skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“certain types of offensive speech” is clarified as "the government should be able to prevent people from saying offensive statements about minority groups" when you look at the study.

I agree that it feels inflated compared to potentially less emotionally provocative question about freedom of speech as a fundamental concept.

Then again, I wouldn't be shocked if that is the the general stance of a lot of people. Speaking as a Canadian, these types of government restrictions on hateful speech are written into law and largely uncontested in politics.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/11/20/40-of-millen...
The only thing that is not an object (as such) that remains in spacetime are fields, whose state evolves according to the principle of relativity. Thus ensuring that you cannot measure your position relative to spacetime without getting "you are right here" as a pretty-much useless answer.

For what it's worth, the reason we know spacetime exists and is not 'nothing' is because it carries energy around the universe. That's pretty much the main common property shared by things that exist.
> $41.1 billion = 5% of total revenue. A few orders of magnitude would mean the shortfall is greater than all of their income combined.

You're not comparing apples to apples. $41 billion is the aggregate of the bills for which they cannot collect; that doesn't mean they don't receive any money from them, and it doesn't mean $41 billion is the amount they've actually lost.

I know you "don't trust" GAAP accounting, but understanding the basic terminology and concepts makes it a lot easier to follow what's going on here.
As far as I know, the version on Steam is the same as what came on the discs with the only modifications being some patches for compatibility. There were also no references to Steam's DRM anywhere
> In the vacuum of space, if your body begins to spin, a force will pull your arms away from your from your body.

I think this is the easiest to explain, because it's built on the others (specifically inertia). For some point in your spinning, your arm moves in some direction. Your center of mass changes its direction of movement, because you're spinning. Your arm still goes in the direction it was initially moving, pulling itself outward as the less floppy part of the body follows the spin inward a bit better. Your arm (and all your other parts) is just "trying" to go "straight", due to inertia, and can achieve it better than your other parts, because it has an easier range of motion to do so.

Inertia and gravity themselves are more fundamental, and certainly fit your descriptions (to my limited knowledge). We don't know at what level things in the universe are fundamental, instead of explainable by some additional turtle underneath. Hence we start smashing subatomic particles to see what's there.

I have no clue how science even could determine if some mechanisms are the "root" ones and not just derivative of something else. There's no guarantee that the physical workings of the universe make any sort of sense.
I seem to recall the old IBM keyboard was designed it way it was to provide tactile and auditory feedback that the input had been registered before the key bottomed out. This to reduce long term strain injuries. After all, the primary use of a computer back then would be writing. Be it codes or reports.
John Carmack describes VR to all age groups
Study in question:

Fructose-1,6-bisphosphate couples glycolytic flux to activation of Ras (2017)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01019-z

Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg_effect
While this is true, there are quite a few stories, where heroine users write about becoming clean with the use of cannabis. Just search https://www.reddit.com/r/trees and see for yourself if you doubt that.

Also, if you have the numbers of calls to ambulance, you might see a drop there too. But maybe that's also not enough evidence for you.
I wrote this upthread, but what latitude are you at?

The temperature anomalies are quite high at northern latitudes. Closer to the equator and you wouldn’t see much difference.

If you’re at a more southern latitude, this may be colouring your view of the anecdotes in this thread. Most of them come from winter territory in north america, where temperature anomalies have been large.
If you really like macOS, the Hackintosh route is keeping quite stable these days. The NUCs have such generic hardware that there is practically no .kext fiddling and with the Clover bootloader any adjustments that need to happen are a breeze.

Up until recently graphics issues with my Radeon cards kept me from using macOS full-time on my rig, needing major backflips to get acceleration and full resolution support working reliably. Now it's just a zero-config .kext drop in, whereas the common suggestion was just to get an Nvidia GPU or live with the on-board graphics.

Even better is the recent work to support AMD CPUs. Dev interest in getting them supported fell off quite a bit since the Leopard and Snow Leopard days but it's seeing a strong resurgence now.

