skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is an example that is not what you are looking for but is somewhat related. It's a game that is played by rendering high quality screenshots of the game world on a server. I enjoyed it a lot.

https://extrasolar.com/
Without high prices, how would you keep people out of the most desirable cities? Birthrights? Lottery? Application essays? Immigration restrictions at the city level? Or not keep people out but let them become shanty towns?

Rent is a way to select residents according to how much value they can produce by living there. Even though it's wasted money, it's also as very good selection filter.
This is obviously refuted by the fact that Chinese ex-pats associated with the KMT in Taiwan (i.e. the very people who fled Mao) have been practicing "traditional Chinese Medicine" to varying degrees since their pre-Mao childhoods. To believe that Slate article is to believe that somehow Chinese herb shops appeared in Taiwan in response to propaganda from either Mao or the US Government and that these peoples' childhood memories were subsequently "revised". That makes absolutely no sense.

Edit: Perhaps what you mean is that the Western notion of Chinese medicine as a viable alternative to Western medicine was invented by Mao? That might have some shred of truth. But it's a very narrowly defined truth, and a very semantic one.
If you feel it is fine to post this non-anonymized on your blog, would you also be so kind as to explain how you consider this to be misogyny?
Link-status: a cli for displaying linked npm modules and their sources
The title to the video you linked should be "Neural Network Learns The Physics of Fluids and Smoke"—though he does also have a voxel cone tracing video.
Some people just aren't equiped to be parents and others recognize the significant burden and sacrifice to have them. Others have concerns about the world and choose not to. Some choose not to because of health concerns or because of past unsuccessful pregnancies.

I don't think it's selfish at all to choose not to bring a child into the world when there are still 6+ billion of us to carry the species forward.

I love my kids immensely but also respect my friends who choose not to have them.
I found your reply kind of odd. Why would Waymo get it into the business of selling LIDAR sensors so that hobbyists could use them in their projects when that clearly isn't their business model.

>But since there are no prices, there are no products, there are no actual announcements, it seems to boil down to Google feeling the heat as the company that used to be associated with the notion of bring Self Driving cars to the market. I wonder if they have been doing consumer surveys on what people think about Self Driving cars and finding out that Google is rapidly dropping from the radar of most people.

There is a product and it's currently outfitted to FCA Pacifica Hybrid minivans.

>They don't make cars, they can't get people to partner with them, and they haven't been successful at showing meaningful progress. Meanwhile in the bay area you can't drive down any freeway and not see some chortling Tesla owner talking to their friends while the car moves them along in rush hour traffic.

Waymo was never in the business of making cars. As for not getting anyone to partner with them what exactly would you call their partnership with FCA?
With flash LIDAR, the duty cycle is very low. A ranging cycle is about 1μs, while you might cycle at 60FPS. The chance of interference is only about 1/10000 for each ranging cycle. If you put a bit of random jitter in the flash timing, you can avoid accidental repeated interference. You'll get a bad frame once in a while, but if the frames on both sides of the bad one look similar, you're OK.

You can tell if someone is aiming a big light source at you; all the pixels show the same range, probably zero.

Those rotating machinery Velodyne things may not be as immune, but that technology isn't going to be high-volume.
When I heard about the 4k OLED 120Hz Dell monitor from last year, I immediately thought that that was the perfection of display technology for me.

OLED seems to have the best of all worlds:
- high refresh rates
- fast response times
- deep blacks
- good contrast
- wide viewing angles

The only issue that I've seen brought up about OLEDs is possible burn-in, but hasn't that issue been solved? Seems like Samsung and LG are confident in their OLED offerings.

Why hasn't this technology come to the PC? I know for a fact that the demand exists. Enthusiasts and gamers would absolutely fall over for an OLED display like the Dell UP3017Q.
I don't agree on the plants but I haven't been using shaving foam for years and it works very well. In addition to that there's this brilliantly simply life hack that will save you a lot of money on new razor blades: http://www.wisebread.com/want-to-keep-your-dispoable-razor-b...

