skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a big oversimplification. Project Orion-style propulsion is certainly not ruled out by our current understanding of physics. There's no non-Newtonian mechanics involved, just the substitution of a nuclear reaction instead of a chemical one. Not to mention that we have lots of evidence of non-Newtonian mechanics (e.g. Special and general relativity), even if whether GR can assist in space travel is an open question.
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Here's another good way to tell, "What're your thoughts on a vegan diet?" Anyone with a fervid opinion on this should be ignored, full stop.
Any festival that becomes an institution will be invaded by wealthy parasites more concerned about tweeting and posting photos on Instagram than being there. Burning Man has become a place where you need to show off, just like Coachella, yeah remember when Coachella was "underground" and was a reaction against commercial festivals and ticketmaster ? lol ...
Executionable which won't run on my machine (Fedora) and not open source, guess I will be staying with Advance Rest Client then.
Yeah, I'm definitely for an actual mental health system. As well as a free, robust, and easily available addiction treatment system. And an energetic program to get down-and-out people off the street and back into productive lives.

People inevitably say, "what will it cost?" But that ignores how much we spend now. Wasted lives, mangled minds, broken families that pass trauma and dysfunction to the next generation.

Having personally lost bikes and chased thieves, I applaud join this vigilante's efforts. But that can't be the only thing to do. No 7-year-old wants to grow up to be a meth-addicted bike thief. As doing a Five Whys teaches us, if you're serious about solving a problem, you have to attack multiple levels of causality at once.
Disclaimer (or, using less of a humblebrag, "my claim"): I'm a former Google engineering manager.

I was hired when getting into Google was arguably more difficult than it is now (2007). During my years at Google, I conducted hundreds of interviews and managed dozens of engineers at Google. I left of my own accord, in case there's any temptation to question that.

In my personal experience, the high false-negative rate in exchange for hiring only the best people is a myth that perdures from the early times. It's also a great morale booster for those who need to feel part of a select elite.

I had the pleasure to work with many exceptional people at Google and I learned more from them that I could have ever dreamt. As the organization grew to tens of thousands of engineers, I've also worked with many who are definitely not the cream of the crop. Same for management (proof: they hired me). And sadly saw very talented people rejected for stupid reasons because they just couldn't, or didn't want to fit into a mold.

Of course, you'll point out, this is just anecdotal data, and you have internal, non-shareable data that proves you right and we just have to believe you because you're currently an SRE at Google.

My point is that bringing a tired, cold argument about false negatives sounds elitist and inconsiderate. It's obvious that discrimination has taken place that has affected a fellow engineer and human being. I would be amazed to be helped at an Apple Store by such a talented individual. I would love to chat with him about his past work and share war stories of he had some time.

Your comment and posterior response smack me of elitism and lack of sympathy and tact.

It's a ruthless industry but we need not be.
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That was before cloudflare. But good to know he works there now.
Concept: undergraduate with no teaching or writing experience who was an International Math Olympiad gold medalist writes a draft book explaining all of undergraduate mathematics (or rather, most of the topics from his coursework in random-ish order) to slightly younger IMO participants.

It’s great that he’s making the effort, but I’m not sure this is the most useful resource for a typical autodidact.
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Hi there. Could you reach out to support@insomnia.rest with details? I'd love to help get this running for you. The linux build uses http://appimage.org/ which should support Fedora out of the box.
I had my bike stolen while a poor student at University.
It was my only mode of transport I had and it was the best bike I have ever owned. As the article mentions it's true that bike ownership can have a emotional aspect that other things don't.

I even remember seeing the guy who probably stole it.
He was wearing a greatcoat even though the weather wasn't cold.

He would needed a greatcoat to hide the giant boltcutters he would have needed to cut through the very good chain I used to lock my bike up.

Still bitter.
Ok... but were certain bonobos more likely to be non-discriminatory than other bonobos based on genetics?

Yea there's tons of studies talking about bonobos sexuality. I did a google search and nothing about a specific set of genes causing a certain sexual behavior in a segment of the bonobo population.

What you are talking about sounds like general behavior in an entire population. And if that's the case then why aren't all humans pedophiles?

Edit: As a counterpoint this is the first thing I found when searching for 'bonobo' 'gene' 'sexuality'

http://www.dnafiles.org/?q=chimp-chat/day-four
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Even written in 2000, the author was conflating Windows 3.x/95/98, which was flakey as all get out, with Dave Cutler's VMS reboot, the NT kernel, which was/is a pretty excellent OS and pretty fully baked by 1995.
There are a lot of mentality ill elderly people in NYC, and unfortunately, many seem to be forgotten and left to their own devices. The city can definitely be very taxing on the mind.
Could someone please explain what this project is about? I gather it's a new implementation of the Swift language without using Xcode's compiler and Swift standard library, but I find the full readme very undescriptive of what this is and why it's useful.

