skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the long post!

I want at the very least to just get my derivation and results reviewed. I hope to avoid minutia of academic formatting, diction, etc. before getting any reviews...

Honestly, it's a really simple idea with significant consequences (if correct, of course). I have written a full draft and it is no more than 3 pages. Basically all aerospace engineering undergrads get taught early on that airfoil drag is just zero in 2D incompressible and inviscid flows, unless you want to use complicated, empirical viscosity imitation or wake momentum thickness methods (e.g. XFOIL). So my theory if correct would be quite impactful because it is so relevant to what all aerospace undergrads are taught.

My theory asserts that there is an omission of physics that is fundamental to understanding airfoil lift and drag, and how they are physically coupled. In my theory, drag is calculated as naturally as lift is, unlike what is currently taught. Although I strongly believe the physics and derivation are correct, I would not be confident enough to submit it for review if the results didn't match so well with airfoil experimental data (NACA TR-824).

I basically want my theory disproven or validated by qualified people. After that, I don't mind conforming to whatever minutia towards publication.
I mean, C++ kind of solves this issue with templates:

template<size_t N>
void foo(int (&array)[N]) {}
I read it in one of the flurry of newspaper articles in the last couple days about Amazon, but don't recall which.

Doing some googling:

Amazon Aug 2017 had 40,000 workers in Seattle:

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/thanks-to-amazo...

Workers in Seattle are currently 425,827

https://datausa.io/profile/geo/seattle-wa/

So the 15% figure is plausible.
There are public investors that want a piece of Uber at basically any price. When the upside is ownership of a worldwide ride hailing network, there will be no shortage of interest.
The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) Restoration
this is false, you can’t blanket companies like this. the job i’m currently at required me to find all palindromes in a set of strings. the company makes media management software.
Just got done adding it. Let me know if there are any issues.
I think developing, while not trivial is the easy part. its finding the right product idea and opportunity, and then marketing it, that is harder than ever.
The "Seattle area" includes Bellevue, Tacoma, etc., which about triples the number of people.
VisBug: Brings design tool interactions and hotkeys to the browser
> It'd be such an easy thing to fix,

But this system was put in place for the purpose of keeping competition out and medical costs up.

This is not an unfortunate accident in regulation. It reflects the political power of those who benefit from it.
Active discussion about the original NYT report from a few hours ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18453958
I find it funny that the article opens with how pen and paper are some of his most reliable tools.

Then it goes on to talk about several apps and taking screenshots on an iPhone.

I want to know how the pen and paper were so notable. What is being done with the trusty pen and paper?! Please! Tell me! I did ctrl-f and found no further mention of pen and paper. I feel duped. I feel like the pen and paper were only mentioned in an effort to define this journalist's personal brand as cool and analog. Let's talk about that pen and paper. Why did you waste my time by mentioning those words for me to read and then dropping the subject entirely?
They're not doing that because their long-term goal is to remain formless while consuming other businesses, like they have with Instagram and WhatsApp. Long before those have gone into terminal decline, they will have purchased some other trending technology. I don't think they really believe anyone's going to be talking about Facebook in another 5 years, and it may even go full Livejournal in the next year or so.

Besides that fact, they never had a clean act in the first place. Zuckerberg's vision was never to "make the world more connected", no matter how many times he said it. Anyone who actually looked into the guy would have found out quickly that he was a talented programmer who happened to do the right thing at the right time, but never in a million years had the ethos of changing the world for the better. The company of Facebook never had a leader with a clean vision, nor will it ever.
See also this video
https://youtu.be/K7gWmdgXPgk
to see how the snes mode 7 (though really you also need HDMA) perspective transformation worked.

The whole series of videos is amazing.
Ireland gets away with it fine
A new wave of grain
Yeah - ephemerality is going to be the word of the century. We forget, and since this is such a natural thing to us, we did not immediately realise how machines that cannot forget was very much problematic. We get that now.

There are a bunch of people trying to make apps that forget over time, eventually, one of them will figure out a way to mass market. Heck, I spent last Saturday at the top of HN with one of those that I made, Aether. [0] Prior HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18370208

[0] https://getaether.net
I agree on the UI part, it is quite horrendous. But any major enterprise organisation should be / probably is using some sort of automation tool such as Terraform or something similar. You just don't go and click around in the UI to set up your stuff manually, that's not how big projects in enterprise work (all cloud stuff is automated without depending on UI) so bad UI is a con but it's less important that other more technical features.
Is that how you see yourself? Do you want to be a tyrant?
Oracle JDK works well.
Same here. I've boggled over this game forever, and I hadn't known they directly drew inspiration from Roger Dean.

