skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am talking about Germany here. You can afford a beer in a bar at least once a week there on welfare, no problems.

(I grew up on welfare in Germany. We had vacations, and we could afford to move. The biggest hassle is the bureaucracy with the Arbeitsamt involved.)
The Hyperscale Effect: Tracking the Newest High-Growth IT Segment
Higher Standards for Silicon Valley
Large-Scale Weather Prediction at the Edge of Moore’s Law
What replacement would you suggest?
All the Songs Are Now Yours
Driving Compute and Storage Scale Independently
Life as an autistic Wikipedia editor
Getting a $150 million severance is a definition of "doomed" with which I was previously unfamiliar.
Cray Sharpens Approach to Large-Scale Graph Analytics
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Samsung Experts Put Kubernetes Through the Paces
did you try it?
Chip Upstarts Get Coherent with Hybrid Compute
It's going to be a long, long time before facial recognition has a low failure rate. It's hard enough with speech recognition.
That's a really good suggestion, because a politician with his "war paint" on with some specific issue in mind is tactically incentivized to target the smallest region that solves his problem. And hopefully the issue runs out of steam after that.

Or, pass a constitutional amendment capping the allowed size of the US Code at 150 megabytes(and allow Congress to cap the aggregate size of all individual federal agencies' implementations of that law at, say, 10 terabytes):

So if you want to add a kilobyte, you have to remove another kilobyte somewhere else.
We have a bunch of self-described old farts working here in the Google office in Sydney without any problem.

They do however seem to expect more seniority out of the senior candidates.
Looking forward to the chapter on Mmrnmhrm Monad Transformers.

[1] http://wiki.uqm.stack.nl/X-Form
Good Software Takes Ten Years. Get Used to It. (2001)
The biggest question I have is why filenames would even need to be treated specially by ImageMagick anyway. Almost all command-line utilities that are designed to be used in pipelines have the convention of using stdin/stdout, and do so without requiring they spawn shells themselves.
Eg Google is a huge black hole, they don't expect anyone from the outside to be familiar with their internal-only tools.

Current programming languages: just stick to the ones that will be around for a while. (Simple heuristic: pick the ones that already have been around for a while. In the 80s, that would have been C for example.)
Google's upcoming Allo messaging app is 'dangerous', Edward Snowden claims
I have tried this trick a couple of times without success.
Let's talk openly about depression
Nice! Lowering barriers to the use of technologies like these is important.

Would anyone else be interested in hosting Mozilla Persona? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Persona
Offtopic: I recently found rsync.net and it is easily one of the worst landing pages I've ever experienced that wasn't due to advertising. It was so bad that I didn't bother to read any further about the service.

Seriously, who thought it would be a good idea to break the back button simply as a result of scrolling? As if though paginated scrolling wasn't bad enough on its own.
It seems like an obvious feature would be to have solar cells on the upper wing surfaces... I guess the energy payout isn't sufficient for the area?
I would gladly pay for 5 hours of training for a combustion endorsement, if I could avoid fuel costs for 40+ hours of training to get my private certificate.
Same, always a pleasure to to discuss stuff with you, you usually bring a lot of depth.

>> I actually don't know how many did outside smart people being hired at Google, ...

Leaving aside the entrepreneur(and the excessive hero worship around them), it's clear that startup companies highly depend on high quality employees. And the stats: Asian tech workers in Santa Clara are 50%[1].

Other stats: around 20% of US scientists and engineering are Foreign born. International students earn more than half of advanced STEM degrees in the U.S(and are probably behind half the university research). And what about second generation foreigners ?

And what about startups ? most of the successful startups in my country, which is known for startup quality, are bought before they can grow into to full form employing thousands.

And let's not forget - the effects are not linear - it's about ecosystems and power laws, things building on top of each other.

>> Germany, South Korea, Japan, and China seem to be examples of winners that ensure trade is very positive for them vs major countries. India seems to be one of the losers but has potential that's untapped.

Usually such growth path was through manufacturing, but there's some data from india hinting that china and manufacturing don't offer that path anymore, which is pretty worrying.
The real responsive design challenge is RSS
And the right tool for persistent terminal sessions that span SSH, physical access, VNC, and etc. was tmux until systemd broke it in order to poorly address a problem that primarily affects one DE (GNOME).
If this proves to be all it's to be, then soon this will make no difference. Just like in the US, getting a driver's license is not required to be done on a stick shift, cause 97% of the cars on the road are automatic. So will getting certified in an electric airplane make no difference compared to its old and 'outdated' internal combustion friends.

