skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course it wasn't worth it. Road improvements for cars incentivize driving, and so the result is more traffic.

Frustratingly the California DOT has studied this and has acknowledged this fact, so I suppose spending 1.6 billion on road improvements was a political decision and the experts were ignored? http://www.citylab.com/commute/2015/11/californias-dot-admit...

If you want to reduce traffic and get people to their destination faster you need to halt and/or reverse road network expansion and put all your money toward alternatives such as transit and cycling.
Some depends on age and planned retirement age. 55 or greater. I'd pay off house. pull out 25-50k each year I got closer to retirement and let the rest ride in stock market.

under 55, I'd keep 400k in stock market.
> My point is simply that large-scale, forced integration made race relation problems much worse. It created problems where little existed.

Are you really arguing that desegregation created these problems? Seems a bit backwards to me. I think it's incredibly obvious that race relation issues existed long before the desegregation of schools.

You could argue that desegregation caused problems for white people where there were none before, but even that I find a bit questionable. There are many disadvantages to growing up in a homogeneous society.

I think everyone agrees that correcting racism, or tribalism if you prefer, is a difficult task, and one that we are still grappling with. Of course, there were other methods of desegregation proposed at the time, but very few were proposed in good faith, and none that I know of were as swift or effective as mass desegregation.
Well, sort of. The fact that CA has 14 times the population today is strongly related to the fact that it applied 14 times the water for productive use in the past.
Probably in reference to the reversal of hijabs and beginning of her reversing some immigration policies.
>But in the self driving car world it's all equal...

And that, my friend, is a very good thing. We slowly raise the bar and eventually get rid of bad drivers - because in the future only people with a near perfect driving record will be granted a license.
Oh boy oh boy oh boy.

The problems pointed out in this article -- which are in some degree real even if heavily editorialized -- must be understood in light of a wider context which includes:

0) The very poor standards of validity and replicability in most fields of experimental psych-whatever. The Popperian method ain't what it used to be.

1) The Viennese Waltz of bad incentives throughout the psychiatry research pipeline. Most notably, drug companies are incentivized for fraud and deceit by being rewarded for closely-guarded research, hiding negative studies and obtaining patent extensions for new applications of existing drugs.

2) Somewhat related to (1): the unfortunate drug safety model prevalent in all relevant nations in which drugs must be proven to work for some pathology. Besides incentivizing recklessness in industry-led research, this means viable off-label usages go "underground" (topiramate for dissociative disorders is a typical case where FDA-worthy testing might be impossible). It might be better if the FDA and its counterparts instead regulated for drug _safety_ in humans and let the academic and clinical communities evolve their professional consensuses.

3) Much related to (0): the effective failure of "talking cures" in outcompeting drugs (specially "dirty drugs" like anticonvulsants, neuroleptics and non-SSRI antidepressants) for "simple" depression, bereavement and related mental health issues of which one could whip up a "social critique" of drug use and so forth. "Mad in America" is obviously not willing to make a fuss of things like bipolar where people will take their lithium for decades and bear the side-effects because the alternative is to go actually mad-crazy.

Did I miss something?
So the people I know that use Uber in multiple cities (mostly for work), spanning multiple employers and multiple countries and locations is a 'filter bubble' - but the inverse perception from you is common sense?

I'd say it is bad form to base an argument like this as fact, when there is clearly significant evidence of the inverse. We know that Uber has targeted airport usage, with a seemingly offline cache of airport GPS locations baked into the app - to tap the travel market... I'd be hesitant to say this doesn't alone make an impact.
Yes, popular. However, one of the lessons I remember from Classics classes at Berkeley was that (outside of Tacitus) you should take anything the Romans say about their opponents with large doses of salt. Victors write the histories and the Romans sure wouldn't take the trouble to tell the other side of the story, especially about the Carthaginians. Cato comes to mind.

Tacitus is the singular exception. He's exalted by Germans for Germania and Agricola has the immortal line,

To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles,
they call empire; and where they make a desert,
they call it peace.

I kind of rank Livy with Herodotus who'd never let facts or especially lack of facts get in the way of a good story. Tacitus I rank with Thucydides.
This article scares me more than any horror movie ever has. I'm currently the sole provider for my family (thankfully, this will change in a few weeks), and even though I have a decently stable job that pays well. Losing it and not being able to get another is my worse nightmare (right after burning alive).

I know it shouldn't bother me this much. I have had 7 interviews in my life and I only failed 2 of them. One of them being back in high school when I applied to Pepsi for stocking shelves.

I know that if I would to ever actually end up in that kind of position, it would most likely be because of feared it so much that I made it happen to myself.
Some in cash , then a Vanguard LifeStrategy fund matched to your age
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck (2015)
My recommendation is this:

Write a description of why I would use it. Concentrate on the problem you are solving, not how you solve it.

