skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moreover, "bugs" can linger around in code for a long time and you can't really track that metric. Code changing over time in a repository could be to fix bugs or refactor/rewrite etc. I think the original posters question was more around whether there are existing resources to track these things to which the answer I feel is no. Combining blogs posts, stack exchange score, speaking topics and other real world things can give you some semblance of a developers engagement with the development community but doesn't translate one-to-one on their actual productivity levels on a team. Although these things usually indicate a greater potential for success.
Which airline company or group do you think sponsored this article?
I really hope the answer is "none of them."
That company appears to be pretty bad at hiring executive technical management.
Movers – Toronto. Moving Company – Hercules
If you distribute that cost over several years, then it may not look so expensive, but the problem is many people may not be capable of such an upfront cost and the perceived benefits of the upgrade (e.g. security patches, newer IExplorer) are seemingly minimal.
That would be roughly what the law says.
I interview candidates a lot, and I see this pattern many times. I can't remember how aggressively those particular people followed up with me, but I can tell you that I have had conversations like this:

---

Tell me about something specific you did to improve the productivity/velocity of your colleagues.

"I'm a big believer in unit tests. When you have a lot of code coverage, other people can make changes without worrying they'll break things."

Ok, I get that, we write tests too. But what, specifically, did you do with respect to testing? And what, specifically was the result?

"Well, I write tests for all my code first. TDD leads to better designs, and that's better for everyone."

I know what TDD is, and I admire people with the discipline to practice it consistently. Now tell mw what, specifically, you did with TDD to improve the productivity of the team. Did you introduce the idea? Did you introduce some process around TDD? Did you introduce some TDD tooling?

"I use Mock Objects."
It maybe the wrong time to travel around the world my friend!

At least I would tread carefully around Europe and the Middle East.
Piano moving
Sourcegraph CEO here. :)

We released Sourcegraph under the Fair Source License (https://fair.io/), which we worked with a well-known open-source lawyer to draft.

TLDR is that it lets us create the best product for developers by having a sustainable business.

Full info at https://fair.io:

> Fair Source allows companies to both share a product’s source code and charge for that product. Releasing a product’s source code makes it more valuable to customers by enhancing extensibility and building trust. With open source, releasing the full source code and charging for the product is virtually impossible. Fair Source makes doing both possible.
United Launch Alliance have shown a plan to catch their falling engines with a helicopter: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/2015/20150413-uni...
Also mind that software doesn't stay the same either. As an example, LMDB (smaller, key-value DB) in its initial docs and slides bragged 30K of object size. Build current version, you'll get 60K, and there doesn't seem to be config options to just make it smaller. So either use older version, which is of course scary (who knows how many bugs was fixed later), or spend quite a lot of time tearing it apart, with unclear maintenance perspectives. Having something ROM and RAM optimized from the beginning seems like pretty good solution (if someone grew brave to do it).
This looks like inverse offer in Mesos https://mesosphere.com/blog/2015/10/07/mesos-inverse-offers/
Achronix is my favorite among the FPGA companies due to use of asynchronous logic. Got me doing research on the topic. Here are some of the first things I found:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/07/friday_squid_...

Asynch design flow at 250nm
http://async.usc.edu/pubs/MF_ASYNC04.pdf

65nm standard cell library for async
http://www.inf.pucrs.br/~calazans/publications/2013_SIM_asce...

That one partly uses Null Convention Logic by Theseus
http://www.theseusresearch.com/NullConventionLogic.htm

The very interesting AASP chip
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Asynchronous_array_of_simple_pro...

I kept pushing both asynchronous and analog circuits for neural networks as they fit them better. I know one startup is doing mixed digital and analog for it. Not sure if asynch is getting much attention outside of memory. Anyway, readers jump on it as asynch should be easiest accelerator tech for VLSI ANN's.

Regardless, hope readers have fun with the links. :)
Your statement presumes a lot, for instance that sovereign debt under all circumstances, is an existential threat.

The United States has been in deeper debt (as a percentage of GDP) before.
That's not yet announced but I fully expect it to be available on amazon.com along with "Prime shipping not available for this item"
Yes, it's readily acknowledged that Turkish special forces have trained the Turkmen. But that is not the same as the Turkmen fighters being "Turkish Assets", which suggests command over their actions.
PC manufacturers are incredibly cost sensitive right now. It is kind of like the airline industry where they strip away a $4 meal and $1 blanket on a $250 ticket to save money.
And I'm paying the minimum that the airline's faulty assumptions and bad computer implementation allow.
SPACEWAR: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums (1972)
https://fair.io/

It's made by them as well. It most certainly is not libre/free software. I'm guessing it has minimal legal ability to stand up in court. It is a bastardization of what open source is about... really it's more of a disclosed source setup.
Regulations are a part of a free market. They provide transparency and ensure that everyone is playing by the same rules.
Real estate markets are a fickle beast.

