skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You missed the point, which was, the court basically put all the burden and problems of proving things around 2870 on Marty. They also took a very broad view of what it means to be related to the business.

You will have the same trouble. Cubic is quoted to this day for all the propositions i pointed out.

As for "show me a case", i'll ask the opposite: Find me a case that supports any view of this provision that people like to have (IE that most stuff they do in their spare time is going to be owned by them).

(to help: I'm not aware of any such cases, and i skimmed the headnotes for all 109 cases that cite Cubic)
Women in tech are asking for lower salaries than men for the same jobs
The worst thing in modern C++ is metaprogramming. It's powerful technique, but the syntax is awful, programs are unreadable & unmaintainable. Moreover, compilers don't help with debugging such code, diagnostics messages rarely tell anything useful. Not to mention frequent ICEs, at least in MSVC. :)

As a programmer who already knew functional programming and have some experience in SML and Ocaml, I found C++-functional-programming really annoying.
First of all, why not build the walls to the top of the ceiling? Seems like so much vertical space could be used!

Second of all, how long can this last? People criticize the tech economy for causing displacement and surely that's happening. But even people making extraordinarily good livings can't afford to live alone. Eventually, people will be unwilling to spend more than 50% of income on rent isn't sustainable. It seems to already be happening:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11196718

I wonder if this is just the peak and soon there will be some form of return to rationality.
Ask HN: KYC regs and SVB
I am curious if anyone know how the silicon valley bank gets around the know your customer regulations that require a business bank account be opened in person at a physical branch? Are they just ignoring the regs or are all the other banks interpreting the regulations too conservatively?
Ok. I wasn't thinking about her experience, but your description (the sentence I quoted) applied generally. To me, that is not a symptom of prejudice or discrimination.

Edit:clarification
Thanks for the feedback.

Satellites are complex machines and there's a lot of engineering work that goes into figuring out exactly what to build. The goals for a mission are usually set by a client/end user: e.g., I want images of San Francisco at a resolution of 5m/pixel or less.

Engineering work goes towards simulation and analysis to figure out what the size of the solar panels are that you need to generate enough power on-board to power the camera, what the size of the battery needs to be to make sure that the satellite keeps functioning during eclipse, what the size of the thruster is that you need to keep the camera pointing at the right spot, etc.

Once you've figured out what you need, the job of finding a vendor that has your part involves wading through their websites to find data sheets, calling them, emailing them etc. It's a really time-consuming process and all you want to know is if there's a part that matches what you need, within your budget, that has heritage in space, etc.

The engineering work is iterative because the subsystems within the satellite all depend on each other. Hence, you're doing this search over and over again. Usually, you just end up making sub-optimal choices.

We've tried to explain the search problem in the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlHEoq7utW4. The low-hanging fruit comes from the fact that a lot of data is already available online, just completely unstructured.

The idea of tying this in with simulation tools is that it allows you to do things like programmatically figure out what happens to your design if the vendor you've picked for e.g., your battery fails to deliver. This kind of sensitivity and robustness analysis is very important during the design process, because it allows you to reduce uncertainty and figure out the main risk items that you need to devote engineering time to.

Bit a long explanation, but hopefully that gives you a better sense of the immediate problem we're trying to tackle for engineers.

For vendors, the pain simply comes from not knowing where their users are, i.e., teams that need the parts that they are selling.

Does this help explain the pain better?
A Smartwatch More Like a Watch
Whilst I don't know whether I agree, this is an argument that needs more exposure on HN.
I assumed an interstellar medium density of 10 H atoms/cm^3, which is 1e7 atoms/m^3, given 1e6 cm^3 per m^3.

I think the volume swept out by the spacecraft is about right: (3e8m/sec)(.2)6.45e-4m^2 is about 3.9e4m^3/sec.

Then, 1e7 H atoms/m^3 * 3.9e4m^3/sec gives about 3.9e11 atoms/sec hitting the (1 inch square) spacecraft.
Pff, E is better than D any day of the week. Trust me; I'm a programmer.
Artículos: La comercialización del afiliado es fácil
Yes but that is about harassment. I don't think sexism is the same thing.
"What connection does Cubic v Marty have to this?"

It's the leading case and, as i said, quoted to this day in pretty much every other case.

Please ignore the facts of this case, what matters here is the courts view on what it means to be related to the business, who bears the burden of proof, etc.

"This is nothing like the scenarios we are talking about where an employee invents something on their own time with no connection to their company or their work. "

Define "no connection". In the hundreds of times i've had employees claim this, i can count on one hand the nubmer of times they were right factually (IE they often don't know enough about a large company to know everything that is going on, etc), and can think of only one case i think a court might agree with them.