EDIT: Clicking through the source I found about a dozen files in total, mostly scripts and make files.
And then...?
Did you read the article? The guy gives very specific details about stolen bikes being sold for well below market value.
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> Let me guess: male, white, middle class and educated?

Now that's bigoted. What should he do, "check his privileges" ?
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Very nice, although I want to point out that this page contains many typos - you probably want to run a spell and grammar checker over your blog posts and your resume as many employers may screen due to these.
Ha ha, oh wow:

"We found that SPD has engaged in a pattern or practice of excessive force that violates the Constitution and federal law. Our investigation further raised serious concerns that some SPD policies and practices, particularly those related to pedestrian encounters, could result in discriminatory policing."

https://www.justice.gov/crt/investigation-documents
A couple years ago as I was finishing my CS degree, I often wondered about this. I knew lots of my classmates were cheating with stuff like this, or even just buying whole zipped archives of past student's work to pass off as their own.

Cheating of this nature is really is getting quite rampant, and you can definitely notice it when you get to higher level CS classes and have to do projects with other students who have basically just cheated, coasted, and freeloaded of off other students for years. I had to do a capstone Software Engineering class project with a student who could barely write anything past a HelloWorld program in Java.

I wrote a very candid evaluation of that student and personally spoke to the professor but nothing came of it. I'm sure he still passed the class, and perhaps even cheated his way to graduation.
It kind of sucks people are unwilling to pay for software.

Maybe the free to play strategy is the way to go for consumer facing software.
You should avoid both hydrogen peroxide and rubbing alcohol...

"Using hydrogen peroxide or rubbing alcohol to clean an injury can actually harm the tissue and delay healing. The best way to clean a minor wound is with cool running water and mild soap. Rinse the wound for at least five minutes to remove dirt, debris, and bacteria." - WebMD ... But I've seen this in quite a few places.
Impressive performance and integration. What proprietary products is this disrupting?
> The triangle shape doesn't resonate with me; I think it's really awkward.

It seems like a matter of time before someone sits on it. It's a great idea though.
It means "exceptionally good, and known for it"
Richard Feynman spent some time working at Thinking Machines, working on the router for the Connection Machine. From Danny Hillis' account of this [1]:

By the end of that summer of 1983, Richard had
completed his analysis of the behavior of the
router, and much to our surprise and amusement, he
presented his answer in the form of a set of partial
differential equations. To a physicist this may seem
natural, but to a computer designer, treating a set
of boolean circuits as a continuous, differentiable
system is a bit strange. Feynman's router equations
were in terms of variables representing continuous
quantities such as "the average number of 1 bits in
a message address." I was much more accustomed to
seeing analysis in terms of inductive proof and case
analysis than taking the derivative of "the number
of 1's" with respect to time. Our discrete analysis
said we needed seven buffers per chip; Feynman's
equations suggested that we only needed five. We
decided to play it safe and ignore Feynman.

The decision to ignore Feynman's analysis was made
in September, but by next spring we were up against
a wall. The chips that we had designed were slightly
too big to manufacture and the only way to solve the
problem was to cut the number of buffers per chip
back to five. Since Feynman's equations claimed we
could do this safely, his unconventional methods of
analysis started looking better and better to us. We
decided to go ahead and make the chips with the
smaller number of buffers.

Fortunately, he was right. When we put together the
chips the machine worked.

[1] http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...
This opinion piece started off promisingly, but by the end, I lost track of what point the author was trying to make. Truly, did they merely offer retorts to the people quoted in the referenced WaPo article?

I was expecting an analysis like the first couple paragraphs foreshadowed, not just a 'yeah, well, these people are quirky, but they may have a point here or there'. Does anyone feel the same?
"Down the Carbon Nanotube" sounds though :)
IIRC it's cheaper if you apply earlier .. the oldschool/regular attendees therefore get super cheap admission .. latecomer hipster types pay extra :)
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Yes, a lot of "child porn" charges are deeply stupid. When we talk about child porn rings and websites, we are not talking about those. We are talking about the "raping 8-year-olds" kind.
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TV wasn't taken seriously by most critics as an art form until the 00's, which is related to the massive uptick of quality at that point. The Prisoner works as art, but it doesn't really work as escapist entertainment. Taking The Prisoner seriously means conceding that TV can be an art form, and that instantly devalues the vast majority of content produced up until the 00's.
If there was no reply it must have been due to being underqualified. We have had interns this year.
Interesting - the pricing page is not done.

