skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Nobody has done more research on this than the US Military, specifically the special operations community. The key takeaways that you find in very effective SOF teams are:"

This is insightful, though comparing SOF teams and commercial work teams fails in the critical areas of complex interdependency and trust. [0],[1]

I think what this google study highlights most is, candidates are not selected for man management and emotional robustness: ie: emotional honesty, self awareness and the ability to equally lead and follow. This cannot be taught. Emotions are traits. They can be shaped somewhat through team assignment as shown with the experience of Matt Sakaguchi.

[0] Barbara D. Adams, Ph.D. and Robert D.G. Webb, Ph.D., "Trust in Small Military Teams" A great read on the qualities of complex interdependent teams ~ http://www.dodccrp.org/events/7th_ICCRTS/Tracks/pdf/006.PDF

[1] You fail, people around you get dead. Those around you fail, visa versa. The mission is compromised. You do not see sacrifice & self sacrifice like this in commercial world.
Just because they are accessible, doesn't mean using them is seamless. For example all of Objective-C's runtime and classes are available to Swift but there is some friction e.g. methods that emit untyped NSArrays rather than typesafe swift arrays, or cases where you have to avoid using Swift structs because they can't be passed into the Objective-C runtime. Apple's done a lot of hard work, and each release of Swift has made this better, but it's still not entirely without hiccups... without having used Kotlin, I can't say for sure, but I would guess there are some analogous issues.
Good points, these replies. I think it is fair to question what truth/harmony we are talking about. The "truth vs harmony" dichotomy has become a bit loaded especially with all the folks invoking truth as a license to be jerky intellectual bullies.

I definitely don't mean that. More like, there are always tradeoffs. There is cost/benefit in being truthy just as there is cost/benefit in being harmonious. Each has it's own type and you get to choose which make more sense for the situation, team, etc.

I don't think you can "have it all" so much as you can choose to set the tradeoff point somewhere in the middle rather than at the extremes. For example, in the Rust code of conduct example, it sounds like they have decided they want a nice mix. This will cost them though. Maybe the cost is as small sending $some_multiplier_above_1 the amount of emails between the team because things are worded more indirectly to not offend and therefore more disambiguation has to take place. If their team instead committed to be as direct as possible, the could spend less time on follow up emails but now they'd probably turn of or drive away some good folks from the team who decided they didn't like all the directness and send of urgency.

Personally, I like a nice mix. I think it is just worth being clear with myself it is a mix and not two independent things where you can have an infinite supply of each.
TBH, Opera was a much better browser than either Firefox or Chrome until version 11 or so.

Unfortunately, technical prowess is not enough to gain traction. Being closed-source and costing money (until version 8) was a much bigger factor for their failure.

Still, back then there was simply nothing that was as fast or usable as Opera. Rest in Peace.
And that there in is an issue. Android will never have a complete ndk API parity with Java. They've made this clear, and would be difficult since the Java API is implemented in Java (it's not a wrapper of ndk).
Thanks for bringing up Boyd. He was my inspiration for joining the military actually. The OODA loop is in my opinion the best template for how to approach problems.
"The thing is, if privacy advocates lose this fight, we have a greater chance of losing the next one."

I don't think that's true, but even if I'm wrong, you could say that about any skirmish in the privacy debate. Every legal case sets some precedent that affects the next one.

Also, I don't agree that this is government overreach. This case seems about as clear-cut an example of a "good" investigatory behavior as we're likely to see. If you can't get behind the idea of compromising privacy when there's a valid warrant, in the case of a known mass murderer with probable ties to international terrorist groups, well...you've set an exceptionally high bar. I'm a reasonable person, I see your position, and I disagree with you on the merits of your argument.
That is true, and to make matters worse it's probably near impossible to figure the right amount out when you've just started the company. You don't always know how people will wind up using your app.
One of these days we will effectively figure out why serious organizations can't seem to do even basic audio leveling on prerecorded videos that they intend for public consumption.

