skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are the down votes because of the content or style of my comment? Ultimately, it's a matter of the capital those companies have invested. These companies can more efficiently allocate the extracted wealth toward research and other projects that there is demand for. I'd rather have an efficient organization running off with my tax money than an individual who might go buy a yacht with that money. A corporation has little incentive to spend money the same way an individual would.
How are ~5 minute ZFS snapshots significantly better than

git log --patch

to look at your history, combined with

git checkout $COMMIT

to get the code to perform any tests required? (Or, if you have a reliable automated test,

git bisect start HEAD $KNOWN_GOOD_COMMIT -- && git bisect run $TEST

will automatically find the error for you.) [0][1]

And remember that the git checkpoint creation process is -at its most verbose- running

git commit -m "C"

[0] You can use points-in-time as commit references, like 'master@{30 minutes ago}' or 'HEAD@{2016-01-01}'

[1] And even if you don't have a test, you can easily manually run the bisect machinery.
Netool, the pocket remote Network Engineer breaks 50% funded for cloud feature
Netool's coding is being polished and will be ready to ship beta units by the deadline. Contributing to a perk with a Netool included guarantees you a Netool. The indiegogo is for the cloud feature only, and between you and me Netool will get the cloud even if it does not meet funded.

Netool is software based so getting a Netool today comes with all future updates.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/netool-pocket-sized-netwo...

What Netool can discover:

DHCP,

LLDP/CDP information,

Switch port / switch stack / switch management ip,

Untagged VLAN ID,

Tagged VLAN IDs,

Duplicate IP address,

Gateway ping test,

Internet ping test,

Custom ping test,

Spanning-tree,

Quality of service,

We are always adding more functions and tests to, Netool.OS

Netool works with:

Any switch, router, bridge or any other network device
that has an Ethernet port,

Switch info (including switch host-name, management IP,
switch port) only works with devices that support
protocols LLDP or CDP,

Tagged VLAN detection works with any switch that
supports, VLAN tagging

Netool shares with others:

SMS/IMessage,

Email,

Evernote,

Slack,

Save to notes,

Netool cloud,

and many more
These policies do not affect the revenue of Boeing or Palantir, who are able to arrange whatever exceptions they need to do business. Usually, minority purchasing rules come into play when a government is purchasing commodity/low-differentiated products and services.
Yeah, but we're actually not too far from this.
This is definitely a deceptive practice. Claiming this was developed by MIT is kind of like claiming that the theory of relativity was developed by the Swiss patent office. MIT is just the place where the researchers were working. To add insult to injury, the names of the researchers are withheld until the 6th (!) paragraph of the article.
I've actually discovered since that the FSF's CLA actually explicitly states that you give them your copyright under the condition that they always provide it under a copyleft license. So it looks like I was wrong about that and might even start contributing to GNU projects.
I couldn't find any info on this on your page, but do you also support importing the data from Apples (or Googles) App Stores? I.e. all my sales information form there?
I don't understand, who should define such abstractions? If you're the JIT developer and you define a value encoding that supports all possible values (so that the JITed function never has to be rolled back), then you can't really optimize.

For example, if the JIT has the code "function(a, b) { return a+b; }", and it sees that the function has been called 50 times with a and b as integers, it can generate a machine code implementation that is just a couple of instructions adding two registers.

If you keep the abstractions wide enough to support other values, you can never achieve this efficiency.
This is not what I mean by being two faced - in the context of the thread it is about employees pretending to like the boss when they really hate his guts. This is very hard to hide if they spend a lot of time with you.

As a manager I would rather not know about your personal life unless it is impacting on work. One of the downsides about devoting so much time to people is they feel like they can share their most intimate personal feelings with you. The stories I have been told over the years still continue to amaze me.
Part of the author's problem is that he's in Germany: a country in love with paper trails. You can't change your phone plan without writing a letter of request (not joking). Taxes require a level of documentation that in North America is only needed for an audit. No joke, MT personal and business tax return is a thick binder full of paper every year. The only solution is to pay a tax lawyer to prepare it for you.

Yes, there's a whole field of law that's just for filling out tax forms. And it's an enormous industry here.

Incidentally, the complexity is maintained by the tax lawyer lobby. There have been a few proposals to simplify the tax code, but it's hard to do when a third of the civil service and the single largest legal profession in the country oppose the idea.
Scientists design smarter and faster immune cells with global cell race
The first Model 3 is slated to ship late 2017. And Bolt early 2017. That's a solid 9+ month advantage for the Bolt.
Did you have this same position with the Snowden leaks? Dump it on the web and it lacks credibility. Filter it through journalists who can use their resellers to make sense of it and the public gets to hear the important repercussions of the leak instead of having to try and figure it all out themselves.
Habitica is really fun, it makes accomplishing tasks as a fun and entertaining way by gaming it more.
Millennials are being dot.conned by cult-like tech companies
> Residential area without businesses sounds crazy. I have three bakeries and around ten restaurants within 300m of my current apartment, not counting general stores.

