skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. You wrote in your previous comment: " A study suggesting that increased access to education, or welfare in general, increases the birth rate among the poor?"

2. The fact that an increasing number of people are having children out of wedlock should be very concerning. Many social problems are strongly correlated with high single parenthood rates. The evidence suggests to me that more welfare encourages single parenthood by changing its costs/rewards.

3. Even that finding is shocking in how anti-welfare it is, given the well-documented leftist bias in the social sciences. Even accepting it at face value, it points to a definite negative effect. Over time, it could get worse due to natural selection.

4. I can do some research and see what I find. As for human populations, I think the most likely outcome is that they inevitably reach a state of evolutionary optimal behavior.
Tech Bros, Man Box, and Cucked
CEO of a public corp maybe
I have a lot of trouble believing that. Ever been in the vicinity of a large drone?
I suspect lots of folks are doing this. I do (earn under the taxable limit I mean. I still file). Meet Dave Gross, my inspiration https://sniggle.net/TPL/index5.php

Here's how the math works: https://sniggle.net/TPL/index5.php?entry=howto

I no longer winter in Palm Beach, but I also no longer have blood on my hands.
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Care to explain why he's wrong, or are we to assume your expertise, random internet person?
I have an Echo Dot and I couldn't tell you because the only things I've used it for are setting timers while I'm cooking and occasionally playing music when I'm too lazy to sync my phone to my Bluetooth speaker system. I actually shop on Amazon all the time and the thought to try and buy something with the Dot has never occurred to me despite being well aware of that feature and constantly seeing the ad with Reggie Miller.
Why would you even waste time building a bill splitting app if it never had potential in the first place? Yes, you would have learned something, but that in and of itself isn't a justification for making a poor decision. You could have both worked on something with true substantial potential and learned something at the same time, as opposed to work on something with no possibility of success and learn something. In fact, you'll probably learn much more doing the first thing than the second.

I've built a bill splitting app. It was stupid and I learned something, but I wish I had been smarter and built something that [might have] solved a real problem with that time instead.
There isn't anything wrong with using wine but tossing it out there as the cure-all for Windows based applications is wreck less. I haven't played with wine in quite some time but it has a track record of "working" rather than working.
The IRS also wants its cut of your drug slinging and theft.
http://money.cnn.com/2013/02/28/news/economy/illegal-income-...
Whatever his motivations may be, we couldn't possibly allow any one person to decide over our finite resources. So, how to stop that from happening? Should there be a some kind of cap? Or maybe take some progressive amount from everyone based on some rules? And so forth.
But the downside to making it public is you'll galvanize the victim nation to start taking computer security more seriously, and your window of opportunity will start to close. It would make sense to try to "boil the frog" and gradually and slowly increase the frequency and severity so that by the time you "find" the threshold that snaps the victim nation out of their slumber, you've gotten away with a lot of damage cumulatively.
David, I have read your comments on related threads before and I appreciate the amount of passion and follow through you have. It would be a pleasure hearing your feedback (and connecting with you)

> Trump won because he was basically the only Republican and along with Sanders the only other candidate that wanted American workers to get paid fairly.

Trump won because he made promises that no other candidate was willing to make because they were more experienced and knew better.

Sanders operates on a completely different level. He was the best of all candidates but we don't deserve the likes of Sanders. He will never win the presidency because he's too dedicated to his mission. He's the 60 year old programmer who's been at the company for decades nursing the company's legacy software while the fresh out of college MBA who makes 5x his salary tells him he's missing the bigger picture.

> but there is also breaking the law. The abuse of the H1-B Visa program is breaking the law

My understanding is that none of the companies are breaking the law.

They are surely exploiting the intent of the H1B but their final/end clients are U.S. companies looking to boost their profits by paying less in wages and benefits.

These U.S. companies create the demand for these Indian companies to exploit the H1B.

The H1B story:

U.S. Company: "I have a position for a Senior Bathroom Scrubber in Bumfuck, YZ that pays market rates of $XYZ/yr and sanitation gloves every month"

American Worker: "Those 'market rates' are years old. No way I am working as a Senior Bathroom Scrubber in Bumfuck, YZ for $XYZ/yr and janky sanitation gloves every month"

Subhobroto (worker from India): "Yeah, I have a M.S. from a U.S. University and don't mind working as a Senior Bathroom Scrubber in Bumfuck, YZ for $XYZ/yr if you apply for my green card. Sanitation gloves provided for me every month is awesome!"

U.S. Company: "Ding! Ding! Welcome! We don't have an issue applying for your green card. By the way, we can't promote you and/or increase your salary ever again because reasons A,B,C"

American Worker: WTF!

