skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the real answer to all of this is to restore a reasonable ratio of population to representatives. It is much more difficult to Gerrymander 133 districts than with 9. It will still happen but the possible advantage one party can get is much smaller.

The constituents also get much better representation, because they are much closer to the person representing them. The representative is intimately familiar with their constituents concerns because they live in and around them.

It also strips a lot of the money out of politics. Representatives don't have to spend all their time fundraising to raise war chests of millions of dollars. You can win an election in a 30,000 person district by knocking on doors and sending out inexpensive mailers.

http://www.thirty-thousand.org/
Only in as far as our languages are similar (they are more closely related than either of them is to English). A lot of younger Dutch are quite limited in the languages they speak; often just Dutch and passable English. Don't expect people under 30 to be able to read a German newspaper comprehensively or hold a conversation beyond ordering beer in a Biergarten when in Germany. Older generations with a tertiary education degree often can speak and read at least either French or German at a more useful level though.
Kobe Steel Problems May Be More Widespread, Raising Fears on High-Speed Rail
Right, but here we're talking about understanding in a broader group - specifically, between groups - since that was what dukoid's post was about.
I think some of that still exists, but the goal is to to evade anti-virus instead of compressing and deterring RE:

https://hackforums.net/forumdisplay.php?fid=299
How about wrapping the tube in insulating foam and using peltier modules to regulate temperature. Or even using double walled tubes. It would not be challenging to regulate the temperature, but nobody talks about it because it doesn't even seem necessary.
Save water for nature and secure future for self
> A good type system accelerates your coding speed, compared to writing equivalent unit tests, and it improves your quality, compared to no testing.

Coding speed is least of my concern for a ML project, to be honest. And unit tests aren't useful either, since ML by large is not deterministic. A lot u said is true for web application, but didn't really apply for a ML project
The Web has gotten so much worse since we started putting serious stuff on it. It's kind of a population-terrorizing monster, at this point.

Could we, like... not do that? I seem to remember the world turning just fine when you couldn't push the right sequence of buttons and steal the personal data of half a country's citizens from the comfort of your home.
The Sound in Havana: What Americans Heard in Cuba Attacks
Client side certs (2015)
Fountain pen.
I can’t convince you to be a believer :) That is totally up to you!
I wonder if Puerto Rico will begin showing Cholera outbreaks given it usually happens when sanitation systems fail or are destroyed.
How we created a large-scale design system for the U.S. government
Should I Migrate to an Async Framework?
I can all but promise you that no CRDB dev will tell you to go F* yourself :P
Best free content sharing websites to promote startup
Rise of the bromance threatens heterosexual relationships
Modern DRMs and protectors are based on the same concept(s)/protector(s) as the exes packers from the nineties.
> He speaks with an accent that I would associate with hicks, farmers, non-intellectuals.

Having an accent isn't the same as speaking a dialect. For example, many Indians speak correct English, but their accent renders them near unintelligble.

As a Texan, I'm always going to have a Texas accent, unless I take pains to minimize it. But I can easily switch to standard English, y'all.
I never tell people that they 'need' to do something, so I'll say I highly suggest you do.

So, to make it easier for you - I've grabbed a laptop and dug out the link:

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/99/02/11/0939233/multiple-os...

I absolutely encourage anyone/everyone to read the linked comments. It's one of my favorite examples when a number of discussions come up.

My preferred time to reference it is when people say things like, "Slashdot used to be so much better!" Or when they say things like, "We had much better commentary back in the day!"

No, no they did not. In fact, it was never as good as people recall it being. That is kind of what makes it so wonderful and why I love discussion sites.

I am, by no means, innocent or superior. ;-)
I agree! You can check out http://www.aalo.co/. Disclosure: this is a startup I founded, with the same intention of what you just mentionted above. Shameless plug :).

General public (especially the millennials) have better knowledge and insights about good design and it has become much more democratic. The problem is that millennials just don't have as much money to spend on furniture, let alone a space to put them in. Ikea's Delaktig line is definitely a step in the right direction, but it still can't provide the level of freedom that "Ikea Hack" does.

