skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google does/did (AppEngine Java8 can't do that because they do not have any strictness) that in AppEngine, but it is hard and challenging to get right. Especially the security bits.
> but if you look at other DAWs you'll see none are exactly bastions of good interface design

What? Modern "good interface design" (at least by HN standards) has almost nothing to say about complicated 1000+ feature apps. (In fact every time I rant that modern design sucks and that apps need more features the first response I usually get back is, "but that's so much more testing! Do you know how many execution paths we'd have to manage???" Well, that is kind of the point)

Have you ever produced music with any of these tools? For one, their goals are different -- FLStudio, for example, tries to be "the fastest path from your brain to your speakers", and the interface seems as such and is loved for it. Ableton intentionally crams everything into one screen because it is used as a performance tool -- if you've seen any recent photos of Daft Punk et al performing, you'll see it running right there on a laptop, usually above the mixer or the CDJs. Cubase has kept an interface very similar to its original Atari 2600 (I think?) version, because people have been using that app for 30+ years now.

Any time I see new-school UI designers' take on audio apps I cannot help but cringe. They are completely misunderstanding and underestimating their audience -- audio is complicated and we need complex tools to do what we do.
> Cuban missile crisis

US dropped depth charges on a USSR submarine and the latter thought WWIII had begun. Three people had to agree to use nuclear weapons and two did.
Land Rovers are designed, manufactured and (around the corner from me in Herefordshire) tested in the UK. Jaguar Land Rover is owned by Tata. Does that make them Indian cars?
Gravity Falls was a big hit with older viewers(grand supernatural mysteries plotline underpinning various family drama). There's also a new Ducktales - I've only caught the premiere of that but it looks like a fitting reboot. Steven Universe has been very good, and before that there was Adventure Time.

Good all-ages shows are definitely there in the mix, although the pressure to cut everything down to formulaic audience pandering has remained a constant.
Nope, T-Mobile specifically caps mobile LTE usage to prevent people from using unlimited LTE as a replacement for home internet. And even that is about 20-40 mbps.
In new Waymo v. Uber order, judge pounds on Waymo
> And as far as I can cell, most PhD students don't pay tuition.

Yes, they do. But they receive a full waiver, and that waiver is not taxed.

The proposed tax bill amounts to a several thousand dollar / year increase in the tax load on graduate students, who typically make less than 30k/year.

> So, what stops Harvard from setting a zero tuition for graduate PhD students?

We'll see what clever accounting universities come up with, if any.

But indeed: a $Nk pay-cut could end up having a pretty devastating impact on academia.
So they get a waiver for $40k in tuition, get taxed at 15% for a $6,000 hit. Maybe make $10k in actual money from a job, if they work at all, for a total tax burden of $7500 against a tangible income of $10k. Lovely.
The successor of this project is basically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertec .
Don't "yes, but" this, folks. The parent comment was very specific, focused, why not just ponder it?
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic.

FWIW, in 2011 the top 0.01% earned 5% of national income, the top 0.1% earned 10%, and the top 1% earned 20%. Source: http://ritholtz.com/2011/10/forget-the-top-1-look-at-the-top...

In 2016 the top 25% earned 51% of national income. Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/203247/shares-of-househo...
There is nothing wrong with blaming the victim as long as one does not absolve the perpetrators from any guilt.

People need to take back some shred of personal responsibility if I get piss drunk and pass out on a bench and wake up without any of my stuff sure the assholes who stole my phone and wallet are still criminals but i also was a moron for getting piss drunk and passing out in public.

If you get robbed because you didn’t locked the door then it’s just as much your fault.

We don’t live in a vacuum we know exactly how to avoid various situations which is why we don’t leave a laptop visible in the backseat of a car when we park it in public, why we secure our bikes, lock our doors and don’t use 123456 as a password.
What about Deadpool?
Trouble with NK is, they don't have second strike capability, so a disarming first strike from the US is possible and NK knows that. That puts NK in a use it or lose it situation with their nuclear weapons and it may be, that the regime calculates that they (the generals) can survive one. Or they don't, they calculate that their only chance is rapid escalation and basically calling the bluff of the US, or they may just prefer to go out with a bang rather than with a wimper. That means that the nuclear threshold for NK may be a lot sooner than it would be if they have second strike capability. And the US knows that, and knows that they may have to use a disarming first strike before NK decides it's only chance is rapid escalation. NK knows that the US knows. Toss twitter into the mix and you have a pretty toxic stew, even though nobody is actually very unhappy about the status quo.
> If two volunteer data science students who are barely out of their teens can figure out how to hang out Twitter’s bad-actor bots, why doesn’t Twitter do the same?

