skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm on a balcony right up against national forest land as I'm typing this. My typing is the loudest thing I hear. If I stop typing, I don't just hear birds and wind, I hear insects. Lots of them. When I lived in NYC, it was incredibly loud, I was very aware of this, there's nothing at all silent about it. I think after a number of years people aren't merely used to it being noisy, they have some amount of permanent hearing damage, they're just not phased by delivery trucks banging around, sirens blaring, wheels on tracks squealing. There is certainly a lot of room for improvement when it comes to noise.
Starting point https://webglfundamentals.org/

Most popular library: http://threejs.org/

Don't miss https://acko.net/blog/mathbox2/ and https://aframe.io/
and you must have no idea how much it costs to live in the bay area. a dentist in arizona will have a higher net worth at retirement than a tech worker in the bay area.
Thanks!

I checked out the pricing model and didn't see anything that made sense to me as an individual user. Is there any plan for an affordable individual plan (in the range of 10-20$/ year)?

As a Mac/IOS user, I don't see myself shelling out 60$ for a desktop license and then another 10$ for an IOS license on top of it. I'm sure your profit margin is great, don't get me wrong, but as a buyer that is just overkill.
That must only be comparing standard passenger sedans. I live at the intersection of a busy street and your typical motorized car is barely audible through the window. Cars are not the problem.

The vehicles that shake the apartment are pickup trucks (low rumble), sport cars (high pitched tear), transport trucks (big rumble), and motorcycles (little explosions that set off car alarms). Electric container trucks would be a huge win for ambient noise.
Why would anyone at Tor Project care what "someone unconnected with this may reasonably assume"? Impune rapists are not their responsibility; your complaints would be better addressed to police and prosecutors. If, against all odds, Appelbaum isn't actually an actual rapist, he is certainly still an asshole, and there's nothing wrong with giving assholes the boot.
What many tech/math/science oriented people fail to acknowledge is that rational, while much of the time is a good thing, can also mean rigid, cold, arrogant, absolutist, and reductionist. These are the reasons many people criticize and sometimes despise Silicon Valley and the tech industry.
Why was this down voted?

Edit: Seriously, with all the down voting of normal comments like this one. If you have an issue with something someone wrote enough to down vote it at least be enough of an adult to own up to it and explain why instead of being sneaky.
People Are Using Apple Pay Their Largest Monthly Bill – Rent ($1,250/Mo)
Who is the Author of the paper? Usually people put that at the top.
No. Social Justice Warriors act out only behind the safety of their keyboards on Twitter. Although old school communists and SJW do share in common the love of squashing dissent.
I feel like https://www.comparably.com/ has better figures.
On a pounds per mpg basis, the truck is moving 9400 pounds (8.5mpg truck, 80,000 pounds), while a Prius is moving about 67 pounds (60 mpg, 4,000 pounds). If you look at the weight of cargo being moved, the ratios are even more in the truck's favor because it can carry 40,000 pounds, or about half it's weight (the Prius can't even come close).
It's interesting that you consider OSX to be dominant when it's market share is closer to Linux than Windows.

It's also interest how the Android/iOS market split is so similar to the Windows/OSX split but the demand for developers doesn't follow. There's a much higher demand for Windows Developers than there are for OSX but the demand for Android vs iOS developers seems to be lopsided with a greater demand for iOS developers.
Understanding NEK1’s role in disease will provide an important new target for therapy development.

I hope that means they will use it to try to map the pathology of the condition and not just develop gene specific drugs.

I do not know why this is being downvoted, but developing expensive drugs without really making progress on understanding the pathology is something they have done with other disorders. Money before patient care. And it is a sucky practice.
Well, that's a good question, but I might rephrase it: How many lives and injuries have been saved.

