skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't go too much into details, but suffice it to say that we're not using super conductors at all.

High T super conductors will be very interesting in the next decade, I think, but right now there are a few issues that I'm aware of:

1) The high T super conductors are almost all crystals, not ductile metals. This means it can be very difficult to form coils or other structures out of them.

2) High T super conductors generally can't withstand as high a magnetic field as the lower T super conductors. I'm not sure how practical a concern this is for MRI.

The benefit of High T super conductors is that you switch from using liquid helium as your cryogen to liquid nitrogen. This is a major simplification, but we're not all the way to room temp yet, unfortunately.
Chrome's Sandbox Feature Infringes on Three Patents
Yeah, who needs interstates, foreign relations, and minority protections anyway?
Ask HN: Why do you go to Hackathons?
I am curious to hear what are the drivers to participate to Hackathons. Is it to code with other people? To meet new people? To find your next startup job? To prototype an idea you had for a while? Or else?
The Forensic Mathematics Behind the Desperate Search for MH370
> That is not how it works

It depends on what you're trying to achieve. That time is a poor metaphor for distributable currency?

It still leaves healthcare and QoL as issues.
Awesome, look forward to having you on board, great to get some feedback. Just signed up with your startup, love the idea, has potential for users to capitalise on their own photo's. Get in touch, maybe we can talk about a collab.
Paper available at arXiv [1]

[1] "The Use of Burst Frequency Offsets in the Search for MH370" [ https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.02432 ]
>So, it does not sound as if BJ "delivers" as much as you thought, does it?

I guess not, at least, within the context of your little story.

To be fair, I am thinking of small teams, and I can imagine how their value would decline in larger outfits.

That said, I don't hire people to write CRUD apps either. Truly brilliant people should be working on solving hard problems which lack a general solution, not data layers and library duct tape.
I'm well aware of that. There's nothing on my phone I'd be ashamed to have exposed. Like I said, SSH keys are a concern.

In fact, your country's president probably wouldn't care too much if the stuff on his phone was exposed. He seems to be more than happy to make public all his thoughts and opinions.
I studied hospitality in Switzerland for a while and was surprised that some of my classmates just wouldn't integrate with the students there. It was as if they had some aversion to change/something different. Normally I wouldnt find that behavior odd but the whole point of hospitality is to engage and be welcoming. I could see it being a stonger issue for people in other areas of study
I'll take a stab :)

You ask "how good are we at predicting future life expectancy?"

Unfortunately I can't do an analysis right now, so hopefully this qualitative discussion will help answer it for you.

If you look at historical life expectancy, grouped by cohort, you'll see a relatively smooth function with easily identifiable trends. So, group everybody into the year they were born, and graph their average lifespan.

Past trends do not guarantee future performance, however a smooth function implies an underlying order to these observations. This is the core thesis everything else stems from then; we assume there is a relationship between the year someone was born, and their average lifespan.

Now a function relating just the year they were born to their average lifespan is almost certainly too simplistic. Where they were born, their socioeconomic status, and so much more will affect that number. The problem we have is that many of these parameters are hidden to us. Even worse, we can't even say for sure what all the parameters are! What we can do, however, is estimate the effect of these parameters, and even estimate the effect of parameters we don't know exist.

This process is inherently fuzzy, as statistics and modelling from less than perfect knowledge must be, but the models that have been created have proved to have great predictive power. The existence and general profitability of the life insurance industry is evidence to that.

We use models all the time, and for the most part this goes unquestioned. Regardless of your model of the sun and planets, it better predict the sun rising tomorrow, or else it's got some pretty big gaps. If someone told you they predicted the sun would not rise tomorrow, you'd be rightfully discredulous. But you'd be as equally discredulous if someone told you it was impossible to predict the future, so we really don't know if the sun will come up or not.

We test our models on their predictive power. Even if our models were bad, we don't simply throw them away because they are not perfect. We work to refine them and make them more accurate. Asimov's essay on the relativeness of 'wrong' is well worth the read.

So, life expectancy is a decent model, and is constantly being improved upon as we learn more about the world. Something may come along and cause us all to die, or live forever, but that remote possibility is no reason to throw our hands in the air and say the whole exercise is pointless.

Similarly, our climate models may be inaccurate or not account for some unknown future event, but that is not a reason to stop refining them, nor a reason to say "we can't know the future so this is pointless."
Now you can execute billions of peta-nops in parallel using GPU hardware acceleration in the cloud.
Don't forget the infamous NOP bug that made all the headlines in the late 90s, when certain values of NOP would actually do something.
Additionally, if one is building a compiler for other targets (both a compiler that runs on another target, and just a simple cross-compiler), the makefiles/rustbuild need to make sure the appropriate things get cross-compiled in the appropriate stages. Managing this was a source of a lot of complexity in the old makefiles.
> Objective-C could have been evolved into the language they wanted.

