skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems very much like MAD. I would bet there's a 30% chance that the big players have already picked off some of each other's spy satellites, but they're secret, can't admit to their existence, much less their method of demise. ASAT missiles are 30 years old now. Surely there are other systems, ground based lasers or something.

But the big visible satellites? disabling gps, glonass or any of the communication satellites? That's a real bad idea. Messing with those looks a whole lot like starting world war 3.

Presumably, a modern conventional world war scale war would start with cutting the fiber optic cables, and disabling the communication satellites. Step 2, eliminate all of the gps type stuff. Maybe you'd pick off the spy satellites first. Stopping communications and navigation would disrupt economies a whole lot more than tipping your hand about troop locations.
Agreed, but irrelevant to this particular conversation, which is about how to handle a "fence" in the road where there is no obvious reason evident.
Each mouse-click interrupts and endlessly looping counter that counts from 0 - 255, inclusive, and repeats. The interruption is made possible by the DoEvents keyword. I believe that entropy is very high, if not infinite.

The random number generator in VC++ repeats after 2 to the 31st numbers. That means you can only have that number divided by 4 possible 4-number sequences. This is about 500 million seeds. These will only yield about 400 million unique seeds.

I think my demo app can potentially return all seeds in any order.
This is an advertisement for Forbes' new app. They got Tinder's help in making it. The rest of the "article" is an advertisement for Forbes' new age-ist community, for which the app was built.
Ha, it must be Aviation Week again here on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5157182
Western culture is obsessed with novelty and originality. In the West, one of the worst things you can say about an artist's work is that it's a mere reproduction of something that came before. In Japanese culture, reproduction of classics is held in high esteem. For this reason, the art of creating most of these weapons and using them is still very much alive. Western martial arts and arms rapidly fell into obscurity and oblivion once firearms took over.

Timing may also be a factor. Most western martial arts fell into obscurity and then oblivion centuries ago, while many of these obscure Japanese weapons were still in use well into the nineteenth and even twentieth centuries. Even if Japanese martial techniques had not been valued and maintained, they still would have been in living memory when chambara flicks became popular. For this reason, their portrayal in film has few rivals in Western cinema.

There were a few western martial arts that survived to modern times. Boxing was one, and fencing was another. Fencing certainly had it's heyday, both on the Shakespeare dominated stage and in the golden age of Hollywood thanks to great fencer/actors like Basil Rathbone, but the style of fencing practised was only appropriate to a select few historical settings. Fencing is descended from a duelling discipline and isn't really appropriate in a battle setting or even a fight between commoners. Films where it is appropriate are made so infrequently that actors rarely study fencing at all, let alone enough to become masters.

This is probably why Hollywood embraced Hong Kong fight choreography so enthusiastically in the seventies. It allowed them to fill in the holes left by the death of most Western martial arts with something that was flashy and graceful. Audiences hungry for more Eastern martial arts have naturally consumed a lot of films made in Hong Kong and Japan, and this probably fuelled their curiosity about Japanese weaponry. The fact that Hollywood had to import fight choreography probably also gave many the notion that Eastern martial arts were superior to anything in the West, when the truth is that it was simply better maintained, thanks to cultural values and the relatively late dominance of firearms in the East.
A lot of people do devops wrong... and I don't want to make those people even more scared to test things.
East1 is absurdly huge, isn't it? I saw statements to the effect that its nearly 60% of AWS's capacity.
They are. But it's drowned in the noise about undocumented immigrants, which is a much more emotional issue and more in the consciousness of the general public. If a politician says he wants to improve H1B, he'll get a primary opponent running ads saying he is pro-amnesty. Look at the comments section in any news article about improving H1B loopholes and the discussion is dominated by issues relating to the border with Mexico, amnesty, and undocumented immigrants.
Article 2, paragraph 1. Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany. A real law.

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I like it, but don't show who joins. It's annoying. Also I got myself banned spamming the room.. so.. nice job!
Ok, no 503s but just got a very small burst of 500s,

"com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.AmazonS3Exception: Status Code: 500, AWS Service: Amazon S3, AWS Request ID: -redacted-, AWS Error Code: InternalError, AWS Error Message: We encountered an internal error. Please try again., S3 Extended Request ID: -redacted-"

:/
What is the advantage of this over IRC?
I don't mean to advocate against YAGNI or writing simple code. I can't authoritatively to your specific example, but what I am suggesting is that you default your assumptions to a view that this developer had some reason for the choices that were made.

Maybe this client was notorious for asking for CSV export but really meant CSV, XLS, XLSX, PDF? Maybe the build and release infrastructure is so slow that any change - no matter how small - needs 3 days to be built, tested, and deployed? Maybe the complexity makes sense in other areas of the system and they decided to adopt patterns across the codebase to aid in teaching/onboarding new developers?

