skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not surprising at all... This is why they bought Onavo. Onavo gives them a clear picture of how competing apps like Snapchat are doing and gives them an idea of potential threats to their business.
The fundamental problem with what you're describing is that it creates a moral hazard. The only system that avoids moral hazard is making it each person's responsibility to take care of themselves.
Note: I read the article wrong, and read "raises the opportunity cost" as "raises the opportunity".

I thought I was refuting the point, but in fact, agreed with the point.

Whoops!
Vietnam just had to expend a large amount of effort to placate and reassure China, so the US could dock an aircraft carrier in Danang.

For a country as powerful and on the rise as China is, it's remarkable how insecure the CPC are about every little thing. It's an overwhelming indication of the fragility of their power and their own sense of security about their control.
It's the perpetual software treadmill, bloat because the hardware can support bloat. If phones were not all 64GB monsters, devs would learn to be disciplined.

Until the day phones give me next level miracles, there is no need for the specs they have. A good camera, a large battery, good ungimped radio bands, thems be thar necessities.
> And it's not just about benefits: think also what HR departments can do for you.

As an employee, your employer’s HR department exists for the sole purpose of maximizing the net value that the employer can extract from you, the “human resource” being exploited by the company (and if that maximum turns negative, that can be rephrased as minimizing the net harm you can do to the company.)

If they happen to do something that actually benefits you, that's a side effect, not the main goal.
World DDoS attack record broken again – 1.7 terabits per second
I say it is a start...

The thing is, the data is already public, but the volume is just so big that nobody paid much attention.

Now, at very least, some politicians will be weary of spending something that MIGHT look suspicious. Mostly the young ones.

The old politicians here have no shame whatsoever and know they will keep being elected until they die or retire.

About the judges salaries, there are a couple of other Twitter accounts that regularly publish out-of-ordinary payments as salaries and pensions.

As a Brazilian, I don't think this will change anything, but I think it is a great project that will at least prevent some "in your face" absurds that our politicians like do from time to time.
> This also means the battery is—get this—replaceable! When you take off the back you can actually pull the battery out and—if you have an extra on hand—replace it with a fully charged battery. Amazing.

Not sure if this is meant to be a joke... My understanding that most lower-tier phones have replacable batteries, at least my last phones (from the Moto G series) had.
Questioning Responsibility
We've run the numbers thoroughly. 40% of her take home goes to childcare. 50% to student loans. Tbf getting in to debt for a degree in the humanities is generally a horrible idea but we all have dreams.
Jeez, see, this is why low end Androids are never sold unlocked in the US.
I think being smart or being hardworking can have normal distribution. But being smart and hardworking not. Introduction of paper states that qualities are distributed normally but they do not say anything about combinations.

Though I do not underestimate role of luck because luck can change outcomes of people in a huge way. Still you get lottery winners ending up badly. You still get top athletes ending up badly because they did well on one type of talent, but other types of talents like staying away from drugs not.

So as armchair philosopher/sociologist I believe that combinations of talents are more important than luck. If you have strong combination it saves you from bad luck, and helps get a lot more from good luck.
Probably mobility, hence increased ability to seize opportunities as they present.
Building GraphQL server for Stellar
Debugging and profiling functional languages using diagrams
Basic Ripple Explanation
>It is very well known that intelligence or talent exhibit a Gaussian distribution among the population

Why should we assume that intelligence in the total population is Gaussian distributed, even if you assume that you can measure 'intelligence'? A Gaussian distribution of a metric emerges solely for the reason that there is nothing else influencing the out come of the variables (no one way boundary transition conditions) and as a result, there is just a random, scattered cloud of noise around where the values are. Pareto distributions emerge when there's an influencing factor which forces a change (businesses collocating next to each other to reduce costs, people buying things from people/businesses they know) Given that there are are events/phenomenon that will clearly break independence of an intelligence result (child suffers head trauma, exposure to chemicals while in the womb, Malnutrition) I remain skeptical that 'intelligence' is Gaussian distributed.
> The world’s financial systems are increasingly unable to meet the demands of consumers and businesses.

