skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general, afaik, team strategies are not really developed in depth. This is simply because actually governing the robots is exponentially harder than anything else, and a robot that does not know where it is on the field, where the ball is or is unable to move is also useless - no matter what advanced tactic you decide to deploy. And these are REALLY hard problems!

Other problems are: understand which side of the field is actually yours (it's not uncommon to do autogoals, since the field is visually symmetrical), how to understand where you are after a referee repositions you, how to distinguish friendly robots from adversaries, not fall down every five seconds.

And still the game is driven by simple hardware physics: the robots engines tend to overheat very often, which basically results in the robots "melting" on themselves since they can't support their weight for very long. And there how much money a team has to spend comes into play heavily..

So to get back at your questions, not much. In general if you can shoot in the general direction of the enemy's goal more often than your adversaries, you will probably win =)
Are they really excuses? Most of them look pretty genuine.
Ugh here we go again... no idea what the constant complaining about adding features and functionality to web browsers or the web in general really accomplishes at this point. The ship sailed more than 5 years ago. The likelihood of browsers returning to light html document readers is exactly zero. Time to move on to more productive complaints.
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Thank you for pointing that out! they was referring to Github.
Essentially, one database to rule them all?
Looking at bad code isn't nearly as interesting without the story surrounding it. That's why I love The Daily WTF.
don't pack a parachute quickly.

Write a to-do list app super fast, but take time with medical software...
Never mind, answered my own question with a little more search query skill:

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Sounds like they're referring to GitHub.
Hey, I applaud your approach.

Only thing I would add is that don't just look for problems but for inefficient workflows as well. A person may have to do some same set of tasks everyday and not realise that they can do it faster or it is a problem at all.

Perhaps go to random meetups or business networking events etc
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It's missing Google's "That's an error. That's all we know."
This is one more reason a continuous integration system is wonderful. If it works on a developer's box but breaks the integration, it's broken by definition. (No warranty is expressed or implied that the CEO will see it that way, of course!)
One thing I never quite understood: would these exercises also improve your memory when you're not using the techniques explicitly? Somehow having the information organized in your mind in a more cohesive manner, so that recall is always possible by traversing the graph...
From the other side pre-prod code review just delays software getting into production. Delays here tend to lead to bigger, riskier changesets.

That makes no sense.

If delays introduced by pre-prod code review result in "bigger changesets", you're clearly doing it wrong. In fact, if you batch up commits to deliver to prod on some semi-regular basis, the exact opposite should happen.

Individual changesets would be exactly the same. Velocity may slow down (that is, it may take longer for any given changeset to make it to production), but you're producing higher quality code in exchange.
I bemoan the death (or near-extinction) of text-input games. I learned entirely on my own how to touch type by playing classic Sierra adventure games and spending a ton of time in DOS. I never would have done that if I had gotten into computing a few years later with the transition to mouse-based UIs.
"An anykernel can be instantiated into units which virtualize the bare minimum support functionality for kernel drivers. We call these virtualized kernel instances
rump kernels since they retain only a part of the original kernel."

Page 33, http://lib.tkk.fi/Diss/2012/isbn9789526049175/isbn9789526049...
I have a 2011 Macbook Pro. Sure it doesn't get AppNap or a few other small features, even if I've installed an SSD, but OS-wise I've been able to install all updates since I bought it. It's still supported, especially hardware-wise when I had a couple issues with it.
Yep, blood might be rejuvenating but it's still just treating the symptoms.
What about:

4. 3-D models are available for purchase to instantly print an item in any dimensions you'd like.
Fun read but I'm really against keeping a cat inside all day, for most of its life.

Granted you may not have a choice, depending on your location. But generally I think more effort should be placed on slowly getting a kitten acclimated to the outside world than something like this. I've done it with all my cats, basically starting to let them outside around the time they are neutered.

The kitten will naturally take a very cautious approach as they slowly explore their environment. It's actually fascinating to watch as they slowly gain more confidence and move farther into the brush and edges of your yard/property (provided you have the space). Eventually getting into tree's and exploring up as well as out.

They are happier, they are healthier and they live longer. My first cat that I raised this way lived until 18.
It's not a new concept, in the UK, Quidco[0] has been doing this for a decade[1], the only difference here seems to be the paid membership system whereas quidco shave a fraction off for themselves.

[0] http://www.quidco.com/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quidco
The NY subway is filthy, hot, and loud. (Other systems, like DC Metro, are much nicer). "Sexy" tastes may vary, but buses are much nicer rides when you can get them.
Real World Use Cases for High-Risk Users
Will a major OS vendor ever start taking object-capability ideas seriously? It seems this is part of a class of vulnerabilities that simply couldn't occur under that model.
Hey! I'm an idea guy!