After the 2008 crash, I was planning on moving, but abruptly changed my plans when I lost close to a 80K on the value of my home.

Fast forward 6 years and suddenly the market was showing signs of rebounding. I had always been in contact with my real estate agent, but I was considering a large scale remodel and staying put where I was. My agent offered to start looking for something that I might like.

A year later the process went shockingly fast. I was assuming the house would sit for a while since the market was still pretty soft. I cleaned and de-cluttered my house and it went on the market. Within hours I had two listings for the next day - which ballooned to four the morning of. When I got back, I had two offers. The house was on the market less than two days.

I credit the ability to sell my house and make a few grand on it to my agent. It was priced and marketed really well by him and his company. This is the second house he's sold for me. The other house was on the market at the height of the housing boom and sold in less than a week.
In Android you can deactive all phone home and cloud features, also most Android device manufactore add various apps that require no cloud connection at all. The same goes for iOS were it is even easier.

In contrary to Windows 10 were you can't deactivate several phone home and cloud features. Severals apps are only shipped as cloud-only. The Windows update is forced on you and cannot be deactivated. And to top it, every feature update (like Threshold 2) resets your personal privacy settings and more as it is basically a system upgrade that often also replaces device drivers. So Android, iOS, OSX and all other OS incl. Windows up to v8.1 are way better for the end user - as there they still have the choice and decide for themself.
Congrats to the Kafka team!

The biggest changes I can see in this release are SSL support, new consumer API (beta), quotas and Kafka Connect.
What is the vacancy rate in Berlin? Is it at all possible to actually get your foot in the door and rent a cheap apartment?

The typical argument against price controls is that it reduces returns and discourages investment and new development, which can make it extremely difficult to find an apartment. The article didn't touch on this much, but this one line suggested that developers were still happily involved.

"...the large institutions that own much of the city’s housing stock are looking for a steady return rather than boom-and-bust cycles..."

Of course low vacancies happen in aggressively pro-development cities too. Canada has similar pro-homeownership policies to Australia and Vancouver's real estate market is similarly high priced as Melbourne's. New condos in Vancouver are being developed aggressively and yet the vacancy sits at 0.5%.
Anyone else first read that as "interviewer"?
One more thing, Microsoft is a hypocrite. Microsoft employed a number of marketing campaigns to smear Google. They even went so far as to hire Mark Penn, a political smear campaign hitman, to carry out their plans. Now that we know all of the nefarious activities Microsoft has been up to and tried to conceal from the press their actions are even more despicable. From breaking into their users accounts and rifling through their documents, giving the NSA full access to Skype, online storage and email and the spyware infected Windows 10 that they're now trying to impose on people unwillingly.

As for your question, it's better to attack a hypocrite that claimed to champion privacy when in reality they did just the opposite.
Hidden city tickets are weird because if the cost of flying A to B to C is lower than A to B, that implies the cost of flying B to C is negative.

Does the government pay airlines to fly to podunk towns that wouldn't otherwise get service, or something?

Why don't they just make that leg of the flight $50, but hand out $150 to everyone who's actually on board mid-flight? That would prevent people from booking the flight but not taking it.
Totally agreed.

> Failing so spectacularly in an interview shook me to my core.

He didn't fail spectacularly, he just didn't get the job. He's lucky he got actionable feedback from a friend to improve. Most bigger companies won't give a reason for a rejection nowadays for legal reasons.

I, however, have truly failed spectacularly in an interview. While it temporarily killed my confidence, it did make me a better interviewee in the long run. I learned the concepts that stumped me in the interview, and I had a little less fear in the next interview since it couldn't get worse.
128K/256K of builtin flash is a midline for microcontrollers now. A 16Mb SPI flash chip costs $0.5, and many newer devices have some external flash. Of course, nobody precludes you to manage all that space manually, bit by bit.
New Shepard does not compete with Falcon 9 (or any 'real' launcher). It made a vertical hop to 100km, with a very light payload. It didn't come anywhere close to orbit (which is what Falcon 9 does).

Obligatory: https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/
Concetta Antico
Date: 2005
You've described a git repository containing folders of markdown files. The "app" would be a git client and a markdown editor, both of which are available on all mobile platforms.

I use pocket git and IA writer on Android. It's a great combo!
A-10 documentary Air Force tried to block
You would be better off selling services akin to what GitLab does for sustenance.
If you care about software freedom, do donate to fsf. eff leaves that to fsf and they already have 50x more funding. Of course eff also has much broader and less well defined goals of things like "internet freedom."
Why Banning Secure Email Won’t Stop Terror
If it costs the airlines nothing extra, why am I being charged more for a seat based on where I am at the time of booking?
LOL, is this "native advertising" and is it for the airlines or the companies helping you buy cheap tickets?

