skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What makes bar exams work is not an industry wide agreement, it’s government licensing. I’m sure there are plenty of paralegals who are perfectly capable of doing standard, ordinary legal work like conveyancing or ensuring the registry of deeds is updated when property is sold. But there can be only one kind of legal practitioner with US government licensing as it stands. Anything else is illegal and you’ll go to jail for practicing law without a licence.
You're not dumb; sometimes you just need something to click, and you never know what that something might be.

Try this: when we look at a galaxy, we can see how fast it's rotating. We can do this using spectrometers that can see where light from stars is red-shifted (which indicates those stars are away from us) or blue-shifted (moving toward us).

The faster a galaxy is rotating, the more massive it must be, because without that gravity the stars would just be flung out into space like toddlers on a malfunctioning carousel.

We can also make a pretty good guess at the amount of "normal" matter in a galaxy (i.e., not dark matter) by measuring how bright a galaxy is, since nearly all light comes from stars, which are, as far as we know, composed entirely of normal matter.

So, putting those two things together, we encounter a mysterious thing: having observed thousands of galaxies, nearly all are rotating much faster than is expected given their estimated mass. One possible explanation for this is that there's another kind of matter in there that doesn't emit any light, which we call dark matter. To be more precise, not only can this dark matter not emit radiation, it cannot interact with radiation at all -- it can't absorb or reflect it. Otherwise we'd see it, just as we see clouds of dust in galaxies (which is accounted for in our mass estimates).

Other proposed explanations involve changing the way gravity works. These are very interesting and compelling ideas, however this newly discovered galaxy would appear to weaken the case for modified gravity theories, because under those theories we would expect this galaxy to be rotating as fast as all other galaxies, since gravity is a function of mass. But that's not what we see; this new galaxy is rotating much slower. It is, in fact, rotating at the rate we would predict if it didn't contain any mysterious invisible "dark" matter. Which is why we think it doesn't!
Sharia Canada: Police Investigating After Ex-Muslim Rips Qur’an
How does your theory fit with flat rotation curves?
I would argue that the very nature of the math behind programming is cause for it not to be regulated easily. In other applied fields you don't run up against undecidable problems and Rice's theorem. If it is not possible to mathematically certify that a particular program has a particular property how can you regulate the programmers? Only allow them non-Turing complete languages?
Based on other responses here, I guess I'd be dating myself to say mine started with Usenet.
>> and you need to create a floating habitat that is also an interplanetary spacecraft port. Frankly, that's actually pretty far outside our realm of technology at present.

You just pretty much described the ISS, but I get your point. That's in orbit around Earth. :P
Probably a function of your industry and where you are.
In addition to TripleByte, there seen to be an increasing number of companies that require HackerRank online timed coding assessments as the first technical filter before you get to ever speak to an engineer.
Rolling debt from 5.6% to 8% is killer.

The question is what prices does Tesla get on its new debt? And is it sustainable?
> Apple doesn't have a social network.

They tried, and failed.

> They also don't rely on advertising

They tried that, too.
Investors will be happy as long as the marginal cost to sell one additional copy is above zero. eg. you make a profit. How much they are willing to invest depend of how large the market is.
> Zuck has pledged away 99% of his wealth?

They will actively ignore problems that deal with public health and security, but promise to "cure all disease" through philanthropy. Please.
They also make NES to USB adapters if you happen to have a controller already.
Right? We see it all the time.

Waterluvian commented below about the hiring markets self-optimizing themselves to efficiency.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16702612

In short, we see so many market inefficiencies in hiring, it'd be hilarious if it weren't folks' lives we were talking about. There's no practical difference between someone who has 4.750 years of experience and 5.250 years of experience, but the market dramatically prefers the latter.
Who says he was using it to encrypt Gmail email (how would the key being on Google Drive even help with that)? The key may have just been in transit. For example, moving a subkey to smartphone in order to import it into a PGP app on the phone, and Drive just happened to be the most convenient way to do it. If the (sub)key is encrypted with a strong password, as it should be, it's fine.
>Facebook advertising cannot be targeted by user ID anymore

This doesn't matter much if you can do essentially the same thing by targeting with extremely specific location and demographic data.
Indeed I even think the overreactions we see about this “scandal” is because media in general love to follow such catastrophic plots and spread false or enhanced news. As always.

Many articles i read don’t understand even what happened and, from here, the whole thing seems a big bluff that will shake the internet based economy and powers.

Best we can do is ignore this case and go back to our life. It’s however an interesting phenomenon under many points of view.
Times New Roman was designed to squeeze as much text on a page as possible, probably to make more room for ads.