I would love to learn more about this. Precisely what needs are the world's financial systems unable to meet?
I noticed that (in firefox nightly), the left side nav bar buttons don't seem to work as buttons. They still require you to click the actual text itself. Just a minor nit

Does this project require use of the StarUML editor?
Because maglev isn't cheap. [This guy](https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/6ogwml/ny_to_dc_in_29_...) runs the numbers of a Hyperloop in a tunnel using maglev.
> (I am not american nor living in america so I don't know the movie scene as well as the european one)

Ha! Me either! ;-)
It opens the door to some company buying up the roads, and then you're right back to where you started.
heard of datmo.io
they automate the versioning and deployments. Check them out if it suits you.
I'm sure Uber will come up with some bullshit reason why they don't have 'trucks' and don't have to pay taxes.
The people who own property contribute to the upkeep of the neighborhood in the form of property taxes. People living in cars do not. That is the fundamental difference.
Individual rights protect you from active abuse perpetrated by authorities. That's fair. Why should that extend to enslaving others until your Maslow needs are fulfilled? That's not fair, and is logically opposite to the concept of rights.
Bazel + Python definitely needs some work; if you're interested, check out the recently-formed https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bazel-sig-python to track progress.
Laying rail is fraught with property rights to build the track.

Roads are like rails that are already paved everywhere (with the significant addition to climate-impacting gas emissions).

Rails are easier in Europe because less of the land is owned by private interests making eminent domain easier.
Move fast. Break things. Kill people.
This is such a bs article. Onavo is a VPN - what are they expecting from it?
It is illegal, yes, but the reality is that it's not enforced. The letter of the law is irrelevant -- the law is what the police enforce.

Certainly, there is no practical way to enforce not littering. Are you going to have undercover cops patrolling around waiting for someone to drop something on the ground?

I live in a formerly-quiet neighborhood in Seattle. When my kids were 4 and 6, I had to teach them what a used needle looks like and to never ever touch one because trash like that started showing up on our street corner near parked RVs.

1. There are definitely some people living in vehicles that are not part of the drug trade as consumers and producers, and I'm very sympathetic to their plight, and supportive of them living in their vehicles if that's all they can afford.

2. There are definitely people living in vehicles that are drug addicts. I'm sympathetic to their plight, but it doesn't seem like letting them live without treatment is good for them or the surrounding community. This is a profoundly hard problem — how as a society do we deal with people whose addiction prevents them from making good life choices and upholding the social contract? How much agency should someone have when they use that agency to harm themselves and others?

3. There are definitely people living in vehicles that are drug producers and sellers. They should go to jail.

People who have strong opinions on this seem to believe only one of those categories exists, and then imagine solutions that deny the existence of the others. That's not practical. My experience from my street is that there are all three kinds, though unfortunately not many in the first group.

I care about the rights and life of people in these dire straits, but I also care about my own rights and those of my family. I'd like my children to be able to play in the yard without worrying about them rolling onto a dirty needle. I'd like my wife to be able to garden without finding trash and sewage in the bushes.

Even if someone is 100% supportive of letting people experiencing homelessness get by however they can, I hope they understand that it's not biologically safe for humans to live in areas without sewage and trash infrastructure. That's how you get cholera, hepatitis, etc.
I just subscribed to rss, then saw the last post was 2014 so I think is dead.
Ironically, you then leave and someone else has to pick up your old code - or offer to build a new system from scratch. So the cycle continues.
In case you couldn't get through because of the HN hug of death here's another link to the same story: http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-06/oldest-known-messag...
That's also why Amtrak is such garbage compared to any civilized country.
Airlines Could Be Leaking Your Private Data
Being able to seize opportunities (that require relocation) when the chance comes, perhaps? A house can become a boat anchor in those instances.
> The people who own property contribute to the upkeep of the neighborhood in the form of property taxes. People living in cars do not.

That's, if true, entirely the fault of how your state allocates revenue from vehicle license fees, not the people living in (currently licensed) cars.
I don't have data but my gut feeling says that the numbers of Bank Tellers has peaked. In my country (Netherlands) a lot of small branches of banks have closed. The general trend is towards self-service / online.

Anecdotically, I went to the bank across the street 2 years ago to ask some question about insurance. I was told to go to the website and look up the information there. The branch is now closed.
You don't have to look at every post. Muting words also helps if there's something you don't want to see, "nunberg" for instance.
Allegro is also the library currently being used by Factorio, although the dev team is currently porting it to a custom game engine to try and get more performance.
So You Want to Optimize GRPC – Part 1
Most people would expect a VPN to protect their data from websites, rather than sharing it with Facebook.
How can I be successful if I have no talent?
Wish I could get this same reporting for Javascript and get out of Sentry. Maybe one day! Firebase Functions being able to debug to Crashlytics would be cool.
I don’t see health technology in any of these lists. Is it not common in startups? I don’t mean insurance related companies, more along the lines of hardware companies serving the medical or health care field.
A Former Anonymous Hacker’s Search for Redemption
Silicon Valley: You're over 30, we don't hire old people here, they can't keep up.

Also Silicon Valley: You're going to have to work until you're 140 and die on the job.
The difference here is that voting is compulsory and a much bigger part of the population can barely read, let alone judge more complex situations.

In the US, the "stupid" (as you call them) voters can stay at home if they are uninterested in the election. In the very least, this makes the voters be more involved.

