skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Self-driving cars will make cars more efficient, but not nearly as space-efficient as we need in dense urban environment. Even if you multiply the efficiency of cars by 2 (ambitious considering you still need to share the road with pedestrians, cycles...), you are still an order of magnitude or two less space-efficient than mass transit.
"number of friends"? That's stupidly gameable
The poor rich so maligned and oppressed by society. At least they can afford to buy the world's tiniest violin.
I really wonder about the methods of this study.

In my area, in the fun, dirty and gritty part of the city is where there are dive bars, vape shops and crazy little variety stores and head shops, you have to have your head on a swivel when crossing the road to not be sideswiped by some rusted out Geo or Nissan with the tailpipe being held up by a coat hanger.

On the flip side, in our most affluent immediate suburb, people give you right of way constantly. Everyone stops for pedestrians, even if they had plenty of time to go anyway. I mean they are almost religious about it.
Kind of hilarious how many comments in this thread already echo the mentality he's opposing. Get in line. Don't rock the boat. Don't complain about your lot. And you probably deserve what you got, because it's what you got. (Aka Just World Fallacy.)
Sort of. Depends on what you mean "low". I know salaries in that field can be skewed by large salaries from tech companies, but tenured professors at UB tend to make at least $100k, which is a very good salary in areas such as western NY. "Superstars" can make around $250k.

As a side note, since UB is a state school, salaries are public information[0]. He was making over $100k, even before tenure.

[0] http://seethroughny.net
Not your parent. This is a complicated situation, but I think you guys are conflating two points.

Is superior orders a valid defense? No. [1]

And while I'm loosely in the camp that feels that the 2nd Iraq war was a war of aggression, this action by the Pentagon is completely unrelated.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders
I'm along the North Western New Mexico/South Western Colorado border and didn't notice a difference either. I'm not saying this is shouldn't be a major concern. Just some areas are effected quite a bit more than others, it appears to mainly effect high metro/coastal regions.
RFC 3514 seems appropriate here:

1. Introduction

Firewalls [CBR03], packet filters, intrusion detection systems, and
the like often have difficulty distinguishing between packets that
have malicious intent and those that are merely unusual. The problem
is that making such determinations is hard. To solve this problem,
we define a security flag, known as the "evil" bit, in the IPv4
[RFC791] header. Benign packets have this bit set to 0; those that
are used for an attack will have the bit set to 1.

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt
Hey, in China being a member of the Communist Party helps you get a loan.
That would be quite complicated to integrate so deep into the stack that the malware running on a compromised device couldn't just ignore it.
YModem-ga FTW!
And if OP actually lived in Seattle, they would know that our virtue-signaling obsessed mayor+city council would give free passes to all homeless people and the trains would promptly smell of urine+sweat and you would have to watch for syringes rolling around on the floor.

I used to live in Seattle, but I'm now in an unincorporated area on the eastside. You can't imagine how grateful I am that I don't have a dog in this particular fight.

Or how often I pat myself on the back for G'ing TFO of King County in general and Seattle in particular. It's probably getting to be an unhealthy habit.
Autonomous cars are still nor nearly space efficient enough for dense urban environments. Autonomous cars will be great for suburbs and highways. Cities will still need mass transit.
> “I can’t believe that the great mass of investors are going to be satisfied with an ultimate goal of just achieving average returns.”

Ah, instead he believes he can talk "the vast majority of investors" into believing that they can significantly beat "average returns"? Hmm. Maybe in Lake Wobegon.

IIRC the index fund idea, W. Sharpe's work, etc. DOES need stock pickers also doing their best. Or, for anything with any promise in public a stock market, there has to be some smarts in there someplace. The reason throwing darts works so well is because of the stock pickers with the smarts working hard to buy the winners and sell the losers.
Credit agencies?
Who said anything about only binary installers? I specifically mentioned install scripts as being different from the subject of the discussion, and you seem to be conflating the two.
I think you're right that losing access to Github is a serious problem. I'm worried that an attack like this could be used in conjunction with some zero-day. Imagine a bunch of distributed teams trying to deploy a fix to the next rails zero-day yaml parsing RCE with GitHub and slack down.
Gridlock is a feature, not a bug. We know there is a strong induced demand with individual transportation. Building more capacity will attract more car drivers.

The same effect is true for mass transit, once the network is strong enough. But induced demand is usually a positive effect for mass transit.
>What the author interprets as proving obedience, I interpret as not wasting time on things the committee can't measure objectively, or doing things that might piss off people on the committee.

I'd be astonished if any academic committee in any university anywhere in the world had any idea how to measure the value of research objectively.

As for not pissing people off - I'd imagine it's impossibly hard to do truly original research without pissing at least some people off. There will be petty jealousies, back-biting, gossip, and all the usual nonsense. Too much, too soon, and hackles will be raised.

