skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, others have covered financial concerns.

I can try to answer 5).

Work hours probably depends on your assigned team. Probably best to get all of the details firsthand from your potential team than to guess.

Now in terms of Asian/Asian-American culture in NYC, it is generally split into three groups; a) the old-timers and descendants living in Flushing and Chinatown, b) the professional's who moved into NYC to work for the banks, c) the professional's who moved into NYC to work at Silicon Alley/Media/Publishing etc.

Group a) are the people with the most Chinese culture; every weekend, extended families go have dim-sum outings at the Flushing mall with multiple round tables of family relatives. However, Flushing is a mixture of Chinese people who came to the city during the 70's and a new wave of immigrants in the 90's and 00's. So you have a eclectic mix of Chinese people who work in restaurants, aren't as educated and also the sons and daughters of kids who were brought up in the old-timers old school Chinese household who worked their way up through the restaurant chains and became owners and sent their kids to good colleges. The old timers' culture and attitude closely resembles Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Group b) are the INTJ and class-A personalities. There's a good mixture of both ABCs (American Born Chinese) and FOBs (first generation) in this crowd. A lot of my friends in this group are very ambitious and try to climb the management ladder by either obtaining a prestigious business degree (e.g., going to Wharton) or by working very long hours or by working on guangxi. As a result, socializing is very superficial. Some of the people I kept in touch since college or hang out with on weekends, I find that I hardly really know them at all; they best represent the 'jing' of Chinese people as in Shanghai and the Mainlander attitude of always being calculating for self-preservation.

Group c) are generally the more Americanized Chinese people as they work in non-traditional fields. Although the degree varies depending on where they grew up and their upbringing. You might find some Asian Americans are willing to hang out with both Americans and Asians; some will only hang out with Asian Americans but no international Asians; some will not hang out with any Asians at all. The best way to describe this is the attitude of certain Hong Kongers toward Mainlander immigrants in Hong Kong, some will accept them, some think that they are superior because of their Euro-centric upbringing despite the fact that we all are Chinese.

But in general, everyone is very nice in NYC as it is an very international city. However, you'll have to make an effort to make new friends as it is a big city where everyone hurries from one subway station to the next. But the friends you make once you do make a real friend, you can generally count on the person.

I hope this helps and this is only my opinion, best of luck to your transition,
I distinctly remember it was the numerical recipes book, and the language used was Fortran 77; so, it was an actual textbook.

However, I really didn't understand much, until my father explained it to me in very simplified terms. The concepts are pretty simple, the details are not.
I regularly give small amounts of money directly to impoverished individuals I see on the street.

You raise some points that I've heard before, and I would like to address them all, and explain why I think it is rational for me to give money the way I do.

(1) "I would say that is a horrible waste of capital" to give money to meth addicts.

I give a dollar to whoever asks me for money. I can't tell who is a meth addict and who is not. I am sure much of my charity goes to alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, meth, and other drugs. I just consider that a cost of doing business. For every dollar I give out, some subset of that money goes to __non-drug use__. I think that is a good use of my capital.

(2) "Due to their lack of will power to 'succeed' rather than lack of opportunity."

There's a couple of things to say to this sentiment.

First, I often hear the notion that impoverished people have the opportunity to bring themselves out of poverty. That's not true. The world's economic system results in non-zero unemployment. Meaning there are more people who want jobs than there are available jobs. Thus there are inevitably many people who want to work but can't get it. The only way they can survive is through charity --- from either friends, family, strangers, the government, charities, etc.

The last point I'll make might be the most controversial, but it is also at the core of why I give money directly to impoverished people.

I am skeptical that "will power" exists in the literal sense. As in, I am skeptical that free will exists as much as people tend to intuitively believe. It seems to me that humans are just moist robot automatons whose actions are the result of their current physiological state and response to the stimuli on their senses. Some interesting scientific research has shown that humans can perceive more free will than they actually have. There is also some interesting philosophical arguments that suggest free will could be a complete illusion. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_free_will

So I think it's possible that people who "lack of will power to "succeed"' are simply __unlucky__. And I happen to be lucky. I am smart, tenacious, hard-working, have relevant job skills and I happen to live in a society where those variables are rewarded with wealth.

It therefore makes sense to me to give people small amounts of money when they ask for it. It just might be the case that I am lucky and they are not.

I do not expect this money to solve any of their problems. But maybe the person I help will buy a tasty snack and their happiness will go up in those moments. Or maybe that person will buy a cheap ukulele and teach himself to play --- which happened the other day with someone I regularly give money to.
Same error here. You're reading a meaning into the undefined phrase "sensitive area" from the abstract that doesn't seem consistent with that term's use elsewhere in the patent. But if you grep "sensitive" and look at the other uses it seems to mean primarily (a) places where light or sound would annoy or frustrate, (b) situations like wanting to control EMF levels in a hospital or airplane to avoid adverse effects (c) security issues related to "enterprise" applications.

