skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I had a 7 hour stop over on a foreign airport today (LGW) so its not impossible.

But as I said - edge case and very much something that most people would think through carefully in terms of connectivity. e.g. I knew today I can push maybe 250mb before my 3G bombed out. So I browsed instead of netflixed.
Oh, alright then.
Have you considered joining one of the teams at Amazon that does kernel and OS work?
> But that is not how it works. Not for a government that can borrow at practically zero cost.

"practically" zero cost is far different from "zero cost". If someone pays less taxes and the government has to issue bonds someone has to buy the bonds, so the government can get money. And who buys the bonds? Those people who have money. Who are those people? Probably those who didn't pay much tax, so they still have much money. And no one buys bonds if he doesn't get something out of it. Even low interests ("practically" zero) are far more than no interest.
"all of these taxes are voluntary"

Is the place where the word in contention here. Just like if I point a gun at your hand and tell you that receiving the bullet is "voluntary" because you can always voluntarily cut off your hand.

That being said, I agree with the concept of taxes, but let's not kid ourselves and call them voluntary.
They have more integrations than are showing on the home page, but the only way to see the full list is to sign up.

I uploaded some screen shots showing the available services/integrations:

http://imgur.com/a/NR7Af
>Extending the animal class to make a car would be weird though.

Carriage extends Animal with Cart
Car implements Carriage with Engine as Animal
I mostly agree with your basic point, but I disagree that AWS is a necessary part of the situation. If you aren't dynamically spinning VM's up/down depending on usage - that is, if your EC2 instances are a pretty fixed list of always-on machines - you're throwing money away, and you're spending more time and effort to make use of proprietary infrastructure you aren't using as intended.

If you have a 'static' number of servers for your app - just rend a bunch of VPS. Use whatever automated setup tool works for you. I'm a big fan of Debian config & meta packages, but ansible, chef, hell even fucking shell scripts will work.
There used to be a tool called conduit, part of Gnome. It was pretty amazing, in fact pretty much did DropBox before Dropbox but also synced everything and allowed for custom actions.

Could have been a killer app for Gnome, but Gnome decided that redesigning the notifications area and the clock was more important.
Why would I use Flow over IFTTT?
...because after {an exciting day of seeing all the wonderful attractions that there are to see in $COUNTRY, an exhausting day full of business meetings that you don't really want to go to but come with the territory of working for $MEGACORP}, maybe you just want a quiet evening with a movie to relax?
x2. The marines do this for the most part.
What bothers me about this device is the necessity to have a live Google account, which takes in everything I surf in real time. I have serious reservations about this.
That doesn't invalidate the point, though. I'd rather maintain an old Backbone app, where I can read tutorials and search SO for answer, than some home-made framework.
> precisely because of how unpopular these practices have become.

I've been interviewing for past 1 month and every single company made me do whiteboard, big O stuff past phonescreen.

I think you are over estimating how much HN leaks into real world.
Somewhat on topic, anyone know of something like Little Snitch for Linux?
Ah yes, airport stopovers are a good point. Maybe also business travel to "boring" places.
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But the Air Force is already tasked with that. Their 'customers,' i.e. the Army and Marines, say that they're trying to retire the best means of providing that support (and the Air Force is notorious for neglecting CAS if they can get away with it). So the only answer (as things stand) is to force them to keep the CAS aircraft of choice on flying status and not try to replace it with a woefully inadequate replacement. Or hand over CAS to the Army. Which is probably better long term.
I think they missed the word extra after every.
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Is there a good GPLed substitute for Minecraft ?

I am required to use a Free license as an educator and the massive appeal of voxels is undisputable.
If you fail to see the issue, here is a paragraph from the article highlighting it:

Companies with more than $1 million in payroll signed community benefits agreements in exchange for the tax breaks. In 2014 and 2015 alone, those agreements yielded 17,000 volunteer hours, $1.7 million in cash grants and $2.5 million in donations, according to a city tally. The tax breaks have spurred job growth and revenue from sales and property taxes, the city said. But the tax breaks have so far cost the city nearly $40 million.

So, companies received tax breaks that were supposed to help the community but seems to have cost it millions.
I don't see how anyone here commenting can come to another conclusion given this sentence.

