skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really wish the notion that wealth equals income would die. I too believed that the distribution of income is what our problem is in our economy. But after learning how real economics works it doesn't matter how much money goes where. What matters is production. Remember currency has no actual value unless something is being produced. If money is redistributed in one area you are not producing anything. What you are doing is reallocating production from one business sector to another. Recall the barter system, which worked for thousands of years. You are exchanging your product/service for something else. Currency is a means to divide out production.
I would propose two counter conjectures: 1. There is no you. 2. There is no time.
If you try to search google for technical information or product information you can often end up with bad answers because it typically prioritizes older, longer lived results. So instead of getting a result that's relevant to the here and now you get one that was true for whatever version of a thing existed 5 or 10 years ago.

Even worse, google still hasn't banned pinterest from results.
AI in the future will also write the majority of the kind of code that is written today
From the post:

> I took the stochastic matrix sorted by the future popularity of the language (as predicted by the first eigenvector).

Emphasis in original.
I only did a quick skim of the story, not read it thoroughly.

Maybe someone knows, did anyone went to (real) court or complained to the police about Appelbaum? Looks like, this is the main concern of djb.
You definitely want to do OSCP if it's something you can afford to do.

Be aware however, it's not cheap nor is it easy.

Having your OSCP though will definitely land you job interviews and will go most of the way of landing the job itself.
Well, scale up the wind according to the weight of the metal (and the overall surface area of the metal) and it can happen, as evidenced by this 747 in a boneyard 'rotating' under heavy gusty winds [0] (taking into account the massive weight and CoG difference without the engines on).

Extend the flaps and slats on that aircraft and I am sure the effect will be all the more pronounced.

And yes I've flown aircraft inverted too - it take a tremendous amount of forward stick to try and maintain level flight in that config to counteract the wings natural tendency to move towards the top surface.

People have pointed out the "Thunderbirds" F-16s flying in the "mirror" formation [1] and not displaying much difference in AoA between the upright and inverted aircraft, but supersonic fighter usually have a straighter, almost trapezoidal shaped wing cross section rather than a curved 'fish' shape. I am willing to bet the inverted pilot has a fair bit of forward stick on though.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHhZwvdRR5c

[1] - http://c8.alamy.com/comp/EG175E/little-rock-air-force-base-a...
Just a comment to make on one of your points -

>In so many video games, you play the hero... you [are the] only person who can succeed and you're rewarded... without real-world troubles like concern for others

Anecdotally, the games I have found most compelling (by and large; exceptions abound) tend to fall remarkably far from that pattern.

In Eve Online you start as a nobody in a cruel world populated by jaded, career hardcore gamers and you probably end that way too - unless you are (irl) creative enough and (irl) charismatic enough to build an commando team, a franchise, a company, a charity or an empire large enough to leave a permanent mark on that universe and on its inhabitants' minds. Rust is pretty much Eve but without the complex economy and an API to crunch numbers with. Still has the social engineering, the pack out for blood mentality and the ability to create a visceral sense of loss (in you or your enemy).

In Dota/League/Starcraft/Counterstrike/any other round-based ladder game you are a chess piece; you play your role and cooperate with others. The better you are at those two things, the more you win games. There's no free lunch; you're always matched with people similar to your skill so you are always working to minimize the very real risk of humiliating, extended failure at the hands of your peers in every game.

In Minecraft (singleplayer) it's just you and your creativity. You cannot win or lose. You have no missions aside from those you give yourself. The value or satisfaction you gain from this game is directly proportional to what you put into it. It's almost zen. Or maybe it's almost existentialist. In Minecraft (multiplayer) you add to all that the ability to cooperate with others (to convince them of the value of your goals, or to contribute to the advancement of theirs) or to conflict with others (defend what is yours while destroying what is theirs).

I mean, I love Mirror's Edge and its sequel. They're beautiful games, with great soundtracks and fluid gameplay that doesn't revolve around shooting. But in the end, I don't rack up hundreds of hours in that kind of game. I don't think I even got halfway through the Skyrim campaign. Shit's boring to me.

This is all, of course, just my opinions. All my life I've been an outlier, though, so maybe this is all irrelevant to your point, which was about the usual effects of usual games to usual teens/young adults.
Beautifully designed and informative landing page! Makes me want to find a reason to use the product :)

Since you seem to live in the Bay Area, have you tried reaching out to some people in the industry you admire? Also, you must have some existing network, maybe some folks who work in large tech companies with experienced managers, or friends who run startups and have advisors/investors. Why not ask for referral and introductions there?

Vet advisors and potential investors like you would any new hire. Understand their unique background and why they would be valuable to your startup, and then communicate that to them in your initial conversation. Let people know why you want them as your advisor. Wouldn't hurt to throw them some upside, or ask them to invest if you are raising capital :)

Also, always get a second opinion on any advice. A lot of the time, you will get conflicting wisdom and you have to ultimately decide what's right for your company.