My idea is a simple elegant theory. Let the lab rats sort out the details.
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Do you know if NoScript with javascript disabled but iframes allowed and pdfjs enabled would have stopped it?

A vulnerability test would be really nice but I understand why it doesn't exist yet.
100% Something like this, but cheaper: http://www.staples.com/sbd/cre/products/3d-printing
Update: Just received an update to the latest Beta of 40.0. Haven't found the change log but assuming this was the reason.
Idea #1: Go talk to your newsletter subscribers, or whoever you think will be your subscribers.

Idea #2: Go talk to your curators, or whoever you think will be your curators.

Your questions above point to the fact you are trying to solve your problem (how to get customers), rather than your customers problems.
Getting rid of scarcity is great as a long term goal, but it's not happening any time soon. The technology does not exist yet to do so, which is why these things are still traded for money. This goal is unfortunately not relevant to commodity price movements on human time scales, and falling prices shouldn't be interpreted as evidence of scarcity no longer existing. Commodity prices don't fall because someone invented a great new way to get corn or oil without labor or fertilizer or land; they fall because of short-term supply and demand imbalances.

Upward prices does not only indicate supply scarcity. It might indicate supply scarcity, or it might indicate increased demand. There are two sides to the market, and either can move the price. Prices are not "driven" upwards by some teleological entity that just wants higher prices; the action of people buying and selling finds a consensus equilibrium based on supply and demand.

If one commodity price is going up, it might be the case that there's a supply shortage. If all are going up, it indicates broad based demand due to a healthy economy that requires more inputs. Broad supply scarcity rarely if ever extends beyond a few specific commodities. Oil might be scarce, but all commodities being scarce almost never happens. Commodities are widely produced in many diverse locations all around the world by groups with widely different goals.

If the average price of all commodities is rising broadly, it's demand-driven, not supply constraint. Barring events like a world war, there will never be a massive simultaneous supply shortage in oil, wheat, corn, soybeans, cattle, hogs, gold, silver, and frozen orange juice. A broad price rise is thus generally a good thing since it means lots of people have jobs producing things and are making money to buy things that require these inputs.
You could install refspoof plugin and set your referrer to https://news.google.com for site wsj.com
Locks and concurrency
As the father of a 3 year old my interest in 3D printing has been reinvigorated. I can print segments of train tracks (1) for his train set to expand and build cool bridges (2). I can even print connectors that let me combine Mega Bloks (giant legos) with his train set (3), which is a good example of cool interoperability that the toy manufacturers themselves won't ever do. And I didn't even have to model any of this, since there are geekier parents than me out there.

Sure, it's still all just crappy chunks of plastic, but it's pretty cool to teach my son about the tech of 3D printing in such an engaging way.

1) http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:22244

2) http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:608012

3) http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:742253
It was not designed as one, but it was mutated into one. SMRR were added for that reason, and various fixes were made to the chipsets in order to isolate SMM better.

Remember that SMM is _the_ trusted base for UEFI secure boot.
You are correct, I missed that one.
Note: 500m is 2 long blocks (Avenues); 6 street blocks.
Agreed with the "not indoors" part. Plus they'll bring you presents from outside too. Sometimes even in one piece.
Also delivered not within next 5 minutes.
Why the FTC is showing up at hackers’ biggest conferences
Asking people isn't likely to get you an answer, based on my experience. If you want to find a problem to solve, you'll have to actually see what they're doing that can be easily automated. They have blind spots and just do it, without thinking about how it can done differently.
How likely is a latent to produce a false positive? What if the police burst into your house and start dusting for prints because they're "collecting evidence." They then run those prints through their database of existing prints, match you to a crime in another state for which you have an alibi, and arrest you. You're held without bail because it was a violent crime, and your presence in another state at the time of arrest marks you as a flight risk. Because the court where your trial will be held has a several month backlog, you spend several months in jail. On the first day of the trial, evidence is heard of your alibi, which exonerates you.

How would that be just for any of the parties involved?
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Surveillance video raises questions and possible clues in 25yearold museum mystery
As RadioactiveMan said, they have a somewhat undocumented feature where they will sync your screep code with a GitHub repository. The only way to do that with GitHub scopes is to allow full read/write access to your all of your repositories including organizational repos.
How does the licensing works? Can anyone explain me? [0]

> This software and associated documentation files (the "Software") can only be
used with a valid GitLab subscription for the correct number of users. You are
free to modify this Software and publish patches. It is forbidden to copy,
merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software.

Isn't the third line contradicting with the fourth or have I misunderstood?

