skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's extremely misleading. For one, that includes interest accrued on the already existing debt. For two, that doesn't take into account that when Obama became president we were in a major recession, and combating that was why the deficit ballooned the first few years of his presidency. We're not in a major recession anymore.

For three, the deficit (which is approximately the $1 trillion number being talked about here) for 2017 when Obama left was $666 billion. He averaged around a 1 trillion deficit [0]. The Republican's have increased it from $666 billion (And the even lower projected value) to the $1 trillion talked about here.

[0] https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_deficit_chart.h...
I was hoping this would be about how piracy was detected, but it was mostly what happened when it was detected.
Spain cracks King Ferdinand's 500-year-old code
I always thought curation creates value
As you mention, this assumes a spherically symmetric distribution.

In the case of a charged conductive sphere, the charges are free to move. With no charge present other than that on the sphere they will arrange themselves spherically symmetrically.

But if there is other charge near the sphere (outside or in), shouldn't that cause some rearrangement of the charges on the sphere, breaking in most cases the spherical symmetry?
Show HN: OpenUV – Real-Time UV Index Forecast API
Well, I didn't claim that there is such evidence. But it's certainly not impossible. Especially in males, given ongoing spermatogenesis.
We used them by the 100's in the middle 00s. They were very good little machines but expensive. We switched away to to the PC-Engines(1) line to save significant cost. Sad to see them go if true. Many of the ones we put out there are still going strong a decade on.

(1) https://www.pcengines.ch/
Magnitude 9 earthquake. Devastating tsunami. Outdated reactor that lost all power to its control systems.

...and its entire supply chain of backup power was limited to generators that were located in an area totally vulnerable to flooding (tsunami or otherwise).
Here you go: https://gist.github.com/saagarjha/719af0a83b51bae7955d844a46...

It's located at /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SafariShared.framework/Resources/WBSAutoFillQuirks.plist on the iOS base system image.
Softmax output function
you drastically overestimate the value of catching a couple of people stealing a couple of things vs implementing the system that catches them using video surveillance and cv
I feel WeWork spaces are costlier in Bangalore, compared to the other co working spaces. I have looked around co-working spaces (mostly remodelled houses) which provides a quiet workspace with basic amenities for one third of WeWork's price.

You are bang on point about renting a place on your own. Absolute nightmare in Bangalore.
It baffles me why people like you read an article, think all the thousands of people working on this problem, not to mention the tens or hundreds of thousands of people who stand to loose their livelihoods, are just too stupid to see the 'obvious' solution that we'll just water the place with desalinated water delivered at no more cost than well water. Just a thought...considering the worldwide, multi-decade efforts to deliver fresh water through desalination, maybe the economics aren't as easy as you presume?
About Branding
This is a characteristic you think humans have? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gy55o76SZc

It's something you'll see a trained ballerina do when twirling, but I'm not about to say humans walk on their toes.
Is China's PLAN About to Test a Railgun at Sea?
Are you British?
By 8-person-months of labor time, you mean 4 people working on it on a quarter-time basis for the next 4 months?

Deadline is May 25 2018 which is less than 4 months from now. I'm planning this and talking with various consultants right now. Happy to share the details if anyone is interested.
I had a $4000 setup in college in 1992. A Mac LCII with a //e card, 10 MB of RAM, a monitor, a LaserWriter LS and SoftPC.

But let me give you another real world example of how little $5000 is in the grand scheme of things. Last year, my after tax rate as contract to perm was a little over $50 an hour. I easily put in an extra 100 hours in a month.

I’m not going to spend $5000 on the iMac Pro because I don’t need it. But I probably will spend around $3000 on a 27 inch 5K iMac with 32GB of RAM just because that’s what I want and it should last at least 5 years just as a development machine for hobby projects and learning. What would be an extra $2000 if it were going to make me money?
I have watched many of these and I have to say Onur Mutlu is excellent. I have watched his lectures from CMU as well ETH. It must be fantastic attend these in person.