There's actually a REASON we can know that this patent isn't trying to cover the specific case of turning off cameras in places where The Man doesn't want us to have that capability. The reason is: somebody else (not Apple) had ALREADY previously patented that explicit use case.

This patent is about adjusting general system settings, especially ringer volume, display brightness, and communications settings, in a way appropriate to the venue. For instance, pairing bluetooth when you get in your car and then turning that feature off again when you get out of your car. The vast majority of it really shouldn't be patentable because it's too obvious to any practitioner in the field. The general thrust of it is NOT about preventing phone users from photographing the police and it's not clear anything in THIS patent would even make it easier for the police to have that capability. (You have to do a fair amount of reading between the lines to even make that connection.)

In short: the original article is still linkbait.
Unfortunately we live in a disposable culture - we are geared to buy new rather than re-use old.

I think a lot of that has to do with the markets for new & used goods. There are many things I would be perfectly fine buying used, but have no hope of locating for sale in any reasonable span of time.
Yep, this works fine, until you did it a 7th time and end up with a task bar full of unused console windows.
A lot of businesses go into Groupon thinking it'll be a great way for new customers to try it and then the business will get these great new repeat customers out of it. Unfortunately, this doesn't happen... at least in any of my friends' businesses. You'll get people looking for a deal, looking to spend as little as possible, and not interested in coming back unless you give them the same or better deal again. Additionally, the customers are much more demanding than regular clientele, as can be common with deal-hunters. This has held true across different types of businesses and different deal sites.

A business can make money off a Groupon deal if you don't think of it as a loss leader (since it will just wind up being a loss). You're not going to acquire new customers and they'll likely never come back without you offering another deal, so think of them as a one-time customer and make money off that one visit. It will only work for very high margin businesses where you can upsell a lot of add-ons. And only if you price it so you make money, even just a little bit, if the customer doesn't buy any of those add-ons.
The high efficiency of the ground effect starts dropping off sharply at 1/2 wingspan altitudes.

(Anybody who's flown RC gliders will be very familiar with this.)
Focusing in a World of Distractions
Books Should Be Free
How is it so? I mean the last paper placed (on top) is the first to be fed to the machine, right? Fits the definition of stack as far as I can see.
I'm currently helping clear out my wife's grandparents place. They are 93 and 95 years old. So far we have thrown away over 2000kg of crap accumulated over the 62 years they have been in the house. None of it has any use or value at all. We have to pay to get it taken away in a skip. We're probably half way through now.

I've watched them for the last decade clinging onto these things and I think it's kind of pitiful that possessions hold so much value and are so important.

They have sacrificed their health and remaining life to have a large house to hold it all rather than take a bungalow which they can actually get around and live in.

There is no conclusion here apart from: please don't end up like this - it's heartbreaking to watch people enslaved by it.

I myself have a precise "100 things for me and 100 things shared with the family" policy. I will never compromise on that.
Challenge accepted: I wasn't able to tease out a number more specific than "up to twice as efficient" here

http://jalopnik.com/5490236/the-nuclear-warhead+equipped-ekr...

but it might be decipherable in this PDF:

http://ftp.rta.nato.int/public/pubfulltext/rto/mp/rto-mp-015...

A couple of sources said such a plane can fly up to a few hundred feet up. And another talked about a yacht using WIG:

http://www.yachtboutique.com/Designers/Ekranoplan/Ekranoplan...
Long time ago a friend and me once submitted a whitehat bug that allowed the user to send messages to anyone even if they disabled messages from non-friends, i don't think this option still exists but anyways Facebook told us this wasn't a bug, we didn't even argue, suckers! i now wish i did the Same as Khalil and recorded the bug.
Similar problem, using Version 30.0.1588.0 dev-m.

As I resize my browser the screenshot position moves (such that it never fully lines up). It's always near the laptop screen, but depending on the width of the browser it's always off either in size or position.
This is really cool!

Two minor bugs, which are probably two manifestations of the same underlying issue:

1: The screen is centered correctly but the lower left and lower right corners are slightly too far down compared to the screen graphic. (This is with a maximized Chrome window on a 1920x1080 screen.)

2: If the window's not minimized, and I slowly make it narrower or wider, the point at which the live screenshot appears (instead of the static white screenshot) has a problem - the simulated live screen is slightly too small and doesn't fill up the entire laptop screen. The live screen's top right corner is positioned correctly. The problem goes away as I make the window wider and the live screenshot expands (and vice versa).
Nope. http://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/04/nyregion/a-new-gang-s-viol...

