skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Naturally, we're nowhere close to my crazy example, but there are smaller examples of this effect that we're starting to see. Try going down to the store and buying a Blu-Ray player that doesn't encrypt its HDMI output. You can't, even though the majority of people who care one way or the other would like one

This is accomplished not by bribing everyone, but by the ordinary legal system[0]. In general, bribing everyone without legal enforcement has coordination problems that are difficult to solve.

Once you pay off all the falafel suppliers, JP morgan or someone will come up with the bright idea of either
a) creating a new falafel supplier that rejects the bribe and sells at a price premium or
b) creating a new falafel supplier, accepting the bribe, and then closing down.

With enough obfuscation, b) can be repeated until the person giving out bribes runs out of money.

[0]e.g. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/warner-bros-sues-...
You can write Rust extensions to Python as well, though the higher-level interfaces aren't quite as far along in Python yet. There was a talk about it at PyCon last year.
Ah yes, good catch. I meant "statically-typed".
I think 1200 and earlier was worse.

But i also think we go back to that :)
>>And why is it a problem?

Wealth inequality leads to inequality in political representation. Think about the massive amount of influence the elite have on our politics. And in virtually all cases, they use that influence to better their own situation and take away opportunity from others.

The poor having fridges and air conditioning does not matter when the entire system is rigged against them.
Ah, the joys of localization.
I didn't say they were the same job. I said they were accorded different levels of respect and prestige, which is what this post is about. I didn't want to be a pure executive or manager.

At that company, it was, frankly, impossible for a developer to get the same perks as a manager. I'm sure there are companies out there that handle this a lot better and don't make management the only path to promotion. These have just been the minority in my personal experience.

---

I also agree with you for what it's worth that management is a skill in and of itself that most developers wouldn't be good at. The point I was making in my previous post was a little more nuanced. Think of it like this. At a large company, there might be 100 VPs who are pure managers, and there might be 5 very distinguished engineers who are at the same VP level. This creates the impression that developers can rise up just as high in the company, when in reality it's more of an illusion. The technical skill level necessary to reach VP level as a developer is astronomically high. The management skill level necessary to reach VP level as a pure manager is certainly not low by any means, but it's comparatively much lower than it is for VP engineers.
>So what is it you're paying so much extra for then?

All those other things. I'm not using my CPU at anywhere near 100% 24/7 to care about its speed that much. But I do use the keyboard, trackpad, carry the weight, etc, every single day.

>Can't say this has ever been an issue for me

Well, good for you. Yanking the cable has been an issue for me, and several million others besides.

>Standard feature on any recent laptop.

Yes, but with a crappy implementation. There's really no comparison.

> magnetic hinge

Magnetic close "lock" mechanism for the display, as opposed to some protruding hinge.

>Quickly becoming a standard feature

Yeah, everything is "Quickly becoming a standard feature". But I've had it, and other things, for a decade or so on my Macbook Pros...

>LOL.

Yeah, because sturdiness is not a thing to ask from your laptop.

>Not an issue in the real world.

Perhaps weight, thickness and battery life are not issues in the real world that you live in.

Oh, and premium quality HW. E.g. check the first response in TFA.
He comes across as very earnest; that might be misread by some people as obsessive. He also did do some very questionable things like remove the day planner and other items. It could be that law enforcement didn't really want to work with him any more than they had to. It's hard to know, we don't get to see that side.

I really enjoyed his account. I've spent a lot of time doing field work in the Mojave (I am a plant taxonomist), and it's such a neat place to explore -- at least in spring time, before it gets too hot.
That's a damn shame.
I'm glad you posted it - thanks!

My understanding is that with the timing of the US holiday, it made more sense to hold off on the official announcement for a few days. So that's why there aren't more announcements / release notes etc; and likely there won't be as many people around the community channels to help with any 1.3 questions this (long) weekend.

You should expect the normal release procedure next week! And if you want to try it out you can, but most of the aspects of a release other than publishing the binaries are coming soon.
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Actually I think you might have fallen for an easy misreading of my question, because I specifically omitted the word "fundamental" before the word "particle" due to the fact that they are still made of quarks. The assumption in my question was that "particle" has a reasonable definition... unless you're suggesting it doesn't?

