skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah but I'm sure the banks that engaged in redlining against African American neighborhoods had some stats on property values and default rates that "justified" it as well.

I don't think they should be allowed to use traits that you can't change like age, sex, and race in the same fashion as employment where you're not allowed to discriminate against women of child bearing age even if it would be economical.
> This is a W3C draft about something that is badly missing currently: a common language that devices can speak.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Network_Management_Protocol
"People can't help themselves" is natural.

The fact that there is a gap between who people want to be and the choices they make is not a disputed fact.

Without it, we would have no concept of shame, motivation, or self improvement.

Further, it's not disputed that companies have now been studying and exploiting the mechanisms of human behavioural triggers for the better part of a century now (just look into the history of advertising strategies).

Outright banning is not what I would want, and I would hope that it isn't what anyone would want. It's about giving MORE people the freedom to use software how they want. Options to control their use of software should they need it. Education for children on these exploitation techniques in order to protect them from it. Not banning anything.
This. Last estimate I saw said that you consume 10KW by just sitting there and breathing doing nothing. Because agriculture to feed you takes so much damn energy. Really we are talking about the difference in that roughly 10KW figure between a driver and a cyclist.
More power?
I really agree that Mozilla/W3C can attempt to make a standard, but I highly doubt we'll see Google/Apple/MS devices support it.

It'd be nice if there was one standard, and you could buy devices that use your local server or phone home (but not both), but for all the reasons you stated, I don't see that happening. The average consumer just don't care enough.
The low risk group (older, married, men and women) are the best positioned to absorb a rise in premiums so I'm not sure what problems would be caused.
It's unfortunate this study didn't compare differences in tips. Do passengers subconsciously assume men are the primary wage earners in a household and inadvertently give higher tips to men. Is that subconscious bias is higher in male vs female passengers ?
I'm using an iPad Air 2, and I've found it sluggish for the past year or so. Still usable, but I've switched to preferring to use my phone for quick searches and 50% of idle surfing/shopping.

My dad is happy with his iPad 4th generation, which is one iOS version behind. But he is more patient than I, and also it's his only internet-connected device, so he's not comparing it to a fast PC or fast smartphone.
UK says Assange warrant still valid, final ruling next week
> I can't get the GPU I need

You mean you can't get the GPU you want at a price that fits your expectation.

> then humanity sucks rather more than expected

Interestingly I think it may be beneficial to adjust your expectations in this area too.

> The existing, fiat-based economy works just fine, and Bitcoin doesn't.

It works fine for you. Also bitcoin isn't the reason GPU prices are high, it is other cryptocurrencies and interestingly they actually work because they aren't being intentionally destroyed from the inside out.

> It's inherently deflationary

Doesn't matter, and guess what, when people have a choice in their currency, they aren't going to choose something that inflates.

> it's a prototype

According to who and what definition?
I think I'd consider Blue Origin a peer.
> One difference between our militarized (and unionized) police forces and the real military is that if you're in the military and you shoot someone who didn't need shooting, you are in very deep shit.

Only if the wrong people find out. Just like with the cops.

https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_Full_Thrust#Block_5
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Ouch. You should consider yourself very lucky that that is how it ended. That looks like you were at best seconds away from something a lot more exciting.
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I pay a lot of money for the privilege of being able to conveniently take public transit to work. I'd blame it on Atlanta, but honestly, there is nothing any city could do to make it convenient enough for me to take transit vs. just driving a car if I didn't really want to do it. I drive my car or take an Uber for literally everything that's not going to work or walking.

America is just so big and so spread out that cars are the default option. You can't compare America to Europe in this regard because European countries are each the size of one US state and have been around for centuries.

Their roads and buildings and stuff just scream "bike transport". Just try to convince a significant fraction of Americans to use bikes to get around. Never going to happen. Bikes are legit dangerous in the vast majority of US urban areas.

Sure the smaller European nations have great transit networks. So do the smaller and older US states.
I mean, there's stuff like this https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/12/undercover-o...

I see a difference between the Stasi and the US police currently, but its not like the US police don't exhibit many of the same behaviors. In a related article referencing the same group of police here, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/us/baltimore-police-depar...

That description of jump-out squads, where you never know when some random guy on the street is gonna detain you and arrest/beat/steal from you sounds a lot like the descriptions of secret police in other countries. There was also that black site in chicago where the police disappeared people

I also don't think a dictatorship is a necessary component for calling some group a secret police. An oligarchy and even a representative democracy can do that just as well. Its not like we don't already have secret courts. The apparatus exists for this already
I really did not want to derail the conversation into this topic anyway. I'm a lifelong space fan and I've been looking forward to this launch for years. I watched it live today with dozens of my coworkers.

