skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IQ is ortoganal to education; a person with high IQ with a good round education will probably excel while two people with no education or an education that lacks certain aspect will probably not be so different.
Why would we want a browser-based IDE?
You can find University of Arizona salaries here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17bMR5x7I13fd6-7Yv-l_...

Look for "iplant" and "bio5".
Splatoon is an online-first title and one of the best on the Wii U.
Do you like that you grew up getting to know two cultures, or do you wish it had been different? Growing up bilingual sounds super cool to me, but people who actually did it often tend to sound less excited about it.
There are also people who are over the age of 40 and already don't have jobs, or never had jobs. Some of them might get jobs created by tech. Are they in some way less deserving? Do people who once had a job have a god given right to keep it? I don't think so but maybe you disagree. Either way, let's dispense with this idea that we only care about jobs at an individual level, clearly this is a discussion about jobs in aggregate. I don't think either one of us is talking about our own personal jobs right now.

Economic transitions are always painful, but economic stasis is also painful. Pick your poison, that's why it's called the dismal science.

Finally, as I've mentioned elsewhere in the thread I think you're several miss-attributing recent political "consequences" if you think they're due to automation of jobs.
Their revenue numbers must look absolutely insane, even if they're not actually profitable. I spend more money through instacart right now than any other software, and maybe all other software I use, combined.
Wow, it hadn't occurred to me they would that systematically unsupportive. Even in the military a lot of devs use Mac or Linux for their work laptop.
Agree.
As someone switching between Spanish, English and German (native) daily, it is for me at least mostly about context not language.

Not necessarily parents, colleagues, friends but cultural differences between countries/regions. I'm a Swiss living in Colombia. When I speak Spanish here my talking style differs quite a bit from home, because I'm adapting the local customs. But I'm still me. I can't think of anything I would do or not do, deem good or bad, just because I'm using another language.

Where language comes in is more in personally projection. Because of different forms of expression which are not 1:1 mappings and also because I'm not as eloquent as in my native tongue, you might think I have different personalities.

On the other hands I have several Finnish personality "traits" although I don't speak the language. But my mother is from Finland and I grew up with plenty influence of her culture.

I suspect, that if the language spoken has influence on the personality it is rather small or entirely emergent from the associated culture and time of life we learnt/used it.
It means it doesn't need plugins because it's using WebGL and WebVR, which are baked into the browser.
There were two choices moving forward.

1) The W3C allows EME to be standardized and we hopefully end up with a predictable standard.

2) The W3C not allow EME to be standardized and we end up with incompatible, proprietary and bug ridden DRM implementations.

People who think there was some other option are delduding themselves. The W3C made the right decision.
In theory, but we didn't have enough data or computing power for machines to compete with human performance (also algorithmic improvements).

I feel that the disruption isn't going to be completely new compared to past changes but probably across more industries at the same time because machines can soon move and think e.g. Driving, diagnosis, planning (through better prediction), assembly.
What a great purpose! GNU/Windows indeed!
That article's thesis appears to be that nearly all attempts at gun control legislation, including those by Republicans, fail regardless of their intent because of the political and lobbying influence of the NRA.

I don't see evidence of the "draconian" bills you mentioned, or of nefarious intent by "Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, and other ilk."
AWS is a massive pain in the ass. Its documentation is abysmal. Its API is a mess. Its admin tools are cumbersome at best.

A company like Netflix will get its own liaison from Amazon, which mitigates the glaring problems with the service.

After dicking around with AWS for a couple of months, we set up our own VPS at Linode and never looked back. What a refreshing change, which allowed us to develop a product instead of wade through a not-ready-for-customers back end.
Kind of makes sense given the recent outage. At least it looks like it's a good idea to diversify the cloud technologies across several vendors.
Poll: Are submissions about politics necessarily controversial?
I think they went to the "visual" moniker when IDEs started to become GUI (Windows vs DOS) based. It's been years, but I remember having to position controls using coordinates in code when tinkering with Visual C++. It certainly didn't have drag and drop like Visual Basic did at the time.
Thanks. Lots of what you say is right on. In my case I'd never succeed defending a patent. That's why my goal is to establish a little traction, then look for a buy-out, someone with the money and business needs to defend the patent.
Widespread community trust in the internet is what keeps Google financially viable.
If I understand it right, this bug involves code pulling in old buggy libraries, sometimes indirectly via other libraries. It seems that there is a reference to a specific bad version, not the actual inclusion of cut-and-paste code.