I believe the answer lies in a system that provides the basic structure, which lets the individuals design and build on top of it. This way, you can achieve designs that are more unique, multi-functional, and affordable.
Revealed: Sound of the ‘sonic Attack’ on Americans in Cuba
QuickMemo+
Ask HN: Screencast Series Similar to Destroy All Software?
The past two 'seasons' of DAS have been excellent (one on computation/lambda calc/hierarchy of languages; the other on building tools from scratch) and I really want more. Are there any good series that deal with general knowledge and are aimed at people who already have a good understanding of software dev?
Elixir is better Elixir. Mind the punctuation.
Thanks rwu1997, I am referring to this advice given by Ben Darnell: https://forum.cockroachlabs.com/t/multi-tenancy-best-practic...
Can someone ELI5; deploying CRDB to AWS ec2 instances as beneficial over, say, redshift? Or are they completely different solutions?

How easy is deployment/scaling/sharding with cockroach?

Aside from cost, where is the best use case for cockroach over anything else??
Thanks! I'll try.
We don’t know — because we are not there — but my guess? It’s a Cal Code Civ Proc Section 988 offer.

Waymo makes a settlement offer of $1B. Uber rejects it. They go to trial. If Waymo does better than $1B at trial, then Uber pays Waymo’s legal fees.

This is a way to increase the risk on your opponent.

Uber may or may not care about the additional financial risk, if indeed Waymo pushed the Section 988 button.
> There's a jar of Branson Pickle in every home in England!

Is this humour? The pickle, and beans, are Branston.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branston_(brand)

> But his moves into healthcare are looking extremely dodgy

His healthcare stuff is really dodgy. There are already serious concerns about care and treatment at his places.
Could a reasonable person think that he intended to harm someone on the stage? If so that was the correct legal outcome no matter how unfortunate.
Ideal community demographics
Thought experiment: If I were to create a planned community with a population of 1000(+/- 20% for lag/lead to take into account mortality/birth rate), is it possible to chart an ideal age demographic? I am sure I am missing some assumptions here..but I am trying to figure if it's possible to model the perfect sustainable community. Thanks!
the zpm burried in the lost ancient planetary defence base there must be melting down finally.
Ask HN: What did I do wrong in my SaaS B2B startup?
Hi everyone,

I somehow had 2M USD last year and I started a cyber security company. We developed some cyber security products that are really amazing and extremely effective. I know everyone think that their product is the best, but trust me, just take my word and assume I'm right, our products are on a different level for many reasons and its kinda ground breaking. (I really want to know root cause of my problems, so I'm not going to lie obviously).

So products are top notch (lets assume). I used all the money for extensive development, design and R&D. We created the best product. Now I'm very very low in cash and I didn't think much about the sales/marketing. I thought "product will speak for itself".....Well I was totally wrong. I can't even show the product.

Now I have around 100k left, but hey, we have couple great products.

I tried LinkedIn, but never got anything out of it.

I sent around 1000 emails to directors, got like 10 responses, did demos, they ALL loved it and told us that they will consider us in 2018 budget.

So very very long story short, I don't have any sales and I'm going broke soon. I tried VC firms, but they all need some sales first. I tried couple Angel VCs (Gust), but no one returned to me.

So what do you think I can do to save my company at this point. One of the main things I did wrong was not accounting for marketing/sales, but what else? Please tell me.

I offered free trials in my emails, I told the manager if they think they have something that will protect them against real threats and cyber attacks, I'm willing to do a very quick assessment by sending them sample emails that will bypass all their existing technologies. Still nothing...

Can you guys please give me some advise, some guidance, some tips? Anything would really help at this point.

