skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Forgotten Mystery of Inertia
> a few orders of magnitude greater than the amount of noncollectable debt from uninsured patients.

$41.1 billion = 5% of total revenue. A few orders of magnitude would mean the shortfall is greater than all of their income combined.
'g' is gram-force. It's the weight required to "click" the switch over it's actuation point. 1 Gram is equivalent to 0.980665 centinewton, so for most measurements of keyboard switches, g's and cN's are used interchangeably.
To be fair WW1 wasn't invented until WW2 came along, before that it was mostly the "Great War"
I'm using Romer Gs now (G910 at home for a while, and recently the G413 at work), making the switch from MX Browns as I found them too heavy (programming RSI).

Not sure how much I press them down (will try to analyse at next opportunity), but whenever I play a FPS (which is admittedly nowhere as often as I'd like these days) I certainly "preload" the fingers on the WASD keys in such a manner that the press is far quicker than when I touch type.

Precision and responsiveness is far better than using a chiclet type keyboard such as the MS Sculpt, which compares a bit to the Apple Macbook keyboards from memory (although the new Macbook Pro has even shorter travel again). The Sculpt (or MBP) has much shorter overall travel compared to the Romers, but the feel of when you are off/on really doesn't compare; the keys feel dead in comparison for gaming. YMMV.
I was replying to the comment on Super Hexagon. I believe the concepts that allow us to perform these feats are the same however.
Additional energy in a chaotic system does not distribute itself as a nice "average". The way I like to think about it is a massive billiards table, and as you add more moving balls (more energy) things just get crazier. On average, sure there is more movement, but what you'll mostly notice is the increasing frequency and energy of collisions.
That's where the fuzziness of the terms comes in, I think.

For instance, I've seen in-house codebases that drive US devs to anger about their low quality that are regular paragons of excellence compared to stuff that's come back as part of outsourced projects (and not solely offshores outsourcing), so it's all relative.
I can very quickly tell the difference between 10ms and 5ms, when playing a musical instrument.
The linked article explicitly makes this point:

"Every other historical age name is instantly understood by everyone to refer to both a time and a place. [..] let’s just agree to call it the Western European Dark Ages, as long as we can also agree it existed and was bad."
Glaciers, permafrost, and the like are the kind of low-pass filter that lets people observe the underlying signal without a Matlab window open.

For me, it's the fact that the young children in my neighborhood have given up on hockey and now play pickup games of lacrosse on their driveways. See, older generations in Boston used to play on the ponds every winter. Today's kids cannot (ice thickness on the ponds is another low pass filter), and with only so much rink time to go around, they've largely switched sports. THey don't know the signal they're giving me, because they weren't around when hockey was the main game to play. But to me, they are the low-passed signal.
Neither is the postal service, yet most of my mail is spam.
I wonder what other tasks we could train species to do in exchange for something they want? For instance, cane toads are invasive and toxic enough that predators usually leave them alone. Supposing that cane toads can be deposited in a receptacle by some bird who wouldn't otherwise eat it without being harmed by the toxin, could they be used to eradicate cane toads in places where they're not wanted in exchange for food?
> you can immediately call the other potential investors, and tell them that you have a term sheet from someone (don’t say who), and put pressure on them to give you a term sheet

sorry I don't quite understand this part. What would be the benefit of not saying who? (i.e. the first term sheet investor). Wouldn't saying it be more convincing and put more pressure on other investors?
The fact that Christie, Booker, and Baraka are able to share a stage together without petty sniping shows how serious NJ is about winning this bid. That being said, I feel that this is going to simply act as the bar for other states to top. We still have 6 days left before the deadline, so I expect other places to roll out their plans as the week goes by.

I also see no mention of property tax relief. NJ has the highest property taxes in the country, and as someone who moved out of Jersey (but didn't own a house), I have no desire to ever pay property taxes at those rates.
SRFax lists healthcare solutions on its site, and Faxage says "All of our fax service plans come with HIPAA compliance standard - No need for a 'special' plan or to pay extra for HIPAA related security features" and you can contact them for a BAA.

Other than that you can do things in-house with Hylafax and either hardware (e.g. Mainpine boards, expensive but they Just Work) or software solutions. My experience with software solutions (IAXModem with Hylafax and Asterisk) has been that speeds and reliability are sometimes poor, at least compared to good hardware solutions or physical fax machines supporting 33.6k.
Cool and thought-provoking idea! I was struck by this statement however:

Right now we are building our first Crowbar. All different parts are working and ready for assembly. Next step: testing with Crows.

Why not start with crow testing? That's the "Talk to customers" of this project [0]. Instead, they started off with something we can be sure of with today's technology: machine recognising cigarette butts.

