skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jobs is the oddity and always was. Dropping out of Harvard is irrelevant; they both had access to the same connections both in school and before it.

Gates:

His father was a prominent lawyer, and his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way. Gates' maternal grandfather was JW Maxwell, a national bank president.

Zuckerberg:

He transferred to the exclusive private school, Phillips Exeter Academy.

Money and connections. To be fair, Zuckerberg's family doesn't appear to have been overly wealthy.
That, and ETOPS planning.
Apple plans to launch new Macs at an October 27 event
Which schools did Zuckerberg and Gates drop out of? (Harvard. And, incidentally they both came from already very well-off families.) And Steve Jobs dropped out of a school in what I would call the "New Ivy League". I haven't anything against good schools. Just that, I'm starting to see a pattern here, no?

(edit: No he didn't. Was remembering the Jobs' fact incorrectly. He went to / dropped out of Reed College. My bad.)
It's not just a way of thinking about it - it's the actual legal arrangement. In pretty much every state today, you don't own any land (unless you're a monarch, or a noble with an ancient allodial title) - you own an estate in land, but the government (or the monarch in person) owns the actual land.
I think Hipmunk wastes a tremendous amount of space, in a project timeline type view that is just plain unnecessary. Google Flights, is a simple list, with filters, and it's fast. The calendar view with the pricing is ridiculously helpful.
Same here (I spend roughly half of the year on the road). The shirt is not super durable (was too frayed to be presentable after maybe 250 wears), but amazing enough that I immediately got a new one.
I fly SFO-LHR often. Sometimes the flights do actually take a southerly route (overflying New York) to take advantage of the wind. It's all a tradeoff of increased distance vs increased speed, depending on wind patterns on that day.
Trump’s servers show glaring security flaws
I can't imagine how one can code productively on an iPad - the environment and ecosystem just isn't there. I'm sure it's just as good, or better, at things like multimedia consumption and entertainment, but a lot of things still require the use of a 'desktop' environment.
I use Firefox on Android + uBlock Origin as a default, but even loading the Firefox browser takes longer than loading, reading the first few lines of an AMP article, then going back because it wasn't interesting. And I have a high-end phone.
Investigation into how light behaves in curved space
You would be surprised. I've personally increased lodging days a lot due to AirBnB being cheaper (and subjectively better) than hotels.

Also, AirBnB doesn't only compete with hotels... a lot of the market share in my country (Uruguay) was actually taken from real estate agencies for short-term vacation rentals, not hotels.

Edit: same in Portugal and Ireland, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12732874
Is something stopping you from going to a park _right now_ and sleeping in the grass until you wake up to watch the sunset? What, you would get hungry if you don't go home and cook dinner?

If only there was some convenient food you could pack with you that takes no time to prepare, little time to consume, and is easily transportable...
(Survey) the Majors Tech Workers Would Take If They Could Do It Over
That's a comparison of various classes and other types of seating, not the same seats from some time ago.

EDIT: From within the article,

Early jet planes like Boeing's 707 had 17-inch seats, a dimension based on the width of a U.S. Air Force pilot's hips, says Airbus marketing chief Chris Emerson.
That standard for long-haul flying increased to 18-inches in the 1970s and 1980s with the 747 jumbo and the first Airbus jets. It widened to 18.5 inches with the Boeing 777 in the 1990s and A380 superjumbo[1] in the 2000s. Now, cost-conscious airlines are moving to lighter 17-inch-wide seats on their Boeing 777 and 787 Dreamliners and 18-inch seats for A350s.

[1] sic, A380 was only a concept at that point.
Perhaps it is reasonable to expect a white-collar worker to work past 65, but how about a blue-collar worker or a laborer? Not everyone sits in a chair in front of a computer all day for their job.
The Case for Extant Life on Mars and Its Possible Detection by Viking
I didn't suggest an amendment to allow gay marriage, I suggested an amendment that would explicitly prohibit the state and federal governments from attempting to regulate any marriage between two consenting adults.

