skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My Bonanza A36TN gets that mpg at over 200mph, with 6 total seats as well. Boston to Myrtle Beach area in 3.5 hours and ~60 gallons avgas vs 15 hours and 35 gallons of car gas; I find that tradeoff to be very much worth it.

FAA regulations for certified aircraft are indeed a huge hurdle on progress, but are not at all a hurdle for experimental aircraft (which is where flying cars are today). (Side note: private aircraft owners flying under part 91 [roughly: not charter, not airline] are allowed to produce or cause to be produced "owner produced parts", so not all parts need to come from the OEM. It plays out that most engine parts do, but many airframe, interior, etc parts do not.)

For me the flying car is a solution in search of a problem. When I fly somewhere, there are almost always rental cars (or rideshares) widely and easily available. I don't want to take my lightweight, expensive, and somewhat damage-sensitive airplane into traffic 600 miles from home where a fender bender leaves me unable to fly home. That's what a rental car is for.

Would it be nice to land in my own "car" and immediately drive to my ground-bound destination without having to unpack/repack? Sure.

Am I willing to accept the inherent compromises, expenses, and risks implied by that? Absolutely not.

Do I think the market is? Nope.
To author: It appears the realization is setting in now that most of the VC landscape is a fugazi, a playground for the mindless rich pissing away millions on trends they can't see the hearts of, on overdeveloping asinine apps and gadgets blind by their pointlessness and lack of need amongst the growing sea of world problems, and on lavish offices and 100 engineers to over-engineer and over-complicate every code base as long as the new hires only come from ${MIT, Stanford, CalTech} after having been privileged with the means to attend. To you and your melancholy, wading through the quagmire of self absorbed executives seeking to get rich, those false prophets whose only aim is as much money as their ravenous actions can exploit, to you I say welcome to the reality the rest of us have been living our entire lives, welcome to your disillusionment.
Michael Wolff: My Insane Year Inside Trump's White House
GoT intro is actually an establishing shot, showing you which regions are featured in the episode. It varies per episode. It is a bit long, but not compared to the previous generation, and it has a lot of fast moving detail that takes many viewings to see it all. Six Feet Under (2001-2006), also by HBO, intro is over 90seconds and the same every episode, and it's very slow and low-detail.
At this point we should just consider creating ScamCoin and watch its market cap soar
Not in Europe in general. Chip and PIN leads to the assumption that you made the purchase or initiated the charge. In any case, card charges (or charges in general) are something entirely different than payments initiated from your banking client. Anyone can charge your account and you can dispute the charge. However, money sent from your account cannot actively be disputed. You can tell your bank that you accidentally transferred money and they’ll try and stop the transaction, by if it goes through, you need to retrieve the money from the person that got it. Banks will try to help in case of fraud as long as the money is in their reach, but will not make you whole at their expense.
I wasn't able to download the PDF but I read the summary article http://voxeu.org/article/rate-return-everything

In the paper, do they attempt to take into account the costs of real estate investment over holding stocks when calculating total returns? Things like property taxes, maintenance, stamp duties, realtor fees, legal costs dealing with problem tenants, etc.? If not I wonder if those explain some of the mystery around real estate returns relative to stocks?
Sorry, wasn't me down voting. I actually really appreciated the dialogue.
Mike Posehn, Creator of Desert Strike Interview
His stories are often lazy, too. The notion of a magic machine that lets everyone wifi and have dreams inside dreams inside dreams together is fun but absurd. The same with the end of Interstellar. Too conveniently we've got a magic wormhole which saves him and drops him a few feet away from a ship around the ring of Saturn. The first half of TDK is incredible, the second is very anti-climatic (maybe not his fault).

Check out anything by Roger Deakins for world class cinematography. Nolan is just good. If you are looking for a director who people might one day consider in the realm of Kubrick, Paul Thomas Anderson might fit it, but he's got a lot of "weird" movies (even his masterpieces) which don't give him the same wide appeal. [0]

Williams was great in just about anything he was ever in, I wouldn't attribute that to Nolan. The greatest directors elevate their actors (see the crazy stories about Kubrick and The Shining). Nolan works with great talent, but the performances often leave a lot to be desired, this is uncontested even by fans.

