skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you browse the image search results for "china high speed rail viaduct" it's obvious that it's a lot less disruptive than laying the track at surface level.

E.g. if it's through the middle of your field you can cross the track at any point, as opposed to going out of your way to get under a tunnel. Most of the land underneath the track can still be farmed, so why wouldn't it be cheaper?
France's pension system (for public employees in particular) is in deep trouble, as our many of its other 'free lunch' policies. Its debt is looking similar to Greece shortly before '09. http://www.tradingeconomics.com/france/government-debt-to-gd...
EDIT: erasing my non constructive troll comment but leaving the rest.

We are talking about people who think vaccines cause autism and people who believe in homeopathy. Do you really think 'many consumers' can do the research and make an intelligent judgment about modern pharmaceuticals? I consider myself pretty smart and I can't tell you how drugs interact or what causes them to work.
Dog Carts
https://www.its.caltech.edu/~dg/crunch_art.html claims it's about 15. Though that article was written in 1993, it seems (good read in general, btw).

Still, it seems low IMHO. Unless you start counting at the point where the person gains full tenure rather than from the point where they become some kind of "group leader", "assistant professor", or such "tenure track" type position?
Testicles are for generating children. Should I be able to post a picture of my scrotum to Instagram?

Do most men get aroused at the sight of female breasts? Do most women get aroused when they have their breasts fondled/licked/etc? If the answer is yes, then female breasts are a sexual organ. This isn't even a matter of opinion.
Depends on what you're building a website for. For example if you're a business then having a website is a must. 79% of potential customer's check out/google a business on-the-web before actually making the trip to the store.
Having a website is one of the best ways to be in front of your potential customers.
See: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/11/frenchman-given-s...

"Man names Wi-Fi network “Daesh 21,” prosecuted under French anti-terror law. New law forbids “public praise” of terrorism, punishable by up to 7 years in prison."
The Science of Having Sex in Space
Peter Thiel is a nobleman in my eyes. His type of Philanthropy, is the type of Philanthropy that doesn't leave the worlds innovators and statistical anomalies behind. I've encountered far more respect from Peters team and his network than I've encountered from any potential investors, anywhere. Within 10 minutes of contacting a Thiel-network firm, I had a meeting (next Monday). I'm also a guy who's lived 50-75% below the poverty line for years to get my innovation to the point where it's a once-in-a-generation startup, and I certainly haven't been discriminated against. I see Peter as a person who either is successful at getting the best out of people (and hopefully have them come to him), or has no problem saying No to people that probably ought not to be invested in - unless the bet was to fill a certain niche/padding of the fund to show short-term returns in terms of increased Market Value to limited partners.

When I read in the media that people call Peter a "Fascist", what I'm really reading is that these people saying horrible things about a perfectly good man is because they're intolerant of other peoples choices or views to the point of being Maoistic and Libelous. Even if Peter said No to me, by no means do I feel he would do me harm. He probably could because I don't exactly have patents issued, but I don't think he will because it's not why he got into business. Look at Thiel term sheets vs the competition. Night and day.

Also, think about it like this, Mr. Thiel is in a powerful position in politics, and could literally destroy me (and I know this), but his VC firm that it looks like he put all (or most) of the money into, felt it was important to meet with me as soon as possible and made me feel like a somebody, even though I felt like nobody for years. If they say Yes, that was the best way to start what could be a lifelong (forever?) relationship, and won my intense loyalty.

People should create the innovations, and come forth to Peter and his network. They really should.
Capacity is only needed for short periods at peak times, which could be achieved by e.g running more standard-class carriages instead of first class. [0]

Since you mentioned Coventry, it's intercity capacity to London will actually be reduced if HS2 comes to be due to extra trains to Birmingham occupying the track. Same for many other towns and cities in the Midlands. [1]

[0] https://beleben.wordpress.com/2016/04/05/friday-capacity-to-...
[1] http://stophs2.org/news/13115-13115
anecdotal? Not sure you used the right word there...

FWIW, I work for google and have access to the numbers. Although I can't give specifics, I will say that although Dublin, London, and Zurich are all larger sites within Europe, the Paris office has a non-trivial number of engineers, and some cool projects going on.
They have guidelines for the submissions, you can go for it: https://goo.gl/XLGaqy
Indeed, this is the approach taken in many languages with reference counted types.

One problem is that the user would have no way of naming the thing that the lifetime is attached to. Diagnostic messages when trying to hand off 'name' to other code could be perplexing, as the delta between broken code and working code would be larger.
TBH, I don't really consider money I allocate for health insurance in the US as "take home". I wonder how the pension contributions work for expats?
Debugging Go in VS Code
> Sure all the "senior" programmers with 3 years' experience get paid a lot less than in the US, but I don't think the VP level does badly at all.

