skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It still doesn't help if you switch driver's schedule from night to day.

If monday tuesday and wednesday you drove through the day, and then friday evening they tell you to take a night course, then the tahoraph will say thay you had enough rest, while you will still get sleepy in the middle of night.

In other words - tachograph will tell you whether the driver had a break, not whether he slept properly during that break.
Have you considered trying out CentOS on those ops servers? There's plenty of support and documentation online. Package versions do tend to lag a bit, but I believe Python 3 is available (EDIT: It is... http://sopel.chat/python3-centos7.html ).
Well, they pay less money when people leave, and one of their approaches to "solve" the "problem" of people leaving is to get increasingly junior and inexperienced people.

The team now is made up mostly of people whose programming experience is a 6 week boot camp designed to take non programmers and teach them how to program... led by two people who seem to be also-rans who never learned anything after the java boom of the 1990s. Continuos integration? Why would we need that?

They aren't a startup- they are a subdivision of a much larger company, and that's the source of the problem- that larger company has no technical capability, or care, and the management is... incompetent, to say the least.
I think maybe he meant it as a Russian winter
There can be more than one timestamping service.
There's also the option of a shared source licence. This means providing the source code, but only allowing free non-commercial use. Commercial use would then come under a different licence and would have to be paid for.

Third party contributors whose work is included in commercial sales would then be given a portion of the revenue from those sales.
How is learning the library difficult? Or more difficult than learning libraries in any other language?
Yes, companies should be named and shamed.

In fact, we need something like Glassdoor but where bad reviews don't magically disappear.
I first encountered SNOBOL when I was 15, running an implementation on an old IBM 360 at university. It was the 3rd language I mastered (after Fortran and an early T/S version of Basic...both on the same 360) and the first I completely fell in love with.

It awoken me to just how different and amazing a programming language could be and bent my mind around something very different than what I'd been doing with Fortran. It was an entirely new way to think about designing solutions.

Years later when I was introduced to Prolog, everything thing felt very much at home...Prolog's backtracking algorithm being very much like SNOBOL's pattern matching system.

Of all the languages I've worked with over the years, SNOBOL and FORTH are in class by themselves for how they informed my thinking about problem solving...lessons I carried with me in work done in many other languages.

It's a shame that both languages have passed into history...they each had subtle things to teach a developer just learning their craft...
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Dear god, don't use Squeak. Pharo.
The actually China-focused portion seems fairly small and self-evident.
It'd be more appropriate to respond to this comment's assertions than downvoting it.
So, nothing from the corporation.

But you might get lucky "befriendling" an interviewer and asking him for advice on how to improve your interviewing and employability.
I'm not exactly sure what you're saying.

Regulatory capture and efficient markets can't coexist.
(My impression of regulatory capture on this matter comes from the OP, it's the first I've really heard of this safety issue.)

I already explained in my above post that it is society at large that is currently paying for this with death and destruction on the highways.

And that's why this is such a barbaric position.

Say that the needed measures are put in place and this problem is alleviated. And during the implementation of the needed measures, costs get passed along the line and a few extra cents are tacked on to consumer products.

Well, significantly reduced highway deaths and people paying a little extra for whatever is obviously the preferred situation.

But then what will likely happen is that somewhere in the cost chain someone will improve/innovate something that lowers the cost of some particular element in the cost chain, then what the market will bear will adjust and we'll be back to the same or lower consumer product prices plus reduced highway deaths. What's blocking this process from happening is, according to this article, the short-term thinking and profits over lives stance of the trucking companies.
I've read that it's the wealthy who are leaving China. Or buying second homes, anyway.
GNU clisp has a more feature-full REPL, so you may see that
used occasionally.

For web programming? My understanding is that clisp doesn't support any kind of threading, which definitely makes it impossible to use at least Hunchentoot. And since this article is about Hunchentoot, my understanding is that using clisp will make it literally impossible to follow this article.

EDIT: It looks like clisp has experimental threading support if you compile it correctly: http://www.clisp.org/impnotes/mt.html

So I guess the better question is: does Hunchentoot work on clisp?
Dublin, Ireland?
Not talking "hard real time" here, but game code where you want to prevent frame glitches.

In C++ you can also replace the allocator to pull items from a pool, so that the "allocation" is "grab the first item from the pool linked list" and "deallocation" is "link this item back into the pool." The first case costs two pointer reads and one write, the second case costs two pointer writes and one read.

