skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1 in 8 residents being immigrants is not super low. The rate of immigrants per year is irrelevant, as it adds up a lot over time.

I guarantee that people would complain if the immigrants were European. Because they did in the past! In the past a huge number of immigrants were from Ireland and other countries, and there was lots of hatred and anti immigration movements. It has literally nothing to do with race. People fear immigrants because they take their jobs, and see them as competition. They are also concerned about crime and increased population density, or worried about their culture being replaced, or the immigrants political influence, etc. But mainly it's economic, and I think the concern is genuine.

>"most Americans saying no immigration are here because their families immigrated in the last 200 years"

That's a nice soundbite, but a poor argument. All countries are descended from immigrants. Human beings have migrated and conquered other lands since the beginning of time.

That's totally irrelevant to whether an immigration policy in 2016 would have a positive or negative effect on current US residents. And if they believe it has a negative effect, why would they vote for it? Because their ancestors would? So what?
I'm not entirely convinced FB will exist in any significant form in 10 years.
The FDA kills people how?
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Ask HN: English Speaking, services for practicing
Hey HN. I have great listening and terrible speaking skills, mostly because the lack of practice. Maybe someone knows good FREE services for practicing(without a teacher, just a real person) and it would be great if there are persons with same interest as I have(Business and Self-improvement lifestyle)

OR
What if someone wants to chat, maybe we can cooperate and start to practicing together
Well not the first of its kind.
Unclear how this one exactly works. Is it Micro HDMI over the USB-OTG or just a socket over usb and another SoC in the Flapbook?

EDIT: Ah displaylink, I can see it getting choppy with older phones.
I was under the impression that a 3D print was overkill, that you could do this much more easily. Have the sensors gotten that much better?
I can't even imagine where anyone would get the idea that saving lives and the environment is more noble than 140 characters. Hard to fathom.

Strange to equate 140 characters to "scientists," but what do I know.
It's definitely a lot harder to move to Elixir and Phoenix but I've enjoyed learning FP and Elixir a lot; I've done it mostly to challenge myself and it's informed my programming in other languages.
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A small clarification that pertains to your comment and several child comments.

Vermont has no requirements for concealed gun carry implicitly. Meaning they have passed no laws (ever) pertaining to carrying guns one way or another apart from

1. not allowing firearms on state owned land or in state buildings (without permission) or schools.

2. laws pertaining to crimes committed with firearms

3. A law specifically disallowing local governments and municipalities from restricting gun carrying beyond what the state government has.

4. Laws pertaining to children using and possessing guns.
I think the better question is: would you live in Charleston or Atlanta or another less expensive city.
> This is immediately self-evident if you've ever tried to teach anything complex to anyone who wasn't already a domain expert in an immediately adjacent area.

I am a practising computational scientist, and I work in an interdisciplinary field. I work with the sort of folks you mentioned above daily.

And while I often do not start with an equation, that does not mean they are not useful. I don't think anyone is suggesting that to a non-specialist they are. Typically, I start with thought experiments or plots. People are often visual learners.

However, that does not mean that mathematical notation is a problem. Mathematics is a language, and like any language one must spend years (or in my case, decades) learning how to 'speak' it. While I would not suggest it is inherently a global maximum, I'm skeptical it is not at least a pretty good local max.
The book "Here Comes Everybody" also talks about that. Something I got out of it was that it ties people down less to a geographic area and allows to them to form communities with other like minded people (or consume like minded material).

After reading it, my conclusion is that it will be negative, unless we consciously discipline ourselves because of how self-reinforcing it can be (ie we start consuming only media that we agree with, unless we consciously decide that could be bad).
Makes no sense. With $10 billion in net worth, if Musk sold his stock and lived for 40 more years, he could spend about $685,000 per day for the rest of his life.

Yet people think he's in this for more money. Hysterical.
Why kind of phone is this? I believe iPhones don't allow unlocking with TouchID after 24 hours of inactivity, presumably for this reason...
Utah teen launches consumer drone that can fly over 70 mph
No he didn't. If we abolished taxes tomorrow everything would fall apart.
I like my desk clean and absent of personal items :(
I coincidentally saw this tweet today:
https://twitter.com/samswey/status/685147750237913088

Apparently police officers spend 58 hours learning how to shoot, but only 8 hours are spent on de-escalation tactics.
"By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and, in effect, increases the mental power of the race"

-- Whitehead
I could see coordinates, e.g. of a lost party, or someone who called 911 but got disconnected by a low battery, that kind of thing. Cell phone pings can be extremely handy for SAR.
I actually meant it positive, but you're right, he's not just a big-thinker, he actually has the ability to bring his ideas into fruition.
Google wants to flood us with information like zombies.

