skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it interesting that they explicitly excluded
reporting that appears in the news paper. They were on the web early but with caution.

> The New York Times on the Web, as the electronic publication is known, contains ..., reporting that does not appear in the newspaper, ..."
Space-X does have a problem with launch rate. They have a backlog of 50 launch orders and are about two years behind. They stopped posting future launch dates on their web site last year; comparing old launch manifests with new ones made their slip rate too clear.

The plan was to open their Brownsville TX launch facility this year,
but they've having foundation problems and may slip to 2018.[1]

The first Falcon Heavy is supposed to launch this spring/summer. That will be a major milestone. Nobody has launched anything that big since the Saturn V.

[1] http://www.krgv.com/story/30994915/foundation-problems-delay...
https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/#node5
Awesome work. Contrats to all the team involved.
the 0.1% could be hundreds of thousands of people?
Suffering alcoholism, sugar and caffeine addiction
This is so AWESOME Mac APP
ever heard about car play?
http://www.apple.com/ios/carplay/
Preserving the Chrysler Electronic Voice Alert (2015) [video]
impossible to learn unless you encountered it

Why? How can there be such a thing? What is there that prevents someone from recording what they encountered and learned, and passing that knowledge on to others?
Escape analysis uses somewhat similar machinery in that it cares about the scopes in which variables are used, but the similarity pretty much ends there. Lifetimes, by contrast, are a type system feature. The closest thing to lifetimes in terms of implementation is actually generics (which makes sense, because lifetimes are just another kind of generic type parameter).
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10951276
SpaceX = Space launch.

Blue Origin = Rollercoaster.

I really don't see why these companies are competing. They are in totally different markets. Sure, there is some technological crossover in that they both use rockets, but this is like comparing a prius to a locomotive.
Back then, that was pretty good. The best resolution of any other video game console was 320 by 192. NTSC can't show much more detail than that when using an RF or composite input. Higher resolutions didn't appear until the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 in 1987 and the Super Famicom/SNES in 1990.
TypeScript is very nice. The one main problem it has is lack of type definitions for third-party modules, some developers find having to "waste time" writing those defs themselves to be quite bothersome.
I thought it was going to be about the actual invisible people nobody cares about - nope, female tech CEO talking about about men not fully introducing women, or assuming women are accessories.

Talk about first world problems.

Her advice is good, and it's sad that it has to actually be pointed out, but I've actually noticed that women in tech suffer from the same personal blindness that men in tech do - it turns out that just by being a woman doesn't lend you powers of insight or compatibility.

I'm always surprised that people have the gift of speech, and this is what they vomit forth; what a waste of a gift. To be so utterly blind to actual problems in this world and to spend your time mincing about the periphery of worthlessness is exactly what I've come to expect from the technically connected.

You're angry about it? Stage a march. Flip some cars over. Light some tires on fire. Nope, we'd rather keyboard warrior it out, pacified by the levers we pull that actually have no effect.
Show HN: A/B Testing Backend Using AWS Lambda and Redis HyperLogLog
100km is the Kármán line, the generally accepted boundary of space. It's the point at which aeronautics become useless, as the atmosphere is too thin to support lift greater than your weight without going faster than orbital velocity. Contrary to popular belief, in Low Earth Orbit you're still very much in reach of the Earth's gravity; it's only about 10% less than the gravity on the surface.[2] The tricky part about orbit is moving sideways fast enough that you miss the ground.

So Blue Origin indeed got to space, landed and did it again. But it took a tiny fraction of the energy of the same feat for an orbital rocket (which is why SpaceX can only land its first stage).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n_line

[2] https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/
This is a great article. I'm more of a reader than a co tributor through these articles. I just had to comment on a great, positive post. It makes me want to provide more positive feedback to others to hopefully keep them going.
Hensel's lifting lemma
kzhahou, sorry for reading you way to literally. I actually only have the words that you post :)

I think the important thing is to find the new things, but to realize that they aren't really new, just different ways of using the old. All of the languages you listed are really just specialized, assembly, or other, programs. Yes, most of the hard work has been automated away, but it's still there.

