skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By contrast, the Blue Origin rocket went straight up, and straight back down...From a space applications perspective it is not much more useful than a blimp.

Actually, the "pop-up" 1st stage trajectory is interesting from a space applications perspective. You can think of it this way: a SSTO spaceplane is just beyond the cusp of possible for technology made out of normal matter and fueled by chemical rockets. But what if you could somehow cheat and launch an SSTO at very high altitude? Then it's just below the cusp of possible. So you wind up with a completely reusable TSTO craft.

So how is that more interesting than a high altitude blimp? You get the craft back faster, directly to the facility. Recovery is more straightforward. The equipment and technology is the same sort of equipment and technology as in the orbiter craft. Also, if you're able to get up to a "mere" 600 mph or so downrange velocity, due to the mathematics of the rocket equation, you're still saving a sizable chunk of vehicle weight in fuel.
Good call! Yeah, that was my former Dungeons & Dragons=playing self coming out there. ;-)
Still stuck on 41.0.2

Guess they are never going to fix gdocument.

And then there is the matter of allowing private/local extensions.

Might have to take another look at Pale Moon or Waterfox
As someone who's worked in agencies for quite a while, this is all way off base and is really just and ad for ZURB. Good design agencies have been agile for quite a while. Switching from specialists to "product designers" is something I've seen attempted with mixed results. The problem isn't specialization it's expertise. If we have work for 50 visual design experts, 50 UX experts, 50 content experts all full-time across accounts, what benefit would be had from hiring the same number of non-experts? Part of the value offer is that we can staff someone with 20 years of expertise in a very narrow area who would never work for your company and let her impart wisdom for 2 weeks that you could spend a year figuring out. Top agencies are already in almost every space including bootstrapping startups and even working for established product companies like google, apple, microsoft.
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I interpreted the 75% as a hypothetical.
Yes, but it's still a problem.

UK customs agents seize about 1m cigarettes per day. There are about 10m smokers in the UK, so if they smoke about 20 a day that's about 200m cigarettes per day. 1m isn't much compared to that. But it's still there.

(But I do strongly support legalisation of drugs. I just think there's some stuff to be learnt from UK)
Clearly Stallman is proved right again, somehow.
This is the original article:
https://www.process.st/2015/12/saas-pricing-pages/

(perhaps the link could be updated?)
'Declining in market share': I assume you count 'Google throws crappy internal ads at every internet user and encourages mum and pop to "upgrade your browser"', right?

I find it difficult to see how that can _not_ damage a free market.

Mozilla seems to flourish as far as I am concerned: Servo, Rust and Firefox are surprising me time and time again and seem very well received in all my social circles.
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Why do the cities pay for them? Why aren't the coal-burning energy utility companies paying for them, out of pocket?
Last time I heard that Santa Claus was neither compliant with UK Data Protection Act [1], nor the Canadian Privacy Act [2].

[1] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/29/contents

[2] https://www.priv.gc.ca/leg_c/r_o_a_e.asp
Looking out my window right now at 2am in the morning, all I see is misty fog where I would usually see a city here in Beijing. I really don't see how more mist would help. They need a big giant freaking fan to create wind...powered by coal, of course, just for purposes of irony.
I wonder if a bigger version of this could be built to inject a cloud of ash into the atmosphere to help mitigate climate change [1].

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/david_keith_s_surprising_ideas_on_...
The article on math intuition plus the e article were incredible. I always knew how to work with them and sort of what they meant but never really intuitively. The articles were first time in a while that happened. Reminds me when I first learned the often-hated word problems were the best part of math that explained how to actually map it to real world. Equations took less thought for me so I avoided lots of word problem practice. Was glad I shifted back a bit before calculus or I'd never be able to explain what it was good for.

This guy's site should get more attention and probably an award. I'll be experimenting with less-math-inclined people to see how effective it is.
Floating on water in a barge, not to spoil anything here. I was half hoping for hovertrees.
This is still $600! I can't believe why standing desks should be that expensive! Abusing the hype maybe?
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> I can pull it out into a static field. More importantly I can pass it back and forth through generic functions without them having to do anything special about it (e.g. as a database load callback), because it's just a value. I notably can't do this with exceptions (or e.g. if I'm emulating Writer with a global or ThreadLocal variable), though checked exceptions will at least fail this at compile time.

I understand, and as I said, I normally prefer not working this way. Others -- like yourself -- do. Both ways are perfectly valid. I prefer exceptions to not be values, as, to me, they capture a failed computation not a missing result. For a missing value, I can use null/Optional etc.. But in any case, it's not an either/or thing. You can always catch exceptions and store them if you want; you can even use Either if that's how you prefer to work.

> If you're willing to fix the order in which effects happen (and explicitly handle when you want to change it, as in your example) then you can write something much simpler than the usual monad transformers

How? You need to chain functions, each emitting some set of effects, and you don't control in advance the order of the effects in each function.