Nolan makes movies with interesting themes and he never really does anything bad. But for him to be even be discussed in the same thread as Kubrick shows how overrated he is. I say this owning Interstellar (the teaser gives me chills) and I thought Dunkirk was great simply because he toned it down and worked within something realistic. Given 20 years and a Jurassic Park, we might see Nolan the same way we do Spielberg today, but Kubrick? Forget about it!

https://www.theringer.com/movies/2017/12/22/16809404/there-w...
If your vision of the future is individuals carrying a balance of dozens of cryptocurrencies in order to do business, then congratulations: you have managed to reinvent barter, with cryptography as sheer overhead.
No longer interested in HN
If who ever is in charge can flagg and deduct points at will without explanation or good reason then this is no longer a platform for me. Good Bye
Public Health Response to a Nuclear Detonation
Fantastic explanation of cache timing attacks. This morning I was explaining spectre to non-technical people and let me tell you, "leaking L1 CPU cache memory," is a real party starter. So I'm using there librarian example going forward.
It seemed to have gotten a few good replies that I hadn't thought of, so it appears to have had some value.

Your comment, on the other hand, is basically serving as a downvote-as-a-comment.
> My career (and surely the career of the article writer and anyone else who is not a bro) came as a result of the other 50%, talented, generous men and women whose shared their expertise and encouraged me.

I guess the difference is that some people don't need the encouragement of others in order to succeed. Many great programmers are self taught and self motivated. How has being gay made it harder to learn to program? Did people tell you gays weren't allowed? Did they tell you to quit because gays aren't good at coding? Did they ask you, "Wait, you're a programmer, and you're GAY!?" Did other programmers make fun of you for being gay? Was the encouragement you got specifically about being gay? Is it because you are gay that you needed the extra encouragement? Just trying to understand...
Yeah "juiced". Versus a company that can not only write off all interest and fixes (unlike a person). But corporations can also depreciate the asset.

But it's the individual homeowner that's juiced. Lmfao.
It's something you have to think about for a while...

That being said, the colors comment is true.
Ten-year-visa really sounds like "come and do your things, but then go away, we don't really want you"
Kubrick trusted his audience. The point of the ending is to make you think, and surface your own meaning. What it makes me think is what if Alien intelligence is just so far beyond ours that we can’t comprehend what they are or why they did what they did? Like ants to humans?
Employees /are/ the public.

You don't lose the right to protection from someones incompetence just because you're employed by them.
Thanks, I'll try to be mindful when I'm stereotyping and joking about upset gender people and remember this to improve the quality of the joke the next time!
People like to look at women? Even most other women.
It helps to have a clear structure where features can be treated as modules.

Code should be organized so you can make simple changes entirely in one place or a small number of places rather than having to touch many files in different layers.

It also helps to provide "cookbook" documentation or automation scripts (ex. https://cookiecutter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) that explains the way to make the kind of features that are commonly made.
Is there any trick to combining entropy sources? Do you just add the numbers together, or is it something more involved, to make sure that you -- I don't know -- collapse entropy away in the combination, or something.
Yeah, that works nicely if you can do it.
GDB unfortunately reimplements a hacked up C/C++ frontend.
(For some other languages, it doesn't have to because they have dynamic expression evaluation interfaces as part of their runtimes)
Until a recession hits and they are on a shopping spree.

There is a reason why hedge funds are slowly gaining cash positions lately.
> GoT intro is actually an establishing shot, showing you which regions are featured in the episode.

Not just that, but the images in each region are subtly altered to reflect the events in the storyline in that region.
'I' does not mean all.

Individuals can, but overall, the net gains by all players is the risk free rate.
There is no cash left for transfers. "ATM is empty". They wait for new crypto buyers with dollars but market stalled out of crash fear.
Tiny correction: the reference D compiler's source code was available, but its backend was not Free Software (it was non-redistributable). This was not by choice of its authors, but due to a historical IP/licensing snag. Today it is fully open-source.
I'm not against predicting things, there's great value in them but usually there is some science behind those predictions.

For example people who manufacture things usually offer a warranty period because they have a fairly accurate prediction model how long it will last before it breaks.

There is value in coming up with a mathematical model to predict the chances of a person paying back a loan used to buy a house.

Insurance companies run prediction models for all kinds of human behavior based on statistics.

But what is the value in random pointless predictions about when flying cars will be at thing? There's no math behind it other than intuition.
Try to sell it to me.
Uh, Clarke.
What's the trigger event for the global recession you are predicting? You have listed some "worrying" factors - but there is no clear interconnection between them or trigger for any one to cause a global recession. Finding and predicting the trigger is the hard part IMO, as well as how governments will respond (more bailouts and QE?).

Can you point to a source for your prediction of a robotic cop killing someone by 2023?

Agree with Facebook "political party" instead of Zuckerberg running a campaign - not sure how this differs much from the traditional way corporations influence politics through donations, contributions, advertising, etc.