I like JS because it can be extended (though it can be very difficult to keep track of). I think there was a workaround phase when the VMs/interpreters/machines were slower, but pretty much everything can be compiled to JS these days. You don't even need to do that though, as JS embeds first class functions, so pretty much anything is within easy reach.
99% of the time, when you do something that lots of smart people say will fail, you fail. People look at that 1% and conclude that if you just keep whacking your head against a brick wall, it will eventually turn into gold, completely ignoring the combination of smarts, habits, and the sheer dumb luck that are actually behind success. But the gutters are full of ambitious failures.
wow, surprisingly consistent layout!
I tend to grow my network through researching security vulnerabilities in open source projects, even though that's not my goal. :\

(I'm agreeing with your post.)
Google (aka Alphabet) Is About to Surpass Apple as the Most Valuable Company
If you are replicating work, you are replicating work.

I try to avoid replicating work.
Author here. I'm inspired by your story. The responses I've been getting so far has been overwhelming. People from around the WORLD are telling me that the story resembles theirs and that they face very similar mindset challenges. I know my experience at Stanford was transformative and I feel extremely lucky, but that's part of the reason why I wrote it. I may be in a better position to talk about than most. Thank you for sharing your story.
SpaceX is reporting that one of the leg locks failed to deploy, IIRC due to ice buildup while passing through low-atmosphere moisture after reentry. From everything I've read, the landing had a more or less expected touchdown velocity and would have been successful had all four locks functioned as expected.
Amy Cuddy’s power pose research is the latest example of scientific overreach
> highly educated parents I could have amazing conversations with, who would encourage me to achieve and grow even more.

I realize you may not be implying this, but I just wanted to point out that highly-educated parents don't always have amazing conversations with their children, or encourage them to achieve and grow even more, or even accept or approve of the accomplishments their children have achieved.
Official App Developer wage statistics, including both mean and percentile, in the US (for 2014) can be found here:
http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151132.htm

For generic Programmers, see here:
http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151131.htm

TL;DR: Programmers = ($44k to $128k); App Devs = ($56k to $149k);

PS: Sorry about not answering the actual question, but I thought this would provide some background to the discussion.
Give how tightly wound UFOs, flying saucers and conspiracy theories are, perhaps it would have been beneficial if they were investigated by anyone other than the CIA.

The CIA's culture is not one of openness, nor should it be. So anything they do will be regarded as suspect, any conclusion about UFOs seen as potential misdirection. The public does not expect the CIA to tell the truth. The NSF, even NASA, would probably have been a better point person.

As for whether we are being visited, I see no evidence to the contrary. No practical amount of evidence can ever prove such as thing isn't happening. From a purely scientific standpoint I'm all for investigations. If NASA wanted to deliberately hunt for something like Bracewell probes in the outer solar system, I'd support that effort.
I thought it was a good PR move for Uber to hire nonviolent felons as well. They were talking about that on NPR this week.
We are still using IBM Rational Rhapsody here. It's crude application, but it does what's advertised.
Except you don't get rid of the kernel, they're not called unikernels for nothing I presume.

Surely, you should be saying: why do you need all of a kernel and hypervisor and an app when you could subsume the app into the kernel and just run the hypervisor and the kernelized app (or single-appified kernel, call it what you want).

I'm having a hard time seeing the benefits given the obvious increase in complexity.

What features of a full-fat OS do unikernels retain? If the answer is very little because hypervisors provide all the hardware access then it would be fair to say that hypervisor has become the OS and the traditional kernel (a Linux one in this case I presume) has become virtually * ahem * redundant.
I'm... clearly not parsing any of your statements correctly.

As I read it, one of things the linked IETF BCP document does is to implore authors and configurers of TCP software to ignore and pass through -unchanged- TCP options that they don't understand, rather than to consider them invalid and abort the connection.