This lets you use objects as if they're dynamically allocated while still keeping very costs in allocation/deallocation.
His account seems much better than what I experienced. I still think he has swallowed too much koolaide-- and this is why Amazon focuses on the young kids they can make an impression on.
paraphrased: "If you hear someone describe their startup with trendy buzzwords (big data, SaaS, social, mobile, cloud), you should think fraud and run away. The fact you're using trendy buzzwords is an indication you aren't differentiated. You're a buzzword, so many other people are doing the exact same thing. Why are you special? Stop coping others."

If China were to start routinely cranking out highly valuable startups, you know reporters would call them Dragoncorns or Unidragons or something.
Funniest things from that movie.

1. Interns worried about jobs after internship at GOOGLE
2. Google has live support chat. HA-HA-HA.
They are also only using fatal accidents and not all accidents. I'm assuming that truck accidents are more likely to be fatal than non truck accidents but I have no data.
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I realize that computers do things better than brains in many cases, but they are nowhere near as flexible or adaptable. Then again, I don't care about narrow AI, so raw performance isn't particularly important to me.
Interesting! I am actually using a T440s as daily driver and i though it has the same screen as the T450s. Mine is the touch screen version though, so maybe that makes a much bigger difference in screen quality than i tought
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> If you know of anyone else who is maintaining an open-source implemenation of a programming language that has only one user, please let me know [...]

The author of HolyC and TempleOS, Terry Davis, might be in a similar position:

http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/HolyC.html

Though I imagine with the exposure it's gotten over the years, Terry might not be the sole user (probably sole regular user).
Perhaps you're being a bit dismissive, but Cilk is an option people should explore. For those interested in how such things work, there are extensive papers from the Cilk group at MIT: http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/papers.html

In particular, I recommend "Cilk: An Efficient Multithreaded Runtime System" (http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/papers/PPoPP95.pdf) and "The Implementation of the Cilk-5 Multithreaded Language" (http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/papers/cilk5.pdf).
> In the mid 1800:s the americans were massively more literate than e.g. english (something like 80% compared to 50%?)

If you compare the US figure for 1870 with the UK figure for 1820, perhaps, but in an era where both nations are noted to have seen significant rises in literacy that seems a tad unfair...

In 1870 the figures were 80% and 76% respectively[1], hardly a "massive" difference and I'm not aware of any evidence or even arguments to the effect that US levels of literacy rose earlier or faster.

The US certainly was exceptional in the mid 1800s in still having opportunities to stake out unclaimed fertile land, perhaps a more attractive route to prosperity than labouring in a British mill but then again until the 1860a it was also unusual in having a significant proportion of its population having no social mobility whatsoever on account of being slaves...

[1]http://ourworldindata.org/data/education-knowledge/literacy/
If people are willing to pay weight fees that reflect the true cost of fixing the road damage, they can continue to use the trucks. But why should taxpayers pay for 2 day delivery instead of 3 day by rail?
Do you know which platforms or compilers /volatile won't work?
Reading this gave me a moderate ASMR response. Anyone else have that occasionally from reading about math?
I've never seen the big O infinity notation before, nice one, thanks.
Seems like an awfully expensive way to go.
> As a general rule, don't use conventional encryption methods to transmit information with long-term sensitivity (e.g. medical records, etc.).

So what do you suggest I use today, given that I have a medical record here and I need it over there?
I feel your pain.

Critical sections are really designed to wrap only a few lines of code. Basically nothing nontrivial should be done within a critical section, IMO.

If you're dealing with multithreading, the only safe thing to do with references is to put them in a list of "things to release later." And then do that from the main thread.

GC does make this easier, sure. But creating a "release list" is not hard. Making a GC not stall the program at awkward times is actually a lot harder.
I think the title of the post gives an impression that the talk is about China but it's infact about entrepreneurism.
oh,this seems to be a controversial question.The point is how to regard GFW in China.To be honest,every countries has its censorship.However,the point is GFW in china is opaque,which is not accepted.A man has rights to know what he want to know,and for gov,managing should be public.As for the author of shadowsocks,it is very sorrowful that she is asked to stop his work,which helps many Chinese people.For developers，this is what their work needs;for users,this is chances to see the real Internet.Remember everyone does not want to oppose gov,they just want to see something useful for their jobs,which also includes some politic news against Chinese gov.
I know, it was meant to be an advice to OP.
Thanks for pointing out.. AWS is constantly pushing things.
As a former VMware employee I would agree with your sentiment, excellent hypervisor.
Microsoft won’t tell you what its Windows 10 updates do
FLSA is not a joke anymore. Especially for a big company or one that has aspirations of becoming big.
This is not an advantage.

