skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the biggest thing a University affords is exposure to areas of computer science that you didn't know existed. In my experience, most of undergrad was spent learning about a subject for a quarter or two before moving on to something else unrelated. It often frustrated me because it felt like there was never enough time to master the current subject before the class was over. I later realized that this is by design. Undergraduate curriculums are all about exposure to different topics in order to give you an idea of what you might want to pursue as a career. If you already have experience in industry, you are probably far better of a programmer than most fresh out of college because nothing beats experience.
> Puerto Rico should really be a state by now. Would it being a state given it any distinct advantages (or are there any specific problems in light of it not being a state) in this type of situation?

In the narrow sense, traditional municipal bankruptcy would have been available to it in this situation (and creditors would have acted with that knowledge, which would likely have forestalled it getting to the current situation) were that the case.

More broadly, PR would have greater influence in federal policy were it a state with voting representation in Congress and electoral votes for the Presidency, which would also make it less likely that things would have gotten this bad.
Not really, you still are limited to speed of light – so > ~100 ms roundtrips for half of the globe.
I've been tossing around the adoption issue as well, and I think the "viral winning app" issue is maybe the wrong way to think about it.

The viral winning app sells a device, but not an ecosystem. I don't think the iPhone for example had a single viral winning app. It was more a confluence of enough capabilities merged into your phone that it became really helpful to own a smartphone. I suspect that's how VR will go if it succeeds. It eventually hits a price point and there are enough individual reasons to own and use a VR headset that it begins to make sense for everyone to own one.
> and the federal government will backstop the states

I think it's unlikely the federal government will be backstopping pension problems in IL and CA anytime soon, without a dramatic congressional shift.

I think you underestimate how much taxes will need to raise to cover these liabilities. The federal government already has its hands full with SS + Medicare commitments it can't handle.

I'd rather see failures and bankruptcies at a local level, which will maybe convince other municipalities to reform before they collapse. I don't want everything centralized into one giant US federal government default. That's not a better plan.
> or the supply of developers with good native experience would need to magically increase

Well one of the thing I notice despite all the new apps made with electron, none of them opened a category of new type of software which wasn't there before. It is just quickly made chat app, notes app, text editor and so on. So it is not that we need dramatically more native developers but to ask do we need 100 more apps of same type.
There are multiple ways to lock down Windows, and various schools use them. The problem with AppLocker is that it assumes you have a reasonably sophisticated IT department that knows what it wants and can write rules to achieve it.

Windows 10S is much more flexible and requires no set-up and no maintenance. If it's in the Windows Store, you can install it.

Bear in mind that schools run fleets of PCs and children do not have their own. They get whichever comes off the trolley. The Windows store installs whichever apps they use when they log on.
A friend of mine was confused as to how they continue to sell so well without the patents and I told him to try to build with MegaBlox. The knock offs are terrible and barely hold together. I can still build with 30+ year-old Lego pieces.
The disruption is mostly social. We will need less parking spaces, driver's licenses will become increasingly unneeded, and car ownership will largely become something for hobbyists. Transportation will become even more a subscription, with the only exceptions air and sea travel.
Well, that's your opinion, and Thomas's, but very frequently it's not the opinion of 8 other Supreme Court justices, several of whom also claim to be textual originalists.

The constitution does not mandate all good things, does not forbid all bad things, but VERY NOTABLY includes the 9th amendment. They put that one in for a reason.
This reminds me somewhat of translations of Chinese webnovels. Many of them have hundreds or thousands of chapters, but never see an official English release, so fans would spend years of time translating them and posting them online. I believe one of the most well-known sites for this (wuxiaworld) has actually attained international recognition (ie. been in the news) for it, as well as signed an agreement with the major Chinese publisher of webnovels to continue translating in a legal manner.
Yeah, too late. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. There's some nice code in there though, I wish people would steal our libc stuff. Some really nice ideas in there. And a pleasant license so you can use it where ever you want.
You can only have two things in software development either your software is "user friendly" or "secure". Example: PGP
Story time.

Charlotte North Carolina is adjacent to the South Carolina state line, where the alcohol taxes are lower. A few years ago, the NC Alcohol Beverage Control Commission sent an officer to sit in the parking lot of one of the beer & wine stores located just across the border. He would radio the vehicle license plates to his buddies waiting along Interstate 77, who would pull the cars over and charge the driver with bootlegging (still a crime, even in the 21st century).

The South Carolina highway patrol took great offense to this and sent several officers to the store and explained to the NC ABC officer that he was out of his jurisdiction and would he kindly go home and not come back.
A very common criticism of new things is that they don't do anything new. I'm saying that "mere efficiency improvements" matter more than is commonly thought by people encountering something new.
Yeah, dropping caffeine from my diet was a huge benefit for me.