Just because they're some of the best parts of Manhattan doesn't mean that they were safe. The East Village certainly wasn't so. All of these areas were pretty damned sketchy and you had some reasonable chance of something bad happening to you. Not a strong likelihood but reasonable enough that you'd only go during the day and be aware of your surroundings.

If you were a gweilo in Chinatown you were pretty much only safe on Canal Street until the late-90s. I've seen with my own eyes people get robbed at gunpoint in the back of Chinatown Fair towards the end of this period and seen gangs beating on each other on Pell Street.

Heck, I saw gangs of kids fighting with chains and baseball bats in the East Village on Rivington as recently as 2007. I've even started seeing junkies back near Tompkins Square Park again. South Street Seaport was still a popular place to find a hooker at night until 9/11.

14th Street, in days past, was a famous dividing line for residents of the city, with many proudly claiming that they either didn't go below it or didn't go above it. I grew up in Midtown, but I still kind of went everywhere. It's only hindsight that gives me the perspective of just how dangerous some of the neighborhoods are, because in my youth I didn't really think about things like I mentioned above.
Could have done with more comparisons to puppet and chef - the strengths of salt lie in a zeroMQ message passing (each minion calls back to the master for instructions on the queue - makes for simpler firewalls) and the essence that agents on the minion can do anything, it's very easy to extend into, well, anything.
I remember seeing this a few weeks ago on HN. Seems really good but still not open to public :)
Why wouldn't it be? At worst, wouldn't facebook be the aggrieved party, and not another user of facebook?

Suppose I hacked into a bank and stole money from some account. Would the person whose account was hacked be able to have some legal recourse against me? I'd imagine it would be the bank.

If this is the case, then surely facebook could just choose not to press charges, and if so, what would be unlawful paying him in that case?
Nice. This is way more than I was looking for but still does the trick. Thanks.
> This isn't charity.

Sooo, they pay you US rates for your consultancy?
This just brings me to some spam about subscribing for a scala tutorial, c'mon HN.
There's a demo on the page. The macbook's monitor is interactive
I think that rather than trying to discover the meaning of life while we're busily burning fossil fuels on a single planet that we'd be better off punting on the issue until life in general, and humans in particular, have managed to sustainably spread beyond Earth (and of course demonstrate better care-taking of the world we do have). Until we achieve that end, Camus' philosophy is useless, and in some cases actively harmful.

(Once we're on a few tens of planets, navel-gaze all you want.)
And if you live in NYC, NYC has its own income tax in addition to the NY State income tax.
Same here. This is definitely not ok.

EDIT 1: I also checked "Clear history when Firefox closes" and included "Cache" in the definition of "history". And the tracking is still happening. So either the site uses another tracking method in addition to the etag method or there is a big f#ck-up in FF.

EDIT 2: The tracking even continues when I check "Always use private browsing mode" and then close the browser and open it again.

EDIT 3: Even a complete removal and a clean install of FF (without any add-ons which may interfere) lets the tacking happen, for both the case of "EDIT 1" and "EDIT 2".

So this pretty certainly seems to be a bug.
Just noticed #1 too, fixing it...

It's hard! :)

Though I found a generic formula, apparently I need to work on it!

Thanks

EDIT:

fixed the perspective attribute to follow screen width

one open issue is that for some 4:3 resolutions, the sizes are wrong (the background stop resizing for some ratios)

still needs some work. but the real thing will be to find the generic formula for any background, and any location on the screen...
I'm pushing a version that should fix it... please let me know if it does the trick... thanks for the feedback!
Nothing is interactive for me except for the email input and subscribe button
Benchmarking Haskell sqlite-simple against Python and C
Numerical Recipes in Fortran 77? http://www.amazon.com/Numerical-Recipes-Fortran-Scientific-C...

Cool, I'll give it a go, thanks for sharing :)
Would YOU help a People Smuggler?
An Australian comedian tests out whether people would help out a people smuggler
The Killing Machines
The browser window has to be some minimum width, otherwise the page defaults to a static image of the guy editing some code in a generic text editor.
This is a double standard: We give welfare to large corporations with no strings attached.
I think you're right. Lots of that kind of resistance amongst us humans. (Climate-change denying e.g.) As my sainted grandmother's graduation card put it:

Polonius:

This above all: to thine own self be true,

And it must follow, as the night the day,

Thou canst not then be false to any man.
I live in Westchester and I have lived in the Bronx. I can confirm that traveling to and from the city is exceptionally easy with Metro North, and runs through almost every town tat would be feasible for commuting to the city.
It's a shame articles like this one fall off the new page so quickly. This is an new perspective on a perennial problem that everyone in development thinks they know the answers to.
Not a mechanical engineer, but there are mechanisms books that explain modern mechanisms and their uses and analyze them from an engineering perspective.

