skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just ridiculous... it demonstrates an almost willful disconnect with reality. Just consider:

1. Do these people have any knowledge of history? Both Canada and the USA have sustained far, far, far higher rates of immigration than what we're seeing from Syria and prospered mightily because of it. In the 70s Canada was happily letting in a quarter million people a year. (At the time the US was also practically giving away citizenship.) These immigrants, mostly from Asia, contributed enormously to North America's wealth and stability. And this is not a new pattern. We see the same thing over and over. Which makes you wonder -- has there ever been a case where immigrants "overwhelmed" a nation state?

2. To that end, just consider the numbers, even for a moment. We're talking about thousands in a nation of 35 million. And yet somehow these individuals -- poor, isolated, without knowing the language, and isolated from their own families -- pose a security threat.

3. Most importantly at the end of the day basic common sense indicates that immigration is almost an economic positive for the host country. Even if you suspect that you're not getting the best and the brightest from another country what you are getting are individuals often in their prime earning years where some other country has paid to raise them up until this point. The economics here are pretty clear but nobody likes to talk about it. (For example, take a look at Britain. Brexit or no, Britain will need to import millions of laborers over the next decade or, frankly, it will go broke.)

I always bring this up because the language around immigration is so far-fetched, so disconnected from reality and history, but it also never changes, in fact few things are so predictable.
I don't think it matters what headset you get, the best titles are amazing.
actually it is exceedingly rare for a criminal defendant to ever take the stand and offer testimony...in fact, most legal professionals would say a defendant taking the stand is more often a Hail Mary and such a move indicates guilt.
The confidence with which you express the goals that you're projecting on Russia here is scary. Not only do we have yet to find evidence that Russia did anything involving the election (although we certainly could during these investigations), you seem to have sussed out their goal in doing that which has not been proven, and a motive of revenge.

It's weird. Hearing people talk like this is weird, and reminds me of the run-up to Iraq, except that at least then there were claims to evidence.
It's a bit disappointing to me that poverty, human trafficking, addiction, habitat destruxtion, cultural erasure, genocide, torture, extinction, etc aren't very powerful motivators for such people.

I feel such pressure to use our new skills to solve these problems, but I know 10 years ago they were a combination of invisible/impossible to me. If I hadn't been aggressively pushed by smart feminists to examine my life more closely I might still feel the same way. If I hadnt been intellectually curious enough to stick with them, despite their worldview seeming so alien and wrong, I would probably be working in VR now instead of housing.

Maybe it's just that such challenges are too dark for some people... Mars is all optimism, no need to struggle with the realities of evil. Maybe some people just cant handle the pain of working on poverty and violence. I totally understand the desire to avoid fields where evil plays a daily role in your job. I grew up in an alcoholic household so pain seems sort of normal, although I have an intense desire to dismantle its causes. I accept that a more emotionally healthy person might just nope out of such challenges.

I guess it's also a little like the video games vs life choice: Mars is a clear goal, with all the players in a clear sandbox. Poverty is a messy mindfuck of a problem. That makes it more intellectually challenging, but also scarier. Failure hurts worse: a rocket that doesn't launch is one thing. Watching your friends die is another.

Still, it puzzles me that so many smart people need something like Mars to feel like they have a hard problem that's worth solving. I see so many around me. Easing violence seems like such a bigger win than getting off planet.
>...In the U.S., I can't think of even a member of the cabinet being tried;

It will be hard to beat the Nixon administration for convictions: 2 attorney generals, chief of staff, 2 white house counsels, undersecretary of transportation, secretary to the president, special counsel to the president, secretary of commerce and the vice president!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_federal_polit...
You can't just speculate. Maybe it was the Pope! Trump! Elvis! Fucking aliens!