I also have food businesses within 300m of where I live. There are mixed-use towers downtown. But that's not the same as businesses being inside your apartment building, one door over...

You're right though, mixed use neighbourhoods are great. I enjoy them too. I love high-density neighbourhoods in Europe and elsewhere.

But many suburbanites hate it. Many apartment dwellers would also be in for a big shock. It's something which isn't really part of our current city planning, and residents get mad when the government changes rules, never mind when neighbours suddenly decide to just flout the rules.
New Shepard reached an apogee of 339,178 feet
The worst thing is that Tesla can at any point decide your vehicle is no longer fit for use and disable it completely. They already do that in case of accidents - the car is completely disabled until you bring it to a Tesla dealership where it has to pass their standards to be reactivated.
Funny but ultimately wrong.

The real distribution of where the money goes on projects is certainly funny from a sane persons perspective, but in a different way than this :)
> Copyright/Patent/Trademark isn't a priori bad. It has funded many musicians, writers, inventors, painters, etc.

There is no reason why one can't pay money even when copyright laws wouldn't exist. I often do, for exampl for open source projects or for free ebooks where the author still asks for a donation if one can afford. The only difference is that the creator cannot force you, which I consider as a good thing.
Don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to ignorance
Also, Tesla will start production and deliveries in late 2017. That means most customers might expect to get their cars in 2018 but mostly likely 2019 and 2020.[1]

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/03/tesla-may-need-cash-to-delive...
> The funding only covered research, not publication

Not true, many grants require publication. Any grant giving money to do research that doesnt require any results is fraud.

> Then set one up.

PLoS, frontiers, eLife, there are plenty and they are good, but until we can drag the critical mass of high-impact scientists into these open publishers, they will keep being underdogs. You need a systemic change here that will at once pull the good reviewers and good scientists to them, in other respects they are much better than elsevier in some technical respects. The problem is that academia is not the free market. The currency is 'prestige' and its proven very very hard to change attitudes without a) a generation dying or b) regulatory action or c) doing something illegal. It's regulations (specifically requiring high impact publications) that brought elsevier to become the arbiter of scientific importance after all. We either have to regulate paywalls out of academia completely, or find a way to replace the institutional role of publishing with something else.

In any case, your 'this is free market' approach is wrong here i think. Academia is not a free market.
That thought experiment isn't very useful, because people aren't randomly distributed across the continent. Much of the plains and rockies are empty of people.[1]

1. https://johnstonarchitects.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/pop_l...
This will hit wiki leaks. These news outlets won't be able to keep Anonymous and others out. The world will know.
I wish it caused oversteer! The reason front-wheel drives are so pathetic to drive is because it causes understeer, but which is what also makes them safer than rear-wheel drives. I have an e-Golf with loads of torque at the front wheels, and I can spin the tires easily whether going straight, or in a turn (and coming off of speed bumps). I so wish the car were rear-wheel drive (edit: in the sense that I could have a rear-wheel drive; I don't actually want a mass-production e-Golf to be rear-wheel drive).
I'd expect overpowering the front wheels is much less dangerous than the rear, regardless of engine type. Front wheel is pretty much the norm now in the vanilla car market, partly because they're safer.

Also, just for driving dynamics, front wheel is better for day-to-day stuff. More predictable, easier to correct, easier to control on rough or slippery surfaces, ... I'd rather drive a front-wheel car without traction control than a rear wheel drive one.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but a small family car like this should be front-wheel drive. Also, front wheel can be pretty sweet in a small car with a peppy engine.
The author decided not to go.

In other news (of the weird), Lambdaconf now promotes this political blog which sponsors them: https://twitter.com/aphyr/status/716427389350359040
what was/is distinguishing apple products from the rest, many years (even now I think), is the battery life; and that was also in part because the software developed for iOS was tested and maintained and designed to consume as less possible processor cycles; there was special attention given to this aspect (I am not sure if they are still doing it, but I know they were doing it in the past), which the rest I never heard of doing it.
At a place I worked at, we did over the shoulder code reviews. You go to someone in person, ask them to do an OTS and you go over the code with them explaining anything. It meant most code reviews took about 5-10 minutes and was pretty fast.

People didn't review as deeply as the traditional async process, but code reviews were never an issue that delayed people and took about as much interruption time as someone asking you a question about something.