Swift is memory safe -- I'm not sure how one could evolve Objective-C into that, without breaking compatibility with the C subset.
This case already happened, specifically in reference to immigration, 70 years ago: see Knauff v. Shaughnessy[0] (1950).

> The exclusion of aliens is a fundamental act of sovereignty. The right to do so stems not alone from legislative power, but is inherent in the executive power to control the foreign affairs of the nation. When Congress prescribes a procedure concerning the admissibility of aliens, it is not dealing alone with a legislative power. It is implementing an inherent executive power.

[0]: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/338/537/
Actually no, I didn't. Good ideas tend to occur to multiple people at the same time.
This is just not true. His tweet specifically said this was not the best way forward. I appreciate that you have strong opinions, but just because you don't think he's taking a strong enough stand doesn't mean you can put words in his mouth.
Interesting but they seem to be treating all cultures the same rather than weighting the relative differences between cultures. Papua New Guinea may have a lot of cultures, but they are a lot more similar than Indian and French cultures for example.
Not that the sales occur on premises, but the sales are spurred afterwards, much like how a television advertisement works.
It's also interesting to note which elite universities are not present as signatories. Notice that Caltech is missing. I'm curious about whether that is due to the significant funding they effectively receive as the managers of JPL and are concerned about retribution.

It's indefensible IMO not to stand behind their community, many of whom are Iranian.
Oh please, the executives are walking away with millions. As usual the only people actually losing are the trench workers, I especially feel for any Visa workers right now (regardless of your feelings about that sort of thing, they're just people trying to earn a living, and with the current political climate getting canned might well mean getting deported.)

By all accounts the leadership put Yahoo into a nosedive and will be paid millions if not billions for their services and the little guy gets screwed.
The opportunity already came and went. Four years in means four years of catching up to do. If you come at it with more funding and a larger company structure you might be able to kill DistroKid by burning through a lot of cash, but you won't achieve the same "bottom feeder profitability", and your company might go under afterwards.

Basically, the only productive way to challenge this company is to also go in solo and be tough as nails, and there are almost certainly less contentious niches you can take on if you want to do that.
Sure, but very few regular people have patience even doing D&D websites. Imagine though that you just take your phone, tell it "make a website", then look at it and say, "well, change background to this photo", "hmm, place a gallery from a wedding there", "make a new page linked on the left and call it 'about me'" etc. And you see the changes happening immediately after you say it, and you can even correct it. This is doable today, you just need to have a set of "code blocks" that would allow you to generate proper web app and via engines like phonegap even mobile apps anyone can make.

Imagine you run a small business and need just some simple site with your contacts, and you are able to assemble it with voice in 10 minutes. That would be a complete game changer for most regular people.
Can you link to a news story that says they are using concrete today? What location are they placing concrete at?
Musk doesn't support it:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/825502400454594561

He has continued to have meetings with the current administration since it was issued though.
Exactly. If you would have said that this fiction was reality, people would have laugh at you. Actually some people still do. And a lot of people don't care anyway. We are kind of screwed when the majority of the public won't even react in fact of a gigantic threat. It's really hard to believe we still have that much freedom given that such little care is given to it.
There was insight beyond what you were specifically looking for: that he's created something that is very useful for customers and a great result for him, without turning to other money. It's a very viable path.

He's noted elsewhere that Fandalism wasn't as strong an aid as you might think. AND he had to build that audience himself too.

You can write blog posts and buy (small) ads and do some PR. Everyone started somewhere.
This is true for more than just engineers. I've done project management in QA where some Analysts working on my projects made more money than I did, and they were completely worth it.

Being a manager is really a unique skill in and of itself, which is why so many managers aren't that great -- especially when they were promoted from the position they go on to manage (see the Peter Principle [0]).

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
I use to go to hackathons for few reasons:
1. To have fun developing a new product and coding
2. Meet new and interesting people
3. Look at people skills for when I'm hiring for my company
Javascript is the kitchen hand that you taught how to chop vegetables. Yesterday you asked him to chop wood, and you've spent all of today trying to figure out why your kitchen knives are dull.
This will be huge for sports injuries, eg labrum tears. The cost and/or the wait for an MRI is often prohibitive.
Extending Emscripten to Support Objective-C  –  Running iOS Apps on the Web
Where I work, most senior engineers report into managers that have same pay grade. This squashes any allure of switching to managerial track for more money, because in many cases, it's not.

You can crap on managers all you want, but a big chunk of their job is soul-crushing work that most engineers wouldn't touch with 10 foot poles.