Come back with a shred of proof, okay?
Sure, and that reason might not be that they are guilty. It could be that they feel they are possibly being treated as a scape goat.
This seems closer to "Ex-Trump adviser Flynn's lawyer tries a pretty common (for his client's industry) maneuver to ensure his client won't get jail time no matter what happens"

https://twitter.com/robkelner/status/847590575352270850

I'd be quite surprised if any of the Russian connections turned out to be meaningful. Every story that I've seen about anything along the Trump/Russia axis is soaked in enough weasel words to make a defense attorney cringe, and the details are generally senseless on close examination.
In the case of the IRS Targeting scandals, ATF or Benghazi or any of the other fake scandals, no one was ever charged with anything. All of investigations were just political witch hunts for campaign purposes.
You don't even know what those words mean.
I pretty much have this conversation with my students. I love it when a teacher is observing me so I start with 'do you ever remember a time before the internet?' of course none of them do, but the teacher does. Then I ask 'do you remember a time when you couldn't talk to a computer' nope, all of them have grown up being able to talk to computers. Haha. Makes me feel old.

People drove busses?! What? And flew aeroplanes?! With other people in them? What if a pilot went mad and flew one out over the sea? Would it disappear forever?
Why choose a headset (or any product) due to one person who clearly doesn't represent the company and who the company distanced themselves from and have apparently now fired?
I'm starting to believe you took all the money. You're so quick to blame everyone but yourself.
Sales research wouldn't fall under R&D. That's sales.

And why do you need to know how much goes into manufacturing process research? That's as valid as any other R&D process.
Saying anything here can only hurt him, regardless of whether he is innocent. Waymo's lawyers can use his evasion against Uber in the ongoing civil cases, but the government can't use it against him if the government later decides to bring a criminal suit. He's basically throwing Uber under the self-driving bus to save his own skin.
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> Vive takes a couple of hours to get all setup and calibrated correctly.

More like 20 minutes.
Ask HN: Things you got in trouble for at work that were not a big deal?
One time, my supervisor called me into a meeting to tell me that he did not appreciate me using "hate text" for the landing pages I was creating. I actually did not know what he was talking about and I asked him about it. This is what he showed me. He actually printed it out:

<< Lorem ipsum dolorem sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer nec odio. Praesent libero. Sed cursus ante dapibus diam. Sed nisi. Nulla quis sem at nibh elementum imperdiet. Duis sagittis ipsum. Praesent mauris. Fusce nec tellus sed augue semper porta. Mauris massa. Vestibulum lacinia arcu eget nulla. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Curabitur sodales ligula in libero. Sed dignissim lacinia nunc.

Curabitur tortor. Pellentesque nibh. Aenean quam. In scelerisque sem at dolor. Maecenas mattis. Sed convallis tristique sem. Proin ut ligula vel nunc egestas porttitor. Morbi lectus risus, iaculis vel, suscipit quis, luctus non, massa. Fusce ac turpis quis ligula lacinia aliquet. Mauris ipsum. Nulla metus metus, ullamcorper vel, tincidunt sed, euismod in, nibh. Quisque volutpat condimentum velit. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Nam nec ante. >>

A few words along with "dolorem" got picked up in the translator as "hate, pain, suffer, sorrow".

The supervisor told me not to use this text, but had scolded me once before for using a "bacon ipsum" and a "cupcake ipsum" generator saying, "We need to provide the client with serious work. Funny text like this is not appropriate." So I went back to using Lorem Ipsum text.

I had come to find out that one of my co-workers "reported me" because her Chrome browser decided to try and translate the Lorem Ipsum text. She thought I was purposely writing that I hated her. And this is why I almost got fired. It took two other co-workers, who had near-identical text, to convince my supervisor that I did not write hate speech.
DNSSEC does not help in the privacy regards.
It does not prevent ISP from seeing what domain name you lookup. Running your own DNS server is relative simple: there is a bind/named docker image. However with DPI; it's still subject to snoop.
regulation enforcement is both extremely expensive and unfashionable. we simply can't afford sufficient levels of policing.

and, sometimes, elected leaders openly endorse defiance of regulations. it makes a politician look courageous and important.

behavioral constraints are out. freedom is in. we just have to get used to it.
I'm familiar with this article.