Imagine a scenario where a rogue timestamping service performs just well enough to get a significant userbase. They then alter their service such that instead of simply returning the timestamp, they put the content up on the Internet, but assign themself an earlier signed timestamp before returning a timestamp to the original requestor. They would instantly replace all of their customers in Google results, because Google would think that they were the originators of the content. They'd then be free to do all sorts of mischief with that influx of traffic: show ads, install malware, phish addresses, etc.
> I have several reasons to push on:

> SPITBOL is unique in the power it provides to manipulate strings and text. I’ve yet to see anything else come close.

I would be interested to know more about what features SPITBOL offers for string processing. I'm going to take a look at the "Green Book" [1] Dave mentions, but if anyone else has relevant focused resources on that topic I'd love to give them a look.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/spitbol/downloads/detail?name=Gree...
“It's easier to port a shell than a shell script” (1998)
That was a pretty good benchmark article, thanks!
Ubuntu Core Gets (unofficial) Support for Raspberry Pi 2 GPIO and I2C
This is why drone technology is very interesting to me. If you have drones flying around that deliver things directly from docks to warehouses, or warehouse to warehouse, not only would it be faster, but potentially safer too (the drone could take paths that have no or minimal human population). There's probably a bunch of ways to regulate this as well, such that in the case of disaster, the cost of human life is extremely unlikely.
In the tech field, everyone is very very aware. I can't speak about other fields though. In my experience, pretty much anyone who is middle class or above knows about it. Granted middle class and above is only about 300 million of the almost 1.4 billion people -- so very much a minority. Granted China is huge and I mainly move in tech circles so YMMV.

It's not just international companies. Chinese companies are all about going overseas now. China is now a next exporter of investment. Plus it seems every company with an app that has a moderate amount of success wants to reach Chinese outside of the China -- they have more money -- and so need to integrate with blocked services like FB. And exporting Chinese online games to other developing nations is really taking off.
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I'm just going to make it a policy to flag pointless posts like this. They add nothing to the discussion here. This is not "content" by any reasonable definition.
If you're late to the party of course you are going to "copy" others, that's what all the big SV companies did to get started. They go on and on about how innovative they are, but in reality the secret of SV is rather commercialization. Which is exactly what China is doing. Chinese companies are already beating SV on some fronts, like drones. He's just upset because China is challenging the exceptionalism of SV.
I think drones will leapfrog over self-driving trucks. Why even bother having things that drive on roads when you could fly them directly to a warehouse, over hills, forests, rivers, etc?
Meet Linux's New Fastest File-System – Bcachefs
And in fact, VC's volatile behavior provides only acquire-release, not full sequential consistency. SC is required for the correctness of some algorithms, and it's what programmers intuitively expect, so <atomic> provides it by default.
It's unfortunate the article doesn't have any examples to show off SPITBOL's expressiveness, or have any benchmarks to show how fast it is compared to solutions in other languages. Reading the comments here, it seems like it could have some decent benefits.

Would be interested to know what built-in types are currently available. I wonder also whether this language would also be a good fit for test case writing.
From my perspective the job of a manager is 4 fold:

1) Manage schedules.

2) Set expectations for performing well and be motivational (optional in my case but appreciated).

3) Prevent corporate politics and bullshit from getting in the way and keep the team in the loop about potential bullshit that is bound to come our way.

4) Manage or help manage hiring/firing process and promotion process.

A manager should act as a background process that steps up only if things are very obviously wrong or you directly ask for help related to the above. If they are in the foreground without it being required than they are creating the political bullshit that results in team members becoming weary and quitting.
What practical effect has this had on groves and herds in California, and on the California drought in general?
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So why isn't there liability for damage caused by subsidence?
Problems with prerendering ads:

1. Prerendered ads would still be detectable if you leave in your tracking code client side.

2. If you take out the tracking code, then it would have to be handled on the server side. Which leads to the question, whose servers are handling this? And how is the data aggregated?

3. Also, without tracking code client side, it would be far less beneficial to advertisers because it would be much harder to tell who you are when you visit and decide what ad to serve you. I'm sure there are ways around this, but it is far more difficult compared to what they do now.