Because the cost to the kids for a false positive is 0. The cost to Twitter could be company destroying lawsuits.
Right - so my question is, why not just set a PhD student tuition of zero? They don't make any money off this, so why charge it and always waive it? Why not just get rid of it.

That would remove the option to occasionally charge the tuition, but research PhD programs, especially in STEM at elite universities? Tuition from PhD programs must be close to irrelevant.
My first mobile app in react-native. Working on it for quite sometime. Lacking some courage to push it to play store/app store . Currently using it.
It also doesn’t protect against compromised DNS, does it?
the paint.net stacked history is similar to what was used in 3D studio max in the 90s. It was "cool" but too linear (it's a stack after all).

Other software like Houdini or Maya (or NR Shake) used DAG (acyclic graph) of operations to create an output scene/image. There the history isnt linear it's a bit of a multiverse, you can disconnect part of the graph, try new things, reconnect. Everything is there.
This allows developers to use new api calls and have their apps work on old devices, it doesn't let google break existing apis without breaking apps. They aren't like recompiling the whole play store against every new google play services build or something.
Most PhD students don't pay tuition out of pocket, but someone usually pays tuition on their behalf.

For example, my first two years of grad school were covered by an institutional training grant, which paid for my tuition, stipend, and books. The next year was paid for by private fellowship (thanks, Pfizer), which covered pretty much the same things--and a very large coffee mug that I still haven. Subsequent years were paid for by a combination of other training grants to the university and research grants to my advisor.

This adds up to some decent money for the university, especially since PhD students typically take only a handful of classes–and these seminars are fairly cheap to put on.
I created an account to comment here on the topicalness of this.

Given many of us on HN work in the field of online identity, this is supremely relevant topic.

As someone who has had acquaintances who transitioned, (one operation, one "asterixed" as another commenter described) and worked with a more than a few non-binary people, identity as experienced, and how it gets implemented by bureaucracies, companies, and the state, is an area where engineering runs up against basic philosophical problems.

One example was a mental health intake assessment that needed to handle patients who would present at different service providers as male or female separately. Given they may or may not provide govt ID that specified a gender, and different drugs and protocols for serving them would apply based on both their eligibility, history and the identity they were last treated under, providing identity to people with dynamic identities is requires non-trivial solutions, with life altering impacts.

Prior art from pre-digital culture for handling dynamic identities is a really big deal. Even as someone of a decidedly unsympathetic political stripe, one would be missing a lot of facts to believe what we now call non-binary gender identities are merely a modern thing.

The association of a changed identity with criminality is more a peculiarity of very recent mentalities than trans identities. I have worked on a variety state identity schemes and candidates for them, mainly steering them away from being used as a way to oppress people.

In non-health environments, the trans case was not a significant use case because we worked on the credentials, treating the legitimacy of identity as something for the customer to decide, but the trans identity use case would actually serve as a useful limit on how deterministic an identity credential or document is.

I get that there is a lot of political stuff around this topic, and talking about it is difficult because of the political consequences for wrongthink, but HN is probably one of the most relevant places to talk about the significance of dynamic identity.
Interesting project. I was wondering if you think they are any privacy issues around Certificate Transparency, like grouping ownership of domains through the timings.
It turns out that this wavelength of infrared is short enough that it sees through windows just fine.
There's been a lot of these all over the place. They really belong in a "style" magazine.
Another recent Nature article on the same theme: Controlling heat and particle currents in nanodevices by quantum observation https://www.nature.com/articles/s41535-017-0043-6
Well shit, this thread didn't prepare me for this big a goalpost move

Edit:
That was overly sarcastic but it went from talking about italian cars, to Ferrari specifically, to implying that the Italian brand is fine as long as it has Italian owners. Discussions are pointless if everyone's going to be arguing different points
wow great
As I posted above...they do make money off of it, and quite a bit. They're just not making it off the PhD students.
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Meanwhile the Pixel 2 XL issues with build quality and screen have been well documented. A friend of mine already RMAed his because the proximity sensor stopped working. If Google wants to charge premium flagship pricing, they need to build premium phones.

The regular Pixel 2 does seem pretty solid.
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Now that makes sense - PhD students may be paid out of grants that come from a source other than the university itself or the student. So that would be a source of income lost.
China would intervene for very good reasons.