I am curious does anyone more about him and his background?
The service should not ever get hold of an unencrypted password.
We do have a "poor man's" version of it I guess. Coz our sense of balance does reside in the inner ear.
I bailed after the 2 paragraphs of filler intro about his morning time and coffee.
Keep in mind that console dev kits of past were devices produced almost manually in very limited numbers. They also actually included a lot of hardware required for debugging only and was built to endure almost 24/7 work without overheating.

So there are reasons why this hardware was expensive. And there absolutely no reason for console vendors to sell them at loss simply because otherwise companies will buy more devices than absolutely needed to get job done.

As for the limiting access to console Sony and others managed it fine without making devkits pricey.
For anyone looking for just the money diagram, ctrl+f "SOMEONE GETS IT RIGHT" in the link above.

I first saw a version of that diagram just a couple of months ago at 34c3 in this _excellent_ talk on synchrotrons and free electron lasers[1] which delivered more than one such "aha!" moment. It's a great diagram, and it's a very worthwhile talk.

1 - https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8832-free_electron_lasers
Fuchsia docs says POSIX lite and Web runtime, under Backwards compatibility.
More info at https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/docs/+/HEAD/book.md#zircon-...
You can fire up the fuchsia in qemu, as it requires hardware graphics, you can't run the desktop, but you can have multiple shell open. I've had a play and it has vim and sql_shell and a bare bones top.
I do the exact same thing. Though I will admit that I gave up the last time I tried compiling CDE on Linux hah.
Which data structure is used for DNS resolver cache?
Which is latest DNS caching data structure and policy? Anything better than the previously deemed better implementations.
Statute of limitations for larceny in Massachusetts is 6 years. Would you really want to bet that it'll still be that hard in 2024?
I found this to be an interesting discussion on the question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2gidnJyGZA
>>https://about.me/vitalik_buterin

This is satire.
why do you think it's a magnet for technical debt?
They also have a good bit more data redundancy than RDS has.
Why are there gaps on the stall doors?
Where will Musk get money to build another 2 Gigafactories? If one costs $5 billion, he would need a big round of new funding. Also Tesla as business is burning through cash at a quick pace so that will need more cash to sustain itself as well. Do you think Tesla will need to raise / borrow another 10-15 billion?
On the whole, Google is still one of the most innovative places to work. Even if their ingenuity is decreasing, that doesn't necessarily mean some other place is better. Another thing to consider is what about your job specifically? If that is innovative enough for you, why do you care?
You're imagining that because they didn't know why something was happening, they were incapable of reacting to it in any rational way. You don't need a working theory of electricity to know that fire and lightning are dangerous.
> The scheme was so pervasive that if someone broke into your car and stole a laptop, smartphone or tablet computer over the past month in the South Bay, East Bay, or Peninsula, there’s a decent chance it’s sitting in an evidence storage room.

There's a section at the bottom dealing with recovering stolen property.
So the way you're describing the situation is "should people leave google", not "should you leave google".

General career advice has been discussed a lot here, but it really depends on your personality and motivation. (E.g. do you want a stable job, can you tolerate a stable job for a long time, are you looking to get into management, can you pull off company hopping every 2 years, are you a SWE and do you have a math background & drive to branch into data science, are you planning to launch a startup and what skills are you still missing to do that, etc)
You did't say what office you're in, but Google is a big place and there are lots of internal job openings, at least at the larger offices. I'd suggest looking around both internally and externally to see if there's something that interests you more. (There are teams doing good work that has little to do with the larger political issues.)

That's awfully generic advice, but to do better you'll need to get an advisor who can get to know you.
It’s not economical because we have not reached the scale needed to make it economical.