Eh, why not just get rid of the bad version? Alternately, release a bug-fixed copy with the same version number.

Any breakage is a case of "oh well, you're safe now". Leaving the security hole is probably worse breakage.
> I think the GP's viewpoint was widely shared by "The Elite" for the past 10 years and is what created the backlash that got Trump elected.

The Democrats essentially abandoning labor with the neoliberal "Third Way" politics of Bill Clinton certainly was a factor in setting the stage for a right-wing authoritarian populist like Trump, but ascribing Trump's election to any one factor is overly simplistic.
Exactly; the economy is not zero-sum; it's not a pie we have to split. The pie grows by the addition of more labor, more capital, or greater efficiency.

For example, in the U.S. starting from 1917, the great majority of jobs have disappeared, the population (and thus the workforce) has tripled, and yet unemployment is less than 5%.

If you find a way to do something more efficiently, then that creates more wealth for buying things from the former employee's next job. (The problem, not to be overlooked, is that while the economy as a whole benefits, individuals can suffer greatly.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13741879 - redemption!
New Cancer Drug Targets Cellular Garbage Disposal
In the next century, UN projections predict that the population of China will have dropped to 940 million, from its current value of 1,340 million. [1]

More immediately, Chinas population will peak in 15 years or so, which means its labour pool is already shrinking. Many East Asian countries are facing the same issue of course (South Korea, Taiwan) and Japan is dealing with it already. But these countries are all high income democracies - how will a middle income dictatorship deal with a rapidly aging population? How can they push through that to become even more economically productive, as you envision? I don't see it.

Chinas official GDP figures are hugely questionable btw, at least one province has been caught fabricating data http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-18/chinese-province-ad... [2]

I don't know why so many people seem to extrapolate Chinas rise in the past few decades out indefinitely into the future. I don't see it ever becoming a high income country - at least not under its current system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China#Populati...

[2] http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-18/chinese-province-ad...
The notion that prison rehabilitates has been widely discredited. Most of the time prison hardens criminals and makes them worse, with high recidivism rates being the rule rather than the exception.

Also, if your goal was to prevent murderers from murdering again, why would you ever let them out? To generalize this to other crimes: why would you let any criminal out if your goal was to prevent them from committing more crimes?
SF sues Hertz, says it’s ‘gouging’ car renters for bridge tolls
So we'll just forget about (atomic) bombs that we drop from the sky, gasses and other biological agents, cutting them off from necessary resources like water (or poisoning it) and food and so on? The strongest military in the world could probably just outlast them. Might take another 100 years though.
It's also possible to reduce the use of carbon based fuels. We know how to do that.
Facebook releases 300-dimensional pretrained Fasttext vectors for 90 languages
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The CM 1 had fast I/O throughput and all processors executed the same instructions (SIMD, single instruction multiple data stream).
Title of the study: "The Myth and Reality of Manufacturing in America"

As I said in my other comment, there is absolutely no guarantee that technology won't completely shift jobs from one nation to another. Just as individuals don't have a god given right to a job, nations don't have a god given right to an industry. In both cases, you have to work for it. That's the actual reality. Here in America we don't like either of these realities, we prefer myths. We've been ignoring them on the individual level for as long as we possible can trying to pass laws to escape them. Now we have to face the reality on a national scale where it's a lot harder to impose our mythical views on the world.
> But to a first approximation automation destroys jobs.

Automation transfers an increasing share of returns of economic activity to the capitalist owning the automated tool from labor; "destroys jobs" may be a result, but increasing (in the absence of some compensatory mechanism) economic inequality is a more certain result.
Getting into DevOps
Not appropriate to count entire cart/shopping spend as Instacart's revenue. Think of that as "GMV". Instacart's revenue is their delivery charges, service charges, and any money the stores pay them / % fees.

See #6 here http://a16z.com/2015/08/21/16-metrics/
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Additional factors were Napster and the rise of file-sharing services.

While I agree the history and context is different, I don't see a fundamental difference between the two.
thanks,

regarding the last one : today, if I own a US company and I charge a subscription to a German customer, I have to pay Germany's VAT and U.S. corporate tax, is this correct?