Just to put things in a more perspective, though I have a few years of effort put into understanding what goes into Hackintoshing my latest effort in getting High Sierra working on an APFS drive took less than an hour overall. Whereas before, it was a weekend job. Better still, if you're in the market to buy new, the common build guides are bullet-proof. Basically anything from Intel (like Ethernet controllers) works without any issues and has for some time. Most hardware that looks something like an iMac or Mac Pro will be reliable and trouble-free, especially if you hang back a dot release or two.
In DC, the mass transit agency is usually referred to as Metro, and offers two main services - Metrorail and Metrobus.
> But the bulk of their revenue comes from medicaid/medicare patients so prices basically round down to those reimbursement rates.

This is totally wrong. Private insurers reimburse several times what Medicare does. In fact, they're literally required by law to pay more.

Medicare prices are so low that providers can't sustain themselves on Medicare reimbursements alone; the government provides a special subsidy to providers who see a lot of Medicare patients because otherwise they'd operate at a loss.
I've never been a fan of bootcamps because it seems like a lot of them refuse to follow the law with respect to licensing, and because I think they tend to make outlandish claims. These companies can afford the licensing costs, and I think the state has a valid interest in regulating any company that calls itself a school.

The lack of concern about licensing, along with the way these companies play fast loose with their employment statistics makes the whole industry seem very fly-by-night. It's really too bad because I really like the idea of a company that trains people who are interested in programming just enough to get their foot in the door somewhere.

American companies should do more to train American workers, and I feel like a $15k fee all but ensures that the student has some skin in the game. Might this make them viable candidates for apprenticeships at American tech companies?

I realize that on the job training is portable, but there has to be a way to work that out. Not only that, but that on the job training is as portable for programmers who come in with a CS degree as it is for programmers who come in from a bootcamp.

Many companies have a college credit benefit that has to be paid back if the employee leaves the company within a certain time. Wouldn't it be okay to have something like an apprentice position, where the salary was lower for 3 years, say half the usual as an incentive for the company, but the apprentice programmer would get real world experience, plus something good on their resume?

After three years, the programmer could stay or leave, but both parties would have most of their their benefit at that point. If the programmer stayed, they would start at the bottom of the pay scale. The company could fire at any time, but it wouldn't be in their interests to do so unless there were serious problems.

It's not perfect, but it could be a huge boon to tech companies and apprentices alike. Yes, some people would shake out, but that happens whether someone has a CS degree or not.

Anyone care to throw some darts at these ideas?
There's too much money at play for there to not be a conspiracy - of some sort. I think it's pretty hard to argue that our economy is not highly skewed towards protecting the wealth of the very rich.
Boeing technicians did the repair on behalf of Boeing. JAL did not do the repair.
The crash will come when the federal deficit is reduced. Trump and his right hand man Paul Ryan are working on that now... While the tax cuts would help increase the deficit, they are taking it away by cutting spending.
More importantly, pointing out the damage being done to America's democratic institutions and civil society should not be dismissed as hysterics or simply "panic."

The consequences will be greatest in the long term. That we aren't feeling them yet does not absolve the situation.
> Wouldn't a good compromise be treating medicare reimbursement rates as price maximums? Since CMS effectively sets the prices by being a monopsony of sorts, codify it into law.

If we did that, most providers would literally shut down overnight.

A couple of decades ago, there was a whole string of hospital closures because those hospitals saw mostly Medicare patients, and Medicare reimbursements aren't enough to sustain a practice (they're subsidized by private insurance reimbursement rates).

To fix this, Congress forced Medicare to pay an additional stipend to providers who see too many Medicare patients. The reimbursement rates are the same, but they get an extra subsidy, because otherwise they'd go under.

So no, you couldn't do this unless you drastically raised the reimbursement rates first.
That's a fun read. The section on incentives is useful. But he idolizes Patterson, the National Cash Register guy? That guy was the Travis Kalanick of the late 19th century.