Provide in your description a link to the solution. Then I can try it out for myself and see if it really is going to solve my problem (assuming I have the problem).

Submit here a link to your description with the title: "Show HN: XXXX ..."

The "XXXX" should either be the product now, or a short and sharp description of the problem you are solving. Again, focus on the problem, not the solution.

Your English as demonstrated in this question is fine. Having said that do make sure you have used a spell-checker just to catch the worst errors that slip through easily. You don't need to be perfect, but if there's something obvious you could have done, but didn't, then some people will be put off.

People will disagree with some of the above, but that's what I like to see.
This is only one side of the tradeoff. Both tiredness and shift hand-offs cause bad judgement, and both can kill people. An analysis that only looks at one is incomplete.
I was referring the India and China.
This sort of behaviour by Uber seems to signal an internal desperation. High risk gambles are what you take when you are a scrapy startup with nothing much to lose, not a multi-billion dollar business.
The CEO of the last startup I worked at had enough time to take flying lessons and get his pilot's license.
Speaking as former PHP developer, yes. Immensely. Very impressive feature set and performance. Now just the jit is missing.
I use Mac Minis for 5 years as main machines and don't want anything modular or iMac, only a newer Mac Mini.
Then introduce a tax they will pay. Otherwise you will always be in the business of "how much that investment strategy/brand/trips" to Bermuda were really worth. It's the game that can't be won. It's frustrating to me that this point is missed. I suspect it's because people who write tax law rarely has any meaningful business experience and little understanding of economic reality.
> Reddit seems to be doing fine now

Hrm. I resisted this view for quite a while, but as far as I can tell in 2016 reddit is a pathological and destructive ocean of trash fire lunacy which incidentally hosts a few islands of relative sanity.

Of course it's hard to generalize about any cultural venue at the scale of reddit. But it really seems to a lot of observers that the pathology has by far outstripped its prosocial functions.
> driving at just an "above average" level

I did say "much better than average" I agree that if "just above average" this would be a fail.
The standard snark is that NeXT bought Apple for -$400 million.
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Do Be Do Be Do
Ever wonder why it's so difficult to make a decision when shopping online?
Why do I get downvoted for offering what is thoughtful criticism? I'm not just some nobody who walked in off the street and I have actual credentials and experience teaching higher education. Furthermore, I am not wishing ill will upon others. I would like to stop the outright fleecing of today's college students, however. It's high time that ended.
Do they still use FastCGI ?

I doubt it

You want to make your way in the CS field? Simple. Calculate rough time of amnesia (hell, 10 years is plenty, probably 10 months is plenty), go to the dusty archives, dig out something fun, and go for it. It’s worked for many people, and it can work for you.

— Ron Minnich

If you don't know Ron - http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale8x/blog/interview-ron-min...

People today could do well reading

Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing Paperback – International Edition, January 1, 1986

by Kai Hwang (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Architecture-Parallel-Proces...
I don't believe there was any pressure - it's simply the Irish system to incentivise companies who'd otherwise have no business here.

80% of all corporate tax paid in 2015 came from non-irish businesses. 40% of all corporate tax paid in 2015 came from 10 companies. Apple are the largest single taxpayer in Ireland. (http://www.revenue.ie/en/about/publications/corporation-tax-...)

So the Irish strategy is to be nice to multi-nationals, in return for that 80%. The understanding is that if we taxed more, they'd move somewhere else and we'd actually receive less. e.g., biting the hand that feeds you.

(This is also why the Irish govt are going to defend Apple in this - this isn't just about Apple for them, it's about scaring off 80% of corporate revenues)
Page is empty for me, tried both Firefox and Chrome on Linux.
That could simply mean that our education system is inefficient, not that education isn't valuable.
here's a neat article on playing a stock market dip with options.

https://www.thefelderreport.com/2016/08/15/worried-about-a-s...
That reminds me how a lot of countries are currently in the process of making illegal "Kratom" which is used by a lot of opium addicts as a way to self-medicate their addiction withdrawal.
Unfortunately, no. Tried it few days ago, after Evernote privacy policy change. Still very unstable. I switched to SimpleNote instead.
Last job was at Panasonic Avionics' cross-town rival, Thales Avionics. From the many Panasonic veterans working at Thales, they mentioned our architectures were quite similar, so I will use what I know about Thales' system to make what could be a close comparison.
You have a system called ACARS, which is an ancient technology that sends data from the cockpit to the IFE system (GPS, airspeed, etc). ACARS I believe is a 1-way protocol (think of it as an RSS feed where you can subscribe for updates) The only bit of communication that can go the other direction (I think) is BITE (built-in test environment) which is a centralized way for a technician to see status messages and error codes sent from individual components (such as each seat-back screen, power distribution boxes, switches, wireless access points, etc). The IFE systems we developed had separate satellite systems for internet connectivity from that of the cabin, including separate antennas. From my understanding, hacking an IFE system could mean gaining access to CC info, but it would be very very unlikely to take control of the plane from a seatback screen.
It kind of did already. It used to live at https://jenkins-ci.org, and was moved to http://jenkins.io to communicate that it's not "only CI", but also CD.
Tell me about it. I spent WAY too much time just yesterday, trying to use the Bouncy Castle OpenPGP stuff to encrypt a message such that I could turn around and decrypt it with GnuPG. In the end I got it to work, but what a rigmarole. Crypto API's are, as you said, full of many obscure options and bizarre permutations of how components can be put together, that it's ridiculous. And they also seem to change rapidly, meaning documentation and even Stack Overflow answers are often out-of-date and useless.