I am not fixing the order of effects any more than in your examples. The reason the examples look different is because I've chosen to represent an error not as a value but as a control-flow construct, but I don't have to, so let's look at other effects:

If I have two functions,

void foo() { print("hi"); log(1); }
void bar() { log(2); print("bye"); }

This is how I compose them:

foo(); bar();

With monads you need to make sure that they both return the same nesting of Log[Writer] or Writer[Log], but I don't need to care.
I have been using this for a while now. It works.
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The introductory videos from PyCon are very accessible to anyone with a little programming knowledge, no math needed: https://github.com/jakevdp/sklearn_pycon2015

You aren't going to be an expert without math, but you can learn enough to evaluate ML related business ideas.
That had absolutely nothing to do with making printers great (again).

Printers suck a putting stuff on paper, doing a digital copy via a printer protocol doesn't fix that. It's neat and there might be some interesting use cases, but it doesn't fix what's wrong with printers.

I'm not even sure that printers where ever that great. Printers seems like devices that sort of peaked 40 years ago. Since then they have gradually decreased in quality. Printing 1000+ pages a day seems to be a little much to ask from many printers, they simply wear out to quickly. The whole process of looping paper around inside something that fits on a desk (sort of), combined with cheap plastic parts is a receipt for disaster.

Software-wise the manufacture should stop trying to add more feature that no one while ever use and instead work on making "cancel print job" actually work. The number of times a printer (driver?) has chosen to pick the wrong paper-tray is mind boggling. Why are there even multiple trays, we only ever need to print on standard A4 paper? Sadly picking a printer where the hardware quality will support the volume also result in feature bloat.

I really hate printers, and no amount of Javascript will make them any better.
Serious question: Would Santa Claus be subject to HIPAA compliance?
Why hasn't he logged on in over 2 years? because hes been busy with doxxing other nations.
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I was not clear in my reply, so my apologies for that. I was stating that ~2x figure (give or take) as part of the pile of evidence that median personal income is nowhere near $56k.
A unit that can jam my cellphone within a few feet is; jamming an aircraft at altitude is an entirely different class of device (if only for power output reasons).
I was looking to write a spam filter and came across Paul Graham's essays. I read them all, then produced a graphic of relationships between them:

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/PaulGrahamEssays.html

I haven't updated that in ages - not sure I still have the code for it.

I send a link to that to PG, and he said I should submit it to HN.

So I did.

Original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=368657

Revisited: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=397408

Wow. 2008/11/18. Over 7 years ago.
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This guy is worried. http://imgur.com/RNiWGSl
It depends on the layoff I suppose.

I mean each time, the survivors all do the "wow this sucks, but at least we made it" motions. Then a portion of them go grab a beer and inevitably talk about what a mistake it was to lose person X and the disbelief that useless person Y is still around. Then a portion of them talk about finding work at a better company.

The one time I did leave, I think the entire survivor group went through the above ritual. There was a lot of anecdotes revealed by various people that pretty much convinced everyone to leave before the next round.

I have a sample size of 3 so now idea how normal my experiences are.
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Even worse, when I worked at "chip manufacturing plant", the construction crews would _regularly_ be laid off, unemployment would be drawn, then magically re-hired months later. Working the system...
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I somewhat disagree here. There is heavy competition, and Amazon might be ahead of the pack, but for most puny businesses there are alternatives. One serious screwup and all of those puny businesses would abandon Amazon for something else, because the other major players would publish it everywhere.

The Netflix/Amazon relationship reminds of the "you owe the bank $100, the bank is your problem, you owe the bank $1bil, you are the bank's problem" sentiment. Netflix is probably such a big business that they are dependent on each other.

On the other hand, Amazon seriously screwing a small business would be like a bank failing a normal customer's withdrawal from their deposit. The second that information went public, the bank would essentially be dead.
Not really. The strlcat function is safer because it always NUL terminates the destination buffer, and therefore makes bugs in user code less likely. The flaw here is just an implementation defect.

Also note that SIZE_MAX is an unreasonable input, one would even say it violates preconditions.
Thanks for engaging with the piece, although reading some content you've put out into the world called "naive" isn't a great feeling. I wonder what other word might have been used to accomplish your point without being degrading. "Incomplete" perhaps?

To your points:

1. Stock options vesting and accomplishing something meaningful to show your value to your next employer are tactical considerations to make if you've decided to leave. So you're right that if you establish that your current place of employment won't allow you to satisfy your intrinsic motivations, isn't in a context you're interested in, or won't let you accomplish your lifestyle goals, you need a plan to quit. In creating that plan you'd need to consider the questions you asked, but those are more questions of when to quit, or how to quit, rather than if you should quit.