(Edit: slightly recorded comment to make it sound less sarcastic, since I wasn't trying to be. I actually do think it's completely possible that "particle" doesn't have a definition; I just didn't think it was likely that that was what was being said.)
Hey! If anyone's interested in an intro to algorithms, I'd like to pitch my book Grokking Algorithms[1]. It is an illustrated guide with a focus on being easy to read. I've gotten a lot of comments about how easy it is [2] [3] [4].

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Darwin award. He was watching a Harry Potter movie. No sympathy at all. This is why we can't have nice things; some idiot will inevitably bollox things up.
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> That's just self-grandeur pissing on millions of people as idiots while you alone are smart enough to see through the illusion.

Wow. You got really personal there. Where's dang when you need him? Insults aside, that's not true at all.

I don't feel like I want to respond to you because you're probably just going to insult me some more.
The title is slightly misleading, also in usual physicist speak right. The kind of particle here are made up of four quarks, and as far as I know were somewhat expected. The underlying theory, QCD, predicts that free particles (hadrons)^1 are bound states of quarks, and in this case bound states of two quarks and two anti-quarks. (Wether we should call everything we see in a collider a particle is a question, which I happily leave for philosophers to answer.)

^1 A hadron is is made of quarks and gluons, which can only exist as bound states, such that they have no net strong charge. Contrast this with a lepton like the electron, that has no strong charge and can consequently exist as a free particle.
Neal Krawetz's recent testing of Tor Exit nodes: http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/721-TOR...
Is he pardoning the killers prior to the commission of the act? Interesting legal issue. He certainly could grant them immunity from prosecution. Great for Philippine tourism.
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Ha ha, this reminds me of a Madonna interview in English, translated to Hungarian, then back to English. Unfortunately it was fake, but nonetheless pretty funny.

Sample:
"I am a woman and not a test-mouse! Carlos is an everyday person who is in the orbit of a star who is being muscle-trained by him, not a sex machine."

http://www.snopes.com/humor/misxlate/madonna.asp
Despite the title, software was not at fault here. Rather, the paper found a higher than expected false positive rate due to a choice in statistical modeling. The conclusion was that nonparametric tests can avoid the issue.

So, none of the results are truly invalid in the way of a hypothetical software bug, since we know what modeling assumptions were used in the previous studies. Personally, I don't see a major problem, since most fMRI papers are exploratory, and we should be reproducing the major findings anyway. We should certainly start using nonparametric tests from here on out though!
For citizens of countries that provide little or no assistance to their foreign nationals overseas, like the United States, it usually comes as a shock when they find out that other countries are more forthcoming, helping them to find medical treatment, get settled at school, and in the case of wealthier countries, providing interim financial assistance. Many Saudi students in the United States are on government scholarships. The government is responsible for them so it should not be surprising that from time to time it assisted those it believed were legitimate students upon request.
Hello,

I wrote the 'fortran+fastcgi+nginx' thingy. It has evolved into https://github.com/rlcarino/heeds. Production live runs (and a little blog post about it) may be found at http://heeds.csu.edu.ph. Some students from a university connect to the runs with their Android phones without cell data cost via Facebook's Free Basics which is available in that part of the world. Usage instructions for students are in the FAQ of https://www.facebook.com/groups/csuheeds/.

Why do it? Somebody pays for it.

Ric Carino
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The best hardware in bad situations. They just work, no matter what, and never die.

The software is just a part of the success.
It's poker. You aren't playing against the house. You're playing against other players. And the house always gets a cut from the overall proceeds (so the higher the stakes, the higher the cut).
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Of course, because high income != wealth. It's only the first step.

It could become significant wealth if they saved + invested it well, but most high earners are excellent at spending it all. Just look at the amount of bigtime basketball / football players who remain with nothing a few years after they stop playing.
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9/11 has to be the shortest duration of a terrorist gambit in history, it didn't even last the duration of the attack, for those on Flight 93 learned that the rules of the game had changed and responded accordingly.
WTF. Get the hell out of HN.
> Unless you're in the fashion business it is hard to see how dress code protests matter.

Of course it doesn't have anything to do with the business

But some companies will see their good employes leave, old employees retire and then won't find out why they can't compete and can only retain the worse professionals.
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We are really proud of this release, both making it much easier to get started (with a laptop ready local development experience) as well as large scale enterprise features (support for stateful applications, IAM integration, 2x scale).

As others in the thread mentioned, this was the cut of the binary, we'll be talking a lot more about it, updating docs and sharing customer stories in the coming weeks.

Thanks, and please don't hesitate to let me know if you have any questions!