The thing that saved me finally turned out to be that Bouncy Castle actually do package some example programs in with the source. So once I cloned the git repo and dug into those, I was finally able to find an example of doing exactly what I needed. But trying to piece it together from the javadocs and the other online documentation? Hell no... I'd have been working on that until the heat death of the universe. :-(
This bears posting, it explains actual stock options, not what employees/employers bandy about as "stock options".

http://www.investopedia.com/exam-guide/cfa-level-1/derivativ...
Your comment made me remember this article which I think nailed your point

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/11/10/the-dance-of-the-dunces-...
Allow me to enhance your list.

"Owasp Testing Guide V4" is a must read for web hackers, at least for starters: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Testing_Guide_v4_Table...

OWASP has vulnerable application projects for you to play with, such as WebGoat "https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_WebGoat_Proje..., but there are many applications like these such as "DVWA - Damn Vulnerable Web Application" and variants in Node JS (https://n0where.net/damn-vulnerable-node-application-dvna/)

I also developed two free courses on "WordPress Security" and "Docker Security" https://dadario.com.br/courses/

The point is to learn development / infrastructure first, then study attacks and defense to develop a security mindset. Get involved in bug bounties, but learn how to fix, don't let your code skills rust. Then learn more security concepts, how to build a corporate security program and keep moving :)

There's also a very famous book in the area: "The Web Application Hacker's Handbook" http://mdsec.net/wahh/
Our Flawed Approach to Technology Education
Only Ivory Tower mad scientist can come up with idea like that. I mean, it's not at all realistic to assess "real value" of those transactions. Investment strategy from Bermuda for 5M, are you going to argue it should really be 3.5M? How are you going to go around proving it? Is this really something public resources should be dedicated to? I mean it just can't work and is ridiculous idea.
Focus on what I said: You can never achieve that. The wealthy will always find ways to undo whatever leveling you attempt. The elite social class in the US is its own little society and most of us are not in it!
I'd guess that a big part of the quality control here comes from efforts of the moderators, so I don't think that replicating the ranking system would replicate the quality of discourse.
Loans can still be a great option - and can offer larger amounts without personal guarantees (e.g.: up to a million with revenue-based financing).

Debt's a great strategy for companies looking to stave off venture capital so that they can improve their metrics in the short run and set themselves up for better term sheets. I know several founders who have saved millions in founder equity as a result of growing with debt financing first.
Insurance companies keep re-domiciling to Bermuda and Ireland.

Hedge funds have preserved material gains via Bermudan tax laws for years. They park money in Bermudan insurance companies whose investment arms manage the funds, while deferring tax payment on trading profits. Eye-opening to learn about...
Every time I see news on the student loan crisis, I thank God I graduated college in the 90s. I left school $12k in debt, paid it off in 2 years.
The standard charge should be $0.02 per comment.
So, more people are using the system more often, but somehow that's a bad thing?
It is lot of guess because there are no memory usage numbers or throughput numbers to get general sense of how Go GC is worse for applications.

Even in the thread about 20% CPU usage increase mentions that Go implementer considers this much higher than expected and is likely a bug. But author make it sound in article as Go guys are calling it reasonable tradeoff for low latency.
Actually, almost all of the time, when you take out a loan, you can choose to repay it, or file for bankruptcy. In the case of uncollateralized loans (Credit cards, utilities), the lender is quite likely to receive next to nothing for it.

We just need to make student loans dischargeable through bankruptcy, and all of these problems will be fixed. Lenders will stop lending children hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a European history degree, tuition fees will implode...
Do you have any data showing cycling gets people to their destination faster and more efficiently? That sounds like a nightmare to me if implemented in large scale and will always be hampered by the low top speed of a bicycle.
Doesn't this level of overwork originate with one medical instructor, who was a habitual cocaine user and thought nothing of going without sleep?