[0] Technically talking to city authorities should be the first step, but I couldn't tell whether this was a for-profit project.
I want to ask you something, but first let me say that I've noticed a pattern among those who deny the world is getting warmer.

When people use scientific data to argue it is getting warmer, the deniers often pull out personal anecdotes to the the contrary. And then when there are personal anecdotes supporting warming, the deniers often claim the statistics are not there.

So let me ask you, what sort of evidence would persuade you that the world is getting warmer? Or is it your view that it is simply impossible, so no evidence could persuade you?
When academics are looking for human-observable changes in climate, we look at more subtle changes like distributions of indicator species or shifts in economic strategies linked to changes in climate. Just because people might not be accurate at averaging temperature doesn't mean they won't notice that the river levels are rising and their local herb population is changing.
What we learnt while doing remote angular builds
I wonder if the NSA has already tapped in.

Presumably Microsoft/Facebook are slightly less enthusiastic about willingly giving them access than the old school telcos.
Depends. The most popular engineered wood for furniture is MDF, which from the name ("medium density") you can imagine is not too dense and not too light.

The solid wood choices I thought were really beautiful for furniture (for the aesthetics and tactile qualities) are teak, oak, mahogany, and american walnut, all of which are rather dense (e.g. Asian teak is extremely heavy, while walnut is just as dense as MDF).
Reporters were trying to weaponize the whisper network against Weinstein for years. They were part of the network, and managed to contact a number of his victims.

But they couldn't get anyone to go on the record, for (I hope) obvious reasons. The woman who went to the police had her case dropped and her name splashed across gossip magazines, probably stories planted by Weinstein. Without someone on record there wasn't a story that would pass journalistic standards.

Maybe we should relax those standards, I don't know. If a reporter has a dozen separate accusers with correlated stories who are not mutually in contact, maybe they should be able to publish without having to get any of the accusers to put their name to it. But would it have the same effect as having accusations with names attached? Or would the accused just say "I won't respond to anonymous allegations" and then the story goes away.
Crows have 'learned' to eat toads. They just flip them and eat the stomach.

http://www.odditycentral.com/animals/a-fascinating-story-of-...
I'd recommend people to actually look at their locale's weather data as a time series, to inform yourself. Here's a good resource for the past 100+ years in USA (usually available).

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/time-series/us

The mental stories & symbolism and related emotions around this subject are really interesting. For the record, I am aware climate change is real -- just wary of anecdotes and things like "man it was warm/cold until November last year, so it must mean X..."
I lean pretty strongly toward agreeing with anthropogenic climate change. I can't be any more certain than that since I'm not a climate scientist and I'm depending on the "consensus" of a highly politicized area, and I have seen, in areas I am more knowledgeable of, how truth can become the victim of politics.

In any case, the risks of climate change are high enough to warrant action. I tend to disagree with the commonly proposed solutions, which tend to involve global redistribution of wealth and loss of advantage for the United States and other Western powers. From what I know, renewed investment in nuclear energy is a required part of a solution that doesn't squander America's lead over our competitors. A shift to electric cars also seems essential.

I also think you could persuade climate change skeptics (or deniers or whatever you want to call them) of the utility of these policies in terms of things other than climate change, such as energy sovereignty[1], environmental cleanliness, and the potential for breakthroughs like fusion energy or extremely efficient fission reactors. This would probably be more effective than demonizing them.

[1] So that our economic security is not tied to the stability and friendliness of Middle East regimes. So that Russia cannot extort Europe with its natural gas supply.
The crazies up here do it in kayaks, which is pretty amusing. I will/do kayak but I'm not doing that.
Anyone have a more readable / cliff notes version?
>Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.

The article is worth reading for this alone.
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So are you getting a salary of $2.5m (from a company that you do not own), or are the CEO/owner? I'm guessing this is a CEO salary in any case?
You should try the readability mode in Firefox
Generally no. Most companies I've worked at have a no recruiter policy, and many recruiters seem to overstate the relationship they have with a company. On the receiving end, random recruiters using a candidate as a sales pitch often "apply" on the candidates behalf only to discover we won't pay their fees and so they don't tell the client about the position.
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Interestingly, the linked article has a (made-up) image relevant to your question. Search for the caption: "Pictured: one way to politicize this discussion; not recommended"
"start using cgiproxy" used to be all you needed back in my day.
At this point I think the problem is that the economy is debt based and depends on stocks going up anyway.
launched on Aug 3 and already has more than 5 million users who have sent more than a billion messages
Obviously, “Uber Driver, AirBnB Host, Social Media Manager, Social Influencer, Data Scientist, Insights Manager and etc.”

