skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately that's not too far from what they've been trying to do with the Wassenaar Arrangement lately, with export restrictions on "intrusion software".

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/us-to-renegotiate...
Wouldn't it be awesome if future Mars science missions had a nice, constant landing platform they could design around? Like a new rover or stationary science base would just be "one Dragon unit of cargo".
Snowden wasn't 'on-site', AFAIK he had remote access as a private contractor.

One of Snowden's main revelations was how little oversight there was.

He was motivated to come forward by the abuses he saw the NSA database put to, rather than its mere existence.

Snowden has reported his colleagues reguarly exfiltrated 'dirty pictures' from the NSA database. Snowden says 'nudies' were a 'commodity' traded around his colleagues.

If one can trivially sneak out dirty pics without oversight then...

Of course if Snowden could do it for the best of reasons, it is hard to believe moles and foriegn agents don't have similar access.
Earlier rounds of job losses were often replaced with offshoring and classic wage arbitrage, but this time feels different. A lot of the companies are cutting jobs, without the expectation to replace them (at all).

I think ageism will play a part in the selection process, but not always because of the age directly, rather the older staff may have larger pay, pension and benefits costs.
Except that literally no one would die if clipper worked or didn't work. I lean toward the side of fewer restrictions on guns, although I don't own any - but I don't think that any comparison that removes the possibility of people dying will really hold up.
I've been finding Google less useful in the last little while.

It taunts me and tells me that I'm sorry Daniel, I've decided to exclude the most important keyword from your query.

Domain-specific search tools - e.g. for programming, Dash.app - have become an increased part of my workflow partially because Google simply isn't giving me the results I am looking for.
Or someone else in your team who tried to make the change last time it came around, who has now left and lives in another time zone.
SOCCOM evaluated the Tucano and loved it. The program to acquire them for US inventory was killed (and went back and forth a couple times, might be something screwy there or just the usual bureaucratic stuff). We did chose them for the ~20 aircraft we're giving the Afghan Army. They're well proven in low intensity conflict across South America.
> binary "registry-like" config files

Just FYI, systemd doesn't use and has never used binary config files. No idea where that myth came from.
Personally, I use DDG. Others may use bing, my point was to buck the Kleenex-ation of Google.

I don't Google things, or DDG things. I search for things
I'm not arguing with your logic, I'm arguing with your delivery. The psychological mechanisms you're describing are real, and they're a serious problem for people trying to lose weight (among other things), and helping those people defeat them is a good thing.

It's that bit at the end, where you seem to imply that there's a conspiracy of fat people out to suppress the truth, that bugs me. I have only ever seen the word "fatlogic" used by the kind of people who set up Reddit forums to discuss how much they despise fat folks. Associating yourself with that undermines your credibility, and that's a shame, because your ideas appear to be fairly solid.
Isn't it just the bloodflow within the brain that we're observing?

We'll never be able to read a mind based on fMRI-style data any more than we'll be able to judge the ongoings of America by the headlights on the highways.
It's especially good for hangups on some new library that needs to be used.
Deciding to always work on projects I didn't know how to do but thought would be interesting. This starting me down the path of statistical analysis and machine learning, and I can't imagine what my career would be like without taking that risk.
My thoughts exactly. I've never known a journal to do anything to promote the fact that someone has reviewed for them (eg produce a letter on request that states which articles someone has reviewed for them). It'd be a nice and free way of creating value to reviewers who generally work for free, but I don't know any journal who's ever done this.
You might be surprised - for example, a very-well-compensated trial lawyer can avoid substantial amounts of tax (and convert it into LTCG) by creating an offshore-registered captive insurance company: http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/tax-reduction-and-deferral-...

It's expensive to set up & maintain one of those, so it's not worthwhile in the sub-$1m/year regime.

More: http://www.barthattorneys.com/Publications/Captive-Insurance...

"As part of an asset protection plan, captive insurance helps shield your business while working to reduce your insurance costs. It can even help you save up to $1.2 million a year free of income tax. "

(I love the "oh, and by the way, there might be this other little benefit, though we know you're just doing it to reduce insurance costs" tone of that one. :)
http://www.wired.com/2009/09/fmrisalmon/

It's from 2009, so things have improved, but still.
I think it's important to always have "ideas" handy just in case things go awry at work.

We're likely in a shallow recession right now.

260,000 layoffs in the the industry can send ripple effects to other parts of the economy. That's a ton of high paying jobs gone. Not enough to create any major recession, but enough to be felt around the communities.
Left-wingers ranting about the "gun lobby" are like right-wingers ranting about the "LGBT lobby". Everybody loves to pretend that the opposing political party is driven by some strange, inhuman machine, not by a bunch of normal people pretty much just like themselves.
IBM wins $32M Ontario contract to 'fix' its own problem-riddled software
"Claude Shannon" is also an anagram for "Chaos Laden Nun".
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>Nobody really has much incentive to innovate in this space because it's so niche.

http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/industries/technology/publications/...