As far as career progression for a professional pilot, most pilots don't deal with mixture/carb heat etc as jet engine themselves are mostly fully automatic with a start button and a fuel cutoff switch and a thrust lever. And even some of those are coming out too and will become obsolete within just a few years time.
The discourse reminds me of Urbit:

https://github.com/urbit/urbit

Alien virtual machines and that kind of thing.
Come to think of it, the old Prussia probably did a better job. Eg when they welcomed the Huguenots after the French kicked 'em out.

"Preußen und die Marktwirtschaft" (whttps://www.amazon.de/Preu%C3%9Fen-die-Marktwirtschaft-Erhar...) is a fun read, if you don't mind taking it with a pinch of salt or two.

The author argues how much more efficient the Prussian state was compared to modern Germany. Eg 200 years ago they were devastated from the defeat by Napoleon but managed to invent and establish the modern university that everyone copied---and all that with less public servants for the whole of Prussia than a medium sized town these days.
What about this one: http://www.pipistrel.si/news/wattsup-the-new-2seat-electric-...

Not an expert - don't know if they can be compared and the article lacks any actual specs to compare by, but the pipistrel's electric plane seems to be much cheaper.

"Pipistrel expects to bring the final product to the market in 2015 with a target price below 100,000 EUR."
Java will natively support value types (and already does, just not user-defined value types). What you've quoted is the spec for locked arrays; those arrays are not value types, but reference types. I'm not sure about the relationship between the text in that JEP and the current work on value types: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/valhalla/
Same idea as Gen. Paul Van Riper's strategy in the Millennium Challenge war games ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002 ). He spammed the enemy with cheap speedboats and motorcycles, forcing the organizers to rewrite the rules to make the game "fair."
Thanks! I didn't know about Mozilla Persona but I think it is possible to use Hydra + Persona.
> did figure these opcodes out, but he kept the info to himself with a smug smile.

I wonder how much knowledge has been lost from the emulation scene as a whole because of that kind of attitude.

At least the current batch of emulators (Xenia, Citra, RPCS3 etc) seem to be open source.
Most basic image manipulation can be performed using only the standard library packages, if your language includes such (PHP's bundled `libgd2` fork / Golang's `image` package / Qt QImage+QPixMap ). For Python `pillow` is popular.
"It's not so much about the death of object oriented programming, but asking the question: 'How can we prevent it from dying? How can we recapture the spirit that was, I believe, the vision in the 1980's and make it come back to life again?'"

In particular, he wants to focus on:

1 - bringing models closer to code

2 - trying to exploit the domain models in the development environment

3 - linking code to the ecosystem
OpenBSD's policy is "secure by default", meaning that users/administrators should have to go out of their way to make their systems insecure; I'm personally quite alright with the handful of non-W^X-compatible programs no longer running if it means having W^X globally-enabled by default.

You're right that per-binary or per-file might be better in terms of providing a fine-grained approach, but on the other hand, I'd very much like to enforce this on a machine-wide basis on my workstations and servers, and having per-filesystem settings seems to be the most effective way to go about this, and I hope that remains an option (similar to OpenBSD's "nosuid" and "noexec" mount options).
To steelman your argument, you should be talking about some kind of `cultural distance'.

Still, doesn't make too much sense.
I wonder how long the batteries will last for? Not the flying time, I mean instead their useful lifetime. It might become extremely expensive if you have to replace the batteries every year or so...
An oldie here. Some recent discussion I read on HN reminded me about it, and I'm curious how applicable people think this still is in 2016.
As of JDK 9, Graal will be a pluggable JIT that you can opt to use (it's just a Java library). It is not the default JIT because it is still experimental and not productized yet.
An electric powerplant with effectively one moving part should also have dramatically lower mantenence cost than a traditional, gasoline-powered engine of more than 1,000 components

I see this sort of statement made about electric cars also, and I think it's really not true. Modern internal combustion engines are very reliable, and need very little maintenance. Yes they need oil changes every so often, and I guess that's "dramatically" more in a divide-by-zero kind of way, but realistically it's not going to make a huge difference in the operational expense of a GA aircraft. Also not addressed in this piece, how long do the batteries last and what does it cost to replace them?
> The actual content of any given class was a bit more varied but none of the classes had much flexibility. When they set out to teach or engage creativity, it was always in narrow, controlled ways: assignments and projects with specific, detailed instructions. The creative aspect was confined to how you fulfilled those instructions—the moral equivalent of coloring within the lines.

Ironically, a lot of my assignments were free form, and I hated it! I had to sit through so many poorly done video presentations other groups of students did that I eagerly wished for teachers to teach us how to make a proper presentation and make students stick to the format! There are some basic rules to structuring a presentation that I don't think ever got taught, heh.