'Tomorrow' , I would only have the VAT to Germany to pay?

If my U.S. business pays a monthly subscription for a European-equivalent of Photoshop for instance, today I can deduct it from my taxes as it's a business expense, but 'tomorrow' I won't be able to? or: are services not considered "import" ?
If we don't manage to turn this stuff around then all this tech progress we read about all day won't mean very much.

I'm talking about things like VR and new programming languages... Obviously tech that saved the oceans would be a different story...
> He seems to forget that the world is not the US

I doubt that very much, as he is English...
Theoretical Physics Research
I'd like to think some of this has to do with the fact that she forced all remote workers to relocate or leave. Like it or not, there are a handful of tech people in every organization that holds quite a bit of their company on their shoulders. When you indiscriminately gut your workforce with something as arbitrary as that, you're asking for trouble.
Does this put his job in jeopardy, or can republicans keep him in office despite this?

Is there any judicial oversight possible?
are there examples of successful industrial application of AR? Out in the field, not just inside a lab?
That movie was awesome!
This guy was the least professional interviewer I've ever encountered in finance. He failed to follow up on his own email chains and was 20 minutes late to his in-person interview appointment.

I know others that had the same experience. He's been interviewing (poorly) for this role for many months now.
Hey guys. Was not aware you sponsored visas. Are the visa sponsorships for Canada or elsewhere? Cheers!
Youtube videos can easily be downloaded and saved using youtube-dl.

https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is that Senate confirmation hearings are under oath, and therefore Sessions has perjured himself. Last I checked, perjury was a felony.

What happens next?
Ask HN: As a .NET Dev, what is worth learning as a new language
I've spent my (12 year) career doing .NET and web related stuff. But I'm wanting to learn new things and get my feet wet elsewhere.

I'm kinda tossing up between learning Rust and Go for a personal project at home. But I want to learn something that I could possibly use in my career in the future.

Curious what everyone thinks a lowly little .NET dev should learn. (I've done a lot of PHP, Coldfusion, and used to run an Ultima Online share for 3 years where I used to do a lot of scripting for the game)
Uh, not really. We still only have the guy's word for it.
I guess I don't see this as a "huge" difference in the grand scheme of things (one locality, largely only impacts non-tip minimum wage workers outside of business hours), though the impacted individuals will certainly disagree.

I guess it seems like there are small changes that have large impacts on specific people, but that's true of all change at the margins.
Twilio-voice is like a Google Voice clone that you can run yourself
Why I Focus on Zero-Knowledge AI
Extensive previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13741746
Indeed a class of investors does exactly this - they provide unlimited but conditional money, set strict KPIs, embed their own people to steer the efforts in the desired direction, and generally take a hands-on role until they exit in 3-5 years. This investor class is "Private Equity" guys and girls, and they are 10-50 times larger than most VCs we talk about (on headcount, funds raised, investment sizes, reach etc).

I think it might be a matter of scale: VCs are tiny and they don't have the resources to take such an active role. Even the crazy successful legends like Accel/Sequoia/Benchmark/A16Z/USV/etc employ fewer people than an average company they invest into ~every month.
That is a rather simplistic and incorrect view. The Government isn't involved directly, other then the fact that they make some rules about how you have to treat staff. These rules tend to be balanced so as to limit risks for both parties.
Charging by far. Over 1,300 miles and it's still on its first tank of gas. Just a curious decision I thought that GM put them on different sides.
There's a very clear distinction: one is illegal, the other is legal. If you say someone is engaging in tax evasion, you're accusing them of a crime. If you say someone is engaging in tax avoidance, you're accusing them of following the tax code as written.

I am not a native speaker, tax mitigation seems to be the correct term that I should have used instead of tax evasion.
What Does an AI Chip Look Like
"You probably shouldn't, and most certainly don't legally have one"

This varies by jurisdiction.

"968.31  Interception and disclosure of wire, electronic or oral communications prohibited." ...
"whoever commits any of the acts enumerated in this section is guilty of a Class H felony"

https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/968/31
^^^ no.
The Fourth Estate is doing its job. Whatever the truth is, the pressure from respected institutions like the Washington Post and New York Times will be a big part of why we eventually find it. I am proud that the press is holding the government accountable.
> Virtual Console

> why would you want those things in a game console?