Also, there is the situation of "the ticking bomb" where an appropriate intervention to get information could save lives.
If your argument is that people shouldn't be allowed to say things that harm the employment prospects of others, whether the accusation meets the threshold of criminal behaviour or not seems irrelevant. So why is crossing that threshold different? Why is it ok to say "We have evidence that this person did not turn up to the office" but not "We have evidence that this person engaged in sexual harassment"?
Note the primary method that costed the man in the example here is return fraud. Both amazon and Paypal/eBay make return fraud very easy to do. And thus the system should be viewed as very unattractive to anyone selling stuff. You could quickly start turning a loss.

I also like how magically his entire inventory became "reserved" for a month. Competitors (with his own product) figured out how lock down his items preventing him from making further sales, which each sale guarenteed them a profit.

By the way, here's how to lock down someone's sales from Amazon's pages:
"Sometimes buyers purchase in-stock items along with advanced-sale items. When this occurs, the in-stock items might not ship until all the items in their order are ready for shipment. This item will be shipped out once the advanced sale item is in stock and ready to ship."

Order all of your "competitor"'s items and put a preordered item in with them set to simultaneously ship. Cancel them as you get orders. You can guarantee yourself their inventory until you can resell it at a higher cost while they eat the fees.
I feel like this survey being binary is a bit detrimental.

I am about 7/10 happy with my work life balance. I obviously want a 10 (and 10 isn't a unicorn, it exists somewhere) but as a whole I would say "yes."
A political party is free to change the rules for nominating candidates however and whenever it chooses.

This is something we should take away from them. The outcomes of private party activities shouldn't have any impact on the names that appear on ballots. They can maybe mark the names they choose to endorse as an organization, but we should throw away the system where the parties are directly involved in putting names on the ballot (of course they'd be indirectly involved, as an organized group is, uh, organized and thus more ready to act together, so would have an easy time dealing with ballot petitions).
Spielberg is directing an RP1 movie, slated to come out in 2018! Hopefully they knock it out of the park and its a great inspiration for the VR industry.
Nice, 2 out of 20 authors are women. Nothing like a balanced reading experience.
A nice example is when I used to point out OpenVMS security benefits. Better architecture, higher quality focus, and few things running by default led to fewer vulnerabilities and more containment than competing systems. At least one person always had a recurring counterpoint: "but didnt Mitnick hack all kinds of VMS systems?"

If by hack, you mean use conned or password-guessed credentials to get in... Not my definition of the word.
In this case, the payment is conditional on revealing the method: that is, unless the method is revealed (condition met) the payment will not be made.
Its not "Indian Kashmir".

Its "Disputed Kashmir"
This sounds like a startup challenge!
Perhaps; maybe, perhaps, you only find people where you look for them - a sampling bias. Perhaps the opinions don't adapt that much to the arena?

Dissent for dissent's sake like action for action's sake?
"May or may not succeed" applies to the research itself, regardless of how it is funded. I imagine the subtext of your comment is that ALS (or gene sequencing?) should receive more public funding, but they both already receive a lot of public funding. It's the overall sustained effort in medical research that leads to results, for ALS this time and maybe for something else next time.
I used to work with a CTO who had worked in the Valley and in the UK and he said he got no more work out of people in the US than the UK.

And bear in mind in the UK this was British Telecom with civil service type holidays and perks - working there did remind me of the Laundry Files :-)
No idea. There's an app that's supposed to test for doze and it says "hw sensors: ok" (or similar) but "config: off". Like it's configurable somewhere but wasn't enabled by Xiaomi.

My guess is that Xiaomi already has a similar feature (perhaps less sophisticated) called "Autostart". Most app aren't allowed by default to wake up in the background and kill your battery. Only some (e.g., whatsapp) are whitelisted and, of course, you may whitelist additional apps yourself.