Subhobroto (worker from India): "Thank you. I know I'm getting paid less than what I would have made if I had better negotiating power but I will have that power after I have a green card and am not a temporary worker anymore legally required to leave the country immeidately if you fire me, so this is just the price of admission. Plus, I'm getting paid more than if I had worked for a company back in India anyways"

End of scene.

Subhobroto and U.S. Company walk away into the sunset (to divorce a decade later once the H1B matures to a greencard) leaving behind an angry American Worker.

Subhobroto is well aware that he and his future generations will be in the same shoes as the American Worker in a few years, but that's for scene 2.

As I show in https://www.quora.com/Are-H-1B-visas-causing-large-scale-une..., this is not unique to the U.S.

You can replace "American Worker" with "German Worker" and so on with no loss in generality.

Feel free to connect with me: https://www.quora.com/profile/Subhobroto-Sinha-1
Likely because they have custom pricing based loosely on how much business value they create for the customer. E.g. if a philatelist wanted to scrape stamp catalogs, and if an industry-specific analytics platform wanted to scrape a directory of prospects - you'd want two different prices. Otherwise, you'd either 1) leave stamp enthusiasts out in the rain, or 2) leave a whole lot of meat on the bone w/r/t enterprise pricing. There might also be a consulting upsell!
And therein lies the problem. "Itch" is too vague, subjective, and low of a bar for starting a real business around.
Show HN: Registration library for open source software
I assume you don't mean Beagle 2.

A Mars rover is a bad example here because it's not an item that is, or will ever be, mass-produced.
Never paid more money for so little a stake in a startup (1999)
Memory effect now also found in lithium-ion batteries (2013)
Any aerospace engineering grad could design a flying car tomorrow if the energy source existed in such a density that would make it feasible.

Beamed power?
Diet soda can increase risk of dementia and stroke, study finds
Meanwhile, if you read the subway service advisories, there's always some sort of issue causing delays. I saw the notifications about the power outages today and thought absolutely nothing of it. If the entire system went offline, that's kind of a big deal. But it's one station without lighting.
As part of a reorganization of the undergraduate EECS curriculum last year the intro class is now two half-semester classes, 6.0001 and 6.0002. It's 0's all the way down!
The Google Cache only stores text. It still has live links to all the images on the page. It's more reliable to link to the text-only version. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:h_l9j_N...
+1 for Postman. Great tool.
"And why Python, then? Well, said Sussman, it probably just had a library already implemented for the robotics interface, that was all."

That, right there, is the reason why I end up using Python so often.

As dynamic languages go, Python is not the best for anything, but it's good enough for almost everything, and there's probably already a library implemented for it.
FAA allows helicopters to operate with only 20 minutes fuel reserve under VFR conditions.
at least with some of those you can verify nothing is going over the wire via network inspection tab, with this you're guaranteed everything is going over the wire and there's no way to prove they aren't inspecting your traffic.
Ok, back to non-smiley world:

Yes. I hope so. Too.
The future ought to include everyone.
Well, NFS isn't really cache coherent, and hence not POSIX compliant. Lustre is, but pays for it with an amazingly complicated architecture.

I have (somewhat esoteric corner cases, but still) benchmarks that will cause failures within seconds when run against NFS.
>if somebody sent you an email with that code (even if you never open the email) then you would be the unwitting owner of one share of Krispy Kreme Donuts

Pardon my ignorance, but how would this work?
If I walked you through the Lustre metadata state machine you wouldn't be surprised by Lustre latency any longer. It's a veritable Rube Goldberg machine without the amusement.
I don't think that's a constructive attitude to have. It's better to have a mind that is at least open enough to hear the other person out, and debate them.

You've basically dehumanized a large section of the population in a manner that you would agree would be pretty offensive if done to you.
That's a brave and thoroughgoing attempt to, among other things, attract non-nerds to computer science.

That's Berkeley. Abelson and Sussman once got MIT to trademark "Nerd Pride".[1] MIT still keeps the trademark active. Here's a Nerd Pride button.[2]

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=LJq0JhoElk8C&lpg=PA78&ots=...
[2] http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/E1312

[2] http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/E1312
> I never heard of "Network calculus and stochastic network calculus".

...and now you have :)

> Certainly no such topics were in any of the applied math grad courses I took.

Yeah they are a newer development. Stochastic network calculus more so. Network calculus is older, it even has a wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_calculus
A key idea is convolution but in the max-plus algebra and martingale large deviations.

> For network queuing, really I was suggesting using that as a paradigm to formulate an analysis;

Indeed. SNCs can be a helpful tool there. Yes they are bounds, but a lot of progress has been made to make them tight https://arxiv.org/pdf/1303.4114.pdf they arent quite there yet numerically but tight enough to give an intuition. NC bounds are a lot looser.
"Only 14 percent of Russian women confirmed they were using birth control pills." (https://rbth.com/society/2013/03/28/russian_women_prefer_abo...)

