skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to see a similar look at how and why attitudes changed towards Italian-americans, Irish-americans, and Jews. These groups were all discriminated against and considered undesirable by the majority for a long time, and now are mostly accepted.

I have suggested in jest before that what determines whether or not a minority will gain acceptance in the US is their food. Americans like Asian, Italian, and Jewish food, and Irish drinking culture, so ethnic restaurants from those groups became popular, and acceptance of the people behind the food followed. We like Mexican food, and Hispanics seem on track for mainstream acceptance.

Black food is too similar to general Southern food for the mainstream to see it as a separate cuisine, so acceptance has been harder for blacks.
Oh yeah, I wasn't clear, yes.

Not "everything is clear, the case is closed" - that's what I meant
privacy is asymmetric ignorance.

There's just too much of this creepy thinking on HN these days. Way too many statists, autocratic people on here.
For the uninitiated how good or bad is 1.2mN/kw?
Yes, the corrupted clique led by Jon Stewart. Very persuasive!
Ah, the reductio-ad-concentration-camp: If advice isn't applicable to Auschwitz, it's not valid in any form.
AT&T Long Lines sites look menacing because they were designed to keep humming while we retaliated against the USSR at the end of the world.

There are former Long Lines sites around the country, from urban high-rises to lonely fenced-in microwave horn antennas atop bunkers, miles from the nearest towns and sometimes accessible only by helicopter. A good few are next to highways and train tracks, which is how I came to start reading about them.

They provided rural telephony for civilians, but were also part of the Cold War-era continuity-of-government system connecting SAC bases and missile silos.

There's a fairly dedicated hobbyist community cataloguing the sites [0]. A remote Long Lines site also played a role in the Death Valley Germans story, which got some pretty good discussion on HN a while ago [1].

[0] http://long-lines.net/places-routes/

[1] http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hun...
> (despite curious choice of music!).

The first self-driving video came out a few days after Episode 1 of Westworld, where an a cover of this song featured prominently (I'm trying not to spoil it).

Elon confirmed on Twitter it was inspired by this. [1]

e:
Added twitter thread link.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/789020178969276416
Maybe the whole thing here is that we are moving to a component based way to develop UIs with incapsulated and reusable elements but this somehow collides with the foundation of the www i.e. separation of concerns.

React, a tool with a very sharp focus (help Facebook to scale), choose to get rid of the whole concern; W3C is trying to solve this with Web Components (Custom Elements are part of them) since 2011 (!) and specs are still in progress and changing from time to time because getting things right is difficult when those concern are at stake.
Privacy is pretty important for a functioning democracy... simple examples, investigative journalism and whistleblowing. It's apparent you haven't read Martin Fowler's excellent thoughts on this topic:

http://martinfowler.com/articles/bothersome-privacy.html
Humans have a long record of classifying people in that way, so; yep.

If you don't like the way I just passive-aggressively took your glib, evidenceless hipster comeback and repeated it back it to you, don't spout that sort of passive aggressive childish crap. If you want adult conversations, you know where to find us.
Exactly, it's fake. It won't work.
What similar research is the time and money better spent on?
I was pretty sure there was a seperate study where they debunct it? Gonna look for the link...
World's poorest countries to aim for 100% green energy
One of the focuses with Go's compilation design was trying to avoid all the extra work that happens in C compilation that could be avoided by some careful language design.

There's a good write up here: https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article, but particularly starting at point 5 on that page.
The issue then is, again, humans- the rider of an autonomous car will feel slighted and helpless seeing the cars around them take advantage of their nice and polite driver-AI, and this will make owning driverless cars less appealing to a wide swath of the customer base.

You and I might still enjoy passively riding an altruistic vehicle, but an astonishing amount of the public id is absorbed in these sort of anonymous dominance games.
It's related to Westworld, as I mention in another comment here[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12995428
And China proves that virtually any policy, no matter how atrocious, can command very broad social support, provided that it comes with stability and prosperity.
Misleading headline - according to the article body itself, the tanks were used as bulldozers in the immediate post-war period when they were cheaper than purpose-made bulldozers. What's going on now is that farmers that own tanks from that period are acquiring, restoring, maintaining, and running them in their original military configurations for historical reasons.

Which is still super cool.
Awesome. Thanks for the specific recommendations! We know we need to get a designer on this soon. But those we can do easily enough.
How do you know the solution is any good? I'm not going to go all Socrates on you so I'll jump to my point: when discussing bayesian statistics, we're touching something very profound about epistemology that can't be swept under the rug in the name of pragmatism. We're dealing with the core philosophical underpinnings of what it means to "know" something.
They do not. They have 3 forward cameras (1), but they all point directly forward and are for separate use cases. I've always thought it would make more sense to have two cameras at either side of the windshield rather than one in the middle. The downsides are you need a new method to clear water and debris since the wipers won't hit that area, and there might be limited FOV.