Overall, I'm happy with the battery usage of my Mi3. I prefer the Xiaomi Apple-like UI over Google's standard -- but that may be just a habit...
Wasn't the physical free speech zone created by the bush administration when they made protestors stay in designated zones
It's interesting that we're talking about both Trump and SJWs... The political spectrum is a circle.
This is a preprint from a conference with a double blind submission process, which is why the author names are not present. According to the agenda the authors are S. Dukhovni, J. Weisblat, and I. Chung.
> For our experiment, we redesigned the Stack Overflow Jobs ads to display salary ranges. We were curious: just how much effect does this information have? [...] We expected to see an improvement, but we were surprised by the size: a 75% average increase in clickthrough rate (CTR) when we showed a job's salary range.

I'm surprised they're surprised :P. I'm not actively looking for a job, so when I search I am mostly searching to get a feel for what skills are in demand and what salaries are like. For someone like me, seeing a wage in an ad would get me to click it so I can see what is expected of that wage in that region.
Solar aircraft at this stage (large, slow) have to stay in the sun, are sensitive to wind, and require periodic maintenance. In principle what you describe is basically the goal; aviation equivalent of a nuclear submarine that can stay in flight for weeks, months, or more.
A Belch in Gym Class. Then Handcuffs and a Lawsuit
Obligatory:
https://youtu.be/Ml92QEqE-RQ?t=45

On serious note it would be very nice to have a choice in dropbox about what stays locally and what is cloud only.
I don't understand those things that well but I suspect it would be relatively easy for them to add that if it's becoming a selling point for the competition.

They must think they have more potential selling points if they are getting 77M.
I'm also going to be talking a bit about WPAD in my Blackhat talk this year.

To over simplify: attacker stays at AirBnb/rental, attacker pwns local router and adds their dns server, attacker listens for wpad request and respond with malicious PAC to gain MitM. Oh, the dangers of AirBnB/rental networks.

https://www.blackhat.com/us-16/briefings.html#airbnbeware-sh...
Correct, as others noted: I'm from Germany.
This might be opening a can of worms, but "electing national leaders who know that Global Warming is actually happening" can go a long way.

Now, in some cases, I understand that the alternative (because there's usually the alternative) candidate is so unpalatable to you because of their other political positions.

I'm just saying that, if we're serious about this, we must rate "Does this candidate understand that Global Warming is real?" as a "Very Important Factor"(TM) in choosing your representatives. At all levels of the government.
No, we usually don't.

The vast majority of accusations in our lives have no place in court.

Only the very gravest ones find their way there. And we're under no obligation to refrain from drawing our own conclusions.
Yeah, I think that having a product people would pay for is a prerequisite to success, but it's not a guarantee of success. I definitely think Uber could lose to a competitor in their product space.

The distinction I'm making here is that I don't think anyone will ever succeed over the long term in Twitter's product space, because they don't have a product people would pay for. A competitor might knock them out for a little while, but no competitor will have lasting success unless they figure out a way to modify Twitter's product into a product people would pay for. And at it's core, Twitter's product is kind of worthless, so I don't think there's a modification that would make it worthwhile.
> The only real solution is electric cars plus significantly reduced speed limits.

No, hover cars; no road noise if you don't touch the road.
Thanks for sharing this graph! I've often wondered about tire vs. engine noise, and this answers all my questions in one succinct graph.

From my point of view, this data makes me optimistic, because I'm most bothered by noise when I'm walking beside the road on city streets, which are below 50km/h, and the graph promises a noticeable improvement in that area.
It's sad how "compile something on Windows" is something deserving elaborate how-tos. How hard can it be to provide a sane development environment?
I've not tried recent versions of node but have had to port things like Brendan Gregg's flamegraph tools from node to other languages because node would die with even pedestrian memory use (well under 4GB).

Does anyone know if ChakraCore has better memory management? Could be a big win for longer running applications or those that simply need a larger working set.
I'm not sure if engine brakes cause the city braking noise though. I tend to notice more of the air brake sounds when the air pressure get released.
I remember this essay being widely cited a few years ago in Russia, as being more and more relevant to the recent changes in our politics.