Did I misunderstand the linked BCP?
BO is sub orbital meaning their rockets don't actually break out of the Earth's gravitational field. What they are doing is hard, but much easier than what SpaceX is doing.

For the BO missions, their rockets travel Mach 3.7 (3.72 was the exact top speed from a previous launch). This is called Suborbital. In comparison, since SpaceX is trying to break out of the earth's gravitational pull, its first stage goes around Mach 10 (per the media package of CRS-3).

This article does a better job putting things in laymans terms:

http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/24/9793220/blue-origin-vs-sp...

In short, the Falcon 9 has unbelievably more thrust than the BO rocket due to being designed for carrying payloads into outer space, not simply small objects into suborbital flight. Both are necessary and both are amazing.
Shipping perhaps? Is there a place for science that is covered by satellites or weather balloons? Perhaps deploy emergency connectivity faster than a satellite can be launched? Just thinking out loud here, I'm sure there's tons of applications I haven't considered.
There were news about BMW and Apple meeting in Germany. There are also manufacturing companies without an actual brand like Magna Steyr building Minis for BMW.
I agree, here's the comparison of what BO is doing compared to SpaceX. http://i.imgur.com/Z81NgAk.png
> US methodically built capability far beyond what the Russians could sustain.

You know what year it is, right? This is not 1998. Unfortunately US "sustainable" technology is mothballed and we are flying into space on Soviet technology. I hate the commies on principle, but at the end of day you gotta accept reality here.

> Soviets took in trumpeting various "firsts" in space

Also I can think of just a few firsts off the top of my head :

First satellite, first ICBM, first human in space, first probe to reach moon, first EVA.

Then looking up on Wikipedia I found: first probe launch to Mars, first probe launched to Moon, first probe to reach another plane (Venus), first unmanned rendezvous and docking, first permanently manned space station.

And even the first fully automated flight of a space shuttle system. Which they did to show off, and then also realized "it was found too expensive to operate as a civilian launcher". It took US how many years and disasters and money to realize that?.
Because they are a US publicly-traded company. By law, Google only exists for the benefit of its shareholders. Everything else Google does, good or evil, is simply a means to that end. That's how US corps work.
Couldn't a rogue add-on unset the preference for you and keep it unset?

I'm not entirely sure how much control add-ons have over internal browser preferences.
I was soft in my earlier comment, but fine taking a rep hit.

This is not the only post recently where the topic is "oh golly gee, look at the hardship I went through to get through college and the found something."

It's a millennial post, and there have been many of them.

Going through college is a challenge ... Having to work or be responsible during such sucks (I interned at Borland as well as worked for an astronomical research company).

Post college, more than a few have to deal with life obligations that come up.

Our profession certainly offers a bit of a cushion and flexibility, but we have to manage that and our obligations.

I don't see someone here whining about having to support their parents due to the last downturn or the many other personal decisions made.

The blog would have been better written as challenges met and overcome and left out the for lack of tact whiny bits...

Yes, coming from poverty has challenges, and friends in such stretched into their late 20s to complete a degree...but perspective and awareness of the wider world is needed... Not another post about personal insecurities..
I feel like the majority of people make the mistake of reflecting on themselves and saying "if only I had this", or "if only I wasn't disadvantaged in this way"... In reality, everyone is disadvantaged in some way, and I can guarantee you that the successful people had a lot of disadvantages and setbacks. You shouldn't dwindle on what you don't have, but rather on what you do have. Successful people don't wait for the stars to align to do what they want. Safety and security is NEVER guaranteed, and if you want to be successful, you must understand this and risk it anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktlTxC4QG8g
They can be, and have been. Motorola and Nokia had very automated production facilities.[1] Even Foxconn in Shentzen is converting to automated assembly.