The only argument I could see making is one where the money would have never been spent in this way, but that is an argument that we should pay corporations millions so that we can get a pittance for our poor; this doesnt make sense to me.
The part of me that loves satire was hoping for a joint Trump/Fiorina bill where they'd both be talking about applying their fantastic business experience in the White House.
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This is why I laugh when people want to flock into the software engineering profession, or act like we are well paid. Software engineering is the watch maker of the 21st century.

I can't think of any profession where the demands to compensation ratio is so out of whack. As an engineer you're expected to be exceptionally bright, exceptionally creative (we have to invent new things all of the time), exceptionally passionate, deal with stress (an off-by-one error can cost your company millions) all while living a very middle class life. I'm sure being a brain surgeon is much more stressful and takes longer to achieve, but hey, those people live in neighborhoods I can't afford to go into.
Only if you are borrowing the money to fund the deficit. Public money (as opposed to bank money) is a legitimate, but ignored, alternative. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory
The Air Force has proven they hate doing CAS. The CAS role should be removed from the Air Force and given back to the Army.
> There has never been a "need to learn multiple frameworks in multiple languages."

> you can generally email the authors and very often they will be willing to send you (their really crappy) code.

Code obtained from multiple authors, or even from the same author but different time periods, is code written using multiple frameworks in multiple languages. Standardizing on Python / TensorFlow reduces the risk of cognitive load along one's journey and is likely to speed up the field. If speed is what the field was missing :)
At that level, in general, boards pay CEOs that much money to leave, because the cost of them staying on to the shareholders is often many times more. The severance usually sounds like a lot compared to what you or I make, which is why it gets such bad headlines, but compared to the often billions of dollars it could cost shareholders to retain a bad CEO instead of finding a new one; it's a no brainer.
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Yeah, I think separation of forces should also be done around capabilities rather than modes of transport. CAS should be part of some sort of infantry command.
There's a comfort advantage to both parties if you do rejection over phone/email instead of in your office, in my experience.

Also, I've seen interviews cut short for both extremes (going really well and going really poorly) so it's easy to give the wrong impression that way.
>(yet to be defined) limit to stop perpetual roamers, i.e. those buying SIM cards from countries other than their residence.

I'm tempted to say they should allow perpetual roamers.

That throttled plan I mentioned is sufficiently slow that nobody sane will actually use it long term. Only tourists will use it (google maps & lost) and people utterly desperate for communication. Now if you think about Norway etc introducing broadband internet as a human right then I think we can throw people a bone and give free 384kbps free (thats roughly what it felt like - baring the freakish FB voice working).

384kbps is really at a point where one can say fk it the community will take the financial hit for the greater good. If everyone is guaranteed the ability to send whatsapp/telegram/fb messengers to loved ones & friends that'll save us all a good amount of grief.

For context: It still connects at HSDPA/LTE speeds @ physical link but the throughput is 384kbps - picking that number because I used to be on 384 DSL as a reference point...not because I measured it.
Good thing they picked up a unique name that won't collide with any other similar named projects.
I think this is the bug for implementing a sidebar API:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1208596

It doesn't seem to be getting much traction so far -- maybe jump in and encourage?

Chromium has wontfix-ed their sidebar API:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=344870...
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=51084#...
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=477424...

I was sad to see that -- Tree Style Tabs is the killer Firefox feature for me. Maybe if Firefox can show the sidebar API works it'll get another hearing with Chrome as well.
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"Poor judgement" and "cocaine use" are famously connected.
300 MILLION DOLLARS is not as much to Marisa Mayer as it is to most people. She was already fabulously wealthy before yahoo. I'm not saying she doesn't want the money, but thinking it's her only or main motivator is naive
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Do you ever have the impression that the model you are going to apply influences how you clean the data? What happens then when you redo the model?
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> They ought to think ahead and refit the A-10 fleet as ground-piloted drones.

Curious as to whether this is even possible. Even if it was, I doubt the pilot requirement is the only thing keeping the Air Force from wanting to keep it around.

Edit: Quora FTW

https://www.quora.com/U-S-Air-Force-Could-you-turn-the-A-10-...
What example do you have in mind of open source software that is not free software? I suspect you might have a (very common) misunderstanding of what each term means.
I think you'll find the terms of employment may be relevant too.

A lot of employment in the UK has moved from being a job to being a zero-hours "we only pay you if we want you for a day, but you have to be available for us to choose you every day" contract.