The virtual console was huge on the Wii and Wii U

> Do one thing. Do it well.

This is a game console, not some Unix tool. The rest of the competition has demonstrated that not only can they play games, they can handle other features just as well. Unix philosophy doesn't apply to everything in life.
Anecdotal evidence, but I recently had my grandmother stay with me. She loved the HTC Vive I had set up and had no disorientation in the virtual worlds.

Looking at these developer headsets, it looks like they're moving closer to VR and further from AR. With the camera inputs I'm guessing they're aiming to simply use the camera feed and overlay things on top of that - it'd solve the opacity issues with the current overlays. I'm guessing we'll be gravitating more towards a virtual world with real objects overlayed in it rather than a real world with virtual objects.
Hey, Bezos - McCarthy called. He'd like his Red Scare back.
Nancy Pelosi is right:

"... the Attorney General must resign. Sessions is not fit to serve as the top law enforcement officer of our country and must resign. There must be an independent, bipartisan, outside commission to investigate the Trump political, personal and financial connections to the Russians."
Gun safety charity told to pay Snapchat or NRA ads may appear on videos
Cygwin is slow at things like process creation, I think, which made shell scripts slow. Plus, cygwin was its own environment that required some porting, or, at least, recompiling to get apps to work. The new Linux subsystem runs Linux binaries at something like full speed (to the extent that I've played with it).
That's a completely different situation. The online classes are an "extra" in the sense that the university's core product are the classroom courses. They're simply being nice for releasing the videos.

Furthermore I have never heard of a building being closed until accessibility accommodations are built.
We still have incompatible and proprietary DRM implementations.

EME only standardizes the interface between them and the browser. The DRM itself is completely unspecified here - that's the problem.
Then it sounds like a cost-benefit analysis was properly performed and the right decision was made.

If that's the case, well, then I suppose everything worked out exactly as expected/planned and there's no problem or anything to discuss.

(Yeah, I was a little snarky, sorry.)
You will find a lot of low end options here - https://lowendbox.com/. And then install cloudron.io (that helps keeping the server and the wordpress instances up to date). Alternately, go for something like serverpilot?
The needs of a few never outweigh the needs of the many.

Shutting down videos to millions of potential viewers because the recorders did not have the time nor money to produce transcripts, gains nothing / takes away everything.

If things were really fair, we should be able to now sue the complainants for taking away from us everything that could have resulted from viewing the course material.
Right... You can make Windows 10 look like a unix workstation from 1995.
If we are not going to hold one party responsible for their actions, why hold the other responsible for theirs?
Oooh, a sock puppet account. I wonder what the ISP info would say on your location.
This doesn't solve our performance issues that I originally set out to address.
And the author explicitly stated he was excluding the denormals.
Have you heard of the medical transcription industry?

If you find yourself in a US or UK hospital, it's very likely that your medical reports and prescriptions dictated by your doctor are sent off to India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Philippines, or elsewhere to be converted into text.

So yeah, English isn't a problem, and there is already a huge pool of talent in the 3rd world trained in turning audio into text.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_transcription
There are finally investigations being disclosed too. Problem is it seems they want to focus on who illegally leaked the information about contact and meetings.
or compelling scientific evidence against climate change

Oh please. No one would even try in this political climate. As you said "don't believe in climate change? you are a nazi".
Bluntness is okay, but aren't you wrong about me being wrong here?

I didn't say it was a Slowloris attack. I said Slashdotting was "in effect" the same thing. Which it is, both problems are one of exhausting limited concurrency.

> The problem with "Slashdotting" was the number of concurrent connections.

Exactly the same problem a Slowloris attack exploits.

> Responses are heavy and can tie up slow connections...

Yes, responses tie up the limited number of available httpd processes.

The problem was that Apache couldn't even serve static files to many clients because of its heavy weight httpd processes and the fact that clients were so slow.

If your web server can only handle 200 concurrent connections, and you want to serve a 500 KB screenshot of your 1337 Linux desktop to clients that download at 3.5 kbyte/s, you can handle like ~1.4 req/s. Doesn't take much to get Slashdotted.

Whereas, event-based webservers could handle at least 10x more connections on the same hardware even before epoll existed.

I had this problem in 1998 and fixed it with select/poll based servers, and then eventually other epoll-based servers before nginx existed.