skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who grew up in Texas, now lives in NY, just from my observations, I think the lower-middle classes live far better and seem to be less marginalized than they are in the NY area. Home ownership is very much a possibility even on a $30k income near the population centers of Texas.

Of course, this is just a personal observation.
I approach this from a different angle. If someone broke into my web app by injecting SQL, I'd be mad that I allowed them to do so. If someone broke into my apartment by smashing the window with a brick, I wouldn't be mad at myself for not using thicker glass.

Therefore, I see SQL injections as sloppy programming, but physical break-ins as sloppy ethics. IMHO YMMV IANAL KTHXBYE.
As long as the use of containers didn't impact on performance too much, which ideally they don't compared to virtualisation. (I say having not personally had any significant experience of the different performance characteristics).
This is huge.

Not so much because "LLVM has a libc++", but because it's another example of the C++ standards committee and the implementers getting their act together to rev new specs with complete, compliant implementations at a useful rate.
>I'd think creating a somewhat dishonest alternate or augmented reality is a recipe for disaster.

In some ways, they already are by recreating his previous experiences.

AR could in effect just enhance the carefully crafted reality and help out this person.
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What is the good use for a this vs a standard key value store like DynamoDB or a document db like MongoDB?
Abstract for those who like have trouble parsing the page:

We conjecture that 7,373,170,279,850 is the largest integer
which cannot be expressed as the sum of four nonnegative integral cubes.
I totally didn't understand where you were going with that.
Turchin's underlying hypothesis is that "imperiogenesis" occurs at "meta ethnic faultlines".

That is: wars between culturally-similar groups don't give rise to this effect. Wars between culturally-dissimilar groups do.
Looks like it is designed to compete with the likes of SAP HANA.

And remember that you go with Oracle for more than just technology.
Always understaffed, bad organization (e.g. gates announced late), too small for the number of people it serves, particularly rude staff a lot of whom are on a power trip... I've seriously never had a bad experience that comes close to the average day in Heathrow.
That's probably just a narrow situation where the sender knows your email address and is sending a message from within LinkedIn. It's not that LinkedIn has modified its email sending behavior in the past year or 2. I am sure you can confirm for us that the dozens or 100s of other emails you have received "from" LinkedIn are actually being send "From:" LinkedIn?
There's a better reason. Touch doesn't work for a vertical screen at all, it makes your arms hurt.
If I were to threaten to murder you, you wouldn't expect the police to say "Eh, nothing we can do, he's got a right to free speech. Call us back after he shoots you, you'll have a case then."

This is the problem with thought experiments regarding crime: they always make the facts 100% certain, when in real life, the facts are never 100% certain. If we were to rephrase your thought experiment, it would be:

"Some guy said some other guy was going to kill him. Let's throw that some other guy in prison for a while, just in case."

Not quite as clear-cut as you think, is it?
> Funny that the very people who passed it will not have to live within this monstrous framework.

It applies to Congress.
Turchin published a book about his theory of the rise of powerful civilisations, and his theory about their decline, called War and Peace and War.

I reviewed it here: http://chester.id.au/2012/05/14/review-war-and-peace-and-war...

This article covers the creation side. It's worth mentioning that in the book he requires these wars to be between very dissimilar groups. The intense differences create a much nastier competitive dynamic, creating much higher social and cultural pressure. Eventually one group wipes the other(s) out, establishing a new imperial civilisation.
Lots of reasons. It supports SQL, you can gradually move data to the in-memory stores, DBAs/Operations teams already know how to manage it and it is well supported. Plus it would destroy both DynamoDB and MongoDB in certain use cases.
OP here (FYI - I am not the author).

My big concern with misdiagnosing autism in high-IQ children is that it conflates autism with introversion -- a conflation that has been progressing for some time now, and which has been accelerating in recent decades. This is bad for the legitimately autistic, and it's bad for introverts.