Makes me wonder why it's not more popular today.
4 months in a year...? (It's 16 months total for us)
i haven't been to palestine (yet) but one of my closest friends is palestinian from west bank (and i've been following the occupation closely since i met him 10 years ago). it is astonishing to me that they're running this in gaza as well as west bank. i wish them well and wish i could support the effort somehow.
"The galaxies are not rotating the way our understanding of gravity says they should....lets invent dark matter"

"Oh no, the existence of dark matter means the universe should be collapsing in on itself, lets invent dark energy to balance out the dark matter"

I always figured that the KISS principle meant maybe we just didn't understand gravity very well, but what the hell do I know. Always found it fascinating though.
Played it back in the days, loved it. There was even a unofficial Linux version I found on Freshmeat.
I work on OpenBazaar and I'm happy to answer any questions.
The basics: It's a fully distributed network where people engage in trade directly with each other using cryptocurrency. Because there are no middlemen, there are no fees, there is no centralized data collection, there are no account sign ups, and there is no censorship.

You can view the server (Go) here:

https://github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-go

And client here:

https://github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-desktop
Under the current paradigm where wealth is steadily and increasingly being consolidated to the owners of automation, I don't think demand will decrease until the singularity, which is still a long way off, if even possible given our current resource consumption.
This kind of job ad is seen in other countries as well, not just the US, even ones where foreign applicants are really uncommon.
Where are the filters that show which search demographics contributed to a result being relevant? I could use that to filter out SEO's, googlebombs, racist results, etc., if I wanted.
Not that I know of but there’s evidence professional ethicists behave no more ethically than other philosophers.

Ethicists’ and Nonethicists’ Responsiveness to Student E‐mails: Relationships Among Expressed Normative Attitude, Self‐Described Behavior, and Empirically Observed Behavior

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/meta.12033
Do your own homework:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Counsel_investigation_...

If you have been following this at all then none of this should be news to you, if you haven't been following this then I do not understand some of the positions you have been taking in this thread.
This "galaxy" is so sparse, what if the key to dark matter is some unknown property of the central black hole. Maybe an unknown space-time interaction we have yet to conceive?
I don't think this is accurate. If you look at other comments here, you will see some of them criticizing free and open source software and being highly upvoted.
.NET doesn’t have interior pointer. Any `ref` must be on the stack and that’s tracked in the stackmap. You cannot have a ref as a field.
Building my own 64GB memory card with a $6 eMMC chip (2016)
I think we should dump the "fictitious force" and "pseduo force" nonsense and say what we mean: "frame-dependent force", as in this force depends on the observer being in a specific, non-inertial frame of reference. These forces are real, and observable, and their existence distinguishes inertial from non-inertial frames, which is a useful thing to do.
Hey! We are winners together! A happy day for all.
Thanks for that, I was wondering why they went to all the trouble of designing a new typeface.

The thing I haven't figured out yet is why they made it open source rather than keeping it exclusively for their own use.
from the link: https://www.visitpalestine.tech/get-involved-details/

lots of options here. Cheers!
Where are Panasonic’s utility scale batteries?

Sure, Panasonic manufactures the 2170 cells, but they aren’t in the same game as Tesla.
Similar behavior appears to happen with quality of comments. Initial comments on a story are often insubstantial, knee-jerk low-quality comments. With time, things generally get better.

From what I gather (but I don't have any comments at hand), the mods do pay attention to voting behavior, both to detect up-voting rings and to penalize those abusing downvotes. Their usual recommendation, when coming across a comment you think is unfairly downvoted, is to silently apply a corrective upvote.
As someone who honestly does not desire to live an extra 5-20 years, I disagree. I’d rather have the pleasant morning now.

Mostly, I refuse to clutch and cling to life out of some sentimental attachment to the world around me. Also, there’s the cliche of preserving one’s self during the worst period of old age, and prolonging that portion of life. But then, there’s also the degree of enjoyment one derives from life.

Most people are stuck in some shitty rut. There’s a lot of obvious self-help schlock to tell you that a rut is your own fault, but I can look out at the rest of the world and anticipate outcomes for people who will never ever ascend beyond a certain ceiling of success, and I can take that same degree of qualitative assessment and point it in the mirror.

Some of us have obvious limitations, and would prefer to cut to the chase.
Is this because it has become too easy to apply for jobs? Should there be a stronger barrier to even apply to something (ie. take this automated test to apply...)?
Yeah... There's a certain imprecision with the use of the term "whistleblower" here.

It's far closer to the immunity a mobster informant might get (although it's obviously not (yet) playing out as a criminal matter)
What prevents a general exam? - Attitude

Unlike other fields, Engineering in general and software in particular are all about freedom. You can hack your car, hack your phone, WiFi etc without needing a certificate from someone.
You're challenging this freedom and hacker attitude by imposing exams and creating a system that gives people 'permission' to write software (work in this field)

This will never fly. And I hope it never does.
No, it’s sadly true. EA may scalarize the allocation but this optimization falls apart very easily in Hotspot.
That makes a lot of sense! Thank you.