I think this is true from looking at my family. That's exactly what I don't like about European culture: the really senior people still make a lot of money. Americans are just better at sharing down the food chain.
P(A|B) = P(A)P(B|A)/P(B)
There's only a few guys out of a few Parisian schools, all at master's level, that have any chance to get 45k as a junior in Paris.

Looks one you're one of them if that's what you've got? ;)
The example of being able to reduce the data rate by only configuring the system to look in a narrow frequency range in the spectra is perceptive! Although unfortunately you cannot divide the data rate down by the number of antennas by processing each antenna in parallel. Interferometers such as this must correlate the signals between each unique pair of antennas and in approximate real time (1 sec to 1 min range). The data rate comes from sending the signal of each individual antenna by fiber or waveguide to a special FPGA/ASIC super computer called a correlator that computes the correlated signal between each unique pair of antennas. So it all goes into the hopper at once.

Now what you're saying can actually be done, and is done on very long baseline facilities like the VLBA or Event Horizon Telescope (EHN). As an example, the EHN uses hydrogen atomic clocks to essentially time stamp the signal from a single antenna into a 50 TB disk pack, where each of the antennas are off by themselves from Hawaii, Spain, to the South Pole. They then bring all the disk packs to MIT where they then do the correlation from the time stamped data streams. This process is actually very complex however and it requires more total processing in the end. The higher computation comes from having to repeatedly process the data searching for subtle time offsets and antenna position offsets to find the correlation (this is how they use interferometers to measure those 1 cm/year continental drifts).
I would generally assume it's much closer to "code, code, code, cookie[key] = crypt(password), code, code".

Many (most?) crypto libraries have incredibly accident-prone APIs. When presented with both `crypt(input) -> encrypted` and `crypt(input, iv, nonce, secret, etc, wtf, abc | 23 << 2) -> encrypted`, which do you choose?
Women's breasts are considered to be nudity in our culture by majority of people.
Men's "breasts" are not considered to be nudity in our culture by majority of people.
There are biological and cultural reasons for those things.

If women would complain they are seeing nude males in Instagram then it's completely OK to ban male nipples too. But we haven't seen those complaints.
That is a very good point. Same as with female genitals in Hollywood movies - if they have to show a front shot it is an innie or nothing.
Seems like it needs a simple tweak.
Sweden, Germany and the UK have approached economic growth far differently than what France has, and have produced superior results to that of France. The question was, why would the "French fraternal" system be worthy of being copied given its weak results?

See for example: Sweden's economic deregulation and lowering of taxes, which prompted their significant economic boom.

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0803/international-invest-...
It's. Not. Free.

"Free at the point of delivery".

Do you pay to use the highway, or do you drive on the highway for free?

If you can use a service without handing over money for the use of that service, it's reasonable to call it "free".
My guess is that they pay much more.
I don't know if that's such a great security practice. I thought it was pretty common (at least among tech saavy crowd) to not click on Email links, but judging by the responses I guess not. Good luck and wear a helmet, everyone!
Both happened. I did already mentioned the printing press point but there's a reason y was used specifically.

The thorn character originally looked more like the letter p but with time it lost the loop at the top of the character and became more like the letter y. (See [1] in my previous post for example)
We're saying the same thing. 80s/90s == "couple of decades, if not longer". Granted, 20 years is "recent" to me but is most of a lifetime for others.

Here's the seminal case from '86 protesting the law against female toplessness, which in '92 secured the exception to (but not voiding of) the law in a ruling by the state court:

http://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/16/nyregion/judge-dismisses-c...
I think the relevant number is the fraction of PhDs that go one to a position that mints new PhDs. (That's where the multiplier comes from.) So that almost never includes non-tenure-track positions, but does include assistant professors who don't go on to make tenure.
I would add to this, can you convince at least one person to work on this with you? Solo founding isn't just a little harder than having a co-founder.
And XMPP has always tried to be the email of IM. Similar model, address format, and so on. A sea of independent, autonomous domains openly connecting to each other.
>> Pick up an article from the New Statesman, or The Economist, or The New York Times - compare that to the offal you get on Buzzfeed, or one of the billion other click-bait sites.

It would be interesting to try an ad-blocking program that has an exception: if this article has been written by the journalist who did all the work(or something close to that) , he can show me ads.
This is really funny.

However protesting against Instagram's policy is really dumb. This is simply just a 'gotcha' loophole. The struggle for equality is a lot bigger than this.
Eric Lippert[0] is doing an "excessive explanation" of this paper[1], where he breaks the entire paper down, line by line, with examples that C#/Java people would recognize. It's nice for people like myself who are strong on concepts, but weak on notation.

ex:

map : ∀α ∀β ((α → β) → (α list → β list))

Which I previously couldn't read, but I could easily explain the concept.

