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Teens Rock Google Science Fair with Flexible Supercapacitors and Smart Bandages
I had never heard of it until I saw it mentioned in an HN comment a year or so ago. For anyone who's interested, here's a link to the Wikipedia article on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain
Refuse to read Forbes due to their aggressive stance against AdBlockers
I've taken a taxi or Uber in Manhattan even when a train would be faster when I have a business call I need to take. I know that cell service/internet availability is a reason others I know will sometimes choose to take a car.

I don't know that I would take UberPool however.
> What does cultural homogeneity have anything to do with the way a country treats its homeless?

It's easier to be generous to people who are more like oneself, and who are physically closer to oneself.

Consider all the people in Europe right now who may be perfectly happy to support generous welfare for homeless people who happen to have been born on the same side of their borders, but who are hostile to homeless people who just fled Syria.

Or consider the difficulty of scrapping every national welfare system in Europe and uniting them under a single EU government. I contend that would be very difficult. America is more like the EU than it is like Norway. Norway is much more like Massachusetts, which has very Norway-like quality-of-life metrics.
Except this time it's Mark Gurman saying redesigned MacBook Pros are coming in October. That's as close as you can get to confirmed.
United Taps Criminology Students to Uncover Patterns in Accident Data
This can be a mild anxiety attack which significantly messes with your ability to remember and correlate events.
As a customer, I care about literally none of what they do to model the problem.

I only care that it is self-evidently dumb. It wastes 5 minutes to achieve what can be done in 5 seconds.

If I'm in a wheelchair I can tap "no thanks" or set a setting or whatnot. If it's discriminatory (it might been seen as such), invert the setting so that's opt-out by default.
The name 'Elon' already comes from a book in which it was the title for the Leader of Mars. It was written by Wernher von Braun...

Here is evidence:

http://imgur.com/a/yhvDH

I wouldn't have believed it if I had not seen it.
> If you don't know enough to stock pick, buy the index.

While I am in general agreement with your position, I see statements like this frequently when stock trading comes up. References to the market or the index. There isn't one, monolithic tradable "market". Rather there are dozens of different index views of the broader market, some of which are better than others. If you know so little about stock trading that you think a service like Robinhood is a good idea you probably don't know enough to choose a good index either.
Sequoia Leads $51M Investment in Druva
> Not sure why it's all or nothing.

Because biology. Because anyone who isn't vaccinated is a potential carrier for the disease, which allows it to mutate and defeat the immune system protections created by the vaccine in everyone else. Because those who refuses to vaccinate, especially the mandatory schedules, are selfishly avoiding a tiny risk and instead putting everyone else at much greater risk.
Actually, the Democrats aren't the only ones that have something to protect against that: while the Democrats have superdelegates to tip the scale in favor of insiders (though, as yet, the supers have never actually, AFAIK, tipped the result in a different direction than the majority of pledged delegates), they, unlike the Republicans, actually assign pledged delegates in a basically proportionate manner (there are state by state differences, but all of them are fundamentally around a proportionate baseline.)

The Republicans also have a system to prevent a popular outsider from winning, its just a different system. Rather than assigning pledged delegates in a basically proportional manner and then establishing superdelegates as a safety valve, they have designed a system to favor candidates with establishment support by, in most primaries/caucuses, giving vastly disproportionate delegates to the plurality or majority winner (in some cases, winner-take-all), a system designed to favor candidates who start off ahead, which is assumed to be (and usually is) those with the most party pedigree and establishment advance support preparing the ground.

This backfired on the establishment in this election largely because the establishment started out backing a candidate that was so unappealing to their own key supporters that even major donors were bad mouthing him from the beginning of the primary campaign and talking about how they were only giving to him because they felt compelled out of loyalty to the Party and the candidates family, which gave plenty of opportunity for a celebrity candidate to leverage free media to a powerful lead while the establishment was scrambling to adjust, which they never managed to do.
How the IRS Helps the Rich Get Richer
I don't really pay attention to my macronutrition, beyond just having a general sense for it, but I'm at roughly 3000-4000 kCal daily, before alcohol, which, well, different subject entirely. I'm still at a deficit though, and still losing weight, even though (like you), I'm trying to gain.

That being said, meal planning and grocery shopping are some of my least favorite times of the week. It consumes a ridiculous amount of mental energy. I don't mind the cooking, even though my time is super short, but trying to simultaneous solve for budget + time + calorie ( + extras like "reduce meat consumption") constraints is really very tough.
> where apps have supplanted the web

No. (Thank God.)
to be fair to bitcoin, the primary point of bitcoin is that it's a decentralized ledger not under the control of a government or bank. Ease-of-use was an afterthought.

(but then again, it ended up not being very decentralized, either)
I hope you'll apply for Early Access and put our new service through its paces.