"Politics is the art of marshalling hatreds". Munger was way ahead of his time there.

"First-conclusion bias". Huge problem with cops.

"It is not greed that drives the world, but envy" - cited to Warren Buffett. Hmm. He probably ran into too many business types with the mindset "It's not enough to win; someone else has to lose." Such ego trips are not useful to the stockholders.

"Always tell us the bad news promptly. Good news can wait" - Berkshire policy.

"A job hunter who is a marvelous 'presenter' often causes grave danger under modern executive-search practice." - referring to how Carly Fiorina tanked HP.

"An excess of optimism is the normal human condition" - cited to Demosthenes.
Didn't know that went back that far.

"Deprival Superreaction" - the asymmetry between gain and loss is well known, but not under that name.
Guardians of the Galaxy v2 planet Sovereign defies Physics
Macbooks are known to throttle usb polling to something like 32ms toi save battery.
It was not Beoing's fault: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_123#Caus...
Algorithms and Utils for Machine Learning in JavaScript.
Its hard to find a bond fund that has averaged that low over a medium timeframe (5-10 years). Hell, my government-insured checking account has payed 2% for years.
Recently switched to DDG. I am a developer in my free time and for 99% of programming related queries, shopping queries and normal searched, results from DDG are good enough. Never had to go past the first page till date.

I use google only for obscure searches or for the tiny sliver of searches that DDG dosen't give a right answer to. Those include obscure terms in my native language, books in my native language, programming related searches that involve asking a question or a process that is relatively complex.
I guess a related question would be, is anyone aware of a common protocol that does have a formally defined state machine to review?
I also have a makefile and game genie code generator for this on github: https://github.com/nwoeanhinnogaehr/smb-assembler
Where cost = financial cost to the end user, not the cost to society when private corporations suck revenue out of public transportation systems for short-term market gain.
> Road travel is more subsidized than rail, anecdotally

New York spends between $1.11 and $7.34 subsidizing each ride on our Subway or LIRR, respectively, [1]. Assuming 2 trips a day on each of a year's 260 workdays, that comes to $577 to $3,810 of subsidies per commuter per year. The article is from 2012, so we'll use BLS data [2] to adjust those figures to September 2017 dollars: $618 and $4,080, respectively.

"The statewide average of highway spending per capita in 2009 was $233," [3] or $266 in September 2017 dollars. That said, this isn't a fair comparison since we aren't adjusting for usage. On the other hand, most of roads' wear and tear comes from trucks [3]. And New York taxes the hell out of trucks [4].

TL; DR Trains work, but in the United States we tend to treat them as jobs programs first and public infrastructure second.

[1] http://www.wnyc.org/story/283927-mta-suburban-passengers-get...

[2] https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

[3] http://facweb.knowlton.ohio-state.edu/pviton/courses2/crp776...

[4] https://www.tax.ny.gov/bus/hut/huidx.htm
you're really overstating the intelligence of those folks
Yes. It appears that since KRACK can allow the attacker to hijack a TCP handshake that they could potentially downgrade an HTTPS connection where HSTS is not used, but that shouldn’t affect your VPN connection.
Tucked me behind a paywall.

Mirror: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-kellogg-buys-r...
try with charger plugged in, macs throttle polling to save power.
I haven't read this book, but it is on my list.

This data would surprise me too, but the author is fairly well credentialed and has done reasonable work at estimating this kind of thing before. He is one of the authors of https://classics.stanford.edu/publications/cambridge-economi...

His work on city size seems to be in this PDF, pages 109-117: http://www.ianmorris.org/docs/social-development.pdf

I'm far from an expert on this. The only thing I noted was that his estimate of 125K in 1000CE Baghdad is lower than I expected. He argues it may actually have been lower given the documented size, and he notes the 500K-700K estimates for Baghdad imply a much higher density to anywhere else at that time.