I also always suspected that the furry dragon from the bonus stages was inspired by the luck dragon Neverending Story, but I'd never seen it directly confirmed until now. Neat.
If the NYT is being honest, why did they mention the pen and paper and drop the subject? I think something fishy is going on here. I don't think that journalist owns a pen or paper. I mean, I think he owns neither of those two objects, not even a single sheet, and not even one of those crummy pens you get for free that has some other business's name on it.

Edit: Hold on, I stand corrected. This man has a notepad he keeps in his back pocket. I don't know how I missed that photo, but this reporter is legit. He has a notepad. He probably also has a pen because I see notes written on the notepad.

All is right in the world.
>And then it's not long before you have a huge list of Facebook "friends" which include actual friends, family, extended family, bosses, ex-bosses, co-workers, etc. Now, imagine putting all of those groups of people at your dinner table and try to think of topics you'd be open to discussing among all of those disparate groups.

This is what it comes down to, isn't it? That's all of facebook's problems.

The success of Instagram and WhatsApp comes from them being less connected, that's their core feature. I don't even mind facebook owning them. I like that the big trend is moving away from documenting every minute of your life in an online repository. Instagram is its own, surreal thing and WhatsApp is basically texting.
This rule is a little weird to me having worked at places where there were a lot of good engineers who weren't overly enthusiastic about the product (I used to do legal software at a medium sized corporation). What did you hire for that you could have that as a rule? I imagine it would work a lot better at a smaller company or a company with a product that software engineers are likely to actually use.
That's crazy how well it handles nonstationary noise.
I have to say this site/blog is painful to attempt to read on mobile.
actually, i stand corrected. now, that fox has sided with cnn in demanding to reinstate Acosta's WH access - do NOT click on that link!!
Can someone shine some light on why in 2018 this hasn't been studied majorly up to this point? Is it funding?
> I want it all, I want to have my cake and eat it too.

Conceptually this should be possible with some preprocessor/header tinkering; something like:

private.h:

struct Bar {
double x;
double y;
};
#define BAR_DEFINED

public.h:

#ifndef BAR_DEFINED
struct Bar {
char opaque[16];
};
#endif

struct Foo {
Bar bar;
};

consumer.cpp:

#include "public.h"

private_implementation.cpp:

#include "private.h"
#include "public.h"
That is rough. Good job sticking it out.
It’s not clear to me how any of this is new.
What id like to hear is how researchers reconcile this concept with what is seen certain other countries, mostly Asian, where rice is a staple of their diet, and where you don’t see the levels of obesity we have in the US.
In Defense of Climate Optimism
They have mac app!! Incredible! How could I get this into my car kit?
Walk through an infinite, procedurally generated city
If we are trying to measure how much money we spend per homeless person we have to identify what portion of the money goes to them. That can just be done by measuring instead of budgeting before hand of course...
End-to-end encrypted email service Tutanota allows MiTM attacks without warning
Depends on if one would rather write:

int s[3];
int *p;
f(s, sizeof(s)/sizeof(s[0]));
f(p, n);

f(int *count(n) a, int n);

(which has a mistake, n should be size_t not int), or:

int s[3];
int* p;
int[] a;
f(p[0..n]); // convert pointer to phat pointer
f(a); // or use existing phat pointer
f(s); // static arrays just work

f(int[] a); // the declaration of f()
Journalists are noticeably sensitive whenever you are critical of them, even when the stories seem flimsy, arrogant or more emotional than rational.

Obviously some stories would hard to 'cite your sources' due to the stakes or secrecy, but there are many categories of stories where journos can put a partial or full source dump. Interview stories could attach full and unedited interview recordings for example.

Here's a list of how journalism can do better as a profession:

- Not acting defensive about criticism of journalistic practice

- Attaching your raw sources

- Adding an edit log to all published stories. 'Attaching the git history' would be fairly interesting to see sometimes!

- Disclosing advertiser / sponsorship links and the political / religious opinions of writers as a 'writer profile'. Maybe a public journo friend list too so we could identify if certain cliques tend to have certain opinions. Also add their CV if possible to see what publications journos have written for.

- Attaching to stories everyone involved in it, such as other journalists, editors, managers, politicians, executives, external pr firms, and so on. Will let you see the influence of specific people in stories.

- Putting major retractions / corrections up front and center (above the fold) If you retract a story for example or have a major correction, put that retraction in the same spot where the story was most viewed. So if the story was in the bottom item in the culture section, then put the correction there. But if it was front page news, then put that correction right on the front page too.
Seems like the sibling comments have already doled out the tough love. All I can add is that I'm in a similar boat, having worked for a long time and now back at university to finally check out my degree... The material is much, much more challenging than I would have thought. Which is disheartening because I have so many years of experience and thought I knew most of what there is to know... So eh, don't give up! Working on those homework problems with your fiancee is a great opportunity to learn more.
That's not at all what I'm saying. The important distinction you're missing is any labor that is performed without fair compensation (in the U.S., that would be minimum wage) while physically constrained. Mandatory schooling as well as the draft have been adjudicated under the Thirteenth Amendment and are not within the definition of slavery. Those cases helped shape the definition I provided you.