A colleague just published more details here https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-traffic-manager-the-d...
For someone who is bulking, the "street science" says 1 gram of protein per pound of lean body weight is sufficient. So unless the parent weighs 400 lbs, 300 grams of protein is a gross overkill. Your body cannot metabolize that much protein.

Of course, some people are in the "better to have too much protein than too little" camp, which I guess works. But it's not a requirement by any means.
11 Valuable Insights for Finding Your Technical Co-Founder
About as interesting as watching train accidents. After the first few, they all start to look the same with minor variants.
Hypothetical question:
If all these OS software was written in a memory safe language like say rust, would it be possible to get rid of these 'off by two' and 'out of bounds' error completely making the world a better place?
> I don't think Bitcoin is made at will out of thin air like flat currency routinely is.

This is a gross oversimplification of how the vast majority of central banks(ie: the ones that matter) handle their fiat currency. In theory, yes, they could just print money, in practice, they don't "just print money".
Discrete Fourier transform and quantum Monte Carlo?
for those who cant handle a command line interface or make automatic scripts. While its possible to write scrips in windows, everyone use the gui. There are not even config files, everything is done via mouse clicks.
I'd love to see a candidate seriously discuss the different published numbers, what each one means, and the overall implications for the economy.

But instead, we just get "the official numbers are a hoax."
Sorry for mentioning Tesla. I realize it's an annoyingly expensive luxury car. The larger point is that getting a "usable" firstgen EV required getting a luxury car. A nextgen EV with 200+ miles of range will be available for "affordable" prices by the end of this year (from Chevy).

EV incentives weren't meant to be unsustainable. That's why they're limited to 200k cars per manufacturer. Tesla will be the first EV maker to become ineligible for tax credits because they will have hit the limit. They're also the first EV maker to deliver a car that keeps its value. Others will follow this year and next.

How the EV tax credit works: https://cleantechnica.com/2016/04/19/how-the-ev-tax-credit-w...
Well, you know at least one person now. Eating a lot less or not at all on restaurant day has always been fairly normal for me and my family. I just won't really enjoy a big lunch much if I already had breakfast. But that is if I don't exercise, if I do, the restaurant meal may not actually fill up the entire day. People who can eat one large meal in a day are likely correlated with people who exercise, which means, on average, they won't end up eating just one meal a day because they'd end up under their calorie intake and because it's actually non-trivial to stuff that many calories into yourself at that point.

> For most people, going to a restaurant for a meal simply means they eat more in total that day.

Most people (in the US, at least) are also obese, bringing them up in this context doesn't prove much.

> The problem is that it's not much cheaper to serve smaller portions.

It may not be cheaper to serve smaller portions, but other countries seem to manage it just fine. That's not a good enough reason. It seems more culture bound than business bound.
> What happens about downtime during upgrades or swapping instance sizes?

This is one of my favorite features of RDS: You can set a maintenance window and have the option to not have changes take effect until that window. So if I want to upgrade Postgres or change the instance size, I set it up and the downtime happens when I'm fast asleep and nobody is using the site.

I also think (but not 100% sure) that if you have Multi-AZ enabled, changes are done by upgrading the slave, failing over, and then upgrading the ex-master, so downtime is limited to the failover period.
So why not solve the problem in each state separately? Add long as the problem is solved, nobody would care why. Federal government can provide the right incentives and resources.
But it's not really based on math. A majority of miners could decide, say after the next halvening that future block rewards should be held as is. Sure, it would split the network, but a majority of miners may decide it's in their economic interest to do so.
Startups react with hope and fear to AI alliance of Google, Facebook, Microsoft
Image Compression with Neural Networks
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12605243 and marked it off-topic.
I want those two hours of my day back, to use upon my laptop- if that means i have to gamble death with a better loaded dice, im in
Here's where I found logic does help:

1) Acknowledging that you're not the only one battling anxiety (makes you feel not so alone)

2) Realizing that the negative feelings will pass (whether through pharmacy or death -- nothing's forever)

3) (useful for GAD/agoraphobia) Asking "what's the worst that can happen [if I have anxiety/a panic attack]?" and following that to its truthful, logical end. Unless you're a pilot or tightrope walker, the answer is usually nothing, which takes off some stress and helps.

4) Recognizing automatic thoughts and discarding them. Anxiety is often marked by runaway "snowball" thoughts (my cat is meowing funny, he must be sick, the vet will find cancer, the treatment will bankrupt me, I'll get fired, I'll be homeless, I'm going to die under a bridge). Practicing recognizing the start of those thoughts and intentionally saying, "nope, that isn't true or helpful" and guiding your mind elsewhere helps greatly. This often becomes second nature after a time.