It's very sad. Academia seems to have become stifling rather than expansive.

My working definition of organisational dysfunction is when politics and status become primary motivators, and quality of output - and pride in that quality - become secondary.

From the outside, that seems more true of academia now than it should be.
"Imagine a world where an X government monitors everything you do, amasses huge amounts of data on almost every interaction you make, and awards you a single score that measures how “trustworthy” you are."

What country is he talking about?
Last time I tried, webkit for RPi leaks memory after playing audio for a few hours. It would be great to have a follow up post after the system is in production use for a while.
If Chinese love Trump, why are they disenchanted with democracy? Trump is doing great in democracy, in the #1 or #2 spot. And I'd assume they'd like Trump less if they were more knowledgeable of English and USA news.
"old-money, hard earned"

I'm confused. That phrase reads to me as "inherited and thus old money, I was poor or middle class but worked hard and made myself rich the hard way"

In my understanding, you used opposite situations to describe the same people. Can you tell me what I'm missing here?
I don't think it's the underlying reason for tenure, but it's my guess that if you eliminate it, the faculty will simply unionize. For instance, K-12 teachers have tenure as a benefit written into their union contracts.
They often work out to the same thing. I've been denied work and housing due to credit rating problems.
The website says it would be good for coders, but I'm skeptical; there are far too many particular characters that wouldnt translate as easily to steno as natural language, not to mention the need for keyboard shortcuts to compile run etc.
How many Windows users are using a pirated version of their operating system that gets no updates? How many of those using the genuine version ignore/disabled it? How many update their anti-virus? Custom ROM users? How many Ubuntu users ignore the updates? ...
I'm in Denver. Couldn't get to github, and our site is hosted on Heroku and was down for most of the day.
When is someone going to make a robin hood malware that helps resolve these issues and fights off other malicious tools trying to use these insecure devices?
Yes, but only if the viewer proceeds to buy the advertised item.
Is that really true? Access to credit determines a bunch of things and I'd say it's not just limited to where you live, drive, and work. It can sometimes even determine whether you're able to pay for healthcare or not.
Ask HN: Bald and depression?
Hi HN,

I want to know if anyone faced socializing issues due to baldness? I am 30, male and of Indian ethnicity. Throughout my 20s I faced issues for being bald and looking older than my age. I started losing hair when I was 18. I was lonely throughout. I started shaving my head at 29. I got feedback that I look good with shaven head. I have typical male pattern baldness of type 4.

I am reluctant to go through hair transplant. Due to lack of confidence I never had relationship or girlfriend. I feel like I missed all golden years and youthful life when everyone goes out and lives life at fullest. I had suicidal thoughts last year but after my trip to Thailand those thoughts are now subdued. I feel incredibly lonely when I get home everyday from office. Every single person I know, all of my friends from college are now married or popping kids.

It's not like I am out of shape. I go to the gym 3 days a week. My height is 5'7" and I weight 150lbs. I am working of gaining muscles, especially biceps and triceps.

I live in NW US and it's very hard to socialize here. Any meet ups are flooded with people who are not looking for anything. Every girl I run into or ask out rejects me. I don't know what to do. It has become catch 22 for me.

I posted to reddit and got advice to lift weights but that's not going to make me bodybuilder.

Anyone faced similar issues due to baldness?
Which of his novels have you read? Have you read Slaughterhouse-Five, Deadeye Dick or Breakfast of Champions?
It's fair in the context of her statement:

> We give more easily to the people and causes we see

All she is saying is that the amount of giving is correlated to the proximity, which you seem to agree with. It's just a statement, not a judgement.
> they should not be forced to join the union (with whom they disagree) just to be able to provide for their families.

But you're obviously OK with people being forced to join corporations (with whom they disagree) just to be able to provide for their families.
Empathy isn't a sense, it's derivative from the senses and works by analogy with one's self. When what you sense from others seems similar to what you imagine others sense from you, by analogy you imagine that they have a similar inner life to you. The more difference from how you imagine that others would sense you, the more different you imagine their inner life to be from yours. When you see them to be similar to you, but more perfect in your opinion, you imagine that their inner life is more perfected than yours. If you see them as less contrived; less put together, you see their thought process as more honest, or more grounded than yours. If you see them as dirty or sloppy, you imagine their thoughts to be more perverse or more slipshod. If their movements or speech are slower than yours, you imagine them to be more stupid or more careful than you are.

It's the search for souls in other people, required to decide whether they feel pain in the same way that you do. You can never confirm that other people have souls and feel pain, it's a leap of faith that you have to make - what Hobbes would call a covenant - a unilateral agreement that you make with others without their participation in the hope that your good faith will lead them to reciprocate.