Here, a lot of people only remember they need to vote when they try to buy beer on the Saturday before the election and they can't or when they turn the TV to watch their soap operas and see the mandatory political programs instead (and turn it off instead of watching).
Previous HN discussions about the Chinese company making them:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7748542

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12171276

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12787766

For people who just like their Android flavour, they also provide ROMs for other devices: http://en.miui.com/getrom.php?m=yes&mobile=2 Presumably the same suspicion of Chinese goods coming packaged with spyware would apply to those images too I guess.
Nobody is going to start a global nuclear war over Taiwan. The country is far too close to mainland China for the US to perpetually stand-off China from taking the island in the case of war. It's futile almost no matter the strength gap between the US and China. China could have successfully taken Taiwan 15 years ago for the same reason, despite there being a huge military gap back then.

There's no scenario where China doesn't get Taiwan, unfortunately for the people there. The only question is what that's going to look like. The rest of the world will do nothing about it, other than wave their hands around frantically. When it happens (during Xi's lifetime), it's going to set a particularly terrible precedent that will encourage Russia to do more of the same in eastern Europe. If China then decides Mongolia too is part of greater China, who can really stop that? Nobody.
The firecalc page has a link to US averages [0]. I haven’t used it myself, so I count vouch for its utility.

[0] https://www.firecalc.com/real-cost-of-living.php
There are also folks who choose to live in vans or RVs as a lifestyle. There are also folks who go backpacking overseas for months or years at a time, or who work nomadic jobs (like travel nursing) which move them every few months.

You don't have to be homeless to lack a permanent address.
I think that's misplaced, freight is the one area where NA in general and US in particular absolutely blows every other region out the water. Circa 2010 Rail was ~40% of US freight by ton-mile, whereas for the EU it was ~17%, and the US had 10x more tonne-kilometer freight rail than the EU (beyond China and Russia, with India a very distant third) (nb: China carried more tonnes total but shorter distances)

Of course a major reason for that is that the US have (literally) tons of commodities, a significant plurality of the tonnage is coal. I expect roughly the same of Russia, China, Australia and India (the other members of the tonnage top 5, Australia notably haults extremely heavy stuff for very short distances as it's about on par with the EU for tkm but waaay ahead in total tonnage).

Hell one of the reasons passenger trains is shit in the US is that passenger rail does not get priority over freight and thus you get the country's lone "high-speed train" giving way to slow freight leading to an average speed of 130km/h, slower than some non-high-speed intercity service in Europe.
This would have the added benefit of increased efficiency due to the Oberth effect; however, I'm still not sure you could use it for unassisted interplanetary flight. The last orbit, by definition, must occur before the craft passes Earth escape velocity -- the question is, in that last pass through perigee, can you get enough delta V to make it to another planet? Otherwise, you'd need supplemental propellant. It's still useful, it's just not something I would describe as "revolutionary" for interplanetary travel.

Since the TWR of electric thrusters tends to be pretty abysmal, my gut is that you probably couldn't scale up the thruster well enough to bounce between planets without that supplemental propellant.

That being said, as others have mentioned, this would be really quite interesting for stationkeeping at low orbital altitudes, particularly for small satellites.
And the ultimate solution would be put the person in a prison because he has no place to receive legal notices?
I personally find the self determined curation the one good thing about twitter and don't write posts myself at all... (just replies every now and than)

For your purposes twitter might be truly unfit...
Yeah, I figure that is some of it. And I figure education is part of the way out of it. Simply doing healthy relationship sort of thing (treating the other person as a human adult, for example) and teaching folks to be upfront with what they want out of it would help, I think. That isn't so radical, and I think that in itself would help build stronger marriages.

I do agree that divorce isn't the best situation for most children. But I also believe some of that can be minimized. I've met an entire range of folks - I had cousins happy their parents divorced. My parents would still be together if my father was alive. And somewhere in between. Parents getting along and the ability to see and talk to both parents at nearly any time seems to help. Of course, that sort of thing also limits what sort of life someone can lead after the divorce (live within driving distance to each other, for instance).

I'm also more in line to making sure folks can have birth control and teaching the importance of being in a stable relationship before having children (marriage or not, as the daily routine doesn't make a difference). Again, though, education.

Paternity leave isn't that radical in some areas when they concentrate on making sure the sexes are equal. I know here (Norway) they used to require some of it, and it is still an option for part of the time. Some friends of mine were both working about half their normal hours because of it actually. But yes, I'm pretty radical about it all, more so in some areas.

