skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
K=mv^2 so a smaller asteroid going faster can do as much damage as a larger one moving more slowly.

Given the nature of orbital mechanics the speeds involved are usually staggeringly large. 20km/s sounds like a lot on a terrestrial basis, but in terms of inter-planetary motion that's downright pedestrian. The Earth itself travels 30km/s around the sun, a relatively leisurely pace as it takes a full year to complete but one orbit.

Something the size of a bus travelling at a high enough rate of speed could do tremendous damage. The Tunguska Event (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event) is presumed to have involved an object between 60-190m in size, and that's a fairly tiny object to track at any distance, akin to trying to spot a football field.
https://prism-break.org/en/all/
Yeah; switched my 50 year old mom to Linux three years ago. People still acting like every distro is Gentoo.
People have used the term linguistic relativity to mean anything on a vast range of specific hypotheses, which makes it hard to figure out what exactly people mean when they say it's been proven or disproven. Nevertheless, it's pretty clear to most people that the stronger forms of the hypothesis--the idea that language is essentially a straightjacket on the kinds of thoughts you can express (or linguistic determination in general)--is thoroughly debunked.

I personally rather suspect that the weaker forms (that language generally shapes but not fully limits how you view the world) are also equally fallacious, even if language and world-views might be weakly correlative--instead, I see language and world-view as essentially both being strongly derived from that of those who teach you.
Wrong. The rebuys let you build up a big bankroll as you feed your table.

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

Notice how there is never any repeat winners? (Well, except maybe Chan and one other.)

Try sitting down at a table in vegas and play tight. Watch as everyone leaves. They just can't make enough money, you just lose it all to the rake.
For 65,000 people and bidding based on salary, 300k sounds about right IMO. Think brain surgeons and the worlds best security experts not just DBA's.
Waiting for cards against HNanity.

Edit: Sample Q&A's welcome.
Meanwhile irssi just removed support for DANE in the irc client which I believe means that there are now zero irc clients that will attempt to validate you aren't talking to a rogue irc server. Wasn't irssi the first and only to implement it?

DNSSEC is dead on arrival. Nobody actually wants it.
>This sounds like you are talking about consulting companies who hold their employees hostage

This thread is discussing a law -- that targets only consulting companies.

>No legitimate company can do that and you have legal recourse if they do.

That is not correct. There is nothing an H1B employee can do if his employer does not share the copy of I-140.
> That would be the no true scotsman I guess, but actually you invoked this with your "crazy" feminism. I'm the one that said there isn't really any such thing as a singular feminism.

And yet you are willing to say anyone teaching what they call feminism to their child is doing wrong because of it.

> This is a consistent argument, about which I say more. It's only circular in the strict way you stated it, which is a purposeful misrepresentation in order to portray it as circular.

Then why is feminism bad?
If you're Canadian why are you getting a H1B? Get a TN. It's simpler, faster, and way less onerous than a H1B.
I'm a liberal AND an immigrant and I strongly favor a reduction in the availability of H1B visas, they are a tool for wage control and nothing else.
So... what is "wide color"? Are we talking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-gamut_RGB_color_space or something else that has no documentation anywhere on the internet?

Not trolling, I care an incredible amount about color spaces, and had expected support for something like the UHDTV Rec.2020 color space with D65 (cool/blue white), not an obscure Adobe standard with D50 (warm/yellow white). It's wider than Rec.2020 though, so if this is what you're talking about: awesome, please update your article so people can find out more about this color model and the rest of the world can catch up!
This article brings to mind the challenge of enforcing empathy in an engineering community. Software and other technical systems are coldly precise and unambiguous. People, on the other hand, are rarely that precise and often illogical without significant effort/investment into forcing themselves to be rigorous about a though or claim.

I think it's too easy for community members to leave opinionated outsiders with a bad taste in their mouth when they approach your system with opinions and tendencies that were built up in other systems with different circumstances and assumptions. The kneejerk response is "well, you're wrong, we don't do it that way here," hence the dogma.