NK is an ongoing humanitarian disaster right now. At the moment, everybody is standing by blaming the NK regime for not acting to resolve it. If you remove the regime, the crisis gets much worse. If you bomb the country, the crisis gets much, much worse.

When you are done bombing the snot out of NK, who will pick up the pieces? Who will be on the hook for millions of starving people? Who will be the neighbor that gets slammed by the masses of humanity in desperation?

You think China hasn't thought about all this? You think they won't automatically recognize the obvious and enormous threat to themselves? Every missile that lands in NK is a direct threat to China.
great news..
I think I've come to a different conclusion reading your run down of this. The key paragraph is this:

The problem was that over time, there modules started drifting. Their domains became different ever so slightly and the owners of those modules became different teams. Now if you wanted to modify the domain object, you had to check it wouldn't break code the other teams were developing.

Isn't the real issue here that the architecture didn't keep pace with reality? It sounds like the dev who made the package had the right ideal. The real issue was subsequent devs introducing their domain specific stuff into a common package, instead of extending it or composing it with their own domain specific code.
There are not a lot of controls that work really well. And a lot of the controls that do exist were fought for tooth and nail. That is the entire point of the book. :)

For example, the locks in place at each Titan II facility all had exactly the same code (1111). And they were left unlocked.

Regarding the accidents, here are a few examples:

Thule Airbase crash:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash

Damascus incident?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_ex...

How about the two hydrogen bombs that were accidentally dropped from a B-52:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/20/usaf-atomic-bo...

Or what is probably the worst incident to date, the B-52 that caught fire and almost blew up with 75,000 people within the blast radius:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1991-08-13/news/910328029...

The list goes on and on. That is the reason why the book specifically called out that it was a miracle we haven't had any (known) detonations.

Here is a list of the _known_ broken arrow events:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_nuclear...

Keep in mind that the article we're discussing is about a 53 year old event that was _just_ revealed. There are more of them -- we just don't know about it, yet.
Congrats on releasing and posting it here! Cheers to you getting over this paralysis. This is a neat project - I haven't looked at the code (and don't really plan to), but it works and that's good enough for me.

EDIT: I just looked at the code. It uses CSS grid - very cool! I'll be sure to use this as a reference.
My professor of distributed networking. He always pushed for not accepting the status quo and think outside the box. Taught me to look through bullshit and pretense. His use to say TCP is not perfect think of your own protocol
Thanks for the insight. I really like your podcast. (Also, we share a last name! I'm Chris McKenzie. ;-))

What can be done to simplify US taxes isn't a 1 sentence idea ... Unfortunately, having to be cheap on sophistication and explanation is a limitation of the internet discussion format and people's habituated attention spans for it.

Anyway, for a deep dive, I recommend this book by TR Reid who did a longitudinal analysis of tax systems across the OECD, traveling to the countries and interviewing hundreds of people. He gives things a fair play:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/books/review/a-fine-mess-...

Here's his commonwealth club talk for people who only want to give it an hour:

https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2017-04-13/journalis...

Again, pleasure to see you and thanks for your time.
> A software company building hardware is Google, and it's Pixel phones show

FWIW Google has put a lot of effort in the hardware of their datacenters, and in that sense they're a hardware giant as well. Compared to their datacenter projects, Pixel is a funny hobbby for Google.
> Well the IRS could do your taxes for you and send you a bill/confirmation for you to correct, but companies have lobbied to get an agreement put in place that this will never happen.

The difference between that and filling out a 1040EZ is negligible. It takes as long to write out a 1040EZ as it would to properly verify the information on one that's already filled out for you.

For people who want to utilize the more complex deductions available - there's no way that the IRS could do that for you. Contrary to popular belief, they don't have sufficient information to do that until you give it to them, and quite frankly you wouldn't want them to have access automatically to all of that.
This is probably what will happen with terrorist attacks. There is no way they will stop now that medias love to talk about them, and there is no way they will decrease. We'll just grow tired of them.
And it is important that grad students be enrolled in classes, even if they're 9 credits of independent research. Student loans, insurance, etc. depends on maintaining student status.
These are not about subsidizing higher education. These are entirely about correcting an administrative issue where grad students need to be enrolled in classes, but are not taking up the resources that tuition is supposed to cover.
It worked out even better for Libya.
It’s fun loading images into Audacity. The audio effects look surprisingly like they sound.
Is there another large tech company with the history of wrongdoing that Microsoft has? They're a convicted monopolist that personally affected a large subset of the developer community with repercussions that took decades to solve (if they're solved at all).
I've tried it both ways, and I definitely find it easier to lead people in person. I learn so much from implicit communication in person that has to become carefully explicit when remote.