With that said, it doesn't have to be one or the other. There are IT managers that are highly effective as people manager and are technical. They are rare breeds, yet they're paid the same as managers that are not very technical.

By the time they get recognized and promoted, they're saddled with too big a team and responsibilities that their technical skill is no longer of much use.
> But it's sort of disingenuous to play David Vs. Goliath here like his line about launching:

Maybe not, people misunderstand David vs. Goliath as David being the underdog when David was a significantly a lot more skilled and was an archer[1]. @Pud was better, executed better and is beating the competition.

[1] - https://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_the_unheard_story...
Great feedback and insight. Appreciated. I'll checkout the MIT OCW and Khan Academy first. I'm hardly a beginner, but my skills feel a bit rusty and want to refresh them.
'How much should I charge' generator
Not true.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/02/technology/elon-musk-trump-t...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/07/elon-musk...
I applaud the move. Yet it is important to put all the cards on the table.

I can't help to be bothered by what could pass of hypocrisy at various levels. The article explains that 40% of MIT's grad students are "international". This means MIT's problem is a BUSINESS problem. At well over $50K per year per student the university-as-a-business (rather than an altruistic entity) is concerned about a drop in revenue should immigration policy change. Let's not pretend this is all about good intentions, pink unicorns and ice cream. This is a business fighting for their revenue sources. And they have every right --even the responsibility-- to do so. I respect that. No issues there so long as everyone is honest about it.

The other problem I have with all of these articles/arguments is this image being painted that the US would be dumb as a rock if it weren't for the influx of immigrants. I'm sorry, I don't buy that one bit. We already have great talent in this country. What we don't have is affordable schools (and books, etc.). A school like MIT (don't mean to focus on them, pick any school) can charge exorbitant tuition to foreign-born students and make millions. And the students pay for it. Not so with us-born students. Particularly given the state of the economy, unemployment, etc.

This idea that we better let-in hordes of immigrants for fear of not having businesses launched or any innovation is, well, repulsive. That would mean we are a wasteland of a country, and need to be rescued by immigrants, which clearly isn't the case.

This isn't to say immigration isn't good. I am not anti-immigrant at all. That would mean being against what allowed my own family to LEGALLY come to the US eons ago. No. My problem is with the fear-mongering that goes along with these arguments. It's dishonest and unnecessary.

It is OK to say we want immigrants because they are important to our continued cultural and economic growth. It's OK to say we want refugees because it is important to continue to define ourselves as a caring and socially conscious people. These things don't need to be embellished with "if we don't let immigrants in nobody is going to start companies, no jobs will be created and no innovation will be had". Sorry, immigrants don't have a monopoly on this. And they sure as heck don't have magical powers. We have lots of very capable and creating people already in the country. Let's don't diminish them to dumber-than-a-rock status.

As for MIT and other universities. They should be honest and say "we are going to lose a ton of money because we make a killing with foreign students". I can respect that. They are, after all, businesses.

On the other hand, if MIT had no foreign students and charged a LOT less for tuition it would be full of wonderful, capable, creative and eager-to-contribute US residents. The problem is very few can justify spending over $200K on a university education today. That's what these universities are trying to protect.
Not the OP, but we use Google Container Engine (hosted Kubernetes), with Salt for the non-GKE VMs.

This is needed because K8s is not mature enough to host all the things. In particular, stateful sets are still in beta. Not sure if I would trust K8s to run our production databases even with stateful sets. We've had K8s kill pods for unknown reasons, for example, and the volume handling has also been historically a bit flaky. Fine for completely redundant, stateless containers, less fine for stateless ones.
I have nothing but respect for effective project managers. You couldn't pay me enough to their work.
There aren't any grounds for impeachment, and even if there were you'd have to convince an awful lot of Republicans it's warranted.

And... "President Pence".
Lesson of the day: stop being good.
No amount of studying outside of the native environment will give you the skill level necessary to easily maintain social conversations once you're in it.

English is not my native language. However, I went to a school that had a specific emphasis on English: we had 5 hours of it per week in the first three grades, gradually ramping up to 6 in middle school and 7 in high school, and adding English literature on top of that. We wrote numerous essays, listened to recordings of native speakers, and spent a lot of time talking and listening to each other.

Then I went to study in a college in a country where English is a native language. I could read and write easily - better than natives in many cases, in fact (I'll never forget a rant that our elderly ethics teacher gave to me in private about how, based on the essays she was grading, only people with non-Anglo names could spell "its" vs "it's" right consistently). I could also speak fast while remaining perfectly understandable, and showing only a very subtle, hard-to-identify accent - that's where those hours of listening to tapes and talking with other students to polish pronunciation really paid off.