First, "adventure" is a reason to go there, not to settle.

Second, I'm not buying the "drastically improve humanity's chance at survival" argument. There have been several mass extinction events in the past, so in order to survive one that might be coming, we should move to a place where there is likely no life at all? That does not make any sense to me.

If we can survive on mars, we can survive on Earth no matter what can plausibly happen to it.

Mankind will likely survive the next mass extinction[1], and we don't have to go to mars for that.

1. http://io9.gizmodo.com/why-humans-will-survive-the-next-worl...
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It most certainly is a bit fuzzy. For a fun critique of the newer IEEE standard by a real FP expert, see:

http://www.russinoff.com/papers/ieee.pdf

For something more concrete, consider Section 8, "Variations Allowed by the IEEE Floating-Point Standard", of the TestFloat tool for testing floating point implementations for IEEE compliance:

http://www.jhauser.us/arithmetic/TestFloat-3c/doc/TestFloat-...

And of course, many arithmetic operations (e.g., trig functions) aren't even covered by the standard, which occasionally provokes consternation like this...

https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2014/10/10/intel_un...
How do they know how many times they can re-use the rocket? Do they xray it for cracks every 5 flights?
Very nice! I had the same idea, and had started laying out the designs he was using in KiCAD as well. If you haven't already I suggest picking up a copy of Digital Computer Electronics [0] by Malvino, which he uses as a basis for his designs. It's a great reference and lets you dive a little deeper into the design as well.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Computer-Electronics-Albert-M...
Same deal as white collared crime, the criminals don't pay in any serious way.
A few questions. Have you looked at doing batch token assignment or "leases" from the centralized source to the workers? Ie request 10 tokens from the central "bucket" when the local "bucket" reaches zero. You can dramatically reduce the number of remote operations, reducing syncronization latency and cost. Scaling the batch size based on past request rate is a nice further optimization.

Similarly Im not sure about your "atomicity requirements." Is percieved accuracy driving the centralized store and single token semantics? Time skew alone is going to drive 0.1-1% innaccuracy in your rate limiters unless youre in crazy town doing 1pps or ptp everywhere.

Some food for thought is consolidating "rate" and "concurrent" limitations. Youll frequently see the same dichotomy in pps and bps based limits. If you can derive a consistent unit of work you can use a single bucket. Ie 10 requests that take 1 cpu second each have the same "cost" as 1 request at 10 cpu seconds. In the macro queue theory has them as the same impact to the system.

You "fleet usage" case, and a few other comments, reads like a simulacrum of weighted queues. Expanding it to weighted priority queues is a really powerful abstraction. Imagine requests which are over their base rate limit are not discarded, but actually marked as the lowest priority. That allows you to do generalized strategies like rejecting requests (load shedding) based on queue depth (latency) and FIFO/FILO.

PS: everyone reading _please_ respond with a 400 series if the request fails due to client request properties like rate. It really really really sucks to try and guess if 503 means "I" was rate limited and should back off, or "you" failed and the request should be immediately retried.

PPS A tactic to consider is returning the estimated recharge time when a request is throttled. A good client can use that to intelligently back of and achieve homeostasis with your server resources.
Ask HN: Personal Relocation Research Services
When I search for the term, I basically come up with moving companies. So, I am failing to find research services for this space. Am I just searching the wrong phrase?

I see questions on the internet fairly often regarding "help me pick a spot to move." Are there research services in this space already?

If not, do you have any thoughts on developing a price point, etc?

Thanks.
Don't play coy. The ergonomic shortcomings of git 'porcelain' are discussed here and elsewhere so often that if you don't know what people are talking about you either have a vested interest in deflecting, or you have actually been living under a rock.