Thank you
Vim and paper.
Thanks for the correction, he truly was a brilliant mind. One of my regrets was not being active and outgoing enough to go meet him myself. I was lived in the Cincinnati area from 2007-2012. I first got started with Ruby in 2009, and quickly became aware of who he was (Rake, Bundler, etc) and that he lived/worked close by. But, at the time, I wasn't interested in conferences, meetups, or simply emailing someone to say thanks.
You can see the smoke being blown south pretty clearly here http://col.st/DGu7J
A road trip through the geological ruins of the end-Permian mass extinction
Webpack Monitor – Developer Tool for Modern Web Development
Would you please remove amp entirely?
Poor Jack is going to have his mind altered again...
sublime text and notebooks
The site hosting the videos is down. Are there only 6 families (as in the caption at the top) or 600? Are all of the orbits discussed in the article in 2D or are some of them 3D? At the end it says the new CNS technique found only 243 new families, so how were the hundreds of other new ones found?
How to Be a Total Girl Boss
Octopus-Inspired Material Can Change Its Texture
Yeah, we've all got comments from our past that we wish we'd not made. Our seemingly brilliant insights aren't so brilliant after all.

Today's thread about Musk's "Hyperloop" is good fodder to bookmark and look back at in a decade. I have to wonder how many of the posters will admit they were wrong, should this reach fruition?

I dug the link out for another person who replied. You may want to take a look?

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/99/02/11/0939233/multiple-os...

There was a database glitch that messed up usernames (I think that was after they'd added accounts, my memory isn't that good so I'm not certain) but it's still an amusing read. It really is a good example for a variety of discussions. It's my favorite example, actually.
On a side note: for whatever reason I think I can read about 1 in 3 words in Norwegian (standard and book) with no prior training.

Makes me wonder if an ancestor ate some lutefisk or something.
Air filter startup - stop it temporariliy

CiGaReTte StArTuP - a CaPtAiN MusT gO DoWn wItH hiS ShIp [free logo](https://imgur.com/a/ULDQ2)

Environmental discussion forum (for non-academics) - something like HN but focused solely on making a better planet, rather than general tech.

Fuel cell / hydrogen splitting startup - longer range, lower coal burning and thus global temps, thus fires

Fan startup - blow the smoke somewhere back mainland

Rain seeding startup - drop rain on wildfires (maybe this is already dooable?)

Recycled furniture from ash startup - create cements with the ashes of civilization and use it to build a new one

Keywords to sell your idea to investors: blockchain, neural nets
Configuring ALSA to work properly with my USB sound was the single hardest thing I did on my gentoo box. The documentation ranges from terrible to nonexsitent and it is unclear how to generalize many of the example configurations.
Considering that they were the copyright holders for unix at the time, and that this 'default interpreter processing'/ return code mechanism was part of the kernel/userland interface, I'm not so sure that's the case..

not to defend AT&T over unix, as a BSD guy..
I'm not sure requiring a license to practice software development is a good idea, but it does seem that we could use some rules around development and maintenance of important applications. Perhaps legally mandated security audits for anyone storing things like financial data would be useful.
Live map of smoke in bay area
always remember: the industry's involvement in CS education has less to do with philanthropy and goodwill than it does with lowering the cost of labor over the long term
Friend at a bank in downtown San Jose just posted a view of the sky there.[1]

[1] https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155626120452976&se...
Great! They won't need to offshore any more work! Or rely on exploiting H1B's!
Tell HN: A beautiful idea (that didn't work) for solving 3SAT
In 3SAT, the boolean satisfiablility problem, you have n variables, which are booleans. You have a bunch of clauses, each of which are the OR of three variables (or their negations). For a valid solution, you need to find values of the variables that make each of the clauses true.

My approach was as follows: If true = 1 and false = 0, then
a AND b = ab
(that is, normal numerical multiplication), and
a OR b = a + b - ab
(using normal numerical addition and subtraction), and
NOT a = 1 - a
Using these, you can define a monster function that is the AND of all the clauses, each of which is the OR of three variables or their negations. This function is a purely arithmetic function - there are no boolean operations, only arithmetic ones.

Now you can replace the boolean variables with real ones on the closed interval [0, 1]. Instead of being restricted to the vertices of the n-dimensional cube defined by the variables, we can now start in the interior of it, and follow the gradient of the function to find the solution. Even better, we can do so in polynomial time!