You also don't appear to understand the consequences of Colorado's Constitutional Amendment. By removing those words from the Colorado Constitution the "volunteer" prison labor programs are no longer permitted. These programs are, legally, slavery. They just so happen to be a legal form of slavery under the Federal Constitution because of those important words "except as punishment for a crime." When those words are removed from the Colorado Constitution that exception no longer exists for Colorado prison operators (because a State Constitution cannot contradict or limit an individual's rights under the Federal Constitution but it can provide individuals with additional rights). Because these "volunteer" programs are slavery, and because Colorado's Constitution now prohibits all slavery, no exceptions, these "volunteer" programs cannot operate.

Prisoners can't freely volunteer because their liberty is at stake. They get to choose between their life being in danger in prison or endangering their lives fighting forest fires and perhaps getting out of prison a bit earlier. This is evidenced by the very low wages. Would you go fight these forest fires in California for $1/hour? I highly doubt it. Why do they "volunteer" then? Because they want their freedom. Think about the lengths you would go to in order to regain your freedom and then think about how much autonomy you would have in arriving at your decision. It's Sophie's Choice.
So the moment an IPO happens each investor is going to dump their stock? That's probably a great short opportunity right?
I remember about two years ago when I reported a bug in the Hubspot Form API Zap where they weren't handling one of Hubspot's documented return codes properly. Basically their zap was only handling one success code and one failure code when actually there were two different types of success.

I documented the issue, linked Hubspot's API docs confirming it, submitted a ticket through their normal support portal and had a confirmed bug from a Zapier engineer within an hour. The fix was live before I came back from lunch about an hour later.

This is why they're successful. If I submit a bug report in Blink (usually major text rendering/CSS issues), a Google employee will look at the issue a month later, maybe. If I submit a bug report in one of their APIs, if it isn't Adwords and isn't customer impacting, the response is basically a middle finger/"we will fix never".

Zapier made a lot of my contracting work way easier and often I get the client involved and they become self-sufficient. Zapier should pay me money! kidding
It's actually a pretty simple idea that could be significant because it touches on what every aerospace engineer is taught about airfoils in incompressible and inviscid flow, and I think it would contribute to fundamental understanding of lift and drag. My full draft with the abstract, derivation, results (comparison with experimental wind tunnel airfoil data), and discussion is less than 3 pages long.

I agree with your Spanish analogy. I don't want to do a lot of work before peer review.
Are (photos of) bank statements "evidence"?

It's hard to imagine a scenario where they could be legally obtained, so... no.
I've ordered pizza to my apartment 100 times and never had an issues, but Uber Eats drivers consistently can't find it. It's a nice service, but literally anything would be better.
The obvious answer is, do the class with your fiancee, and then you'll learn how to solve those problems. Every intro to CS class has advice how to do this https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~112/notes/notes-algorithmic-thinking...

Break down the problem into smaller ones you think you can solve and start from there, the more practice at this the better you get at solving future problems. Maybe you even turn out to be really good at this and take up amateur theoretical CS in your spare time.
Do AI/automation threaten you?
With automation becoming more and more prevalent these days, some people fear about automation and AI replacing us. I guess in this sense developers are safe but does it threaten you? Why or why not?
I'm not super knowledgable about healthcare but my gut feeling says that this problem was around before government mandated insurance. I would think it would mitigate it a little but then also create the problem of uninsured people so I don't really follow how it makes the system better.
Shared Lyft is amazing. Half the price at least.
I support your policy proposal of repealing the CFAA.
>But I I get the odd feeling using Facebook that the content is not even so data-optimized for engagement

likely their metrics are way more involved than that because there are inherent trade offs there.
AI is mostly designed as an aid to the human and not the reverse.
Some Architectural Principles for Software Development Teams
I've learned the hard way that the best thing to do for your gut is to just eat plenty of vegetables. Roasting vegetables is as easy as making toast.
3D printing is a fun hobby. Sometimes i print toys for my kids. The biggest benefit is that they learn patience.

Prusa MK2 / MK2.5 / MK3 are decent printers, and are advanced enough to not to worry much about it. If you can afford MK3 go for it. I'd recommend the Kit so that while assembling it you get to learn how it works.

For modelling another options is OpenSCAD. It is very different form other tools. It lets you design 3D figures using textural declarations. Its harder to use in the beginning but makes it easier to modify designs and be very precise in measurements.

PLA material has no fumes.
The reason they have to police such a sheer amount of content is because they are too big. Communities should be smaller. And social networking technology platforms should be distributed to everyone (open source).