Your prediction of driverless cars doesn't mesh well with Rodney Brooks' prediction of driverless car saturation in 2045, he predicts we will have one dedicated lane for hands-free driving by 2021 and limited taxi/bus services by 2028. What is your basis for more aggressive forecast?
The irony of making it difficult to exit crypto means traditional banking will long-term be on the losing end as people who buy into crypto (even as novelty) won't want to "cash out" due to difficulty while realizing how convoluted the fiat process is when viewed from the outside. They'll find ways to stay in crypto and get things done.
Simpler explanation is that academics fear each other more than they fear closed access. So they won't publish in an open journal for fear their colleagues will get ahead by publishing in a prestigious closed journal. They are all competing for the same research dollar.
Seconded.

If you're just looking at "work hard", you're not seeing other people need to work harder, and overcome a terrifying amount of uncertainty, to get to the same place.
Anything that doesn't involve the computer or deep thinking.
You pretty much just mash everything together, then feed the output back into itself, and do it again, and again, and again...
This article wonderfully explains a complex context without losing a lot of relevant detail.
17 years in development! Now that's what I call a side project. It's an amazing endeavour - a kind of K2 of Z80 programming.
That’s not the meaning of the end. If it was, Kubrick could have said so. Clarkes book is NOT the film, Kubrick wanted more ambiguity, because the film and topic deserves it.
Keyboard typing, mouse/camera movements, timings, sure.

But arbitrarily reading data from my camera or microphone, even for the well-intentioned purpose of generating entropy… no thank you.
This is a good overview of modern, superscalar, out-of-order, speculative CPUs that literally any programmer could easily understand. Recommended reading for every single engineer in the whole world (who doesn't already understand this stuff from reading source material e.g., Google Zero post).
Does Chrome's software_reporter_tool.exe now consume all your CPU too, while you are afk??

Whatever this tool does, it does scan all my files and consumes a LOT of IO and CPU. I certainly don't need a file-scanner that wastes my battery nor power. It only starts automatically after a while when no one is logged in or the screensaver is running for some time - very sneaky indeed, that's why probably only a few every saw it. And it's installed in a very obscure location:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\SwReporter\24.137.203\software_reporter_tool.exe

whereas Chrome is installed there:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe

The only way to get rid of it seems to delete the fucking exe file every time. As this tip doesn't work: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/XCbMKk... Better stop this shit, can someone tell them do so please.
Former mailgun customer. Asked them to delete my personal data a couple of weeks ago (I was not able to do it myself... ) because I would rather they don't leak it in a security hiccup. They kindly refused to do so (as I don't believe any tech support can be that incompetent) and kept spamming my inbox instead. While the severity of this incident is not clear, never imagined curses can act on such a short notice.
The joint entropy of two random variables is never less than the individual entropies.
The facebook will probably happen. Facebook has already taken sides. There already is a Fox party and a CNN/MSNBC party. Before that there was a New York Times, Wall Street Journal Party.

Global Economic Recession is a safe one. The question is when?

I think Cryptcurrencies will crash with the recession. If a recession hits people are going to want to cash in their crypto for real money and guess what will happen to crypto?

Driverless / Flying / ... cars are probably the biggest change since the cell phone and internet. The only weird thing about them is their timming. People kind of travel less. Shopping is done over the internet, education is done over the internet, jobs are done over the internet. Socializing is done over the internet, Church over the internet.
We've been able to do driverless cars since the 90s. It's doing it safely while mixed in with normal cars that's the problem. I'm with the other poster that we won't see driverless cars in non-dedicated lanes for at least 20 years.

Edit: actually the article mentions a self driving car from 1987, so even earlier.
Totally agree. The biggest gain aside from novelty would be increased speed/avoiding traffic, but if that's going to double or triple the cost of a trip, I'm sure most people would chose to sit in traffic.
Clipster, yet another (cross-platform) clipboard manager
I don't see anything on the original site where the author claims that fixing or improving the pipeline would not "contribute" to fixing the issue so maybe a bit of straw from your end as well.

My understanding of the author's motivation is that it was in response to positions others are taking in saying that the root cause was the pipeline, and the central premise of the site (clearly by its URL) was that even if the pipeline was 100% fine, there are more significant issues that are the causes of the problem that are not taken as seriously as they should when people present the pipeline as being the central problem. Not sure who's making that claim so maybe some straw from the original author of the site as well. Strawmen all the way down sometimes.

Maybe isitONLYapipelineproblem.com might have been more clear.
You might be surprised, my kids loved it.
Anything less than higher density in more areas is a catastrophic future for all of us. Sprawl is driving climate change. Sprawl hurts environmental air quality. Sprawl hurts health with long commutes and a lack of walking and exercise.
> Asimovs book is NOT the film

Asimov wrote a lot of books [0], but none of them have been associated with the film in this thread.

I think you mean “Clarke” rather than “Asimov”.