Not immediately, mind you. Those first couple of weeks were rough.
Crowds? High Fidelity? Where? I've tried it, and it's mostly empty.

High Fidelity may have made the mistake of bringing up their world empty. They should have used a terrain generator and SpeedTree to fill the world with virgin, natural terrain. Then let people buy real estate, clear it, and develop.

This would also impel people to do good graphical work. SpeedTree builds a good-looking nature. It would encourage people to try to do as well with what they build.
Angular to Minecraft Compiler
WhatsApp down?
There weren't any public pension funds at the start of the 20th century.

If we instead look at time periods during which the industry average was considered to be 8%...

https://dqydj.com/dow-jones-return-calculator/

1960-1990 = 9.5% average return.

1960-2000 = 11.5% average return.

It's largely pointless to talk about inflation-unadjusted average-rate-of-return for long time periods. A 12% YoY return when inflation is at 15% is terrible. A 5% YoY return when inflation is at 0% is amazing.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22364157/

Note that 'required' likely means "less than the RDA" and that RDAs are often set on the basis of "having less than this much will imminently lead to some sort of dysfunction" as opposed to "the amount that actually makes your body happy".
> Puerto Rico should really be a state by now. Would it being a state given it any distinct advantages (or are there any specific problems in light of it not being a state) in this type of situation?

Puerto Rico's economy has been crippled by the Jones Act, which affects all US states/territories that rely solely on sea transportation for trade with the US. Hawaii is the only state that fits that description, and they've also been suffering deeply due to the Jones Act, although not as badly as Puerto Rico (for reasons due to the specifics of Hawaii's economy, not its statehood).
That data can then be downloaded by for CRM purposes,
or likely by your PD after a crime, to gain a list of
potential suspects and/or witnesses.

So it is in fact a surveillance tool for tracking bar visitors?
> people would be interested in solutions instead of blaming, finger pointing and political games.

Would anyone be interested in bureaucratic machinations over solutions? Varoufakis' ex post facto statement sounds bitter and judgemental and to be expected in the face of his failure.

If you listen to his EconTalk episode, you get a sense of an admirable and optimistic person who, when faced with the defensive positioning of EU stalwarts, represented his ideas in a naive and condescending way that denied himself and the Greek people he represented the chance to establish trust and the proper report to begin alternative negotiations in earnest. His economic ideas might be perfectly salient but his self-introduction at the bailout talks did not represent those ideas very well.
An injunction against what? Designing and building autonomous cars? An injunction like that might save Uber billions of dollars. I've never bought the idea they needed their own autonomous cars. Someday someone (very likely multiple someones unless our crazy patent system interferes) will build viable autonomous cars and Uber can just buy from them.

Their ultimate success will always be based on their brand and how well they provide their service. Until the last 6 months they did an amazing job at both, they had their apps on many times more phones than any competitor, and their app works amazingly well. Now they've tarnished their brand and might be losing market share, well before the market is completely built out. that's what they should be focusing on.
> I think it's unlikely the federal government will be backstopping pension problems in IL and CA anytime soon, without a dramatic congressional shift.

Agreed. That shift is going to happen though. Seniors are not a cohort you can ignore. They vote like clockwork.

> I think you underestimate how much taxes will need to raise to cover these liabilities. The federal government already has its hands full with SS + Medicare commitments it can't handle.

I don't, but we should've been setting aside these funds. We didn't, and we'll still need to pay out even at a reduced benefits level.

> I'd rather see failures and bankruptcies at a local level, which will maybe convince other municipalities to reform before they collapse. I don't want everything centralized into one giant US federal government default. That's not a better plan.

Reform will not happen. That's code for "cutting benefits". As long as the US government maintains the ability to tax, it will not default. Social Security keeps a third of seniors out of poverty. 45 percent of Puerto Rican's are already in poverty. Cutting benefits further? That's not tenable.

No one held government accountable over the last several decades, and now we're stuck with the fallout.

EDIT: Because of ye olde' HN throttling limits:

Most seniors don't pay taxes, due to marginal tax rates. Seniors will vote all day to keep their benefits intact. I don't blame them.
Scalajs-react 1.0.0
Sad.. Let's hope for breakthroughs on quantum entanglement research then
I am not defending the practice of civil forfeiture, and I said so, though obviously not clearly enough.

I was explaining the operational legal reason for the existence of court cases in which one of the parties is an an inanimate object, nothing more.
Not just overspending, but also quite a bit of corruption. I remember my parents complaining that PR senators got better job perks than US senators.
Acknowledge that not using cash places is "advanced" but also want to say that being able to use cash is not necessarily a bad thing. Cash allows for anonymity, allows for the un-banked to conduct their business, and prevents 100% leverage of your transactions data (not to mention transaction fees) by the companies that handle them.
Slack's answer to Quora?
Discover how to skyrocket your conversion rates with dynamic websites
But perl, python, ruby, and even bash have filled that role for years.

