something, eventually I reach a generalized mental haziness, where I want to relax and let my mind wander or be passively entertained.

Usually I have trouble sleeping after intense thinking, mind still firing but not effectively. I just want to "chill" and watch TV or do something simple and rewarding like clean the house to try and bring it fully out of gear.
Note the words minor and torture.
> Not many people live outside of Auckland (in Australia) and NZ has only a few densely populated areas.

Auckland is in New Zealand.

> The land is cheap

Sure, in the wops. Anywhere near a city is very expensive. I'd say on average land and housing (building materials especially) is far cheaper in the US.
Yeah. My internet tech support has been incredible. I have many amazing stories. All possible because the big telecoms were forced to wholesale, allowing competitors to exist in at least a limited capacity.

I will never go back to rogers or Bell again simply because of how amazing the support is at teksavvy.
Isn't that what Apple News and Flipboard and the myriad of others that have flopped have tried to do?
I moved to Singapore a decade ago, and I can definitely recommend it.

If you'd like to try this, all the relevant visa information is available from the Singapore Ministry of Manpower: http://www.mom.gov.sg/passes-and-permits

I think the OP could possibly be able to get the EntrePass, if he sets up a local company in Singapore and makes sure his work is billed to it. Singapore corporate taxes are probably lower than where he's from, so it would likely be better to do that anyway.
The Merging Worlds of Technology and Cars
The biggest elephant in my view is that Tesla has known about this accident and has been hiding it from investors since May. The only reason why this came out is the NHTSA investigation, and if it were up to Musk, this crucial information would have stayed secret until he had completed the dumping of SolarCity onto Tesla shareholders.
AMD responds to Rx480 power draw controversy
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Guide to Securing Apple OS X 10.10 Systems for IT Professionals [pdf]
I'd also be very interested to know more about your use of unikernels and the tooling around them. Would you mind getting in touch? Email is in my profile.
Just a fair warning as someone who has made extensive use of this page in the past: many of these hacks often end up slower these days on modern CPUs than naive approaches. Especially the no-branch and no-multiply math ops.

As always, be sure to performance test your code if you're getting into obfuscating your algorithms to boost speeds.

That said, there are still plenty of real gems in there. And on that note, here's one of my favorite bit-twiddling hacks:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.sla...

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.sla...

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.sla...

(these functions are for RGB555, but you can easily extend these to RGB888 ops.)
In Japan the company has to receive most of it's income sources from within Japan so unless you are telecommuting for a Japanese company or a Japanese branch, this should not be ok with the immigration.
Google News?
If we pretend scarcity doesn't exist, and that the proper way to deal with it isn't at least partially though the free market, then ok.
That's hilarious! Having run a few call centers, the costs involved in upping service levels from, say, 80% of calls answered in 20 seconds to, say, 98% in 10 seconds, grow geometrically.

If regulations were passed that mandated service levels, many companies would take Google's approach and simply not offer phone support at all. And we all know how great their support is.

The solution is to not use any services from monopolies, as the article points out. But of course, that's impossible for most people.
Tesla doesn't seem to actually sense hands on wheel. They sense torque on the steering wheel.[1] Mercedes seems to have capacitative touch sensing, although customers complaining about it aren't quite sure.[2]

Tesla doesn't take the absence of hands too seriously. "I'm driving down the highway at 55, and I'm not looking, and I have no hands on the wheel".[3] Hands off driving in New York City traffic.[4] "I managed to go 50 miles without a single nag"[5]

Apparently Tesla does have only one camera on currently shipping products. They must be trying to do stereo from motion. There are rumors of a revision to the Model S with multiple cameras.[5]

Yes, the van crash was in May, not yesterday.