Elon wants us to sit in our cars and spaceships like zombies.

Everything sounds bad if you tack on "like zombies" as an empty insult at the end.
I did consider that but I didn't want to take the risk of messing things up even further. I figured the cartridge exchange was a safer option.

Incidentally when I called Samson support looking to buy a specific model revision I told them what the mic was used for. When I mentioned it was for people shouting mouth open wide at the top of their voice the support rep said "But that mic is for stuff like Skype and maybe recording a little bit of singing not for shouting at".
How Qubes makes handling PDFs way safer
You might be right. But if we got mosquito bites low enough for even a short time it might bring the maleria infection rate to below one and wipe it out.
It's a HN Clone? Why it exist?
This is the only article of original substance on the internet, everyone else copied pieces from it. I still can't find an answer (or even anyone asking the question): How does it land?

There's no landing gear, it takes off from a dolly, and it's only designed to stay up for 'months at a time.' Does this mean it needs extensive repairs after it crash lands on runways that are half its width? The ScanEagle UAS also has no landing gear but is small enough to be caught by a cable mid-air [1].

Having no journalists present for their test launch and only getting officially produced videos and non-critical reposts is not enough.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w88uCC2Jv48
It is often used this way similar to the word "unprofessional". But, in the context of a manager of a muti-continent team could be quite legit and easy to define in more detail
I think I've used Rx way back when in 2009 (there was no TPL in silverlight so you had to use callbacks and events for continuations which was insane, so I used Rx) so it's been around.

Mind sharing why you don't like it ?

I personally like how it allows me to express complex high level operations cleanly. For example - I have a observable configuration variable that can come from different sources and the source change dynamically. I need to listen to latest source until a new one becomes active - in Rx I only need to push the new source trough IObservable<IObservable<ConfigurationValue>> and then use http://reactivex.io/documentation/operators/switch.html which returns IObservable<ConfigurationValue> which will push values from the latest source - Rx will handle unsubscribing from previous active source, synchronizing state and making sure everything is thread safe. And there are a bunch of operators like this that would be tedious and hard implement correctly with all the edge cases in a thread safe way - and here they are abstracted in to high level operators.
Yet you think Zuck is in it for more money?
Why it took over 2 years for breadwallet to come to Android
Wow, this looks amazing. I’d love to see more sculptures based on data.
It's actually less about the kind of investment and more about the terms you can negotiate. If you can buy in for half of what anyone else can buy in at then your return will be twice what everyone else's return will be, and you losses will be half of what everyone else's will be, regardless of anything else that happens.
Flannery's Farm
Is Zuckerberg really all that influential?

Or are people just wiping his bottom because he happens to be making money (for now)?
Google's End-to-End: no commits since April
Marlon Samuels Samuels Named West Indies Cricketer of the Year
He's running it at a loss with money from other ventures so that when he works it out he is the person you have to go to.

There is no altruism here, he's trying to create an industry where he would be the monopoly.
I don't think this would work on me if I were being asked questions by a candidate. I would just lie and say everything's fine no matter how much they insist.

Telling some random stranger "I hate this fucking company and wouldn't be surprised if it goes bankrupt within a year" gives me no benefits and puts me at a lot of risk; plus it's just awkward.
Now you mention it I feel like I overlooked the obvious solution.
The HN crowd tends toward anti-socialites who don't see the value in human communication or that purpose of life is to live it.

What's the point of going to Mars, if not to share the experience with other people?
And you still haven't learned that what we want is not better management of regulators, but net neutrality. It blows my mind.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" -- Upton Sinclair
UI traps and how to avoid them – Tess Ferrandez (2016) [video]
I used to be an audio engineer at a studio that dubbed anime. It was amazing how many smart and talented folks were involved in pumping out a shitty dub.

I worked with some really, really good directors and actors, but there's a limit to what they can do. The biggest constraint is the need for perfect mouth flap syncing. The original Japanese versions aren't even very well synced, but English-speaking audiences apparently demand it. It really constrains what you can do with a performance.

Emotional explosions that are great in Japanese seem really cheesy when done in English. Since Japanese syllables almost always end in a vowel, you get these really big month flaps that are hard to work with. In really bad dubs, it's why you get lines like "Heyyy! What's the big ideaaaa!" so often.