Which are all good paying, secure jobs with good benefits, so that’s all right, then.
I've been very happy with dutchcrafters (www.dutchcrafters.com) who build the furniture from solid wood with a choice of finishes. The couple of things I got from them certainly cost more than Overstock or Wayfair but the quality has been incredible. The pieces built from maple in particular are built like tanks.
Music video games can easily thwart the pre-memorization with the randomized chart (often considered essential to master the game). Players typically learn the timing, but possibly not the entire patterns. It is still remarkable that top-ranked players can do much, much better on a new song at the first glance---probably because the music is much more predictable than the pattern itself, so one can guide the pattern recognization with the music.
They literally have no parliament, Government or decision making capacity right now. Both days of closures in NI were clear copy and paste efforts within an hour of the rest of Ireland announcing same. Not a great way to make decisions !
Like I said, I agree with the linked article but I think it skips over the implications of this point too hastily. "Christian Western Europe" is not a particularly large or important chunk of the Greco-Roman world, relatively speaking. Insofar as talking about a Dark Age gives the impression that there was a massive break with Classical Antiquity throughout that whole world (as opposed to just parts of the northwest quadrant of it), the concept is misleading. But if we're calling it the Western Christian European Dark Ages, Scott Alexander and I agree.
yea, sometimes i think the lack of perfection helps you focus on the bigger ideas. like how making 2d plots with the xkcd style kind of tells your brain to ignore little noise in the line. same with tuning and tempo and whatnot- not every not is perfect, so your ear ignores the little imperfections. of course, if there is too much imperfection, signal to noise ratio gets out of whack. but i think this is part of the reason lots of music has drones, melocially, or texturally (think indian classica, jazz cymbal or brushes, etc) ...it kind of thresholds alot of non-musical noise.
Now I just need a flexdriver which receives the warning and activates the code to create a new ebs volume and adds it to whatever lm k8s volume. EBS gp2 is uselessly slow without just combining them into one super danger mount. As with everything else in amazon, never use one of x. Whenever I use S3 and EBS i put an abstraction between me and them because amazon.
«Being off by a 16th note even at that speed is – especially for percussive instruments – obvious.»

So was he rushing or dragging?
The affected keys are made by Infineon's weird RSA key generator. This produces keys with weird properties, listed in their 2016 paper and more so in the accompanying Technical Report.

The test they released today just checks for the oddest of those properties, if you divide the modulus (the main part of the RSA public key) by some small primes (e.g. 11) and take the remainder then instead of a random answer other then zero (zero would be super bad) you always get specific answers. So the code checks about two dozen small primes in this way.

This probably had nothing directly to do with the attack, but it finds Infineon keys and only those are affected.
> dropping bombs on brown people. That's the vast majority of where the money goes.

Military spending is about 7% of the Federal budget. But roughly 50% is used for social transfer payments, which is - to keep your phrasing - a net transfer of money to brown people, including ones who are not even US citizens. Of course it's also a substantial transfer to relatively asset-rich, old, white people via social security and medicare. In any event the claim that US military adventurism is a primary or majority use of tax receipts is simply wrong.
Probably not verbatim but same concepts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqzcCfUglws.
You're right. I meant hard reboots.
I think they've solved it in Singapore.

Not that I'm in favor of the methods used.
Another option is OmniROM: http://www.omnirom.org/

Also fairly actively developed and supports a wide range of devices.
If we're both still alive in 100 years, I know which avian you'll be eating.
Remember when companies used to just do market research and think about their ideas for a while before they teased us consumers with a hypothetical product that we might be able to get our hands on in 6-12 months? or better yet just announced and let us buy right away!

Those were the days.
In August 1971 I witnessed a category 4 hurricane ("ouragan" in French [1]) that wrecked Vallée de Joux, a clock-making valley in the Swiss Jura (a little bit North of the Alps). All trees were down, similar to the landscape near Mount St Helens after its most recent eruption. There are records in the same location of another hurricane in August 1890, as well as one in 1624.

[1] http://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/ouragan
Or your misspelling might have produced a different, correctly spelled word.
Aren't these cards in Estonia used for a LOT of things, like banking access? EG: at 50k it's probably not profitable to do this per-user but at 5k it is probably VERY profitable if you could get enough public keys.
Good point. It's gotten hard to make plans to skate with friends in Montreal. The days aren't consistently cold enough for good ice conditions.
There's also the Unruh effect http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Unruh_effect
This feels like an apple PR piece.
this is why the USS Jimmy Carter exists. The NSA doesn't necessarily need active cooperation to colocate equipment at cable landing station/adjacent to the DWDM terminals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter
FWIW, a serious feature that I would pay you money for right-here-right-now is the ability to multitrack audio. Let me give you many dollars to route each voice to a separate Soundflower channel, so that I can mix them outside of Discord, and I will give you said monies. I'm pretty sure you're even sending unmixed streams down? But I can't get at them!