Most people would prefer a steady job, but when the playing field is so heavily slanted politically, that kind of job is becoming a middle class luxury.
As someone who's been to Columbus, I can assure you there is no magic there.
Unless the interest on the bonds is lower than inflation.
I cannot speak for _mbm_, but he may be saying that while the urban area known as San Francisco exists, the City of San Francisco is a legal, and therefore abstract, entity. I take your point that it has referents, namely the urban area.

If there are five of something in the universe, is that a referent for the number 5?
Enough that the country isn't constantly running massive deficits, and can afford to invest properly in infrastructure and other needed areas. Which we're clearly not doing right now.
Oh dear, is this the death of the Windows tablet already?

Microsoft had to make a stripped-down ARM-only version of Windows, Windows RT, because Intel's CPUs just weren't there. Then they abandoned that in favour of full x86 Windows once Intel's CPUs got there. But now Intel is gone.

This means Windows will now only be on larger, more laptop-like devices, I would assume? No more 7" tablets.
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As long as we're making comparisons to infantry weaponry, the M16 rifle is nine years older than the A-10 Warthog.
If you are referring to engineers getting let go in a sale, I would guess that many senior level or higher engineer would get 2-3x salary on the way out the door due to things like accelerated stock vesting plus 60 day WARN act plus a separation package.

I don't know the details, as I'm not a Yahoo employee, but it's not uncommon for that to be the case.
>And, frankly, saying "salary is typically between $75k and $300k" isn't useful information.

I disagree. That is absolutely better than not posting anything.

Also, I suspect that ranges for most positions aren't that big - not everyone is lumping everything from the most junior to the most senior into one position.
No. Yahoo has been a company on a downward trajectory for s long time. It's not easy to find a CEO who wants to take that on
But Yahoo was going to be an albatross for any big name that took it. She was a big and rising name in SV for a long time. I think she knew that she was likely selling all of her potential future for this so she took the gamble with her reputation by not gambling with her finances.

That being said I still don't think she did a particularly good job even given where she started, but you never know that about a person until they get to sit in the big chair.
I need to upgrade, the amount of random steps I had to take to make the old AS even remotely manageable was a headache.
My current tool of choice for on-demand console traffic monitoring is tcptrack.[0] Uses libpcap so accepts the same filtering syntax as tcpdump.

It can be pretty CPU intensive, so I would recommend against running it on production perimeter systems. Also, the 2 second default retention period is a bit short.

But all in all very handy.

0: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/tcptrack
Thats funny because Toblerone is actually a U.S. product produced by Kraft Foods.
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Through discussions. Debates. Elections. Hooray democracy!
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If they say 1-4 hours then 1 hour usually means you aren't getting the job. 3-4 hours means you are still in the running, but still probably won't get the job.

I am with you on contract-to-hire. I get that companies are cautious because a bad hire can be tough to recover from, but the processes 99% of companies do are not conducive to good hires.
It's not arbitrary. Requirements need to be in the problem domain, not the solution domain.
Yes! It needn't be a lot of detail either. Example: I interviewed with a leading UX consulting firm, and they were very up front about the process. It was essentially 1 short take home assignment (30 mins), 1 phone screen (30 mins), 1 longer take home assignment (4-8 hours), and 1 full day of on site interviews where you have to give an hour long presentation. I didn't get the job, but it was by far the best and most transparent interview process I've been through.

Edit: on a side note, I really wish more companies would provide honest feedback to the candidate during the interview process. Especially when you've invested significant time into an interview process and are ultimately rejected, it is beyond frustrating to ask for feedback and just hear crickets, or a generic "other candidates are a better fit", etc...
I don't have any tricks to share. Just build the app with the command-line tool, and the included android.el will do the debugging integration for you.
You act as if it's somehow not easier to commission the remanufacture of parts for a well-understood plane than it is to manufacture a whole new, untested plane.

Come on, seriously.
Yeah, but saying "I don't think this job is a good fit for you" is not the same as making work a hellish environment that sane people have no choice but to leave.
I'm coming at it from a perspective that separation of forces and procurement are broken. Given the way things are, I'm not hugely concerned that this bill is being written, but I'm still complaining about the way things are.
I don't know why you were downvoted but I think it's a fair question. I think the biggest limitations would be keeping a solid comms link (you don't want to lose connection in mid-dive for instance), and air speed (you want more reaction time due to the potential for lag or lost connections).

You would want to build in auto-pilot redundancies to have the drones fly home if they lose communications links.