In an academic manner, you are right. Its silly that we have to do anything to keep any government from interfering with things that we consider to be fundamental rights.

I didn't suggest that the constitution mentions marriage. However, its failure to explicitly state it as a fundamental right is a large part of the reason gay people were oppressed for so long in our country. Historically, rights not outlined in the constitution fall under the authority of state governments.

Also note that the constitution and the bill of rights are more of a statement of rights we already have. The document isn't intended to actually grant the rights. No one can grant fundamental rights. However, having a constitution as a statement of rights can help protect them when others want to take them away.
As I understand it, it's a decent pop psych model, and in this context it's valid and I think of willpower this way. But I remember reading some complaints from experts that we've gotten carried away with the "pool of willpower" metaphor and were applying it too broadly so I'm more careful now.
It's a lot to play around with a new tech at home though.
Προβλεψεις στο στοιχημα Champions League
From the paper eight different recognizers combined together approached results of a single person reviewed once. Not really a parity.
Bread=wrap in foil, then in plastic bag, and freeze.

Milk=buy nonfat. Personally, I feel if your not going through a 1/2 gallon a week, you should drink more of the "poison". (Yea--it got a bad rap--I don't want to debate it.)

You got me on eggs. I just know most resturants don't refrigerate eggs. My eggs will last a few weeks on the frig.

My point is I get it. When I was in my twenties, I honestly didn't like eating. It was kinda a chore. I still only eat when I'm hunger, or feel weird. I do believe in caloric restriction.

If anyone want to spend their money on, essentially a marketing ploy, fine.

My best friend lived, basically unless we were out to dinner, or I was cooking for him, on Ensure for two years. We got it at Costco. He just got tired of putting stuff in microwaves. Yea--he was lazy, but he got a pass. He truly had a horrible chilhood/life. And he, honestly couldn't cook. He was born in the 40's. In a home where men don't cook.

Flour, beans, and rice will last a long time. Learning how to cook was a given in my childhood. It started out as a feminist thing in our household. The more my dad protested me cooking; the more my mom said it was fine. It got to the point, I could cook much better than my sister, and mother.

Later on, I became a cook on a resturant. We didn't call them Chefs. We were just cooks, and were taught in the kitchen.

Basically, cooking is easy. Every person should know how to cook up small meals. If you can learn programming, cooking is a breeze.

In relationships, I've done all the cooking. I told them, "My girlfriend/wife don't cook--we have evolved!". Yes--I was lying. They couldn't cook. The women in my generation, were so afraid they would be stuck home slaving over a hot stove, they really didn't know how to make anything other than a sandwich, or at least my girlfriends?

So just learn how to cook. It will make your life easier. It will save you money. And honestly, most resturant food tastes better because of two ingredients: fat, and salt. Or buy a marketing ploy? I just don't like to see money wasted.

(Oh, yea, buy a cheap small rice steamer. They are under $20. They are fool proof.)
I never really "got" the Soylent craze. Maybe it's because I'm outside the workforce (I'm in highschool), or maybe it's because I'm on the east coast (where we're less on the cutting edge in general), or maybe it's because I live in a house where we eat ~1 homemade meal every day (dinners, and sometimes breakfasts on the weekends), and even I can make a half-decent meal (sausage, spaghetti, and maybe a salad on the side) in about 10/20 minutes, provided we've got the ingredients. Maybe it's because I'm hesitant towards putting anything made by software engineers into my body (software failure rates in a food product are unacceptable).

Nope, it's none of those: it's because I watch movies. Lots of movies. And I live in a house with people who watch more movies than I do. So whenever I hear the name "Soylent" there's a nagging voice in the back of my head:

it's people, isn't it?

Seriously, they need to change the name.
Well, I mean why would the Soylent FAQ say anything otherwise? Nutritionists disagree. It's not some hippie new age anti-industry opinion, it's a fact.

