skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was at an agency and worked on the website for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing when they were releasing the new $20 design. The contract was for $88M - and our parent company was the prime contract and simply sub-contracted all the work to various sister companies. The agency I was at was in charge of the website part of the contract and we were literally just another cog in the wheel - we were certainly being billed as high end talent, and we had to undergo a minimal security clearance to work with high-res images of the $20 bill, but we were severely underpaid and overworked - and we were offered no recognition for our efforts.

No regrets leaving the agency world.
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Whatever decision the conference leadership made, it would offend someone.

Apparently, making women and minorities decide whether Yarvin would be permitted to present was too much for some, since it put the onus on those "oppressed" individuals.

But if they had just made an executive decision, they would have been castigated for "erasing voices of oppressed persons" or some similar complaint.

Under the circumstances, they made the only plausible decision: in favor of free expression and sharing of ideas, and against the awful "no-platforming" that the Left seeks to promote against all their political opponents.
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What they should've done with the model 3 to make it look good and much more usable/practical is a shooting brake style. But that would kill their aero, and thus kill the range. Which is a shame, as otherwise they wouldn't have a trunk opening too small to fit a guinea pig cage [1] in order to accomodate passengers taller than five feet in the back.

It's kind of shocking how tied up to a specific roofline profile Tesla is, in order to meet range/price expectations. They'll likely never be able to put out an estate car without sacrifising range or making it obscenely expensive.

Also, wtf is up with everyone comparing the model 3 to A4/c-class/3-series? Current best estimates I can find put the model 3 at 5-10 inches shorter than either of those, and with a smaller interior (obvious just from looking at pictures, the model 3 interior roof profile is a lot less "square" than ze Germans, again for aero reasons). I think Mazda 3, but with a smaller trunk, is a better comparison. (Yes, I know the model 3 has a "frunk" to compensate.) I also think Tesla are being deliberately secretive with the external dimensions, to keep people thinking it's bigger than it actually is.

[1] http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--uaROKJL5...
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I feel like the features proposed to make PC's 'cool' are all things that a power user isn't interested in or actively avoids.

My educated guess is that this won't win over the masses who love tablets and it will further alienate the PC core audience.
Ha! most OEMs like which ones? I've never seen a car where the touchscreen controls are locked while driving. At most I've seen ones that either won't let you use a touch keyboard while driving, or that will let you do that, after tapping a warning message about that being dangerous.
Hmmm... at the current rate of bureaucratic growth, I estimate in a 100 years or so, this app (or it's modern AR equivalent) will cost 20% of the entire federal budget. No worries though, 10% of all U.S. workers will be involved in its digital-paper-pushing development.
> Not even a newbie programmer is going to do this.

I wouldn't bet on that. I've seen all sort of horrendous monstrosities that students and new grads have come up with.
I don't know why exactly you're getting downvoted but I completely agree. React was designed for increasing the maintainability of large, extremely stateful SPAs. A blog has barely any state at all, and can be served statically from HTML. There seems to be almost no reason at all why a blog should run any javascript client side, let alone a whole library like React.
It should converge on eating about the same percentage of your income - people in lower cost of living areas are typically paid less. Markets remove arbitrage opportunities eventually.
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The fewer people you need to get into the right places at the right time, the more likely your plot is to succeed.

It's not like TSA agents haven't already been caught letting people smuggle contraband past them:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/19/tsa-agent-accused-smugg...
Watch the video. He explains that exact question in great detail.
The rumor mill a little while ago thought there would be three variants of the X, and still maybe that there will be three variants of the 3.

It's rumored the next vehicle will be the Model Y (To complete "S3XY"), and will be a pickup, or some form of utility vehicle based on the X
I don't think; I just read the evidence. E.g. http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/800Asnapium.asp
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In the aerospace industry (commercial and defense are similar here because the software for commercial has to be written according to government rules, see FAA DO-178B) it's actually verboten. Testing independence is part of the flight certification of the software if I'm not mistaken.
Remember, lithium is recyclable.
There is a professor at University of Washington that researches tools for blind programmers.

For example:, StructJumper for code navigation: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2702589
The research I've seen suggests that rats and other creatures will give up everything you listed for another hit of the right drug.
Honestly that is becoming more clear and I might have jumped the gun in my initial comment.

It went viral very fast, I think it would have been a great idea to say that each "regional' media representative would be disclosing more info within the next couple of weeks.. on the website!

And if some important info was not disclosed regionally there would also be a follow up, because right now you have to admit.. not many Western names are showing up if any ( don't mention Cameron and the others since this was already exposed pre-leak).
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> we don't let the target of their lies speak anywhere

Speaking of "lies": not inviting him to a private event != not letting him speak "anywhere". (Furthermore, this response came 9 minutes after mine, and carries a quote I immediately edited and cited evidence for. While fuming about the Lambdaconf sponsor author's attempt to "hurt" Neil Degrasse Tyson, I was momentarily careless.)