But those were the monthly assignments. On a larger and more fun scale, both my Middle School and High School had free form graduation projects. My Middle School project was on the history of video games, my HS project was on LED lighting. A minimum report size was dictated, but we also had to come up with a presentation on our own, with no real guidelines given other than a minimum time we had to present for.

A lot of my English reports were open ended. Sure I was given a general topic to write about, but that is sort of the point of a classroom, to provide general structure for students to learn within.

I remember one middle school project were we had to design a life form. That was pretty much it for instructions, just go off and design a new life form and be prepared to present it to the class. I ended up with a scale model, a description of locomotion, vision systems, and a general outline of culture.

Another project was to write a children's storybook.

Then there was the student produced school news channel. We were given instruction on how to operate equipment, but everything else was left up to the students.

Biology class, open ended report with presentation, mine was on the quality of life enhancements that genetic engineering of humans would bring about.

Elementary school, second grade, students wrote and directed a play, we did Stone Soup, we ended up performing it at the Senior Center as well as in front of the school.

Countless classes writing poetry. Either structure or theme was dictated, rarely both.

My social studies class had multiple debate sessions throughout the year. I remember one of them, Rome vs. Greece. My team was arguing Rome, my counterpoint to their claim of philosophers was "You cannot claim the great philosophers that you killed! In Rome, even the lowliest of gladiators could rise up to be a powerful and respected man. You kill your wise men." Not logically sound, but appeals to emotion work.

I'll admit, my parents worked hard to get me into the best public schools that they could, but at all times these were just public schools! Thankfully I graduated before No Child Left Behind made testing all the rage, from what I gather, things have been going steadily downhill in regards to how much flexibility teachers have in their job.
If you're interested in this sort of thing, Doorkeeper[1] is a robust, open source OAuth 2 provider that's been around for about 5 years. We use it as a standalone app, and have many other node.js apps that sign in using it.

[1] https://github.com/doorkeeper-gem/doorkeeper
"Why?" can be an interesting question with ImageMagick.

Does it need a prefix you can put on a filename that makes the file automatically get deleted after it's read? I don't think so, but there it is.
Thanks for contributing the transcript!

I've started a GitHub repo with a first draft of transcripts for all the letters.

https://github.com/jiahao/backus-dijkstra-letters-1979

Anyone else who is interested is welcome to help proofread and submit PRs.
While I find nothing objectionable in this particular light-fair essay, I would also suggest that the reason many people don't trust the government is because people like Larry Summers have such a large influence in it.
> It seems like that would allow you to read any readable image on the FS anyway, which is a vulnerability in itself.

It does. You can trivially use the same feature to render the contents of a readable text file into the output image, too.
These are all questions that have answers. Such companies do already exist in Western liberal democracies operating roughly capitalist economies. You can find these answers yourself if you choose to. You can probably even think of some ideas yourself. We don't have to accept the economic system we are told is the one true way. We've seen where treating the economy like a religion leads.
Would be interesting to see engines using Vulkan both for graphics and compute at the same time (like physics and etc.).
But isn't there a big chance of the eagle getting hurt by the blades?
There is nothing stopping you from implementing a feature in a reasonable and ergonomic way without breaking backward compatibility. Programming languages are fun like that. Anything can be done, your imagination is your only limit. And on this level technical debt is not a concern, not even a little. But having good rationale for a feature is, and a huge one. Most of the time the authors themselves don't know why they need it, they just feel like having it.
And this is where I'm most uncomfortable with so many of the ways systemd wants things to be done. So much of what systemd provides could have been done with minimal changes to init and by offering better alternatives than what was there. Uptake might have been slower as people learn, over time, where the new system offers something better. It's not offered as "hey, here's a different way to think about things that you might like, give a try!", it's offered as "everything else is broken, and you need to do it this way right now in order!".
> Is Europe defined by its genetic heritage or its culture? Which is more important? Do the two go hand-in-hand? At what cost is it worth preserving either?

Just define it by geography, problem solved?
Amazon Releases Alexa Web App
You didn't think to just scroll down?
Thanks, however Doorkeeper is an SDK, right? With Hydra, you simply boot the docker image and are done.

If you're interested in OAuth2 frameworks, check out [fosite](https://github.com/ory-am/fosite), which is like Doorkeeper for Go.
That might be sufficient to power half of the avionics (i.e., maybe 0.01% of the power consumption. )
I cannot believe how many people are arguing that they are 'fixing a problem' or 'adding new functionality' here. They do neither of those things; and I really hope none of the guys who argued that are writing code in their day job - sad enough those systemd guys that came up with this hack do!

The old state of affairs is dependent processes are killed by default on log-out, but there's an opt out method.