I'd note that I don't see the OP's point (that population declined in the Muslim cities during this period) reflected in the numbers I'm seeing in this document. That is mostly because it isn't clear about the whole area population as opposed to the largest cities.
We can accurately predict lensing well enough to see the impact on particles of light - over billions of miles. We can't explain it.

The universe is still full of many mysteries. If we knew the why, we'd stop doing science. Our understanding is incomplete and that's okay. It gives our species something to strive for.

Do you really understand particle physics well enough to truly understand how your cell phone works? We can predict, model, and observe. We can get results. We don't necessarily know or why the results are the way they are.

Edited to add: I find it interesting enough to sometimes point out that we used electricity before we even knew about electrons. Being able to do something doesn't mean understanding.

We used simple machines, long before we understood them.
Show HN: Cloudforks – Uber of cloud computing
phaxio has an API -- 7c/page to USA and 10c to other countries.
Japan is included as a 10cent destination.

https://www.phaxio.com/pricing/
Cool! I use one of your competitors, Fax Fresh. One thing I like about them is that they clearly state they delete the fax from their servers once it's sent. I couldn't find such a statement in your privacy policy (though maybe I missed it). Can you elaborate on what happens to my fax after it's sent? Is it deleted from your server?
Not mentioned in the post, but I worked with Dan on this and I'm pretty sure he's talking about the iPad pro.
Indian Roads: The Final Frontier for Autonomous and Self-Driving Cars
Had no idea they had grown so fast! I wonder if Quest nutrition will have a similar exit?
And then he wrote...

The IEEE has been making a few small steps to ease this problem, but they’re hyper-timid incrementalist bullshit. There’s an IEEE program called GET that allows researchers to access certain standards (including 802.11) for free, but only after they’ve been public for six months — coincidentally, about the same time it takes for vendors to bake them irrevocably into their hardware and software.

In other words, it's getting better, but vendors are burning silicon by the time researchers have the time to even crack open whitepapers -- too late.
The war to sell you a mattress
Do you mean "proof itself is dangerous"? If so can you elaborate, I'm not sure a sound argument can be made to support that claim but I'd love to hear it if it does exist.
A properly working VPN should still maintain privacy even if an attacker is in complete control of your modem. The data is encrypted from your device all the way to a VPN server. Conceivably, they could redirect traffic to an alternative malicious VPN but that should fail authentication.

(somebody let me know if I'm wrong in this)
These would make good interview questions too... the problems are pretty unique so it's unlikely someone can come prepared.
For those of you who liked this speech, check out his book "Poor Charlie's Almanack": https://www.poorcharliesalmanack.com/

Which contains that speech and other talks that he has given over the years. It's a beautifully illustrated book chock full of his witticisms. I enjoyed it tremendously. Also check out "Seeking Wisdom" (from the same publisher and website). The book was listed as a favorite of Nassim Taleb (whom I am also a fan of). It's one of my favorite books, personally.
You missed PayPal!
What exactly does it mean to set up a "tech hub" of two people, in a town of 4000, in rural Alaska?

I'm not sure I get the core concept there.
Full disclosure: I was born and raised in Valdez.
16% of Corp Board Members Say Racial and Gender Diversity Has No Benefit at All
Excellent starting point. You suggested some ways of dealing with the multitude of problems that intersect here:

- False accusations
- Accuser/accusee power imbalances
- Interfering courts
- Lengthy formal court processes

One thing I'm not sure about in your idea is how you'd deal with brigading to force the magic number to be met.
TCP's might not be formally defined (unsure), but it's pretty well understood to the point of having de facto ones, at least.
We are a Java shop and use Consul (as a docker container) for our service discovery. Spring Cloud Consul plays well with Consul. The REST APIs are what makes Consul stand out. We have an in-house monitoring service querying consul apis for service removals & healthy service counts and send an alert if there are no more healthy services, so that our docker can spin up one just in time.