If the latter, save yourself, don't read the newspaper. It's too late for the rest of us.
Easing violence is harder than getting to mars.
No power on Earth is that competent. And the Tea Party was very clearly a reaction to Obama getting elected, and egged on by the Republican establishment.
SpaceX did all of their landing/reusability testing with disposable rockets. When they started all rockets were thrown away, so adding a bit of fuel or grid fins was a small price to pay for the development. Once reusability becomes common any competitor would have to test by sacrificing rockets where failures will be very expense - I mean who would throw away a rocket right?
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This is apparently the official solution.

Yikes.
I've been following this stuff for decades.

Have you read Igor Panarin's work? He and Putin are both "ex"-KGB.

But hey, it's just a hypothesis. Let's see what evidence comes out.

Edit: http://perezhilton.com/2016-12-29-russia-donald-trump-electi...
It's been a long time since I took business associations, but you aren't allowed to discriminate against any of the shareholders. You can dilute everyone, but you can't dilute just some people.

IIRC Zuckerberg and Thiel created a new entity and gave Saverin a difference class of shares/equity then diluted that class. They must have known they'd never get away with it, it was likely just a move to be able to fire him quickly and just cut a check at a later date.
You have no idea how much an elevator costs, do you?
He hasn't been offered immunity yet, he's the one asking guilt. By the logic of his own quote he only want it if he was guilty.
Yes, most people can barely fathom how (well anything) works around them. The power grid is stupidly complicated (I've been studying it for 10 years) and so are modern computers and compilers, electronics, cars, aircraft...etc. I'm an engineer and am blown away by how we can work together to put a man on the moon, while individually we can do so little. I got off topic, but we REALLY need to find ways to teach tech and carry it forward.
Oculus certainly has some room scale. I use it fine in my 12x12 room. It's otherwise better than the Vive in a lot of ways. Asw, atw, screen door, audio, comfort, clarity across the fov, controllers, apps. The bigger room scale is about the only thing the Vive does better.
Not many elevators have 48 doors, and those that do cost a shit-ton more than a million dollars.
I thought we're looking at Hillary being connected to Saudi Arabia for her financing as well as giving Russia 20% of U.S. uranium in exchange for donations to the Clinton Foundation, as well as Podesta ties to a Russian entity called Rusnano, and how Obama used a slush fund to move money to leftist hate groups.

Did you want all this in writing from Hillary and notarized that she did this? Because that's not how it works. Her job is to say she didn't do this.
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Skeletonize your json
> I expect you're receiving downvotes (not from me) because you're introducing a strawman argument.

I didn't introduce it - the parent did. I'm being downvoted because this is a left-leaning board. Shrug.

> The fact that the national security advisor lied to the VP about discussions with Russia (for which he was fired) and now will only testify under oath with immunity suggest that there indeed may be something worth investigating there.

He resigned but yes, he should be investigated.
> Legal vs rational evidence.

In a high-stakes (or even potentially high-stakes) legal situation, it is entirely rational to invoke your 5th amendment right, provided that it even remotely plausibly applies. You don't need to actually be guilty of anything to invoke the right and I don't draw a conclusion that you are likely guilty by your exercise.
I'm always very fascinated by people's rationale and I enjoy reading these threads. Thank you for posting. My own journey took me in the opposite direction: I eat nothing but meat and other animal-derived products such as cheese and eggs (but not milk). I have made this decision after reading The Fat of the Land by Vilhjalmur Stefansson [1] and Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes [2]. I consciously decided the most important dietary principle, for me, is to never trigger a strong insulin response. I have been zero carb (and therefore zero fiber) for about a year now.

I have since then thrown in intermittent fasting as well. I fast 22 hours a day, work out at the end of the day, and then go home and eat 1kg of steak/lamb. I think intermittent fasting is worth adding to any diet, vegan or otherwise.

[1] Book was printed in 1956, so copyright may have expired. There's PDFs online. Here's a link to Stefansson's Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhjalmur_Stefansson

[2] Non-affiliate: https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Get-Fat-About/dp/0307474259
If people can get rich from colonizing Mars, it will be attempted. I don't think there is any financial incentive for mt Everest however.

