skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This post is just a bunch of nonsense.

His theories on the Protestant ethic are controversial[1], but hardly "thoroughly debunked." As far as the Frankfurt School, uh, who cares? They drew from many political and social philosophies (including Marx who we often find at odds with Weber). It just seems completely uncharitable and tangential to bring it up.

[1] http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2013/08/29/is_the_prot...
> What would really happen is that people who normally get tips would just lose income. Their pay will probably go up, but not enough to cover it. Waitresses make much more than regular unskilled labors.

This is very true. My sister and I waited tables in college and each averaged $20-$25/hour in just tips. Adding on the ~$5 wage, we each made enough to graduate with no debt (we both went to a state university). We did not work at very high end restaurants (we each worked at the same two at the same time).

If our employers decided to go no-tip, we would have very quickly quit and found new positions, because there's no way our employers would have paid waitstaff $20+/hr. No-tip would be a pay decrease for most of the waitstaff I've known.
I come from a country where my education was paid for by other people's tax money. I studied the subjects where my curiosity was greatest, and though I don't work in that field now, I do rely on things I learned through my college experience almost every day, and they make me better at my current job. Overall they make me a better contributor to the world around me, and I also have this feeling of gratitude that my world class education was not entangled with crushing debt, plus, you know, the playing field is at least somewhat more level at home than here in the US. You get the grades, you go to college. You don't have to evaluate the pros and cons of large amounts of unsecured loans. It's astonishing to me how things have turned out in the US. Ireland is far from perfect but we do pretty ok at affordable, accessible higher education.
> It would make la Terreur look like an episode of Teletubbies.

They can have a whiff of grapeshot.
Statcounter: browser market share Feb 2017 – Chrome 52%, Firefox: 7%
Implications:

- Every Agent can have it's own language best suited for work in its domain. It can then auto-translate that to English at the end. This adds ambiguity once instead of at every step of the work if all of it was done in English. Like doing math with floating point then converting to int vs doing math in int the whole time. Concrete example: Law.

- Agents could evolve a language that averages the Sapir-Whorf biases of known human languages. This new language would help humans understand each other better. Concretely, this language could be used as an intermediary in UN Meetings from which known languages could be auto-translated to while mitigating learned Sapir-Whorf biases.

- As @amelius alluded to out, Agents could automate the process of learning alien languages: what we saw in the film Arrival (Dan's short story is so much better).
I realized that Firefox 3.6 not supporting <aside> wouldn't really affect the layout, it's basically a <div> and it's floated left, something 3.6 can handle. The main content has a class containing width: calc(100% - 250px); and Firefox didn't support calc() until 4 but that wouldn't explain it happening to you in 24.6 ESR.

Maybe older Firefox has a bug in calc(), disabling that property in a newer browser is enough to shift the content below the sidenav because it falls back to width: 100%;. I see what you mean about hard to read, if I disable the calc() width, the sidenav stays put but the main content scrolls on top of it. That's a little confusing because the sidenav staying put is due to the property position: sticky; but caniuse.com says Firefox didn't support that until version 26, version 32 without having to enable a flag.

Anyhow, I do think government guidelines in particular should handle older browsers better than this page is demonstrating. Part of the point of using frameworks for libraries and others is they can maintain and aggregate all the little solutions to problems between browser implementations and between older and newer browsers.
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Maybe you can start a union to cover your liabilities too :)
Civilized societies.
Is this debt that will blow up the economy somehow? Is it being bought and sold on the public markets and being packaged as derivatives?

The bubble of it may pop, but I'm not clear how it hurts anyone but the banks and colleges. Students who can't pay will continue not having any money to pay anything with, and that needs to be addressed, but it doesn't seem like the same scale as the mortgage crisis.
Hey, that's news to me. I heard this in terms of specifically the UC schools' major sports endeavors, so maybe it's still true there, but thanks for the sources.
Not a correction but I'd point out that if uni was free, it would cost more than $62 Billion as more people would go.
Also Feynman:

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."
Isn't that the same as doing DNS round robin?

Also with software defined networking load balancing you can have one user facing ip be backed by many servers.
The Protein That Makes Tardigrades AKA 'Water Bears' So Tough
Yes, that's possible. I don't think the evidence supports it, though. I agree that likely on average, as people get older, they have less time per week to devote to gaming. Although it will be interesting to see how the first generation of gamers who retire (if they're able to...) will behave.

But the question of their tastes is separate. It is not necessarily true that less time available => preference for simpler games. You can, after all, just play a complex game over a longer time period if you have less time available.

One could get a rough idea about which hypothesis is true by making a sort of plot of game complexity vs average player age for each game. My impression is that the slope would be positive: complex games like EVE, X-series, DF, etc, do I think have very high average player ages.