The downside is it didn't scale past a single office or with remote workers and it's hard to do such things as automatic blocking reviewers and such.

----------

Now I work at a place that does traditional phabricator code reviews and has all the problems you mention. But people do review more thoroughly and it does scale past offices.

Personally I deal with it by messaging people asking them to do a review after I post it, and talk about how it's important that we get reviews done quickly during social situations.

Everyone gets annoyed how long reviews take when this is the case, so it's easy to agree about. I also offer to give people code reviews when they inadvertently complain about how long code reviews take, and they start to appreciate a helpful & quick attitude to code reviews and start to reciprocate.
Yep. You have the AE, and then the AE on a large project has another AE with him. Then you have a solution captain. Then you have the COE that comes in that actually knows something. Then an architect to design the thing. Then you have others who actually do the thing. Then you have a PM to schedule meetings, and bitch at the doers to do the thing.

Then you have all the daily meetings to communicate to all of those people the messaging. Then you have the meetings to clarify all the wrong messaging that went in some of those meetings.

Then you have the meetings for the customer facing communication. Then you have the customer communication.

I'm not even close to done...
> It wasn't a pleasant experience.

In my experience the differing perception of pleasure, certainly with the Interix-derived Windows NT POSIX subsystem rather than the original one, is usually a result of the toolset being BSD rather than GNU. I don't have much trouble with the BSD toolset, myself, especially when switching between Windows and an actual BSD. (-:

In addition to the fact that a number of the "Does this new subsystem ...?" questions are answerable as "No; but the old POSIX subsystem did." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11416392) the POSIX subsystem has some stuff that we're simply not going to get with a Linux subsystem that has vanilla Linux binaries including libraries right down to the system call level. There are things that only come by adjusting libraries and binaries, because they are above the raw system call level. The POSIX subsystem integrates the user account database access library routines with the Windows SAM, for example. So "ls -l" shows the actual Windows usernames. The POSIX subsystem also comes with a "service" command that understands and can work with the SCM, for another example.

I'd like to see the POSIX subsystem reintroduced. It's a major reason not to use Windows 10.
Seems appropriate because then those gambling revenues fund the state.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl-BV8vrLDU

I'm actually from Poland, a country that had actual communism created by another rich jew that wanted to help "the opressed masses". You think at the beginning any of the commies said straight what they plan to do how it will look like after they're done? And what they will do with the evil burgois (or "the 1%" as Sanders and his cultists name it). You're playing with fire, just be wary.
The Guardian has its faults of course, but should it really be described as corporate media?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Trust_Limited

Compared to say the Telegraph:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_and_Frederick_Barclay

Or the Times:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Corp
Rear wheel drive kills untrained drivers (and their families).

It's not the first time I read in the papers that some poor woman, or man, slammed their rear-wheel drive BMW or Mercedes sideways into a tree or whatever, occasionally killing the child they carried.

That's when I feel like throttling the young bloods who get their jollies drifting around the roundabouts and pooh-poohing front wheel drive cars which are perfectly adequate for 99.9% of the population.

Man, I can't see the day we featherless bipeds aren't allowed to touch the pedals and wheel any longer on public roads.
I can't tell if you are joking or being serious. I hope this is a joke.
Minimum Essential Coverage eliminates major medical only plans for people over a certain age, somewhere around 25 or 30 years old. So I end up paying what I think is an obscene $260 a month for the cheapest plan in my state, a Bronze plan with a $5000 deductible and only pays out 60%. My insurance is triple what it was with a major medical plan that paid out 80%. I do not consider this an improvement. Going back to bartering chickens and services would be an improvement. Destroying the perversion that is health care as a financial product to single payer would be an improvement.
If by redistribute the wealth, you mean lavishly pay the AE, then yes.
Pretty similar to pen.io and notehub.org, no? NoteHub includes Markdown.
Correction: according to the actual paper they did do a control flight, though it was separate from the experimental flights. This makes it somewhat more interesting though it would have been better if it was done simultaneously in the same device.
It's a can of worms in the same way that Uber and Airbnb are. Airbnb bypasses Hotel regulations and permits. Uber bypasses taxi medallions, which used to be extremely expensive and have suddenly lost their value. Anyone who bought one a few years ago is pretty much screwed...
Totally not Robots
Tesla has a history of addressing safety in a way that no other manufacturers seem to prioritize for (given that car design is over constrained and you have to compromise somewhere). I would be really surprised if the Bolt earned 5-star ratings in every category. On Tesla's Model S, they designed to achieve 5-star if the tests were applied everywhere on the car --- not just the official test points.
Save for the deposit minimums in the 6 figure region....
> Just like you can't run a hotel without the proper permits.