Stereo might require some level of calibration to account for camera alignment, maybe they want to avoid that? I would think that implementing stereo would be fairly cheap both computationally and in hardware- if they can get by this well without it, they could pare the stereo computations down to a few frames per second, on specific objects in the scene. Maybe a future update will add binocular cameras in the dash, but they are pretty confident about their current hardware.

1: https://www.tesla.com/en_EU/autopilot
I don't believe the 10,000' ceiling number. There's no attribution on the Wikipedia page for it, directly or in references. The duration number is a range but at least the lower 30 min bound seems independently validated by other mentions of the X-Jet's predecessor.
Google Cloud Support here. If you create Cloud project with a single owner (email), and that sole owner's account is deleted, the project is considered orphaned and will first be suspended, giving you some time to get touch with us if this was not intended, and then deleted after around 6 weeks. (Most running resources are stopped at suspension, but account data hangs around until deletion.)

I know this seems harsh, but there's really not a whole lot of other sensible options. The former owner can't be contacted, since the only email we have for them no longer works, and the project is literally unmaintainable, since nobody has admin rights to it anymore.

So TL;DR, for anything remotely important, please assign multiple owners and use role accounts (admin@corp) instead of users (bob@corp).
Semi-automated genome annotation using epigenomic data and Segway
> birth control

wait..birth control doesn't affect STD transmission. Unless you mean people getting birth control tends to lead to mode education from the medical professionals who prescribe it to them?
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/outthere/2014/08/06/nasa-v...

About the previous tests of the same team:

"The testing was done by five NASA employees in a lab devoted to exploring unorthodox propulsion ideas. The team leader is a researcher named Harold “Sonny” White, himself a proponent of ideas about faster-than-light warp drives that most of his colleagues have classified as physically impossible. The lead author is one of White’s Eagleworks teammates, David A. Brady. Calling this group “NASA”—as almost every popular news story has done—is a gross oversimplification."
بث مباشر مشاهدة مباراة ريال مدريد واتلتيكو مدريد بث مباشر يوتيوب يلا شوت اليوم
Intel in particular has a pretty long record of making itself more directly relevant to consumers and just as long a history of mostly not having much success in that regard. (See ViiV/Digital Home for example.)

In general, though, wearables probably have to be considered a relatively underwhelming market so far. Yes, there are various fitness bands and smart watches that are mostly sold for fitness-related reasons and... Well, pretty much just fitness bands.

It's probably related to a lack of compelling capabilities in unobtrusive products that "just work" and don't require a lot of ongoing care and feeding.
Very clever, we just rename the things and call it a day. See, privacy is the right for this kind of respect instead of other people mercy.
The NSA has a spy hub in NYC? You don't say. They've only been there since before the NSA was even a thing. You know what they did out of New York, prior to becoming the NSA? Spied on international telegrams. Except in that case the three major telegram companies would bring them copies of all the international telegrams every single day.

But, cool, we have their new address now. At a building that was obviously a telecom hub to anyone technically minded.
Single sign on = single point of failure.
How much have you made in 2015 and where are you living?

Why do you not want to share this information with me?
Rubber Duck Method
I find AWS annoying in that the east coast is always cheaper and the price reductions linked mention more reductions on that side.

Who of the cloud companies is treating California as a first class citizen?
of course he does.
I hear this so often, and the response is always the same: By his own words, he's WORSE. He isn't the outsider black horse you think he is, at best he's a scummy businessman and reality TV mook who saw an opportunity to get desperate people like you to project your desires onto a nebulous non-platform full of rhetoric and dog whistles.

> Why can't you give this man a chance?

Breitbart.com editor for cabinet, his biggest supporter and rabble-rouser during the election. Nice tit for tat there, coming from the 'less corrupt' candidate. Racist piece of human garbage.

"Jeff Sessions, considered too racist to be a judge in 80's, is Trump's AG."

If he were going to be given a chance, I think he's communicated his intent in actions as well as the previous hedged words at this point.
> So the idea that you are "probably" in a simulation relies on the assumption that there will be more conscious beings inside simulations than in the top-level "real" universe.

I mean I can sort-of-see-it if this is the assumption, but the assumption itself seems quite circular to me.

EDIT: I also don't understand how this is connected to my point about speed-of-simulation, but...
I think it's more of a "Here, now you don't have to warez our stuff" kind of license.

