skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we could somehow gather up the taxes to pay for basic income, maybe we could hire people to work on all of the things in "the commons" that obviously need fixing or enhancing, instead.

I consider myself to the left of today's Democratic party (then again, I think Richard Nixon was more liberal than 21st century Democrats), but basic income sounds like a real moral hazard to me, and traditional Keynesian economics would likely deal with most of the unemployment problem, perhaps in conjunction with rolling back some "free trade" back-stabbing (alas, that crap was bi-partisan). Easy access to "welfare" in the 60s and 70s is what got us the back-lash of Reagan and friends.
> In the original show (i.e. SG1) Carter said it is "impossible" due to physics for it to stay open longer

In a show like Stargate, "impossible" is really just another way of saying "It would require overcoming a series of increasingly unlikely and insurmountable problems for that to be possible." Which, of course, they then use for a plot device in later (or the same!) episodes as they blow past those increasingly unlikely and insurmountable problems. :)
As soon as someone learns to detect F35 radar signal, more than half if it's stealth advantage melts away. So far U.S. has only made air-to-ground anti-radiation missiles, but the Russians have tried also air-to-air version.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-radiation_missile

All this has not gone unnoticed in the Pentagon, so radars like there have probably been in the works for quite some time. F35 sales pitches are probably warming up right now, so news like this are expected.

The only surprise for me is that this comes from the army and not the air force or navy. They probably need to worry about enemy droids. And if they worry about those droids using radar, they need to worry about enemy anti-radiation missiles.

This is probably part of larger picture of U.S. armed forces to avoid using Infra Red Search and Track (IRST). Because that makes stealth planes look bit silly, when you go past ~0,07m^2 radar cross section. At that point you would get parity with detection ranges of common radars and modern IRST sensors, which would be something like 80km for fighter jet sized object. But this would mean no operations in enemy airspace, as flight ceilings are typically around 20km. F35 has RCS 0,01 and F22 RCS 0,001 which is just great for operating in enemy airspace, if the enemy can't detect their radars and lacks IRST.

Currently it seems the best USAF can do about IRST is to pretend it doesn't matter. So if there is any coordination between the branches, the army has to get their own stealth radar against enemy drones. After two decades and gazillion dollars, we probably see subsonic F40-cool-skin, with reflecting mirror finish aluminum body, that eliminates this problem. And power projection and proceed uninhibited.

Why mirror finish aluminum? Current IRST sensors can detect current fighters from tens of kilometers away from sun heated surfaces radiating at IR spectrum. Having orthogonal plates means that sun glare doesn't hit the IR sensor directly, the mirror finish prevents excessive heating and smooth aluminum has very small IR emissivity naturally. Conveniently aircraft are already made from aluminum.

Right now we don't hear about this aluminum shit, because U.S. is still funding some weaponized lasers. Airborne lasers smelled like "overspending" before, but it's really going to smell like bluff when reflecting surfaces increase power requirements some 400%. They already suffer from bad power/weight ratios. But once naval laser "close-in weapon system" has been fielded (because any chance is a good one when you're desperate) we can go back to airplane design.

Sorry, this is bit long. I've had this autistic streak about this subject for past two weeks.
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Another thing: Look at the geographical distribution for "api" and observe a huge peak for Indonesia, stomping everything else into the ground. I'd guess that "api" is some sort of very common word in the Indonesian language.
AlphaGo and the Future of Computer Games: Conversation at U. of Alberta [video]
Pwn2Own: Day 1 Recap -
Researchers are addicted to publishing in elite journals. That's costing lives
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The basic conceit in writing this story is that when you only have access to an area of physics through poorly understood reverse engineered xenotech, a lot of arbitrary constraints imposed by the tech start to look like physical laws.
I wish I had the data on how many times I've had to input a password. There are certain services where I will walk away because sometimes putting in a password is too much effort.

Any progress made towards making this process have less friction, I'm all down for. However, I know little about facial recognition. So I'm curious as to how effective this will be?
Treating schizophrenia with virtual reality and robots
Resist the evil of the selfie password
Yep, and they have a remarkable "retro-future" charm to them.

All the automats really do is remove the person at the counter. There's still folks preparing the stuff in the back, there's still people clearing tables and cleaning up. Bringing this back will perhaps reduce headcount in some locations but only by a fraction.

There is nothing transformational about this idea. It is merely being used as fodder in arguments against raising the minimum wage. I am sure they would prefer avoiding fitting existing stores with such new technology.
John Kerry: ISIS responsible for genocide
Feature creep if I recall correctly. Though Openshift is an interesting implementation.
In reading the article over lunch, I realized something else changed as well: the government now has the capability to data mine without human intervention on a massive scale. (Which I strongly suspect they didn't in the early 90s)

That substantially changes the key escrow argument.