> signed this scientific consensus about the bell curve

If you'll excuse me, I do not have any interest in debating The Bell Curve (I believe about race & IQ?) with people who rapidly show up to support obvious racists and write stuff like: (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10945507)
Tesla does not have and never had any battery tech. They use off-the-shelf Panasonic batteries that are exactly the same ones you put in flashlights[1].

Tesla made one major innovation. They realized that people will buy an electric car for $100,000. That's really it! They have an attractive and very good car, but it is market innovation that is Tesla's essential advantage.

1: http://www.amazon.com/NCR18650B-3400mAh-Rechargeable-Battery...
The U.S. has a very strange corporate tax system. Why should Apple have to pay U.S. taxes on the profits they make selling in Germany a phone made of Korean components in a Chinese factory? That's above and beyond whatever taxes they're paying in the supplier nations and in Germany itself, which I assume are not insignificant.
I've been watching the news and reading newspapers every day for 6 months, across 4 different states.
Thanks for this. I was wondering what planet the upper posters were from, extolling the virtues of rear wheel drive -- then I remembered other people don't live in a land where half the year has frozen rain, ice and snow.

Rear wheel drive was great on my '84 Ford Ranger when I needed an excuse to skip school -- couldn't get it up my parent's driveway, sorry!
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That would depend on the body's albedo and where it's currently located in its orbit.
Ask HN: Mimic Mainframe Financial Computations in Real-Time
tl;dr Looking for a language or platform to mimic mainframe financial computations in real-time.

Hi all - Currently working on a large project attempting to replicate financial computations of a batch based mainframe COBOL system in real time with multiple users (400 concurrent). Our app is currently web based and allows sales associates to view, edit, and model financial adjustments (e.g. price changes, rate changes) in real time before these changes are batch uploaded to the mainframe. Users need to view financial impact at a low level (individual account) as well as at a high level (by business line).

Current stack is ASP.NET Web Forms and all heavy financial and logical computations are done within SQL Sever. (I am the database designer / programmer and also the subject matter expert). Performance is fine but only because we tightly control the scope and size of each page load. (For example, late last year, our business proponents asked for a feature and I spent three months crafting a story per my team lead on how to say no.)

Our application is about to expand and I am not looking forward to using our current tech stack or division of processing labor. In reality, we will probably continue with the limited platform we have but I'd really like to try a different / modern approaches if anybody has them!
Look at externalities when you consider selling price: Tesla sells pollution credits to outside companies, which they can use to finance their operations to some degree. For legacy OEMs like GM, CAFE standards mean that selling 1 Bolt EV lets them sell several Cadillac Escalades which have a very nice profit margin.

Disclaimer: I work for GM, but not on this product, and any opinions are my own.
So I’ve been thinking about a few crazy ideas :-)
1. Move computations and logic out of the database
> Computations require so much data, why not run bare metal on the database?

2. Move to an SPA like approach and send only raw data on demand

3. Continue using current .NET tech stack OR do some greenfield development in a different tech stack.
> Rust, Haskell, Elixir, Julia, Elm, etc.

4. Change from web based to desktop client-server
> Take advantage of desktop to power computations.
> Perhaps use a distributed version control concept

5. Event sourcing to handle state / auditing

6. Spark or something else for real time analytics...or everything
Super pedantic but some niceties (good insulation! Double paned windows) are less than 5000 years old ;)
"restaurants are booming right now" David Chang recently published this open letter on GQ that paints a less rosy picture on the current state of affairs in the restaurant world: http://www.gq.com/story/david-chang-resturant-business-chall...
tl;dr: You need to fall back to "the old way" (e.g. locks, compare-and-swap, etc).

Your transaction might get rejected no matter how many retries you do because the memory you touch doesn't all fit in CPU cache. CPU Cache mapping is made complicated by things like 8 way set associative (slide 17) which means something that used to work with transactions might not work if memory layout changes.

Therefore, if you get a rejection, you might want to try again a couple of times, but eventually you'll need to do it some other way.

For an explanation of set associative mapping, see https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/sum2003/cmsc311/Notes/Memory/se...

This presentation is also a lot easier to understand when watching the whole talk:
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/hardware-transactional-me...
I believe the correct parse is:

/ (the stability, security, or integrity of the agency’s systems)
(an identifiable risk to) < (or)
\ (personnel)
my uncle used to do electric conversions, though he never had the money to try a Corvette. He did have a Corvair (which is totally different) he raced in electric car rallies, which tended to do really well in endurance events.
Ask HN: What does gmail do when showing the “Loading” screen?
I'm curious if anybody has investigated this. It seems like (a) it should be unnecessary to have a loading screen at all for a mostly static page, (b) even for a lazy-loaded dynamic page there shouldn't be all that much involved in loading your last 100 emails, and (c) it's the antithesis of google to make things unnecessarily slow (okay debatable, but most of the time speed seems like a primary concern for google).
The original point was that there is risk. Its very unreasonable to claim that the risk is zero. Perhaps you don't believe this is the primary risk to Tesla, although it seems more like you think Tesla is unfailable, but your counterpoints aren't particularly convincing.

