skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beats me why anyone would want to work for a Japanese company anyway, since the situations described in this article have been common knowledge for decades now. I did the contractor/English teacher thing in the deluded hope for a full-time, more rewarding position. But it will never happen (ESPECIALLY if you're an English teacher, which ranks somewhere below toilet cleaner on the Japanese social scale). Eventually I got tired of the full-time position offer which always seemed to get postponed another 3 months, quit, and got the hell out of there.
So you're just going to ignore my argument?

1. What's the point of getting offended over etymology? I could argue that no offense should be taken because of what the word "really" means.

2. I'm willing to admit that a word really doesn't mean X anymore. Are you willing to admit that the same word doesn't mean Y anymore?

2b. The same argument. I'm willing to admit that a word doesn't mean X when certain people say it (think British vs American use). Are you willing to admit that the same word doesn't mean Y when I say it?

You've ignored my entire argument and forced me to restate it. Please address my points.
Actually the kickstarter did ship hence why I had my hands on one (well two actually) to do this hack. I backed the kickstarter back in May 2015.

The June2016 date is for orders placed on their store today which I think is the earliest they currently expect to have filled all the current pre-orders and later stage kickstarter backers. IIRC they're currently producing 5000 units a month.
The pellets are made from wood (rather than eg coal or other fossil fuels), the wood is just concentrated and processed to provide more calories of energy in a smaller more consistent package, to use wood byproducts like sawdust that don't start out easily burnable for fuel without processing, and to provide a perfectly consistent product that will always burn the same way with the same calories per gram.

If so, whatever is true of wood stoves is true of them, as far as carbon neutrality. It's the same resource. I guess burning wood is 'carbon neutral'? I guess, unlike fossil fuels, it is 'sustainable', in the sense that more can be grown?

It can still be awfully polluting. I think most modern pellet burning stoves actually emit less pollution than burning straight wood, because they burn more efficiently. But 'less' does not mean 'not'.
As an Australian I have to agree. The USA bureaucracy is like the old joke about having the requirements of the Germans with the efficiency of the Italians served with the helpfulness of the English.
> people aren't willing to pay between 0% and 5% for the extra security provided

This is not true. One problem is that language implementations are imperfect and may have much higher overhead than necessary. An even bigger problem is that defaults matter. Most users of a language don't consider integer overflow at all. They trust the language designers to make the default decision for them. I believe that most people would certainly choose overflow checks if they had a perfect implementation available, and perfect knowledge of the security and reliability implications (i.e. knowledge of all the future bugs that would result from overflow in their code), and carefully considered it and weighed all the options, but they don't even think about it. And they shouldn't have to!

For a language designer, considerations are different. Default integer overflow checks will hurt their benchmark scores (especially early in development when these things are set in stone while the implementation is still unoptimized), and benchmarks influence language adoption. So they choose the fast way. Similarly with hardware designers like you. Everyone is locally making decisions which are good for them, but the overall outcome is bad.
I've been looking for something like the FAT12 bootloader from the examples section for some time.

Not really related to the main post, but still a big help!
looks awesome, need to warm up my TempleOS vm again. I was surprised the task working directory is a string and not a pointer to a directory node or something. Also curious what's going on with the `CMathODE *next_ode` member of CTask, I know TempleOS contains a numerical ODE solver but why is it part of the kernel?
In the 70's it was common for just one member of a family to work, because if another person worked, all their dollars would be taxed at the 50-70% rate.

Even as late as the 70s, it was common for just one member of a family to work because that person was the husband/father, and the wife/mother was strongly expected (and, through the way the employment system worked, often more or less forced to) stick to housework and childrearing.
Man.. I'm always skeptical of doing things like this. It's one of those things that just comes to rear its ugly head in the future on a machine/user that doesn't have the alias configured.

Recent example - I wrote a bash script using many of the fancy parameters of lsof to map my work infrastructure's network. The code ran on my arch desktop, but as soon as it was run across the environment.. oh my god the stderr.

Eventually bit the bullet, logged onto the oldest centos4 machine and wrote the silly thing from there in sh. It ended up being significantly better than the bash version, too. :)

/tangent
scapy is awesome.
I don't think there's any benefit to an editor that exposes users to the flexbox API directly. I should be able to drag and drop and create panes entirely with my mouse without having to know about the underlying API.
No, I think it's a different sense of "faster" -- it delivers with less than an hour's effort on the part of the customer.
Peter Naur has died
MyTaxi is a very popular option here, too (owned by Daimler). They regularly give you 50% off the ride (paid out of their own pocket).
At least one flawed assumption you make here is that the drive can be executed immediately.
Angular 2 versus React: There Will Be Blood
Clickbait title with a membership wall. Lacks sources, no credible assertions, just feel-good campfire hand-holding and false hopes.