I'm also chiming in with a small amount of disgust at seeing nodejs in play, though at least this isn't an electron project.
The aren't necessarily liquid for the full amount. It's possible to make a smart contract that doles out the funds over time, or even lets contributors vote on releasing funds.

Plus it's fairly standard to award the creators some of the new tokens, with a vesting period of at least a year. The general idea is to used the raised funds for development/marketing/etc, and the tokens as the reward; if the project fails, the token will be worthless, so there's a strong incentive to work at least until they can sell off the tokens.
If you want the world to be a certain way, president of the USA does a lot for letting you make that happen.

If you want america to be a certain way, that holds even more strongly. How 'murica moves forward will depend heavily on the political parties stances. Being able to move (I'm guessing) the democrats will have a massive effect on politics.

Not being beholden to a share price also really helps.
We are using VR to help people overcome fears at Fearless.

http://FearlessVR.com

It is based on lots of research showing that VR exposure therapy is extremely effective.
I don't know if the "market for lemons" argument applies when a market is purely fraudulent. In that case, normal dynamics do not apply and the key question is whether you can always find new suckers. I argued in another comment a few days ago that the answer is yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14220491
> The legal standard of conviction is not being met.

But it's clear, even outside of forfeiture, that that isn't a requirement for losing property to the state for wrongful conduct; civil process (with the government having a cause of action) does exist even outside of forfeiture, even for conduct which also has criminal punishment.

There has never been a principal accepted in this country that all government legal remedies against individuals require criminal conviction, which is what you seem to be asserting ad the principal with forfeiture.

It's clear that certain types of penalties require criminal conviction, and it's clear (now at least, though that should have been obvious before) that penalties expressly premised on criminal conviction require criminal conviction. But forfeiture doesn't really fall into either of those categories.
Once again, people are reminded of the advice of their parents, given to them when they were a small child:

Don't take candy from strangers.
That's what I'm saying. The Hololens works (for some value of "works", as far as the simple demos go) but doesn't tether. The meta 2 tethers but doesn't work.
Wow, Hired.com appears to have emailed all of their users about this. Must be spreadinq quickly. Note that they advise compromised users to change their password - which other comments indicate does not solve the issue.

Below is the Hired notification.

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Important: Email Phishing Alert

Hi <first name>,

It has come to our attention that some of our users may have been hit with a Google Docs phishing scam. It appears that this scam has been spreading throughout the internet today, and is not isolated to Hired or our customers and candidates. If you want more information, you can read about it here[1] or here[2].

If you receive a Hired email that says that someone from Hired has shared a Google Doc with you, please validate with the sender before clicking the link or doing anything else.

If you think your account may have been compromised, be sure to change your password immediately.

We apologize for this interruption to your day. Please let us know if you have any questions.

Thanks,
The Hired team

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/3/15534768/google-docs-phish...

[2] https://gizmodo.com/a-huge-and-dangerously-convincing-google...
Cutting expenses has not solved the _debt_ problem, but has surely solved the _deficit_. Greece has a strong primary surplus.
I don't think that's true of all trans people, but - anecdotally, as with many comments I make on here - several trans people I've met have been the type where being trans is their entire identity, as in it's the only real defining characteristic about them that they show. Obviously the majority are likely not like this, but those few who are seem to be the vocal ones as well.
Nothing, as far as I'm aware. At $598 you'd get the headset, controllers, and two tracking cameras. Also any of the free games that come with the Rift/Touch.
Alabama has a long history of space & aviation engineering... you wouldn't have to go far to find experienced engineers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Space_Flight_Center
If a real challenge was made to Puerto Rico's territory status since the US conservatorship was based on racist premises, wouldn't it be more likely to get kicked out of the union than assigned statehood? At least by Supreme Court analysis of the constitutionality of the conservatorship.

I suppose if that happened there would be immediately enough consensus to gain statehood from both Puerto Ricans and US Congress.
Something I wonder about with something that huge is where it goes. I had mixed feelings when my Ogre Designers Edition rolled in a couple years ago, OK I can afford this, good, but where do I put something of this physical size?
I will admit that you are right on that.
It's a tough spot to be in.

I bought, and yet to fully read, "Debt - The first 5000 years".
One of the things the book states at the start is what you are saying: Not every debt has to be paid off.
One of the risks creditors take is the possibility of having a debt not paid back.

I also remember how Haiti was, to this day, punished via monetary means. Haiti wanted freedom? Fine... they will (and did) cripple the entire country.