Like you said, there is a continuum. Our thoughts influence our feelings, and our feelings influence our thoughts.
Interesting, I had assumed that EVs maintain their value better, but this link says the opposite. I'll have to check it out. Thanks!
Could the plebs (both BLM and "anti-BLM") have bought into the media's derailing divisive narrative any harder?

The incorrect percentages of being being killed by police is not a public health issue! The mechanism isn't some vague force of nature that we can only hope to mitigate, but has specific human actors for every single occurrence.

Every person killed by the police is a criminal justice issue. Any person who straps on a gun, goes looking for trouble, and then kills somebody (not in clear self defense) is guilty of at least second degree murder. So why aren't these cops being prosecuted and thrown in prison like every other murderer? Our criminal justice system has become corrupt and doesn't bother to hold itself to the laws it purports to uphold!

When people see that laws are only selectively applied to help the powerful versus the weak, they lose belief in the very concept of law. Minorities have only lost faith in the justice system quicker - they can't be comforted by a just-world social delusion that if things were "truly bad", change would automatically happen through democratic means.

Any plausible solution needs to start with holding cops accountable for their externalities, rather than continuing to pretend that it's right for the unlucky to pay them. This involves both civil and criminal penalties for cops who act outside the law (department policy is only relevant for determining who pays the damages). Scrapping the entire drug criminalization thing would also go a long way towards realigning the police and the public.
Hm this is interesting. One question would be if any of these approaches is scalable outside a single climate / area- exportable into a repeatable system that will help breed crops given the inputs of a specific local ecosystem.

I hear some good stuff coming out of academic style research but nothing that goes beyond small studies for a given local climate, nothing disruptive/commercial. Maybe it's just unsexy and doesn't have that 100x potential, but it's sometimes hard to understand why monsanto et.al have such a monopoly going.
Honest question. You make over $100k and can't afford > $1k/month for rent. Why? Because you morally object to the cost or because you can't afford it?
In the case of these ultra cheap EVs the bank is the financing arm of the manufacturer. Of course no normal financial institution will take such a loss but because of CAFE regulations the only way they can kee selling high profit margin, gas guzzling SUVs is by offering these 'highly sponsored' EVs.
So you're advocating forced sterilization of undesirable segments of society?
One thing I've come to accept about the wealthy people I know, is that they live their lives much more openly than most people, atleast to a select few handlers.

From work on a trading floor, you just can't leave the floor so everyone is having conversations about their life infront of everyone else.

Someone getting divorced? You'll hear them arguing with their spouse right beside you. Talking to the divorce lawyer about negotiating child custody. Breaking the news to their parents, I've heard it all. Part of it is that you can't leave, but part of it is that you develop a support system with your colleagues, and that's something that, IMHO, most men don't normally have.

Outside of work hours, most wealthy people have assistants who run their day to day. They people answer their emails, answer their phones, even handle filter text messages that range from nude selfies from new partners to which family member wants to have the boat for Saturday night.

Infact I'll be that if you asked most personal assistants they'd joke that the more money someone has the more they lose their ability to handle most day to day tasks.

Most of this is that wealthy people understand that every day there is 1 critical issue they must deal with. If you counter this against most other people, you'll find a much higher proportion of those put off the most important task and instead complete 5 secondary tasks that are important but not life altering important.

or put another way, if you want to be rich you find that laser like focus on one big goal is the most important thing. Most other tasks can be done by someone else. Just look at the global wealthy elite almost all of them made their fortune from one single source,
Comparing with Bitcoin is easy. I'd want to see a comparison between FIAT and an advanced cryptocurrency, something like Monero, DASH or Ethereum.
But bitcoin needs to be transformed back into a currency at some point to use it. There is no point in a wire transfer if the person at the other end isn't going to use it.

Yes, some retailers accept bitcoin, most don't.
> I think the averages are about 1500 for women and 1650 for men even before activity (that is, just basal metabolic rate). +500kcal/day from activity isn't a huge amount.

That's the average, which means many people are below that average. And even if you consistently eat 2000 calories and burn 1650, you'll steadily gain weight. A large number of people are almost completely sedentary.
No the car just drives out of its way to pick up new people, they do it to make the ride profitable. It is completely unreliable as a ride to work, since a 30 minute commute can turn into an hour one if the algorithm takes the car too far off course.
Cool. On Sequiturs each step in an argument is called a proposition; a proposition can be used in an argument as either a premise or a conclusion. Propositions are sort of the atomic element of content on Sequiturs, since they can be reused across arguments. Soon, propositions will have their own pages, so that users can efficiently explore all the arguments where the proposition is used, as well as vote on whether the proposition is true or false and discuss that.
Leafs are also dirt cheap on Craigslist. You can find 2 year old ones with <30k miles for $7000 in some cities.
I've seen several programs where the configuration is just a TCL file or something. It has been a bad idea in every case I have seen thus far.