It takes serious effort to fight that instinct, and not everyone is good at fighting it... especially when some community members suffer from the same problem as the outsider, but with the affinity being toward their own system. This is a hard problem to solve...

It's a good thing this article was written and there is a willingness to at least acknowledge the problem in the Go community. It contrasts to the style of say, Linus Torvalds, whose approach is basically "empathy? fuck that, I'd rather call them names" :-)
Oculus Release Carmel WebVR Starter Kit
They can be transferred, but you are still at risk until the other company gets the receipt from the USCIS which might take up to a couple of months.
Parsing the Docker Logs API Binary Format
+1 on the X1 Carbon. I made the switch this year, too, post MacBook Pro announcement. Have been running Fedora flawlessly. Cheers.
Isn't that part of the mandatory public record that all H1B employers are required to maintain? Anyone can walk in off the street at your work location or company headquarters and ask to see it, including you. You might have to bring your own battery-powered scanner with you, though.
Oh I am absolutely not advocating tariff on outsourcing, far from it. I actually prefer a balanced system hardened against abuse - it's just that there's so much hot headedness going on right now I was wondering if more protectionism in the name of creating jobs is on the way.
I think the cards on this project's homepage are funnier. Even if we're only shown four of them.
This would only be true if companies needed better employees than their competitors. If you merely need someone capable of doing a job, there's no such limitation: it's logically-possible for 100% of software developers to be able to put a script in cron that runs a SQL query to generate a report.
Haha, could well have been. :-)
The Bay Area could truly benefit by some reduction in the H1B workforce. The influx of foreign workers contributes greatly to the housing shortage that's hurting everyone right now.

p.s.: Just in case you're wondering, I'm an immigrant and I left the bay area exactly for the reasons I'm highlighting.
Why $100K makes sense. Data from 2014 showing how many H1b and the average salary for the top H1b seekers. The legit companies are paying on average >$100K

Infosys	32,379 $76,494
Tcs 8,785 $66,113
Wipro	6,733	$69,953
Igate 2,056	$67,168
Cognizan 1,704	$67,506
L & T	4,380	$59,933
Hcl 3,012	$81,376
Tech Mah 2,249	$73,374
Ust Glob 1,549	$73,374

Deloitte 8,028	$85,295
Ibm	5,839	$87,789
Accenture5,099	$70,878
E& Y 2,188	$88,353
NttData 1,156 $100,889

Microsft 3,911	$113,408
Qualcom	3,086	$105,169
Google	2,163	$126,565
Intel	1,945	$102,883
Oracle	1,773	$113,065
Amazon	1,256	$109,409
Jpmorgan 1,256	$105,837
Apple	1,038	$130,690
For painting, there's https://krita.org/en/ which has some excellent features.
Your logic would prevent any app from just about any non-c ecosystem running. Java, ruby, python, dotnet, rust, go, they all have their own library management and very few of those libraries will be available in an apt repository (let alone a compatible one).

Your policy may work in a university, but you'd be fired from any real business.
I agree, though the fact still remains that most funding will go to novel (and yes, important) scientific research rather than civilization-saving (and way more important) asteroid defense.

On the importance... if human civilization discovers the precise nature of the cosmos and no one is around in 100 years capable of learning about it, does it matter?

Given the current political and social climate I think it's a lot more pragmatic to learn how to organize and preserve our knowledge such that it's as easily decoded and readily available as possible on as large a timescale as we can manage.
Germany investigating unprecedented spread of fake news online
If you want to go down the route of protectionist laws you need look to further than the copyright and patent systems. Isn't that anti-free market in the same way accept more to the detriment of consumers as opposed to firms? It seems we live in a nation that has rules that govern our markets and everyone is fine with that, until you wish to use that very same system to protect workers in some way.
Confluence is starting to move in on SharePoint's turf, I've witnessed it first hand. The two products really don't compare, but for Digital teams who just want to get something going Confluence is way easier.