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes.
I certainly was taking a stab and tried to address what I thought you were most likely thinking about. It's hard to judge over text and I think my comment provided useful context for people reading it, even if you already knew it.

I'd also be interested in knowing whether particle physicists expect a finite number of quark-based particles and, if so, why.
Best in class doesn't mean best in spec. They're relatively best for quality and longevity. My '12 rMBP has the best keyboard and trackpad on the market, there is no laptop that is better than this and these features are what I use all day long. I'm still using it and I have no plans to replace it for another 3-4 years. That's something I cannot say for any PCs I've bought in the past.

Also, no one is buying Macbooks to take it apart, so the RAM/batteries/connectors are the least of majority of the market's concerns.

I don't claim any loyalty to any platform but I rather run software on my Macs because I know it lasts a long time. Prior to my '12 rMBP, I had a Macbook that I've used for 4-5 years and I sold it for a decently nice price, it held it resales value.

Just because you can't understand it, doesn't mean it is not the best for others.

I have no problem with macOS, it's fine for my purpose. I had far more issues with Windows 10 than I had with macOS and I actually have a Surface Pro 4 as well.
our company (few 1000 devs) has a parallel hierarchy of ICs going all the way up to VP reporting directly to CEO. They are one of the most respected and influential people in company. While each team has complete freedom in terms of tech stack and other decisions, they drive company wide things like migration to cloud, inhouse big data platforms.
Compare "Good Faith" that requires a reasonable standard of fair dealing. That would include, adding up a list of numbers before writing a bad check. Its not just negligence when you never had any intention of being diligent. Its willfully ignoring a minimal standard of managing money - adding it up.

If the only defence against the bad check is "I kind of thought I probably had enough money in the account", then that was bad faith - no reasonable standard was achieved.
Thanks for posting those links, [3] in particular looks fascinating.
Cole has been an absolute machine working on this - we'd love your help! Net, though, is that extending Kubernetes in this way is available to everyone - we support ~15 different cloud and OS configurations today, we'd love to support more!

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes.
Doubtful. There are dozens if not hundreds of guys who have made their own electric motorcycles[0]. Getting it to production is a whole other ballgame, one that only two companies out of dozens have managed to pull off (Zero and Brammo).

[0]: http://www.evalbum.com/type/MTCY
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Rather than just react to the parent, as I nearly did ("clearly that's a troll") give the statement some thought, in this context I think there's some merit to considering the opinion.

The grandparent stated the rather direct correlation: Causes social unrest? Bad. Fajitas made the (I believe accurate, if incendiary) statement of "Is this really true?"

I find it especially entertaining that HN would react negatively to this angle of query, given that we embrace the potential conflict when it comes to many aspects speech and other liberties as an _asset_ to those capabilities (many statements of the sort: "someone's civil discord is someone else's civil rights movement")

While I can't use this argument to state the opposite, "discord -> good thing", I certainly think there's something to be said that of many of the arguments in this thread, the fact that it causes social unrest is one of the _weaker_ justifications for income rectification in my eyes.

(I feel somewhat "copping out" in that I have qualify myself like this, but to be perfectly clear; I absolutely support inspecting this problem and really believe in the concerns regarding cyclical wealth/power building. As such, a weak argument does more harm than good since someone can easily point out contradictions like the ones in my post)

As a final postscript, let me take this mental exercise to one extreme, in the attempt to provoke further thought: perhaps unrest is the saving grace of very unequal situations, the final avenue to take when all peaceful ones have been exhausted, and in that sense both a "emergency-pressure-release-valve" on society and a barometer that should be watched with attention.
This can't be correct. Inequality is the result of a very small number of people holding a large amount of wealth, typically in the form of productive investments (e.g. factories, infrastructure, etc).

But if the number of people is small, the amount of housing they can consume is tiny. For example, NYC has 5,600 ultra high net wealth individuals. Assuming a wealthy person rents 10 flats, these rich people only have the same effect on housing supply as NYU (57,000 students).

http://marketurbanism.com/2016/06/27/do-the-rich-cause-high-...

The more inequality you have, the less competition you face from wealthy people. If we replaced 5,600 rich people with 1 mega-rich person, would that mega-rich person suddenly rent 67,000 flats, taking an additional 10,000 off the market?
Thanks for the clarification. Obviously the lawsuit was seeking equal access for deaf/hard of hearing individuals but had the unintended effect of removing access for everyone (public).