[1] https://forums.teslamotors.com/forum/forums/how-get-rid-hold...
[2] http://mbworld.org/forums/new-s-class-w222/626411-steering-w...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS7pAC0OmLI
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4BGlQoASyo
[4] https://forums.teslamotors.com/forum/forums/nag-hands-wheel-...
[5] http://cleantechnica.com/2016/05/04/new-tesla-model-s-2nd-tr...
This sounds more like a working holiday arrangement to me
Perhaps the sizes (number of eligible voters, and also number of people who actually voted) of the voting districts follows the law? Then you could take the total vote counts, and distribute them back to the candidates in a lot of artificial ways (e.g. always 50-50, a random percentage between 30 and 70, say) and probably obtain data that still follows the law.
Ever interacted with the equivalent of tech support for government processes or services? I have, and it doesn't inspire me to put government on the list of potential ways to solve tech support.
If an adult wants to learn it, fine. But I will not teach my children a minor language as the first one.
Otherwise, record few TB worth of speech and be done with it.
Ask HN: What was the first post on Hacker News?
Seems like extending 30-day return policies further out might achieve this. Random commoditized tech I get off Amazon/eBay frequently has a note asking to contact them first to resolve any issues before returning and/or submitting negative feedback. I'd imagine the sellers would not be as accommodating, were it not for Amazon's no-questions-asked-customer-is-always-right return policy.
Investors are slashing startup valuations–and not even Uber and Airbnb are safe
Another Aussie here, I'm headed over for 8 weeks in September - November and this is by far and away the most exciting prospect for me. I'll be spending some time driving around the place just marvelling at the concept that buildings older than 150 years old exist.
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Of course, the corollary to what you're saying is: "If you're a white male and you get hired, that's on merit, everyone else is hired for diversity reasons."
[1] suggests that it's a combination of it being at least mildly hard, and there being insufficient fiscal incentive to develop it.

It seems several vendors have realized solutions in varying stages of human trials, without getting to the "commercial" stage (yet):

- "CaroRx" is entirely not mentioned on the owning company's products list [2]

- The list of authors on the antibiotic study from the Chinese Academy of Sciences don't seem to have published any other studies on this since the 2013 one [3]

- Oragenics seems to have just gotten a patent on a new form of their one-off replacement bacteria [4], but that's not nearly the same thing as human trial approval

- The US military's gum for mitigating issues with dental neglect that happen in combat seems to currently be attempting to get licensed to non-military vendors for civilian use. [5] [6]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caries_vaccine

[2] - www.planetbiotechnology.com/products.html

[3] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3708248/

[4] - http://www.oragenics.com/news-media/press-releases/detail/35...

[5] - http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/zero-dark-cavity

[6] - http://techlinkcenter.org/summaries/antimicrobial-peptide-an...
Those aren’t exactly *nix laptops, those are enterprise-targeted laptops without an OS.

And yes, models without Windows are typically cheaper, sometimes significantly.

Consider ProBook 450 G3 X0P36ES versus T6Q45ET. They both have i5-6200U, 4GB RAM, matte 15” FullHD, Intel GPU. The former has FreeDOS preinstalled and costs €540, the latter includes Windows 7 Professional and costs €750.
Google offers customer support by phone.
Additionally, there is a richness of thought and experience that other languages bring to the human experience. Just google for "untranslateable words that should exist in English" or something similar.

Not to mention that even computer languages have a similar quality: different languages allow one to think about things in different ways. How much would computer science suck if the only language available was Fortran 77?
There are several answers to this question. On a moral level: major cities are the economic engines of the US, and are unrivaled in the opportunities they can offer their residents, in terms of education, employment, upward mobility, etc. I don't think you have to think everyone should have a right to live wherever they want to be uncomfortable with the idea that only people that already come from money should have access to those opportunities, just like a lot of people aren't comfortable with the idea that only rich people should be able to go to college. It smells of entrenched aristocracy of the kind that at least in theory Americans aren't wild about.