I think this acquisition will add to the Confluence vs SharePoint story and make Atlassian more attractice.

IF (it's a big if) Atlassian are planning to move into the intranet/productivity tools space this acquisition is really sensible.
If its stateless traffic then yes.

The ECMP/Anycast just gets you beyond the limit of an single pair of IPVS boxes which are are kept in sync with keepalived/vrrp for HA.

But a pair of boxes with ipvs + keepalived + iptables should be be able to handle a few thousand connections no problems. Your concern would then likely be the bandwidth going through the box. But if your client pull rather than push using direct server return should be able to get you past the bandwidth limitations of a single box.
Jobs was paid in the form of the NeXT acquisition and the personal vindication of being brought back and turning things around. He was strongly personally invested.

Mayer was brought into a company in a death spiral, that she had no strong personal investment in, presumably knowing very well that odds of failure were great and will likely affect her future opportunities (I'm sure she'll do fine, but I'm sure she'd have done better if she'd gone to a big success)

How many people would take the Yahoo! CEO job without a significant risk premium over their market rate?
Flickr was the only service that insisted I should stop paying the yearly fee and switch to a free plan. Shortly afterwards they drove me away for good with some silly zoom and pan effect on photo views.
There was a pretty major risk that her name would be tarred as "that loser who wrecked Yahoo". It might affect her ability to get any further C-level positions. That risk might not be something that a normal human being would want compensation to take on.
What is your opinion on the evidence presented in the article?
all the stock growth is due to buybacks, so credit goes to Janet, not Marissa.
How about the top in their job title in their geographical area? That way you can take into account pay variance over the US.
Looks nice, but for some of us, Flickr is also about externalizing management of TBs of redundant storage ;)
Not a bad answer, presuming humanity is a thing to preserve (not proven). Though it answer the question "Should we eat meat farmed in a mass production way" much more than should we eat meat at all. There is a theory that we can use cows to reclaim deserts (https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_worl...). Given your argument, we could eat those cows when they come to market since they should have a positive impact on the problem.

Edit: grammar clarification.
Assuming the bot can communicate with other players, what's stopping it from being smart enough to negotiate it's own collusion schemes?
I agree - there should be a separate quota for students graduating from top-tier universities.
How would that work? People agree to take a paper job for $150k and then quit and take the $75k? This seems like pretty easy behavior to both prohibit and enforce.

But I'm not sure why those people wouldn't just go to Google and leave Infosys on the hook for all their initial immigration expenses anyway.
Some more examples

https://twitter.com/eringriffith/status/818514263459426305

https://twitter.com/alexrkonrad/status/818573779945353223

https://twitter.com/JMBooyah/status/818583111277617153
Ah yes, the good old "studies can be wrong" and moving the goal-posts to require impossible to perform studies. It's not possible to show something like sexism universally because what is the indicator everyone does you test?

You call it hand-waving, but you are the one hand-waving away the evidence we have that sexism exists. You focus on the wage gap, but that's just one argument people make - and just because some people interpret the data wrongly (expecting 1:1 to be the right outcome, disregarding the difference in common career paths), that doesn't make it entirely wrong (sexism could still be a factor - it's hard to tell), and it doesn't make it malicious or the whole of feminism somehow invalid.

I see plenty of discussion about that, and I don't see people trying to force through 1:1 as the standard.

Yes, amazingly there are people who call themselves feminists and are wrong, like with anything. If we had a site that was citing the wage gap, demanding 1:1 pay regardless of situation, etc... I would be onboard with calling it wrong.