Another data point is that if you look at the competitive types of games favored by people in their teens & early 20s, they are FPS games, whereas MOBAs are more popular w/ mid-late 20s people, and I think we can say MOBAs are more complex (not necessarily saying they require more or less skill, though).

I think if the data were examined it would support my thesis, but it is an open question and I was being a little hyperbolic with "I cannot imagine what mechanism..."
They do that every day on their own. They decide to smoke or not. Many choose to drink and drive. By 18 you easily have the power to ruin your life, or those of others. At 16 even, not the uncommon to see a 16 year old in the news for running over someone.

I propose we give them more information. Perhaps not the end all be all, but at least give them a hope to make a smart decision.
>And the people they'll end up serving? Those are the same people they passionately hate.

Do you think coddling their anti-social instincts will help them become better people? Or would a little bit of hunger motivate them to see past their animus and create more healthy and productive social relationships?
We recently switched to Okta at work, and while it's better than the no SSO we had before, it's really annoying and makes a lot of things a pain the butt.
Just an FYI but that version is probably full of pretty serious security issues. 24.1.1 has 78 published cves[1] and that list isn't complete.

I'd update!

1. https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-452/...
"Being outwardly assertive and confident wins elections and grants, but is not at odds with ability to internally re-evaluate one's beliefs"

Incorrect. They are absolutely at odds. You have never noticed that at the times you are most sure of yourself it's easier to appear externally confident and assertive? Compared to times that you have self doubt?

Maybe it's fair to say it doesn't necessarily impact how you project confidence, but sure doesn't mean they not at odds, and sure can mean it requires expending a lot more energy.

Secondly you are misreading the leadership quote. You say it's ok for a leader to dismiss an idea already evaluated, which is true. However the quote refers to leaders who do not listen to suggestions, which very different and certainly poor leadership when given no other context to justify not listening.
You say sociological methodology leads the researcher to project their own biases onto the data, but the method you criticise- open questions - is precisely designed to avoid this. The sociological methodology most focussed on avoiding researcher bias is Grounded Theory[1]. It follows the collection of data via open-ended questions and interviews with further techniques to analyse this unstructured data in a way that avoids introducing preconceived ideas from the researcher (coding, etc).

The problem with pointing to qualitative techniques as more rigorous and less biassed, is that the bias - when it comes to data about people- often lies in the decision what to measure - especially when categorising - and how to interpret the numerical result when you have (rigorously) processed it. That is as susceptible to preconceptions of the researcher. It's just easier for an economist to hide behind the rigour applied to the quantitative part.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grounded_theory
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And the startup founder isn't punished for failing to earn enough money; the wealthy fund with the risk capital accepts the loss and moves on rather than pursuing the broke founders for the rest of their life with 16% penalty interest rates and invented collection costs and special legislation to exempt them from bankruptcy

Why are people lending to students expecting to not be punished for their voluntary investment losses?
Probably should've separated/clarified my last two sentences; I agree that its already happening, and that the system will blow up on its own eventually.

My questions are: Can we do something about to reverse it? If not can we do a "controlled demolition"? Is there even anyone in a position to do anything / is the train accelerating with no breaks and no one at the helm?
Absolutely. There are three parties here: Schools, students, and lenders.

Schools set the​ price based on what they can get students to pay, which is a function of the willingness of lenders to give the students money.

Lenders approve borrowing students based on their likeliness to repay, which is currently very large due to the legal framework.

Students select college programs and loans based on a convoluted mix of 17-year-old wisdom, well-meaning advice suggesting they pursue their dreams, their ability to get the loan, and a hazy idea of future employment, income, and repayment.

It's obvious that increasing the penalties to the students after graduation is about the least effective measure you can take.

If students were allowed to discharge student loans through bankruptcy, that would still be a hefty penalty. Lenders would be less willing to give them money. With less money available, schools would have to charge less.
Mick Resnick's "Feelies" is based around future society where this has happened.
Issues/PRs welcome! https://github.com/18F/frontend
No, DNS round robin has ... issues.

With SRV, you can set a priority, so it goes to a set of hosts first, then falls back.

You can also weight traffic so that some hosts get more than others.

(also host is actually an A (or AAAA) record - so it could have multiple values as well)

> Also with software defined networking load balancing you can have one user facing ip be backed by many servers.