On a more practical level: even many (most?) gentrifiers with money like to live in vibrant and diverse cities. They want there to be people to work in their coffee shops and clean their officers, and they want access to the pho joints and bodegas that come with immigrant populations. That requires making accommodations for people less well of than them to be able to live in their cities.
Lactic acid buildup does not have the relationship to fatigue that you are implying. Common myth. For more and in from far more knowledgeable persons than me:
http://www.scienceofultra.com/podcasts/10
Sorry. Okay.
taxes don't discourage smokers, though.

smokers are addicts, you can't price an addict out of an addiction.

it's effectively taxing the impoverished, anyway.

the people who are scrounging to buy smokes will just take that money from elsewhere in the budget. it's food out of children's mouths, in the most literal way possible. the people who aren't scrounging will just pay the increased price without batting an eye.

the price of cigarettes had no impact on my decision to quit. I would have continued to pay whatever the cost might have been, 5 dollars a pack or 50 dollars a pack.

switching to a personal vaporizer got me to quit smoking. I spend about 25% of what I spent on cigarettes for a month's supply of juice and replacement coils for the tank I use. I'm still addicted to nicotine, though.
OK, from now on, you can only code in Fortran 77.
A single language would never work anyway. It would inevitably split into dialects and regional/generational/racial slang, which would soon become incomprehensible to outsiders.

English patois in some parts of the world makes no sense to British/American speakers, even though it reads and sounds more or less like standard English.

You don't even have to travel to find the split happening. Just try listening to teenagers.

Language isn't just a utility. One of its functions is to define social register and tribal identity, and humans are so attached to both they can't accept homogenisation.
Student loans are an impending financial disaster. Over a trillion in loans outstanding not, most of which have provided no benefit and serve little more than as the modern equivalent to a high school diploma. The debt burden follows students through life and impedes home ownership, children, and other middle class consumptive activities, and as a result the demand driven economy muddles along.

What is the solution? Forgive all loans after paying 10% of salary for 10 years? I don't know, but something needs to change.
For comparison, that is 1.391 fatalities per 130M automobile miles. So 0.391 people were saved by Tesla, but that doesn't account for the fact that this is a new, eerie technology and that people are possibly using it in the safest of conditions until they get comfortable with it. Also is the average Tesla driver really representative of the overall population, i.e. would Tesla drivers have had that many crashes without Autopilot? How much of that 0.391 is due to the safety features of the car itself, and not the success of the autopilot system?

At any rate, there isn't much room for error in those numbers, and considering the above this almost looks like evidence that Autopilot is less safe than normal driving.
The article focuses mostly on big incumbents. If you're in more of a startup mindset doing awesome support has tremendous ROI.
> You could in fact go to jail if the court can prove you intended to do this.

> That is unacceptable to me.

Sure, the last time that happened a guy stabbed a 14 year old to death for spray painting his wall. The guy was sent to prison. Our laws and justice system is very lenient for mistakes, but if you panic and kill someone because you're scared - the situation has to be VERY bad for you to get off lightly. "Life" is 10-15 years (unless you're deemed unfit to go back into society).

> I don't really care that your country has socialized a large portion of public needs because I will likely still rather rely in privatized means of maintaining my heath and home.

I think you're looking for the word "nationalize", rather than "socialize".

This is a good example of explaining the differences[0]:

> A nationalized hospital, for example, will set its budget, its policies, and the way that it operates according to a plan set nationally, usually by a congress of representatives from many different regions. A socialized hospital, however, will organize itself according to the ideas and principles decided upon by those who work there. In one case, it is the nation that obtains the industry, controlled by governors, and in the other case, it is the people that obtain the industry, controlled by the workers.

Good, that's the idea. They're fall-back options which the majority of the country use. Cut your arm open doing some DIY at home? Save yourself a $2000 excess and goto the ER.

> Also, "other people are happy with this" isn't a really good argument.

That's not the argument. The argument that people on average are very happy here.

> I'd like to counter your "side"'s statement that "gun laws make us safer because they protect us from firearms crimes" with saying the Patriot Act in America "makes us safer because it protects us from terrorist crimes".

I'd like to point you to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...