Seriously. It's 10 minutes of work, at the outside. Normalize the audio to an average of -3 dB so that people can actually understand what's being said without having to jack up their volumes beyond all reason, and then write it back down for the next thing that they have to listen to or get the ears blasted by the next notification sound that comes along.

There's just no excuse for it.
There is another solution - interlibrary loan. While it takes longer, you can often get papers for free or for a flat nominal cost. The local college ILL service will make a copy of any article in the world for $10 for the general public. The public library where I used to live would make ILL copies for free.

It's not a great solution, but if you have more time than money, it's a possible alternative.
But the better team is the one where she becomes the team lead. That's not sexist. Some of the most important skills are leadership skills. And leadership skills are not about command and control. They're about understanding and leveraging (often intuitively) a million complicated things we barely understand about our ancient primate wiring. Those things make computer programming look like preschool skills.
Etheropt, a decentralized options exchange built on Ethereum
The Ruby on rails solution to memory leaks probably shouldn't be the goto remedy.
In the comparison between Flow & TypeScript, he mentioned Flow gets non-nullability right. Anyone have any example to illustrate this?
For what it's worth, I'm pretty technical, and all these arguments in Apple's favor seem a lot like arguments for why law enforcement is generally untrustworthy, warrants are meaningless, and everyone should resist every search under every circumstance because what will they ask for next?

Aside from the fact that's all probably actually true, that is not the case Cook is making. Cook is, in fact, trying to pretend like this represents a cryptographic back door, when it plainly absolutely does not.
I am a big fan of Clojure, but you're definitely overstating its popularity relative to Javascript and Ruby. I would put at very least PHP, and Python ahead of it as well, and Java and C# probably see more web work done with them. Clojure is just not in the same league in terms of popularity as any of these.
I think the question was whether we can easily mass-download the papers from Scihub.
So have elevated storefronts?
Why is that important? I would be just as happy with an API that allows downloading articles one at a time.
How to Spot a Narcissist (Trump)
> If you aren’t affiliated with a university, scientific papers cost something like $30/each to read.

It's not quite that dire. DeepDyve [1], which is kind of like Spotify for academic journals, provides online access to 12 million articles from 10000 peer reviewed journals. You can buy access in blocks of 5 articles for $20, or unlimited for $40/month ($30/month if you buy a year at a time). They also have free 5 minute previews so if you are not on one of the unlimited plans you can get some idea if you want to buy a particular article or not.

[1] https://www.deepdyve.com
Here’s How Electric Cars Will Cause the Next Oil Crisis
What about other large semi tech companies. Starting with Tesla, but GE, paypal, Asus, Linksys, Cisco, Sun, Bay Networks, Coca-Cola, IBM, FedEx, Starbucks, Procter and Gamble and all medical HIPAA institutions, schools and Universities, McDonalds, Disney, Pixar, Amex, Visa, MasterCard, Costco, Caterpillar, Target, Nike, UPS, USPS, Exxon, Pepsi, Samsung, AT&T, t_mobile, Verizon, Sprint, Oracle, General Mills, Wells Fargo, Investment banking companies, etc.

They all have a stake in tech, and they all would not like to have their tech backed up by a system, that anyone can get into if one person leaks it out. DMV, the police, all those poorly secured systems that are now basically a new RFC that is for publicly routable address space that everyone treats like private address space, but just insert your special gummy bear finger print copy, and bam, you are in.

Get all those companies behind this, and people will think the FBI are crooks and theives.
It doesn't though, I just didn't explain how that role works. Consider the "leader" as the lead coordinator rather than someone barking orders.

Once all of the debate is over, a decision needs to be made and followed through with, with the understanding that new information will require tweaks or wholesale re-evaluation of the plan until completion.

So in that sense, the leader ensures that everyone is executing their role well, and that everyone is aware of any deviations to it - while also delegating authority or decision making as needed as the task unfolds.

