skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, Isp is measured in seconds and by multiplying it times gravity, you get the exhaust velocity. I believe this was done to more easily compare rocket efficiency regardless of units of gravity.

It looks like you're doing this calculation:

Isp * Gravity / Gravity

If you're trying to predict the hover duration, that will depend on the delta V of the vehicle. Then, a hover duration would be:

Delta v / Gravity

Not sure what the expected delta V is for the Dragon though.
This happened to me a while back. The only way I could "fix" it was to close Outlook, discarding all my changes. I then made the same changes but saved the rules after every tiny change. Somehow the changes all saved and I moved on.

I wonder if the state somehow becomes corrupted and Outlook has no idea what to do, hence the error.
>Being forced to work from an office is the biggest scandal in the western world.

I consider it to be a form of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_violence
What about self hosted tools, like Piwik as alternative to Google Analytics?
I've been fucked with in high-crime neighborhoods in Chicago far more often than I've been fucked with by police (both have happened).

I don't think it's particularly good advice to tell people that they're safe in bad neighborhoods as long as they're "respectful".
Yeah, there's already a company called Preact. =]

preact.com
They are talking about this, right? http://4pt0.org/programs/startup-weekend-education/

EDIT: No, probably not. Different Christine Ortiz...
Thats awesome. Sounds like it is time to take nim for another spin then if that is true.

Not knowing the syntax or semantics is a great way to fuzz a compiler so my guess is I was trying to do insane things. I had similar issues with the rust beta.
My favorite line from the procedure:

> reboot # And pray it'll boot.

This kind of thing should be performed by a well-tested script, not an interactive session. Otherwise you might have an "Oh, what did I just type?" moment.
Because the question is where can you move where you won't come into contact with police all that often. Edgewater isn't bad, and I'd live there, but it's higher crime than Uptown and has a higher police presence.
Design advice for developers
I do still use it.
I find it interesting that you felt it was pretentious. What made it feel that way to you? I ask, because I never felt like that. I felt curiosity about what the Real Plot was about, I felt challenged (and frustrated) by the puzzles, and really enjoyed the art and music style.

It felt like each mechanic was introduced once I'd mastered the previous ones, and other puzzles made it worthwhile to replay things once I had already passed a level. To me, it felt like it did for Time what Portal did for space -- made me think about interactions in a new way. It didn't feel like it was trying to impress me, or wow me with the creator's brilliance (other than "this was made by one guy??") so much as make a game that made me think differently.

I think its similarity to Portal is something I hadn't thought of before now, but that explains a lot about why I liked it.
If it's helpful, here's a good overview of why I'm experiencing Schadenfreude over this:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/12/how-poli...
How secure is this os?
But what's the alternative? They either release everything eventually, and the leverage is lost, or they don't, and damning/valuable/devastating information about corruption or whatever else is there does the public zero good, or it's somehow destroyed and we get the worst of both.

Dribbling the data out slowly is the best move from a PR standpoint but dangerous if you hold on to the worst of the worst info.
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To me, non-disparagement agreements are an instant red flag that a company is doing something heinous. I don't think anyone has problems with NDAs, but when I see non-disparagement, that instantly translates to "We know we're doing something really shitty, and you'd be right to warn others about us, so we're going to threaten you with our lawyers to keep you from talking about it."

See here: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/silenced-workers-who-lost-...
Well for one 'class Foo extends Bar' will work without any further code to make inheritance work in the way you'd expect, including use of super() etc. Whereas your second example is using non-trivial framework code, that some framework author has to write. See Backbone's extend() for a clear example of what is required [0]. That's work that every framework author is potentially going to implement differently, needlessly.

And the fact that almost every major framework has implemented something similar themselves is proof enough (for me at least) that the ES6 sugar is valuable. It has nothing to do with Java, it's simply a useful pattern that everybody was already using.

[0] http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html#section-247
This sentence is shorter, but it also contains less information. I would say the 75% reduction in sentence length comes with a 66% reduction in contained information.
Whoops, paste fail. Good catch.

It looks like somebody at Cognitect has also added a redirect now. Sorry about that!
Do we need a bot that posts the warning every time someone links to a .doc/.pdf/.whatever?

And in any case, I'd be significantly more worried about the .torrent file...
Yes I read that (and the spaceflight insider article (http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/organizations/space-explor...), all numbers that are derived by third parties.

So while I do not doubt that the numbers for that vehicle and that test are accurate, I keep hoping to find actual data from SpaceX on the performance of the production rocket slated for use in the production Dragon Module.