So if whatever a bunch of stars were orbiting weren't massive enough (all the other stars in the galaxy), they wouldn't really even be orbiting, huh? That's what necessitates dark matter - there doesn't appear to be enough matter to justify the amount of mass it would take for all the stars in a given galaxy to actually be in a galaxy style orbit?
A large amount (a majority maybe even?) of software written outside of Silicon Valley is "boring" business logic-y stuff that has a very limited ability to impact anyone's lives in a meaningful way.

I haven't thought too deeply about this but the solution to the PII exposure problem, in my opinion, is to heavily disincentivize entities from holding any data that they don't absolutely need to (probably via punishingly them heavily for slipping up).
These numbers vary dramatically by location and specialty, e.g. a Marketing Assistant in Chicago has very different prospects (and expected # applications to job offer) vs. a Software Engineer in SF vs. an HR specialist in Ohio.

We did an analysis on this awhile ago, specifically about # of days to get a job, but it also has some analysis about # of applications:

https://talent.works/blog/2017/09/22/how-long-does-it-take-t...
>without any personal interest / passion in technology

Can I not work in tech without being passionate?
There is already an information asymmetry, what's wrong with using it to your advantage? Employers do, through withholding salary data during the entirety of your employment -- from initial negotiations, to annual raises/compensation re-evaluation, to performance and retention bonuses, to etc.

Beyond disqualifying yourself, there's not much in terms of risk and the reward (getting your career off the ground) is quite good, especially when faced with writing >200 job applications.
you spelled palestine wrong
Actually, there is. It's among the most common causes of death for domestic cats ([1] says the second most common). It's been what killed most of the cats I've ever known (notable exceptions being two that got hit by cars and the one who, no kidding, died of mercury poisoning after being fed nothing but canned tuna her entire life).

[1] http://skeptvet.com/Blog/2015/03/longevity-causes-of-death-i...
Because you can do that with a bit of reading and gstreamer. And because designing and building a solution for every graphic/video designer out there is expensive. Adobe and Autodesk got the right idea, dont complain too much if people are pirating your shit, wait until they get used to your stuff, then give them a cheap way to be legal. I use Autodesk Inventor every so often, but 30 quid/month is not something that I feel in my pocket and they get a revenue stream out of that. Obviously, they kind of built the entire thing on charging lots in the past, but now, now I can afford that as a hobist.
The sole purpose of TTC seems to be licensing and protecting Tetris. They don't make any games, but recently have started selling merch online.

There is no copyright on Tetris, the lawsuits were based on "trade dress", which is silly, since nearly every Tetris game looks different.

I actually have my own clone online, and so far haven't heard a peep from TTC. knocks on wood I think maybe it's because they've relaxed a bit in that area, but I could be wrong. You can see it here if you like: https://simon.lc/tetr.js/
Things like this in theoretical physics, cosmology, quantum physics, etc. aren't really supposed to "click," are they? My impression is that you just learn the math and the predictions made by the mathematical models, then learn about the observations we've made that fit that model's predictions, and that's really it. "Click" implies to me that you can achieve some sort of "intuitive" grasp of these concepts, perhaps in terms of more familiar everyday phenomena, which from what I've heard isn't the case even for the experts in these fields.
No, it wasn't at all. The allegation was that Assange was selectively releasing info on Clinton and the DNC that was obtained by Russian hackers for the purpose of swaying the election in favor of Trump, or at least severely damaging Clinton. The issue was never that the information was false. Even the DNC itself confirmed that the emails were theirs.

More broadly, it's that Assange uses the guise of a seemingly-neutral Teller of Truths to dole out information for the purpose of manipulation, either for his own or other people's agendas.
Power output during exercise
I suspect it is more a case of turning states evidence in hope of clemency or leniency. He was all in on this until the wheels started to come off the cart and then he decided to flip sides.
Using lung cancer fatalities to generalize to everyone in the US is fallacious, because most lung cancer occurs in high risk groups (primarily smokers). If you are not a smoker, looking at total fatalities from lung cancer including smokers is looking at numbers that just do not apply to you. It's bad info.

Really not sure how lung cancer figures into this anyhow. I don't see anything about lung cancer in your NIH link. Nope, not in the full article either.

In any case, the numbers you spitballed about eating bacon are definitely off.
> I'd like some search service that shows me what's accurately out there

What does that mean, to accurately depict what's "out there"? That could be as nonsensical and unproductive as completely killing the spam filter in your email. Do you feel that that GMail and other modern-spam-detecting solutions have given you an inaccurate view of the "real" mail you are getting?