But for the life of me, I couldn't understand half of what people were saying. It was either too fast, or it was in an accent or dialect that was too unfamiliar to parse easily, or it was too casual (shortening or outright dropping many things that are always there in writing); and often, all of these at once. I had to ask people to slow down and repeat things - made all the more confusing because I spoke at a much faster pace (as I was taught to) than what I could follow.

It took about two months for everything to really click to the point where I could follow any conversation, and a lot longer than that before it stopped being a conscious mental effort.
"Find the ones that don't matter for all pictures, and collage them together. Train as non-elephants."

You're just creating negative examples manually, and then feeding them to the model.
I don't see any reason that Obj-C can't stick around for a long, long time, even if Swift is the "preferred" language.

Also, rumors of first-class support for Swift as a .NET family language are very interesting and would make the language much more realistic for cross-platform work. That could even lead to Unity support which would make me sooo happy. But I'm not the typical use case for sure.
In college I had to implement all my Data Structures coursework in COBOL. That was...interesting. :-)
No kidding. Seems like only a few of the largest media outlets provide SecureDrop or a similiar alternative, and that number quickly drops to zero when you move from general mainstream media to more specialised stuff (tech, sports, gaming, music, etc).

Most don't even provide more than a simple contact form or email address...
Netlify's testing site is fraudulent — yeah, I said it, let me know if you need my legal contact.

a) they're testing from within their network (bullshit).
b) they purport that you'll get 6ms ttfb if hosted on netlify. Dishonest.

I've intentionally imported sites to remote hosts, and tested them there — they performed better away from netlify, and, netlify's speed testing tool gave them bad scores, despite them performing better than the same site hosted on netlify.

Oh well. They've got some nice tools, if it weren't for their fraudulent testing tool.
You say "I used to go". Any particular reason why you stopped going?
To the contrary, I would argue it's easy to fall into misogyny.

If the few women you had in your life as a kid were awful people, you could have subconsciously picked gender as an identifying marker of being an awful person. Add some teenage sexual frustration and bruised ego, mix, and let stew in your head for a few years.
> I think if you are running a message board[...]

Are we talking about the suitability of operating any unencrypted endpoint without TLS, or are we limiting ourselves to message boards? If the latter, does that mean there are forgivable reasons to run HTTP-only applications that aren't message boards?

> The DNS on your website as linked in the profile isn't set

DNS is set up, it just doesn't have an A record or CNAME for the bare (second level) domain. That's intentional.

> Only the www. subdomain works

The other subdomains are certainly working.

> I'm not sure why you even want to discuss the details of my simple suggestion or "demand" at length like that

Because in response to this:

> failure to use HTTPS[...] is still a totally forgivable sin today

You said this:

> I disagree
Genuinely thought this might be a Jerry Springer piece
> Personally I believe that feminism will never get any further until they start framing things in a male positive way.

Those two links were meant to demonstrate that many feminists are already trying to frame things in a male positive way.
"practically every single other country in the world heavily enforces its border, and will also deport illegal immigrants"

True fact: When I moved to Norway, there wasn't a customs guard on duty when I got off the plane here. The passport was quickly stamped at the layover in Copenhagen, and that is the single stamp in it. I'm sure there are electronic records of my other travels within Europe: Only once have I had any checks getting into a country, and that was more because I was flying back from Amsterdam and they picked me to search for drugs.

It would have been somewhat easy for me to just come here, honestly. I didn't and went through immigration instead.

People within the EU can pretty freely find work in any country and live there as well, and outside the refugee crisis, I think this likely cuts down on illegal immigration.
Sure, but AI listening to you can be exactly that conversation partner, maybe by utilizing "General's effect" - i.e. just talking about some topic gets you to solution, even if the person next to you have no clue and just listens to you. Here AI can be that person and you can immediately see the result of your talk in a form of changing app you are building, and easily decide something has to be changed. Initially granularity of your changes will be large, i.e. the pre-baked operations will be simple. Later you can get more and more precise, as AI will be developing, and more and more people will be contributing more specialized operations.
How Not to Screw Up Your DevOps Interview
> syslog(1) was deprecated and replaced with log(1), a more verbose and difficult to use tool, for no discernible reason.

The new log store contains (or tries to) every old file in /var/log and every log-level flag in the system, so you can search them all in one timeline. It also improves privacy because all the %@ formats can be censored after a short time.
Not cheating -- no-one is making a moral claim here -- but to leave running Fandalism out of your description of your success feels like you're eliding crucial information. Like possessing a great marketing channel. And good for Pud for building it and using it!

I read these sort of success threads as basically case studies, and that marketing channel is probably relevant.
An exciting development. Perhaps a path to Swift on the web...