This site is garbage.
That's actually one of my concerns about voice-driven interfaces, absent some sort of voice print authentication or tactile confirmation button. Imagine standing up in a crowded room and shouting "OK Google, delete everything!", or "OK Google, recite the first thouand digits of pi!"
I never felt that obligation. However, I note that when I don't have Amazon Prime, I abandon a fair number of purchases at the shipping page because the extra shipping cost gives me pause.
That proposal for Rust was ultimately not accepted, here's what replaced it: https://github.com/nikomatsakis/rfcs/blob/integer-overflow/t...

TL;DR: There exists a compiler flag that controls whether or not arithmetic operations are dynamically checked, and if this flag is present then overflow will result in a panic. This flag is typically present in "debug mode" binaries and typically absent in "release mode" binaries. In the absence of this flag overflow is defined to wrap (there exist types that are guaranteed to wrap regardless of whether this compiler flag is set), and the language spec reserves the right to make arithmetic operations unconditionally checked in the future if the performance cost can be ameliorated.
It's going to evolve into a massive app ecosystem, surely with paid apps
I appreciate the comment and I definitely agree. A drag and drop interface is something I'm looking at as a next step, with this being the foundation upon which I use to build it. Glad to see someone else agrees!
Via Poul-Henning Kamp: https://twitter.com/bsdphk/status/683750072841072640

I haven't seen any "official" announcement, so I figured Peter Naur's wikipedia page was the best link to use.
The fall of Microsoft, in one chart
If you want to know exactly what Volkswagen did in their software for the emission control unit, I recommend this talk from last week's Chaos Communication Congress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZSU1FPDiao
In the UK they recently upped the minimum spend to qualify for free delivery which is what tripped me to get Prime...
How to Clock a Glacier
Adjustments to the tax code can be revenue-neutral. Lower rates for earned income and higher rates on inheritance and investment income.
>If some update changed this, how and when would you figure out

The echo traffic always flows through your internet - it has no 3G/4G hardware, for example. If you want to do a pcap with tcpdump or similar, you can.

When I first received mine, I set up a packet capture on my linux firewall/ips/nat device and looked at traffic outbound to the internet from the echo. If I was particularly paranoid, I could leave this running 24/7 outputting to a pcap, and then watch that file for changes and get notifications whenever it did.

Honestly, if you're worried about this sort of thing, you shouldn't own a cell phone.
Sometimes I set a little more context before I ask but it's gone over pretty well.

I think it acknowledges a simple truth:

We all make mistakes. Some of them stunningly big and we think - even for a moment - "my boss is going to fire me!" And then once we calm down, we stop to think about what happened, how to fix it, and how to prevent it from ever happening again.

And if you claim to have never made one, you're either a) lying, b) oblivious or c) so green that you'll make those mistakes with me. The first two reasons don't fly with me.
2 pages if enough experience. A listing of positions is not really interesting, I want to know more about what the candidate did in each firm and probably expand on one or two.
Lots of "major problems" that are problem the wrong problems. Curing cancer, reconciling quantum physics and general relativity, the "hard problem" of consciousness. We'll probably see these questions answered eventually, but in ways parallel to the methods currently being tried.
I think this misunderstands the value proposition somewhat. Prime changes the convenience calculus of Amazon vs. buying locally. Before I had Prime, I also rarely paid for expedited shipping, but if I had needed something quickly, I'd instead have been more likely to go to the local Best Buy (or Target or whatever) instead. I don't buy from Amazon to justify the subscription, but the fact that I have the subscription now makes Amazon sufficiently convenient that it's the best choice as compared to other options.
If you're ordering a new pair of fancy headphones, you can probably wait an extra few days without Prime.

But if you're about to run out of toilet paper, soap, deodorant, dish detergent, printer paper, etc... sometimes you just can't wait 5 days :)
I find it useful being certain that an ordered item is coming on a certain day so that I don't have to worry about missing delivery and dealing with later collecting it. The additional services (Video/Music/Kindle Lending Library) are nice features if you make the most of them, which I do as I use no other media streaming services. I should probably say that I don't pay full price for Amazon Prime but pay the student rate (50%) which I find to be reasonable.
The Structure of the Cyber Military Revolution [pdf](2013)
It's more like, my mother goes to the shop, the store person looks up the inventory, doesn't find the item, she asks them to order it, etc.

Prime usually delivers within a day or two, unless heavy snow closes off the only semi-paved road leading up to her place :-)
No mention of the disastrous "cleaning up" bug when you pulled the PCMCIA RAM card. That was the final straw for me. It could take 30-45 minutes before you could use your device again after pulling the card.
And all the German rules make sense, right? None of the rules could possibly be inefficient or written decades ago for a system that has since evolved?
> but clearly air pollution can not directly kill you.