Sure - but software defined (or normal) load balancing is usually inside the datacenter or region. Its another tier behind the DNS layer.
I was talking about the low level code like in this case where you interact with the kernel, for calling kernel/OS functions you will have to pass pointers and buffers around,I am not sure if you can wrap the kernel functions without making things slower by adding indirection.
The fun thing is that the old SHA1 roots pulled from browsers also happens to be the SGC roots.
If you're not doing VFIO, you're doing it wrong.
are you aware of the fact that the Δv to "fall" into the sun is _more_ than the Δv required to get to, for example, Pluto?
it would be way cheaper to drop nuclear waste into Jupiter, though limited launch windows could be an issue. dropping nuclear waste into an active volcano would also be more than likely orders of magnitude cheaper.
Interfaces in Vanilla ES6 JavaScript
Given that Firebase hasn't shut down yet, and they just announced Firebase Cloud Functions and stuff, I think that is a pretty strong sign of healthy growth.

Firebase (and Rethink) are some of the bests out there, and like Slava said about license concerns, why worry about what might happen... when using these systems let you avoid worrying about a bunch of painful things NOW?

I'm still the type though that prefers to use Open Source tools and not have vendor lock in, though. That is why we're building https://github.com/amark/gun which I often describe as an Open Source Firebase. The goal is that it is self-healing (P2P architecture) so you don't have to worry about DevOps either. Recently we ran load tests on low end hardware doing 2K table inserts a second across a federated system - and we hope to get this up to 10K table inserts a second on a free Heroku instance (if this is physically possible).

That said, use tools that make your life easier NOW, be that Firebase or not - the future is always going to have its own challenges.
Nonsense, depends on the VM.
The invention of 'Heterosexuality'
But knowing how Google works they will lose interest in it in three years and then that OS would be in the same position as macOS.
So the article argues that life is better in EU?

Life in France is getting harder and harder, 50% of adults between 20 to 65 years old do not work (there is only 17M workers for 31M people) and even for workers, there is a tremendous difference in living standard between "insiders" in big companies or administrations and "outsiders".

I did not went to Germany recently but it seems that most "ordinary people" are also poor people, they invented mini jobs at ~$500 per month and even ~$120 for immigrants. Ordinary people in Netherlands seems also to have some hard time with small salaries.

So please, do not pretend that what happens in USA is the sole fault of only one politician. Replacing him with another will not change anything.

This is a small world and what we really need is some kind of new frontier, which is alas nowhere in sight.
Is there really a difference you can feel (not measure) between NVMe and SATA SSDs? I am just wondering.

I myself don't dare to go Windows because of malware. Linux is where it is.
As a practical example, the aboriginal people of Australia (particularly in the north) refer to a thing called "sickness country":

http://www.artistwd.com/joyzine/australia/abr_culture/sickness_country.php

These have generally been found to be regions with a lot of near surface uranium ore.

Given enough time, people will figure out that certain areas are dangerous and should be avoided. As long as it's not everywhere, it probably won't threaten the whole of humanity.
Ok.

auto i{42}; // std::initializer_list<int>
Hahahaha so interesting, I posted it few days back on reddit :P and now it's here
If you're relying on the Ubuntu subsystem to do "real work", why not just install Ubuntu?
> Racking servers, even if they're cylindrical, is actually much easier than building an entire real-time image rendering pipeline from scratch.

I think this is still a penny wise, pound foolish decision.

I am sure it is less work to figure out how to buy and rack some trashcans, vs writing an entire image pipeline for 1.0. I get that.

I also don't know your full specs. There are tons of FOSS image libraries out there. What % of your workflow do they cover? Are you sure you are estimating taking something like Pillow and adding in missing pieces, vs writing an entire image library from scratch? Things like basic filters and image resizes are a solved linux problem for a long long time.

Hardware lock-in always has a price. People that build on AWS exclusive things like lambda do the same thing, to a smaller scale. It seems like you are paying this lock-in price, and will continue to pay it. Perhaps it is the right decision, perhaps not. But I cannot image locking my entire company into the whims of a consumer trendy product line, when there is no fundamental need. I would look really hard at hiring some devs to build out a proper rendering engine...
Can anyone explain what's radically different in "VR dev" compared to "3D dev" (from the graphics programmer perspective)?
Let Krugman speak for himself and then ask if he got it so wrong.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/magazine/06Economic-t....
In my experience sociologists would like to do the work of the statisticians without working with big scale data and without understanding even the most simple statistical models. Thank's god they do not have more influence.

This statement is based on a study I made by myself using a representative sample: I have 3 sociology PHDs in my team.
You sent 30 resumes and got 5 interviews! That's an AMAZING rate.