[0] like, a truly stupendous quantity of them that is hard to believe a single person could put out in a lifetime.
2001 has a 9(?)-minute scene of nothing. It's intentionally boring, in a way like John Cage's 4'33".
It's fine if you don't like it, but part of the point is to experience the feeling of slowness of space travel, and appreciate the pain. Compare to a horror movie "I don't like it because it makes my stomach turn" or a drama "I don't like it because it made me sad".
Discussed in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10749206.
and general technical failures since then
Taking a Look at Linux
Not necessarily. PR on GitHub can be merged with the push of a button so it's more likely to be looked at only cursory before getting merged and therefore will be forgotten whereas when the author needs to retype it they will have a stronger memory of it and they remember where to go back and look next time
AFAIK, the Libz Blitz was a totally separate program as part of the overall execution for the 2017 plan, much like the `impl period` itself.
Bullshit. At some point, someone encouraged you to succeed.

Maybe it was when you grew up and were encouraged by any given authority figure to do something, maybe it was finding common ground talking about your wife instead of your husband, maybe it was when you didn't need to wonder whether you were turned down for skill or skin color, maybe it was when you knew someone was interested in you not your tits, but you were encouraged.

Personally, I'm going to encourage you to actually listen to other people's perspectives instead of challenging them to justify their life experiences.
Cameras are actually a fantastic source of entropy because the CMOS sensors produce high quality and very random data in the form of noise. You can crank up the sensitivity (ISO) and get even more.
Your assumption is right. Once the shared library gets loaded in the process address space. You can also set a breakpoint on module load.
I don't see how choice of programming platform & language has much to do with the need for real keyboards, function keys, ports, etc. Nor is it true that most developers using macbooks are only or even primarily 'Objective-C and Swift developers').

It is true, however that those developers I know who have a choice (ie. because they don't have a huge professional investment in Apple's platforms) are seeking alternatives to macbooks for their next replacement machines.
Shakepay Cards no longer operational
How Google Home and the Google Assistant helped you get more done in 2017
Detecting Meltdown Using Linux Tracing
Inception and the Surreal
I'm not so sure. A significant portion of the population will find the "Spam in a can" problem a claustrophobia trigger. There are people that would just never get into one. Like my wife -- who lasted about 5 minutes into a tour of a WW II submarine that was sitting on the surface with the hatches open. Which means we would never travel as a family in Spam can.

Of course there are ways of dealing with that. It will require thoughtful industrial design and human factors design, and certain minimum volume. A VR headset will itself become a claustrophobia trigger enhancer in a triggering environment. The human factors problem should not be trivialized.
The best explanation of Meltdown I’ve read.
Are you kidding me? Just because something requires work to be done doesn’t make the value of that work worth billions of dollars.
As the DHS OIG database is a System of Record, it has a verbose System of Record Notification (SORN) which is publicly available to be perused should you wish to know what information is kept and for how long.

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2015-07-27/html/2015-18385....
Arrgggg! i’ve written Asimov three times by mistake. I’m ashamed:(
Saying people don't need healthcare is like saying people don't need food. Whether a country's government should let people starve or die of cardiac arrest on the streets is another question, but I would say from a moral standpoint that it shouldn't.
I'm guessing its been a while since you've seen Back to the Future, since it totally did come up: http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Mr._Fusion
I will not say it's true for every novel. The Outsiders was a book that bored me in school, and I still find it boring. Cry, the Beloved Country on the other hand was completely over my head in high school, but it is one of my favorites now.
The Poetry I Was Grateful for in 2017
Elsevier does provide a service.* They manage paper submissions, format papers, sometimes edit them, publish them, etc. Without Elsevier (or other traditional publishers), this work has to be done elsewhere. It thus may make sense for universities to outsource the publishing to a dedicated company. However, Elsevier has become big enough to dictate the terms of the contract. The German universities are doing a very smart thing in pooling their market power. They don't want anything for free, but they want to pay a reasonable price.

* Edit: Of course, they don't do it in a particularly good way.
yikes, fixed. i have Asimov on the brain today:(
How do others here feel about IPFS compared to systems that charge tokens for similar functionality?

Personally I believe IPFS to be far superior. BitTorrent has already shown that P2P works great. We don't need tokens for this.
> Now any Java developer writing libraries is forced to write Android specific versions thanks to how Google forked Java.

This is inaccurate. The Apache Project (Harmony) forked Java in the Sun days and Sun refused[1] to provide the compatibility tests (JCK) in order to prove that Harmony was Java. Google adopted the pre-forked Apache Harmony because Sun, in its brilliance, decided that J2ME and only J2ME was to be allowed on mobile. Incidentally, Oracle supported Apache Harmony before buying Sun, unsurprisingly Oracle changed their tune when they became custodians of Java and bribed/negotiated with IBM for IBM to recant its support for Harmony.

1. https://www.cnet.com/news/apache-grouses-about-java-compatib...
Blue-collar jobs are booming in America