I also think the sexual assaults thing is a terrible red herring. Remote teams still should get together regularly, and abusers will happily abuse then. For that matter, abusers are perfectly capable of being abusive remotely. (Exhibit A: the internet.)
iOS 11.1 fixes the glaring ones from what I can tell, including the added battery drain.

But yes I'd agree with that this is what iOS 11.0 should've been.
Just to put this into perspective, as a graduate student with 2 kids, this would shift my effective tax rate from 8.4% to 37.0%. As graduate student stipends are already minimal, this would make remaining in my program financially impossible; I assume many other students would be in the same position.

It's also important to note that this would only affect in-demand programs who can afford to pay stipends and provide waivers (engineering, computer science, etc); we're not talking about disincentivizing future history professors (who generally pay their own way with loans), but high-performing engineers working on challenging topics.

This change will absolutely not increase tax revenue; it might incentivize schools to reduce tuition costs (a laudable goal). More likely, it will drive citizens out of graduate programs (where we already make up a single-digit percent), and further promote graduate school as a pathway towards citizenship (as this latter group is extremely price-insensitive).
TL;DW: proof by induction.

Basis is trivial: 0⁵ = 0.

Inductive step:

Assume that n⁵ - n is divisible by 10.

We'll show that (n + 1)⁵ - (n + 1) is divisible by 10, too.

(n + 1)⁵ - (n + 1)

= n⁵ + 5n⁴ + 10n³ + 10n² + 5n + 1 - n - 1

= (n⁵ - n) + 10(n³ + n²) + 5n(n³ + 1)

Notice that:

* (n⁵ - n) is divisible by 10, as per the inductive hypothesis;

* 10(n³ + n²) is obviously divisible by 10;

* either n or n³+1 is even, so 5n(n³ + 1) is divisible by 10.

QED.
The universities also don't pay many of the grad students, particularly in the sciences.

Instead, the students are funded by training grants (to the department or program), and as RAs on grants to individual faculty members. These overwhelmingly come from federal sources, so the net impact on the budget is likely to be zero: these grants would need to increase to cover the taxes, which would then go right back to the feds.

I could get behind funding fewer grad students and using that money to actually do some research instead, but I think asking grad students to absorb a $3,000 pay cut on a $20-30k salary is pretty harsh, especially since many of the "tuition" payments don't cover an actual class.
I tend to agree in general but I'm not sure in this case. The fact that containers are/were a form of operating system virtualization--which is how they were once referred to--is probably one of the least interesting aspects of how they're used today.

If I were explaining them to someone less technical I'd say something like they're a way to package programs with the other stuff programs need to run so that they can be reliably and quickly started up and moved from place to place.
ExxonMobil is spending $1bn a year researching renewable energy
Only if you need full power heat 24/7 365. If you ever want to turn it off then it's costing you deprecation on very expensive hardware, vs a simple heating element.

Remember, few things need constant heat output 24/7 365, otherwise your going to want to generate some or all of your heat from other sources.
The lack of internal controls is incredible.

Highly influential people use Twitter to communicate. There should be controls to prevent influential or otherwise vulnerable people from access by insiders.
> I grew up terrified of the military and panic mongering about of "THE BOMBS!"

It's probably not intended that way, but the above is a bit of a strawman. There are many serious reasons to be concerned.

For example, a few years ago it was discovered that the Air Force units operating the missiles had very low morale, there was widespread cheating on qualification exams, significant disregard for safety regulations, and a problem with drug use. Also, the general in charge had a drinking problem so bad that he went on a binge in Moscow.

Before that, it was discovered that the Air Force lost track of several nuclear weapons. The Secretary of Defense at the time, Bob Gates, fired multiple Air Force leaders.

Outside the missile field, maybe 10 years ago peaceful civilian protestors penetrated a complex storing highly enriched uranium or plutonium (weapons-grade materials, IIRC), and spent something like 20 minutes adjacent to the building containing the materials before security discovered them.

IMHO, with something this dangerous, the greatest threat is complacence and trust. We are dealing with human beings who we are requiring to be vigilant over a period of generations - something people are very poor at for even a short time. Trust, but verify said Reagan of the Soviet Union, and that applies to our side too.
How Not to Price an I.P.O.: A Couple of Lessons from This Week
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14884992
It’s probably illegal.
Look up the calculator bug.