It's best if we just assume that everyone else is just like ourselves, and reserve our distrust for people that try to tell us otherwise.
Serverless Java on AWS Lambda: it ain't easy
This article is somewhat resonating with me, and where I am in my life right now. After a few years of postdoc, I'm at a crossroads of where I want to go. In some sense, I'm a lot like the author, and I'm not really doing enough of what "they" want. I love research and tackling tough problems. But becoming a full professor just isn't about that.

I'd much rather stay in my office and work out a problem than go to a conference and "network". Or waste time writing a paper about my incremental progress (I could just wait and write about the whole thing!) That makes me a terrible "scientist", I guess.
Programmers know their value and there's too much talent globally.

Why would you deal with a union if you didn't have to (both sides)?
How's the internet speed in Leh?
No, the world became more US like for generations because the US was a relatively homogenous ethnic population (after genociding the competing ethnic groups) that controls a quarter of the planet's natural resources and has oceans for borders, so it rose to economic and military dominance easily.
Wow! That's an exceptional collection of resources. Of course the real trick is actually studying all of them. Anyone who gets through all of that would have a pretty serious foundation.
Why I won’t be attending 'Systems We Love'
Lynk and Co automotive unveil, specifications
The whole concept of tipping is broken and needs to be done away with. The restaurant in the story should be charging the customers more than $11, so that it can pay its staff properly.
It's a real shame if self-driving cars (which, right now, are vaporware) are having an Osborne effect that stifles willingness to spend money on solutions like rail that are known to work.

But the Osborne Effect is a good thing for consumers (read: taxpayers.) It's only a bad thing if you're selling soon-to-be-obsolete junk.

I think there's a very real possibility that people like rayiner are correct and self-driving cars are 50 years off.

He's probably making the same mistake that I did for a long time, which is to continue to chuckle under my breath at machine learning as if it were still the 1980s or 1990s.

In my case, Alpha Go was what finally made realize that huge advances in computing were being made that I didn't know about and didn't understand. Rayiner has a similar epiphany on the way, if he really thinks it will be 50 years before human drivers are history.
Yeah, even stuff like Niagra is a pain. Most solutions are configurable more so than programmable (in the scripting sense). I've done a fair amount of modbus and bacnet with "standard" systems and more pi-style systems and agree that for a developer-minded user it can be like gazing into the mouth of madness to work with.
Real time traffic information and ability to try to talk other vehicles more than few metres away are few use cases I think of autonomous vehicles can benefit from using the internet

Satellite internet is reliable enough for low bandwidth operations when cellular range is not available. It can also be a soft dependency , I.e. your car will still run when there is no connectivity, just not that efficiently.
The metric that a top dvorak typer is 20 WPM faster than a top qwerty typer is not true. Dvorak is more ergonomic, but doesn't make you type substantially faster.
Sounds like everyone in any career, including the OP or people on Hacker News.
Elites that are reproducing themselves but with "old" values so-to-speak, often they have a family history of doing the same job. They work hard to maintain their living standards.

To get a little more in details wrt to the demographics: I am thinking about lawyers, physicians or researchers which have assets >5 million who had to go through the grind of tough academic programs, highly competitive and skilled professions etc.

I am opposing this to rich heirs, actors, athletes, lottery winners, just-sold-my-pizza-app-startup etc. who like to show-off their recently acquired wealth. This is not a universal example obviously, there are outliers everywhere. Only talking about trends here.
"forced to join corporations"? What on Earth are you talking about?

I believe in freedom, including freedom to work for whomever you choose, or freedom to be self-employed, if you choose.

What have I said that implies that I'm OK with people being forced to join corporations?
Two sources claim 1.2 Tbps.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DISRUPTIVE_CYBERATTAC...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/hackers-ddos-attacks-1.381...
MacX HD Video Converter Pro 5.9 Serial Key and Crack Full Free
Wait a second... Why don't we have completely anonymous companies whose technology/app cannot be shutdown (at least not by armies of lawyers) -- Is there such a thing?
> people who disagree with me [...] aren't doing so out of spite, stupidity, or carelessness, they often just have different priorities than I do

This is an interesting perspective that I'd like to try. Thanks for sharing.
Are you suggesting that they will reach the flash memory's write cycle limit within a year? Or something else here?

Also, I would not have thought that random power off events would affect modern file systems as poorly as you're suggesting.

Interesting thoughts though.
Yes, but he's now trying to take his show on the road and get a job at another university. The reason this "parting shot" is risky is that it may get him pre-emptively ruled out by a lot of other hiring committees.
Just because someone has been doing something for twenty years doesn't mean that what they're doing can't be improved. It doesn't even mean they're necessarily competent.