What the NSA et al want is not the ability to decrypt communications, but the ability to search all communications to generate intelligence. Naturally, this only works if the stored take is searchable, which encrypted content is not. (For practical and flexible purposes)

So the very existence of key escrow coupled with the desires of the NSA would almost mandate that any escrow keys available to the government be used continuously and automatically to decrypt content into a searchable data warehouse. Which is why if we allow this then in 5 years or less we're going to be having the Person of Interest "It's not a violation of your privacy if only an algorithm is looking at your data" discussion.

Or to quote Strangelove, "Mr. President, it is not only possible, it is essential. That is the whole idea of this machine, you know."
Haha this article is fantastic and I'm only a few paragraphs in,

> The FBI has been terrific at reading statutes — including CALEA — in ways that require the rest of us to do headstands to understand what the agency is up to

I really want to hear from Obama's current tech advisors, such as Megan Smith, the current CTO of the US, or Obama himself about the discussions he had after his remarks at the keynote. I bet he had some tough conversations.

Unfortunately nobody in the press has asked this question in the White House Press Briefings which occur every day and whose transcripts [1] and videos [2] are posted online

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings

[2] https://www.youtube.com/user/whitehouse/videos

EDIT: Wow, Susan Crawford even discusses the lack of press in the state house [3]

[3] https://backchannel.com/what-if-we-built-a-c-span-on-steroid...
I'm in the lucky 10,000 who saw this first the first time today. Thx for sharing! Should be required reading for HN, if such a thing existed.
This post is about a recent similar effort to use gps logs to find missing data in OSM:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/38145

The traces aren't pulled directly into the data, rather they are used to analyze and flag areas where the presence of a road is likely.
but this resiliency has nothing to do with the hashing per se correct? Once the route is withdrawn via BGP it is no longer a viable path so it wouldn't ever be routed to and by extension "hashed(source/dest etc.) Or am I misunderstanding what you are saying?
Also consider https://github.com/StackExchange/blackbox
* Email people, not companies
* Email 3rd party technical recruiters
* Hire someone on ODesk to fill out job apps for you
* Reply to people on HN Who's Hiring thread
Depends. If I have one item, in a sealed package w/ legible barcode in my hand, the self serve lane is fine.

If I have produce, or a large basket of stuff likely to contain a "processing error" in it somewhere, no way. Go for a real clerk.
Hidden rooms at tomb of Tutankhamun raise hopes of new treasures
Do you really consider it an invention? I think they mean inventions done by the committee (like <locale.h>). ISO C++ has this feature. And so does GNU C via the __auto_type keyword (GCC 4.9 and clang 3.8). History is there but I doubt it's commonly used (in C yet).
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> Carter said it is "impossible" due to physics for it to stay open longer

At the beginning of the story it's implied that things like that are why Carter would be upset. Because the physics they had thought they had learned from the stargate hardware turned out to be software limitations instead. It's not like humans are ever capable of creating a wormhole to test for themselves.
One thing that you have to watch out for with tcpdump in the field (and especially in production) is that it doesn't rotate its capture files by default, and so you'll eventually end up with very large capture files which aren't loadable in Wireshark (which struggles to load capture files of size ~= avaliable RAM).

See http://superuser.com/questions/904786/tcpdump-rotate-capture... for an example of the required syntax.

Note that tcpdump's default behaviour here is better than Wireshark's; last I checked Wireshark just crashes when your capture file exceeds the available RAM. Again, you can enable file rotation, but many don't realize this until they have been bitten by this attempting to do an overnight capture of a production issue...
Because you're no longer scraping the bottom of the barrel and it gives the worker more in germs of financial stability.
anecdotes != data;
I'd just like something better than _Generic and (void *) as our only ways to do generics. That's my one feature. Too bad that's not likely to happen, ever.
And last tweet explained why. I hope found job.
Show HN: Android lib for Bottom Navigation component
Terminator 2 used far, far more practical effects than one is likely to assume these days. The iconic shot of the t-1000 blown in half and sewing it self back up? Practical effect. Really amazing stuff over all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYQMfT6nsQs
Thanks, I tried contacting people working in the startups but most of the time I don't get a reply back.

Do you know any good recruiters ?
Fast food production should be increasingly mechanized. Much of it will regardless of +/- 20% change in wages.

At this point, maybe somebody else can insert a better "Culture" reference than I can :-)
Rice and beans are healthy, filling, cheap, and can be stored dry in large quantities. Nobody HAS to eat a fast food sandwich. The real problem here is that companies want to pay their employees so little in order to enrich their investors that they are reducing their own customer bases.
How does "Schools in countries like Finland, for example, have effectively given up on the repetitive learning style" fit with "as children, Finns are expected to not only memorize all the world countries, but also their capitals, any major cities, rivers, mountain ranges, deserts, and other important geographical features"?