Just to be clear, maybe you will find that the reasons are totally invalid and this is gold-plated-abstracted-to-hell code. (It sounds like you probably will)

But if you assume from the start that everything is an over-complicated pile of junk and you could rewrite it in a day, I think you will find yourself jaded and unhappy with your environment.
You are distributing an outdated chromium with your demo app - this demonstrates quite clearly the problems with this approach: how to update software?
source for the uninitiated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egSwfPKOX1c
The reasoning for this is quite well explained in the article.

Most universities measure staff, both current and applying, by various metrics involves authorship (number of papers, number of citations (either total, or h-index)). None of these measures care about number of authors on a paper, and it is low cost to add an extra author. Generally speaking, it is always better for n authors to be on n papers with n authors, than each write a solo paper.
My Mathematical Modeling teacher is having us use SageMathCloud! It's a great tool. I didn't know it could be so easy to do things I thought I needed something akin to Mathematica for. Thanks for your effort!
Universe slowly dying as old stars fade faster than new ones are born
I've found that simply having Afterburner installed would cause bluescreens on my Maxwell card, even if no settings were altered. Although many people are blaming TDR issues in Nvidia's recent drivers, so who knows. Either way, Afterburner is a hog, has terrible UI and plenty of unneeded features (for me :). Other similar apps, like EVGA Precision appear to be re-skins of the exact same codebase.
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> I want to be in a better career position in 4-5 years...

It's impossible to know what the tech landscape will be like in 5 years. It's also very likely your indivual career aspirations may evolve and change.

But if you're trying to make yourself more marketable in the long run-- build-up needed skills that won't change. Tech leadership desparately needs individuals with good people skills. Study Psychology, Business Management, and take a Dale Carnegie course. The ability to sell ideas is also a skill always in demand. Read up on marketing by Seth Godin.

Relative to what's emerging in tech-- an interesting benchmark to note, this 2012 survey by Forrester>http://blogs.forrester.com/brian_hopkins/13-02-07-forresters...
I wasn't implying that playing the market would result in higher or lower returns simply that one person that I know that did day trade successfully did it as a full time gig.
People still don't understand right click. Hate to break this to you. UI that isn't clear and visible on the screen is unhelpful UI.
> All in all, it seems like I could have done pretty advanced Bayesian statistics using the computational tools I had access to 20 years ago! (Of course, one could easily have implemented a similar program in C or FORTRAN much much earlier…)

Turbo Pascal 3, available not later than 1986, had already much nicer syntax, was a real compiler, had a fast IDE and the ability to draw.

QBasic appeared in 1991.
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It appears the corporate-locked-down Chrome I'm using on the corporate laptop doesn't have Incognito as an option. I'll try my phone.
Lisp's CLOS has defclass for class defintions, but not your typical class that encapsulates data and code. You can do just fine with defstruct and make good use of CLOS. There are very few things that are new under the sun. :-]
A $875,000 purchase leading to a $40mm increase in value in his overall holdings of TWTR.

Well played sir, well played.
> 99.99% have it passed down by their parents and their extended family and the culture they live in. They live life without questioning it and can't even see past it.

I was raised in a religion that emphasizes understanding the belief system and arguments for it (the focus on valuing the truth was what caused me to ultimately leave, btw.). So I do have first-hand experience of what it means to believe in something for perfectly good reason with strong, consistent arguments. And I have to tell you, while most religious people probably believe for reasons like you just described, I've seen and talked to many self-proclaimed atheists and many refuse to believe for exactly the same reasons - they were raised as atheists. Or they discovered that atheism is what cool people do, or didn't want to stand out from the crowd.

People who don't believe in supernatural aren't inherently smarter than those who do. For many (I suspect most) of them, atheism is a blind faith, the same way Christianity is for their parents.
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It's a common pattern that is used everywhere. If we were to zero base think, then yeah, it's absolutely horrible. But since it is already established people look for it. Better to go with an established pattern than reinvent your own. That being said, the article advocates tab bars and I think that is fine if you have the screen real estate. Often times you don't though.
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I avoid almost all of these snafus simply by not putting anything in Virginia.
Mmm, close, I would nitpick a few points:

- Most users do understand the hamburger icon, so they notice and understand it, but they definitely don't utilize it.

- It's not really about engagement. Users generally don't go about thinking to themselves "boy that icon looks so engaging and just begs for a click!"

- It's all about workflows and hints built into these workflows.

At any moment on your website/app your users are trying to accomplish something. UI nudges and pulls them in the correct direction towards their destination. At every step the user is evaluating the screen to determine the thing most relevant to moving closer to their goal.

A hamburger button never - and I mean never - tells the user "click me and you'll be closer to your goal!". A hamburger button is utterly neutral in every single way, even to the trained user who knows what a hamburger button does.