I put my $ where my fingers are:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ1O_gmPneI
They've singlehandedly turned hiring a developer to connect A to B into a business risk.

An entire area of contract work is basically irrelevant.
I get to bill people to train them to do simple things for themselves, cheaper and focus on the more important work instead. And I don't lose any of those clients because everybody won and they have other work to give me.

They deserve it!
Uh, is that not already possible with TLS? Design bloat?
It is that simple, unless you think dark energy is dense enough to create a single celled organism (it's not).
The thing is, our planet will always be here even after we're all gone. We may not survive global warming or the worst of it, but the planet will still be here, and it will adapt to its new environment. For some reason, I think all these preparation and prevention are more for us, not exactly the planet. What do you think?
The leadership of Facebook has more money than they could ever enjoy. They do all this sleazy stuff because they enjoy being sleazy.
The two part Frontline episode on PBS really illustrates your point. Facebook needs to take a stand.
You might not be getting an accurate perspective of sentiment in the US. A lot of people in the US favor universal health care in some form or fashion. There are at least as many opinions on how to implement it, as there are countries with better systems.

But the opposition is strong too. Consider that if health care costs us twice as much as in other countries, it means someone is making twice as much, and they aren't going to give up that money without a fight.
The context of this conversation is probability of generating life. Debating theories on dark energy isn't relevant since it's not dense enough to generate life.
Japan cyber security minister admits shunning PCs
The KDB+ database has been around for 20 years.

The executable is ~ 500kb.

Enterprise software is gross.
That’s my entire point - I decline it and use another service. I didn’t do this before when they only used surge pricing and were upfront about it. This is, IMO, a very short sighted business practice. And my disuse of Uber is possibly widespread hence the massive growth shrink.
Google, for all their faults, does seem much more interested in soliciting product feedback.

I've never been able to figure out how MS does that, as everything seems to run through an omnipresent offshored L1 support contract. (Aka the "Here's a link to the documentation!" folks)
I'm on board with this style of thinking. After reviewing the comments with the linked tagging behavior it's clear that Google is ignoring the spirit of RFC 2822 3.6.2-3.6.3 in order to shoe-horn in a feature of some possible utility, at the expense of the average customer's security.
Dirty Dancing Belongs in the Lesbian Rom-Com Canon
A big difference is that Facebook has gained a large number of older users. For that reason, Facebook is going to have a much slower decline.
Outside the now, well supported evidence of Russia's involvement in the hacking of the DNC emails we have massive donations to groups like the NRA, political campaigns and hiring people like Maria Butina to influence politicians. We've seen them try to meet with Trump's family in order to provide them with damaging information on Hillary clinton in exchange for dropping sanctions. We've also already had indictments of people within the Russian government that were apparently involved with the disinformation campaigns. With lots of information about their groups and US based organizations they used.

You have to ignore the information available to you to claim the extent of their interference wasn't broad.
I think that one company should be legally prohibited from occupying a gap that large. It happened with AT&T back and the day, and it feels like we are overdue today. Facebook shouldn't have been able to buy WhatsApp and Instagram.
Greenland ice sheet hides huge 'impact crater'
I'm shocked this hasn't been resolved in mobile yet. I opened it up on my phone, and heck, with a pretty HTML form emulation in the email you could really have a very effective phishing campaign.
And they're literally named thus too. US, FS.

We just need an rcat to print them clearly.
>> This extremely serious, and continuing, attack on the public seems to not really matter to any of the parties involved, only that they may get 'in trouble' or lose money...

> ???

> Isn't that the modus operandi of every company.

Does that make it alright?
When their recruiters ping me on LinkedIn I tell them I'm sorry but they have been caught up in too many shady situations lately.
I want to pass some business ideas along, are there any resources for that?
I am the technical cofounder of an ecommerce company and I have some ideas that I want to pass along. I feel that I come across unconquered arenas in my daily work tasks, but my focus is on our own product.

I don't want to be greedy and keep good ideas that we will never explore. Is there any resources out there for connecting entrepreneurs with credible ideas?
Some citations would help.
$700 for a beautiful apartment in a Kansas City superb surrounded by a forest now sounds like I'm getting a great deal.
As @romed notes above, it looks like it is intended as a feature. One which I think sacrifices majority-security for minority-utility.
>Isn't it possible that once it happened, it filled a niche that prevented something similar from happening again?

Except it did happen again. Chloroplasts and mitochondria organelles are so different they are considered to have been generated from separate events.

Assuming that there are niches though is dangerous, because it assumes the evolution is guided, which it isn't. It's entirely possible that this has happened many times throughout history, but the resulting new organisms couldn't compete and died off without a leaving a trace.

That's why assuming it only happened twice is survivor bias.