skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this company has not taken action to enforce DMCA or any other licensing gripe with the guy, so as yet he hasn't forced to pay obeisance to anything, and he didn't, so that issue is not really on the table.

you are essentially taking the position that the company should be forced to sell its software unbundled with hardware because you would prefer it that way.

Under your logic, the unicorn Uber could be forced to provide their software independently too, why should I have to use Uber's cars if I just want to use their software for scheduling and other market clearing tasks that I want to undertake, including scheduling competitive ride sharing. My headphone broke; I didn't like my Uber driver; how dare they bundle them together.

Now, I actually believe that Uber and other unicorns should not be allowed to become unicorns the way they do because I think we could achieve the same level of innovation in the public interest without monopoly prices. But I don't attempt to get my way by sneering at people and downvoting them.
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> The Controller ... ordered evasive action to the Cessna

From the tape it looks like the controller asked Cessna to 'maintain visual separation', which is a standard procedure for VFR and not an 'evasive action'.
Surely the main processor could query the sub processors for relevant info like current state? if this isn't possible then the HW/SW world of phones makes no sense.
> There's nothing in this photo worth preserving.

In the Midwest, if someone built that photo (exactly) it would get called a strong downtown urban design, and the builder would be praised for creating "missing middle" housing.
Yes, it catches a few things that Grammarly doesn't catch (or have to pay premium to view) like missing the closing parenthesis, or forgetting a period at the end of the sentence (I'm using Grammarly on mobile; it's possible that I didn't see the error.) We have a ton of cases still to add, and since it's entirely focused on punctuation and small details, we hope it should catch more than standard grammar checkers.
Is this entire post a joke or something like that?
Here is my prediction: Uber and Tesla will never have any business dealings.

Time will tell.
That header animation is amazing :)
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I believe slack does have a IRC gateway.

A webbased irc client that doesn't suck (and keeps a channel log) would probably be a good solution to making things easy for people unfamiliar with IRC.

Some sort of one click setup for a channel on Freenode or a similar network would probably be pretty popular - especially if you could get some useful bots from the get go (like git ones) .
Fun history: does anyone remember 32-bit/33MHz bus PCI crypto accelerator cards? I remember seeing them for sale around 2000/2001 with openbsd driver support.

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&ei=oSGRV9uAHM2OjwOPxZK...
1. This assumes that every page you might make the request to can issue auth tokens. This might be fine for small sites where auth isn't a concern (but then just issue a long-lived token and don't bother with all this), but for larger sites, capability to issue auth tokens is generally isolated from the rest of the services.

2. Your pseudo-code returns a legitimate short session cookie in response to gibberish. I'm hoping that this is just because you elided a lot of detail.
Or the prosecutor will take a cue from Ferguson and bring a limp-dick indictment in order to find a way to get his colleagues off the hook.
You can get a feed of all his articles, regardless of column/feature here: http://www.bloomberg.com/view/rss/contributors/matt-levine.r..., or in browser form here: http://www.bloomberg.com/view/contributors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matth....

He's the only individual columnist at a mainstream press outlet that I've bothered doing that for, he's that good. (as in, I follow feeds for newspapers, and feeds for individual bloggers, but only Matt as an individual newspaper writer).
I am sympathetic to the aims here. I think it makes a lot of sense to represent the relation (a,b,c) where a^b = c in a unified way. Of course, it may also make sense to represent other ternary relations in similar ways, too. You could put something inside the triangle to represent which relation is intended.
It sounds like Facebook does not want to reveal the landing method yet.
Privacy expires at death. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/26/opinion/l-privacy-after-de...

If you want to take something to the grave, you'll have to be more creative than simply assuming nobody is going to go through your stuff when you die.
Give it time. Bitcoin's still pretty new. I don't think law enforcement is quite on top of it yet, if I had to guess.
Better yet, install a small custom switch that enables you to physically disconnect power from the battery without actually having to remove it from the phone.

Much less conspicuous if you're in public under physical surveillance, and provides options for phones with non-removable batteries assuming the right modifications are made.
HPE is still making sensational claims about the Machine project and its commercial viability.

The impression I got the last time I talked to an HPE person on the subject (so this is third-hand subjective, take it as you will) is that the hard technology has been ready and practical to some some sort of productization for a while now, but the entire project got boondoggled in trying to "truly revolutionize" and rebuild computing from first principles including brand new OSes and applications...

It's sounds like an interesting lesson in a sort of reverse Sagan Effect where "we have a new whipped cream" turns into "well, to really sell it we first must produce an apple pie from scratch... and do that well, how about we try a new big bang?"
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Reddit does have the affinity thing, but as you point out, it's not nearly as granular as it could be.
Good excuse to break out the soldering iron.
> 3) How will you be evaluated in your role. Sometimes there are unclear expectations from managers or any other "leadership" style role at a company. This isn't OK because it might just take one person to change their mind about how you're doing for you to be "not good enough". Again; dig into it.

This one is key. Good answer is: "You will have these N observable, measurable KPIs. Good performance means meeting them, excellent performance means exceeding them by P%, etc." Bad answer is if they can't tell you or anything subjective (Your manager vaguely "evaluates" your performance each year).