Iphones were not originally designed for easy automated assembly; early ones had internal discrete wires which had to be soldered. Newer ones use custom flexible printed wiring, which is more suited to automated assembly.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-fLzrTVQjg
Nuance. Words are not sufficient to convey all things; some things take practice, not knowledge. You cannot learn to play a guitar merely by reading everything there is to know about playing music on a guitar and humans are far more complex than guitars.
I read (old new thing probably -- a long time ago) that windows had circular dependencies until relatively recently. A large-ish team spent half a decade untangling it. Good luck building 40mm lines of source for a 25 year old project without detailed instructions...
> When I think deeply about it though, I'm not sure that any of it is better than what I experienced on a pretty big GWT project back in 2010. Yes, everyone was horrified that I was compiling Java to JavaScript. But everything just worked.

I used GWT in 2008 - 2010 and I would 1000% agree with you.

I'm currently working in a large team (100 ish Devs) for a large project written in 95% JS so I have something legit to compare with my previous experience.

GWT goes like this: Maven + MVP + EventBus + minimum DI + JUnit trumps the fiasco I'm dealing with JavaScript ecosystems nowadays.

It's sad that GWT didn't win mindshare due to a few reasons:

- Bad Rap: Java in 2006-2010 was getting a lot of heat from Rais, Google Wave was a flop (it was the most-talked GWT project)

- Back-end Dev rarely wants to touch Front-End development and Java developers are largely Back-end Dev

- Front-end Dev hates "enterprisey" so they refused Java and its ecosystems

- In general, front-end community didn't have a solid grasp of good software practices hence perhaps they don't quite understand the benefits of GWT (feels like I'm throwing blanketed statement but bear with me).

GWT was ahead (and probably still!) of everything:

- Dealing with Sprites and Resources a LOT easier than anything in front-end stuff we have to deal these days

- i18n framework built-in (have you ever seen a JS solution for i18n? doubtful)

- Pruning dead code!

- Static Analysis via Java

- Good Solid unit-testing framework again via Java (no QUnit vs Jasmine vs Mocha)

- That debugger .... very sexy!

- SASS? LESS? Nah... GWT has a good solution for that...(ClientBundle)

- Sane and Stable Date and Number formatter

Hm.... I'm re-thinking of using GWT again for my side project....
http://git.annexia.org/?p=miniexpect.git

It's an "expect"-like library written in C (and more sane than the Tcl original). It's 3 files, because it has a header file and a manual page.

It's just 390 lines of code because it's implemented using some PCRE trickery.
except for the fact that Employees and founders salary is generally below market rate while at the same time they are expected to work more than standard hrs( 8 Hrs?? ) and be available 24x7 to fix issues. Equity with promises of big payout is given as a reason to take such such a deal over a job at a Bank.

Now these employees and founders know that these promises are empty and the example provided above is one good way to keep the promise.

Lots of investors expect Founders to take a salary needed to survive and also don't get paid for the sacrifices already made.( its assumed their equity stake makes up for the difference)
> They stopped posting future launch dates on their web site last year;

The people at Wikipedia have added up between 20 and 30 launches scheduled for 2016. But obviously lack of an official list makes is speculative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_He...
Why then do astronauts on the ISS appear weightless? Do _not_ make me Google this :) And maybe we shouldn't call them astro- (suggesting star) nauts until they get to Sol and back. I kid! I guess in some sense we are all astronauts, man, on spaceship Earth. Seriously, maybe we should call them orbiternauts?
GPUs are happiest when doing float precision, which is 24 bits.

Most GPUs can, at reduced speed, do double precision, which is 53 bits.

The maximum precision for this zoom movie is 960 bits.

So, unless you write code to compose high-precision math operations out of double-precision math then the GPU cannot even participate. And once you do that you will find that the GPU's speed advantage is mostly or entirely lost.
Ontop of all of this.. ULA's heavy lift capability is entirely dependent on Russian engines to reach orbit.
Made much worse by the fact ULA had until SpaceX arrived, complete monopoly of the US defence market.