I understand that SpaceX plays this information close to its vest given the competition with Boeing for Commercial Crew and perhaps Blue Origin should SpaceX ever decide to sell rockets for sub orbital tourist jaunts[1]. Anyway I'm just interested in more official specs so that I can have more confidence in my understanding of their capabilities.

[1] If you think about it, they have all the hardware, an F9r with a Dragon Crew mounted on top, they boost up to 100km, separate, the Dragon gets a nice ballistic arc for that weightless feeling and then both the booster and the capsule go back and land back at the pad for re-use.
Agreed. Especially because a significant number of people who read Hacker News are not up on security precautions.
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Did I say there's any harm? I just think it's silly, especially considering that binary content is constantly posted here.
> That used to be the case, but now corporations require you to pass their own exam before they hire you

I'm seeing this as well and am developing a learning / training platform based on this thesis for professional dev.
That's illegal.

EDIT: In case the OP gets rm'd:

https://archive.is/fyHfC

https://web.archive.org/web/20160128190623/https://news.ycom...

http://www.webcitation.org/6escqonB6
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Funny, I lived next to a police officer once. He was the only one with illegal fireworks every New Year's Eve (in Hawaii, where aerial fireworks are illegal).
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The French Republic becoming an Islamist state isn't far fetched. Really. That's a serious post on HN these days.
Yeah possibly, but this SHOULD be illegal:

http://www.fop.net/servlet/listing/news_article?user_id=-1&n...

Note the convenient "Admin Tools" button :)
Quote:

"In an extraordinary move, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors last week issued a proposal to require researchers to share their clinical trial data as a condition for publication."

If this happens, it would turn a very important philosophical and practical corner in the sciences. It might even prevent things like this:

http://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-f...

Noteworthy about the above result is that many studies that were to have been included in the study, couldn't be, because the original data couldn't be located.
Let's say you invent a doodad in your garage. You have the implementation, you have a working device, but you don't (yet) have a product you can sell. You are unlikely to be setup to manufacturer this, so you'll you need to find a partner to produce that doodad. Patents protect you during this process, so that a manufacturer can't just go "oh cool we'll not pay you and instead just go do this under our house brand without you"

At least that's the theory. The reality is it's increasingly unlikely you'll be able to invent anything physical by yourself in a garage anymore in the first place and things like software have no barrier to mass distribution like physical goods do.
Seems rather impolite to be leaking all this data. Where's the benefit?
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Wow what the fuck. Who programmed their website?
Sexuality can be expressed through pose and eyes alone. At least one of the images is lascivious.
I came across an application that had SQL injection vulnerabilities everywhere (100s of ASP files). Query parameters were concatenated into strings over 1000s of lines. It would have been a year's project to properly parameterize every query across every system. Management wasn't too concerned until I showed them that I could drop the entire database (and the other databases on that DBMS) by putting a URL into IE6. Our eventual fix was to pass every query through a regex that would stop the worst queries (DROP, TRUNCATE), while making it a priority that everyone start writing safe queries and fixing bad query generation code when it is seen.
It is kind of sad that when I used to play games, we didn't have anithing like this! Modern graphics is impressive.
This sounds overly dreamy. At the very least, their new "university" should bother to award degrees when specific breadth-and-depth levels of knowledge are adequately demonstrated.
Filed and probably fixed now (I hope). As the sibling mentions it sounds like there is llvm support coming/available?

It is probably superstition instilled from my compilers course but having a byte code producing compiler does tend to keep you honest.
No. I'm disclaiming that although I've never worked on anything where lives are on the line, in my experience, having management ignore, yet understanding, warnings is commonplace.

I then cited two anecdotes where warnings had been given. In one case, a breach followed, in the other, so far it has not. I would assume most warnings that are ignored turn out to be non-issues.
A time traveller.

(Just to clarify, from the past.)
Yes, there are tools exploring a couple different approaches. It's a tough problem if you want solid results, verification to avoid forged documents inserted alongside authentic ones, building tools to facilitate finding the important stuff in all the minutia of day to day exchanges. Some stuff isn't easily fully crowdsourced because the domain knowledge to find the smoking gun among the jargon of a particular field. A good tool will at least let the average citizen distill information into a form an expert can quickly digest large numbers of documents though.