Of course, dubs usually have a tiny budget as well. That means that there's only one actor in the studio at a time, so they never get to play off of each other.
That's a lot more syllables than "serverless".
For the most part I agree with what you wrote, but I want to add to it. Like others, I disagree with the article. How can you change an entrenched mindset and way of doing things unless you can overthrow them? I strongly feel that mainland Chinese won't be able to consistently innovate (without the crutch of side stepping the Great Firewall to see ) until one major change happens: mainland Chinese need both the freedom and cultural acceptance for rebellion

https://medium.com/@they_made_that/innovations-secret-ingred...
> But this is the less interesting claim

The "insider trading pound sterling" claim isn't just less interesting. Whoever put that in the complaint should get Rule 11 sanctions for making frivolous allegations.
> not everyone thinks in language. But everyone communicates
> in language. For communicating mathematical concepts,
> language is the best tool we have.

You definition of language is really narrow. Perhaps you really want to say that people are only comfortable in their native tongue? Do you consider 'expt' is a language? Actually I have no idea what "expt" is, which means we are not using the same language. I guess that was

pow(3)

or

b*n

The inverse function 'log-x-base-b' also confuses me, is it

b⍟x

or

x⍟b

By the way, I'm speaking in unix man and a programming language there.

People need to understand notation is a language. In you three lines of functions, you've used (),= four notational symbols, without which your statement would be uselessly long. People do communicate in languages. Math notations happen to be the native tongue of people using math (they were taught at first in schools).

For people speaking in that different language, the following are the same:

bⁿ=x
b^n=x
pow(b,n)==x
b*n=x

Edit: reformat because HN eats my power function.
That's an abysmal idea.
Down-voted, haha. It's not an insult or criticism of Elixir, simply my preference for Rust. Delicate people :)
> HN is a weird place to bemoan prices when many here are seeking unicorn valuations while disrupting industry.

I think the insulting tone towards those that disagree with him might have something to do with it. And the above statement is just plain absurd.
Try JHipster for a Java (Spring Boot + Angular) stack: http://jhipster.github.io/.
Rather, SpaceX is the very definition of what venture capital is supposed to invest in--A high risk / high reward enterprise.
> Maybe the style of writing makes it sound like a sponsored PR piece

I wouldn't be surprised if everything he writes went through 10 layers of PR and lawyer approval and departments making sure that it absolutely certainly doesn't offend anyone, cause any potential for lawsuits, doesn't divulge off-brand information, or hints at things that haven't been approved by the rest of the company.

"Corporate speak" is shorthand for that ^. It happens when you're the face of a big company.
tl;dr : NYC is much larger than SF, and there are more affordable neighborhoods.

"Bed-Stuy, Inwood, and Crown Heights bottom out the rankings, with prices per square foot between $488 and $503. These more affordable neighborhoods of New York bring up an important distinction between the two cities. While New York does boast a high price per square foot in many neighborhoods, it still has the benefit of density that San Francisco does not. San Francisco is simply a less dense city, with less inventory, so its rapid price growth has more effectively pulled many city neighborhoods into a relatively narrow, expensive price range. "There aren't as many affordable neighborhoods there as there had been," Valhouli says. "By comparison, New York City is a larger city with a broader price range and still more opportunities at the more affordable end of the market.""

http://ny.curbed.com/2016/6/27/12040004/nyc-vs-san-francisco...

Blacks (and other low-income people) are being squeezed out of SF because the politicians have made the zoning laws to squeeze them out.

To me and my friends, diversity, both racial and economic, is important. To the politicians of SF, not so.

If this were important to citizens of SF, they'd elect politicians that fixed the housing problem by removing the deliberate attempt to make housing more expensive. It costs no money, just a vote to fix the zoning laws and the price of housing will drop as supply increases (as the Edward Glaeser article explains).
As an outsider, the solution to the SF housing issues seem pretty simple... Vote out the NIMBY politicians and replace them with people who will change zoning laws to allow for more building. I'd assume almost no one likes the current situation unless they are a landlord.
> For example by providing a theory that better explains all phenomena that haven been observed so far.

This is not how falsification works. If you provide another hypothesis, even
if it was better tailored to your measured data, you now have two of them that
work. The former one didn't magically stop working. Which one is valid? (Hint:
may be the former, if you account for variables you didn't think about
previously, or may be neither of them).

And most hypotheses are formed as a cause-effect explainations. How to verify
that in a correlation of two phenomena one of them is the reason for the
other? Climatology has only offered speculation till this day.

> Sometimes scientist find flaws and refine models, but nobody has yet found a fundamental flaw or provided a better explanation.

Well, nothing to brag about in this case. Those climatologists claim that
atmospheric CO2 concentration is major (or even main) cause for greenhouse
effect, yet CO2 has twenty times smaller(!) heat capacity compared to
atmospheric water at current concentrations.
People have long reported experiencing radio reception through tooth fillings, usually in the ham and FM bands from 1 to around 100 MHz.

I can imagine cell frequencies would be even more likely due to smaller antennae for the higher frequency.
No customer is or should be obligated to make obeisance to a company's "sacred" business model.
Almost all of your body is high water content, and the heat will easily conduct the last little bit.