In fact, this is such a stupid oversimplification that any amount of critical thinking can debunk it. There is a lot more to food that the net nutrition intake you have at the end of the day. The actual, physical composition of the food determines how quickly you body digests it, which in turn affects your energy levels, appetite, and mood. Your body does not digest apple juice the same way as it does raw apples, even if both have the same exact ingredients. You won't feel the same after a smoothie as you will after the same ingredients delivered raw. One method of intake gives you a short, high burst of energy followed by steeper drop off, while the raw form provides gentler changes and is less likely to spike your blood sugar.

All of this interacts with your psychology, your metabolism, and your physical and mental energy.

This is like saying I can safely fast for 4 days once If I eat 6000 calories worth of [insert food/drink] today. You might survive for 4 days but good luck not tearing up your body and feeling like a ghost by then.

More-processed foods are not inherently "bad" or "unhealthy", but they are inherently worse and less healthy than less-processed foods (generally). They contribute to shorter periods of feeling satiated and longer low-energy periods. You will crave processed food more frequently and in greater quantities than raw food.
You lucky ones!

My last contact with Websphere was in 2014 and the customer was still using 6.1 on their production servers.
Even over the ocean, flights in airliners are planned so they're no more than 1-3 hours from the nearest diversion point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOPS
So we have what appears to be a full-on hot propaganda war between an apparently independent "hacker" and the leading presidential candidate.

I'll say it again: just move all those old 80s cyberpunk novels into the non-fiction section. Pretty soon we'll have Rastas in space.
My grandparents dropped out of retirement in Australia, bought a smallholding, and raised pigs, chickens and calves for most of the rest of their lives.

My grandmother had no trouble slaughtering their livestock ("Oh, Bully was such a sweet calf," she'd say, chewing her way through a steak), but apparently there were a couple of smallholdings down the road which couldn't bear to kill their own pigs.

To solve this, they would swap pigs with each other.
The Church of England, of course! You may have heard of them as Anglicans. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_England.
Edit: technically not established for the whole UK, probably.
oops -- when I said "figure out in the sense of discover? Sure" I was unclear, but I agree -- that request would be ludicrous.

That said, I have full faith that Gauss would pass that interview. Probably Euler, Tao, Dantzig, and Turing too =P

But it's not entirely unreasonable for optimization/OR/ML people. Mostly they have to remember how to construct the right function to find the zero of. Most applications of NR just want to find the zeroes of gradients of loss functions.

I certainly am not disputing the silliness... I personally am not good at math at a whiteboard while someone is staring at me. And full disclosure: I remember NR from the picture -- the x intercept of the tangent is (hopefully) closer to the zero than the initial guess.
at least one point that helps math minds is that a lot of math notions are present in programming languages
I recently switched to Fork [1] after seeing it on HN and so far am liking it. It's currently in beta and is actively being developed.

[1] https://git-fork.com
As I am eagerly awaiting delivery of a 2017 Prius Prime plug-in hybrid in their #1 state Oregon, this is all good news. However, as I'm switching from an old diesel VW, I also can't help but notice these numbers are very literally electric vs. gas, and look like they wouldn't pencil out against a diesel sedan. That said, the contrast there is between belching soot out vs. clean air, so hard to argue on that front.
GCIV, Article 3 i.e. the "Next" after your link is about conflicts within a country, in cases where the parties are not High Contracting Parties.

This is treated as customary international law, based on a UN Security Council conclusion in 1993 making it binding also for non-signatories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Geneva_Convention

For instance, break it anywhere in the world by killing civilians, and enter my country (say, as a refugee), and you'll be prosecuted if caught. There's even a recent example (a man got life sentence for what he did in Rwandan conflict; the life sentence here is practically something like 12 years).
People have answered already but I want to summarize two key facts:

- Browsers are huge attack targets and if you don't update you will be vulnerable to many more vulnerabilities.

- TLS not only provides confidentiality but also integrity. This prevents others from injecting content into the sites you visit, even if you don't care if they know the content.

Mozilla used to have a page that said something along the lines of "Your version of Firefox is out of date. Please update to stay safe and secure. If you don't want to update we recommend that you use the most recent version of another browser to avoid security issues." I can't find this page anymore, and I might have dreamed it but the message is good either way.