That doesn't magically make a site tarnishing feminists with legitimate arguments and aims as wrong. That article was reasonable unless you think teaching a child about feminism is wrong, which implies that feminism is inherantly wrong, not just potentially in the wrong hands.
I'd say lots of immigrants have the money. What they don't have is a vote.
Yes - that's very typical for US companies, because they're afraid of being sued. It definitely shouldn't be read as cold or uncaring on the part of the people responding to you; the worst that can be said is that they were paying too much attention to their lawyers. :D
Graph isomorphism isn't that important practically (subgraph isomorphism is, but it's NP-complete and, IIRC, APX-hard as well) and the hard graph cases don't come up much in practice (despite being a relatively large percentage of random graphs, AFAIK). I think it reflects a difference in how mathematics is done; the quasipolynomial result was first presented at a conference, not in a paper, which definitely wouldn't have been the case 20 years ago.
Building a Compiler in Swift with LLVM, Part 1 of 4: Introduction and the Lexer
Always entertaining watching the HN zeitgeist on H-1Bs or offshoring of tech jobs and contrasting it with the attitude to, say, the elimination of millions of trucking or retail jobs.
Same for me - last I checked, Gimp's UI is too damn awful. But I only need 5% of PHotoshop's features (smart selection, fill with color, resize, crop, optimize for web) to optimize images for web work
His eye for hard science is very keen. I love that he has notes at the end of Blindsight that try to dig deeper into the approaches he had taken in the writing and add background.

I couldn't put Echophraxia down. I might hazard that I like it more than Blindsight but it'd be hard to put in words.

Which do you enjoy more?
Loeb's thesis was simple - that Yahoo is worth a lot more as the sum of its parts as it was a combined entity. He was right - there were long periods of time where Yahoo on its own had a negative value.

The stock price was largely driven by Alibaba - hence why attributing stock growth to Mayer's appointment was misplaced.

The idea was that you sell off the BABA holding, distribute that to investors and then you end up with Yahoo on it's own which is then pivoted to being a tech company (higher PE's) rather than a boring media company.

Mayer ended up becoming far from the ideal hedge fund CEO. She kept more of the BABA sales for acquisitions than the activists wanted, she spent hundreds of millions on silly recruiting like Henrique De Castro and then spent $2.5B+ on 50+ acquisitions - all of which didn't move the needle and ended up being written down to near-zero.

That's a lot to spend for a company that had a negative value - and Mayer hastened / worsened the situation (hence why Loeb got the hell out of there when offered $29 by Mayer)
> High expectations for someone thats been here for almost 10 years.

A) now you've gone and made me feel old. :(
B) I hope to raise awareness about how HN should be. I'm not making a rallying cry, "Make HN Great Again!" We should be more civil. People coming in for the first time might not know that.
Im also going to make the switch with the Lenovo X1. Apple are just taking the piss with peripherals and cost now.

Nice read, gives me more faith in my choice.
> The ratio of criticism-to-compliments tends to go hand-in-hand with the person's perceived success-to-failure ratio.

Intuitively this seems accurate. Wondering if you know of actual research regarding this though?

To add to that, I think people have a hard time assessing relative success. Imagine being dropped in as the captain of the Titanic after it's hit the iceberg. If you manage to delay the sinking for an extra hour, which allows more people to escape, you are successful even if most people do drown. You're successful relative to some expected value. But drive-by armchair analysts will just see that the ship sunk and a bunch of people died and blame you.

Obviously this situation is much more complicated, since opinions will differ about whether Yahoo was in fact inevitably sinking, or whether a different captain could have helped it survive.
Preheat cache for grids (2009)
I think you are talking about is H1B-LCA document. I-140 petition is different, it is employer's property.
> ... reading about minds that are fundamentally different from our own...

so is 'a fire upon the deep' by vernor vinge. where you have 'tines', iirc, a race of canids comprising 4-10 (or thereabouts) members sharing a group mind (new members can be added when old ones die etc.)
This is definitely the most detailed description of fire I've ever seen.

Note - from an artistic perspective, and AFAIK, wood (and kerosene, and other sooty fuels) produce a "deep"-looking flame, while propane (and other 'clean' fuels) produce a "shallow"-looking flame, due to the black colors introduced by the soot.

Compare the look of the fire in these propane effects: http://www.effectspecialist.com/special_effects_Propane_flam...

to the look of the fire in this kerosene effect: http://mentalfloss.com/article/71663/watch-mesmerizing-fire-...