But I went to read the comments here and the second highest comment wasn't about the magnitude of the achievement or anything like that, it was just a throw-away comment about the way the livestream's hosts look. I felt obligated to respond because the look of it was so bad. This whole thread would never have happened had that comment not been sitting so prominently on the page sans rebuttal. I'm not the one who started the conversation about looks, in other words.
My whole point is that it is a choice between a safe fast method of transportation that works on virtually all weather, and an unsafe mostly seasonal slow method of transportation that is significantly greener. A powered bicycle that can go 15 mph is not in the same category as a motorcycle that can go 80 mph. Basically, if it can go on the freeway or not is the distinction I am making. Your electric assisted bicycle is just a better, less green bicycle.
Yep! All your body weight will simply leave through your anus!
My dad drank very heavily for many years. My mother never cared because, in her words, "There was always enough money and he was never a mean drunk."

I have seen studies that have concluded that a lot of behavior that gets blamed on drugs and alcohol is behavior they were looking for an excuse to engage in. They drank to facilitate the socially unacceptable behavior. So the cause and effect relationship is the opposite of what gets claimed.

In other words, they didn't do a terrible thing because they were drunk. They got drunk so they could do the terrible thing. (Example: pedophilia)

I have loads of sympathy for an addict's inability to stop using. I am convinced that most addiction is literally self medicating for often unidentified issues.

But I have damn little sympathy for an addict using their addiction as an excuse to crap on me. I don't buy it. I don't think having an addiction inherently leads to uncontrollable bad behavior that they just can't help (aside from rampant foot in mouth disease, which I also sometimes suffer due to my medical condition). I think that's a lie that they keep telling because it works.

I believe drugs should be decriminalized. I think the need to hide it fuels a lot of bad behavior that isn't due to the drug per se but is due, instead, to bs social factors. I believe you should be able to imbibe whatever you want. It is your body. I believe people need very supportive environments when coming off drugs because withdrawal is a bitch and people really do crazy stuff at that time. BTDT having never been an addict thanks to a serious medical condition.

But I do not believe in simply excusing repeated bad behavior because someone drinks or takes some other drug. We don't say people with medical conditions who are permanently on medication for it are excused from standards of behavior. So I see zero reason to say that about addiction.
Garbage is a human construct. From an external observer, it's just a byproduct of a natural, organic process.
I recall that software developers from Firefox OS were re-tasked with adapting the phone OS to an IoT focus.

So I would assume this announcement is the fruits of that side project.
It was off by two orders of magnitude, not one.
SQL is a good one. Fortran is another. ASIC's, GPU's. When generic is not good enough, we create specific solutions.

Javascript is itself an example: it solves very well the problem of giving web pages interactivity. It was not designed to be a general purpose language though - it was, and is - being worked around into one.
Are you aware of Mai Lai massacre? That’s one we have been told about because there was no hiding it once congress got involved. There should be many others where nobody broke the ranks.

[1] trigger warning: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre
You'd think it would be easy to tell. I mean, you see the other booster ignite in both views, which means they have to be looking toward each other - in opposite directions. I don't know about you, but when two people look in opposite directions they tend not to see the same things.
> Isn't the point of the article that it has little real impact, because in most cases it shifts the CO2 production from the car to the power plant?

Power plants are a lot more efficient and better at managing pollution. Plus, the grids are trending towards greener sources.
Why not Introduction to Algorithms? (also taught by demaine)
I think in a few years, as FB’s popularity craters and awareness of their terrible practices becomes more widespread, that notion will seem even more comical than it does today.
Back when we did Shuttle launches on ww.com 10K or so was the maximum number of viewers we ever saw. It's absolutely incredible how far video delivery over the web has come since STS-87.

Keep in mind that we got kicked off the backbone because we were using too much bandwidth and 'the internet wasn't made for video' (which is why we moved to Canada to begin with).
> Plants are about 10% efficient at converting sunlight to food energy.

More like 0.25% to 0.5% into the edible parts of crop plants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthetic_efficiency
A Developer’s Guide to Responding to National Security Letters
Before Its Time: The Internet Public Library (1997)
Check 25:30 for one of the most surreal moments I've ever witnessed - they blow the top, start playing Space Man, and send the Tesla into orbit - > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8wxV-lUsZg&t=25m30s
It's actually a running joke among foreigners living there.