I remember reading this somewhere, but can't remember where.
Yup, in German "halb sechs" is half past five, whereas in the U.K. "half six" would be half past six. It's quite confusing if you're used to one system and suddenly need to use the other.
This is actually how the original simcity handled its traffic algorithms and why as a kid I always failed to fix the problem :) Read about it years later in the SimCity Planning Commission Handbook (which I first found from a discussion here, coincidentally: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10168016)
They may seem to be really tricky questions, but they have really clear answers.

Reagan was elected during an extreme inflationary period and it had dropped dramatically by the time he left office. Clinton started office with giant deficits and left office running a surplus.
You were a good risk, and probably could have obtained loans privately without any governmental market meddling. That makes you quite different from the debtors under discussion.

Bankruptcy exists for a reason. It was unwise to do away with it for education loans, even though doing so temporarily increased the volume of available education loans.
I implemented something heavily based on that once¹, though no work has gone into optimizing much. It's not particularly state-of-the-art, but it's a good design for what it is. I'll probably use the quad-color strategy in my next incremental GC.

Note that while Mike's is strictly non-copying/non-compacting (because of Lua's API) mine does copy between generations and compacts the oldest generation. This makes arena management simpler and faster. I think that's the only significant difference between my implementation and Mike's design.

I suspect it's still a bit buggy, though it passes my test suite™. Non-trival GCs can be tricky. And to reiterate, it's not especially fast, because no work has gone into making it fast. (It's not slow either, because the design is good, but don't expect performance competitive with current production GCs².)

1. https://github.com/alpha123/yu

2. Well, it probably smokes Ruby and Python, but those go solidly in the ‘toy GC’ category.
OK. So Trump is the coming president, and GW is real and Trump will not handle it properly. So it is very likely GW bad predictions are going to happen. My question is: why there is no massive sell of beach houses?

a) Most beach house owners are GW deniers.
b) Most beach house owners have strong confidence of the future government.
c) Most beach house owners are extremely rich so they don't care.

How about those who are GW believers, and seriously think it is critical timing for action rightnow, and have uncertainty about future government, and are not extremely rich. Are they selling houses and moving to inland?

I think it is a pretty good test of how many people seriously believe GW. Do not tell me the incentive of home value is not strong enough.
I agree, I think corporate taxation has many flaws (especially in a global context). But as long as it's in place it should be applied equally and fairly.

Most countries struggle only to make small changes to their tax-systems (just look at all the loopholes and flaws most countries have sprinkled throughout their tax code).

Or India, they've spent some ~25 years working on an update[1].

A global, synchronised overhaul of the tax-system would be very hard. Most likely, it'll have to be a gradual change.

I also think more emphasis on consumption tax (VAT) and real-estate taxes would be good. But any change will take time.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/world/asia/india-goods-and...
Yes? I don't mean to say it's not exact. I'm just saying that when people order pints of beer, they're not thinking about exactly how much liquid that is, that's just what you order.
Still working through the article, but it reminded me of the presumable fact that everything that happened before the first conscious entity existed in the Universe was essentially instantaneous. Same goes for time's forward direction. Without consciousness, i.e. with a perfect form of stasis, one could time travel to just before the heat death of the Universe in an instant.

John Archibald Wheeler took this idea even further with the PAP, the Participatory Anthropic Principle.
Maybe I'm too cynical, but I'm not looking forward to the similar articles about self-driving cars: "traffic still basically the same, people now just live spread out even further since total vehicle throughput is higher due to more efficient autonomous driving."
Well, we have thrown welfare at what? Three generations now? How has that worked out? It hasn't. We're right back where we began but now with three generations of people who have never worked for a living.
Exaggerating their skill-set, claiming to have skills when they don't. Yes, it could be the Dunning–Kruger effect in action but more than not I think there is careful plotting involved to deceive. It's actually odd if you think about it a bit. I've been going to DEFCON for the last 11 years, have done the CTF thing, the speaking thing, etc., and it strikes me in many ways as a tale of two cities. You've got your highly skilled and technical security professionals who are talking and sharing but then you have all of the roadies, the fans, the people who watched Hackers and want that lifestyle. We don't see this in any other technical field that I'm aware of - I mean I'm pretty sure there aren't blue-haired database administrator wannabe's showing up to DBCon, are there? What ends up happening is that people like the idea. They want to be a "hacker" but want it as a day job but don't have the technical skill so they must figure out ways to social engineer their way into the field.

The folks at Attrition tend to cover it a bit more when it comes to "security rockstars":

http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/
This Is Going to Be Worst Year for IPOs Since the Credit Crisis
That specific MBP has an issue with the logic board that they will replace for free. I used to have glitches as well and took it in and got a replacement. It's only until the end of the year so I would go and get them to have a look before the new year.
Maybe you should ask yourself that question more often. Saying things that are untrue without even an attempt to back them up, and then being abusive to anyone who calls you on it, is kind of "smug asshole" behavior itself and not conducive to good conversation.
The best WYSIWYG LaTeX I've come across is http://mathquill.com