Technically the intent was for self-directed personal education. But the real reason is to encourage people to learn Matlab, and not Numpy or R or something else, and to discourage people from messing around with Octave. It's a classic move for a company that's getting worried about their market share.

Given that most of the value of Matlab over Octave lies in its toolboxes -- which are now $45 each -- this strategy seems sound. A few packages still aren't available, such as the toolbox that does HDL code generation, but those aren't available in the FOSS world either.
I just spent the week playing with Swift for the first time in a while.

I hadn't seen Perfect yet, but that looks neat!

A couple ideas I wanted to try:

* Twilio messaging app.

* Minimalist browser (no JS or CSS) maybe rendering HTML in various UIViews.
This guy has some other really great articles. My favorite is: "GCE vs AWS in 2016: Why you should never use AWS" [1].

[1] https://thehftguy.wordpress.com/2016/06/15/gce-vs-aws-in-201...
This is not a good description of how physics works. You can't just say we don't know everything, so maybe anything goes.
Recent previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12992536
>Amazon is a much more formidable competitor than MSFT.

I don't know about that. Going further, majority of the spend is going to come from established businesses. They need software and not just infrastructure. And msft has those accounts. Has the reseller network. Has the software. I really can't think of any good b2b/productivity software that google wrote. Probably they haven't tried, but looking at what they announced last - data studio, survey and optimize - the talk was like they were super serious about it. The result is very, very far from the competition.
They're mostly dying in California from drought and lack of snowpack.
I'm more interested in the architecture, honestly - we already knew the NSA had telco cooperation and (I think I'd already heard?) access to their facilities. But that one of those facilities is an honest-to-god skyscraper that someone tried to make nuclear-bomb-proof? That's fantastic.
Pretty much all the articles I linked above address the same argument you are raising, they have data that says otherwise.

Also interesting that I have yet to encounter the same argument when comparing the achievements of African Americans and Asians. I have honestly never heard of anyone saying that there are 1.4 billion Chinese and roughly the same number of Indians, so it could be argued that those who come here are more talented and ambitious than the average Chinese or Indian, so it would be unfair to compare that group and African Americans.
I believe there is zero chance that the institutional world will not wire the whole world with sensors, and use the data. If you want anonymity and privacy, it will have to come from the hard mathematical facts of crypto, not from institutional policy. Best hope the First Amendment is strong enough to protect crypto.
One thing I forgot to mention is I've had a couple of "we will shut you down" emails.

Something about the automated abuse detection seems to not quite work, and so I've gotten emails saying the account is suspected of DDOSing other internet users. It's a bit unnerving, but they've been pretty prompt at getting back once an explanation was put forward.
This is really about US & UK personnel though.

As as overwinterer on French territory, I'm a bit disappointed the US and UK seized the "Antarctican" name just for themselves without making any other mention of the many other bases, actually.
That's not what I claimed. We have a very good curve to fit our sample data; this doesn't mean that "anything goes" because we don't know everything, it only means that we should be careful not to assume that we know everything because our curve fits so well to the data we do have.

Part of that is confirming that things we expect not to work do not work. We shouldn't fear or avoid testing things simply because they disagree with our understanding, because testing them may confirm our understanding.
Homestuck in review
If you've got volunteer opportunities for code.org, it would be great if you could share them on Commit! I was thinking "VO: Code.org needs X" would be a good convention on post titles.

Thanks for the feedback!
Garbage for anything Earth-travel related. Gravity is 9.8N/kg, so to generate enough force to counter gravity you'll need to feed this thing 9.8MW per kg.

Your typical 100 HP car engine puts out 75.6kW, so you'd need 130 car engines' worth of power to lift a small 1 kg/~2 pound object. Not to mention that the machinery needed to channel/produce that kind of energy would be so heavy that it could not lift itself.

But it's still possibly useful for space travel. Not needing propellant is huge for long-distance space travel.

That said: they don't know why it works. (If it even works, which I strongly strongly strongly doubt.) If they figure out what produces the phenomenon, it's very possible they could get the drive to be way more efficient.
The most common form of birth control, condoms, reduces likelihood of STD transmission.
If any cloud project was a single dimension problem. For me it does not matter how much cheaper I could run an instance in GCP simply because we rely on services from AWS that do not exist in GCP yet. Another issue for me with Google is how they handle account problems. I do not want to find out the hard way that I should have done some extra safety measures just to keep our entire production environment safe. With AWS I do not need to worry, their customer first approach proved to be extremely useful over the years, and they were very patient with us even when we did something that was against their policy. My customer trust is not something that is up for sale and I have been disappointed with Google's customer support several times, this is simple cannot happen in a cloud infrastructure situation. I like GCP and Azure because they make sure that I get a good deal on AWS.
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One way to manage this behavior is by having the automated car report the misbehaving cars to both DMV and insurance, have it affect registered drivers points (with some "give") as well as insurance so overly aggressive behavior results in insurance penalties.