Also if you want Firefox to get off of your lawn and stop changing so often you can try the ESR release which has feature releases far less often while still receiving security fixes.
Quite a few UK homes were fitted with electric storage heaters because electricity was cheap in the evenings.

Now they are extremely expensive, massively more expensive than normal gas (the other kind) central heating.

Is the price of US domestic electricity going to stay at the present price?
I don't think it has to be so black and white. There's room for a variety of small preferences to cause a person to choose one thing over another.

Going out to eat may be tastier, but it's generally more expensive. When it's not more expensive (than Soylent) it's often to some degree a mixture of the following:

1. Not vegan

2. Not tasty anyway (i.e. fast food)

3. More time consuming (the place that you like is far enough away)

I'm certain you can find other potential reasons.

Each of these may affect different people for different reasons and to different amounts (e.g. some may not care about vegan).

Ultimately, it's up to each person to decide on their own personal preferences, and the weigh their own perceived costs. For some, that may result in Soylent being a preferred option for some meals (these preferences are dynamic). For others, it's never a preferred option. That just seems like part of being human, to be honest; no sense for either side to get upset at the other.
Oh, look at what the cat drug in! You pedantic use-the-word-wright peoples make me nauseous. ;-)
Let alone the datasets used to train, which are worth a lot of money.
I think your percentages are too low. IMO it's more like 95-97% of businesses are 99-100% served by what you describe as a trade programmer.

The problem is that it seems that 90+% of shops think they're 0% served by trade programmers.
Operating costs.

That’s $60 per month saved on fuel alone — not including lower maintenance costs, fewer or no oil changes, and time saved in states that allow EV drivers to use the carpool lane.

My Leaf replaced a high maintenance out of warranty Mercedes.
Kudos for an excellent description of how slavery works via the consent of the oppressed. This understanding is likely why the founders of the USA reserved the right of the people to have revolutions.
Great explanation and interesting insight, thanks!
The worst case I tend to encounter across customer code is having properties with big bodies of several lines that should have been made proper methods in first place.
It's not necessarily a bad thing - it's how you take a legacy system and adapt it to the new conditions without too much breakage. By making the government, in effect, the one and only feudal lord in its jurisdiction, and every land owner its vassal, the existing laws and precedent retain meaning, so you don't have to start from scratch - just change the things that need fixing.
> To be charitable, you're full of shit.

You can't comment like this on HN. Please don't do it again, regardless of how wrong someone is. Commenters here should post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12735736 and marked it off-topic.
Elected politicians and their direct reports.
Ask HN: Is Microsoft loves Linux a big “Embrace, extend and extinguish?
Do you just look at their own projects or their public activity in general? I have a lot of the latter but very little of the former and the stuff I do have in the former category isn't particularly flattering.
Silicon Valley Confronts Its Peter Thiel Problem
Regardless of whether or not it was intended for security, it is used for security now, via signed git commits and git tags. Lots of projects rely on them, and there aren't good alternatives yet; using third-party services like GitHub without signed git commits is very foolish.

Fortunately it's only becoming possible for attackers to create pairs of messages that have the same SHA1 hash; an attacker still can't create a collision between a message of their choosing and an arbitrary SHA1 hash, and that type of attack is probably a long way off. But that's not much safety margin!
Yea, simply sad- remember going there as a kid, inspired my love for photography.
When I was a kid flying london-vancouver it wasn't unusual to see an entire row empty. That's not a thing anymore.

I've been on domestic U. S. flights that have had multiple rows empty, to the point that my rough math said the airline couldn't have been making a profit on that flight. About a quarter of the time I'd get a row to myself. Those days are long gone, of course. Now I can't even get an exit row months in advance even if I want to pay for it.
I feel like we're talking past each other. I'm pointing out that when a user is under attack, they're not getting what they clearly stated they wanted. The only conundrum here is that the browser can't tell the difference between "under attack" and "misconfigured". If you want to bang on that conundrum, OK. But this business about user intent doesn't make sense to me.
Is anyone else getting serious connector fatigue?