It's way more nuanced and delicate than it would seem from the outside.
Experiment is hiring full-stack engineers
You need to add something like python or ruby to your arsenal for quickly writing scripts that start up fast ;) or do you use nodejs for this?
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> Even though it is probably the most practically used functional language.
Scala have 30th place on Tiobe index, while Erlang have 42th: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/tiobe_index.
Lisp isn't a functional language.
After they share the data within, they will begin to sell the data to private corporations, or offer the data to them for next to nothing & as long as they share the output of their processing results.
The Public - Private partnership will be in full swing in a few years.

Why are we analyzing this? Why aren't we telling our representatives that this is wrong & it must stop?

peace
With some work you can write some Java that will easily take a message, parse it, do logic, and reply in under .1ms. Not that useful for a webapp though, databases are kinda cool.
I would let content creator to decide what to do with his creation. I believe the author can do anything with it. For example, burn it, or set a price of $100500 per bit of information, and require customers to crawl on their knees ingratiatingly asking to buy it. Of course, no one would buy it that way, but author has ultimate right on his/her creation.

One of those rights is to sell it to big unproductive but powerful individuals/corporations.

I pirate too, but I respect the ultimate creator's right.
> license is loaded the kernel will mark itself as "tainted". (It could just as well refuse to load the module, but it doesn't.)

Why, because they used the word "tainted"? I kind of thought that always meant to be used a flag for "this user loaded some random binary in the kernel and now complains there is bug ". So developers look at the debug output and see "oh, well, it is tained, so, we won't waste time on this, you are on your own" kind of stuff. Which is reasonable.

As you said, if they didn't want it to work with non-GPL modules, they could have prevented loading. Unless you think they setup a honeypot of sorts -- "We'll trick them, then sue them!".
Again...I'm comparing ELITE SOF units, not line units so your comparison misses the point.

Massive difference.
1) It's a backdoor because it's software, not a physical device like your example. They are not asking them to make a robot finger to push the buttons. It's not only more trivial to unlock the device, it's significantly more likely the software is copied and leaked into malicious hands.

2) The outrage, in my opinion, is much more about your exact example -- that Apple is being compelled to develop this software themselves. That they are being legally required to weaken the value of their own product.
Fab. If you're interested in collaborating, drop me a note. I wrote my current software in Scala as an experiment, but I'm unlikely to do future work in Scala. I've been meaning to rewrite sunrise in something else, and I'm open to suggestion.
Would this still work with 3rd party cookies disabled?

In the years I've used uMatrix[0] I can't remember a single case where sending a cookie with a 3rd party request was needed. Why do browsers do this still?

0: https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix
"Innocent until proven guilty" only applies in a criminal trial. The man in question died in a shootout with police; he will never be proven guilty, because you can't put a dead man on trial. You can't libel or defame a dead man, from the point of view of the law.

There has to be a point where media can call someone a terrorist short of conviction in a court of law. You can argue that that point hasn't been reached in this case, but there has to be a point, since otherwise we'd have to call Bin Laden an "alleged terrorist."
Flying Scotsman returns to the tracks
probably doesn't translate well to more voluntary, at-will engagements like your typical work-place

They do for the kinds of teams I am discussing.
> In a way we are lucky that money talks in the U.S.A.

Money talks, but votes are king. When we collectively vote a politician out of office, his or her money dries up. In a way, votes are made more powerful by money.

Check out This American Life's episode on "Take the Money and Run for Office" [1]

Dick Durbin: I think most Americans would be shocked-- not surprised, but shocked-- if they knew how much time a United States senator spends raising money. And how much time we spend talking about raising money, and thinking about raising money, and planning to raise money. And, you know, going off on little retreats and conjuring up new ideas on how to raise money. [2]

...