[0] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/blob/master/LICENSE
Oh also, re extra writes: in the video Magnus points out that this approach adds no extra transactions, because everything happens inside a trigger. Also no extra trips to the database server, etc. So it's not free, but it just means when you're doing a write already, it's a little extra work.
Why would you make "transit-accessible locatons" the exact same color as "the ocean" ??
The Role of the Intrapreneur
Why does it say JPEG compression isn't enough then later "JPEG to the rescue"? Am I understanding it correctly that they went after a different part of the JPEG technology?
This is an example of canonical documentation doing exactly the same thing I just described. I am no more enlightened about what a "rump kernel" is than before I read the paragraph.

Is the implication that we're tossing out the head, neck, loins, bones, organs, etc. and only the delicious bacon of the original kernel is kept? The rump is the part?
Don't know him a lot, but this sounds credible just from this article:

> The first effect of teaching a methodology —rather than disseminating knowledge— is that of enhancing the capacities of the already capable, thus magnifying the difference in intelligence.

Only an arrogant person would assume his success is down to his being intellectually superior than his peers instead of him enjoying a wealth of resources along the path of growing up and maybe some hard work + luck.
> and they live longer.

Every source I can find indicates that, on average, strictly indoor cats live much longer than indoor/outdoor cats who in turn live much longer than strictly outdoor cats.

(My own experience aligns with this and further with the there being a much wider distribution in lifespans as you go further down the strictly indoor to strictly outdoor continuum.)
So I shouldn't be upvoting your comment?
Analyse Asia 50: A Tribute to Satoru Iwata and Nintendo's Future with Serkan Toto
Wish I could upvote this more. Maybe you should submit something like this as an article on the 9th for the second anniversary. The use of the bombs was horrific, but not using them could have been even more horrific.
I have never had my own startup company, but have considered myself an intrapreneur. I'm curious about this community's opinion on the concept and validity of an intrapreneur, and any examples of how an intrapreneur allowed for an entrepreneurial endeavor to gain resources from a larger business entity.

The Made in NY Media Center by IFP is hosting "Conversations on Entrepreneurial Change: The Conference (Malmo)" where Nicole Yershon, Director of Innovative Solutions at Ogilvy Labs, will discuss the role of the intrapreneur. Thought I'd get the conversation started here!

Although The Conference is in Sweden, the Made in NY Media Center by IFP is hosting Danya Cheskis-Gold, Director of Community for Spark Capital and last year's keynote. It's a free event, so I recommend coming!
I used to be too, until my girlfriend enlightened me - there are "indoor cat" breeds that genuinely prefer to be indoors and don't run away when doors are open. Her Persian Blue is one of them, and he just kind of pokes his head out the door and then wanders back inside. He's coming up to 12 years.
That's why they call it work - (half kidding, half serious, I tell my friends this all the time when they complain about their day job). The economy/job market isn't the greatest so be glad you're able to do something you semi-enjoy in a comfortable environment and make a decent income.

When you're working on your own projects, learning new things, can change direction at any time, chase new things that is fun and exciting.

I think rails and web application development is a great career and good way to fund your side projects make a good living for now. I would focus on being a great developer at work. Volunteer to take on new features/new technologies that are interesting to you.

Start working on side projects outside of work. Keep in mind what your employment agreement states as far as IP. Always work on your side projects on your own hardware and outside of work/the office. You don't need to share anything about them with co-workers.

Listen to startups for the rest of us (podcast) for inspiration building your own product/company that would be more exiciting. If you like doing your own thing then start planning for building your own products and/or SaaS.

Hacking on your own, building side projects sounds like what you enjoy so do some of that in your own time.

Do some fun side projects and see if that recaptures some excitement.

Good luck.
Synopsis: Serkan Toto, CEO of Kantan Games, joined us to give a tribute to Satoru Iwata, CEO of Nintendo who has just passed away at the age of 50. We discussed his legacy in Nintendo and the contributions that he has made to the company and also to the console gaming world as a whole. We also discussed the future of Nintendo covering from the potential successors to the CEO role to their recent first quarter earnings in Q1 2015 where they made their first profit in years. With a bullish view from Serkan, we also discussed the implications to DeNA and Gree and the upcoming roadmap for Nintendo’s games to come online in mobile. Last but not least, Serkan also give his perspective on LINE’s recent falling revenues that arised from the gaming aspect of their business.
I'm going to bet that is a backronym.

If I had to guess, I would go with the idea that you don't need the whole (OS) beast, just its hindquarters (the rump). But don't quote me.

(Re: your subsequent comment: Yeah, just the bacon.)
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Saw the title and thought it might be you two. The site looks great! I'm surprised you found the time to put something like that together while in YCombinator.

Of course I have to suggest Python/Django, since that's what my company uses. But to maximize (number of users)x(number of security vulnerabilities), perhaps Wordpress plugins would be worth monitoring?
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Did anyone notice that the batteries powering the device are "9 Lives" brand?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eveready_Battery_Company#/medi...
I've been using noisli[0] to cut off the ambient noise. The two look strikingly similar.