Siemens makes CAD packages. Dassault too. Autodesk does nothing but CAD packages. All in the top 20 of "software companies by revenue". PTC is number 42 and Bentley is 70 again CAD packages. It might be a niche, but it's pretty expensive niche then. Pure CAD companies Autodesk, PTC and Bentley made 2,5 billion dollars of revenue in 2014.
I probably Google more for questions about Netty than I do for anything else in Java. I've never seen such a useful library with such terrible documentation
I have a 16" .308 M1A by the bed -- I wouldn't go to the door at night anyway unless it were an exceptional situation, but for barricaded defense, something which is armor and barrier blind is a better choice than a handgun. A handgun is great for moving around your house, concealing, etc., but handguns and handgun rounds suck otherwise. And a .223 rifle (or pistol caliber carbine or a light 12ga or 20ga semiauto shotgun) is easier for less-trained less-strong people to shoot than most handguns.)

(I also wouldn't put my life behind a Kel-Tec if I could avoid it, which is a better argument against the 2000. That's the firearm equivalent of running your website on a secondhand overclocked pentium 4 box. I own some of them and am fine with them on the range but can afford better and do.)
Don't let school get in the way of your education.
Not hardly, by that time, Muslim invaders were half-way through 4 centuries of slaughtering 100 million Hindus (and I'm sure Sikh and Janes), and were hardly depopulating the land. And, yeah, there was a lot of history of empires and such before the start of this in the 13th Century.
Oh, well that's good! Maybe people are talking about his idea for replacing init (shell) scripts with C programs?
Proactively seeking out ways to help peers.
>The solution is in democratization and lobbying for proper laws to be passed

I'm not sure that's very helpful advice for an activist who is working towards the democratization of his country and for proper laws whilst being thwarted by an undemocratic government.
Really cool. I'll try that.
I might not be the best qualified but 1. Yes, 2. Wrote around it.
I think he meant in terms of technical accuracy. Primer is one of those rare movies that got time travel right.
Outside of legally-critical software, such as automotive control systems: it doesn't seem that there is much focus on quality.

The analysis of Toyoda's software that might have been behind the claimed acceleration/can't stop the engine problems indicates that even there, at least Toyota is all but hopeless.
Bangkok crippled street beggar has Telekinesis
Why in the world would you need to "start tracing through magic symlinks" with Systemd?

If you mean to figure out what was actually executed for a unit "systemctl cat [service name]" will tell you the full path of each file systemd processed for that service and what content was pulled from it.
That is my motivation to learn low level things like kernels, language implementation, etc.
Figuring out why all my zippers said YKK was an early search I remember on the web for a piece of knowledge I didn't have locally.

I'm glad I clicked through to the article though; great YKK anime!
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This is why I started my own company. All of my developer friends that told me I was stupid 5 years ago are now on their 5th or more job (and are scared about the next round of layoffs).

While I've had continued stability. I would rather not get pushed out of my own industry for being too old or demanding too much pay. I think I would be pretty depressed if a snot-nosed kid out of college was managing me.

As a side effect, my company can now hire all of the new cheap labor that will be poured into the marketplace after the next bust.
Right, agreed, "search engine" is what I should have said, although I suspect that even among developers Google search would be the heavy winner in terms of use.
Not excatly what you've asked, but even more interesting:There's a startup that uses deep learning to take a compressed video and knows how add details and improve the quality, just by understanding what we are expecting.

Can't find the startup's name though.
Yes, the general rule was to actually understand what the error means, and if that didn't solve the problem, where it occurred and how did the thing get in the erroneous state (the thing called "debugging").
No I in TEAM
At a guess, I'd say that most satellites have different requirements due to the way their weight is distributed and where the inertial stabilization is done.

As far as I understand it, Satellite design is all about cramming the most amount of features in as small and light a package as possible. That would mean a lot of tight coupling and a hard time standardizing anything across different types of satellites.
This article paints a very bleak figure. In particular it ignores that in any given year around 2.5% of the workforce will retire, and retiring a year early isn't a massive hardship if you are getting severance, so 5% cuts can be easily accommodated (although obviously that makes things more challenging for me entrants to the industry). The other thing is that these numbers appear to be international, and are therefore a tiny drop in the ocean of the international IT workforce.
Right you are, and I'm ashamed I forgot that the longest recorded sniper kill was with .338 Lapua Magnum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_recorded_sniper_kills as were another couple beyond the generic "1,500 yards" range it's said to have.

(And if I had a place to shoot it, I'd like have a TRG-42 as well.)
It uses binary logs, which is a common complaint.