Airlines are in my experience among the least ethically run businesses:

* They will cancel a flight at the last minute stranding passengers because it was "undersold".

* They will delay flights for reasons that have no accountability to consumers.

* They pass on 100% of the risk of flights being on time to consumers.

* They give gate attendants authority to claim your bag is "too large" for the overhead bin even when it fits just fine. They can even claim the overhead bins are full when they are not full.

* Airlines will try to make every seat on a plane "economy-plus" (when you have already purchased a ticket, but they haven't given you a seat assignment yet) when they are overbooked and the bump the passengers that don't pay.

On the contrary I challenge airlines to find one example where they act ethically even when their incentives are not to and the law would allow them to act otherwise.
I had the opportunity to try Windows 10 last week. I was surprised to find that Windows now has pop-up advertisements for Office and Bing embedded in the OS itself that recur during day-to-day usage and cannot be dismissed. That seems wild to me. Also, contrary to opinions that I have heard on HN and elsewhere on the web, Windows 10 is typical poor quality Microsoft software, not one of the "good" Windows like XP and 7 were. For example, there are literally two control panels that are different: the classic control panel and a Settings tool (not a different view of the control panel but something completely different) that comes up when you search for various settings in the Start menu. The Start menu is super clunky and slow as well.
Do you plan to add support for multiple languages in one repo? Or does that already exist?

I tried using it on a project I contribute to (https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/mattermost/platform) and it seems to fail to work.
No. But running SQL where you never could run it before (where SQLite couldn't fit even remotely) is definitely interesting.
It is if the space savings gets your product sales due to lower unit price with big $$$ resulting. That's why there's a market for 8-16bit processors. Most developers don't want it so much as need it because getting job done for $1 a CPU is better than using $10-$100. ;)

EDIT to add two links by Ganssle to explain it better:

http://www.ganssle.com/rants/8bitsisdead.htm

http://www.ganssle.com/articles/8and16bit.htm

I think Microchip's 8-bitters doing $1+ billion in business with better profits and dividends vs troubles of many in 32-64 bit markets says a lot.
That may is extremely misleading. In it's default state, it's zoomed out so that you can't tell San Francisco from Los Angeles. The markers are not scaled with the size of the map, so a single marker, when zoomed out, covers several miles, but when zoomed in is less than a single city block.

In other words, looking at it in it's default state, the entire coast of CA is covered in toxic plumes, but when zoomed in, you see there are several areas along a particular road but large areas in between that are unaffected.

It's a good idea, but the implementation is extremely misleading.
The fact that you paid for windows bundled with your laptop at discount 14 years ago does not entitle you to a lifetime of free support. Big companies get XP support at great cost, because support is very expensive.

As you said yourself, Windows is a commercial product - you get what you pay for. Microsoft don't really owe anybody anything beyond what they get paid to do - the only reason they kept XP support for so long is that to do otherwise would be a PR nightmare, all their big customers would be angry and all the regular folks would have machines (even more) full of malware.
Emojimoji – generate new symbols from emoji shapes and names
I believe it makes a difference in coding as well.
the fact that you have to make a throwaway to state the truth shows how fucked up things are
Looks nice. I'd suggest a rename though, due to Apache Shindig.
India remains Apple's great untapped opportunity
I can't remember which source it was was I read different articles from FB trending news, I tried to find it but couldn't, later I'll have another go.
Interesting. Hope the author gets a usable subset there in a flexible coding style. Might be ported to other devices and become a general thing.

Love the name, too, haha.

Note: How much of a need is there for a SQL database on 8-bitters, etc? Can't one do that in a front-end at the client side and just have simple commands sent over network to device? What I always did for limited or security-critical devices. No way I'd put a whole 4GL on them lol.
This was much more fundamental than just not answering questions properly. I realized that I was not thinking clearly about the difference between specifics and generalities, and not communicating properly, in all sorts of conversations, not just when I was being interviewed.

For example, I was also interviewing people, having one-on-ones with reports, and so forth. I think this particular interview was a catalyst for rethinking the way I approached communication in general.
Awesome - love this project :-)

You can also see some of the other projects are listed here https://getmondo.co.uk/blog/2015/11/22/mondohack/
Without any Google blobs any smartphone without Google services.

And, as far as I know, binary blobs for bootloader ate not made by Google
Reg doesn't go into exactly when this interview occurred, but I have to imagine it was quite a few years ago. The conversation today should go something more like:

Interviewer 1: "So, Reginald, how many years of Angular Bootstrap Scrum experience do you have?"