Best of luck!
How is it misogyny? It's not a hatred, contempt or prejudice against women, just a statement of what I consider to be the lesser of two bad outcomes.

> You do know that sexual misconduct can happen between two people who aren't women, right?

The modern definition, yes. A lot of what is considered sexual harassment is considered to just be banter when it's between men.
Reading it again, I think you're right

Makes me think though why could they not manoeuver it remotely with remote feedback if necessary, why put someone in the cab if they have it equipped with sensors. Some other heavy equip are operated remotely.
With set -o vi:

<ESC> k cw zcat <ESC> A <SPACE> | <SPACE> less <CR>

Very natural for any Vi user: go up a "line", change the first word, then append.
> Do they mean that same capitalism that brings >1,000,000 Chinese people out poverty every month?

No, they mean the dominant economic system of the developed West in the mid-19th through early-20th century (since replaced in the developed west by the modern mixed economy which is an unstable form with a danger of reverting back to capitalism because it retains central features of capitalism.)

What China has is a transitional form that is somewhere on the map between totalitarian centralization through a kind of neofeudalism (that relates to classical feudalism in the same what that Leninist/Stalinist/Maoist totalitarianism relates to monarchic absolutism) to something like capitalism. Which is certainly progress, just as Marx recognized that the transition from.feudalism to the kind of capitalism he and other contemporary socialist critiqued was progress.

But that it is progress from something worse earlier doesn't make it the ideal end state.

> Did Mao not try hard enough?

Mao tried quite hard at completely the wrong thing. Leninism and it's descendants abandoned key tenants of Marxism to create something that either (in the overly generous view) they thought could work in very different conditions than Marx addressed or (in the more cynical view) as served as convenient propaganda for authoritarian populism in the societies in which they operated.
I played A LOT of competitive Magic: The Gathering from about age 14-21. We used to call it "cardboard crack" so we all understood that the game was addictive. I had a lot of fun and met some great people, but even back then I knew that I had a problem with the game and that I was addicted to it. This was before people talked about gaming addiction and I don't think American society understood that it could actually be a serious issue. I knew people who got addicted to EverQuest (aka EverCrack) and watched them go MIA for six months at a time from the Magic scene and drop out of high school to play EverQuest for 12 hours a day. This was back in 1999, so gaming addiction definitely isn't new.

I found that gaming addiction becomes self-reinforcing once you start putting a significant number of hours into gaming. Once you spend enough time gaming you'll end up not having enough hours to fulfill your real world commitments, like studying. Not fulfilling your real world commitments will cause you stress (failing a test) and you'll seek relief by going back to gaming. This can become a vicious cycle quickly as the more you game to relieve your stress, the more stress you end up creating for yourself by having even less time to fulfill your real world obligations.

The kids I knew who had the most unstable families were the ones who paid the highest price for their gaming addiction and ended up not graduating from high school. So I'm not surprised that unemployed young men who have unstable professional lives are getting hit hard by gaming addiction now. I hope they can break the cycle. I burned off a lot of hours playing Magic and I do sometimes wonder what could have come of that time if it had been spent elsewhere.
It's already not ending well. A seemingly sizable and growing fraction of these disaffected largely male unemployed or under-employed people are embracing full-blown fascism and other equally unhinged ideologies. Look into the intersection between online alt-right / neo-Nazi trolldom and the gamer/4chan/etc. orbit.

Humans don't like to live in zoos and alternate realities are ultimately unfulfilling.

I agree about your causal analysis too: the top of the pyramid have become so good at locking down wealth and power that they're closing the world down for everyone else. If this continues it will end very badly. We have nuclear weapons, drones, AI, and total surveillance, all of which are waiting for a truly unhinged demagogue to come to power.

World War III. Now there's a way to get out from under your student loans.
I don't disagree -- presumably some of their conversation happened verbally, so the claim 'I don't take notes or have records of confidential things' makes more sense? Seems likely, I frequently discuss things in person first.

I also agree with your characterization of the other side of this -- that it seems like he's using a technicality to excuse not doing something important. I'm not advocating anything, just trying to summarize a pretty long email chain.
He wasted precious time indulging quackery.
Built it using Drift, Clearbit and Madkudu.

Challenge: there's a race condition because the enrichment & scoring takes a little while, but the chat widget checks the drift database at the same time.

Source: I'm part of the team who built this @Segment
I don't think that's the correct interpretation of this document. A better title would be "Most TLS Proxies Considered Harmful", not TLS interception as a whole.