Another example from the book: Madagascar.
The French invaded, and took out their Queen.
Then imposed taxes on the population as to get back the money they invested in the invasion/war.
wtf
As an argentinian, i can tell you without a shadow of a doubt, you can default. Frequently and periodically if you wish so :).

I can imagine a large write-off that will come with some fiscal reform.
Thank you! I think this analysis is simplistic and has a lot of room for questions, but it is an analysis and it is data-supported, and I respect that. (And I don't think that citing these facts is sexist in any way.)

One line of argument occurs to me: my understanding is that the breakdown of incoming freshmen at top colleges (by which I mean the sorts of colleges Facebook tries very hard to recruit from) is very gender-balanced, much more so than would be implied by the normal distributions you cite. This raises two questions:

1. Are these colleges selecting students for some reason other than general intelligence (whether this is "political correctness" or "intelligence isn't everything" is irrelevant to this question), and if so, can we measure the IQ of men and women at these colleges and find a significant difference? Even if men and women as a whole have different IQ distributions, I would initially assume men and women at top colleges to have comparable IQ distributions (because that's what college admissions should select for), but I can believe that this is not true.

2. How much is raw general intelligence useful for software engineering compared to the pedigree of having attended one of these top schools? I would assume that being in the 95th percentile of intelligence and having a degree from one of these schools is more likely to lead to success than being in the 98th percentile and not, but, again, I can very easily be convinced otherwise.
First exoskeletons coming to civilian market
Yeah, over here in Thessaloniki we have smoke-free places which I try to support by frequenting. I guess we know the answer to the question "how much of your population needs to do something before it becomes unenforceable?". It's 30%, the percentage of adult smokers in Greece.
Neural to me means stop favouring one special interest group over everybody else. When the NYT was seeking to hire a gender editor (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/jobs/nyt-gender-edi...) and said "women ruled the Olympics", "men used to dominate", etc. were they impartial? Was there any need for such divisiveness? What did they hope to gain?

The special interest groups will move into Facebook. They will shut down anything they don't like and allow everything (no matter how intolerant) that aligns with their political agenda. Use "domestic violence" as an example by searching that term at Google. Almost all publications ignore worldwide government stats that show huge numbers of female perpetrators. Almost all media outlets say domestic violence is something only males do and only females are victims of, in spite of overwhelming evidence this is false. That's an example of non neutrality by a special interest group. It's lead to a starvation of funding and support for one sex. It's lead to animosity.

Do you think Facebook will be impartial in their moderation? The special interest groups will apply extreme pressure and the result will be extreme views.
VR hardware will continue to improve because it drives all sorts of demand for chips and software, and nobody wants to be left behind. The Hacker News audience may be jaded about it, but it still is interesting to average people.
It's just too expensive and too confusing, and the software isn't very good yet. I have no idea how popular VR will but I know better headsets will come out in the next two years and prices will come down.
Yes, being a state would solve some of these fiscal issues. It's even been discussed for the past few years that this debt situation might be the thing that pushes Puerto Rico to actually become a state.

The major problem is that Puerto Ricans don't actually want to become a state. In the various referendums, the majority generally goes for status quo, followed by statehood, followed by independence. In 2012, the referendum was more or less connived to produce a vote for statehood (it was structured as two questions, the first "status quo or not" and the second "state, free association, or complete independence"). There's apparently another referendum scheduled in a month, but I've not found any polling on what the likelihood of success for statehood is in that referendum.
That's true in any individual case. But if we make it our social norm that bankruptcy is nothing to be ashamed of and to be taken lightly, won't it change the equilibrium for future generations of lenders and borrowers such that an inefficiently low amount of lending goes on? If everyone has the expectation that the lenders and borrowers will try their best to live up to the contract they made in good faith, wouldn't it be a better equlibrium? And we can work towards such a world bit by bit in how we respond to crises like the Puerto Rico one.
I learned Miranda at SFU way back in the 90's. It was a language way ahead of its time back then. I'm glad to see that so many languages nowadays have some of the stuff I worked with in Miranda.
Even without the meta-moderation aspect, just having multiple dimensions for evaluating any given post is so useful and seemingly unique.

"Upvote/Downvote" is not nearly as useful for ranking as the range of, say "+1 Funny, +1 Insightful, +1 Agree, -1 Disagree, -1 Spam, -1 Flamebait/Troll" (I've forgotten exactly what set /. uses)
I work for a fortune 500 (wont disclose) but we just shut off email for our entire organization due to this...
Is there a database of homoglyphs for common fonts that one could use to write a visual string matching algorithm?
Seems like GNOME is all about the extensions haha! I just wish more of them were added as official ones.