2. Money to fill you bank account is a shallow reason to work - working to support your family or send your kids to college isn't - those are intrinsic motivations - to feel like you're providing for your family - or to feel like you're being a good parent - working to get money in your bank account speaks to responding, like trying to get peer recognition, to an extrinsic motivator - earning more money. Many of my peers when I was in my 20's worked for the money, and the toys, but never finding satisfaction in that.

I would submit, and particularly in the case of my clients who are all software engineers, that they are able to fulfill most of their lifestyle/income goals, while still doing a MUCH better job of understanding what kind of work they want to be doing, and pursuing career opportunities that provide those to them.
Are you suggesting a foreign government fed banana glee and zesty leak to the NSA through Juniper instead?
It's a fruity country obviously.
That'd be even more perplexing.
As an MBP trackpad user, I can't think of a more annoying web trend. To the point that I'm thinking of finding a way to disable this kind of behaviour and make a Chrome extension to block this thing everywhere.
libtls is part of libressl: http://www.libressl.org/

> LibreSSL is composed of four parts:

> The openssl(1) utility, which provides tools for managing keys, certificates, etc.
> libcrypto: a library of cryptography fundamentals
> libssl: a TLS library, backwards-compatible with OpenSSL
> libtls: a new TLS library, designed to make it easier to write foolproof applications
Question: if what Bezos did was just launching straight up and then landing, why is it any better than this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwwS4YOTbbw

when SpaceX launched 1000m and landed? Just because it was higher? It seems like SpaceX has Bezos beat on both sides - they launched and landed a rocket before Bezos, and now theyve launched and landed a rocket higher than Bezos. So all Bezos did was launch his rocket higher than SpaceX's at the time. Is that right?
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> Cheaper than bottled water? No it's not.

http://www.businessinsider.com/bottled-water-costs-2000x-mor...

> > "The [bottled water] industry grossed a total of $11.8 billion on those 9.7 billion gallons in 2012, making bottled water about $1.22/gallon nationwide

Parent post says

> > > Crude Oil is roughly $0.65 per gallon.
This is what I mean about reading the whole ledger. If wallet X is a target, then anyone who transacts with X is a target (which includes Y (anyone with a direct link to X) and Z (anyone with an indirect link to X)). We are dealing in probabilities here, but we definitely don't have untraceable transcations. The authorities have a finite number network paths/leads they can track down.

Of course, the more washing transactions you do with dirty coins the harder it is to track down the original wallet. That being said, the blockchain is somewhat self limiting in how many transactions it can processes per unit of time and thus the its obfuscating capabilities are diminished.
The best way to understand if something is a HIPAA violation is "Can someone who isn't the patient or doctor find any PHI?"

So unless Santa stores health information in his Naught/Nice list, he's HIPAA compliant.
It is not.

At all.

It may have some influence from "Saint Nicholas" but that was, I'm pretty sure, after like, 1000 AD.

So, uh, yeah.

Some people want to take Santa out of Christmas to focus more on Christ, and I would generally agree.
I was going to make a "This incident will be reported" joke, but it turns out that, as usual, XKCD trod this ground first: https://xkcd.com/838 . (In retrospect, that's probably what you were referencing.)
>but the real game-changing feature is that you get a single "executable jar" artifact for deployment

Like a war file?
IMUs are wildly expensive, and still have quite a lot of drift: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10752294

Certainly the RQ-170 has an IMU, and I could believe it might use it as the primary means of navigation, but it's almost certainly corrected by GPS, which gives you a means of altering the drone's path by GPS spoofing.
So how did the bug get into the typewriters?

And surprised that the NSA could not get IBM to provide 220v selectrics.

Or just use a step down transformer to convert 220v to 110v
3D printing is great for molds (lost plastic / lost wax process), for the things you won't be able to make with your simple tools. It is also great for making and adapting tools.
I haven't properly read most of his material yet, but one thing that may be relevant for some children -- kids manage emotion, questions of agency and fairness, differently when they're younger.

My wife and I taught our eldest daughter to read starting around 3 or so (not as young as in this article, but still on the early side). She's now 6, and quite good at sounding out any words she doesn't know, but sometimes gets really furious at the spelling of many English words. She wants rules that she can apply consistently, and (of course) English just... doesn't have those.

Present vs. past tense of "read", anyone? Lead (plumbum) vs. lead (guide) vs. led? Even words like "Once" and "only" can get her to scowl (she knows how "on" is pronounced... you've only added an "s" or "ly" sound to the end!)

It's a source of tension, because she'd rather believe we're wrong than accept that the language is so sadly inconsistent. :/
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This is naive.

Apple US sells Apple Ireland a macbook pro for 1000$. 1000$ is what it costs Apple US to get it from China, so no taxes as there is no profit.