This also holds for Bed-and-breakfasts, but somehow Airbnb is getting away with it.
Excluding native english speakers means you exclude UK, Canada, Israel, South Africa and India which is a substantial part of the world when it comes to tech founders.

But even then there's plenty of large valley companies with foreign founders, Evernote and Udacity off the top of my head.
Thank you to the parent for asking this question. I have some related questions for all engineers and engineering managers.

I'd love to hear your perspective from your current or most recent job:

- Do you think Engineering managers are aware how much time you spend on Code Reviews?

- Do you track your number of / time spent on code reviews? Does your manager?

- Are code reviews valued as much / more / less than writing new code? Why / Why not?

- How are code reviews prioritized against writing code for bug fixes, or implementing new features?

- How do you choose a code reviewer?

- Do you ensure code reviews are distributed across the team? If not, how would you do it? How do you ensure you are not doing too many reviews yourself?
I think when you said oversteer you meant to say understeer. Excess power on wheels that are turning causes them to skip and understeer.

That said, I'd be completely shocked if the car wasn't FWD. Most auto makers+small car=auto FWD.
Let's assume a hefty markup for the long sales/BD time for a government contract like this: $336k * 0.60 = $200k

Since this deals with national security, could probably justify higher rate resources staffing (security clearance required?). Ballpark $250/hr @ 8 hr/day so $200k buys you 100 days of capacity.

Project breakdown:

* UI/UX Design: 10 days (lots of stakeholders+approvals needed, maybe field testing with TSA agents, accessibility audit)

* Development: 15 days (this is very conservative but might be some business rules that aren't being shared -- remote monitoring, analytics, auditing, static analysis, etc)

* Project Management: 25 days

* QA: 15 days (multiple devices, high perceived security exposure)

* Third-party security audit/pen testing: 5 days

* Technical writer for documentation and training materials: 5 days

Total: 75 days of capacity spent.

Math doesn't work out exactly and some of these numbers are pulled from thin air, but it seems like it's at least in the right ballpark.

Do you folks really know people that are doing government contract work (for the TSA no less) for less than $100k?
I don't understand. What is the difference between post-publication peer review and no peer review? What is a journal for if the papers are not peer reviewed?
RWD Hellcats/Corvette/Camaro? Yes. RWD Chevy Bolt's? Probably not.
As a minor objection to your analysis, some of the papers they distribute are by employees of the US government. There is no copyright for those papers, therefore Elsevier could not get anything signed over to time.

Elsevier and all other journals charge the same price for access to these papers as they do for papers where the publisher controls the copyright. To a first approximation, that means the value of the copyright is not significant.

It's a minor objection because there are few papers which are in the public domain. The publishers use contracts to prevent or limit redistribution.

(I have wondered if a SciHub variant with only papers which are out of copyright or not under copyright would be viable, even on a US server. I invite someone else with money and lawyers to try it out.)

Anyway, to get back to your AWS server scenerio, the parallelism doesn't work that way. In the print publication era, multiple organizations functioned as an archive for the material, including the institution library, various university libraries, and state libraries. I have gone to the local(ish) chemistry library and read publications from the 1960s without paying extra costs to read the article or make copies. I can just walk in as a member of the public and do that.

However, it's more cost effective to centralize things at Elsevier (that savings to the library get passed along as profit to the publisher), Elsevier moved towards an electronic-only publication system mediated through user agreements instead of copyright, so the library cannot act as an archive, and that user agreement must extend to all users, including members of the public. (I have signed a paper to that effect, which lets me as a member of the public to access online publications but without the right to print them out or make copies.)

In your AWS analogy, Elsevier/Amazon once distributed their software to anyone, and there were dozens of places willing to provide $5K/year to host those services for users of the local cloud, including anonymous hackers. Elsevier/Amazon decided to centralize, by only hosting new services on their machines rather than distribute the software. They also decided to require verified logins. So now our anonymous hacker is forced to either give up doing science, pay potentially $1,000s for legit access, or use subterfuge to do what was once inexpensive or even free, as part of a library's mission to support the public.

But in real life AWS never distributed all of its code, so that others could provide AWS services, which is why your analogy doesn't really work as a metaphor for this issue.
Moscow is a huge city (12 mln population). I don't think that different results in different parts of it give you any reason to call elections "DEFINITELY rigged", if you look at New York state (which has similar population size as Moscow) elections for 2012 [1], you will also see that each county has a pretty different kind of results, some counties were in full support of Obama, and some were in support of Romney, but that does not make it "definitely rigged" no?

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...
What Makes Our Systems Slow? – Starvation / Latency / Overhead / Wait
According to Chinese President Eleven Jinping, yes.