The professional response to a newcomer isn't to have a snitty fit of tutting and hissing, but to consider the possibility that maybe the younger newcomer has something to offer.

If they're just being Dunning-Kruger-ish then fine - snipe away.

But it's not at all a given that the situation is that simple - especially when they've been employed as a prospect in the first place, which suggests that at least an entire hiring committee met them and considered they had promise.
Why is a relief valve for tech workers more important than the people you would be displacing?

I agree that, on average, prop 13 should go. But you cannot do it overnight. It would likely cause an over correction and a ton of other problems - including having owners who could afford their house under the final price, but still having to sell since counties tend to be slow at lowering property taxes. We saw it during the housing crash, where some cities would outright refuse to reduce property tax bills.

If anything, there should be a gradual phase out. Or, let people keep their prop 13 status as long as they downgrade, and no prop 13 for those that "upgrade".

This would slowly phase out those who are in an advantageous position. It will be slower, but it seems like a fair compromise to correct the problem.
It's certainly plausible:
http://www.geek.com/geek-cetera/tea-time-in-britain-causes-p...
First thing that comes to mind for me whenever Sesame Credit is brought up.
Wow, look at the amount of condescension! Only Indian and Chinese students need to broaden their horizons, not White students, right? Asians need to understand the difference between cultures, Whites being superior of course don't need to understand anything like that! Why are you assuming that all Indian and Chinese students behave exactly alike? Do you think diversity of behavior is to be found among Caucasians only?

You also didn't consider the issue of latent racism at all. A lot of times fresh off the boat Asian students get rebuffed by Whites if they try to develop contact. Often it takes the form of making negative comments about their home countries - how poor/regressive/authoritarian they are. Nobody likes getting badmouthed. This is one of the reasons they form so called cliques.

Sorry to call you out, but I'm sickened by your racism.
Yeah normally open relays with standard switches wired in parallel.
Your heading down a slippery slope. If they did something wrong, they have a right to face and defend themselves against that crime. It seems like you're advocating against due process.

And maybe...maybe, I'd agree that the ends justify the means IF that was the intent. But since this is the Pentagon doling out the punishment . . .

If you believe that the wars were illegal, this is a double whammy. The Pentagon is by far the biggest criminal and they benefit the most from this punishment.
still shouldn't work, since they are on different domains
I agree with you on ISPs having control over the content is a bad idea. But I also urge you to consider that the pressure on lower price from customers and government regulators are a real pain. There is a reason why ISP sector doesn't have a lot of competition (some of it has to do with strong-arming by existing market leaders in countries like the US) because it requires an insane amount of investment on infrastructure that constantly needs to be upgraded and maintaining last mile fibre can be a major pain in the ass (and expensive). Most ISPs don't start to see a return on their investment 10-15 years after the fact.

There seems to be a lot of misconception about ISPs in general. I am an ISP owner and I wrote a small rant a few days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12691465
The first humans, maybe?
How are all these iot devices and their ip address found by hackers?
True, but today's steel is tomorrow's sticks when it comes to vulnerabilities like this one. Over time, old security protocols are cracked and new vulnerabilities are found in existing devices.
July 25, 2011 'Islamic pipeline' seeks Euro gas markets

>ASALOUYEH, Iran, July 25 (UPI) -- Iran, Iraq and Syria say they're set to sign an official contract to construct a natural gas pipeline connecting Iran's South Pars field to European customers.

>Iran's state-run Press TV announced that a deal between Iran's interim Oil Minister Mohammad Aliabadi and his Iraqi and Syrian counterparts -- the biggest of its in the kind in the Middle East -- would be signed at Asalouyeh, Iran.

http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Industry/2011/07/25/...

Something tells me the US is not too keen on Iran-Iraq-Syria joining forces for much of anything, and I do not believe the Russians are too keen on the idea considering their existing natural gas pipeline to the EU and the just proposed one between Russia and Turkey
Academic job markets get started around this time of year, depending on the discipline and affected by the dates of their big conferences, for jobs to begin in fall of the following year. So by giving him the decision now, he has enough advance notice to prepare his CV and apply for jobs.
Rich people value money more, and compared to them, depending on how rich they are, effectively everyone needs it more. And they know if they start giving money away to everyone that needs it more they'll run out of it pretty quickly.

Poor people don't realize the predicament they're in and give away their money because they think someone needs it more, yet they're at a very high risk of becoming someone who cannot live independently and then needs to go find another source of charity to support them. This does not scale well. I understand why it happens but it's not something we should be raising to a level of sainthood.

The need for charity is a symptom of a dysfunctional social system and people falling through the cracks. There shouldn't be any mothers earning 19k in the first place. Giving them $5 doesn't fix anything, because you know there are a few million more of them and when you really want to change things it's really not enough and you need to attack it at the higher level.