I'm pretty sure men can do just as much as women once the physical part is changed. The biggest thing I notice is that women are trained to do some of this stuff from the time they are young, whereas men aren't. Women are more likely to take child development classes and such things, for example. Again, this is really just education and little things like showing men doing a good job at this stuff on TV and things like that. You know, unless there are efforts to get more men into teaching and childcare like there are efforts to get more women into STEM fields. Until then, self education.
Good-Bye JEE, Hello Jakarta EE
> The first part can be trivially automated

Having done some cargo loading and unloading myself, good luck with that. It's a very heterogeneous environment and task.
I'm not kidding: I've imagined exactly that as a career change more than once. Live on the road, see new places every day, hack on open source projects, write, spend time with someone with similar interests (the hardest part). What's not to love?

Even removing the autonomous angle, I've thought about driving during the day and having laptop time for the same activities during rest periods. Probably seems weird, but I'd be in if I could make it work. I do my best thinking behind the wheel, and I've solved a number of engineering problems on road trips. It seems ideal.
I agree with the sentiment, but guiding a large missile down a straight highway with human oversight has many fewer variables than navigating smaller missiles through crowded urban areas.
LibBF – a small library to handle arbitrary precision floating point numbers
Everybody is good doing something.
Interestingly, Onavo Protect is using the same method (Packet Tunnel Provider) to send analytics data out. I am very curious if Apple is OK with that.
http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/#safeguards

"now I am become death destroyer of worlds" and all that.
Yeah, the word "manage" is not great because of the supervisory overtones, which have oppressive connotations.

What I mean in more words is the process by which we create the logistics we need to thrive (food, clothing, shelter, power, comms, currency, etc), combined with the incentives to produce the society we want to live in (physical safety, freedom of expression, opportunity for work and love, etc.).

It's hard to talk about this without judgmental overtones. But essentially what I mean is, picture your best life--how do we make that possible for each and every person? It won't happen by accident. And it's to everyone's benefit it we can make it more likely.

And when that doesn't happen--when people don't have the skills to find work, when they commit crime, when they fall to addiction, when they're mentally or physically ill, etc... at that point we do sort of "take them under management." They go on unemployment or disability, they go under medical and mental care, they go into prison. Those are direct costs we all pay, and probably even greater is the opportunity cost of that human life. (And not just from a strictly economic perspective, but also art, emotion, love, etc.)

But people become part of society when they're born. And a lot of what makes each person who they are, is set during childhood. Letting a person go without investment for 20 years, then paying direct costs to manage them if it doesn't work out, doesn't seem smart to me.

If you take any life and trace it back to the beginning, early management is in the family. But there is a lot that society can do to help that process be more successful. And I would argue it's in all of our benefits.

And again, to make it clear, I'm not talking about authoritarianism. In modern democracies, in an ideal sense, we should be managing ourselves. To some extent we're discovering the society we want as we go along, so our management system need to be adaptable, and that's what democracy should give us. I'm advocating for certain policy choices we can make democratically--give women more power of their lives and reproduction. Invest fully in the health and education of all children. Provide support to families so that they can do a better job of raising their kids. Etc.
Have you considered using SQLite? [1]

[1]: https://www.sqlite.org/about.html
It's not like a World War has ever broken out over a 'trivial' incident.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand_of_Au...
Fraternities, Unions, Social Clubs.

Admittedly, the largest Fraternities have religious components themselves (the Freemasons, especially), and Churches themselves at times have fought the big Fraternities as "competition", but arguably the big Fraternities are kept separate and distinct from Churches for strong reasons, and tend to sway more secular with the biggest religious ties being calls to charitable service.

I've often wondered if it was possibly past time for a revival of the Oddfellows in America, which at one point was a huge entirely secular Fraternity (whose biggest remaining impact is a lot of fascinating 1900s-ish architecture in most major American cities): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Order_of_Odd_Fello...

There's also a lot of interesting similarities to classic Fraternities/Unions/Social Clubs reflected in cosplay/fandom Unions and Social Clubs such as the multiple Starfleet Fleets (including Barfleet), the 501st, the Ghostbusters Locals, etc. Admittedly fandom/cosplay can be their own religion of a sort, but such things are extremely secular.
Physicists Find a Way to See the ‘Grin’ of Quantum Gravity
>If coffee is too hard to give up, try soft drinks.
Right. You could get by with saving less because you will also die earlier! :P
Maybe you didn't see this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16501630
I'm now on my third "budget" phone, my last previous premium phone being a Nexus 4. I used a Moto G4 until I broke it, a Moto G5 until I broke it, and now have a new G5, which given my history will last me about 6 months. I break phones too often to fork out anything over about £150.

If I can get a sub £100 phone, that will run Google maps, an email client, a web browser and give me the ability to tether then sign me up.
My answer: neither

Persistence has been far more important for me than either talent or luck.