It does make me wonder how much of this is just follow on from the exact events you described. Specifically that the Russians were for the longest time far ahead in liquid fuel rocket engine technology.
Why wait? Sure, some content will be overly compressed, but there is great 4K content available now:

1) Most digital photos are 4K - a 4K TV is ideal for viewing them.
2) Youtube videos
3) This video
4) Other sources of 4K video that are coming online right now.

Sure, you might not get 100% of the benefit of your 4K TV for ten years, but that doesn't mean it's not worthwhile.

In my case I had a terrible old TV, so upgrading was a no-brainer.
Zukerberg managed to get such investors. If investors want in on the game, then they need to make the sacrifice.

If the company wants the investor money, they make the sacrifice.

whoever is desperate loses more.
I think the median time span is... death.
An excellent question. I was surprised to realized that all three video editing programs had hard-coded limits. Odd.
I just finished going through this http://survivejs.com/webpack_react/introduction/ whole thing building a kanban board using react and altjs. It was really interesting, though a much simpler version of what was posted in the OP I learned a lot about webpack and react, and got to try a different flavor of flux I hadn't experimented with before (alt.js).

I'm excited to dive into the OPs tutorial however. It looks really interesting.
Please, can we not have yet another rehash of that discussion? It would appear because it runs on OSX and *BSD that it shouldn't require Systemd on Linux though lets check, shall we? So a quick download and

./configure --help

show

SYSTEMD_LIBS
linker flags for SYSTEMD, overriding pkg-config

so it's whatever pkg-config is set to.
Everyone would like better relationships :)

If you feel like you are not good enough - maybe you aren't. Maybe it will take another few years to work on something you are proud of and then you'll feel ready.

You sound relatively young - there is no rush to join google/facebook this year or the next. If you look at the bigger picture - you'll likely be working until you're in your 60s.

That's a long time. So I'd say don't sweat the goals you set for this year or the next so much, once you have the bigger picture, things will fall into place much more naturally.
The incentive is more reward, like investing at a lower valuation. Or if each employee's upside is limited, that leaves more money for investors, if the company succeeds.

More risk, more reward. Anything I'm missing?
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I'm probably not seeing the difference but it almost seems like by this logic a busboy (busperson?), the person that cleans up the dishes at a restaurant is owed $$$$$$$ because he could have gotten a higher paying job so he's sacrificing for the rest of us?

Is a fast food worker who goes to company A at $8 a hr but expects to move up into a management position and then gets denied, is he owed money because he could have gone to company B at $10 but without a management position expectation?

Employees and founders get paid. So it's lower than market rate it's still > 0 which means zero risk. They get a tiny piece of the pie. If things fail they still got > 0 whereas investors got < 0. You want the big payoff you have to take the big risk.
Thats is fair, and probably true. Ask somebody who larry page is, and almost everyone will know.

If not, they have heard of google. I am not sure if this guys was just ultra hipster, bitter about not getting a donation, or he literally doesn't realize that google was an inportant contribution.

Either way, society seems to disagree.
Phones are physically smaller, more dense, and tightly toleranced.
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Uh, this stb library [1] seems to follow a horrible pattern: not only combining your code into a single .c file (which is fine, like the sqlite amalgamation), but putting the code into a single .h file. [2]

I've never seen a C or C++ codebase that does this. Maybe you can rely on link-time deduplication, but it will still cause duplicate compilation, and thus increased compile times. I haven't thought it about it lately, but I thought the common wisdom was not to depend on the linker to dedupe or strip unused symbols. Actually it should cause link-time errors, not just duplicated cause.

The justification is also somewhat ridiculous: Why single-file headers?

Windows doesn't have standard directories where libraries live. That makes deploying libraries in Windows a lot more painful than open source developers on Unix-derivates generally realize. (It also makes library dependencies a lot worse in Windows.)

Really? Why not just lay out your source normally, and then munge it with a simple script into something Windows can handle (similar to sqlite)? Because writing trivial scripts on Windows is also a pain?

[1] https://github.com/nothings/stb

[2] https://github.com/nothings/stb/blob/master/stb_c_lexer.h