It's bad for the autistic because it lumps a fairly heterogeneous set of children into the same spectrum, confounding our best efforts to get to the true roots of autism. If we're treating too many nonautistic children as "autistic," then by nature, we're diluting the actual pool of people we should be studying and helping. We're throwing too many red herrings and exceptions into the data set.

It's bad for the introverted and highly intelligent because it further stigmatizes both of those things, especially in combination. By establishing extroversion and median IQ as "ideal," we're insinuating that the introverted and gifted are somehow defective. We're behaving as though our gifted children should be bent and twisted into acting more like everyone else, when in fact, we should be nurturing their gifts.

While autism-spectrum disorders, introversion, and high IQ can certainly overlap, they are not by nature the same things.
I think it is a very good article, which would have been greatly improved by mixing in, First, Break All The Rules.

The key point from that being that it isn't so much that there are A players, and B players, it is that you only get true stars when the role fits the person. (Stated that way because it is easier to fit work to people than vice versa.)
Agreed. Landing and takeoff are the most stressful parts of the flight. I need to be jamming out during those times to maintain a level of calmness.

And it's not like if something goes wrong I won't notice. They'll probably be a big thud or other loud noise to get my attention.
This is a bad decision by the FAA. Do you know the most dangerous phase of flight? It's takeoff. The next most dangerous phase? Landing. It's a good idea to have everyone put their devices away for the first and last five minutes of the flight -- just in case quick action is required by passengers who, without headphone cords and loud entertainment, stand a better chance of following instructions.

A drunken asshole on a plane is irritating. A cell-wielding drunken asshole on a plane is unbearable.
What do you intend to get from the "particularly rude staff"? It's likely there is nothing they can help you with: you get a seat on the flight you paid for, and a voucher for future travel if they can't provide that seat. They have no other obligations and I'm not really sure what people demand.

I'll agree on the gate thing, though. They really want you to sit around in that god damned shopping mall for as long as possible. Get elite status and sit in the lounge. Much better.
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With a habit of highlighting text while reading - this is by far the most irritating thing I've ever seen.

I know I'm not alone.
> Removing the desktop to force the hand is a bad as crippling the desktop is now. Having the desktop there when you need it could be major selling feature!

If the desktop is crippled, there is no reason to keep it. Keeping it around lets Microsoft continue to use it as a crutch. "Well it's OK you can't do that, in Metro, just go to the desktop."

I don't think this would make another iPad clone, it still has a lot to offer. It would just be enforcing the ease of use and manageability of a Metro-only computer. That's one of the reasons the iPad is so popular, it's easy to use and manage. That's not a bad feature to copy.

> Especially critical business software.

This is the thing I found the oddest about Surface RT. In order to avoid canabalizing laptop/Surface Pro sales, they prevent the RT from joining a domain. I'm sure there are tons of businesses that would like an iPad style device with iPad style battery life and a sub-iPad price that could be secured with their domain. Instead they went consumer-only, and businesses had to buy the heavier, hotter, more expensive Pro.
If something goes wrong, you're going to take your earbuds out well before you have a chance to actually do anything.
Yes.

But if you're trying to improve the model, only take ideas from training in one region. Never, ever, look at how it failed in the test region because you'll quickly fall in the "overfitting for your data" trap.
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Help HN: What's your problem and what startups solves it?
Basically what the title states. Post a problem you're having and see if other HNers can match up a startup in that area that solves that particular problem. It could be anything, maybe you're looking for a local contractor marketplace in Toronto or the best price on textbooks at University of X?