People die from pollution induced asthma attack. That's pretty direct.
Uber's problem is different. Uber-like services have been legal in Germany since pretty much forever (and many cities don't even have a cap on medallions for a straight-up taxi service). But Uber's business model is built around evading regulatory costs that their competitors have to deal with, and this is where Germany isn't budging.

First, a chauffeur's license is required to operate a taxi (or bus, or ambulance). This license is actually pretty straightforward to get and runs only to a few hundred Euro (renewable after five years), and the requirements are reasonable (no criminal record, good health/vision, knowledge test). These costs are a pittance for a normal taxi business, but pretty steep for a private person who only wants to moonlight as a driver every so often.

Second, insurance. There are strict insurance requirements for cars, and a private insurance generally does not cover commercial use of a car; Uber, for some reason, has been unwilling to foot the bill.

Third, taxis have to undergo annual roadworthiness tests (private cars are only required to have them every other year).

Overall, these are mostly pretty sensible regulations that are primarily concerned with passenger safety and welfare. So there is little interest in cutting back on them. But Uber's business model isn't compatible with that.
Same goes for Python
I believe OpenSPARC is a bit slow, this could be faster.
What did I start? An autonomous lawn mower. My goal is to get it done for under $1,000 USD using mostly snap-together hardware. My timeline is to have it mowing via RC by the end of January (shipping to New Zealand takes a while, especially when you're on a budget), while I'd like it to be capable of safely mowing autonomously by July or so - though I'm optimistic that it'll reach good-enough stage by March. I'll publish the build log on my website [1] as I hit major milestones.

What did I finish? I've been rebuilding my larger quadcopter and I finally got it up in the air and it flies well enough for my needs, though admittedly I did trim my friend's tree with it a bit. I'm chalking that up to pilot error, however. I hadn't flown anything in a few months and it turns out that line-of-sight orientation on quadrotors isn't just like riding a bicycle. It could still use a bit of tuning -- projects like those are never really finished.

I also have a few fairly interesting/exciting projects which I desperately need to write up. One such example is a wide field-of-view stereo head-mounted display for FPV flying which can be built in an evening for under $200 USD. Another is my as-of-yet fruitless efforts to build a very low latency HD digital video transmission system - also for FPV flying. If these are projects which you'd find useful, or which you'd simply like to read more about - leave me a comment or flick me an e-mail [2]. Encouragement always helps when it comes to getting things written up.

1: http://www.benjamincburns.com/

2: My username at gmail.
They talked a bit more about the Siri setup at a talk they gave for the Mesos guys (Siri runs on Mesos with a custom schedule Apple wrote - one of the biggest Mesos installs out there)

https://mesosphere.com/blog/2015/04/23/apple-details-j-a-r-v...

They say the clusters have 1k worker nodes
It's not a straw man. I'm not saying that any argument for income equality is tantamount to communism. I'm simply saying that you can have income equality and still lack a healthy business environment where ideas compete on merit. So the problem is whether ideas compete on merit, not income equality. Income equality is neither necessary nor sufficient for those other things.

Regarding Brin, I don't think he has as privileged a background as you seem to believe. He had a pretty humble beginning, beginning with his birth in Soviet Russia (where his parents were discriminated against for being Jewish), after which he immigrated to USA at age 6:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin
>My advice is keep doing your stuff, but aggressively start building your product-based business on the side.

I've been trying to do that for the last decade. I apparently have what it takes to do rather better than rent-a-coder, but my business skills aren't nearly enough to be "opportunity cost profitable" - I can make rent, but I'm not paying myself nearly what one of the local big companies would. Hell, right now I'm contracting to one of the big companies, and spending the money getting my own company back up to snuff. (and again, it's an education. Contractors, if you do the math, make about what 'base salary' would be for the position as an employee. A decade ago, this was also true... the difference being that a decade ago, base salary was pretty much total comp. These days, bonuses and regular stock grants are the norm and make up a large part of compensation. And if you are a contractor? you don't see that money... either it goes to the middleman or contractor bill rates haven't risen with full time compensation. Either way, it's another example of how technical people get paid worse the closer they are to a "free market")

From my observations? (and always consider "you shall know him by his fruits" when listening for advice; People who aren't successful, obviously, don't know how to become successful. So look at successful people, and look at what they did not what they say) From my observations, a lot of business is like getting a $BIGCO job. A whole lot of it is who you know, not what you can do.