At the other end of the spectrum, current prices are artificially deflated by aquifer use that’s unsustainable.
Likely referring to the rate/ratio of contact/response from the commenter you're replying to.
Adtech industry can't be compared with Handset market. You can start your ad network today with minimum capital. There are lots of smaller players in this game who are setting over each other to gain some competitive advantage by pushing nastiest ad around. These smaller players can make their own coalition and go to courts if it's that bad for their business and no court will not allow you to run shady ads, so these guys will never go to court!
FWIW, the local supermarket near where I live decided to get rid of their self checkout, and I heard it was due to theft (and I do not live in a neighborhood where I would have thought theft would be an extra-serious problem...).
A bug problem I see with the methodology here is that _new_ SO questions aren't good measures of use - SO is very aggressive about duplicate questions, and for anything as popular as Rails the common questions have already been asked.

Anecdotally, my company uses Rails for new client projects all the time, so I don't think it has fallen as far as the author claims.
Anti-tromboning (telecommunications)
> Do not store plaintext passwords under any circumstances.

I really wish the original EAP-TLS specification had had some support for passing passwords across the TLS session. Certificates are great, but so few places provided them, and everyone who wants to easily support Windows 7 machines on the WPA2-Enterprise system has to store plaintext passwords on the server to support MSCHAP-V2.

EAP-TTLS finally did solve that problem, but with Windows 8. When Windows 7 finally dies, one of the first things I'm going to do is discard the plaintext passwords in my authentication databases.
25 usd / hour? More like 10 usd, at least in the UK
Taking part in the world's first online seafood auction on my phone
If you've been there for 2+ yeara and you're no longer excited about the work you're doing, maybe take advantage of Google's liberal transfer policy, and join a different team.

But it never hurts to interview.
It doesn't even have to be done at runtime. All they need to do is extract it from an iOS install image.
This line of thought applies equally well to every individual hydrogen atom in the universe as it does to a person, yet it does not follow that they also have free will. Where OP says 'predictable', I think he means 'determined' or 'pre-ordained'.
It's usually a problem with pointers to structs that have pointer members. In a typical destruction sequence, you usually free the members before the struct itself.
I listened to Aubrey on a podcast recently. He was saying that caloric restriction doesn't give much benefit if you start in your middle age. You need to start in your early twenties.
The restrooms at El Nacional in Barcleona also have mirrored ceilings.
Reminds me of StockX - so-called “Stock Market of Things” that was launched a few years ago. StockX, however, deals only in unworn/unused sneakers and streetwear.
Carrying that glum logic to its natural conclusion, you might as well just throw yourself onto the nearest train tracks and wait for the next few tons of coal. You probably won't, though, so in the spirit of dialogue I ask you: why not?

If you come up with a satisfying answer to that question, it probably won't be far from Vitalik's reason for donating to anti-aging research.
Probably /r/shoplifting or /r/stealing .
How senior are you? I would first spend some time hunting for innovative teams within Google to transfer to. There are plenty of boring jobs at Google but also plenty of ambitious small teams working on startup-like projects. Even cute experimental features on big established products (search/gmail/maps/drive/etc.) often could plausibly be the basis for an entire startup, but there are also some pie-in-the-sky projects people are working on if you look around a bit.
So does the same type of thing apply to tech-interviews vs actual on job problem solving capabilities?
Makes sense if you consider that the keychain is typically backed up to iCloud, under your Apple ID. So if you generate your Apple ID password through Safari and then lose your device, you’re going to have a chicken and egg problem…
I use an ad blocker solely to block popups that interfere with my reading. So many sites popup to ask for your email once you scroll far enough to move the mouse to leave, and I simply don't want to be on email lists. I'm totally fine with other ads and I'm not concerned I've been brainwashed.
Bigfoot sighting: Sasquatch might be headed to Washington license plate
This seems to be a JAXA (Japanese NASA) project, so I am guessing commercializing isn't a priority, which is sad. But now that they've shown that an overgrown sounding rocket built with pretty standard technology can get to orbit, maybe there will be others closely following.