Before I used that trick I had to use a new blade every 2-3 weeks or so. Now I get by with the same blade for at least several months.
I mean, it would be hard to argue that working 60+ hrs a week isn't also a health risk for someone else's profit margin.

But to be fair, I think that the self-assessment of increased productivity is a secondary explanation to why workers like their caffeine, nicotine, the various other popular stimulants, and now the panoply that is the archipelago of nootropics communities (oh yeah, and more research chems than you can shake a stick at).
You don't make headway by crowing that the other guy's "not normal". He was elected because he's "not normal." You win by demonstrating that he is bad for the people who elected him. Wasting time and effort with "oh, not normal" doesn't help your (our) cause.
" I don't know that it has become more or less that way. "

Universities were mostly founded by Churches - and they were for the Upper Class. They were bastions of conservatism in the classical sense.

In the 1930's it started to change.

Many profs in the 1930's were card carrying Communists. Unlike today, wherein nobody would care, and many would be sympathetic - they would be destroyed in that era if it were found out.

Put more simply: Universities were not leftists until the middle of last century. It was the 1960's when things really flipped.

There is no 'propaganda' needed: open discussion is suppressed on campus and this is a fact. Banned speakers, profs not allowed to speak of certain issues due to 'trigger warnigs' etc..

All of your comments about 'ACORN' and 'Obama' etc. have nothing to do with academia - those are completely political issues.

And FYI it is progressives who are against GMO's - and science indicates they are completely safe.

The 'anti vaxxers' are definitely 'anti science' and those groups lean left.

Those supporting Chinese medicine, herbal therapy etc. - that's fairly 'anti science' - and those people tend way left. (I have hippie family members who practice Chinese medicine and some of the stuff they do should be illegal. They don't actually diagnose patients with illnesses, but they truly believe they can, by looking at your tongue etc.)

I don't support any political ideal, but I would say that 'leftist / progressive' populism on campus is seriously a problem. I think it's mostly the culture and the students, not so much the course material.
A brief perusal of his blog suggests he is a left-wing extremist - so it's no surprise his tactic was to attempt shaming. Shame is a powerful incentive for collectivists, and presumably in his own mind he feels it's an effective tool to use against people he disagrees with. After all, people will self censor to a large degree if they fear it. It's also telling that this was his response to reading something he disagreed with, as opposed to say - making an argument.

He's not the first left-wing extremist I've dealt with, nor will he be the last. His blog post was harmless (if anything it was beneficial, hope the site is SEO'd). It does drag down the tone of the conversation, but there's nothing much to be done about that.
Desktop is synonymous with laptop/desktop machine in fact it is actually difficult to separate the two.

I think this is the case here.
What technology works 100%?
A little off-topic, but this site's cert appears to have a revoked intermediate authority. Pic: http://i.imgur.com/lIseT66.png

But no-one else seems to be complaining about this so I wonder if it's just me?
A GRB hitting earth wouldn't actually cause an immediate extinction event. From Wikipedia:

> Earth's atmosphere is very effective at absorbing high energy electromagnetic radiation such as x-rays and gamma rays, so these types of radiation would not reach any dangerous levels at the surface during the burst event itself. The immediate effect on life on Earth from a GRB within a few parsecs would only be a short increase in ultraviolet radiation at ground level, lasting from less than a second to tens of seconds. This ultraviolet radiation could potentially reach dangerous levels depending on the exact nature and distance of the burst, but it seems unlikely to be able to cause a global catastrophe for life on Earth.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst

The long-term effects are what could kill us, namely, the destruction of the ozone layer.
So? All crypto currency have some system to pay the developers, most do pre-mining. They use a different model.
Given that most families probably want to use this to torrent, would this not violate Digital Ocean's terms of service?
My brother-in-law (who is from Delhi) had a friend from who went to Brown and had troubles with his H1-B after he graduated.