Someone will apologize, bow deeply, cry (no gender difference), sometimes perform some irrelevant humiliating act (there was a girl that shaved her head) and all is good.

No actual behaviour changes, nothing is really addressed, mitigated or prevented.
I'm pretty sure Tom Brady was the one who got sacked, not Nick Foles.
We print it in a paper, seal it in envelope and give it to company owner. He then keeps it in his Safe.
nobody care
Official photos from today's mission:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/spacex/
A tempestuous isle of 1,000 shipwrecks
You might consider an electric bike, both for reducing the time and making the uphill return less onerous.
Smart that they used old pre-block5 parts for this test flight. (Not that I expected any less from those folks!)
So cadence for instance lets you create device models. For instance if we are making a simple inverter some things you would need are:
width and height,
channel (width x height),
Zero bias voltage,
Zero-bias depletion capacitance (Planar and Sidewall),
Channel length,
Surface potential,
Oxide Thickness,
Carrier Saturation speed,
Junction Grading,
Area diffusion,
Transconductance,
Carrier Mobility,

The list goes on. So once you get this information you can create a model file that will let simulate your simple NOT gate. However, if you are starting from scratch such as there is something that does not exist in the standard cell library. You can't just measure these properties since the device does not exist yet. So you have run other simulation software to get reasonable values as calculating them by hand is not pretty. Also to get these values you may need information from the foundry. For instance Intel's finfet transistor behave differently in some regards compared to a traditional planar transistor (mainly the channel). Intel is not going to just tell you how they work so you can get accurate model of them without an NDA. Also a foundries process can effect your design as layer thickness can changes such capacitance. So the big thing is cadence does not let you model

Cadence also can only simulate a limited number of devices. So for large designs/system you can't simulate the whole thing. So you can only simulate sub components for big designs. It's also slow to simulate large design again pushing you to smaller simpler sub components. It's limited to things you can generate a net list for. It additionally will let calculate cross voltages. I could keep going on and on, but there is only so much I can cram into a hacker news response.

Depends on who you are working for and what you are making. However, you generally use 2 spins for a large device. I bet you have heard the term engineering silicon. That's usually the first spin. If there are problems usually the only changes are made to metal (wiring) layers of the masks. If a serious problem is discovered it may require a complete re-spin. That's if you mainly using the standard cell library provided by the foundry. If you are making something from scratch that's whole other story. However, you still generally build into your design other elements that let you shut off defective parts or include redundant elements to increase the chance of one elements working. So the designs also include a lot additional circuits and logic that you may not be aware of for debugging and testing purposes. If you can't get the device perfect you still may sell use it and publish an errata or more specify a more limited range of operation.

I'll just say I am computer engineer. My first job was at Micron.
As long as you apply the same rules to other countries you compare to, that's great.

But then, again, the US is going to look pretty good compared to others.

(and I would like to add that there are plenty of economists saying that in fact most or all of a country's military budget is a social welfare program, as it's a job-of-last-resort for young people, which definitely helps them)
I agree with you. I can't think of a better language for writing GUI then Javascript right now, in particular because it has so many great toolkits and widget libraries.

But what makes those apps resource hungry and sluggish is usually not the UI: it's the whole lot of applicationg logic that's buried into their cores using Javascript code for stuff the language was not designed for.

I'm primarly a Python developer too, and on that respect I like Python's approach to C extensions. It's easy enough to rewrite your application logic into C when performance is important, and in general I think experienced Python programmers will do just that. The problem with Electron is both the lack of support for doing this, and the lack of experienced developers willing to do it.
What's the plan for turning your lights on while you're outside your house?
why does every post about Snap seem to fill up with (what sounds like) astroturf? This comment section has at least five undisclosed Snap marketers posting and and voting in it or I'm a llama. Multiple comments in the top comment chain sound like a PM's cocktail party talking points.
Actually, VPx was technically an acquisition[0] by Google. Not sure it matters as they’ve evolved since, but it is somewhat notable none the less.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On2_Technologies
One dead deer in a large body of water is not enough to worry about - imagine the biomass of dead fish in the lake by way of comparison...
There will come a time when, just like flash, it will simply be easier to uninstall it and move on.
What does obsolte mean actually? Today you still can build web app by jQuery.

Obsolete does not mean you cannot use your knowledge anymore. It means that community are shifting interested into new thing, maybe for better or for worse.