My favorite configuration file type?

# Comment
key = value

Trying to do more in the configuration file ends up causing more headaches than it solves. Commenting each option means you don't have to flip through the manual to figure out how to get the stupid thing to run.

There is some argument for the:

[section]
# Comment
key = value

Style syntax, but I find that for the vast majority of cases making those namespaces is an unnecessary complication. If you have multiple copies of the same option (like multiple VPN endpoints for example), it's almost always a better idea to just split each one up into its own file in a subdirectory instead of trying to stuff all of the info into a single configuration file. People who want to automate stuff later will thank you.

There are libraries to read and write those formats just as easily as JSON or XML or anything else. In fact they're usually easier to use because they don't have to worry about hierarchies or namespaces or any of that nonsense.

Some more thoughts on the subject: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/648246/at-what-point-does...
Uber Pool in Manhattan during commuter hours (and potentially other hours?) gives you a location to walk to. They also do not drop you off precisely at your destination. Roughly +/- 2 blocks.

Edit: Incidentally, this is the reason Lyft Line is so terrible commuting in Manhattan. Pickup and dropoff locations are completely arbitrary, which slows everything down for everyone when compared to arranging pickups/dropoffs on easily reachable corners.
Can we build AI without losing control over it?
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I'll second this. Titles vary across company size, and even then are different from company to company (e.g a Principal Engineer at Intel would not make PE at Google). I was a Staff Software Engineer at Intel (level above Senior Software Engineer) but now my title is Senior Front End Developer at a startup ;)
More Virtuous Than We Think
I've tried SQL Server 2016, no difference.
Good to see a post that actually talks about debugging a performance issue, and not saying that moving from db-a to db-b did it all.
I generally have a problem with balancing shopping, storing, and cooking time wise. You need to buy the right amount of things, figure out more or less what you're doing to do with them, make sure you don't forget about them, and then hope it doesn't spoil on you in the wrong order.

Then people wonder why many don't like cooking at home, especially with fresh ingredients. I'm a big fan of frozen/canned/packaged stuff for this reason... my chickpeas or soba with tofu never fail me. Or the frozen salmon fillets. But reportedly it's unhealthy.
It seems like one of those cases where academic literature might be useful for developing hunches, but testing under the expected conditions is probably more reliable.
Snapchat spectacles and the future of wearable
> Developers have left the building.

Eh, developers (collectively -- individually, less so, but the set of individuals that make up the collective are in constant flux) are fickle. If there's something good on offer, they'll come back. There's some psuchological resistance that might make rebranding helpful to this, but Microsoft's big enough that, they can probably afford keep things going long enough that people will get over psychological resistance even without that, if they are dedicated.
From a security point of view, this is a reminder that a cleaner may just decide to use your laptop, or go through your browser's history, or read your diary.
"Chrome Canary is currently not available on the linux platform."
What if the crypto side of things is remove-able and carry-able on your person? Or what if it could be subdermally implanted so you know no one can pick pocket you and replace it?

Just a thought.
7.6% of all page loads inject scripts with document.write() according to Google. 1 in 13 pages.
Yeah I believe this is the best approach, in my case I would have never seen the warning from the console, the only way I would have known that this is no longer valid in Chrome is for Google to stop serving my version of JQuery + my fail over failing on me for using a bad practice.

Thank you!
It's an interesting concept, for sure – but could someone more knowledgeable than me explain whether this leaves the system vulnerable to the potential, alleged backdoors present in Intel's chips via the Intel Management Engine?
Norway oil exports in 2015 even with low oil prices were still more than $5000 per person. Combined with the proceeds from the oil investment fund the revenues go even higher. United States on the other hand has to "work for a living" since it does not get 60 times more revenue from selling natural resources than Norway does. And distribution of proceeds from natural resources among the population is regarded to be fair by a much higher percentage of people than distribution of revenue from taxes on the working population.
Although you could google calorie counts in every meal you buy, the vast majority of people don't because of a) it would be tedious b) our body is telling us to eat calories and resisting the urge to think too much about what we are eating and c) everyone else would think you were a bit weird when you were looking up calories instead of having a conversation.

As a customer you don't get a choice whether or not you get exposed to a lot of intrusive advertising encouraging you to eat more (at least in your McDonald's example). It seems to me this is in a small way redressing that balance.

In purely pragmatic terms you are balancing the health of the population (heart attacks, strokes, mental state quality) against the right of a multinational restaurant chain to be slightly more profitable. I think it is well worth it. There are far more egregious abuses of personal liberty you could complain about.
It's a heterogeneous world and cache rules it now
Thanks, sounds like good fun and I will check it out! And in return, I presume you've probably read Diamond Age and Snowcrash, but if not, get thee hence, they're both great.