I think developers have a tendency to prioritize things like pricing below the technical features.
This whole incident really highlights the likely challenges facing luminaries like Crockford. On the one hand, they probably want to support unestablished up and coming conferences. On the other, they expose themselves to total amateurs, with potentially dire outcomes professionally.

His presence at such an apparently backwoods event (as evidenced by the transcript of their inane slack discussion) was a great honor for them, but, as the saying goes, 'no good deed goes unpunished'.
Typo on your "R&D, Netizens" blurb: certyfication -> certification.
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TIL that I am a millennial at 35 yo. I thought I was Gen X.
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Unlikely. At least not with a firearm. Carrying weapons across state lines is a legal nightmare due to the inconsistent state laws. Truck drivers also get stopped by the cops more often than your average driver so I can't imagine many would risk it.
Seems cool - I am going to download now and try it out.

Tip: I suggest removing the 'pricing' menu option on the top of the web site. I saw it immediately the first time I went to your site, and I assumed yours was a paid product, so I stopped there and closed the window. It was only when I went back later and scrolled through, I noticed the current version is free for now. Removing the 'Pricing' link may make other people stick around longer to take a look...
I use Google chrome + Postman (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/postman/fhbjgbifli... extension URL), this seems good but makes me wonder how much of a work it is for Postman to now run there app on electron.
Eyyahh. Not really suggesting you show up to Burning Man naked. This is a bad idea.

I was thinking perhaps of a hypothetical festival where you show up naked but the festival itself provides everything to everyone equally. Walk in the door and there's 53' trailers full of goodwill-like clothing, tons of raw food ingredients for the cooking, hand tools and wood for building etc. In short, everyone arrives in a new "world" as equals and makes of it what they can. Bonus points for not allowing real names or talk of who you were on the "outside".

Oh crap. I'm kind of describing prison. So umm... like jail but not so sucky.
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Meet up with fishing boats out at sea, then they bring goods ashore.
My parents are in just now in the process of retiring. They have an apartment in NYC and a house in an expensive suburb in Boston.

One of the reasons why they are going to have to stay in NYC before moving for some time is to continue to make additional money (ironically). They just don't have enough money yet to retire the way they want and/or not ready to retire. They just don't want live in the South despite my some family members urges to.

From visiting NYC and having family live there I would gander that there are three groups of retirees.

1. The super wealthy that probably have another mansion somewhere else and generally were born into money.

2. The rise the corporate ladder but in debt most of their lives 1980's yuppies (not born into money but have the ambition)

3. The never left the city born and raised and probably have family owned businesses/property.

My parents coming from absolutely zero money are from the second group.

After growing up in "privileged" areas in the ugliest smallest house in the neighborhood with working parents I can observationally say it is amazing how many people that are wealthy that can retire that probably didn't really earn their wealth or at least were significantly aided. There are a lot of trust fund retirees all over and there are a lot of retirees that want to retire like them.

I'm not saying I know for sure the author had/has the silver spoon in his mouth and thinks everyone can afford NYC (group 1)... but simple googling of his name certainly paints a picture of that (his father was a medical doctor and he went to Harvard... maybe scholarship but I doubt it).
I think it's less general malaise and more that the police don't care that much about cyclists.
I don't normally comment like this but ..

That title bothers me a bit.
Insomnia is still in early stages so the paid plans aren't entirely worked out yet. The goal with the pricing page was to put something up early to gauge interest.

I wrote a bit more about pricing in a past comment if you're curious https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12433260
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In olden times, stealing a car was trivial. Ditto radios, which had resale value.

Now it's parts. Wheels, airbags, bumpers, etc.
> Suppose they have compelling reasons to believe having him speak would be harmful...

They didn't have any. Just take a look at the posted transcript of their discussion of this in their slack channel. It shows they had no solid reasons for doing this, and a childlike unawareness of the gravity of the situation.
That's great feedback. The app is (and always will be) free so de-prioritizing the pricing page is probably a good idea :)
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Not a check out my dreads, tattoo & flashy bicycle party.

You have zero idea what burning man is. If you think it is a 'hippie' festival, then you are severely mistaken. I am absolutely amazed that a critical and entirely inaccurate comment such as this is first.
Yeah, long ago I learned the difference between "strings in C" and "C strings" when searching Google.
>They weren't abusing children themselves, and shutting down the site wouldn't have prevented the continuing abuse of children by its users.