What are you looking for a solution to in your area HN?
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What I can't stand is that they completely broke search for chats. Previously you could prepend your query with "is:chat" and get individual conversations returned as you would expect. These days you're given your entire "hangout" histories with various people and when you click them you have to frantically scroll to locate the relevant portion that matches your query.
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What about 4,556,543,113,106,166,912,761,976,150?
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Hi HN. My family is owed a good sum of money from a family friend, a sum which was lent to said friend's business many years ago and still has not been repaid. The debtor has the money, but keeps stonewalling. It is a sensitive situation and it involves extended social networks of friends; both sides agree on the amounts, and both sides agree that it should be paid. What are some ways to, er, "incent" the gentleman in question to pay his debt, preferably not involving escalating hostilities or legal threat? Any trusted techniques for raising the temperature in a firm but civilized way? Thanks.
All of you reading this have a dramatically high chance of having Asperger's Disease. It's why you've always been so emotionally/socially disconnected and logical. It's why you have habits that seem odd or eccentric to others, and why you have trouble reading body language. It's why you excelled in school instead of wasting your time socializing. Not that you would have been very good at it if you had tried to - which is why you learned to stop trying.

Of course, this description won't fit even 50% of who reads it. But if it does, you probably have Asperger's Syndrome.

I know I do.
I have aspergers. Give me money.
I'll take the safe bet of saying repeat.
Didn't they start pushing that crap a while ago. It used to be fairly low key crap, but still junk no person reasonably wants or would expect to be installed. They depend on people not knowing better and not paying attention.

There is no value added to the end user.
in jest or in seriousness? if in seriousness, would you mind elaborating?
Without getting into the fact that, yes, worldwide I'm certainly not "poor"...

Don't you see how what you say is a problem? Most of the ways you listed where you are "helping" are involuntary and inefficient. When I go out and help, I'm actually putting food directly in the hands of the people who are hungry. I won't say the org. I work for is perfect, but there is a far closer to 1-1 yield on the fruits of my effort. Because it's personal, it also makes me feel good. I think I'm less inclined to think, "well, gee, there's some welfare queen living off of my dole". There's accountability. If the welfare system screws up, there's a chain of unelected bureaucrats that are only held accountable to narcissistic fools who are elected based on unrelated wedge issues like abortion. If my volunteer organization screws up, then the donors stop giving and find other places for their money to help (without sounding too capitalistic about it, there are indeed competing orgs that could fill its shoes on a dime).

You're trying to vote to make the burden on other people greater, which will create a bigger bureaucracy, which will in all likelihood be more inefficient. Why not, instead of taxing people more, work harder to create a society that just does more efficient things to help? It's hard, because getting people to be BETTER people is not easy. But it's way worth it.

Yeah, there are problems in our country, like a kleptocratic upper class, but you don't think there might be better solutions that actually address that problem than the bludgeoney "tax 'em more!!1" - which, ultimately is based in the ugly emotion of envy?
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Home/pro would have worked well. It would be nice to have a different name for the ARM stuff though, to avoid confusion.
Number theory conjectures that can be [possibly] disproved by selective, brute-force programming are hazardous to my sleep schedule.
Why was this being downvoted?
Maybe this is legit, but 500-1500 CE seems the worst historical period to be testing such models. Neither civilized areas nor technology (except in China) changed much during that period. Models that were accurate for periods such as 3500-2000 BCE or 1500-1900 CE would be much more interesting.
Are you one of those annoying flight attendants? You sound like one.
War, huh! What is it good for?

Evolution, science and philosophy, oh yeah...
1. Why does this website feel slimy?
2. Maybe, I just I got used to the status quo?
3. I do think this website is a disaster waiting
to happen? I hope not, but I see nothing but lawsuits
down the line.
4. Taking money from people who understand the risks
involved in start ups is fine, but taking the money
from the average dude who was inspired by Steve Job's
movie is Wrong.
5. To anyone who's rushing over to this site expecting
to make money one your investment; Guy's like Steve Jobs
and Mark Zuckerburg had a lot of luck on their sides too.
Mark would have probably never started Facebook, without
stealing the idea from the rich twins. And the god Steve;
he got fired from his own company.
6. I wish start ups well, but be honest. Or, at least
take money from the people who can afford to lose it.
It's not cool to lose money from the middle class and poor.
There might not be a God, but personal integrity is the
one thing that money can't buy.
When I was in high school, teachers were quite open about adjusting marks if it meant the difference between acceptance and rejection, but you had to put forth the effort to talk with them and make your case.