This probably involves not being Electron (from my own adventures in the area), so I don't hold out much hope, but it keeps Discord from replacing Extremely Expensive And Bad solutions like SkypeTX for me.
But that's not how people game. When I play FPS on my MX Blue keyboard I don't make my fingers sit above the keys, but into the keys, depressing them almost until they're in the activation point. I'd guess people on linear switches don't do this, but they also probably slam their keys faster.

The "gaming" keyboards he used were also pretty shoddy. Now, I'm not necessarily saying gaming keyboards offer better latency, because that's not why I got mine, but his methods seem weird.
That looks more like noise than something I'd be willing to bet on. Previous years, within that same graph exhibit similar trends to what the highlighted "downward" portion shows.
Quite so. And when there was a great rebirth in interest in higher learning at the beginning of the Medieval period, many would-be scholars ran off to Muslim lands to read, often in Arabic translations, what the Greeks and Romans had originally written, and also the further original works of the Arabs themselves.
More specifically, the Supreme Court is deciding whether the US can compel companies with a US presence to hand over data stored in other countries.

"Anyone's data on Earth" is a significant exaggeration. It's not like the US is going to demand Putin's emails (at least not through the courts, who knows what they're trying to do clandestinely).
You don't. You record it and replay it. You want the client to get the same packet 3 over and over.
The first investor won’t appreciate being shopped.
you don't need to bottom out regular mechanical keyboards, which means you're not constantly slamming your finger against a hard surface. You do need to bottom out scissor switches.
You could also throw the tor browser on a usb stick when i graduated.
> "Ironically, Trump used the tools of technology to win despite Silicon Valley’s overwhelming support for Hillary Clinton. It’s almost as if Trump bested tech leaders at the game they invented."

That seems to be a key statement, and it's true, as far as I can tell. What about that would you disagree with?

If you think Trump bumbled into his victory, he (himself) did. But he had some incredibly clever people abusing the media to boost his campaign, and they ran circles around Obama's 2012 strategy (which is very similar to what Clinton was using, digitally).
The lack of effort on the Mini line demonstrates Apples focus on profit over its customers. Boosting desktop market share, gaining new customers, while still operating a profit are all worthwhile focusing on. Given they're all long term goals, it's well worth while investing in.

I'm disheartened with what Apple did with the Mini line up. I love the form factor.
If they are executing well, then I think it's poor form and foolish to clone them. Think about joining them instead. You will all be better off.

If they are not executing well, then business is business. Sooner or later someone will clone them, may as well be you.

Also, I firmly believe that every startup idea under the sun has already been done before. And either it failed due to poor execution or poor timing.

So the loophole is to find the prior art -- the thing that came before them, and failed -- and clone that instead.
It decoded to a phase vocoder on the nearest semitones.
Freedom must be balanced with notions of human rights. Maybe a lot of younger generations see a loss of balance. Maybe they see that a lot of the current freedoms of speech and behavior come at too high a cost on the protections for human rights. Things like targeted hate speech, mass shootings, etc.

Like you want freedom from government, but you also don't want oppression by the majority.

Not saying that's necessarily the case, but could be.
Very useful. My experience, however, is that unless you live or are going to an event/work at a metro station, the "last mile" benefit of ride sharing tips the scales towards road travel in most instances.
I have three affected devices! I was just disappointed in them that I found out from a third party (GitHub) that my security hardware had a vulnerability instead of directly from them.
Trigger warning: Math ahead :-)

Really cool tho
I would strongly disagree with that characterization. The bank note system - the major form of private money - worked reasonably well for centuries in Europe, evolving into the check clearing systems that virtually every first-world nation has today.
Occasionally we notice the robotic voices when service has really degraded. But when it's operating normally, it seems like mumble sounds better.

It's also annoying having to adjust each users volume slider individually, I wish Discord would just do that automatically and normalize the levels of everybody.
We were taught the sailor dive, which is good to about 90', according to training. You use it to abandon ship. Err... I was in the Marines.

Basically, cross your legs, point your toes, cup your testicles with one hand, and cover your nose with the other.

The force of hitting the water will crush your testicles and rip your nose off your face. So, you cover them. You cross your legs to keep them together. You point your toes so you don't shatter your feet, ankles, or legs.

When your feet hit the water, immediately bend at the waist. You're going fast enough that you're completely in the water. You fold at the waist to make your depth more shallow. You then flip and swim to the surface.

This works at greater heights but survivability goes down at about 90'. You can practice at lower heights, if you want to learn it. I'm sure there are videos and whatnot.
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If "might" doesn't count then most of us never make any predictions about anything. Are you sure that's what the word means?