Interplanetary trade will be a huge business. Think of the old east India trading companies only bigger.
Your being down voted because voices of moderation and reason can often cause a disruption in the field surrounding the tinfoil hat and there for let in Russian mind control signals.
forgive me if i'm being uncharitable, but it comes across as if you're being willfully obtuse.

"messed with" means hacking and possible criminal coordination between a campaign and russian officials. if it came out that the clinton campaign had coordinated with [insert historic rival] intelligence, people would be calling for executions.
1000 people is 100 tons, is that a typical falcon 9 payload?
The government doesn't go around pro-actively offering immunity to people. It's a chip they'll cash if they need to.
Somebody introduce this guy to the Mandlebulb.
While they probably use something much more serious, you could technically use something like Nikon P900, which is 2000mm equivalent, and is very affordable.
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It's too early to say but history might have a different view on this.

I do think Trump is an anomaly. I certainly hope he isn't a trend.
Nixon's VP, Spiro Agnew, received a $10K fine and 3 years probation after pleading no contest to tax evasion from accepting bribes. IANAL, don't know if that counts as "conviction." He was disbarred for his plea of no contest.
I'd prefer to phrase it as "this different interface also supports your workflow".

Whether the different interface is better or not is completely independent from when it was developed in relation to an existing interface. For example, I find debit cards a much preferable interface to the "pay for things from your bank account" workflow over writing checks, and checks were developed much earlier. :)

An interface is only as good as the power it gives you. Recall that power is work/time, so you can increase power by increasing work or decreasing time [1]. It's better if it's easier or faster to use and you can overcome the transition/initial learning costs. I'd guess that the vast majority of typical users of git have to pull up the git man pages (or stackoverflow) to do most of the actions shown in this article, hinting that such an interface may both save time and increase work (users often just not do stuff that they have to research to accomplish).

[1]: Ok, I might be stretching the physics analogy a bit. :P
Mike's twitter feed is literally the best I've come across on the platform. A delightful combination of tech news, snark, and existential angst.
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You don't need (and shouldn't do) any kind of fuzzy comparison for less than for floats.
For this rocket, the process for figuring out if they can use it and how was very complex. This rocket was originally flown for the CRS-8 mission on april 8th, 2016. So it took them just shy of a year to ensure that this rocket could be reflown, and that they felt comfortable putting a customers payload on it. They also fired it on the ground many times, and I would imagine checked it for every imaginable component failure.

How ever, for the future, only time will tell how confident they will be able to be in the re-usability of their rockets. Most likely they will retire this rocket, as with the one that was first landed, and put it on display somewhere. After they research it, of course.
I don't care if Larry Ellison donates to Trump.

I care if he solicits money from a group of virulent internet racists though.
Without watching the video, don't talk to the cops is an entirely different ballgame.

Having been arrested myself for driving a red car with 2 males inside where the crime happened miles away.

They really, really aren't your friends, repeatedly say yes for a lawyer. Your first arrest will disabuse you of any relic of your childhood "cops are your friends" bullshit.

Any parent who hasn't told you by the age of 17 that cops are not your friends anymore is wildly negligent of their basic duty as a parent. While you live in that wonderful pre-adult age, they are your first call.
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I advise people to give noise cancelling headphones like these a try for 30 minutes to an hour before spending a lot of money on them. I found the noise cancellation feature causes a pressure like feeling on my ears that was very uncomfortable and I could not wear the headphones for extended periods.
Since I'm not a lawyer, does anyone have any reference to the 5th amendment ever being (successfully) used to avoid discovery? I thought that only applied to testimony.
What are you talking about? The fake news are basically like the spam and phishing sites except they are state sponsored. Freedom of speech doesn't mean you have to bombarded by propaganda spread by russian bots. This is cyberwar. Sooner or later things will get quite nasty.