The new state of affairs: dependent processes are killed by default on log-out, but there's a new opt out method.

The only difference is the old opt-out method is now ignored, in order to reap the misbehaving Gnome processes that use it - until of course those processes adapt to the new API or some other processes do something similar, and we can start the game anew, instead of ever fixing the misbehaving code...
> [...] the same as I would like him to be able to speak Hebrew (at the very least so he could speak to his grandparents and extended family).

It's a shame Yiddish couldn't take that place that Hebrew got.
You appear to be asking to turn Flask into Django, but this gets you most of the way on that specific list:
- https://github.com/sloria/cookiecutter-flask
I've always been exceptionally skeptical of the freezer claim due to a lack of any real comprehensive explanation as to how it works or any actual study that gets even a base number of failing drives that were temporarily recoverable as a result of the freezing. I'm not convinced that the result would be any different if the drive was simply allowed to rest and tried later.

Every explanation has talked about parts expanding and contracting, but given how easy it would be to demonstrate this by simply disassembling the drive and doing before/afters, I feel incredibly skeptical of such a claim and see it more as a wild guess than anything.

All that being said, even though I see it as voodoo, freezer is still my last stop with a drive when everything else fails, though I still let the owner know that I'm not expecting any results.
Then again, newer technologies resulting in better energy-per-unit-weight could drive battery replacement sooner, anyway.
Which is why they're investigating equipping the talons with glove-like protection.
> We agonize over which brand is healthier for our cats and dogs, but it's all an illusion.

The fact that one factory makes the food doesn't mean brands are illusion. One factory can make different kinds of food. True, machines and employees are the same, but that does not mean food content is the same - in fact, different companies may very well order very different mixes to be packed on the same equipment.

In fact, the same factory produced Chevrolet Prizm and Toyota Tacoma - but they are hardly the same car.
After trying 4-5 drives with this trick, only 1 was able to recover data using this technique.
From the article:

> Worries have been raised that birds could be struck and seriously injured by a drone’s blades. Mr. Hoogendoorn said that the safety of the animals was a top priority, and that although eagles’ talons had scales to protect them, work was underway to give them more covering. Mr. Wiebes said safety measures could include some form of glovelike sheath for the talons.
Döner in Germany is like Curry in Britain.

Ie they are both enthusiastically adopted and adapted to local mores. Some of the changes even make it back to Turkey and India.

Hamburger are about as American as it gets. Of course, the name gives the origin away.
True, and most people. Despite the issues, it's still really versatile tech.
> Would you then suggest that a country of mixed-nationality immigrants, like Canada, can never have a national identity?

Switzerland is a better example---since they don't have big groups that want to split the country.
Agreed, very little real information here. Nothing about range, top speed, weight, etc.

A big part of training is doing "touch and goes" to practice approaches, landing, and taking off (the most dangerous phases of flight) which I would think would tax the battery a lot more than just cruising around for three hours.
Accounting for deaths caused by inaction is not the same as weighing false negative the same as false positives. I am not suggesting no regulation, I am suggesting that a death caused by inaction (or extreme caution) is the same a death caused by an action such as mistakenly approving a dangerous drug. Both outcomes should both be considered when making a decision.

Chesterton’s Fence is not appropriate here as we know the reason the FDA fence exists and what problem it is trying to solve. The issue is the FDA is solving the wrong problem (stopping bad drugs getting to market) not trying to minimise human death and suffering.
VoV – Android game in Go/SDL2, source is under GPL license
The (San Francisco-Oakland) Bay Bridge replacement was first estimated at $400 million ($200 million to retrofit the existing bridge).

Actual spending is over $7 billion and counting for the new Eastern Span alone, and it is fraught with defects.
Thanks for creating this game. I have minimal C experience and none in assembly but I'm having a blast after this was posted on reddit yesterday. You always hear about things like buffer overflows but exploiting one in the game actually made me understand.

I'm supposed to be writing my thesis but can't wait to get back to the game. Will sign up for Jailbreak too.

What resources should I consult when I get stuck? This line of work might be something I'm interested in for real.
My point is that this would not hurt them financially.

Once the trolls got enough publicity where this anti-troll group was going to try to take over the company then the trolls just sell their stock in the company (making $$$$$) and let the anti-troll group shut it down.
Source is here https://github.com/gen2brain/vov
Unfortunately when it comes to file conversion/creation even, ImageMagick is the best of a bad bunch. Graphics formats are notoriously bad, check out the famous PSD rant on it: http://web.archive.org/web/20090426230545/http://code.google...
It would be instructive to compare Switzerland here. They are famously made up of German, French and Italian speaking parts. (And a fourth language that nobody cares about. And lots of immigrants these days from all over Europe.)