I personally sent a couple of hundreds (some personalized, some bulk shotgun). Don't give up, and don't be discouraged by the stories of "rock-stars" you read about here in HN, keep sending and keep interviewing every day, all day.
Agreed, yes/no questions can often be leading and may come to totally inaccurate conclusions. With open-ended questions you may get a rich answer with a lot of bias, but at least the answer is rich and you can sift through the data gathered. Its just not nearly as efficient as a "rate on a scale of 1-10" or "yes or no" questionnaire. But the devil is always in the details.
I'm not hearing a counter-argument. The company needs to get good people to work for them. And this is a way of getting someone from a high-cost location to work for them. If the location's higher living expenses aren't covered for, the person would be unable to take the job. I don't know if you mean that the company should adjust their lowest pay according to the world's most expensive location, but that would probably not sustain the business.
Highbridge isn't normally going to get Jamie Dimon involved in routine business disputes for relatively modest amounts of money. He's got to run around Davos, wrestle whales and whatnot. You get Jamie Dimon involved when you want to put someone or everyone associated with the deal in JP Morgan's global double secret probation penalty box. Seems like there is a missing piece of the puzzle.
I imagine you're right. There's so much hissing and booing and the mention of bootstrap that a lot of otherwise good developers never touch it.

Despite the fact that, you know, bootstrap is just fine.
> Young people shouldn't feel the need to withdraw and create their own subcultures to gain a sense of belonging or security. We should be incorporating them into society, giving them a sense of purpose and belonging, and equipping them to make meaningful contributions.

None of that matters when you're a teenager. A large part of puberty is establishing identity and a unique sense of self, in contrast to the sense of belonging to family and community that existed in a healthy childhood. And as for security - the trope that teenagers feel invincible exists for a reason, and not for a cultural one.

Anytime society attempts to define what it means to make a "healthy" contribution, remember that it is society making that determination, and not the individual. Part of growing up is figuring out for yourself what kinds of decisions are healthy for you as an individual, and the job of parents and educators is to give the benefit of their experience as mentors and help guide young people into understanding whether or not the decisions they are making are actually healthy for them.

Parents restricting their adolescent children to choices which are healthy for the parents/society (but not for the child) is ultimately one of the biggest ruptures of family relationships.
VFIO with proper configuration and compatible hardware that you pass (sound card, USB hub, video card) is indistinguishable from native.

> keyboard "tunneling" (CMD vs CTRL)?

Better to use original mac keyboards, if you have them, not really a virtualization issue.
> Why do you keep saying this? The Touch Bar replaces the FN keys, not the keyboard.

I use those keys. Without looking down.

> Which computer do you use? Is it a desktop without any fans?

Let's say I build my systems according to the advice on silentpcreview.com. Apple laptops on full load may be quiet for a laptop, but they have nothing on a custom built desktop.
Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off
That's possibly why I knew about it then (for a brief period, I did Flex work ten years ago).
Taking depreciation into account is a red herring unless the car is only used for Uber driving.

There is significant utility in owning a car. So much so, in fact, that many people are willing to take on the entire cost of ownership without ever earning direct income as a result of their driving.
Slightly OT:

Google Trends on VR search queries: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=vr,psvr,%2Fm%2F0k...

(interesting here is the decline after the peak)

Same query again but with 'iphone' this time (to represent the mobile space and its size compared to VR): https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=vr,psvr,%2Fm%2F0k...
At SunSed, we use Google HTTP(S) Load Balancer which allows us to load balance our entire infrastructure via a single IP.

Our users don't need to worry about CNAME vs A records they can do what ever they want with the IP, since we don't need to change this IP there is no benefit for using a CNAME.

On top of that SSL handshake for HTTPS happens at Google front ends which reduces the load on our servers. Also we can send traffic to different sets of VMs based on the URL! How cool is that?

I really think that Google's HTTP Load balancer is the hidden gem of Google Cloud.
AMIGA OS 3.9 User's Manual (English)
I wonder, how does one approach Google for such business tech? Or do they only find customers themselves?

I couldn't find the landing page for prospective enterprise Glass customers, though there's Glass at Work partner list with companies which do have real contact address.

https://developers.google.com/glass/distribute/glass-at-work
Let's pretend that I've never taken a single physics class at all, ever.

Who's to say that the inaccuracies are merely caused by fluctuations in spacetime? If you turn on the radio to a frequency on which there is no known transmitter, you hear background radiation. Is it not the same for spacetime? As you measure time (space) more precisely (more instantaneously) and more often, your measurements will occur more often on various boundaries of the background radiation of gravity (which we all know fluctuates spacetime). At that point, the is the error rate you see not also the rate of background radiation? If you could measure or predict the velocity of multiple background spacetime radation sources, you could reduce error? Thus, the error rate of measuring time is the rate of change of gravity.

Of course we built gravity wave detectors, so that nullifies that whole thought. Right? Or does it? The collision and merging of celestial bodies is arguably one of the biggest events in the universe. But what if spacetime or gravity (are they the same thing? I don't know) 'bounces' back on like a wave crashing against a wall, then surely there's fluctuations in spacetime due to past events. Wouldn't that intrinsically cause minute "errors" in measurements?

What keywords should I search to find (hopefully free) online resources to answer my questions?