My next project, actually, is to get myself into an elite college. Now I don't know if I can pull it off, I'm not saying it's going to be easy... but if I want to get rich, as far as I can tell, the contacts one acquires at an elite college are far more valuable than any amount of actual skill or effort I put into an actual product-based business.

edit: re-reading, I sound kinda bitter, and I'm not, or I shouldn't be. I have a comfortable place in this economic system; I'm certainly not at the top, but I'm pretty far from the bottom. I'd probably be doing worse in almost any system that most people would consider "fair"

Further, if I really was great? or, for that matter, if I hadn't made two or three of the mistakes that I made, I would very likely have become rich off of my own product business. You can succeed that way; I was close enough to see the possibility. But the point is that I did not. I wasn't good enough, while I am good enough to get a pretty cushy $BIGCO job.
The USA provides plenty of help: food stamps, medicaid, rent assistance, financial aid, student loan. I assume you did not grow up in the USA if you had to worry about food. My comments only apply to America.

If you need help take advantge of those services. That is why they exist.

I'm talking here about people that simply do not help themselves and then complain about it as if it was their god given right to live a middle class life without even trying.

Personal responsibility has to be a thing.

Seriously, a poor person in the USA is a rich person compared to any poor person in a third world country. The opportunities here are amazing.
> If you can't find a plausible way to explain something (inequality causes lower economic growth), it doesn't mean that there's no other way to explain it. Actually, the history of science shows that explanation of effects might be very surprising.

Indeed so. But the central principle of science is that at any time you (tentatively) accept the best available theory that is consistent with the evidence. Right now, AFAICT, that's the theory that concentrating wealth in a small minority reduces growth because it reduces demand.
I don't care what their inner monologue is, but it stops being an inner monologue when they put it on a blog.
And I guess that is the reason they will eventually flop everywhere. Uber has no strong lock-in business model, so any other service can compete with them.

By the way, I choked while reading this part of the Uber wikipedia page:

> During the initial development of the Uber app, the company created a think tank consisting of a nuclear physicist, a computational neurosurgeon, and a machinery expert who worked on predicting demand for private hire car drivers and where demand is highest.
In my experience, immigration stuff is easier in Germany but everything else is easier in the US.
It depends how you define "we". It seems it's a very popular idea in Europe is a very high progressive income tax which punishes people who for example start their own businesses with close to 0 net worth, no capital and have a good year or two even if they haven't accumulated much wealth yet.

I am from one of the post communist countries and a party advocating 75% income tax for people who make more than 150k/year is gaining traction among my friends in tech. It is in fact a very common sentiment that "just tax the people who make a lot of money" is going to solve a lot of problems.

That's what the parent is addressing and it's in fact a very common view.
The problem is not greenhouse gases, it's the other pollutants that are caused by burning. Inadequate oxygen supply produces soot and carbon monoxide, and "trash wood" like e.g. wood that was used in train tracks or in buildings or in furniture is treated with all kinds of chemicals (flame retardants, oils and other residue from trains, plastics, paint) which turn very nasty when burned.
None of your citations state that those sources are empirically worse (in terms of human health impact) than vehicle emissions. Also, different places have wildly different sources of pollutants. It is ridiculous to generalise across the whole world based on a few factoids.
Believe him. I've heard 3/5 of the comments he mentioned and more.
If you compare Amazon with Prime to Amazon without and don't care about the speed, you only save on shipping if you often order <30 €. So Amazon has that benefit over many other stores even if you do not pay for Prime.

Shipping prices generally are interesting. I get that shipping isn't free, but often enough there really would be potential to optimize. E.g. Amazon ships what they can in small cardboard envelopes (stuff like USB drives, small cables, electronic parts, that kind of thing). Efficient and fast. Other sellers want 4.99 € shipping for that. Which, if I' buying stuff for 15-25 €, is a notable percentage of the price. (And yes, if you send me a big shipping box in which I have to dig through the packaging chips to find the product, then you probably paid close to that for shipping, but that really wasn't necessary)

Or the one that also has stores, where you can either pay 5.99 € shipping or do store pickup. And I'm thinking "eh, the price is a bit cheaper than everywhere else, but they want more shipping. BUT I can easily pick it up myself and maybe even get it a bit quicker.". Change the shipping method, and discover that it now charges me no shipping, but increased the product price by 5.99 €. And which point I ordered somewhere else, didn't go to their (big, probably expensive) store and didn't have a chance to be tempted to buy some additional stuff there.
I don't know that all of the german taxi rules make sense, but compared to what i've seen in the USA the german taxi system works amazingly well, leaves passengers well-protected and from talks with the drivers, them happy.
Ever wonder why Japan has a very low birthrate? I'm sure these things must be connected to some degree.
I'm playing around with some of the various ways that dot/graphviz-like functionality is workable (for some level of "workable") on javascript. Currently fiddling with dagre-d3 and angular.
Perhaps their ability to censor silently proves they're better run? I would have nothing to have an opinion of.

In fact I'm against the thing and not merely its signal but I can see that some censors are 'fitter'.