For so long, USB 2.0 with a Type-A connector was the standard. You saw Type-B connectors on printer cables, but the other end always had the reassuring Type-A connector.

Then along came USB 3.0, and USB 3.1, which have the same receptacle as 2.0, but aren't necessarily interchangeable. USB 3.x adoption is still lacklustre, so you now have a bunch of devices with different versions, and new systems come with a mixture of 2.0 and 3.0 ports. Why? Isn't 3.0 backwards compatible, and better?

Now we have USB Type-C, which doesn't bear any resemblance to anything which came before.

USB Type-C makes sense because it's smaller, but we already have a mind-boggling array of smaller USB connectors for mobile devices, like USB Mini-A and Mini-B (What's the difference? Did they elope to create Mini-AB?). Then Micro-A and Micro-B, which sound a lot like the Mini variants, but aren't. What the hell is Micro-B SuperSpeed, and why is it actually two ports?

While all this has been going on, three versions of Thunderbolt have emerged. Thunderbolt v1 and v2 inexplicably use a Mini DisplayPort connector. Thunderbolt v3 uses a USB Type-C connector, but isn't the same as USB Type-C. Or is it?

Meanwhile, the general population are still furious that Lightning came along and rendered half their iPod/iPhone/iPad accessories redundant.

I wouldn't mind Apple dropping USB Type-A ports in favor of Type-C for the new MacBook Pro, but I'd like some kind of reassurance that USB Type-C is going to last more than a couple of years...
No, no evidence is no evidence.
Yes, but flying within the gliding distance of emergency airports is acceptable (unless of course there is an emergency during early stages of climb or late stages of descent).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236
as long as i get my knight visions and redneck katana!
I was also running Hyper-V just to get an opinion, so I had Docker for Windows and Ubuntu VM alongside. Setting it up was a little bit clumsy - nowhere near the comfort of VMWare Workstation.
All major browsers are moving towards this. Starting with the tiny icons changing colors they are beginning to make HTTP as insecure. Yes, it's very slow but at least they have started moving.
Especially needed since you can build a nice mouse trackball using dual quaternion exponential :)
Most of my coding output for my job ends up on a public github repo, which is the best of both worlds.
Twitterfeed will be shutting its doors on October 31st, 2016
Not me:

Howdy, Twitterfeeders!

We're writing to let you know that Twitterfeed will be shutting its doors on October 31st, 2016. It's been one heck of a run and we can't thank you enough for your loyal usage and support over the years.

If you're looking for a service similar to Twitterfeed to continue using in our absence, we recommend checking out the good folks at Buffer (https://buffer.com) or Dlvr.it (https://dlvr.it)

Thanks again for all the feeds!

- Mario
Founder, Twitterfeed
https://twitterfeed.com/
139 5th Ave. New York, NY 10010
In the US, eggs are prepared for consumer sales differently. Most notably, the cuticle is removed.

If you sterilize the shells and dip them in mineral oil or cheese wax, they can be kept at room temperature for much longer.
Netflix Deploys Its First West African Servers to Lagos Nigeria
Well, there's probably at least a few Senate and House candidates who aren't so excited about secrecy.
This, "plebes" are too easily manipulated, is why founders went for representative rather than direct democracy.

Sadly, they underestimated the ability for power to entrench itself despite term limits, separation of powers, federal/state split, etc.
Fermi was famous for this kind of thing, he could calculate the answer to a problem where it seemed like there wasn't enough information as if by magic.
This is the problem with the needle Altman is trying to thread: he is leaving open the question of whether Trump is as bad as Altman himself says he is. I agree strongly with Altman --- as you can probably tell --- that Trump is exactly this bad. If Altman means what he says, he should do what he can to shut this question down.
Nobody gets that kind of protection, so the size is irrelevant in each case. That's the point - the size of it only matters if tolerance depends on ineffectiveness.
If nothing's changed in the past 15 years, anything under 95% accuracy is not accurate enough for automation without human intervention (copy editing).
That would be some curve.