By the late 2000s, content farms such as Demand Media were churning out clickbait that followed the best practices with SEO. Demand Media [0] consistently beat out the NYT on SERP, thanks in part to a store of 1 million domain names used to serve up ads and links for topics ("howtomakeasandwich.com" would like to junk articles about sandwiches). By 2010, DM had 105 million unique visitors a month [0] and reached a market cap of $2B. The NYT, by comparison, had about 32M unique monthly visitors [1] -- across all of its properties (BostonGlobe.com, etc), and its market cap in 2011 was about $1.5B [1].

Demand Media beat the living shit out of NYT and every other quality media site by playing to the the known heuristics of Google's SERP. Every other media company had the opportunity and resources to play spamlord. Apparently they didn't, and by 2011 no other media company was positioned to create content (of any quality) with the scalable efficiency of Demand Media.

Google could have just accepted that "might makes right", but that is not an objective/neutral decision, nevermind a rational one.

[0] http://variety.com/2013/biz/news/epic-fail-the-rise-and-fall...

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/12/it-cost...
You can’t “essentially do the same thing” in the way you mention though. You are bringing up a second issue, that is also not allowed. You cannot, for example, use specific GPS coordinates to target a house or even a group of houses. Anything less specific than that and the effect gets watered down significantly, and the platform simply doesn’t allow anything close to that kind of “extremely specific” location targeting. Same with demographic data (which can easily be obtained through other places, where the data is much more accurate than you would get from Facebook - see Acxiom).
> Why do you think arguing on social media is the only or even best way to engage politically with the world?

If Facebook is one of the primary ways you interact with a set of people, then it is natural you would exchange political ideas with them on Facebook. Having to take any political (or other potentially controversial) discussion to a separate communication medium makes Facebook rather bland. It's requires a form of self censorship.
Tesla stock is a roller coaster, with the market reacting hyperbolically to any Tesla news. Attempting to treat the stock market as a rational entity is a fool’s gambit.

If you have to pretend that a Tesla shorter is a journalist you should consider that maybe your world view has some problems.
I think that is what the Parse acquisition was about. Obviously didn't work out for some reason.
My 6S was having a really hard time here, and this phone isn’t exactly a slouch!
"Hi, I'm shrimp_emoji and I'm a hackaholic."
> Some of WebP is based on VP8 (not VP9) intra coding too

Quite an understatement. "Some" here means WebP is literally a single VP8 frame shoved into a RIFF container :D

Back in the day (holy shit 8 years ago already!) there was a script that added WebP support to WebM-supporting browsers by literally changing the container. Here it is: https://github.com/antimatter15/weppy/blob/master/weppy.js
I am not a lawyer, but I think that learned or aggregated data should be fine, however hashed identifiable data is not OK. Identifiable data includes IP addresses and mobile device ids.
"Consciously or otherwise, the individual volunteer will be injecting all the information they store publicly on their Facebook page – home location, date of birth, interests and, crucially, network of friends – directly into the central Obama database.

'If you log in with Facebook, now the campaign has connected you with all your relationships,' a digital campaign organiser who has worked on behalf of Obama says."

Good stuff.
G1 has read barriers for SATB marking. Whether a read barrier is used or not is a function of which GC is used so can’t really say “Hotspot doesn’t use read barriers”.
For a company that is so well funded and familiar with paranoid engineering, how is it that something as basic as data integrity (offline backups) isn't implemented?
Decoding our digital footprints on Facebook is a flawed science
The weird thing for me is I'm on Firefox on my Mac and I ran all those tests and it said WebRTC is enabled, but never gave my actual factual IP address. I'm running Private Internet Access which they claim is vulnerable... So I'm not sure whose doing that test but they might have their settings a bit jacked up? If you have Private Internet Access there is an "Advanced Settings" panel where you can click on "IPv6 leak protection" it disabled IPv6 while using the VPN, seems to have been enough to fool these leak tests.
That is what I thought also but how did CA get this friend data?
Framelab with linguist George Lakoff if you would like to understand the (hidden) logic behind the seemingly insane political speech, including presidential tweets.

Also, on the huge impact of and practice of framing conversations and arguments.

Opened my eyes in many ways.

I’d start with the first episode: https://overcast.fm/+LU9RmhR6s
I'm also happy to give away every dollar I earn, once I have $440m in my bank account.
Why is the website loading so slow?
Way-Out
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GM and Ford happen to make (lots of) money even after they pay for the cost of building/selling/supporting their products. That said, Tesla's gross margin in the latest quarter was 13.34%[1], GM's was 13.29%[2] and Ford led the pack at 15.34%[3].

[1] https://ycharts.com/companies/TSLA/gross_profit_margin

[2] https://ycharts.com/companies/GM/gross_profit_margin

[3] https://ycharts.com/companies/F/gross_profit_margin
Is it really the layman that is wrong? You can put something backyard of your house, and reasonably expect that it’s not going to end up used in a database to profile you.

Why DO we have to accept that “public” means big data? Why can’t we legislate access so that aggregate collection of public personal data requires _consent_?