For speed, the A-10 would be one of the better candidates, due to its slower loitering speed of about 300 Mph which is still significantly faster than an MQ-9 Reaper (200 Mph or so), but in-line with the MQ-9's top speed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunde...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-9_Reaper

Another interesting option would be to strip out the gun mount from the A-10 and slap it on the underside of a quadcopter drone as a turret.
I see it as she negotiated it into her compensation package, so she gets it. They wanted her, that was the price to get her.
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Eyewatering bill shock will continue.

100 pages @ 2.3Mb [1] costs over €10.

[1] http://www.wired.com/2016/04/average-webpage-now-size-origin...
How do they secure the rocket remotely after landing?
Let me try to explain by way of analogy.

Using a blockchain to implement a trustless distributed ledger is such a fundamentally important revolution in digital currencies that you can compare it to what Einstein's theory of relativity did for physics. They both caused complete sea changes in their fields. Citing a paper from the early 1990s on digital currency is like citing a paper on physics from the 1800s in a technical discussion about GPS.

I am not being hyperbolic. I realize what it may sound like, but solving the double-spend problem without a central authority was the tricky issue in digital currencies that vexed computer scientists for decades. Bitcoin solved it. The double spend problem falls under the category of (b) from the paper that you cited, and note that said paper does not solve it.

If you are at all interested in digital currencies, and it sounds like you definitely are, then you owe it to yourself to read up on Bitcoin, to understand how it works, and to understand the problems that it solves. There has been a huge explosion in the field since the release of Satoshi Nakamoto's original whitepaper.

To answer some minor points:

> Bitcoin achieves this, but it's also possible to achieve with a central authority or coalition of authorities.

This has been possible for thousands of years. You just have a central ledger that is locked up and inaccessible somewhere. That's how all existing banking systems work. I'm not sure why you keep bringing this up; it's not relevant because it doesn't solve the problem that Bitcoin does. Saying that it can be done with a central authority is like telling Gugliemo Marconi that he can make contact with the other receiver if he just lays a wire between the two. Yes, it's true, but it misses the point entirely; he was trying to invent wireless communication, not create yet another telegraph system (which had already been around for decades).

> Interestingly, the consequence of double payment or false payments is to have one's identity revealed or to effectively assume debt.

Bitcoin allows strong pseudonymity while maintaining protection against double spends, while subsequent iterations of it building on the blockchain idea allow for strong anonymity (see Darksend).

> The proof of work portion of Bitcoin, which I think is bothersome and wasteful, is related to the money supply.

The proof of work portion is required to implement a system that has the properties that Bitcoin has. Relativity is tricky and hurts my brain, but if I want to make a GPS satellite that works, I have to use it.
Microsoft, like every other company, has some failures and some successes, that's the nature of innovation; you stick with the ideas that work and abandon (hopefully quickly) the ones that fail.

You're correct, some of the Microsoft experiments have failed but you need to balance that with the ones that are doing well such as Office365 and Azure.
The problem is the biggest brands post up to 20 times daily not once or twice a day. Knowing the perfect time doesn't matter much other than perhaps posting your best piece at that time.
Networking is key. I've never cold-submitted my resume anywhere.

Networking doesn't necessarily mean standing around in a room with a name tag and making small talk. Put your work out where people can see it; release open source, talk at conferences, etc. Then the jobs will find you.

HN has also been very helpful; a few kind folks here helped me deal with Google's hiring process.
> Another interesting option would be to strip out the gun mount from the A-10 and slap it on the underside of a quadcopter drone as a turret.

Are you talking about this monster?:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAU-8_Avenger

No way could you put that thing on a helicopter. It barely fits on a plane (the entire plane was designed around that gun) as it is.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/21/

Even if you managed to make it stable enough to sustain fire on a target, where would you put the ammo drum? A-10s have special stands you have to put under them when you take the drum out, otherwise the whole thing tips over.
I think you missed my point. Your example and others are a clear demonstration of how externalities cause individual incentives to lead to a sub-optimal outcome - that is not in dispute.

What I was saying is that just because markets are bad at solving a problem does not mean that government is good at solving that problem. It doesn't even mean that government isn't worse at solving it.
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Wait, is this the same forum that complains about HB1 abuse?
Each new version of SW introduces new "features" (some genuinely useful, some shiny marketing gimmicks) and a host of new bugs. Software churn at it's best. Gotta release a new version to make money, just fixing bugs isn't profitable. Oh, and make sure file formats are not backwards compatible, even if for no good reason but to force upgrades.