Locating "100 obscure rivers on a map in front of the whole class" sounds very much like the result of a repetitive learning style.

The article argues that 'European countries put greater premium on rigor, focus, and coherence in their instructional systems' while 'Curricula in the United States, by contrast, "run a mile wide but only an inch deep."'

But this is by design. The US follows the liberal art tradition that a broad education is more important than one which is a mile deep but only an inch wide. Hence why in US high school, students only interested in math students must still take some history classes, some practical arts, etc. In one of my first visits to the UK, at a research site with grad students from across Europe, I was surprised that my knowledge of general European history was better than theirs. My high school offered a very good European history class. The Europeans specialized in science starting in high school, so had mostly learned their national history but not broader European history.

The article states 'In the US, there is no national requirement for students to learn a second language.'. This is absolutely true. Such a requirement would be unconstitutional under our federal system. This is why NCLB and others are based on bribes, I mean, the power of the purse. Which makes the Vice observation irrelevant. It should have said that most states, but not all, require some foreign language education in order to graduate.

"many kids play club sports in their local towns—outside of school"

I completely and totally want that to also be true in the US.
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I'm really disappointed with how slow publishers are being to adopt these technologies. If you look at the timeline[1] asm.js came out 3 years ago, fullscreen API 4 years ago. And I can't hardly find any non-demo WebGL games on the web. I'm not talking AAA games, just something beyond "here's something I built at a hackathon".

[1]http://www.openwebgames.com/#/timeline.html
Why was the top player there all along? In a financial "pyramid scheme" it is because money streams to the top. In a teaching ladder, what malicious incentive does the person at the top have to where leaving would cause the whole system to collapse? Most likely, the other players at the top would be happy to take on the role as top player in the league and would continue to self-teach to maintain their place.
> .h and .c separation is important for shared libraries (you know, that thing that you can't really do in Go).

Why are header files necessary for dynamic linking?

To name one of dozens of examples, Java has dynamic linking and has no header files.
Docker commands cheat sheet
as a GCloud user I've never seen any mention of IPv6. That's the main reason i've not bothered trying to get on the ipv6 bandwagon. I don't want to strugle through it if my hosting provider doesn't even support it.
I'd say (depending on an individual's exact circumstances) a high 5/low 6 figure salary is the minimum salary for a single person to be able to rent a halfway decent apartment someplace in the Bay.
Did you mean to comment in the fast food automation thread?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11304628
Why? I mean why is it important to identify who's behind something that doesn't hurt anybody? Can't we just enjoy the art?
Yes, the tools have gotten much much better, that is true. But it still costs an incredible amount of time to generate the art assets, it's a huge part of the budget.
Biased towards users of StackOverflow, not developers in general. Unless you believe the population of developers who took the survey is representative of the entire world of software developers--I'd be willing to bet it's not.
well, .com is the only domain I know that has its own shortcut in a browser (ctr+enter, which adds "www." and ".com").
If they really wanted to do that, it wouldn't be very hard; they'd just do something like what the UK did: set themselves up as permanent monarchs (of a sort) and then set up a parliament and gradually shift power to it while keeping the Kim dynasty as head-of-state. Make sure to write the laws so they can't be applied retroactively, eventually make the Kims figureheads who just sign the laws and act as a possible last-resort in case the parliament goes out of control or does something they really don't like, but otherwise stay out of governing.

No, I think the dynasty stays in power because they actually want to be in power.
How do you import multi-GB databases? Where can you import them from?
Well, does implementation in C++ count? The wording is ambiguous.
The article highlights Mapillary, which is crowd sourcing georeferenced photos.

I hesitate to equate it with Street View, a cell phone is not capturing quite as much imagery as their specialized rigs, but a big difference is that Mapillary is accepting photos from anyone that wants to upload them instead of making business decisions about collecting data in a region.
Similar tool that use asymmetric GPG encryption:
https://github.com/boussouira/bash-pass
Or AI. That would explain the ability to exhaustively think of scenarios and problems, while possibly not having already come up with the technology themselves (depending on whether you believe creativity is semi-distinct from intelligence in some respects).
It's not difficult to see how software can be simultaneously a patentable process and free expression. Videogames are the most obvious example.
Advice on pricing business process applications
I am an indie developer trying to build an agency. My main focus is to build applications that automates business processes (systems). When going on as a company, customers expect support, and there are lot of variables the come into play when doing projects like these, because systems become lifeline of a business and its there for every. From where can I get some good resource on building a company in this nature, I tried clarity.fm calls with few experts and some one resources, almost all of them are targeted on running marketing agencies, not "enterprise software"

Appreciate your thoughts.
Haven't used it but this might help - mentioned on the darknet discussion group - Yolo v3 on Tensorflow - predictions only https://github.com/gliese581gg/YOLO_tensorflow
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> variadic functions are pretty important

As you already wrote in another comment, most practical uses of variadic functions can be replaced by macros.