I love the 507 movements book (I've had the paper copy for years) but an important thing to remember is that many of these mechanisms have been replaced by modern electronics, motors and software. Mechanisms are cool to watch, but they often have to be aligned when initially set up, they wear in complex ways, may have to be taken apart to be lubricated and can be very difficult to fabricate. In many cases a mechatronic solution (combo of electronic motion control and a simpler mechanism) is better than a purely mechanical one.

A car differential that lets wheels rotate at different speeds as the car turns is interesting. A performance car differential supplanted with solenoid-driven clutch packs under software control gives you the ability to immediately give each wheel the maximum amount of power that it can transfer to the ground
Perhaps the working rich are motivated to accomplish something. And those who don't accomplish anything, perhaps they are not.

Those who become rich because of their work arguably have habits of working and investing in their ability to produce. Those not able to produce will have less reason to learn how if their income is somehow guaranteed.
While it may be cool that Kal compiles itself, unless there is a source tree for the Kal binaries themselves, there is a indubitably huge issue of trust with distributing binaries.

Relevant:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
Hey, I've lived in NYC and I currently live in Westchester, a county directly above it.

If you're travelling to Manhattan, I'd like to echo what another commenter said in that New Jersey is not your only or your best option. You can find affordable real estate (especially with your budget of $2k) within Westchester.

A lot of people travel from New Jersey to Manhattan within a a half hour - this is a pretty good commute. But you can still live within New York if you live in one of the lower towns of Westchester and travel using Metro North. It's a higher end train system than the subway, and it goes to Grand Central station from just about every conceivable town that would be a commutable option for you.

New York and New Jersey are fundamentally different. Yes, both can work for you, but one will fit your personality more than another. The outer boroughs and the lower towns of Westchester have a distinct "NY" feel that is still very urban and metropolitan (despite having a lot of suburbs) because it is so close to the city and within the same state. New Jersey isn't bad because it's not quite like this, but it is different - you should hang out around both if it's realistic for you so you can see for yourself which population suits you more. Coming from Hong Kong, you'll want to be as close to the city as possible, I think.

I highly, highly encourage you to not just limit yourself to New Jersey. Good luck :)
I really hope this is not another one of those false cures. It's time we made some real big-news progress against this horrible collection of ailments we call cancer.

For those who don't want to read through the lengthy human interest story wrapping the news here, from a quick read I gathered they're basically modifying T-Cells:

> In their natural state, T cells usually aren’t able to kill tumor cells, partly because they can’t latch on strongly enough. But June was fascinated by scientific papers showing it was possible to change this. A few researchers—first an Israeli named Zelig Eshhar in the ’80s, then other investigators around the world—had discovered that you could force a T cell to stick to a tumor cell and kill it. To pull this off, you built an “engineered T cell”—a T cell never before seen in nature. You altered the T cell’s genetic blueprint by injecting a new gene into the cell. The new gene would tell it to build a new molecular limb. The limb, called a “chimeric antigen receptor,” would sit partly inside the cell and partly outside, and it could send signals either in or out. One signal it could send was: kill. Another was: replicate.

> June loved this approach. So elegant. Put the immune system on steroids. What if you could train the body to fight cancer on its own? What if, instead of replacing a patient’s immune system (as in a bone-marrow transplant) or pumping him full of poison (chemo), you could just borrow some cells, tweak them, and infuse them back into the patient? In theory, the engineered cells would stay alive in the blood, replenishing themselves, killing any tumors that recurred. It occurred to June that one infusion could last a lifetime.

It seems this research has been going on for 10+ years. How many people have died because of the glacial regulatory pace of cancer research?
Show HN: Chrome extension to 'unshorten' shortened URLs
Please keep it civil.
Pipe Dream? 3D-Printed Model of Hyperloop Created
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You certainly have a choice. You can easily live in a decent part of Manhattan on 130k - you'll pay more for less space, but have more time (shorter commute) and likely a better social life. If you're at a bank - the Financial District is actually a relatively cheap place to live.

If you do decide to go that route, be very careful with real estate brokers, who are the scum of the earth and love taking advantage of immigrants. You can find some decent "no [broker] fee" listings on streeteasy.com.
I think the ultimate test (and application) for artificial intelligence will be to tell the computer "Make me money" and then it figures out thousands of ways to do it and starts executing on these strategies. Potentially very dangerous outcomes however without morality.

Or another initial application of artificial intelligence I think is in trading financial markets, and distilling every point of data to create models of predicting markets and making obscene amounts of money.
It was tried in Dauphin, Canada for a few years in the seventies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome

A few other examples: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income#Examples_of_implem...