With that, some studies have suggested that soft-skills, like determination, are what determine future earnings. Someone with average to poor academic performance, but high determination, could ensure that the cutoff is met with a little pressure put on the teachers, while someone less determined would sit back and be accepting of the non-acceptance position.

It is nice to see some other methodologies tested, but I'm not sure this one really addresses the common concerns with the standard interpretation.
> it's the stupidest thing Microsoft has ever done.

Microsoft Bob? Active Mates Barney? It's a big change, but it's nowhere near the worst thing they've ever done.
We could also wish that Weev or people like him did not exist, without actually wishing that anyone now alive become dead, or predicting what our feelings might be were such a thing to happen.
I expect optimizations will come in the form of:

- GPU driver improvements (they've already been working with nvidia, amd, and intel) which everyone benefits from

- kernel patches (maybe they fiddle with the scheduler or something) which anyone could pick up

- new/improved subsystems (perhaps they do some low latency input or audio layer), which (assuming they open source it) distros could choose to adopt or not

- improving porting techniques for bringing games or game middleware to Linux based platforms (everyone benefits)

It's possible that some stuff could be foreign enough to the way it has always been done on linux that it may take some time to make it upstream (see wakelocks from Android finally turning up in the kernel under a different name and a different implementation but providing the same functionality), but if it actually improves things, eventually I suspect the mainline kernel or distros or whomever will come around.

e: fix formatting
Many companies go for Box because you can se per-folder permissions and creates groups of users for permissions.

These sorts of things are pretty mandatory for companies of reasonable size.
Feedback: Great domain, crap photography.

There are some killer fashion sites out there, the ladies have been driving them for ages. You know, search by anything, real time refresh, change the colors, suggest a match, SAVE SAVE SAVE SALE DISCOUNT FINAL STOCK 3 LEFT!

The area is good, execution can be improved. Refine.

(Alternatively, punch out and sell me the domain ;)
Put it this way. Everyone is somewhere on the autism spectrum. I don't think we're over diagnosing it as such, but more diagnosing it at a lower level.
Not if they do it in a library or any of hundreds of wifi hotspots around town. They'd have to be idiots to do something like that on their own data connection.

Also, it is usually a mistake to assume that the U.S. legal system is fair and rational. If the A.G. decides to go after you, you will be facing the fight of your life. Recall that kid who committed suicide after that Massachusetts D.A. threatened him with 35 years of imprisonment over cracking a bunch of scholarly paywalls. Not fair, not rational, not even civilized in my opinion.
How does JOBS Act (and platforms like Wefunder, FundersClub, AngelList) handle small investors selling their stock, pre-IPO? i.e. is it even possible to "get the fuck out"?
Really? You think a four digit security code that users have to enter repeatedly is more secure than obtaining a 2400 dpi clean image of a specific fingerprint and a nontrivial lab procedure? It might require some patience but if you have an excuse for being around the target, it doesn't require great skill to see the digits as they are entered. In either case the adversary has to deal with Activation Lock which has been introduced with iOS7.

I've read there is already something like 35% adoption of iOS7 so we may see soon how effective Activation Lock is at deterring theft.
> And remember that you go with Oracle for more than just technology.

Can you explain this? In my experience, you used to go with Oracle for technology but that was about 15 years ago.
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>The issue is when shit hits the fan then will you be able to depend on communications with air traffic control?

Yes, when the SHTF aircraft comms will work as designed, not even close to the same frequency bands, nor modulation techniques, nor power output levels. Not even a slight chance that cell phones will interfere.

In my minimal experience with airplane crashes[1], the aircraft's electrical system was kaput, and I relayed communications to/from ATC and Fire Dept. via ... wait for it, the pilot's personal cell phone.