By that logic the people who were using the site to view child porn should not be arrested. Only those that produce it should.
Your counterfactual is inapplicable. We're not talking about people who just stumbled over an opportunity one day. We're talking about people who went looking, and many of whom employed strong opsec in so doing. That doesn't happen by accident.
Living in NYC isn't cheap, and unlike other cities, the housing quality is old and terrible.

For a tiny studio in a shabby 100 year old prewar walkup tenement building in Manhattan, you're looking at a minimum of $2,000/month. Most people pay $1,400+/month to live in old converted apartments (ie. putting up a wall to turn the living room into another bedroom) with roommates, and often the bedrooms are too small to even have room for a desk, and the window faces directly into another building (if there even is a window). In these buildings you're not going to have AC (meaning you need to buy a window AC unit), a dishwasher, trash compactor, elevator, and all the other luxuries we take for granted anywhere else in the modern world. I spent 3 years in one of these buildings, and the apartment was perpetually too hot (even in the winter), and there was nothing I could do because heat in the unit was not controllable. Apparently this is fairly normal in these buildings.

If you want to live anywhere nice and somewhat modern that isn't a dump, you're looking at a minimum of $3,000/month for a studio, $4,000/month for a 1BR, etc.

And want to buy a place? You're looking at a minimum of $500k for any studio that isn't a total piece of crap, and they're going to want a 20% down payment. And who wants to raise a family in a studio?
When I was younger, I felt very beholden to my bosses. I felt that they could ruin my life at their whim, by firing me, or writing a terrible recommendation for grad school.

Fast forward a few years and I realize that I can "work for myself" even within a larger organization. Even within an org, the reason I am there can be for my own interests and learning. If they become misaligned, I'll leave.
To clarify: the iPad acts as an interface to the DAW, not as a DAW itself. Either Logic Remote or the OSC-based equivalents are really nice ways to drive applications (touch-based mixers, etc.).
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I didn't send my resume, I emailed the question I asked above to the general inquiries email address, since there is nowhere to apply for the internship position. By the way, I'm not sure if you noticed, but your link in your post returns a 404.
Don't you just love venture capitalists.

"We didn't invest because you don't have a rip roaring, cash making, totally de-risked, global, giant market opportunity with an awesome team".

The exact same reasons that I wouldn't go to a venture capitalist if I did have a company with all those attributes:

"We didn't bring our company to venture capitalists because we have a global opportunity, we are making money, we have an awesome team, we've taken out the risk and we're making cash."
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Since you're posting from a throwaway account (149 days old with no prior comments): please email me your old @google.com username. Mine is the obvious one. I'll happily add a confirmation to this thread when I get it, it only takes a moment to check.

Yes, there are many things I just can't share, and the only data point you can get in that area is my own opinion. How much value you place on that is up to you; I'm giving you the only thing I can. If that is of no value to you, you're free to discount it. I freely acknowledge that I can't prove you wrong. The only alternative I have is to say nothing at all, which is what I usually do. If you would prefer to have no input from people like me at all, by all means say so.

> It's obvious that discrimination has taken place that has affected a fellow engineer and human being.

I would like to make it clear that I am responding only to the comment I responded to, which raised a very specific question that I could answer. I do not feel that I have any basis to comment on the original article; please do not associate what I am saying with that.
I perform a lot of data analysis and separately I've been involved in hiring decisions. I've seen two common issues: 1) humans make decisions based on statistically insignificant sample sizes 2) we are incapable of identifying our biases without data.

Even when large organization do look at the data, they are reluctant to share it, even internally. I applaud your efforts and hope are tracking the results.
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This was when I decided to never work for the FBI:

http://fortune.com/2015/04/06/fbi-agent-fitness-test/

It's important to note that this means handicapped people are no longer allowed desk jobs as analysts at the FBI. Missing a limb? You can't fight crime anymore!

That's not my primary concern, though, per se. My concern is that firing and disqualifying people who are otherwise talented MUST reduce clearance rates. It's can't NOT do that. If FBI employees looking fit is more important to Mr. Comey[1] than arresting murderers, I have absolutely no interest in his organization.

[1] “I want you to look like the squared-away object of that reverence,” Comey wrote in a memo to agents. “I want the American people to be able to take one glance at you and think, ‘THERE is a special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.’” http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/04/fbi-fitness-test
Have they looked into underground garbage storage? I think in Paris (and likely elsewhere) they have large tanks below street level that are raised when trucks need to pick up the refuse.
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Again, clearly not true. Crewed implies habitable implies need for O2 implies more complexity. This complexity could not be carried on the budget, schedule, and risk allocated for this asteroid lander.

You could say the same thing about safety, and the need for return.
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