Again, feel free to find a case that supports the general view that stuff you do on your own time is yours, and employers are going to have to fight to get it.

Because Cubic says the opposite - the burden is on you to prove it is something that isn't owned by your employer.
Yeah, I get you. What you describe makes sense, from talking to friends who live there; only one friend of mine down that way seems to have any luck with that approach, and he lives in Buckhead and a lot of his Uber travel gets comped by his job.

I really like the city, but I think any benefits I'd get from a cheaper area (because Boston is not cheap) would be drowned out by the need for a car or the expenses from not having one. MARTA's pretty nice though.

I pinged you on Twitter, btw.
Show HN: Lumiverse – discover great educational videos
How? You know have a 4 story building that you can sell?
> She died shortly after, never receiving a transplant, while Jobs lived two more years. ... [this is] just a demonstration of how two very different people in a very similar predicament had massively different outcomes based almost entirely on wealth, fame and power

So, it would seem being one the of the richest men in the world could only buy him two more years. Two sickly years, not healthy. Kind of disappointing for rich people.
This is quite an interesting argument because except funding nothing prevents us from eliminating crime and poverty. The government is simply not interested in doing these things. They'd rather cater to the needs of their 'sponsors'.

I think it's kind of funny that politicans are not interested in their own country.
Somebody inside the FBI was greedy for a raise and took the risk to try to take a bite out of the Apple. I doubt they got demoted or took a salary hit. The career upside for the individuals involved would have been huge. Perhaps they believed in their anti-terrorist cause but no more than an Apple employee proud to build the next version of iTunes.
I never understood the whole sexual harassment thing in tech. Don't get me wrong, I understand how awful the entire situation is, but it sounds much more like a systemic issue than an issue that simply affects tech. The whole idea that many, many, many people find their significant others through work seems to indicate that in tech, it's "just" a hyper-condensed artifact of a much larger issue. I'm very curious what others think or if they know of any recent and relevant papers in either direction.
No, because if it turns out you don't have the skills you say you do, I will get fired because I hired someone just based on my own (wrong) preferences. If you had a degree but couldn't do the job, it is a more 'honest' mistake and I could blame your school.
I don't think you actually disagree with how Apple responded, but you do realize the privacy of more than a few billion people was in jeopardy during this 'fight'. I would consider that more important than the wishes of the FBI and our country allowing them to do business here.
> Large number of top tier universities within 3 hours
I know in Texas driving 3 hours is a moderate commute, but UT is literally in another metro area. If you read the article, PG mentions Stanford and Berkeley not being downtown as a liability compared to CMU and they both have reasonable public transit options to downtown SF.
Headline writers just aren't trying anymore.
One of the very early initscripts (on Debian, /etc/rcS.d/urandom or /lib/systemd/system/urandom.service, both of which happen well before normal initscripts) restores a random seed that was saved at last shutdown.

After this script runs, the numbers are back to being cryptographically pseudorandom. Before this script runs, lots of other stuff isn't set up -- no networking, no remote filesystems, possibly not even swap -- so if you're writing code that needs to run there, you hopefully know that the system is in a weird state. And if you're writing something that runs a service that needs secure random numbers that early in the boot process, you're definitely doing something nonstandard and possibly misguided, and it's reasonable for the burden to be on you to take appropriate precautions, or switch to doing something normal.

For normal application developers, who tend to wait until after the network is up to interact with the network, this special case doesn't apply.
In that case I most likely want to go away.
I want lumiverse to become the perfect place for people to publish, discover and discuss great educational videos. I want to build a friendly and intelligent community, make it easy for video creators to find an audience, and make it easy for viewers to discover awesome videos.

In the future, I want to expand into other types of content(starting with tutorials, art, short films, and comedy), and create the most awesome platform for hosting and selling high quality video series.

I have received a rejection letter from YC Fellowship(you can read the application here - https://medium.com/@rayalez/lumiverse-yc-application-c66d056...), and now I'm trying to figure out what's wrong, and what can be done better.

I would really love some feedback and critique. How would you improve it? What are the flaws in this idea? What would you do with this platform?
Airbus boarded by 12 nation-state, crimeware 'breaches' every year
Is this to imply that non-poaching agreements (e.g., "Great, you quit, don't talk to my employees") are equally void?
As a Seattite who lived in PGH for a year, I agree with you. I found the winter to be quite difficult.
This is an interesting, but completely incorrect view :)

"However, the awareness of a legal obligation is established, not through each party's subjective understanding of the terms, but on "objective indicators," based on what each party said and did"

Your T&C examples are adhesion contracts, subject to a different set of rules.