Here's a linkdump:

https://www.documentcloud.org/home

https://civic.mit.edu/blog/shidash/effective-approaches-and-...

https://github.com/crowdata/crowdata

http://towcenter.org/research/guide-to-crowdsourcing/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_crowdsourcing_projects (too broad, search page for roots of terms like 'transcribe' or 'document' or the like.
I think you must be crazy to think like this.
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You can't really economically
disincentivize addicts from
seeking a fix; that's basically
definitional.

Not sure I agree. Seems like we cut down smoking drastically in the USA through heavy taxation? Not an expert in that area, however.
My ex girlfriend was Chinese. She thought I was making a mistake by deciding to go somewhere other than Stanford for graduate school, that I was settling for something beneath me.

When I explained to her that as a professor, she or I would probably teach at places other than the school she or I studied at, she conceded that maybe she too would be willing to study at a place like Harvard.

It seems in China, theres only a couple of good schools. In America, the quality of 100 or 200 of the more prominent schools is probably rather indistinguishable. I never even applied to the Ivy league schools in undergrad, I just applied to the state schools and went to the one I liked best.

Also in China, people seem to go to great lengths to prove that theyre not one of the peasants. In America, people dont seem to need to make that distinction as often, if ever.
Great! Thing is, Rust and Nim are very different. Just as I wouldn't put Rust down for not having GC (I love languages moving the art forward) I just wish we could look at Nim as a language with different design goals than Rust. I know several things in Nim worth discussing, it doesn't have to be warring.
That's great. Now what about smaller companies which have one, maybe two sysadmins?
George W Bush plays much dumber than he is. It's hard to get an unbiased opinion on the matter since it can be used to score political points, but he definitely has >100 IQ.
Sensational clickbaiting as a requirement for technical reports?
I like the idea of project based learning. I think it will end up being a more lasting method of instruction.

I am interested in how they will still teach the breadth of the subject matter.

For example, you can get a lot of work done with linear algebra without really understanding vector spaces.

I assume this method of instruction would require more teacher-student interaction to be effective. The teacher could review the student progress on a project and make a note of where the application of a new technique would be helpful. Guiding the student towards a more complete understanding of a subject.
It's really boring -- a bunch of union contracts.

OTOH, there are:
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I wonder what happens if you take away the reward. Neurons firing is related to energy. The reward has an associated amount of energy. Can it be something as simple as just distributing energy over time?
Not a bad idea. Bright person gets accepted to Harvard, Yale, etc, but chooses a state college. Kinda like the Spock2 maneuver declining the Vulcan Science Academy. If you're young, and don't have a particularly long resume, sure why not include it?
> No longer are the universities taken at their word about their product.

Exactly. Education is a thing where a student voluntarily decides how much effort he/she wants to put in learning, not some software that the professor can install inside their brains. All they can do is check out their past scores to determine how dedicated a student is and only admit such high-grade students. But again, time is fickle and people do change. Lazy and lethargic students suddenly have some life-altering experience and they turn into rank-holders, the opposite can happen too!
Just to be clear here, Saudi Arabia has already come out and said they would be open to discussing a cut but they were very clear that they, themselves haven't proposed any form of cut by OPEC members. I think the article makes this clear but the headline is misleading.

The biggest issue for many of the first world oil produces and services is that they levered up on debt in the past 6 years when money was cheap and now alot of loans are coming due in the next 18 months.

Larry Fink, of BlackRock fame, has come out and said as many as 400 energy companies may not survive due to their debt loads and the current value of WTI. [1]

The junk bond market is about to become overcrowded.

As for the OPEC members, they are in a tough deflationary spiral where the lower price of oil means they need to produce more barrels to meet their governmental budget demands, which pushes down the price of oil, which leads to them needing to produce more barrels of oil, and so on and so on.....

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-27/blackrock-...
Engineers at Rocketdyne, the manufacturer, estimate the total probability [of catastrophic failure] as 1/10,000. Engineers at Marshal estimate it as 1/300, while NASA management, to whom these engineers report, claims it is 1/100,000. An independent engineer consulting for NASA thought 1 or 2 per 100 a reasonable estimate.

— Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle (Rogers Commission Appendix F) by R.P. Feynman

Actual statistics from the life of the shuttle, last flown as STS-135 8 - 21 July, 2011:

Total launches	135

Failures	2

Successes	133

Failure rate:	1.5%
I'll second that. I'm not 'hiring', but as a freelance web developer I'm always open to people working with me for an hourly rate.