- When evaluating the screen to determine what they should do next, almost everything feels more relevant than the hamburger button.

It's not that people don't want to click on the hamburger button, it's that in any particular circumstance some other UI element will feel more relevant (even if it isn't actually true).
Except for the fact that your average person can't tell the difference between a label and a button...
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I see a lot of startups using it, but compared to something like zendesk, it much, much more expensive.
Yes and no. If it can be automated, no amount is too small to collect. A hobbyist best shot is to do... things that don't scale. Source: I do too.
It's inflammatory to ask a question that is no doubt is some people's minds at times like this?

It's not inflammatory to ask a question that people are no doubt thinking, even if the answer is obvious.
And if it was possible? Are you going to say that the fruits of said automated labor do not belong entirely to their owners (or people that created it/bought it/etc)?

There is no in-between. Either we live in a dystopian society where all labor (or means to production) is collectively owned and the fruits of it are portioned-out. Or we live in a society where only a portion/percentage of said labor is redistributed, thus invalidating the OP's suggestion that such a society would mean freedom for all "...to pursue hobbies and live without careerism (I paraphrase there)".

I can only assume that "careerism" in that sense is in reference to a job, and/or participating in a labor market of sorts.
Surely the American word "movie" is simply an abbreviation of "moving picture"?

It's true that Hungarian "mozi" (meaning "movie theater" or "the movies", not "[a] movie") is itself short for "mozgóképszínház" = "moving-picture theater" but I don't think there's any a priori reason to assume that the two derivations are correlated.
I suspect the most intractable OpenGL ES issues on mobile have nothing to do with that state machine though. For example, some drivers have oddball hardware limitations on the complexity of shader they'll execute and silently miscompile or drop shaders if they exceed the limits. That's not going to go away with Vulkan.
Small info: If you use the word cultural-marxist people will assume you're belonging to the fringe right or at least read lots of fringe right media
except obviously for Nokia, i never heard about big companies R&D offices in Finland/Helsinki (i've worked at 3 transnational BigCo-s). I'd [naively as i have no specific info] suspect that it should be a good location to have R&D office attractive for programmers from Baltic region, not?
Moon colony. Sex robots. Sex robot moon colony.

Open a chain of small 100-bed hospitals throughout the US, give them doctors working normal hours and software to handle all the management stuff. Accept cash and credit only--no medicare, no insurance, no bullshit. Just cheap healthcare that people can rely on, payable on exit.

Start a scholarship for hackers at colleges--must have less than a 2.8 GPA to apply, and must have cool hacks submitted every semester. Hacks that aren't some stupid fucking sociomoboloco sharing economy coupon thing. Hacks that have teeth.

Oh, and two gigantic hands, two thousand feet tall, flipping the bird to NY and SV.
A good thing about being laid off by Nokia is that they will often give money if you are starting a company as they mentioned with one of the start ups formed by laid off employees. When Nokia laid off the Maemo/MeeGo folks, they gave them money and IP to start with.
That base16 colorscheme... it's so pretty.

Also am I crazy or was this posted here a few weeks back as well?
I'm gonna sound like an old fart now (mostly because I am) but back in the late 90s we used to have a discipline called Information Architecture that existed to handle exactly this case.

You see, Information Architecture has more to do with capital D Design, not fad, bandwagons and styles. Its about solving this exact problem. I really hope the concept of User Experience dies in a fire so we can go back to real Design.

(User Experience is in my opinion the most nebulous, snake-oil concept I've heard since SEO. Users don't want "an experience". They want to get in get what they want and to get out. The experience should be invisible)
> But Usenet had threads, ....

Yes, using the "References:" and/or "In-Reply-To:" headers. Later clients tended to do this, I think.

> ... to get the benefits.

Yes, and the drawbacks: in-depth discussions involving multiple people were harder to come by.

In any case, in both Usenet -- late in the game -- and many mailing lists, there are relatively few participants, so scaling is not really an issue.
Sure - at the end of the day even the best intentions can result in a poor quality output. I've just found that my own personal outlook is much better if I stop complaining about how some other person messed up and focused on where the code is currently and how we can solve the problems at hand given our new knowledge/resources/constraints.
Just picking a nit here... The 'Mother of all Demos' is from the end of 1968, so the '60s. I've been about 2 months old when that happened. :)
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Thanks for posting @warrenmar

We'd like to host another debate, if any HN-ers would like to build a bot to compete in the debate please let me know, should be great fun! :)
I think your post goes to support my point that there is great diversity in markets, and we can't expect a single individual's experience or preference to accurately represent such.

> the anti-tax attitudes of those people who ironically would prefer to drive their own cars.