Interviewer 2: "Fuck off, this is raganwald. You're hired."
Are you also not saying "where I want"? There are plenty of low-cost geographies. You may need to retrain as a truck mechanic or fisherman and maybe learn a new language to live there though. But the point it its very possible.
As an aside, it's sort of bothersome that it's termed as space tourism (not your term, I know) because it sort of belies the inherent risks associated. I'm pretty worried about what the public reaction will be when one of these 'tours' goes horribly wrong.
Beyond the Technology of Microservices: Organisational, Architectural and Ops
Obama holds presser with French president at White House
Perhaps instead of "failed spectacularly," I "snatched defeat from the jaws of victory."
Google “A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away”
The worst thing about Kafka in my experience has been the consumer libraries for languages like Python. That's not to say that they are terrible or unusable, just that they don't have nearly as much polish as the core of Kafka itself. I'm very much looking forward to new client libraries built against the new consumer API.
There are a number of phones that run AOSP without google service blobs. As for running a phone without driver blobs, well that was just a ridiculous question on your part.
I'm always fascinated by the lack of discussion around distributed systems tooling on HN. Anyway! Congrats!
Legendary programmer automates any task more than 90 seconds
This is from when I knew both programming languages: C++ and Java.
> If I modify the source code, can I redistribute my modified version under the MIT License?
Separate but related question about the Fair Source License: If I modify the source code, can I redistribute my modifications under the MIT License?

The difference being, of course, that one would redistribute the original code under the FSL and so the work as a whole would remain licensed under it.
For 9 seconds.

I don't see how they could have been warning him for 10 minutes if he was over their airspace for nine seconds.
Commonly accepted by men and women, in fact. I laughably see men complaining that it's degrading to adult women while hearing my female friends happily embrace it as part of their identity.
It seems to want to take my email address so you can email me 'stuff' - and also I need to use OAuth2 via your site for... something? I'm afraid I've given up on it after about three minutes :-/ Our servers aren't connected to the internet so this kinda fails the 'self hosted' test for us...
Are the SpaceX boosters that Musk want to land going to orbit? No.

Is the extra fuel needed to make such a landing a big part of going to orbit? No.

The extra weight a enerby needed to land vertically has nothing to do with a 900 factor. Musk's tweet is thus equally disengenuous. It makes it sound like vertical landing a booster for a rocket going to orbit is tremendously harder than what BO did. It is not, it's the same ball park.
Put a stop to all bullying Anti-Bullying week
Put a stop to all bullying! Check out Butterfly Me ....by, Evon Latrail
Now available @ www.amazon.com
#evonlatrail #trending
If the things you stated are true: that Ahmed did not make the clock, that Ahmed's father is a politician (I guess your implication is that politicians will throw their children under the bus for publicity?), and that the sister was also suspended 6 years prior, I still don't see an implication that the dad set it up.

If you combine those facts to believe Ahmed's father completely set this up, then you can also just combine these facts to determine that people in that school district of Texas are probably just racists (the sister didn't do anything and got suspended, the brother did something that may have been grounds for suspension, but got arrested). People are willing to crucify Ahmed (who again I doubt had much choice if he was set up to do this) for the former, but no one cares about the possibility of the latter. I'm guessing the truth lies between these two extremes.

But again, if Ahmed's father set him up for this, then there should have been an investigation. And if he had been found guilty of forcing his son to stage some fake clock/bomb thing, well I'll go and sharpen my pitchfork for it. But as far as I can tell, kid was _arrested_ for what amounts to a clock he didn't make.

> 2) Lawyer letter stating, "Irving Police officials immediately determined that the clock was harmless" is false. Beat cops aren't qualified to make any such analysis; even things as innocuous as an unattended backpack get further analysis by specifically trained personnel.

If they did think it was a bomb, or didn't think it was but had no authority/knowledge to assess that it was a bomb, then it is even worse because it means there was a possible bomb on campus and they failed to evacuate the school. I think that was part of the anger that people felt about this case. Were they really thinking about the welfare of the rest of the children on campus or did they know it wasn't a bomb so were just kinda harassing Ahmed because they wanted to?
> The point of evidenced-based X (medicine, teaching, etc.) is improvement and change, things that people are often hostile to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semmelweis_reflex

A crucial point is that the Semmelweis reflex isn't (just) hostility (or unacceptance) of change but of any evidence countering your beliefs, whether mainstream or not. Since people's attitude towards programming languages resembles religion (personal experience, emotional reaction) rather than "common wisdom" (as, say, in medicine), evidence-based language design may challenge those who favor or resist change (or different kinds of changes) equally.

The bigger problem with evidence-based approaches (and I don't know if this is covered in the thesis) is when the model tested is mutable (in this case, human behavior), which isn't really the case with medicine. The evidence may well show that most change has adverse effect, but that is only because it is different from the status-quo, and any adverse effect would dissipate given enough time. This makes the evidence-based approach problematic whether or not it uses agreement as its measure.
No, Android doesn't require a Google account.

Perhaps you're talking about Google services instead
It offers the value of having an initial target, otherwise you risk coding too much without stopping.