EDIT: and while I don't currently have a steady stream of work available, when I do, I favor working with people who for whatever reason have trouble finding or keeping 'normal' work (having dealt with my own share of issues in this area).
Nice data supporting why I was about an evidence-based approach to data structure or algorithm selection with realistic measurements. There was a lot of work in automating this with special compilers in 90's and early to mid 2000's. Not sure what they're doing now.

Another thing I used to bring up was using in-order execution and compiler-directed scratchpads (w/ option for manual) to get more predictable performance. Esp for real-time or preventing covert channels.
Thank you for reading and posting feedback!

I think you're right, Nim compile times are fast and deserve to be mentioned. Will make a note to add this.

Debugging will be a part of Chapter 5. But I will make a note about addressing people coming from Python and Ruby.

Thanks again!
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They are trying to extort money. They are always trying to extort money.

Look at all these nasty things I released about you. I wonder what else is in this large trove of files that I can slowly leak over a few years to keep you in the news. Maybe if somebody sent me some money....
An attacker can't necessarily leverage ASC/DESC injection unless multiple queries can be issued by a single SQL statement (i.e. injecting "ASC; SELECT * FROM...") which isn't commonly enabled in most database deployments. But there are probably other insecurities here.

The solution is to run every input through a function that replaces each single quote with two single quotes. That is all that's required to prevent SQL injection, since it's not possible to construct a valid query regardless of the injection point. (EDIT: This refers to string inputs. Numeric inputs are handled in the obvious way, as is ASC/DESC. Injection into an ORDER BY clause is not usually exploitable. These are all of the cases.)

If you propose this solution to management, they may be somewhat more likely to take action, since it can be applied to the existing system.
> Most people are passive. They want a teacher to lead them and guide them through the learning process.

Bull. Most people have any interest in learning beaten out of them by our crappy factory/prison like educational system. Because you know what's not conducive to learning? Having no choice as far as subjects; having no choice how long you spend on them; having no choice on who to learn from; having no choice who you learn with.

PG has a classic essay on makers vs managers on scheduling, and he places emphasis on how for work like programming, getting into the material takes time. I see no reason this wouldn't apply to learning. How much work would most developers get done if they had their day broken into 50 minute segments, five minute transition times, and six different projects they were required to work on every day with equal consistency?

My mother runs a Montessori preschool. Consistently, the kids that go off to first grade come back with stories of attending traditional school and wondering when they get to start doing something instead of sitting at their desk. Or when they can do something new instead of going through material they already know with the class. This is not to say Montessori is a perfect system - but it was actually designed with the education of children in mind, rather than efficiency from a bureaucratic perspective.

It bothers me greatly when someone blames the nature of people for problems that are systemic in nature - it feels no different from the ridiculous number of ADHD diagnoses we have these days, which seems to largely stem from not giving kids space to be kids.
i'm from germany and never visited a good university ( so its entirely possible that none of this happens to graduates from mit, i dont know), but i'm pretty this is what he meant.

i applied for several different companies for a pretty low position around 3 years ago. one of the companies was MAN and I had to pass a) an online test for preselection, b) a written exam on premises and finally b) an interview.

i fucked up in the interview, but they still mentioned that they would need at least a second interview, probably two, before seriously considering me for this position.
Microsoft spent years telling people that OSS == communism and that OSS was stealing their IP.

I imagine that the MS developers who believed the FUD have a hard time accepting that going open-source won't cause Ghost Stalin to appear and steal their children because it contradicts what MS told them for all those years. For the same reason, existing OSS developers have a hard time accepting that MS has suddenly stopped trying to undermine their legitimacy or squash them with dubious lawsuits.

Honestly, what did MS expect?
Thank you for taking a look!

I will certainly keep my eye on that and update my table appropriately :)
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If an accord has been reached, then maybe it would be worth understanding. There are plenty of clearly expressed points of view in this thread. If you take the time to read and understand them, it should become clear why the images are bothersome enough to be changed.
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I use a personal laptop for work and honestly my backups are so automated I didn't even consider this.... I have 2 TM backups (one at home, one at office), Backblaze, Dropbox (rarely does code touch this as svn/git wreaked havoc last time I tried but still) and a HD clone that is updated daily... Honestly I don't even know where all my data is backed up to or it is likely I would forget.
Our company uses QuickBooks Online and it has been great.
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It works well for us and we use it to manage all our accounts payables, receivables, generate invoices and financial reports for the board. We use Adeptia Connect to integrate it with Concur (expense management) and Salesforce.
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