He went back to India and created a healthcare startup which now has nearly 100 employees.

If the US was operating in its best interest, it would try to keep the people it trains in the country.

No country has a monopoly on intelligence and eventually many countries will catch up to the US. It seems to me that a good way to accelerate the process would be to kick all of the H1-B folks out.
I think artists and prgrammers ahve more in common than you think, so does pg . . . he even wrote a book about it—

Hackers and Painters: http://paulgraham.com/hp.html
Checkr (YC S14) is hiring Full Stack engineers to build the future of online trust
I see this sort of nonsense ALL THE TIME. Most of the work I do/have done is at non-tech companies, so no one above the 'team leader' level is even remotely technical. Any sort of security that costs time or money becomes either a joke ("You want us to spend money on what?!"), or is just ignored entirely.

In my experience the issue isn't so much that C's and managers lack understanding, it's that they refuse to acknowledge that they lack understanding and refuse to listen to people who do understand because it's "Just IT". This mindset is something I've seen backfire many times over the years, and in the end it always ends up costing more than just doing things properly in the first place.

/endrant
Chicago also released their taxi trips dataset recently: http://digital.cityofchicago.org/index.php/chicago-taxi-data...
There is no minimum allowable amount of controlled substances, so if a police field kit or lab can detect it, then assume that you'll be arrested for possession.

Whether or not the charges will stick is another matter, if it really is a tiny amount, far less than would be used to get a person high.
4 year STEM degree from an american university? Good Lord. So someone from Oxford, EMBL Heidelberg or Lomonossov University in Moscow is out, whereas someone from any unranked place in the US that no one sane has ever heard of is in?

Half of the students that graduate from my department cannot calculate stoichiometry reliably, and they are a state college, issue a four-year degree and are properly accredited.
there are filters currently founded on xenophobia/nationalism/racism/etc.

Compare the immigration restrictions of your own country to those of the USA. Aren't they more restrictive than those of the USA? And if so, doesn't that mean your country is more "xenophobic/nationalistic/racist/etc." ?
I dont think that many websites will be made in webassembly. Its more made for full webapps and games.

CSS/SVG is used for websites.
We've banned this troll account. If you see more behavior like this, please let us know at hn@ycombinator.com.
> "monotonous" (i.e. low-skill
> and repetitive)

Monotonous doesn't mean low-skill, simply repetitive and dull. There are many boring (to my eyes, anyway, ymmv) and repetitive programming and tech jobs.
Here is the actual talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMFfTRiipOQ
Given that you put words in my mouth elsewhere in these comments, I don't think you should be one to give advice on "discourse" and "assertions."
That may say more about you than OP.
Its a new Google meta before shutting down products, disassociate them from main brand to avoid reinforcing the prevailing meme.

https://didgoogleshutdown.com/
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Ask HN: Question for IBankers and Founders who have 800k or more in assets?
Create a throwaway account if you dont want to identify yourself. If you have been working in investment banking for 6+ years, chances are you have made it big.

My question is for founders or IBankers who have 800k in assets, what do you do now? How has life changed since you made it big?

I am 31. Is it too late to get MBA and go into Ibanking? Startup is like a lottery. Also, SaaS is like new housing bubble in my opinion. Because, it's so easy to create SaaS business these days and there is no requirement to have degree, even college dropouts are doing it (no pun intended).

I am thinking of ways that could bring in 400k to 500k yearly income. I have worked in tech for 10 years. I have bachelors degree, so there is a limit how much high I could go.

I want to experience high end life, may be live in nyc/sf costly high end houses and live financial indepedent worry free life.

If you have made it big, what has changed in life for you?
Some possibilities:

* https://hackhands.com/

* https://www.codementor.io/

* https://clarity.fm/
Because you will not learn the first assembly as well, code you write in the first language is going to be worse than what you write in the second language you learn (even after you learn the second one). It is better to learn one and throw it away.
The text of the bill presented in the previous session of congress may be found here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/5801...