Here, you have an opportunity to bargain like any other party.
Philly checks these boxes much better than Pittsburgh and doesn't have a tech scene of note. These cities will also need an anchor company to keep the talent there. Maybe autonomous cars can do that in Pittsburgh.
> Apple, and most of Silicon Valley, thinks and acts like they are more important and powerful than the country that granted them a corporate charter and the public infrastructure with which to do business.

Apple was defending the fundamental rights of the public - "we the people" (i.e. country that granted them a corporate charter) - against an agent of said country who tried to overstep the bounds of the power the country (again "we the people") granted them.

The court was the way for the agent to prove what they don't overstep the boundaries of the power that the public granted to the agent, and for all we know the agent failed to do so.

to the "venomsnake" below : i didn't say Apple always defends the fundamental rights, i even didn't say that Apple in this case was motivated by the defense of the fundamental rights. The fact that we do know is that Apple in this case defended the fundamental rights - for whatever motivation, probably for profit as a corporation and that would be my guess is that Tim Cook was doing it for the fundamental rights really or may be just to piss off FBI for fun.
Who is tdfx / which company is that?
Sure, ok. Just to be clear, since it's possibly unclear, I wasn't claiming 5 myself.
When I hail a taxi on the street, and pay cash, what does the driver/company know about me? They could take photos, collect DNA, etc. But there's no metadata, as there is with Uber and Lyft.
You're conflating "using an external product" with "using an external service". The third option is self-hosting a third-party product, which gives you the best of both worlds (reduced development cost and time, reduced risk due to continued reliance on third party).
Nope. They describe the propulsion quite clearly. It's solar panels and an ion drive. The material they are ionizing is a liquid stored between the two sheets.
These are great points, but with the post I wanted to share how I approach designing and building docker containers, because I hope it saves others time building them. When I started trying to deploy containers on production without Docker Compose it was painful. Now that I know what that time sink feels like, I try to focus on using configuration management during initialization inside the container instead of at the Dockerfile RUN directive (which requires a rebuild).

Back to your points, can I ask if you are interested in using this container approach to build a database container cluster in docker and then benchmark against a working imgadm(1M) + SmartOS environment? From the docker-side when I scale out a cluster of database runtime-only containers, I utilize the volume mounting attribute that is commented out in the repo's compose file (https://github.com/jay-johnson/docker-schema-prototyping-wit...) and then host the database files outside of the containers in a persistent storage location that is mounted + available on the hosts where the docker containers are running. As for building the database container for this proposed solution I would still utilize this Docker Compose-centric approach in development and then in production because I can build the container one time and not deal with a rebuild which invalidates testing a container within my DevOps artifact pipeline.

Wrapping up, I live more on the application development side so I cannot speak specifically to SmartOS or imgadm(1M), but I know the docker documentation and community are pretty helpful for getting/finding technical solutions that helped me build + launch products (go team!). If you are interested we can discuss more details about how I would approach bench marking these two database environments. I am a big proponent of testing everything and I would enjoy discussing how to tackle a db perf/load/ha + test harness like my message simulator (https://github.com/GetLevvel/message-simulator).

Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn anytime: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jay-johnson-27a68b8a
I'm curious about how it works. I must be missing something, but if it runs before the network and file system are setup, how does it pull configure from a http:// URL (say on bare metal) or oem:// which is on FS? Does it run with a default setup for network/fs and let systemd redo everything later?
> And then Berkowitz mentioned his plan to a friend living in a three-bedroom apartment with four other roommates and a spacious living room.

6 adults living in a 3 bedroom apartment? Seems crazy I don't think I could do it.
Do you consider test loss around 0.04 good?
Yeah, seems pretentious and inaccurate that they are calling this a "2-brane" when they just mean that it's fairly thin.
Would a slightly conical mirror with its apex pointed towards the laser be self-stabilizing in tilt? Kind of like an aircraft with dihedral wings [1] is self-stabilizing in roll - imagine the laser illumination as an analog of the aero lift vector on the wings. If it tilts wrt the laser, the asymmetric illuminated area should counter the tilt.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihedral_(aeronautics)
This doesn't sound so much like an issue with sexism in tech so much as an issue with sexism and social conditioning. Women are taught to be perfectionist and hyperjudgemental about themselves. Of course this translates miserably into tech, rather than a more stable job with less unknowns and better integrated into the rest of societal structures, not a field hardly more than fifty years old in its modern state. Which I find interesting, as those very social structures are the ones not kind to women in the first place. I guess it just goes to show how deep the pressure placed on women runs.