Barney Frank: If the voters have a position, the votes will kick money's rear end any time. I've never met a politician-- I've been in the legislative bodies for 40 years now-- who, choosing between a significant opinion in his or her district and a number of campaign contributors, doesn't go with the district. [2]

[1] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/461/t...
[2] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/461/t...
Disney has 185,000 employees. Their PAC received contributions over $200 from 144 people in the 2014. If they're going to use PAC contributions to pick employees to keep, they're going to have a hard time.

https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgave2.php?cycle=2014&cmt...
as an example, https://github.com/hippyvm/hippyvm is another interpreter on RPython.

That being said, the primary devs of PyPy/RPython are also a consultancy group, from what I recall, and PyPy is one of the tools they use for their consulting

http://baroquesoftware.com/ specifically
In short: andrewcommando commented without reading the article

Ha, I actually did, but thanks. Also good guess on my team name (commando) ;)

You are right though that it's not a 1:1 substitution but the principles align well.
Identifying Webpages by Tapping the Electrical Outlet [pdf]
What you describe is available through libgens scimag section, and I believe they're affiliated.
Tying to the session is a common practice but not necessary. You can do non-session-tied CSRF tokens so long as you don't expose your cookie.
PAC contributions are capped at $5,000 per person per year, so that would have been the top level.

SuperPACs are very different from PACs, despite the similar-sounding name--sort of like the Javascript vs. Java.
I read the article as "Despite the SF Conservancy grasping for any money at all to merely keep the lights on, we're going to waste time pursuing a licensing issue which boils down to "distribute the binary, not okay; distribute the source + tell user to 'make', okay". The essence of these two positions is pretty subtle, and not something that I think a running-on-fumes organisation should be pursuing.

I started donating to them last month; this article makes me wonder if I should retract that. What Canonical is doing isn't really violating the spirit of the distribution of ZFS - fundamentally, what is the difference between 'binary' and 'source + make' in this context? It's still intended to be shared. The article is a legal opinion, it took a fair amount of time to write, and talks about a lot of communication with other parties.
might like this: http://practical-scheme.net/docs/gdc2002.html
it's about using scheme in production house for final fantasy movie
Ask HN: What is your experience with running Hacklang on production?
Can you produce a car without oil? Especially one containing a large battery pack?

Last guess I read put it around 350 barrels for a family sedan. I don't know how much of that is plastics, smelting, and other materials and how much is energy requirements though (and to be fair, I have no idea how close or not that number actually is to the true cost).

But given that it takes some amount of oil at least, doesn't that invalidate the argument against increasing efficiency? Because you could call building any sort of car, even a Model S, a loosing battle then.

Another thing to think of: if you don't have access to a wall plug, and want to provide an air conditioned environment in a vehicle, there's no alternative to oil AFAIK for anything smaller than an aircraft carrier. Diesel Generators are the only option for air conditioning on Sailing Yachts for example. Nothing else has enough energy density and you can't fit enough renewable (solar, wind, hydro) power to keep up with the amps air conditioning will pull out of it.

I know that particular example is very niche. It's just an interest of mine and I'm hopeful we'll see some sort of game changer in the next decade or two.
You thought right. Ocaml is an impure functional language.
It's more that if literally any other site on the internet were found to have any type of CSRF vulnerability, people here would be going on and on and on about how this is web dev 101, only a complete idiot wouldn't know about/secure against CSRF attacks, etc.

Whereas here, when it's HN with a CSRF issue, "eh, it would break some third-party clients if we patched this".
How would you go about proving that?
Do you have recommendations for another tool to set up a Kubernetes cluster in the first place? At first glance, it seems somewhat complex and easy to misconfigure.

Or is that something you plan to support in redspread as well?
Good idea. I wouldn't mind it so much if it were only half the year, but now it's almost eight months long.
I've seen enough cases of people creating crappy free "replacements" for premium apps or services, and people flocking to them, that I don't know if you'd actually need to fully replicate the data sources. Just find something "good enough" and people will come. Or pay for a little while, planning to "figure out monetization later" and then fail in six months or a year.
I prefer the current small time interval (it is 1 hour?). So someone can fix typos an add an additional line, but after some time the conversation is fixed.