In this case, I do not think stick with JQuery or old framework for 5 years is productive for programming. If that happen to any community I would say that is a downside, not an upside.

Except for that fact that community and newly graduated junior developer are ahead of me in something. I can live with that
My interstellar matter transmitter is the safest of all!

Sure you end up as a fine mist of subatomic particles on half the trips you take to the casinos of Ceti Alpha 6, but per mile it beats everything...
A Q & A is going on right now with Elon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KORTP545vAc
In China, most people ride something like this: http://www.niu.com/ - small affordable (usually in $100-300 range) electric scooters that typically use 48V 20Ah batteries for a 70-80km distance. From the Niu stats, it seems like it uses about 1.1kWh/100km (in electricity), compared to a bicycle that uses about 3.1kWh/100km (in food energy, source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_efficiency_in_transport...). If the electricity produced in a "clean" way, it seems that riding an electric scooter is quite green even compared to biking.

Of course, biking has a bunch of other advantages: sport and exercise, unlimited range, transportability, not mentioning mountain biking etc.
I feel like there is much psychological research that concludes the opposite of this. People love learning new things, if there's a clear reward, for instance being jobless and finding a new job because of a new skill. By contrast, people in a cushy job "settle in", and learn nothing, or even unlearn things over time.

In addition to the research, one seems to find many stories of exactly this happening.

Quite the opposite is true: people don't like learning UNLESS there is a clear reward. That's even true for the video game case, where it's simply that the reward is social rather than economical.
Yes, but seemingy pioneered by ONE MAN -- so we need to throw the masses at this problem.
TFA says they transported it “in carry-on luggage” after forming it to a different lab where they blasted it with the laser.
> But the core, middle booster, which attempted to land aboard “Of Course I Still Love You,” a drone barge that SpaceX uses as a mobile, ocean-borne landing pad stationed in the Atlantic for its flights departing from Florida, wasn’t recovered.

“Of Course I Still Love You” is the name of a spacecraft in The Culture, a series of novels that inspired Elon Musk when he was young.
Except every exception in C++ is unchecked. Literally every API call can throw the entire world at you and you won't know it until you run the code under each permutation. This includes library code that you may not have the source for.

Compared to the above I at least know from an API signature that there's the possibility of an error.
Alexandrescu managed to do it in 2000: http://www.drdobbs.com/article/print?articleId=184403758&sit... (note that there are three pages).

The version in Facebook Folly was cleaned up because of C++11, but this wasn’t a new technique five years ago.
I am waiting for the typical "CEO of Grammarly here. I will answer any questions you may have" comment, but I guess not.
I absolutely love the fact that SpaceX is so open and public about their rocket launches, however, I couldn't help but get the feeling that they were in full 'PR backlash' mode [over the core booster] when ending the live stream, and from skimming many of the instantaneous press releases.

Does anyone else think that they were overly quiet on the core booster landing on purpose, in order to minimise negative PR on the whole operation; or was it simply that they did not have enough information on what happened (seems slightly implausible to me)?

This all being said, what happened today was nothing short of magic.
> however TLS is useful only when talking with your own server.

Are you saying that for the most trusted servers TLS is needed, but less trusted servers can be spoken to with less security?
In the right context, what you listed are your strengths.
New in MySQL 8.0 – The Vanishing Parameters, Features
I’ll be honest - I’m rooting for SNAP and I want to see them succeed. Anything to challenge the Facebook social monopoly and at least pretends to put on a facade of privacy.
> The business strategy of tying everything into my butt

what...
Java from the beginning allows you to chain exceptions and that is a core part of debugging.

In Python this is a very recent construct and few libraries use it, unfortunately.
> The business strategy of tying everything into my butt

Do you, by chance, have a browser extension that automatically modifies instances of "the cloud" into "my butt"?
Plese check the urls
Delta IV heavy looks pretty similar to the Falcon Heavy approach. I would imagine there was some knowdgle transfer there.

That being said, SpaceX is taking a much more pragmatic and efficient approach to building rockets with far less bureaucracy. This is the epitome of private sector efficieny over government projects.
I felt the same way as the commenter above and it had nothing to do with their looks or color. Rather, it had everything to do with their speech patterns and tone. They sounded like they had been coached and were reading off cue cards. As I watched them, I joked with a friend that these people had been sent by the PR department to act as engineers and read a script. They didn't sound genuine in the least. If they are indeed engineers, they were trying way too hard. They should relax and try to sound more natural and less like a vocal artist reading a commercial script.