I really like this idea, but it didn't work. It turns out that the function is too complicated for a simple gradient follower to solve - it has maxima inside the volume.

Well, I still think that it was an interesting idea...
ITT: effective consensus that the utility of Bitcoin today is its popularity in the "gray" (or black) market.

How does anyone not believe this is a bubble which will burst as previous ones have, at the first sign of the next inevitable crack down?

Blockchain is here to stay. Bitcoin at its current value is surpassing poppy level speculative inflation.

I get the notion of accepting high risk of loss and incredible transactional friction when trying to move back to a fiat currency.... but only for people who are either desperate to exfiltrate funds etc.

For everyone else it seems like a comically bad time to be buying in. Beyond comical, really.
Do you get such low temperatures in India that coal burning is an issue? How many months do you need heating?
I am glad to see Google doing something like this.

All of humanity growing together towards a brighter future for everyone is truly our highest calling.
So this means there are new open positions for foreigners/H1B at Google?
Magic Leap looks set to close on a $1B Series D round
A very pretty hairball, but still a hairball.
Stated differently, "Google commits $1B to flood the market with newbie tech workers, and to grow future client businesses".

The cynic in me can clearly see their interest in the effects of this grant, but thinking on it more that interest might serve us better in the long run. I just hope the community gains from that money before it makes it's way back to Google.
Yahoo! is hiring Android Developers
As mentioned in the article:

"
This can be done with an empty file that's marked executable, and that's what it was in the earliest unix system libraries.
"

$ uname -sr
OpenBSD 6.1
$ install -m 755 /dev/null /tmp/muhtrue && /tmp/muhtrue && echo yup
yup

not sure why it was ever switched..
probably the 'return 0;' version is cheaper than a shell fork? hmm..
Does anyone know how small the books were? There's nothing in the picture to give a sense of scale.
This isn't really a tricky question who understands how JS works. If a person has not experienced this situation of a function call (closures) within a loop, I'd suspect he has not much practical experience.

It's much more difficult to understand this theoretically than when encounter this while you code.
Has this anything to do with the DOJ investigating tech worker visas?
This is the part... John discusses his functional programming adventures in Haskell at QuakeCon 2013.

"So what I set out to do was take the original Wolfenstein 3D, and re-implement it in Haskell."

[...]

"I've got a few conclusions coming from it. One of them is that, there's still the question about static vs dynamic. I know that there was a survey just coming out recently where the majority of programmers are still really not behind static typing. I know that there's the two orthogonal axes about whether types are strong or weak, and whether it's static or dynamic. I come down really pretty firmly, all my experience continues to push me towards this way, that strong, static typing has really significant benefits. Sometimes it's not comfortable, sometimes you have to build up a tight scaffolding to do something that should be really easy, but there are real, strong wins to it."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uooh0Y9fC_M#t=4876

(Starts at approximately 1:21:16 in case the direct link doesn't work correctly.)
This seems incredibly silly, plus the actual story is that casual sex is allowing people to forestall or forego relationships.

Even with all that- if more people are opting out of those relationships, then maybe they’re not all they’re cracked up to be.
Actually spending $10 million. Talking about $1 billion over 5 years.
you mean you didn't marry her?
I use it for static binaries I use where I don't care about startup times being slower.

You'd be suprised at how much of an elf binary is all 0's.
Hey, better than supporting H1B exploitation.
Ask HN: Does a new features payment platform for free and OS software exsist?
Does a platform or service exist for free and open source software to allow for individual and/or crowd sourced payment for the addition of new and enhanced features (and possibly user-backed bug bounties to encourage developers to address specific bugs)?

I have a couple smaller projects I’m getting ready to release, either free or OS, and this is the funding model I’d like to use. I feel like it would be a way to directly balance the time invested in projects with the (serious) interest from end users.

I’ve done a bit of searching, but I’m not able to find such a service, perhaps for lack of knowing what keywords to search on.