Another feature that we use is the KV configuration dynamic reloading. So all your yml configurations are in Consul and can be updated and propagated to all of your services on the fly.

Now the problem we face is Spring Cloud Consul project is maintained by a very few people, so if there is an issue, we have to workaround than waiting for a fix.
Get a portable ashtray from a dollar store
> For comparison, we had hurricanes, presidential scandals, yada yada in the late 1990s.

Well, yes, and then we had a recession right after the late 90s. Is your comparison supposed to be reassuring?
5 Healthy Reasons to Add Protein Shake to Your Diet
I don’t really follow how an app like this leads to dysfunctional mindsets. Your slippery slope argument feels hysterical; this is just an app, and it’s a digital version of what teens already do...
NKRO is N-key rollover, as opposed to 2-key rollover (limited to pressing 2 keys at once) - N meaning any number
This looks sort of backwards. If we want to limit car use, we should increase the price of it. Many city centers do so.
Except at the highest level of abstraction, my Lucidchart diagrams and Google docs never survive their first encounter with the compiler. There always turns out to be some fatal flaw that's obvious in an editor but totally escaped me in the word processor. My (limited) experience has been teaching me the opposite: dive in as quickly as I can and write some code to explore the problem space, then go think harder about a design after getting my feet wet.
> Does anyone still use faxes anywhere on the planet?

Japan: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/14/world/asia/in-japan-the-fa...
And the implementations ignored all the fundamental "nonces should never be used" part of the formal handshake protocol, and thus would have failed the aforementioned testing.
Great point. I wasn't thinking how that news piece related. Great point.
Ask HN: How to best position myself as senior developer leaves?
I am a mid level developer at a small (less than 10 developers) SAAS business. I have been with the business for close to two years.

Our most experienced developer is soon leaving the business. He has been with us for over 5 years, and takes a wealth of knowledge and experience with him.

After he leaves, that will leave the business with only a few backend developers including me.

I have confidence in the future of the business, and I want to make a great impact on it. I also want to best position myself to become more experienced, take on new responsibilities, have input into key decisions, and be more visible to the leadership team and the rest of the business.

What are the important things a keen developer should be doing in this situation to grow his or her skills, either technically or inter-personally?
This reminds me of the scandal a few months ago:
https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/30/wrkriot-vanishes-after-sca...

I must say the author really took a lot of courage to standup against these fraudsters.
I notice these bars every time I see them in the store. Its amazing how big a difference package design can make.
A Berkeley View of Systems Challenges for AI
Index funds are going to expand until they're a big enough segment of the market that they're worth trying to exploit through predatory strategies. Eg: getting a long position in a stock and taking action to get it included in an index and forcing index funds to buy into your position. Or the opposite - short position and de-listing a stock. Or more complicatedly, manipulating your public float in order to squeeze market-cap indexers.

The last one needs explanation. Suppose indexers think they should own 10% of your company. Issue stock, and "sell" that stock in a self-dealing manner at current market prices. Indexers now should buy stock, since your company is bigger on paper (more shares outstanding at the same price). In the degenerate case, >90% of the stock isn't actually available for sale on the public markets, and the indexers have to buy literally more shares than they can buy.

Note that this pattern of strategies happens organically. Whenever there's a population filled with agents that pay costs to enforce rules, there's a superior local strategy of free-riding on their rule enforcement, since defectors cannot operate in a enforcer-heavy environment. This also is what'll cause a drop in index funds - wide-scale losses due to fraud and prices temporarily disconnected from fundamentals.
Even a single ID card can be valuable - factor a big company CEO's private key, log in to his company's bank, start making transfers to places where the money does not come back from.
That variability is still climate change, even if it is not associated with general global warming trends. In either case, the people who don't believe in the actual data will be better-served to at least pay attention to the anecdotes, even if something is missing from them.

Because at this point, it's largely a game of political motivation, not confirmation of basic facts.