The actual text of the bill only effects employers whose workforce is at least 15% H-1Bs (higher thresholds exist for employers with 50 or less employees).

The Attorney General can prevent an employer from petitioning for any alien (H-1B, L-1, nonimmigrant, immigrant, etc.) for a period of 1, 2 or 3 years (depending on willfulness and similar criteria) if it is found that a non-exempt H-1B displaced an American worker.

The current definition of exempt H-1B is: $60k salary OR a Masters degree.

The new definition of exempt H-1B will be: $100k salary.

The relevant statutes are here: http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=%28title:8%20section:...

The bill modifies (n)(3)(B).

The 15% and other thresholds are in (n)(3)(A).

The sanctions the Attorney General may impose are described in (n)(2)(E). Random inspections by the Secretary of Labor are described in (n)(2)(F).

The 1-3 years are defined in (n)(2)(C)(i)(III), (n)(2)(C)(ii)(II), and (n)(2)(C)(iii)(II) which (n)(2)(E) refers to.
That's a great point. I bet WebAssembly will result in an altogether next generation of technology given what we want to achieve today, not what we wanted to achieve in the early 1990s. But I have a feeling svg will have a big roll to play, and not only as inspiration either.
So how many children do you have? Why not more? You're not sharing gifts with as many children as you can conceive. You are selfish in that regard according to your own basis.
Very refreshing to see positive coverage of responsible psychedelic use. Just earlier today I was reading an interesting NYTimes article on Ayelet Waldman's use of microdosing to treat her mood issues:

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/style/microdosing-lsd-ayel...
If I could just change one thing in education. I would outlaw multiple choice questions.
Chattelizing human beings

You're equating H-1B applicants to chattel slaves?
They should make the scale of ``lightness'' by creams too; i.e. 1 cream, 2 cream, etc. and by roast as well. At least...that's what I would do if I knew enough LaTeX to write a package.
Speaking as a professional non-doctor, yeah maybe?

It really is a thing that is only responsible to do under a doctor's supervision. But speaking as someone who has done a lot of both, both with and without supervision, they've made a tremendous difference.

Having adderall is like turning on "responsible, task-completing adult" mode, and music becomes wonderful to listen to again, and my memory becomes sharper, and generally speaking it makes it fun to start my day. And yeah, cleaning and doing the dishes etc. becomes a complete non-issue

Unfortunately, sometimes it also means being tooo exciting to do "relax efficiently"- think playing a video game for hours on end, or reading textbooks front-to-back from dusk till dawn.

More or less, the same thing can be said for Ritalin. I've also experimented with 4F-MPH and 3-FPM, legally gray research chemicals that are similar to a more potent Ritalin and a more mild amphetamine, respectively.
10k people dead from air pollution in one big European city. The major cause of this being coal fired power stations and fossil fuel burning cars. Cheap nuclear power available 40 years ago would have avoided this. For this I blame the Greens, I say this as a voting Australian Green.

Environmentalist's persistent fever-pitched anti-nuclear narrative has brought the environment to this. Chernobyl, site of humanities worst nuclear accident, is a veritable wildlife haven. This silly nonsense has to stop. If it was stopped 40 years ago some small fringe of climatology would be discussing what to do as the earth slowly descends into the next ice age over the next 90k years, not the catastrophic fuckup we are currently staring in the face.
I found your reply kind of odd. Why would Waymo get it into the business of selling LIDAR sensors so that hobbyists could use them in their projects when that clearly isn't their business model.

Because let me assure you that an affordable, reliable, accurate and mass-produced LiDAR would be a complete game changer in so many industries, not only automotive: Robotics/Drones, AR/VR, industrial, construction, surveillance, etc...