Now it is becoming more and more relevant to the rest of the world.

Russia: pioneering the world's social change since 1917.
> enough of these "I'm not saying... " non-accusation accusations.

Agreed. It's a weaselly way of obfuscating one's real argument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophasis
Given you have so many opinions, I presume you're aware of what libel laws are, right? So if he had a legal case (I'd imagine he does in fact, not have a legal case) he would be perfectly entitled to rebuke their claim, however, the claims would have to be untrue.
> shilling your product

I'm not sure that a plug/PSA about a government program really counts as "shilling your product", we're talking about a program that was enacted by the congress and signed into law by the president, at a minimum it's totally distinct from plugging a product that you own or profit from.
> Also, there is the situation of "the ticking bomb" where an appropriate intervention to get information could save lives.

The idea that you know for a fact that a ticking bomb exists and know for a fact that a particular target has information about it which could save lives, but don't know enough to act without information from that subject and don't have a more reliable way of extracting information from the target than torture is implausible on a whole number of levels.
I would recommend taking your oldest backup offline and storing it indefinitely, in case later backups are corrupted. Make sure you turn on verbose firewall logging as well.
I would add "Lords of Finance" to the list: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001QIGZEK

The book, which won a Pulitzer in 2010, describes the financial crises and global economic depression that followed the Great Crash of 1929 -- relevant to the current (post-2008-crisis) state of affairs.

Normally, books on these topics are dull and dreary. This one is surprisingly interesting and fun, in part because it shows how colorful personalities, prevailing wisdom, and political realities influenced events.

PS. The first chapter is available for free at the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/books/chapters/chapter-lor...
Edit: You were originally off by three orders of magnitude.

Solar flux at 1 AU is ~1.3 KW/m^2. At sea level, due to atmospheric absorbtion, it is between 1 KW/m^2 and 500 W/M^2.

And yeah, 500 KW of power is probably enough to get a Cessna off the ground... Not so much a useful aircraft.
That's not why it was removed though.

“Our Community Standards prohibit content that praises or supports terrorists, terrorist organizations or terrorism, and we remove it as soon as we’re made aware of it,” said a Facebook spokesman in India.

If you have a bunch of people praising a dead leader of a terrorist group, it should come as no surprise that Facebook or any platform will ban them.
Do any startups have dress codes?
23andme has not yielded a single significant correlation so far. What makes this particular correlation significant? .
Thanks for bringing these tools to my attention! Awesome stuff!
It's interesting to see Trump being mentioned here (I'm not american, so I read the article from a very distinct perspective and background). Eco lists 14 features of Ur-Fascism. Do you find more than one in the Trump Campaign?
Ships must abide by flag country laws in international waters. There are treaties that cover most states. Compliance is an issue now though to say the least.
I have no idea why they would care what someone unconnected would think. But the way this has been publicised sure makes it seem like they care, so here we are discussing it.

What do you mean "against all odds"? Unless you're connected with this personally, all you have to go on is their internal investigation, which did not mention rape. So apparently no one is even claiming that anymore.

Again, they can either turn this over to the police, or I'm going to assume it's all made up and I'm not going to care. Not that my opinion is worth any more than yours, which is to say it doesn't matter at all.
By this logic, are you proposing that any sort of action by a company against an employee would require judicial involvement so as to protect both sides by the formal finding of fact?
Because there's a significant difference between acusing someone of crimes and acusing someone of not being a diligent worker. And no, I'm not arguing that this is related to harming someone's employment prospects, but their reputation in general (which happens to encapsulate their employment prospects).
The Tor project blog post notes that they "hired a professional investigator". This is significant because PIs are a licensed profession with the training and trust required to bring evidence of criminal activity before a court of law. That would be a separate process from the HR investigation, and would almost certainly not be discussed publicly while it was still in progress.
> If you aren't able to earn a living then you should focus on improving yourself.

Of course everyone should try hard to do this.