[0] - Former C# language designer, Roslyn compiler team, etc.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programmerchat/comments/37qwmm/i_am...

https://ericlippert.com/about-eric-lippert/

[1] - https://ericlippert.com/?s=excessive&submit=Search
I tried to delete my account, but I don't know how. HN is a distraction anyway. I have a company to sell.
And the chips are probably the reaction to exactly that slide. Not only enabling SSL between datacentres, but verifying all code that servers run, to avoid that the NSA can download private keys from Google servers just because they handed an ESL to the datacentre operator.

Of course they can still use courts to get data directly from Google, but that way they can always only target individuals or small groups, not whole nations.
Yes. That's a temp agency (or an Indian consulting company but French, if you're familiar with the concept).

They're know for paying shit, and there are arrangements between agencies to not compete with each other.

Actual salaries at these places have been on a slow downward trend for many years.
I was wondering whether it would make sense to put some very smelly gas, just like you do with bottled gas.

Battery leaks would be then easily detectable by human nose.
My sentiments exactly. It is all about demographic targeting, crafting a good landing page, writing good copy, and writing good ads.

I could easily make a shitty ad and send it to a blog post I just wrote that 99.999999999% of the world doesn't care about, and find 100% bounce rate and burn through $10,000 in a few days.

I work with Adwords for a living (part of it, anyway) and can assure OP that if 90% of this traffic was useless, I'd be out of a job. I use heatmaps and other CRO tools and regularly watch my funnel go from an ad > a form generated on a website.
But bodybuilder community would be so mad, bro.
Well, maybe. I really have no idea. But even if I could get a job there and make more money, I strongly prefer not to leave NYC for the Bay Area.
Just beware that using any kind of headphones on a daily basis will severely damage your hearing no matter what.
I think this would be great. But I think the course should be per drug. For instance what you need to know to self prescribe MAOIs is very different from what you would need to know to self prescribe SSRIs.

It would lead to more people using drugs that are are highly effective but not prescribed for liability reasons like MAOIs.
i just bought bose Q35. though audio quality is avergae but noise cancellation is awesome. it is pretty steep price(349$) but it is worth increase in productivity for me as there is no other solution available in market better than this( i tried sony and momentum before but it doesnt fit my needs well)
>Pension contributions and retirement benefits

I live in the US with H1B. I still pay Social Security, and Medicare/aid every paycheck. Don't you?
Isn't it the same as what you said? Paying into a social system that probably won't be in a shape to pay you later?
There's no hidden motive here. It's interesting work, but usually this type of research is done on malware samples and the like, and not "regular" apps. That's why I'm curious if the authors should fear legal ramifications, and if so why (or why not).

I'm mainly interested in answers for the US, Germany/EU, and Switzerland.
You might also find this useful:

https://owncloud.org/
Luxury smartphones exist, but they are mostly variants of existing smartphones with bling added (gold, diamonds, ...), I think sometimes sold with concierge services and stuff like that. People don't care that much about technical differences, especially since they wouldn't be all that large. Current top-of-the-line smartphones already are pretty dang close to the maximum that is technically possible at any given time. A few more extra features (stuff like multi-sim, bigger memory) might work out, but that's not something people are willing to pay a lot more money for.
There is another 25% rate that is paid directly by the company to the state.
Headphones also work as psychological deterrent. I don't really care much about sound, but I do care about the talkative guy who comes with a absurd issue just to make small talk.
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Regarding French salaries again : yes they are lower than elsewhere but with some exceptions, French employers are not the problem : they do pay the same price for you as in other European countries, more or less ! The difference is that your average engineer in France costs them around 1.5-2.5 times the total take home pay, because of high, compulsory labor taxes.

In exchange, employees get as standard :

* a top notch, virtually free healthcare system with no concept of exclusions or "pre-conditions"

* Usually no student loans to repay because their higher education was free, unless they went for a private business/engineering school but that's still an order of magnitude cheaper than a US university.

* a comfortable (unsustainable ?) state pension later on.

* unemployment insurance that covers around 70% pay for months.

* 5 weeks holiday + public holidays

* Non San Francisco / London / NYC renting costs (although Paris is quite bad by French standards, and much worse than Berlin)

If you're US-based, think about your monthly budget and what goes towards healthcare/co-pay, student loans, kids college fund, 401k, and building an emergency fund in case you get laid off / severely ill. None of that is strictly required in France (although some of it is available as extra private coverage, and a good idea)

This is why cross-border salary comparisons are pointless, it's really apples & oranges.