Give this technology a small enough package and price and it would go into literally billions of smart devices.
And how good is it? Does anyone knows examples/has done some serious work in it?
i built chromium headless_shell for ubuntu 16 in the last 3 months to compare it to my phantomjs 2.1.1 build (cookie patch and ghostdriver selenium 2.53 patch). i was disappointed in what chromium headless_shell had to offer.

good: slightly faster on javascript heavy pages, full dowload and upload support, selenium support for alerts/popups

bad: slower startup, slower average performance, no mobile support, no screenshot support, takes at least 2x cpu and memory compared to phantomjs

for me phantomjs/ghostdriver is faster than chromedriver. plus chromedriver has an annoying click "feature"[1] that can break selenium tests.

[1] https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/help/cl...
Very fair - thanks for the update. Maybe it helps to think not as giving variables fixed names (like Luke or Lisa) but seeing them as data accessed by descriptors that describe their qualities (the ones that matter in the current context).

Btw humans also have many names, depending on context. You might have had funny nicknames in your childhood, your friends speak to you by your first name, other might speak to you by your last name, others might call you "darling" etc... likewise it's also not totally uncommon to speak to babies by the handle "Baby", like "how are you doing Baby?".
It's funny how most programming languages have die hard fans that truly believe (and will tell any stranger they meet in the street) that language X is "the best". There is no such thing as "the best" programming language for any given task. I like Clojure and Haskell and Javascript and Erlang and C++ for different reasons. They all have strengths and weaknesses, depending on the context and task at hand. And given the choice, I pick the language I use depending on the context and task that I need to solve.
Whenever the pros and cons of parenthood are raised, someone always mentions adoption. Adoption or fostering is definitely an option for some, but I don't just want random kids, I want my own kids.

My reasoning is that if I'm going to pour a large proportion of my energy into a small human for a couple of decades, I want to give that small human every chance to succeed. Assuming that all 'nurture' factors would remain equal, the only other thing I can give them is my and my partner's genes. If I believe that we both have higher genetic potential than a randomly selected human then it makes sense to ensure that our children have those genes.
it might be selfish in the sense that by refusing to procreate you remove yourself from the gene pool your ancestors worked so hard to keep a presence in.

on the other hand you have siblings and they did procreate, problem solved.
Yep. Conversely, it's interesting to see some urban planning folks warm up to ride sharing as a way to extend the reach of existing transit networks. But still a lot of hostility, to be sure.
Lichess Mate-in-One chess CAPTCHA [2013]
I think the point of the micro-dose is that it's not enough to make you feel high, just enough to have positive effects. So it's likely not the same effect you've experienced, unless you've experimented with micro-doses.
Possibly also better overall driving experiences are good for long term business. In the same neighborhood as Facebook working to increase access to internet world-wide, or Google Fiber forcing telcos to increase speeds and drop costs. Basically encourage others to improve the infrastructure on which you rely.
It's totally reasonable to consider doing something like this with differential privacy. The techniques exist, but it would still be pretty brave of them. They are certainly aware of DP.

Example technique: if you treat each record as a (src,dst) pair of (lat,lon) pairs or somesuch, you can then build a 4d grid whose cells you populate with (Laplace) noisy counts. This provides eps-differential privacy when the noise is roughly 1/eps.

Whenever counts are sufficiently large, you can refine the contents of the cell and ask again. If you do the refinement at most k times, you get k*eps-differential privacy. There are smarter ways that work even better.

These provide "trip privacy", meaning they mask the presence/absence of individual trips. Uber presumably has user identifiers, and could group all trips by one user together, and do the same counting where the weight of each trip is scaled down so that they sum to at most one for each user. This would then give "user privacy", meaning it masks the presence/absence of individual users.
There is a fork in the road. Along one fork, there are additional humans (your children!) who exist. Along the other fork, they do not exist. Deciding which fork Existence takes as it unfolds is entirely up to you.

But, sure, believe there are no moral consequences to this decision if that makes you feel better.
Forget exhaust, this is the real air quality problem.