This is also (AFAIK) why you generally don't see "sooty" colored flame effects - the amount of the coloring agent that is needed to overcome the "darkening" of the soot is impractical, at least for large-scale effects.

Source: That one time I got really excited the talked to people who'd made a (gigantic) flame tornado art piece.
As someone with continual dental issues due to an unhealthy high sugar diet and low calcium due to lactose intolerance, I'll be super excited if this becomes a thing.
Could you comment on your battery life experience / any heating issues?
their names are never stained. she will resurface in some other high profile position in no time. these C*O's live in their own universe, where common sense and peasants' logic do not apply.
But, how are posters on HN supposed to get upvotes if they don't say something alarming/negative? Positive comments are explicitly discouraged in the "community guidelines." Perhaps we should consider whether sama or pg had a greater influence on that.
Also, a small chance that you end up with 24 of someone else's photos.
Yeah try ordering anything from Lenovo on your iPad... their site is buggy as hell. I mean, how much effort can it take to clean it up?
I think it's pretty clear he either legitimately thinks this is about blackjack or is completely clueless.
Dell.com says the new Precision 5520 has "NVIDIA Quadro M1200"[1], which may be a typo of P1200.

Is the NVIDIA Quadro M1200 included in the Precision 5520 based on GP107-400 (GTX 1050 Ti) or GP107-300 (GTX 1050)?

[1]: http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/precision-15-5520-laptop/p...
"If it were not a good option for them, they wouldn't sign up for it, so it has more benefits than costs for them."

The same could be said for child labor though couldn't it?
> I'm wondering why people focus on financial compensation so much? Why does how much someone was paid justify more or less bashing, as the case might be?

Because it reveals the tenuous relationship between executive pay and company results, and people prefer to take it out on the obvious cases rather than accept that there's little evidence they correlate very well.
Me too, waiting for the new one to become available.
This is insanely cool, and I imagine there is no need for me to explain how useful this would be in comparison to the current dental approaches today.

But is this technology ever going to be available to consumers? I remember reading about similar advancements almost three years ago and haven't heard anything related until now. Maybe I'm pessimistic, but I think we won't see this in practice for a Very Long Time™.
How Long Should You Sit for Before Your Back Hurts?
It was in the fourth paragraph:

> The color space that Apple chose for its devices going forward is Display P3.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCI-P3
...without providing any supporting arguments or information in the same post.

Nothing in the comments you linked to is, textually speaking, a demand. Would you describe my comment as an "aggressive demand" if I were simply expressing ideas that are completely conventional?

work your way up to the point where the logic of making the analogy is immaculately clear?

Assuming I were expressing conventional ideas, would it be necessary for me to address every possible counterpoint in the original comment to avoid making an "aggressive demand"?

I think you are wrong in suggesting that people didn't understand the logic. Here are a bunch of comments that understood just fine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13353968 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13353848 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13353773 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13353794 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13354341

Inducing emotional responses in others with one's writing is inevitable -- do you actually want to convince people of why your point holds water (using something like the strategy I propose), or do you only want to evoke anger and get people turning away in a huff (what you've done in this thread)?

Paul Graham wrote a great essay a while back called "how to disagree". Levels 0-2 (name calling, ad hominem and responding to tone, respectively) are quite common in the broader world. As Trump vs Crooked Hillary demonstrates, level 0 is quite effective at persuading the masses. http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html

On HN, I generally make the good faith assumption that we can discuss things at a higher level (e.g. 4 or higher). This thread definitely demonstrates that as a belief about the world, this is probably not super accurate.

Is it your genuine belief that if I phrased my comment differently, I would have avoided the level 0-2 reactions to it? How would you have phrased it?
Ask HN: Good books on body inflammation
Hey guys,

Recently found out I have fistulas in my pelvis area. I'm looking for ways to reduce body inflammation and potentially fixing my immune system.

Any books on this sort of thing?