Note: Although the Electron has heritage from a sounding rocket, it is a completely new breed of animal.
This is aggravated bu the fact that there are only 2 parties. Each is in the winner-takes-all game, where demonizing the opponent and polarizing as much as possible is the best strategy.

If there existed 10 parties, and coalition government were the norm, each party would have an incentive to take a moderate stance to pull an additional sliver of votes that could otherwise be had by another reasonably similar party.
It's because it's off topic here. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Could you please stop creating accounts to post like this? If you want to use HN as intended, that's fine, but that means intellectual curiosity, not political warfare.
For a FT232H on early development hardware, my first thought would be JTAG, not UART. Could be both if it's a '2232, though.
Not understanding the hostility toward someone agreeing with you, but okay.

Also not understanding how someone who's found this community doesn't also see the value of anonymous/pseudonymous identities for the security of freedom of expression.
The touchbar is why I decided to buy a maxed out 4 year old mbp instead of a new one to replace my 7 year old mbp.
Checking HN now and then. Talking to folks at workplace. That seems to be enough for me.
I generally go with decisions like this with my gut. If you feel like that you aren't happy with where you are then quit or figure out something new to do either within or without the company. Do you want to be filled with regret or not at the end of the day?
Yeah, most people don't keep track of what features are "legitimate/standard" and which are not.

It's even more problematic because some influential figures in the community push those non-standard features and encourage people to use them. Some are pretty harmless (object spread back when it wasn't standard), some are PROBABLY okay (class field declaration, pushed very hard in the React community because the ES6 class syntax with React kind of suck without it and they pushed THAT too early).

Some, however, are downright dangerous, such as decorators (pushed pretty hard in the MobX world) or bind operator (used to be pushed in the RxJS community, though not as much lately with pipeable operators). Those things are not standard, and in the case of decorators, the version being pushed doesn't even match the latest proposal. These are the stuff of tech debt nightmare when used at scale. Yet most people using them have no idea what kind of hole they're digging themselves into, and it's hard to blame them. Can't really keep track of all of that when you have deadlines to meet.
In a rough sense, but maybe keeping your eyes fixed on something on a high-speed roller coaster that shakes a lot would be a better comparison of cheetah vs human stabilization.

I also wonder if there is some technology or lesson we can learn from this, more than just learning about our world and the animals in it. Either way it's fine, but it's always fun to wonder about the opportunity.
The answer, for people who aren't going to die soon, is "live longer, and get the money to cover it as you go." In practice that'll mean fewer people on a retirement-and-death path and more people working in their 60s and 70s and 80s and 90s and 100s and 110s and so on, if all goes well.
I don't know enough about rails to comment further, but aside from the fact it's from Microsoft, i'd think that maybe ASP.NET Web API would be a reasonable choice for simple REST Services? (downside is it only really deploys on Windows Server)
Burger Time for the Apple ][ was apparently a pile of copy-protection triggers with a mediocre video game attached to it.

https://ia801505.us.archive.org/33/items/BurgerTime4amCrack/...

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/01/1982-burgertime-drm-was-har...
2.5x salary is a reasonable estimate of the cost of an employee. So $25/hr isn't that high for a total cost. Probably high for the US, it depends on the store, and an $8/hr job would result in lower end costs especially for part-timers without benefits (health insurance).
I'm a little baffled by that part at the end. Sex with someone to whom you're genuinely attracted is wildly different and superior to porn... I guess I'm still young maybe that'll change when I'm older.
> an anonymous, newly-registered probable-sockpuppet account any day

Attacking another user like that is explicitly against HN's rules, and we ban accounts that do it. What kind of community are we if we insult new commenters just because we don't agree with what they say? Please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Mostly. But since it is possible to replace/redefine the functions and methods too, it's a bit more capable than that and one can "override" methods or redefine functions.
The Las Vegas Golden Knights are hitting hockey’s jackpot
Guy has a solar energy company, a electric car company and a pie in the sky mass transit company. What exactly are you wanting him to prioritize on???
The trend is clear: Rendering engines are becoming compilers.