[1] I ran an FBO at a tiny municipal airport during college (I re-fueled aircraft). I only participated in a few airplane crashes during my tenure there.
It does not. Further down the page, they link to a document [1] that states that they would be required to report NSRs and law enforcement requests (combined) in ranges of 1,000, if they wanted to include the NSRs.

1 - https://dt8kf6553cww8.cloudfront.net/static/docs/DropboxFISC...
> The typical life-span of a high performance rocket turbo pump today is about 30 minutes... before it renders itself unusable ... [and] will cost between $500,000 and several million dollars...

OK, I am boggled...
I'm referring to the overall spacetime curvature shared by the universe as a whole.

Then that's positive, not negative, for a spacetime dominated by dark energy. The curvature that is negative is the curvature of the spatial slices in the model used in cosmology for a dark energy dominated universe--more precisely, in the model referred to in the article as being suggested by the new data.
They've pretty much outright admitted to receiving them:

"We've urged the government to allow online services to disclose the exact number of national security requests received in a reporting period without revealing details about specific requests."
So unfair isn't it? Clearly disabled children and their parents have had it too good for too long.
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If we want to stretch analogies beyond sense, how about this.

You walk into a cake shop that has cupcakes with names written on the icing:

You say "Can I have a cupcake with 'Iain' written on it?"
They say "200 OK, here's a cupcake with Iain on it."

You say "Can I have that wedding cake?"
They say "401 Unauthorized, Sorry that's someone elses' cake." You don't get a wedding cake.

You say "Can I have a cupcake with 'Alice' written on it?"
They say "200 OK, here's a cupcake with "Alice' written on it."

You say "Can I have a birthday cake?"
They say "402 Payment required, That'll be $15" You don't get a birthday cake.

You say "Can I have a cupcake with 'Bob' written on it?"
They say "404 Not Found, sorry we don't have any cupcakes with 'Bob'."

You say "Can I have a cupcake with 'Carol' written on it?"
They say "200 OK, here's a cupcake with 'Carol' in it."

You say "Can I have a cupcake with 'Dave' written on it?"
They say "200 OK, here's a cupcake with 'Dave' on it."

You walk out with 4 cupcakes.
Then the cake shop owner comes out and says "You stole the three cupcakes! I didn't intend for you to have them!"

Did you do anything wrong? Do you deserve to go to jail for it?
Honestly, i prefer they announce the gate let, if only so they don't do what they used to o, and swap it around t the last minute. This is much more consistent, been if it does make ams a little anxious.
There is probably a chrome extension out there that can block this.

Or even better a grease monkey script if anyone still uses that.

To get grease monkey scripts on chrome search up black canvas and obviously userscripts.org
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no, I am saying in universal healthcare, you will get poor or no healthcare if you are poor and you will get good healthcare if you are rich. You will simply shift around who gets marginalized. For example: If you have a country that aggressively hounds, say, educational debtholders - because, maybe the nation decided to socialize educational debt. How long will it be till the bureaucratic machine calculates the bottom line and decides to use the system to redflag people and those people are effectively forced to avoid the government healthcare system. It could be anything else, say, "child support deadbeats". Or "illegal immigrants".

If you think that there will be an effective firewall between the two systems, I've got a bridge I want to sell you.

>Access to life saving treatment when required, as required, access to free hospital and cheap/free out of hospital medication

What happens when that medication is fundamentally uncheap, like herceptin, in New Zealand? Sure, herceptin is contrived, because that's a patenting issue. what if it's discodermolide, which doesn't exist in more than ~10 g quantity in the universe and is rediculously expensive to manufacture? Who gets/who doesnt?

Ultimately, no treatment is life-saving. We all die. Which ones are worth it? Who makes a valuation on life? How long until we find a hyperexpensive drug that prolongs the life of a politically-connected child with an orphan disease, and people begin to question, "why is this person's life subsidized", but not mine?