[0] - http://www.noisli.com/
If I put myself in the shoes of a good manager, what do I do under stack ranking?

If my team is strong bottom to top, I try to find soft landings for my lower ranked employees because...well making people successful is what good managers do and concern for people as individuals beyond instrumental value is also a positive trait and it just seems fair and right in a karmic sense of the world.

On the the other hand, if the bottom people aren't really strong, a good manager gets cover for going against their positive traits.
That's really not a separate requirement (4) so much as an alternative to #2 (and an overspecified alternative, giving the "for purchase" part.)
Great, the age-old debate on what is and isn't open source vs free software. We really needed that in here.

Y'all need to stop whining about the irrelevant when companies like these are doing literally everything else right. It's pretty damn ungrateful.
Thanks, I didn't know the version numbers where global for every platforms.
A patch - literally a file generated by "diff" - only incidentally contains the original code, mostly your new functions and modifications. So you can't distrbute a patched version of the software, only the patch itself.
"3D systems was founded in 1986. Stratasys was founded in 1989. These are not toy companies. These companies defined and refined the printing methods we're talking about today. What did their devices print? Engineering prototypes. Cars. Car parts. Medical and research parts. Things that preceded mass production. From cat scan to a hip broach with no room for error."

This is exactly the problem with those companies. They had the patents that let them charge $60.000-$100.000 for something that cost less than $2000 to manufacture. They will spend more money sending you a sales representative, or in Shows and parties and fancy buildings.

Everything they sold to you was incredibly expensive, and God help you if your machine breaks.

For 20 something years they had done that and gotten away with it.

But now patents are expiring and they are dinosaurs.

"So the market, the buyers, are confused because seemingly new printers and 3d printing companies are sprouting like mushrooms after a rain promising faster and cheaper printing for a hundred bucks, and they keep tanking. Failing to deliver. Breaking promises. Consumers don't know many of these are just remixed open-sourced printers or that it takes 8 hours to make a small toy. The product dilution is eroding confidence in the technology and stealing resources from starter companies who are serious and could deliver real products."

I don't know what are you talking about. A Prusa Steel takes 30 minutes to mount. You can buy a printrbot, a bukito, a kossel already mounted.

Stealing resources? What? If I device to spend my money whenever I wish after a 20 years monopoly grant ends it is "stealing resources" from those guys?
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Gemnasium.com offers this. (as does OP, see sibling comment)
I don't understand why this is such a controversial view. I agree in full. I hope that you are successful.
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There's no video on noisli. Or you can also try http://pluvior.com
Wow that's good. Thanks
Yea....this is why you require a second pair of eyes and upper level management approval for these type of transfers. No one person should be able to give away the bank.
Google NaCl only works on hardware platforms from specific vendors
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How many Europeans use Google? 90%. That's democracy: the people of Europe gets what it wants.

When Europe says "we'll fix what's wrong with Google", do they want to convert the last 10%?

If not, then it has nothing to do with the people.

You think democracy is what protects people against companies? How strange. If there's no demand for a lousy french dropbox-like service, and people use Dropbox instead, it's because the market will give people what they want: they chose Dropbox.

Now pass a "democratic" law to ban Dropbox because it's not hosted in France, and all we're left with is the opposite of democracy. No choice anymore, and the best product is gone. Who's winning? The french dropbox-like with its new state-guaranteed monopoly. The people has lost.

A french comic once said "So you're telling me the rich are bad, and the poor are good, and all these good people want to become the bad ones?"... I mean the french "dropbox-like" would love to be Dropbox. The french Uber like would love to be Uber. Exalead would love to be Google. But it's not the good vs. the evil.

It's just a matter of performance... until the law comes into play, in less than democratic ways, to cut competition.
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Salesforce increased their benefits as well, see: http://getsalesforcebenefits.com/node/7856
Ok, i will hold up my hand, im a software manager, and nothing fustrates me more than developers trying to do everything at break neck speed and just plain geting it wrong. They either fail to read or understand the requirements in the rush to get started, or they will rapidly push out a pile of shit, and fein suprise when it repeatably gets rejected by QA. My best guys are the ones who take the time to read tbe specs and talk to the stakeholders about what they want, and who spend time making sure that what they produce will pass muster. Those guys are golden, they are worth 10 of the immature speed freaks.
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> Things like Meteor and React address most of the issues and much more, such as live data and reactive UI.

They don't address one major issue - using a language of your choice.

(I don't use this project but I keep an eye on all 'Python in the browser' projects' and the minute one looks mature and sensible with some real-world takeup I'll be all over it)