4. Caching.

Of course these problems aren't impossible to get around, but prior to the iOS 9 stuff, there really was no benefit to even consider doing any of this.
I expect ground vehicles win on energy even if you roll in the roads.
Fascinating, I'm curious, what do you do with such languages and tools? I'm not trolling or trying to start a flame war, I'm genuinely curious as to the best use of these tools. Also - are you doing it as a hobbit, or commercially (or both)? How did you discover this tech?
Are you saying that Blue Coat (based in Sunnyvale, California) develops censorship tools in order to keep their family alive? Who is threatening them?
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Long time GitLab user here. I'm not sure how I feel about the possibility of GitLab shipping with a persistent chat application. On one hand, much of GitLab is about collaboration, and there are many interesting integration points between the two products. On the other, I prefer the ecosystem of choice per product. I assume that RocketChat could be disabled, or perhaps there would be the option of getting RocketChat and non-RocketChat omnibus installers. Enabling RocketChat on the same server for a large number of users would have hardware implications, and then you're going to through MongoDB in there two (which RocketChat uses). It just feels like too much going on in one system.
Orexin receptor antagonists: A new class of sleeping pill
Ask HN: What are good questions to ask in Amazon recruiting process?
What would be good points to raise when going through Amazon interview process, given the recent news on Amazon's working environment?
It's not just the water that cattle consume directly, it's the water that is used in the grain that fattens them up in that year before they are butchered. The latter dwarfs the former.
Causal induction is a damn powerful thing.
I still have some plans to auto-derive the optimal work/global/local group sizes, however, that still takes some work.

Therefore, I just implemented the most basic straightforward alternative (which is indeed rather restrictive at the moment) as a temporary solution.
You're not asking what the world is really like, you're asking about whether or not a model of reality is a fiction or not. Physicists model reality. Every model is a fiction. Some are just more useful fictions than others.
Or because Canadians try to use their guns for hunting animals.
I cover what little I know of that in the links above, see them for reference.

On herds: not clear, though I believe they're somewhat reduced. Though alfalfa, not almonds, in support of cattle, are the largest single use (ag or otherwise) of water within California.

As with herds, alfalfa cultivation can be switched on or off rapidly.

My understanding is that the actual amount of supplemental water for cattle varies greatly throughout the state. For northern coastal California, irrigation (or "virtual water" in the form of supplied alfalfa) is less necessary.
Drawing in the third dimension
If you want to get the real deal, kits go for about 359. Some minimal soldering required. You can get kits a bit cheaper on ebay.

http://www.moogmusic.com/products/etherwave-theremins/etherw...
I'm a former OTR driver now working in telecom and as a sysadmin (still with active CDL however).

How do you propose to solve the delay issues at each end of the rail journey, do you think shippers can be made to accept longer transit times? I'd love to see the median length for a TL trip come down to like 150 miles.
That's directly addressed.
Ask HN: How much/What should I ask for as the first technical guy at a startup
Some background first:
I'm currently working full time at a big name tech firm, and I'm satisfied with both the salary and career development aspects from my current job. So I don't have to find another job right now.
At the same time, I've been helping this startup with their software offerings, which would be their focus down the road.
Now if I join the startup full time, I'll be essentially the 1st tech guy there, and responsible for everything software including building up a team, which I'm pretty excited about. The startup already has some traction, so they should be able to offer competitive salary (so it's not one of those business-guy-with-an-idea-looking-for-a-technical-cofounder type of deal). Now my question is, how much/what besides base salary should I ask from the startup in such a situation? or basically what would be a typical package structure for the 1st few employees in an early stage, seemingly promising startup?
I'm new to this. Any suggestions are welcome.
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For trips over 150-600 miles (depending on the region), Rail is absolutely the way to go - the issue with rail in say a SEA to PDX (or for that matter a YVR to PDX) trip is the load/unload times at each end, which can add up to more than the total transit time for the freight movement.
Volatile works correctly on all platforms.

Don't use it as a synchronization primitive, that's not what it's meant to do. You only should use it:

a. If you're reading from HW.

b. If you want to use it like a const marker for member functions.
When it was my own company, I loved the excitement of the hunt. I slept under my desk. We kicked ass. Even though some of us had lives outside of work.

More recently, I worked at at a startup where it was possible to have a family and get stuff done. It was pretty cool!

It seems like, for work-life balance, the US is somewhere between Japan and Switzerland. What would it take to be more like the Swiss?
Appreciate the links, thanks!
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> are you doing it as a hobbit

Thanks for that typo, I laughed immediately after drinking some tea and now it's all over my monitor :(
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a. What is a speech recognition "toolkit"? Does it transform audio data into text?

b. How does Kaldi compare to any other "toolkit"?

I clicked the Github link, read the README, found the link to the project home page, read that, clicked the Documentation link, and read "About Kaldi", and haven't found the answer for a., and the answer for b. is clearly beyond me.[1]

[1] "Kaldi is similar in aims and scope to HTK... Important features include: Code-level integration with Finite State Transducers (FSTs). We compile against the OpenFst toolkit (using it as a library)." etc.
The fact that you can't legally say anything any time you want does not imply that there is no legally protected right to free expression. It isn't a slippery slope to a dictatorship.

"We should gas all the Jews, rise up with me" isn't just free expression. It is also an act with predictable consequences.