I'm French and living in London, and I'd personally rather have the freedom to have a higher take-home pay and contribute towards the above items myself as I see fit. But I'm not fooling myself thinking that because my take-home pay is twice as high each month, the math is as simple as that. I know that I'm so much more on my own here than at home...
This looks great but I honestly wonder - if China is under heavy communism oppression and noone can make enough fuzz about their lifestyle before eventually disappearing... why would Chinese government care about spending money and time building such vast (and beautiful!) network? Serious question...
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If you want to move to Europe and work for a "leading startup" or a big tech company -- anything established that pays market rates for senior talent -- then you should also ask your favorite immigration lawyer about Germany's Permanent Residency for Highly Talented professionals, aka "Paragraph 19."

This gets you permanent residence, the same thing as a US Green Card. The minimum qualifications IIRC are an advanced degree in something tech/science-y, and a "high" salary in the legitimate job waiting for you anywhere in Germany (meaning you have to get the job first). For scientists the salary limit is lower than for engineers.

But of course the food is much better in France.
I think it's more than a rumor. As far as I know, Google stopped allowing new XMPP servers to federate, because almost all of the new servers that were trying to were sending spam.

It's possible that they grandfathered you in, if you were already federated when they put on the breaks, and your server wasn't guilty of sending spam.

Or it's possible that I'm wrong and they just got really aggressive about banning new servers if anything even remotely spammy came out of them, and it's really the spammers complaining that "Google won't let anyone new federate."
There are some bling-encrusted luxury phones like Vertu. In terms of power, it isn't really possible to build anything more powerful than flagship phones.
Ha, my calculation included my child (counts a 1/2 part). You are right, single person would be ~1800/yr, 150/month
> In other words, all the physicists pushing into the realm of the Silicon Valley engineer is a sign of a much bigger change to come.

So this article comes all the way to this. Is there data that hiring of physicists speeded up in the recent years? And why roles they are taken? Presumably not all in machine learning, if I have to guess.

Until then, this is another effort to turn an otherwise good interview into an unsubstantiated editorial aiming for nothing but hype.
NR Kocherlakota (my favorite): https://twitter.com/kocherlakota009

Tim Duy: https://twitter.com/TimDuy

Claudia Sahm: https://twitter.com/Claudia_Sahm

Stephen Williamson: https://twitter.com/1954swilliamson

David Andolfatto: https://twitter.com/dandolfa

Tony Yates: https://twitter.com/t0nyyates

Neel Kashkari: https://twitter.com/neelkashkari

Noah Smith: https://twitter.com/Noahpinion

Tyler Cowen: https://twitter.com/tylercowen

Justin Wolfers: https://twitter.com/JustinWolfers

Paul Romer: https://twitter.com/paulmromer

Jan Zilinsky: https://twitter.com/janzilinsky
It is kinda controversial. At least in relation to MWI; the validity and meaning of that assumption forms the basis of much of the criticism of MWI. If there were a rigorous derivation of the Born rule as a logical consequence of a global state undergoing unitary evolution, then I and many others would be much more convinced.

The other part of the problem is how/why observational outcomes occur in a probabilistic fashion in the first place. You keep saying that one or other branch "occurs" or "happens", but in MWI they're all happening. For some reason the observer only experiences one particular strand of their own superposition, and with a somewhat arbitrary probability to boot. It's not like that's the strand they're "actually in" but ignorant of. This is very different from subjective knowledge of a deterministic universe.
>If the NSA could force Google to hand over anything, why were there Snowden slides showing that the NSA was secretly tapping Google's internal networks?

First, they can force Google to hand over anything. NSLs and the PRISM program are evidence of this, and both are relatively narrow in scope. However, each time the feds compel a top-tier tech corporation like Google to cooperate, the entire thing is scrutinized by lawyers on both sides, and risks drawing the ire of pissed off employees. There's probably many more potential Mark Kleins in Google than there are at a telecom like AT&T—the latter company's relationship with the NSA being best categorized as incestuous.

That being the case, why conduct bulk data collection overtly when they can do it covertly? The aforementioned overt measures ensure prompt data access in the event of an emergency, and keep everyone thinking they're on the up and up. Meanwhile, the truly nasty stuff like domestic bulk collection is conducted behind the scenes.
https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/ is my framework of choice when making slides.
It's true that a phrase like "name calling" doesn't really communicate much—it's really just shorthand for a more complex model of how this community functions. I took a shot at trying to write a more detailed explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13412325.

It's actually tricky to articulate these things in detail, and takes a lot of time and energy that are usually in short supply, which is why we usually don't. Perhaps I should write a longer piece about it that we could link readers to in the future.
Snail mail too exists. And will exist for quite a while still. About as relevant for personal communications as email.
I didn't say they were on the market in other developed countries, since the drug approval bodies in those countries tend to face similar incentives. My point is that the process which requires drugs, even many existing generics, to go through extremely extensive testing for each possible application, is a problem because it means that only very large companies have the financial wherewhithal to get drugs through approval, and there is a strong incentive to focus on drugs which will be big sellers in a large market, rather than drugs for smaller markets.

The trouble is that one does not see what was prevented from existing.