Maybe not taking artificial hormones keeps women interested in science and tech?
It's not even 5 billion for Tesla, it's 5 billion for Tesla, SpaceX and Solar City combined. Three large companies in what I would assume are some of the most subsidized industries in the U.S. (automotive, aerospace and power utilities).
I'd amend this to say it's a subset of the C++ conventions.
Berkeley used to let students skip the introductory CS course, 61a (in Scheme), if they had received a 5 on the AP CS exam. They removed that option I believe after fall 2010.

One of my friends was able to skip 61a by meeting with the department chair, Paul Hilfinger, and convincing him that 61a would be a waste of time for him. My friend could drone on and on about the simplest of subjects so we assumed he just annoyed Hilfinger until he said "enough already".
I don't think of it as a personal sacrifice. I longer have the blood of innocents on my conscience. Also: I now own most of my own time, which is my highest value. Low consumption living isn't the sacrifice I thought it would be when I started.

To each their own.
> Google, Facebook, Baidu, Amazon, the self driving car companies are doing cutting edge stuff in terms of scalability and analysis, but not Netflix.

I think you're missing a quantifier of some sort. Perhaps "consumer-facing"? Of any AWS customer, Netflix is far and away the leader in understanding and making use of AWS. It pushes the limits more often than not.

Their scalability, failure/recovery handling and (assumed) cost-effective deployments are _the_ standard in AWS and cloud computing. They even have an open-source toolset[0] for testing your infrastructure against failures and recovery that's quickly being picked up by several other companies to harden their infrastructure.

Then you realize that regularly, throughout the day, they're intentionally bringing their own infrastructure down and they can still operate with nary a hiccup. I wouldn't call that over-engineered.

[0] https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy
In your profile you can set the showdead=yes to see those comments. There's advocating genocide, and shooting people on sight in an older comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10721429
I really like how Julia handles arrays.
Ask HN: How much faster can we think vs. speak? (Neuralink related)
Related to neuralink

A friend of mine noted that this is an assumption behind the project, but there doesn't seem to be much evidence behind how much faster we can think vs speak.
I see advocating force as more similar to the definition of sociopathic behaviour. But I also don't think arguing over which belief is more or less sociopathic is constructive.
Aka investor bait. It's been awfully quiet around Moller since 2010 or so, maybe that's why this company is able to do what it does. Normally you'd be sent home to do your homework if you came up with a battery powered VTOL with short stubby wings.

The first and only interesting problem these guys should solve is how they are going to power it. Everything else can wait until then.
> surface this approach as a simple spreadsheet app

I don’t understand what you’re proposing. You want a spreadsheet where the row and column headings have arbitrary starting point?
My favorite thing having finally taken a dive into lisp and SICP, is not that it is very friendly to functional. It is that it is very friendly to showing how it all works.

My favorite section is where they go over making a constraint based system that will either calculate degrees F or degrees C. Or validate that the two given values are accurate. All depending on what you have entered. And this is done from the ground up. No hidden magic of the system has to support you, by and large. (Not strictly true, as this does make use of GC and such throughout.)

If you hadn't seen it, https://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-... is a great video showing Sussman's style. He also showcases a program they wrote that could solve circuits based on this general idea.
What'd I violate?
Status on the stretch release
Also, the current grad-level class in the same area (taught by Sussman) is online here: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6.945/

By far the most rewarding class I've taken at MIT. Check out the psets, they're pretty fun.
By the metric of range. The website says the range is 300km which is more than enough to travel in/out of the core of most major cities.
Search for yourself. Google "gender inequality u.s." and you won't see a single mention of a female dominated industry on the front page.
The next trick would be to create a matrix that is the closest to all of the languages and doesn't have gaps from missing words. Using English as the identity is probably a bit ethnocentric -- another reification of the three-percent problem of literary translation: http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/ .

Maybe we can call this new matrix Mondoshawan?
i like your logic .. but i think Go have more than just Google, it also had Rob Pike and Ken Thompson as designers

two legendary programmers
I'm not talking about monthly premiums, I'm talking about what it costs when you actually need health care. How much is the deductible, what is the coinsurance rate, how steep are the co-pays, how weirdly restricted are the options for doctors, etc.? "Zero cost full coverage" sounds like the old Microsoft plan, where everything was paid for all the time. That defines "top notch" for me, and most health insurance plans I've experienced are nowhere close to being that good.
Firefox is not working on a fix for this??? That's hard to believe. Is Google's fix out yet?
Many of these systems have write caching enabled, which means that on critical power failure, some data will be corrupted. And often such system have back up supplies.