By the time you have to worry about specific non-brain parts being overheated, your overall temperature is such that you're braindead.
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Have you considered/tried adding back to the official documentation in cases like these?
>As mentioned above, you simply cannot compare a smartphone operating system where one handles, emails (in the cloud anyway) some personal apps and a browser to a full desktop operating system where among many other things serious work is done as well as private and enterprise data is stored.

You definitely can, Feel free to disagree, but many would argue the comparison is fair, especially considering a smart phone has replaced a desktop or a laptop for many people. But to say in such absolute terms the comparison is not appropriate is naive.
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Wouldn't mining trillion+ dollar asteroids make you a fortune?
Is there any way to simulate high load (Millions of users) for testing?
> It's not about the notation at all, it's about understanding that EXPT, SQRT and LOG are functions with a particular relationship to each other.

The notation being proposed is for those three specific functions. It's just replacing the existing notations for those functions with a new notation for those functions. Specifically, the author claims that this notation will make the relationship between those functions clearer.

> because there are a lot of different relationships that are naturally described by putting three things in a triangle.

He's not proposing this as a generic functional notation, but rather as a notation for these three specific functions. So yes, many other functions might benefit from a similar sort of notation, but this proposal isn't for any of them.

> But everyone communicates in language. For communicating mathematical concepts, language is the best tool we have.

When teaching math, teachers use a combination of natural language, formulae, tables, and diagrams. Teaching math without words would be (as you point out) nonsensical; but teaching math only using words would be incredibly hard to understand & follow.
> They like thinks just the way they have always been.

Such a meta typo. So often, when people want things the same way they've always been[1], that means they want people to think the same way they always have[1], which they don't (because the new generation never does).

1: "always" generally being a short 10-20 year period the person vaguely remembers from their youth, but fondly, because they didn't have much responsibility as they were young and didn't actually have to pay much attention to anything outside their limited social circle.
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In one of my (middleschool?) science classes, my teacher explained the density equation in terms of a triangle. Of course, we didn't adopt it into our notation. But I think that just having shown the class the diagram helped a lot of my peers.

Later in high school (in a different state), a mathematically-challenged friend was studying logarithms during study hall. Our curriculum used this bizarre, three-step arrow rule to transform logs into the familiar (y = b^e). Having remembered the density triangle, I showed my friend a similar diagram for logs. He said "Thanks. I was probably going to get a zero on the next quiz. I might actually pass now."

d = m / v
v = m / d
m = v * d
.
/m\
/---\
/v | d\
.-------.
I have no stake in the matter; it's fairly obvious I'm speaking to people of the parasitical colonial class (bourgeoisie ?).

Your argument is no different from that "rational" @kartD. It's fairly obvious, you don't even know the definition of a "language" is. If you needed an answer, a google search would have done you good ("yes"); asking me to answer rhetorical devices like "ah, but oppression is our only way towards progress!" is stupid. Somehow no Indian has the comprehension to understand why.

Considering the same thing repeated ad nauseum, I also sense strong doses of brainwashing, or the Indian state employing a 50-cent army like Mao's men. I hope for India's sake that it is the latter.
I was impressed by reading this recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12074096
Could you email me with the name of the software? Thank you.
This assumes that everyone is sharing cars. What if they don't? Then you simply have what we have now plus the addition of people who otherwise wouldn't be able to drive (people without licenses, 13 year olds, 80 year olds etc).
Ask Twitter team; they may have a different story.
I personally don't find a lot of motivation to learn calculus because engineers in the 19th century needed to figure out how to make better steam engines or cannons or because physicists wanted to understand electromagnetism. My own motivation was: okay, neat, derivatives. This says a lot about a function! What happens now if we try to do this with more variables? Oh, wow, look, the chain rule gets all weird now and grows additions it didn't have before!

For other people, I guess you need to find a different motivation. Maybe neural networks will do it for some. I must admit that I picked up a neural networks text in 1995 because I wanted to build robots, didn't understand a word of it, and ten years later I got a degree in mathematics having long ago forgotten about the neural networks book which I only recently picked up again. But regardless, ever since I was a little kid, mathematics is just something that naturally attracted me.

We should not minimise the intrinsic interest of the subject itself either. There is an artistic side to mathematics, where we do it because it's beautiful for its own sake. Not all mathematics needs a purely practical reason to justify its study.
While HN has definitely identified the problem with adding yet another notation, I think it's fairly straightforward to to remove the "root" operator. Simply use the exponent notation with a power of "1/3".

This gets directly at the core concept of what a "root" really is, and it's straightforward to manipulate with addition/multiplication of groups of roots using the normal arithmetic methods.