So except for a few chronic offenders, most people would learn how to behave while driving.
In short, scientific computing and simulations.

Bear in mind that you'd have to rewrite both Matlab and GNU Octave if you need to run your simulations on a super computer.

I remember back when I was a first year I was waist-deep in some Matlab when one of the guys at our high-performance computing center jested that if I wrote a for-loop I may just as well run around the building for each iteration and do the calculation with pen and paper. (context: members of the same computer club)
Let's start with your mistaken premise. You don't actually have privacy, and you won't be getting it back.

Just by analyzing how you worded your public post, which post you responded to, and the time you posted it, entities you have no awareness of are already learning more about you than you can imagine, and they're using big data techniques to mine that and lots of other sources of data in order to get an incredibly detailed picture of you.

They're making money off that information, and they're gaining power from it.

Do you want to know more about those entities and what they're doing with that information? Would you like to be one of the beneficiaries of your information, or would you like to continue to be left out?

If you embrace privacy, you're also embracing their privacy, and you're reinforcing the increasingly asymmetric, and non-democratic advantage they have over you.

Obviously, no one should be rounded up for anything, but yes, you and I had better open our minds to a better way to live together- and quickly. If you have a solution, by all means, offer it up, but privacy is dead, and if your answer is to try to stuff that genie back in the bottle, it's a non-starter. We need to embrace another path.
I don't know what to do.

But it irks me that I follow the easier, softer way -- knowing that I am causing trouble to myself by doing so.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12994626 and marked it off-topic.
Please don't.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12994432 and marked it off-topic.
By GP, there is no need for this as everything would be public. Well, this is how I understood it.
Is there an easy way to play a Vimeo video at 1/3 speed?
Excited about what they're working on. A digital network that more closely represented actual relationships could be a valuable and interesting tool.
Apollo Missions Part II
That is good to know, however my first reaction when reading this is we shouldn't be using G Suite for admin@corp or bob@corp, but rather if I am going to be seriously dependent on Google Cloud I should perhaps move e-mail for said @corp to Office365 (or whomever else actually does e-mail these days). I don't know what the solution/answer is here, but it worries me that actions (yes even bad spam-y TOS violating actions) that someone takes using our company's google accounts can ripple across the Google ecosystem and screw important parts of our company's infrastructure.
The high-tech ideas of Bucky Fuller
One thing that bothers me about this paper:

The measurement error is stated to be +/- 6 micro-Newtons. However, the difference between force measured at the same power is 30-40 micro-Newtons and the "measurement error" is listed as the +/- error. So if the measurement error is that low then the additional variation is unreliability of the effect itself or a miscalculation of the measurement error.
I appreciate the author's dispensation with fuzzy logic as a suitable answer to the problem of the heap, but I'm not sure that his answer (a lack of knowledge) is any more persuasive.

As evidenced by his formulation of the sorites paradox, we all seem to have an intuitive notion of when a heap transitions to a less-than-heap (for lack a better word) or individual. One possible description (which I don't claim is final) that aligns with this intuition is that the whole stands out more than its parts. A heap, then, is when an object exists more on its own than as of other objects. The same might be said for crowds, flocks of birds, &c.

Just my two cents.
I am wondering if the difference is related to the underlying economical forces.

The world of guns is somewhat driven by money (selling guns, gun training centers, gun magazines etc). The world of privacy advocates is not money driven.

Maybe privacy will gain traction with economics and money, not ideology.
Could, be yeah. They tried some of that there and it worked for a bit. I think the company probably found it unsustainable and first they offered a lump sum for people to quit, then they might lay people off.

At some point the idea is that companies who automate and don't keep the people because, well that's what makes them more money, will win or out-compete those who don't.

Maybe basic income can be used to incentivize people to learn more -- learn to program, social help (learn to help others, provide care for elderly), learn to manage and maintain robots, maybe find a way to strengthen the community (we'll pay you, but if you help build or maintain the local school you get paid more...?)
The Intercept article that this NYT article is based on is much more interesting. Covers a lot more of the architecture stuff.

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/16/the-nsas-spy-hub-in-new-...

This sketch is particularly stunning:
https://prod01-cdn07.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/sites/1/20...