Does this exist, or should I be thinking about this as a possible next project? ;)
I'm impressed that you got past that no-rings end boss gauntlet on the first try.
YouTube makes me want to punch my computer.

The related videos are never relevant, letting a child meander through YouTube invariably winds up showing my kids super inappropriate content. The YouTube mobile app sucks horribly (ios) I literally think that YouTube is one of the worst ubiquitous services there is.
Genes for Skin Color Rebut Dated Notions of Race
Just in case you are wondering why you are being downvoted:

This sort of low-effort joke is generally frowned upon here.

While it might be fun to some, it would ultimately lead to many more comments that do not add to the discussion, and thereby dilute the overall experience.
Stated differently: "In light of recent criticism on its ability to import foreign, cheap labor, Google commits to improving their public image for American labor"
> I think they know that, don't you?

Who's they? Hyperloop One? No--they've just punted the "hard" stuff to the end. (Kind of like the Wright Brothers designing the seats of their plane before getting it flying. Oh look! [1])

Elon Musk? Yes--I do. That's why he's waiting.

> what specific problem do you see?

The top heats up and the bottom doesn't.

> The paper calls for 0.8-1.0 inch thick steel, which my math says is more than adequate

Adding mass adds strength while increasing the time the structure takes to reach thermal equilibrium. The thermal gradient isn't itself a problem. But if you look at the forces necessary for the materials in question to tear themselves apart, and then consider their thermal coefficients of linear thermal expansion, you can derive a maximum tolerable thermal gradient given the size of each tube segment (we'll assume the problem of reticulating vacuum seals is solved).

When you solve for strength, you get too much material for the system to reach equilibrium before inclement weather either causes (a) the structure to buckle, laterally or (b) the outside of the tube to start shearing itself from the cooler inside.

When you solve for thermal stresses, you lose your strength. Microbuckling and microfracturing may not seem like a big deal, but it is when you're talking about 1 standard atmosphere bearing down from the outside with a capsule swinging about on the inside.

We need a strong material that either (a) conducts heat really well or (b) doesn't change shape when asymmetrically heated. We don't have something that meets those requirements yet that we can manufacture at scale.

[1] http://www.stacksmag.net/2013/10/space-virgin-galactics-rich...
There is exploitation of H1B workers but it's not at the hands of the tech giants. Pretty much all the abuse of foreign workers on visas I've seen is at the hands of these Indian bodyshops that, given the long wait for green cards for those born in India, such jobs are tantamount to indentured servitude.

Speaking as a Xoogler who was on a visa and got a green card sponsored by Google, from my own experience I and others in my position were treated very well.
Makes sense given the antitrust movement is getting stronger.
I don't understand why they don't open more remote offices instead. Around 90% of their employees are currently within the US, wouldn't it be a lot easier to find tech talent if they had a major position in other areas of the world as well?
Great, it's about time that these companies stepped up to bring more people into their workforce. It's ridiculous to complain to legislatures about skills shortages without stepping up to bring your own resources to bear on the issue.

Still, as nice as giving money to other organizations is, it would even better to see them actually training people from a diverse variety of backgrounds. They're not exactly taking any responsibility here.
Who says harmony is "good"?

http://www.fretjam.com/right-wrong-music.html
As an H1B at Google, I do not feel at all exploited. I am treated... Just like my American co-workers.

Nothing like the horror stories I read about non-SV tech companies.
Python is easy to pick up (coming from someone who loves the MS stack). Don't let it being a new language deter you.
Random thought: it's pretty absurd to claim copyright on an empty program, but if this behavior was sufficiently innovative, could one patent an empty program?
Well put. In my eyes this is simple math,they're investing now and are eliminating fees and adjustments for inflation in the future. The pool of workers will be bigger and all of the workers will be of somewhat same skill level which will eliminate the need for higher salaries + larger equity shares in order to get a high skilled worker. Their shares in the future will certainly be more valuable then 1B now, and this incentive will allow them to dictate the market.