I'm a fan of guns myself. I regularly hunt, hold a license with P endorsements (pistols, though you don't hunt with them hopefully), however an E is available to use MSSA's and shotguns. But not being able to fire RPG's and AK47's isn't the end of the world to me, and I find it very strange that that is a make-or-break decision for you.

[0]: http://www.punkerslut.com/articles/nationalize_the_economy_o...
I like "Fast Customer", which waits on hold for you. I was thinking of something like that years ago, and was going to call it "Holdmaster". It makes sense as an app; pre-smartphone, it would have required a box attached the phone line.

Microsoft once had customer support lines where you could call in for about $195, but if it was their bug, you got a refund. Fun gamble.
Since posts are numbered sequentially, you can just go to the one with the lowest number:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1

It was a link to ycombinator.com itself.
Ruma, a Matrix homeserver written in Rust
After I read your comment, it occurred to me to read about bacterial films. This is the Wikipedia article:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofilm

If you don't mind spending a few dollars, flavored tooth soaps are carried by most natural food stores.
This is typical of what passes for 'exploratory data analysis' these days:

> You can also see that UK’s rainfall is significantly less than Japan’s, and people say UK rains a lot!

Well duh, Japan is about 50% larger than the UK.
Please do not call the Trisolarians.
I think you need to look at the history behind those laws before you can make that claim. More to the point, the penalty for discrimination makes it less likely that a company will keep someone who is prejudiced in a position where they hire people, as they're out big bucks if they get hit up with a law suit.

You are correct that this may not do anything to change a racist culture, which is why many minorities leave certain companies after being hired, but if no one affected by a toxic culture ever gets hired, there's a very small chance that it will change on its own. And there's also the case you left out where the company itself isn't that toxic, but they left a racist in charge of the hiring and didn't realize it. This helps correct for that as well by discouraging having that kind of person in charge of hiring.
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> What is the solution? Forgive all loans after paying 10% of salary for 10 years? I don't know, but something needs to change.

No that would just inflate the education bubble even more. You need to figure out how to reduce the demand for all this useless higher education.
> Whoever owns duck.com forwards

https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=duck.com

And Google owns it... how can this be legal?
No, the French police forced us to made these changes.
> Tesla's "autopilot" is just automatic lane keeping and automatic cruise control.

And lane changing. But yes, they never claimed the current system could do any more than that.

> Mercedes and BMW have been shipping that for years.

Yet, their systems on their 2017 models still isn't as good as Tesla's current system. [1]

> The other car companies have hardware to check if the driver's hands are on the wheel. Tesla not only didn't do that…

Tesla's system will indeed periodically prompt you to hold the steering wheel, and will disengage if the driver does not react to several warnings.

> … they hyped those basic functions as being an "autopilot", as if they had something comparable to what Google has

No. What Google has is called autonomous driving. You've completely misunderstood the meaning of the word "autopilot". From Wikipedia:

> An autopilot is a system used to control the trajectory of a vehicle without constant 'hands-on' control by a human operator being required. Autopilots do not replace a human operator, but assist them in controlling the vehicle, allowing them to focus on broader aspects of operation, such as monitoring the trajectory, weather and systems.

And that's exactly what Tesla's Autopilot does: assist the driver in controlling the vehicle, but does not replace a human operator.

[1] http://mashable.com/2016/06/16/2017-mercedes-benz-e-class-fi...
Really? What's the number for help with gmail? I can't find it anywhere on their site. YouTube either, if it's different.

Also, I need a number to reach support at Facebook, if you have it.
Sure, you can express pretty much any concept from a foreign language in English, and vice-versa if the language is thorough enough. What you lose is the power and conciseness that comes from having a single word expressing a concept that would take 10 or 18 words to be correctly expressd in English. I have memorized a few interesting ones in some languages: 'Litost' (czech), 'Prozvonit' (czech also),'Tartle'(scottish), 'Mamihlapinatapei' (an idiom from Tierra del Fuego), 'Ya’aburnee' (arabic), and my own language's 'saudade', which to some is just translated as 'longing for something you have lost', but is, for native speakers, of course, something else.