It's a shame that a better solution could not be reached because it was very nice having recent course videos available (as opposed to many EdX courses which use 5-10 year old videos).
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I'd never heard of the Rex Neo until your post. Looks very interesting!
> But you actually get cool place to work, meet people and maybe even make friends.

You can do this at co-working spaces with other people who work remotely for US companies.
I think scientists already support that for the most part, but there are lots of barriers, e.g. cost of maintaining the data, privacy concerns, intellectual property, competition, etc.
I'm sorry if I've offended you. But I've always been interested in psychometrics and I think it's a useful and underused tool in society. I don't think I've been particularly impolite in my comments. And I would note, we are products of natural selection. Natural selection is a heartless search process. We should not expect its outputs to be aligned with our indoctrinated assumptions about human nature.
By this probabilistic reasoning, we shouldn't bother searching for "meaningful" polynomial time algorithms because they are practically non-existent in the sea of all exponential time algorithms. If anything, this argument should be a motivator to work on a problem because if an underlying structure exists, it would be rare and beautiful.
Very nicely written article, showing us a glimpse of the inner workings of a great mind.
This answers my question. I was just thinking about this and other methods like encoding data in pulses from a keyboard led at high enough frequencies that humans dont see a flicker but an optical sensor can read it, hard drive parking noise, drive activity indicators, and power state changes could be used to transmit sensitive data from air gapped systems.

Also smuggling data out of containers or vms might be possible by these means or manipulating signals measurable across security boundaries. One could encode bits in the cpu utilization of a process and watch the load from another app outside the secured area to read encoded data, or by loading/unloading a measurable amount of data in RAM, for example. Where did my foil hat go?
Why do you think market for software developers is so poor in Spain?
Oh, I was talking about their office. They live elsewhere. Several in their 40s.
Glad to be able to put some happiness in your world. Now seriously; do you think that one single unnamed study can be token as proof of what they are claiming? This is not much different to that 'The scientists say that...' mantra. How many executives were evaluated? 3?, 5?, 50?. We don't know.
> But the current anecdotal evidence is that those companies _can_ pay very little, and yet, no catastrophe has happened.

Healthcare.gov?
Another way to make an order of magnitude difference is to approach the problem from the 'why' perspective and come up with a different solution that is a lot less work.
1.) Why a second bachelor's? It's just as much work at this point to get a masters instead, regardless of the fact that it is in a different field. All you have to do is talk to the school and see what their requirements are (in terms of leveling classes, etc.) in order to switch fields. (Note: I did this. My bachelor's was in music [piano performance], masters was in CS, and I did it in one year with A LOT of hard work. Further note: I worked as a programmer and paid for it all myself, without loans, scholarships, or familial help. It can be done if you have the programming skills.)

2.) Go to a less expensive school (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/academics/degree-programs/masters/o... for ~$7k, all online) (http://cs.mwsu.edu/ ~$10K/yr. in Texas, did my MS there)

3.) Go for a PhD instead. Just about every good school will pay you a stipend to attend as well as waive your tuition. You often earn a Master's on the way up, and I have known some people to quit after earning the Masters (although the school will not encourage this). The only difficulty in this route is that, in coming from a completely unrelated field, they may not be interested in you until you establish your programming and CS skills. I am currently working on my PhD in CS, but I got my masters first in Texas.

EDIT: corrected the GaTech link
I built a house. It took 3 days to frame it up, so it looked like a house, 3 months until all the doors, windows, etc were in and it could be locked up, and I moved into it at the 6 month point. All work done on weekends, and evenings by myself and my wife. A bit of help from some friends. We did all the work except for the pouring of the concrete foundation and the hot tar roof.

It was a good experience, something I had never done before. I learned a lot and it was a set of skills I have used often since then (this was in 1998). The confidence that you get from finishing a large project has been great too.

The real time consumption is all the little things - network cabling, gardening, finishing and trim inside and outside. Just building a structure to live in is quite easy, and does not take that long.
This is a really interesting comment to make. Perhaps more people in his position feel this way. I assume that in North America at least, saying you regret being wildly rich and successful would be met with negativity. So even if you hated it, you would be expected to own the role. A lot of famous musicians sing about how they miss being anonymous, perhaps we all have it backward. I always kind of surmised that media was a bad place to look for role models, because a happy person would probably never seek out media. Maybe there are amazing small business owning role models out there who we never hear about, but who have incredible marriages, families, meaningful work and enduring satisfaction with life. Who knows.
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