> It's funny how high production skills are forcefully shared but there is little effort to even try to share social skills.

What skills are forcefully shared? And how can you possibly share social skills? Or are you suggesting that government should allocate sexual partners to everyone? I don't understand what point you are trying to make here.

The bottom line is that most could significantly improve their social skills and confidence but many chose to live in denial because the first step is frightening and actually the hardest part. You just have to practice this skill like everything else in life and learn to not take judgement of others too serious.
True, which means laws can be passed to enforce this. Same with tobacco antitrust, trains, water, power, etc. Of course the costs might not be really worth it..
Bullies operate on people who are in the same school as them, it has nothing to do with distance.
The money could have been donated to more common diseases, but probably wouldn't have. Humans are mostly motivated by emotion. The Ice Bucket Challenge captured the imagination of a ton of people and got them motivated to donate. If other common diseases need more money, they should find similar ways to pull at human's heartstrings (obviously they do as well, just not with such a public feelgood novel viral stunt like this).
This is from the same guy who thinks "diversity" in tech means capitalists and libertarians in the same room. His opinions are not worth reading. Twitter does have major problems but this is not an insightful, original nor helpful piece on them.
It is fair to say that certain software doesn't run (or run well) on Linux. It is also fair to say that most people don't want to learn how to use new software especially when they already know something else that works.

I think however, it is misleading at best to say that it doesn't have many native apps.
It could plausibly be used as en excuse to cut public funding (e.g. "Look how successful private donations are!").

I don't think that's a big enough problem to dismiss the next iteration of the ice bucket challenge, but it's worth considering.
That's a reasonable critique, and I think you're right. There exist products that start off without value people would pay for and slowly develop into something with value people would pay for, and Google is a good example.

I guess that leaves room for Twitter to develop into a product people would pay for, but I'm skeptical that can happen without very significant changes to their product, to the point that I'd be hesitant to call it the same product.
How each cloud provider provisions instances?
> there would be a clone written in a more scalable architecture

Curious, what would be more scalable than Twitter's existing JVM based architecture? 3 years ago[1] they were able to handle upwards of 140 (edit) thousand tweets per second without any latency -- that's pretty ridiculous.

[1] https://blog.twitter.com/2013/new-tweets-per-second-record-a...
I'm a huge fan of Stewart Brand, starting with the 'Next Whole Earth Catalog', which is where I learned how big a fan Brand is of Christopher Alexander and his 'A Pattern Language'. Alexander's work in patterns inspired the 'Gang of Four' to write 'Design Patterns'... so I think your best-seller prediction is not only correct, but empirically validated :)
Instagram, WhatsApp, WeChat, Line?
A lot of it has been studied and while there's some blue-light nonsense (not so much nonsense as heavily misinterpreted by the health blogosphere), there is evidence that a vast proportion of the human population is suffering from circadian rhythm disruption of some sort. This is especially prevalent in populations living with heavy noise and light pollution, AKA urban residents.

There are studies somewhere that if you ship people out to camp in remote areas with only fire as a light source, their circadian rhythms almost always realign within a few nights.

Furthermore, the genetics that determine how light-sensitive one's circadian rhythms were never selected against because it really didn't affect survivability except at the very far ends. Event then, Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome might have been allowed to remain around because it produced night-watchers that contributed to the survival of the pack. The result is there is a very large spectrum of light-sensitivity fairly well distributed amongst the human population.

All this adds up to: Very few people are not light sensitive, and a majority of it display varying degrees. So much so, difficulty maintaining a natural sleep pattern is considered the norm and not many people question it anymore.
Why would someone buy Benz when there is BMW. Every engine is better in some aspect and suffer in another aspect. There is already benchmark link provided, which already prooves one reason to choose over V8.
Yes, that's what Facebook is aiming for with their Aquila project, for example:

https://code.facebook.com/posts/268598690180189

(Except they want to provide wireless internet, not surveillance.)