At the dawn of real-time rendering everything was both bespoke and fixed-function. You would call a different optimized codepath to draw a floor, a wall, or a ceiling. If the platform was amenable to it you might use self-modifying code to optimize the time/space tradeoff. The datasets were small enough that a simple array was always the default "right" choice until you were running out of memory.

Gradually the demands generalized and became more algorithmic than low-level in nature. DOOM's best-known optimization was in using BSP for visibility.

Now - while there's still a great demand for smarter algorithms - most of the pipeline complexity comes in this kind of generalized dependency analysis stuff to maximize use of resources across a broad, complex, configurable pipeline without hand-tuning everything, which is a familiar compiler problem to have.
I agree, which is why I do keto and IF and in my twenties. The majority of the world's population is in their youth, so this knowledge impacts a huge % of the world's population.
That's a problem. It's a better problem than being locked in the dungeons of the dragon tyrant for lonely years while you wait for it to consume you. Please let's address these things in order of priority.
He's factoring in employee overhead. Entry-level employees in most of the US only take home around $7-10/hr before tax.
People have a right to create accounts to join in on discussion here without being accused of sinister shillage—the tiredest internet trope of them all. Pulling such accusations out of thin air (let alone some more internal place) is absolutely not ok here.
And if you're over 45, you don't belong there.

Their next venture should be WeDie, a chain of euthanasia centers for disposing of people who've outlived their sell-by date.
Many Googlers I meet/am friends with have no fucking clue about the rest of the industry, especially so if that was their first job. If that applies to you, be careful.

I'd look internally first.
I diverted to fvwm and regretted it and my Emacs friendly friends forced tvtwm down my throat? Improved my experience but I stuck with a modal editor!

If you do the right magic to bind 'jump sideways' in units of the virtual desk, it's like moving entire panes painlessly. I had to load 3rd party stuff into OSX to get the same experience.
So philosophically is working until you're 110 is a superior life? Assuming there will be fewer good jobs in the future due to automation, would crowding a job market with older workers in their 80s, 90s, 100s a good thing for society and young people entering the job market?

The lucky few, with some in tech reading HN, work on what they're intrinsically excited by and get paid to do it. Most don't.
> You are part of the problem

On HN, please make your points without stooping to personal swipes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> I've been using slack for my jobs for years, and it wastes more time than saves. No real work gets done in a chat room, which is what slack is.

Speak for yourself. Our DevOps uses it extensively, and gets plenty of work done. It's been a great tool, has saved time, decreased ticket response time, and increased follow up. If we didn't have it, we would have to scramble to find something to replace it.
Please tell me about the downsides too.
Look at it this way: if we were currently in the state where nobody died, ever, who would choose to start murdering a hundred and fifty thousand people every day in the name of "progress", or in the name of anything?

And would we do so not by painlessly euthanizing people after 100 years of healthy life, but instead by infecting everyone with a plague that cripples our bodies and minds over several decades?
I believe some (all?) new Intel processors have built-in hardware components which are a source of truly random numbers.
It could be that supermarket margins are very thin (perhaps 2%), so appreciable extra shrinkage can tip you over into the red.
Review open patches
40M Indian cows to get government IDs
Thank you. I’ve been looking for a better explanation than wiggly snakes for thirty years.
'we as a society can't afford to have everyone live a lot longer, so we should put our resources towards other medical pursuits.'

Which is silly, because ending aging would save huge amounts of money. Compare the health care expenses of the average person at 30 and 80.
“Fringe” rate in the organization I’m in is less than 50% so 150% for a cashier is a stretch. To figure the cost that high you’d have to add some things like some fraction of their supervisor’s pay (which would be unfair because they’d have to be there anyway).
There might be some possibility for leadership but otherwise it's all CRUD operations and the complexity is in the business, not the tech.