Let's be clear here. The real reason people used this stuff was that it was 3x/4x cheaper than RAM.
The thing is, time is money. Leisure time is one privilege of the rich, or lucky, which leads to unfair compounding advantages (like philosophy as well). "Normal" people (as in, if you selected them at random) don't have the time to learn the special skills required and also invest the time to develop the very specific type of product you are talking about. So, in order to start a business, you need to have a break. It can be getting lucky with your job, a windfall, or just gambling some precious savings or time onto your idea. And then, most of the time, it fails, and most people cannot afford to retry. Those that manage anyway are the exception, not the rule
It does look like Google is rolling out updates and Mozilla hasn't responded yet.
So let's stipulate you are correct. What does it matter? You've made some noise but shed no light at all.
Amazon/IMDb closed the discussion boards. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13571893
Impossible for safety reasons in populated areas. And even ignoring safety issues, the conversion efficiency on beamed power is so low as to make it uneconomical.
> Most shoppers are extremely price-sensitive

I haven't observed this. In fact, even the poorest seem to be quite price-insensitive on occasion.
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If a US citizen whose income exceeds a defined (low) threshold must file an annual tax return by law, then what other sensible reason would there be for an illegal immigrant to do the same if the primary compliance tracking mechanism is a SSN?
45% of Americans pay 0 federal income tax. That is a very small rate
Maybe, but unlikely. Lasers need line of sight and would generally be a bad idea at the power levels required (basically a weapon), and microwave power transmission requires large receiving apertures. Current "wireless charging" technologies are pretty much universally near field.
I'm not currently using any but I've tried:

- Ceph: Very flexible. Supports many different kinds of replication. Has high overhead compared to local disk (on the order of ~50%) and was (for me) prone to hard to diagnose issues. Can be annoying to setup if you're not doing it on a supported Linux distro with ceph-deploy. It looks like Bluestore (a new on-disk format for data) will significantly improve performance but Bluestore is extremely RAM hungry.

- GlusterFS: Much faster than Ceph but less flexible. Has odd requirements about "bricks" being the same size. Much less RAM hungry than Ceph.

- A bunch of smaller ones I can't recall. Mostly discarded because they performed badly or lacked replication options (I really wanted erasure coding).

In the end I'm simply sharding my data manually. It's not as scalable but it's much more performant.
Ha ? CA has much better roads than WA outside of Bay Area. Also, if you look at the average tax burden it will come out to be the same. CA has very little property tax for commercial property for example and has lower alcohol and cigarette taxes. There are probably a few other areas where taxes in CA are lower than WA
Did I type too fast for you? :)

Let me break it down. Nice and simple...The answer isn't in Russia or any other country for that matter. The answer is in the mirror. IF you're willing and able to look into it.

The key to problem solving is...wait for it...to identify the right problem. But before that, it's admitting you have a problem. So how exactly does looking at Russia help? (Hint: it doesn't.) And now, look at that, we're back at the mirror, or should me.

p.s. Thanks for the DV. As already mentioned, it only makes my case stronger.
Anyone interested in the actual future of electric powered flight should check out Pipistrel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiADDbeFanU
Go East, Young American
Great perspective, nice post!
Ha. DL hardware != a commodity

Pretty sure having two of the premier DL labs is an upper hand in deep learning...

Well then what on earth does Amazon offer that's different from Google?
I haven't had any problems with Alexa's voice recognition (and I have an accent), but I completely agree that voice purchasing is not a smooth experience at all. I tried to do that yesterday with Alexa, but it just gives you very limited options and it's optimized if you want to mostly reorder the same items over and over again. Also, it doesn't remember your cart if you interrupt the shopping conversation, go to an app and come back to order again. So you have repeat the whole process.

Alexa is handy if you want news, weather or sports update, but it really needs to step up its UX for voice purchasing.
Cray Research was similar. Business org in the city, R&D on a purpose built farm in Chippewa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray#Cray_Research
That doesn't really matter that much. The customer would have to show they were harmed. So if you were playing around with certain stocks, decided you didn't like the outcome and are now going to sue, you'll need to provide some proof that you didn't make that transaction.

If you kept buying and selling on that account, including with the supposedly-hacked-purchased shares, you'd need to explain why you didn't bring it up until now.
In the U.S., you never need to join a union, even at a union shop, anywhere.

The issue is that, in a union shop--and this varies state by state--you might have to pay union dues whether or not you're a member.

That issue of being compelled to pay union dues whether or not you're a member is the crux of the "right to work" debate (a bullshit term, because everyone always has the right to work, these laws are just about weakening unions and setting laws in favor of the owners).

But being compelled to join a union? In the U.S.? Nope, never.
To my knowledge GPFS is IBM only.
For a single person under 65: standard deduction $6,300 plus personal exemption $4,050 = $10,350 can be earned before income tax is due. More, if you use tax advantaged retirement and HSA accounts.

Note: this only applies to the personal income tax, not the payroll or self employment taxes.