Apple Ireland sells that same macbook to Apple UK for 2000$. Apple Ireland realizes 1000$ in profit, and pays the Irish rate on that profit. Apple UK pays no tax, because they bought the machine for 2k and sold it to consumers for 2k, giving them 0 profit on the sale of a new macbook.

Using this shell game i can realize 100% of my profits in any particular tax jurisdiction that I want; regardless of where sales are actually made.

I now pay 0 taxes in the UK regardless of whether I sell 1 unit or 1 billion units in the UK.

Do you think this is above board?

Do you believe that the company selling 1 billion units and paying 0 taxes represents an equivalent burden on society to the company selling 1 unit and paying 0 tax?

Does this company not use the publicly maintained roads? Airports? Are its UK workers not kept healthy by the publicly available health services?

Sure apple paid all of its legal obligations on its 0$ of profit in the UK - how they ended up with a reported 0$ profit in the UK is something worth having a conversation about.
Maybe because he wants to raise the issue about what is going on? Fight fire with fire, kiddo.
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How do Yahoo, Google, Facebook, or others distinguish between state-sponsored actors and non-state-sponsored actors?
> Congratulations on supporting the military industrial complex and furthering America's goal of global cultural genocide by paying any attention at all to this "parody", which only serves to mock and ridicule the very real and present threat that the NSA poses to human rights and civilization.

Were Soviet satirists, or their readers, guilty of propping up the Stalinist regime?
A slight correction: the technique existed long before the paper, so I wouldn't exactly say that its the "original" paper.

The paper was written by Chris Lomont in 2003, when the gamedev.net community first started investigating the code (I thought Beyond3D did their investigation earlier, but it looks like they did it in 2004). There is a different paper that published a similar idea in 1997 (Floating Point Tricks), but its not the one linked. The code first appeared in the wild on comp.graphics.algorithms around 2002, apparently.

I remember this because I followed the discussion on Gamedev.net when Chris Lomont wrote his paper. Some years after, I found the Beyond3D articles where they traced the origin back to Ardent Computer.

https://www.gamedev.net/topic/139956-carmacks-sqrt/

http://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/8/

http://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/15/
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Ah yes, we are absolutely certain that this new code is incorrect, but it doesn't go against corporate policy.
Tomorrow always different right?

You're some saying it'll be different this time, and the only explanation you give is, 'communications' and 'electronic', and yet plenty of fiat currencies have collapses under such systems. Again, every fiat currency that has ever existed has collapsed, sure there are some new ones that haven't yet but to believe they won't is magical thinking.

Again gold, after thousands of years, is still being hoarded in vaults by every major and minor world power, you really need to review some history.
Haha yeah because it's not like this is going on everywhere in tech. Nope this is a non-issue and exMozilla is a misogynist racist asshole, how dare he oppose us.
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It is rather odd that, as a knowledge worker, I have to climb into a metal box and operate it at dangerously high speeds (participating in an activity that's the #1 highest accidental killer in the US) so that I may arrive at a desk in some distant location so that I may be seen typing at my keyboard so I may get paid for it.
Naughty or nice makes for a crappy index. I'd imagine he'd use some sort of weighted distribution to determine niceness and naughtiness.

I'd think it's not just the NSA that wants to see this dataset. Can you imagine the gold-mine that would be for demographers? I mean, this isn't a sample of data, this is the entire population! Amazon and Target ain't got nothing on Santa Claus.

Actually, now that I think of it, that kind of makes him a bit creepy.
Santa Claus must store some health information about some children that have mental illnesses.
Again, you are tunneling...

I used Amazon as an example. If you actually read what I'm saying, about how Cloud businesses in general depend on meeting their guarantees and not screwing over businesses, how their superior quality is because of scale and specialization, how they are reliable because one failure would doom them and they haven't failed yet, you could see that this has nothing to do with Amazon at all.

You keep arguing that Amazon is a bad provider. So what? I was never interested in that at all. I'm not comparing them to Azure or Google or the supposed "1000 datacenters and colo providers" you seem to know of. I don't care who is better or worse, I was talking about using cloud services in general.

Pay attention to the topic, pay attention to what my arguments were. Amazon's SLA is utterly irrelevant to anything, what are you even trying to convince me of? None of anything you've said is remotely relevant to my point. It's like arguing about whether Ford or Toyota makes better hybrids in a discussion about whether electric cars are a good idea, I just don't care.
The new code is precisely equivalent to the old code (except for the bug report linked here).
It is a particularly bad instance of (non) data visualization. The effect on my eyes was scalding and my initial reaction was to bounce right back out. In absence of insightful format, just basic bar charts would have sufficed.
All supposed "rights" are ones that restrict the behavior of government. It does not restrict the behavior of a private corporation. Once you privatize something, the protection of god given rights no longer applies.

When everything is privatized under libertarian philosophy, what basic rights do you have left other than the power of money?