IMHO there's nothing that can really be done about the examples guys being assholes, or nothing that can be realistically done about all of them, but I think nine tenths of this article wouldn't exist if we start raising girls to be risk takers instead of social objects. Notice how much the author obsessed over themself in relation to everyone surrounding them. Fifteen hours on an assignment wasn't a problem until she heard of her peers doing it in less time. We're simply not going to have women succeeding in tech and entrepreneurship until we break down the construct of women existing solely as objects that are parts their society. We're all the absolute worst kinds of sexists, because of what men and women expect of young girls. Of course they're going to fail when they're raised believing that trying and failing is worse than not trying at all.
Here's my big question: How do you slow down? 4.37 light years does not take into account all the time required to slow the hell down. Am I missing something? Isn't this the biggest fundamental issue with long range space travel?
Thanks for the interesting read.
Building walls to the ceiling would require a building permit. Which the county wouldn't grant because it would be hazardous and violate the building code.
You're spot on about genetic programming. I am a self-taught person who plays with anything that strikes my fancy; I learn by playing. I read all three volumes of the Artificial Life series from the Santa Fe Institute at the time (now there are more), and went in many directions in the 1990s - Fuzzy Logic, Expert Systems, ANNs, and Evolutionary Computation (GA (Genetic Algorithms) and GP Genetic Programming), and AL (Artificial Life) all fascinating. I found, and still find, genetic programming attractive even if it has not found its niche in the ML community. I think the CI (Computational Intelligence) community at large will eventually develop well-fitted uses for it. I was trying to use an FPGA and Koza's modified GP code to have the FPGA re-program itself as a GP evolved a better program than I originally wrote to kickstart it. I didn't get too far. This was 1996-97 though. Pretty much on my own then, not really much of an Internet to find information, especially esoteric information, or cheap many-gated FPGAs.
Outside of ML, GP has found moderate success. One example is this paper (sorry behind paywall, so only the paper title here), that started with using expert data, tried ANNs, then ANNs and statistics, until it used a GP approach:

"A Computational Intelligence-Based Genetic Programming Approach for the Simulation of Soil Water Retention Curves"

I also use the term ANNs over just NNs to keep it to the silicon, and not wetware ;) Although, they did hook up a small ANN to a cockroach once, IIRC...
This was a good article about the stresses of entering a programming career.

The strained sexism tie-ins were unnecessary because most of the challenges she faced are universal, I remember hearing the same gloating conversations and feeling the same way when I was young.

As for the back massages and tshirts with men's names on them, that is a bit weird and should probably be taken up with their supervisor if it continues. It's most likely to be caused by poorly calibrated social cues than straight up sexism. There's nothing sexist about awkwardly showing interest in someone, it's only a problem if they don't take no for an answer.
[edit, in this case I'd suggest that...]Sexism is a side effect of engineers being utter arseholes.

Fortunately the toxic "bow down to my magisterial knowledge, any person that dares to ask questions shall be cast into apostasy" isn't pervasive in any of the companies I work.

Having a daughter, it really shows in stark relief that girls are not allowed to be leaders, they are just bossy little [insert word here].

Women in meetings have to steep themselves in business passive to get an idea across, which is both fucking sad and annoying in equal terms.

As for watching nerdy bro's hit on women, if fucking pathetic. Iterative a/b tests of single chatup lines do not work on the same person.

Its a shame you weren't confident of your own opinion enough to use a real account.
Using babel to generate jsdoced JavaScript
If apple believed in any form of fundamental rights for their users they would have given root, unlocked boot loader and alternative appstores to the people.
... I'm not sure I can take an article seriously that suggests "but what if the attacker can modify files in /dev?".

In any case, the meaningful concerns from that article have been addressed with the getrandom syscall on Linux, introduced a few months after this article was written: https://lwn.net/Articles/606141/

Perhaps we should start saying "getrandom" / "getentropy" instead of "/dev/urandom", but they're the same underlying CSPRNG (although getrandom has the distinct advantage of allowing you to tell if the urandom pool has been initialized, which /dev/urandom doesn't let you do), so I can understand being sloppy with usage. I would sort of assume anyone in a position to patch OpenSSL's RNG either upstream or in a distro is aware of getrandom and why it exists, but maybe that's a bad assumption.
The story maybe but not the comment I was replying to.
Ask HN: Do you know of any popular (or not) developers vlogs?
I really like youtube channels where people share their daily experiences with the audience. I know some designers who do this already such as MckenzieChild or Flux, but what about developers? Do you know any good channel related to this?
You don't. You get a few hours (tops) to look around at anything interesting in Alpha Centauri before zooming out of the target system and off into really deep space.

Kind of like the New Horizons mission, which never stopped at Pluto. It just flew right on by, but still got a ton of useful scientific data.
Hmm... I just saw this mess on Youtube today. An "Ads by Google" ad for some malware.

http://i.imgur.com/vQkjZWU.jpg