Do you have an example were you needed more editing time?
SCi-Hub used hacked or shared university account to abuse the university proxies to get content. For big research institutions, it's an annoyance. To small colleges and university library it is a major headache that can get the whole university locked out from resources the library is paying dearly for.

Source: My partner is a librarian at a smaller university, this happens every few months and they lose access to major online platforms for days if not longer every time.
The NY Times is being deceptive, too.
> Because there's functional as in only using pure functions (Haskell, ocaml) and functional as in access to higher order functions (JavaScript, erlang, clojure)

Or functional as having proper closures.

Or tail call elimination.

Or using immutable data, or immutable variables.

Or minimizing mutable state.

Or being decalrative.

etc...

;-)
Why do you assume the penalty would only be monetary?
Some papers were written by self-employed people or by corporate employees. Is it okay for these papers to be restricted?
Waste of effort. It's never going to work -- the gap is so far and the network effect of apps and ecosystem are so entrenched that Ubuntu would have to do something revolutionary versus an incomplete copy of what other's already have invented and are still improving with massive (collective) resources. Add a dedicated hardware requirement and you've got the nail in the coffin.
LinkedIn Confirms Account Passwords Hacked
> 1) It's a backdoor because it's software, not a physical device like your example. They are not asking them to make a robot finger to push the buttons. It's not only more trivial to unlock the device, it's significantly more likely the software is copied and leaked into malicious hands.

If I wanted to get into my neighbors house, and I had some way to compel a construction crew to come install a new door in that house so I can walk through it, that would not mean houses now have back doors. That would be a very disingenuous way of putting it.

"But what if the software is copied" is the only argument that holds any weight, and I don't find it very convincing. If the "copyability" of sensitive software/data is such a huge concern, then we should probably start asking how we intend to survive as a species.

> 2) The outrage, in my opinion, is much more about your exact example -- that Apple is being compelled to develop this software themselves. That they are being legally required to weaken the value of their own product.

Perhaps, but that's not what Tim Cook is saying.
In my experience, getting the "Best Seller" label isn't self-sustaining. It doesn't seem to generate a huge number of sales on its own (but it does let you call yourself a best-seller, which is kind of cool)
so you just use javascript? I'm in that period of fascination, any practical advice? ;)
Adobe FrameMaker and Microsoft Visio, stored in Perforce.

Beautiful documents, but it takes a decent chunk of time to create. We do extract some docs via XML to generate code, somewhat backwards from how most engineers merge docs and code.
>They said the government should disclose how much American content the N.S.A. collects incidentally ...

The NSA's lawyers have twisted the definition of "collection" to mean the accessing of information already present in storage. By any reasonable definition of the word, they already collect virtually everything they can on Americans. Not just metadata, but full content—everything.

Asking the NSA to disclose incidental collection on Americans would only reveal incidental access to Americans' information in context of foreign-targeted operations.
For now, yes. My life has taken some unexpected detours, these past few years, so I have to focus on work rather than inspiration.
"Often, random bits--known as salting--are added to a hash so that the output is harder to guess. But that does not appear to be the case with these leaked passwords."

Do they ever learn? They already got hacked in 2012!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_LinkedIn_hack
I'm guessing you're ESL and you meant:

If you think hard it actually makes sense, at least for the CSS part.

Otherwise it reads as if in your brain you're saying "well, it is actually making sense," but then you'd need a consequence for the if.
We are 100% unstructured!
There's some torrent files right here[1]. They're nearing the 50mil landmark, as hou can see.

[1]: http://libgen.io/scimag/repository_torrent_notforall/
Working here also.
As an observer of this conversation, I'd like you to know that you're arguing with a rhetorical device.