I am curious as to why you think that there would be such a large crossover between those who would prefer to have a "manual" car, and those who have anti-tax attitudes?
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>How is it that the other scenario (that the private valuation is illogical, unsustainable, and patently absurd) isn't the more obvious answer?

this was never the question. the question was how to make money off this absurdity.

Like Greece. Country was and is a mess, and should have stayed separate. But some people might be able to get out ahead by clamoring for bailouts under the guise of 'we didn't know' later, so they invest.

Like student loans. Government was backing them while someone else gets the interest, so obviously someone else grants them.

Like FM&FM. Government was granting preferred lending status to subsidize housing, so bad loans were issued.
August 6th and 9th 2015 marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in WWII; Thought this was an appropriate time to post this
How about we try to solve them simultaneously?
Oh, on that I agree. I'm just very frustrated with, having taken those steps, being blocked because ~reasons~.
tl;dr abstract of the paper:

---snip---

Abstract. Instabilities of equilibrium quantum mechanics are common and well-understood. They are manifested for example in phase transitions, where a quantum system becomes so sensitive to perturbations that a symmetry can be spontaneously broken. Here, we consider the possibility that the time evolution governing quantum dynamics may be similarly subject to an instability, at which its unitarity spontaneously breaks down owing to an extreme sensitivity towards perturbations. We find that indeed such an instability exists, and we explore its immediate consequences. Interpretations of the results both in terms of extreme sensitivity to the influence of environmental degrees of freedom, and in terms of a possible fundamental violation of unitarity are discussed.

---snip---

Is this suggesting that quantum superpositions have a tendency to spontaneously collapse, or am I misreading it?
Uptime, probably. At best, I'd get equal (no I wouldn't, but for sake of discussion), but it'd cost me several orders of magnitude more, in terms of redundancy, security infrastructure, etc
> You would not entertain an alchemist or an astrologist either. Religion will soon join them in that regard in the collective consciousness.

And why do you think people won't entertain an alchemist or an astrologist? Why do you think religion will become similar to those disciplines?

It's not because people are getting smarter. It's because alchemy is not popular, science is! Most people don't understand a thing about either, but they have a firm opinion. That's just blind faith, the only thing that changes over the centuries is the object of faith.

It's completely orthogonal to the discussion about which is right and which is wrong. Most people don't know and don't care, as long as they believe the same thing their peers do, so I wouldn't be quick to judge one group, because the other is not smarter, it just sticks to the currently popular belief.
Indeed. As I write this we're in the midst of our third S3 outage of the day. The past two were eventually documented on the AWS Service Dashboard. The latest one has not yet received its tiny status icon to indicate an outage.

It's one thing that S3 keeps going down today; we run our own server cluster and I accept that 100% uptime isn't possible. But it's aggravating that they can't at least figure out how to give timely updates on their dashboard when something is broken.

We inevitably learn of S3 outages through our internal error reporting systems before AWS posts it to their status page. When they do finally post, it is usually a tiny "information" icon, even when reporting a problem that makes the service unusable. The laggy, misleading nature of their status page gives the impression they must be tying bonuses to the status icons. Can't fathom why else they would be so inept when it comes to keeping us updated when something is wrong. Surely they have sufficient internal monitoring to pick up on these outages long before they update their customers.
Ah, metaness!

So can we assume people who assume other people are stupid, are stupid? Or is there some benefit from doing things that way that might not be apparent at first sight?

One possibility that comes to mind is the substitution of parallelism for serial processing, or put another way, letting the world be its own model. Instead of one startup spending a lot of time thinking and researching (and maybe missing the market window if there was one), let ten startups just assume and go for it. Maybe nine will be wrong and fail and one will be right and succeed.
It's also funny that on the desktop OS designed by Apple, that paragon of modern and superficially minimal design, the menu is always visible (in the menu bar, just for the focused application). Other desktops trying to be as "easy and beautiful" as OS X are doing more to hide the classic menu.

(not an apple fanboy, I promise, I've spent more time with linux overall)
> As long as you build your application to be AZ-tolerant, you won't run into problems.

And the perfect "out" for AWS, every single time they have issues.
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I tried /m4m, /m4w, /w4m, /w4w, /sex, and /nudes. Nothing. What kind of chat service /is/ this??
It takes significantly lower levels of tech to destroy satellites than it does to design and launch them.

The big asymmetry lies in the dependency that the US has on both civilian and military satellites. The existing satellite infrastructure will not be retrofitted with armor or other defenses, so the cost of protection is in the trillions of dollars.

Within 10 years all satellites will be armored and look nothing like current-day satellites... or perhaps smaller, more disposable sats will become the norm (like those launched by Planet labs).

Ground-based lasers are capable of emitting pulses of energy sufficient to damage or disable many satellites.
Not to mention the 'moving parts' are all closed source.