New battery technology is very expensive to research and create in mass production, but we have a long road of potential improvements to catch up with the energy densities of most other fuels and research has batteries that improve upon lithium ion.
Doesn't the point still stand? If they want 100% of the money (instead of 80% or whatever), they could get it by hiring minorities into their team (hell, higher the guy doing the subcontracting as a "business developer"!).

Some people have commented in other threads that just subcontracting can get you into a lot of trouble if caught though.
>e.g. hollowing out a function body into two smaller functions and adding a tail call.

Actually theres's a direct analogy there. The reason you do that is to make it easier to comprehend. It looks messy. To much info. Now imagine you have to listen to your screen reader speaking all of it. Same deal. To much, time to refactor to something more navigable.
To be fair, what you see on Top Gear is all scripted and staged for entertainment value.
Sounds cool :) I'd love to hear more about your setup if you'd be up to talk about it further (christian@beanbaginc.com).

Native support for OAuth2 is planned to land in 3.0 as well. We're focusing a lot on improvements for third-party integrations and enhanced extensibility with this release (along with some cool new review improvements).
Its only the article stating (and misleading) that softwares be Free Software but in actual the draft never once mention Free Software. So unlikely it would be GPL/LGPL/etc.

Its also suprising to see that this question popped up after 500+ points.
GM also has a more expensive unionized-human::robot ratio in its manufacturing process, IIRC.
Development tools ultimately are there to help the developers.

For teams with a mix of abilities, something like gerrit can make sense where approval is needed before a merge to avoid total chaos.

For a group of experienced developers, approval is a very expensive delay, and merging should be allowed first and review done in parallel.

Where I work the only people who commit are experienced developers, so the whole +2 gerrit thing is rather pointless, especially since jenkins does syntax-checking.

You might spot the occasional "typo" in a commit, but are you really going to tell the local language expert or framework author they're wrong about anything else, when your opinion carries the same weight as theirs?
sounds like an apple product.
You'd be surprised what programmers will do. Sometimes due to incompetence, sometimes it's an "optimization", sometimes it's a simple mistake, yet there is some very bad code out there and it's not discovered until it causes a problem.

For example, even a newbie wouldn't trust a remote client to tell you the size of a string they are sending you so you can echo it back to them, yet we still had Heartbleed and it sat there for a long time, undiscovered.
Is PM Cameron enough?
>I agree that it's a nice ideal to have everything open, but people need to realize that there are costs to doing so, and merely saying "I paid for it, therefore I have a right to read it" doesn't do much.

You're right, that's why places like sci-hub exist, and Elsevier et al dont seem to be winning this fight…
Fund managers forced to write down their investments in billion-dollar startups
> Associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin secretly shuffled as much as $2 billion through banks and shadow companies

So where's the other $198 billion?

> Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, who has positioned himself as a reformer in a country shaken by corruption scandals

Not surprising. An oligarch doing oligarch things. Surprised anyone thought he'd be anything but corrupt.

> Movie star Jackie Chan, who had at least six companies managed through the law firm

Guy who makes movies owns companies, imagine that?

Some of this is rather pedestrian, some interesting...
Oh I should be clear (misunderstood that extension). We're adding support for using Review Board as an OAuth2 provider, not to use another service for auth, so that services can better integrate into your server without having to share credentials.
Average Tesla pre-order price was around 42.5k (pre-rebate) yesterday. It will be interesting to see what the average is with all the added orders. EDIT: No info on average yet, will still be interesting to see what that number will be

We'll also have to see how the options wind up comparing at that price point.

Competition is a Good Thing!

Disclaimer: I work for GM, etc.
I've actually gotten to the point that I think the speed at which software tech moves (and we're all expected to move with it) has become a negative on the industry. No one has time to hone their craft when everyone making the architecture and language choice decisions has shiny new object syndrome. It used to be that people who worked at their jobs for 20-30 years or more became "elders" in an organization and were able to use that experience to guide the younger generation and avoid the same mistakes and design pitfalls. There are some good design practices that still do carry on, but having to learn a new language every year (plus all the frameworks that go with it) is not a pleasant or rewarding experience, nor does it allow for much time to become an expert.

Note, I do understand that sometimes new ways of doing things allow one to solve a problem such it would have previously been near impossible. However, most of the problems that need solving aren't these situations. I.e. if you think you have a big data problem, you probably don't, etc.

I think this especially detrimental in the government sector because the folks buying the services don't always understand the technology or the maintenance requirements that come with it. Then we all foot the bill (through taxes) for a lot of OJT for said new tech.
Noted crank [1] [2] [3] who is associated with noted crank Chandra Wickramasinghe [4] continues to act like a crank.

Dust and tiny micro-organisms are found in the Strat. This is not news.

[1] http://www.skeptical-science.com/tag/milton-wainwright/

[2] http://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2013/09/20/debunked...

[3] http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/invasi...

[4] http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/09/20/et_claim...
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Unlike those companies, the low end has been part of the plan since day one.
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