Its configuration is actually less bad than modern Gnome etc., but is still a great increase in complexity.

A better init system was needed. A better init system is still needed. The trojan horse of systemd definitely wasn't needed. Hopefully it will spin off into its own OS at some point to compete with Ubuntu(sic)'s userland on top of Windows and leave GNU/Linux to develop something that is less of an annoyance.
There are 35+ services supported today, with new ones planned each week for quite some time.

Also, it is possible to register your own REST APIs and share them with others in your organization.

Within Microsoft, we have a lot of internal custom APIs registered to light up some interesting automations / flows. Details here: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/tutorials/register-cus...

Disclaimer: am a dev on the team
Well, except that fundamental constitutional right is about 50 years old http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/so-you-think-you...
Try changing the word rich in your comment for any other group name: black, gay, jew, muslim,..., and what you wrote would be promptly labeled hate speech.
Here is the hover test using 8 SuperDraco thrusters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07Pm8ZY0XJI

Entire burn is about 4 seconds.
It makes sense... People who are into something for fun are more likely to out effor into getting good at that thing. Only some of the law enforcement community are also into guns for fun, whereas all of the people who are shooting at a gun range who AREN'T law enforcement are there for fun.
Maybe it's something like the Martian-Anti-Lander-Defense System?
details here:
http://baesystemsai.blogspot.de/2016/04/two-bytes-to-951m.ht...
A colleague at a previous firm took his severance pay, and opened a coffee shop, right in the tech area. He does very well now, even worried about their jobs, everyone still seems to buy expensive coffee!
Well I would say it's functionnal and hasn't reached enough production machines.

I don't understand the hate that systemd seems to bring in people. It may not be perfect but the good largely outweights the bad and anyway most of the arguments against it are the same copy pasted critics from day one, when they aren't pure name calling against its author.

From a user perspective I for one am glad to be able to start and kill services in a reliable maner, to have structured logging and a set of base system components that are simple to use, coherent and well documented and make taking advantage of otherwise painful to use Linux features easy.

Most anti-systemd people seem to be adverse to change and would rather stay on SysV init, but seriously how much longer are we expected to stick with that symlink mess of ugly scripts that can't reliably start a service in a reproducible environment or track which process belongs to which service ?

I often see anti-systemd people advocate a move to FreeBSD, but there is a reason behind the existence of the nosh or launchd projects... BSD init might be cleaner than SysV but it suffers from some of the same problems.
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Would love to know more about what you noticed from seeing the choice of what to search for. Care to share some examples?
It is interesting that after 6 years from the article publication its key concept of persistent sockets and services starting on demand is not there yet.

For example, on the latest Fedora sshd/nginx/php-fpm still bind their listening sockets themselves rather than receiving it from a process manager. Similarly, if one wants to implement a socket activation in Go, it is not a one-liner that just works, but it requires a third-party library to read the socket passed over stdin.

As a result if for performance/security reasons one needs to customize few service socket parameters, then at best one need to look at application-specific configuration language for socket customization and hope that the developers have not forgotten to expose the socket option that is needed. At worst one uses LD_PRELOAD and similar atrocities to customize the sockets.
I can imagine someone being overwhelmed by all of those at first glance (in OP).
Because there are people who want to do that. And if you will refuse to decide on this group of people democratically, you'll get a group of completely different people get into that position via violence.
Just curious: why does the rest of the world ignore things like launchd, libdispatch, etc?
> *dramatization of a novel by a totally PC woman black? author

I fail to see how the gender or sex of the author has anything to do with anything, but it's good to know where your own biases lie.
I can't see how that is the case. Why is this any less clear? I don't think following the Fedora debug guide is any less difficult than troubleshooting a SysV-init script.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Systemd_problems

It's curious that he says "Binary anything is bad when alternatives exist. Linux has given itself over to binary blobs in the name of being more attractive to corporate users. Device drivers under Linux are now almost all binary blobs."

That's not exactly true now, is it? He seems to be implying that there are closed source binaries in the Linux kernel...
While that's true for science payloads, when it comes to commercial satellites, there are a handful of 'busses' that form the core of the vast majority of satellites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_bus
For those who don't know, Prince legally changed his name to a made-up unpronounceable symbol in the early 90's to sidestep restrictions in the contract he had signed with his record company, Warner, which at the time had the rights to use the name "Prince" for music and merchandise.

After the legal name change, news outlets started calling him "the artist formerly known as Prince." Meanwhile, Warner had no rights to the new, unpronounceable name. Warner executives likely were not too happy about that, but couldn't do anything about it.

In 2000, after the contract with Warner expired, Prince went back to using his old name.

Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36107590
That's an interesting perspective, but some additions:

- the client (i.e. browser), protocol, proxies, etc. are very hard to reason about. For instance, content sniffing and HTTP response splitting should not show up in a sane protocol, yet here we are. An encyclopedic knowledge of - at least - browsers bugs is required to write "secure" web sites.

- type-based safety doesn't do a lot to ensure that e.g. the same-origin policy actually protects your users (i.e. that there is not some unrelated application on the same domain-ish). The public suffix list (https://publicsuffix.org/) is essential to modern web security, and there seem to be no plans to change this.

- "The Tangled Web" is very good (or at least the first half is). It makes me happy I'm not working on the web. ;-)
If you want no government control whatsoever, move to northern Somalia.

If you want good governance that respects individual freedom, you have to work for it. "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance."

---

And re: crypto making government "irrelevant", to use your word, that's not how it works.

https://xkcd.com/538/
I don't know much abt Turing but watching the movie, i can see the dramatized in Cumberbatch's acting and the plot, and Knightley.. I agree w this comment that "if you like to see Cumberbatch and Knightly acting, you will enjoy it". Cumberbatch is too Cumberbatch and the plot is too Hollywood and stereotyped
I live in France, and I hate localized linux distributions, you can't google error messages when it's localized. I sometimes try to re-translate the message in English and google it.

Error messages are not messages for the users to diagnose anymore, they are keywords for google, give them a number. I google and if it fails, I'll try to use my brain.
I was just about to question why I would ever need anything other than a pen and paper, but having multiple parents is a huge plus.

Then again, Asana has this feature
> There used to be a saying among corporate technology workers—or, as you might call them, I.T. guys—which held that “you’ll never get fired for using Microsoft.”

Before that, it was "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM."

:)
There aren't daily HN threads with hundreds of people bashing the employees. The employees aren't walking into every job interview as "the person that killed Yahoo."

We like to hold CEOs accountable for failures (i.e. they may never work again). Nobody who can help it is going to take that gig unless they know they're set for life in case of failure.
Read this piece by Paul Graham: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html.

Now, re-read this article.
Add to that list own DNS resolver and a time manager.
> The larger problem is that init is only a tiny part of systemd.

That's because you can't reasonably fix the many problems with sysvinit (or OpenRC) without also providing a proper process manager, and dependency system that does far more than just trigger scripts in the right order.

The biggest problem with init is that it's just init.

> Do you enjoy depending on a moving target that changes at the whim of the systemd cabal and their reputation for WONTFIXing anything that they don't understand or haven't considered as a use case?

I don't enjoy that, but the alternative of relying on sysvinit or OpenRC is so many times worse.

Give me a better alternative, and I'll throw Systemd out of the window immediately. But to be better it will need to at a minimum:

- Be able to sanely handle service restarts, including configurable behaviour on failure.

- Be able to ensure service output is sanely logged.

- Be able to reliably keep track of processes belonging to a service even if they double fork or the prent process dies.

- Have a dependency system that allows starting and stopping services automatically depending on the status of other services, the availability of a directory or file.

- Be able to schedule execution (like cron) but still subject them to the process management and dependency rules.

.. to mention some.
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> all too common tragedy

Any murder is too much murder, but I certainly wouldn't describe it as common. Cops are nearly as likely to die of a car accident as they are of getting shot. A cop friend of mine was going on about how the recent media focus on them has made things so dangerous - officer murders were up by 15%! I asked him if that translated to an increase of 5 or 6 a year, and if that was actually above the noise floor - he responded with a blank stare - "15%."
No. I don't care if your and my kids both starve equally.
I just narrowly avoided getting booted out of IBM Watson just because a new manager 6 layers above me wants everyone to move and I can't. This was announced as co-locating, not a layoff, but it had about the same effect for many of my co-workers. I only got a temporary exception because my managers and teammates fought so hard to keep me, and I'm still looking at this same situation in a few months.

I'm personally not very worried - I got one immediate no-interview offer from a former boss and about 6 other folks who were interested in hiring me. And if I suddenly can't find any work in tech, I can always go back to laying tile. But this is going to suck for a lot of people.

Amusingly, I think I had a better feeling of job security working at startups than I do at IBM now.
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Shows you that you don't need the union card of a PhD to do world-leading research in CS. Inspiring!
Put keywords in quotes and Google will not exclude them.
It's relevant in the context of the people who dramatized her work. In theory, coming from someone like her, they should have shown it the respect it was due. But the Hollywood narrative that also erased the good uses of guns from Schindler's List had to be maintained at all costs.
Does it really work for others? Because I've yet to see any init system that provides even a small proportion of the functionality of systemd that I actively rely on.
When a company is in serious financial trouble, layoffs might be a way of saving it, but outside of emergency, does anyone think that laying off larger parts of the workforce is a good idea long term? Next thing is, we read about shortages of skilled engineers...