US-CERT is explicitly calling out that many appliances and applications often are weakening security vs. the common TLS clients, by way of not properly validating certificate chains by proxy for the client and otherwise masking SSL/TLS issues from being surfaced to the end user.

I believe this is CERT trying to get software companies to get their act together on solving security-detrimental UX/UI issues vs. a blanket statement not to add TLS interception proxies to a corporate network.
Springboot dubbox project
incredible.

to think it was just yesterday that Metroid Prime 2: Echoes failed to run properly on the thing (along with Metroid Prime).

this project has come so far since 2008.
Most readers here have significant flexibility in our work schedules and choice of jobs. But right now, I take on an extra responsibilities and an extra 10 hours a week over the regular 40 hours in the hopes of getting a promotion and a ~15% raise. This flies flatly in the face of a sublinear utility to income relationship. And I choose this even though I could easily move to a less intense or part-time job.

What's your theory to explain these choices? They're not crazy, and if anything are more typical than atypical. Some personal hypotheses, all of which except the last would counteract a UBI work disincentive:

1) In terms of labor choices, you've got to view utility primarily as a function of status, not income. Status is a positional good and, within a given profession, is highly correlated with income. So although I'm chasing a relatively small bump in salary, it will give outsize gains in utility.

2) Putting extra work in now is best viewed as investing in your own human capital, as a promotion isn't a permanent gold star for delivering on a project but instead supposed to recognize an increase in your human capital. That kind of increase in human capital provides lifelong excess monetary returns that exceed the decreasing marginal utility of money.

3) The increasing concentration of wealth accruing to the most productive workers means that income is in some kind of power law relationship with work effort.

4) The extra utility of a promotion is coming primarily from non-monetary effects, such as more autonomy in work and ability to work on more interesting problems.

5) Some combination of 1-4 exist and are valid, but they only have a significant effect on work effort toward the higher end of the income spectrum. A cashier boy doesn't gain any real status with a fifty cent raise, and the most-skilled and hardest working barista is not bringing home millions of dollars. Their work-for-utility functions are dominated by the effect of beer money, and the tenth beer is never as good as the first.

If 5) is true, a UBI would, of course, result in a significant increase in voluntary unemployment. I'm not sure it's even really a bad thing, though it'd be good to have a sense of how large the effect is and where it kicks in, which would have to be an empirical question.

I wonder if there'd be a significant gender split in how a UBI acts as a [dis]incentive to work.
Lots of things wrong with this. Her handle "feministjourney" coupled with how she reacted by displaying this needless outrage in the public doesn't bode well for her general attitude.

Whether or not you agree with the company—I'm on the fence—, at the very most it was just not to her liking. If that's the way someone handles a situation that's simply disagreeable, I wouldn't want to work with them.

Winnipeg is a small town, literally and figuratively. I'll be surprised and disappointed if this helps her career.

On the other hand, I'll more carefully consider applying there in the future.

Edit: I don't agree with Skip. Poor choice. But still unprofessional to go off on them on Twitter.

Edit: None of this bodes well for the company and to be clear I think it's a dumb response on their part. But, they can do that. Its a damn good indication the company has key problems though. I think trying to shame and boycott them for this doesn't show strength of character.
> So you are arguing that search warrants are always rubber stamped?

No, you're arguing that FISA warrants are rubber-stamped, but if you believe that, you must also believe that search warrants are rubber-stamped, which is the "nonsensical conclusion" I alluded to earlier.

> Seemingly, in a public environment where search warrants and the justification for them is public....

Search warrants and the justification for them are not guaranteed to be public and can be sealed like FISA warrants, and both can and have been unsealed following legal challenge. Therein lies part of your error. The second part of your error is that FISA warrants can only be used to search the records of non-citizen foreigners, who do not have fourth amendment rights, and people who have already been proven to be agents of a foreign power.
No, it's not necessarily. You can have a product that produces a good result but isn't easy to use. That doesn't make it not useful.
Sadly, if you ask how to caramelise onions, Google still says to minutes. Ask it how to caramelize onions, and it'll correctly say 45. I guess those of us outside America will have to figure it out ourselves.
Internationalize your keyboard controls
It looks like this has disappeared from the front page?
A sealed box with glove access could be filled with Helium.

Edit: apparently it's not easy even to take the lid off of these drives :) See https://youtu.be/ANMtvYnI1gQ
You're kidding right? It's a couple of lines of CSS, not an authored work.
Those actions are barely touched upon in the article, which adds a lot of new accusations against him and others.
"In situations where there are far more good ideas than funding, good ideas will be rejected. This is mathematics."

This was not a vague idea, this was a project that was very advanced. Obviously nothing came out of the funded ideas or I would have heard about.