What remains that is worth fighting the platform for?
C needs to cut down on the instances of undefined behavior. Mostly these should become implementation-defined with some restrictions that the implementation should do one of the expected things.

For instance, if you overflow an integer, the compiler should not be allowed to assume that code branch is unreachable, or to conjure nasal demons. Instead the result should be an implementation-defined integer or a jump to an implementation-defined exception handling routine.

C should be predictable!
Not only past tense, it's being done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEBO
Home Automation: most folks forget about remote access [video]
thanks for the link. I'm partially aware of typings, but too into my own implementation right now to consider switching fro definitely typed. I'll give it a try and pray it actually can let me ship an OSS project!
It depends on priorities. Some people prefer city life. I value access to transit and amenities more than a large living space or a garden, and I _detest_ having to drive everywhere, so I pay more to live in a city.

Different strokes for different folks, though! Your office looks nice.
Why aren't you scraping the bottom of the barrel anymore? Before a min wage, you are hiring the least valuable workers. After a min wage increase you are still hiring the same low value workers.
A fair question :/

Unfortunately your answer is this thread itself. As I am writing this comment it is Link #1 on HN. That is to say that people love this kind of content and it drives pageviews, so media outlets are incentivized to write about it. We have only ourselves to blame :/
A prototype might be a better way of getting feedback and interest.

Good luck.
When you start needing/wanting stuff like that, wouldn't it make sense to just use a C++ compiler and a simple RAII type or two?
I just got the notice about the upgrade. I'm probably going to do worse at 3 now since my wins there were tenuous. Go has been an easy game for me to learn, but a very difficult game for me to get any good at. I just don't know how to think about it the way I think about chess.
I would say this is because the reference to the big mac index on the stack overflow post.
This is just the tail end optimizations (aka human effort reductions) that have been happening for a long time in the food business.

Fast food in particular, but even most "fast casual" places don't actually make the food in the sense of raw ingredients come in, finished dishes go out.

What is delivered to each restaurant are prepackaged, pre portioned food "modules" that are then rapidly assembled: frozen hamburger patties, bags of precut flash frozen fries, bags of precut onions, etc. Which is wildly more efficient than handling everything in house.

Similarly, Starbucks switched from barista's who needed some level of skill to the "Mastrena" machines which let you hit buttons to make drinks.

1 - http://www.businessinsider.com/the-company-behind-starbucks-...
Russia plans 2018 test of nuclear engine capable getting to Mars in SIX WEEKS
The Beta Program Behind a Startup's Winning Launch
From another post by a Xoogler:

[1]The new building was a new-style REWS abomination with impressive public spaces to walk through on the way to totally open offices with no cube walls (as opposed to the 4' walls around the 12 person cubes in the building I was in). So there was a lot of resistance in my group..
Well they are ignoring about 180 possible signals the gate could send during any dialing sequence. I assume one of them would warn about that.
I would argue that breaking out the "spec" part from the rest of development and testing will make it easier to get more accurate bids for the rest. Also, If you have change requests pay extra that way your bids can be lower because less risk. Also, break into must have and nice to have. build all the must have first then stabilize and add the rest.
What's politically correct is often both rude and ignorant. Just think of what views were PC about various ethnicities in Germany in the 30s.

Of course nobody in power (or who wanted to be accepted by society) would say those views were rude or ignorant. It was only after politics changed that people would look back and call the formerly dominant ideology what it was.

The question is, what beliefs does society currently enforce that are wrong? Don't answer publicly, since by definition there would be a serious social cost for you speaking what society doesn't want spoken.

Or have we maybe outdone every preceding generation and actually managed to be right about every belief we hold dear?
I was not permitted to.
I'd like to see genuine differentiation in policies based on domain. You can sort of get that in ccTLDS today (since they're independent of ICANN), and some of the specialty TLDs (e.g. .bank, .trust) have interesting policies.

The policy I'd love to see in a TLD is true first-come, first-serve, no trademarks/etc., AND a declining auction on landrush (with either a fixed small annual fee, or a percentage fee, or something to maintain; percentage fee also encourages current highest/best use).

On day one: any domain name costs $256mm to initially register. On day two, $128mm. On day 3, $64mm. etc, down to $0 premium in the limit.

Would be a fun way to handle human readable premium namespaces for other services as well.
Automation is much closer than we think
Well, "safe" and "secure" can be relative terms, and C definitely could be safer. For example, null pointers could be defined to trap and -fwrapv could be blessed by the Standard as a mode that all compilers must support.

I agree with you of course that C will never be memory-safe either in theory or in practice while still remaining C. (The same goes for C++, despite popular belief.)