But again. I was told how this grants are given and I am glad I don't waste my time with it anymore. I played Hare and Tortoise too long already in my life. I became successful when I stopped playing it.
Do the arguments come from the user or the exchange? If the email is telling me my profits, and the exchange says my profits are ``cat /etc/passwd`` that could be bad.
Not a good UX developer(/designer).

Craigslist has a great minimalist interface. There's a lot of ways it could go wrong, and it avoids a great majority of them. That said, I don't think a lot of development has gone into actually considering their use cases and developing workflows that prefer them.

Obviously, it's still a very useful site regardless, but I would not call it a well designed site.
People still drink in Russia, but it's much less about drinking their brain out and much more about socializing and sipping quality liquor.

Don't end up wasted except by accident. People usually drink in company, which acts as moderator.

This compared with Sovied men from 70-s and 80-s which would drink any alcohol-containing liquid immediately without even asking themself "why".

I don't think it's Putin related, not even economy related so much, it's just return to normalcy after a century of Soviet experiment.
"3.5 days of play per real time day"

Can you explain what that is in daily active users?

Interesting game, but there's no help or FAQ. How do you get more nectar? Is it per battle won? What is a black chip?
They waste your money by charging you higher prices. And their competitors do the same thing. You don't pay the lowest possible price for everything. Free markets are a utopia: they don't actually exist.
Forgive me...

I made a flippant comment following this thread of conversation:

> Is this really that different from police asking for security camera footage from a convenience store after a robbery?

> I think legally, Google is no different than any other business.

And when I came back to the thread there was a series of comments parsing my words.

I overreacted to the group and you were the target of that over-reaction.
Hah, are you describing most of my intro classes as an undergraduate engineer? I paid an egregious sum of money to teach myself physics, chemistry, and calculus out of a textbook and get tested on it.
> We have been reassured multiple times that our agencies are not eavesdropping, etc.

Did you forget that we have had no evidence that our agencies are eavesdropping despite having access to an indiscriminate drop of data from Snowden?

> The fourth amendment is fairly unique in the world.

As is every single other American law. You have given no justification for why in-house counsel should treat the Fourth Amendment differently from any other Bill of Rights issue. If in-house counsel believes a program's legality can be justified, the program will proceed -- this happens regardless if counsel is retained by a government agency or a private entity.

> And why do you defend them!

I am not defending the authors of the Patriot Act. I am correcting your obscene misconceptions of what programs were actually in place. The programs you thought were in place would be clearly unconstitutional like the sections of the Patriot Act that were struck down in 2007, but the programs that were actually running were not even close to what you have somehow come to imagine.
this comment is what a lifetime of philosophical thought, traveling, psychedelics, meditation, and experimentation has led me to as well.

"there is literally nothing better to do with your life than try. so just try."
20Kpa?
No, the correction is valid. The main component of lift is an upwards reactive force produced by pushing a mass of fluid downwards, in accordance with Newton's third law.
> I would also have been horrified (though less so) if HRC had won.

It is clear from the rest of your comments that your perception of the world is divorced from reality, that no matter how many reports from the FBI and private security firms confirm the Russian link with none saying otherwise, you believe you know better. There was nothing horrifying about HRC.
You'll have to be more specific than that.
The cash aspect was incidental. "Front of the house" workers here net a significantly higher take-home because they are the ones receiving the tips and what they pass on to others is typically discretionary. Even many of the best establishments will pay cooks subsistence wages. A few restaurants are going tipless, raising prices slightly and discouraging tips, so they can distribute pay more equitably, but then they can have problems retaining wait staff.
alternate theory. people who have money are desperately looking for things with potential for big returns. if you are one of those things or create one of those things there is more money looking for you than has ever looked for anyone in the history of the world.
Well, I just instantly disproved your hypothesis by holding a piece of paper against the front edge of my desk with it curving up and the trailing edge resting on the flat of the desk, then leant down and blew over the top of it... and the paper lifted at the back. QED.

Not sure why people are looking at the situation as ONE Venturi plane. What I am trying to explain is that there is effectively TWO - and expanding one over the top of the wing leading to a low pressure effect, and a constricting one below the wing leading to a high pressure situation. I wouldn't say that both provide equal amounts of lift, but the paper experiment, and the 747 in the boneyard proves it to a point.
Probably like the Bohr model in Chemistry, it's an easy way to introduce the concept. Frankly I was under the impression it was true, too, and my dad was a small-plane pilot.
How did you put tens of thousands of hours at home? Are you referring to remote work in your house? Or did you somehow have enough money saved up to study for 10 hours a day, every day, for 6+ years?
I'd few of 8GB ones and they were truely horrible. They ran super slow and then to top it of they started making noises with very light usage within months. I'm just not sure how reliable these are...
I've been predicting "planet Japan" for years due to slowing population growth, resource constraints, and market saturation.