> 4) How is the company doing from a financial perspective. Whats the burn? Whats the revenue? What's the LTV/CAC? If they can't answer or won't, I'd consider that a red flag.

I've seen business owners take great offense to being asked about these "company health" type questions. Often due to the answer not being pretty. As if I, as a potential employee, am not a stakeholder. If they get cagey about this it's definitely a red flag.
Yes, it is a suburb inside of a city. And the inhabitants of that area of The City like it that way. The people who live in the Sunset and Richmond form very powerful political blocks, and you're going to have to do a lot to unseat their representatives on the Board of Supervisors.
I'm surprised how kindly people are treating this plan.

Ignore any mention of Mormonism and talk about a planned community where to participate people must give up all of their net worth to that community, work for a 'business' that gives up all profit to that community for a 'dividend' from the shared resources, all under an explicit and rigid hierarchy and see how people react.
Checking the bathroom is a trick I learned a long time ago. If they're messy, that's almost certainly a sign that your potential co-workers and managers are disorganized, undisciplined, and/or don't care about their work.
Deadman's switch attached to a thermite pile?
Thanks for the suggestion. It's not the website aspect of selling stuff that's the blocker. It's more the figuring out how to do pricing, shipping, networking in the art world, etc. And I'm still working up the self confidence to be able to call myself an artist with a straight face and say it confidently enough to ask for money and get someone to write a check.
"If we want to care about this stuff, things need to change in very dramatic ways."

Absolutely & unequivocally. Hard part is, the technological means is baked into every modern SoC & NIC, huge amounts of money are being made from the 'big Data' industry created & the psychopaths are driving the bus. We survived just fine back in the Stone Age(pre-smartphone) and we can hold out for change($=vote). Principals often require certain sacrifices.
Maybe if he sells a lot of these he can afford a million dollar fixer upper or teardown.
Colonizing another planet and expanding the human race's capabilities?
Just look at the author name. One of the Great Old Ones himself! We're not worthy.
The book Left Coast City (https://www.amazon.com/Left-Coast-City-Progressive-Francisco...) describes the characters of the anti-highrise “growth wars” of the 1980s. In short, San Francisco’s 1980s-era progressives believe that the private market is greedy and irrational (since big business redeveloped slums in the 1950s and overbuilt vacant downtown offices in the 1980s) and can’t be trusted to build what people need, and therefore we need community veto power and strong eviction protection. These activists also grew up back when the media taught that urban life was un-environmental (see the chapter on ditching the Lorax in Triumph of the City https://www.amazon.com/Triumph-City-Greatest-Invention-Healt...), so they support height limits too. The same anti-development activists of the 1980s (e.g. Tim Redmond, Calvin Welch, Sue Hestor) are still active today to oppose all big development including housing.
> I'm planning on a getting a null modem and connecting a Windows 10 box to it, and also do some kind of TCPDUMP on the wire. I'm hoping this will be easy to do.

Actually seeing everywhere a local machine is sending data to is easy. Figuring out what it is sending is significantly harder if the traffic is encrypted in transit, which Windows 10 telemetry is.
You would need a GSM phone, not just a speaker. Your phone's radio can interfere with electronics like land-line phones. My Nexus 5, on a GSM/LTE network, will cause my Polycom speakerphone to make "dit-dit-dit" noises occasionally (when the network interrogates devices in range) if it is with a few inches of the speakerphone. I suspect people who think they can sense a call coming in are hearing the network looking for their phone in order to offer a call, and not sensing radio waves.
> That can be radically difficult because of gerrymandering.

Duverger's Law also complicates things:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
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- The officer involved
You're not missing anything. I switch back and forth between game development and web development and what the web guys see as 'fast' is underwhelming to a game developer.

The interesting part here is how far web devs are bending over backwards to accommodate the weaknesses of the DOM. I wonder how much longer it's going to be before we go full circle and browsers natively support something similar to WPF or Flex.
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https://http2.github.io/faq/#why-is-http2-multiplexed
TIL: there is no Rule 11 equivalent in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Interesting discussion at United States v. Aleo, 681 F.3d 290, 308-09 (6th Cir. 2012) (perish the thought that a prosecutor could get sanctioned for filing a frivolous pleading that would get a civil litigator Rule 11'ed).
I have a little trouble understanding your point, is it that he suggested Twitter as a captioning/commentary outlet? I have to think that was just an example, but also that Twitter's position as a commercial entity does touch on wider issues.
> A human, with proper training and heuristics, can reasonably be expected to never make a mistake that causes a terrible accident.

fighter pilots make mistakes causing terrible accidents. and they're a group of humans that were pre-screened to ensure physical/mental/emotional fit, and had extensive training.
Ground moves sometimes and the fancy commercial ones (like.nee Salesgorce obelisk) bring higher price per sqft than residential.
The problem with this situation is that not everybody shares this ideology, just like not everybody would share the ideology of the person against using stem cells. You're saying that when a perosn synthesizes information in such a way that something sufficiently novel comes from it, that person should have control over the use of that idea and profit financially from it. That's a cultural concept rooted primarily in English law derived from a feudal system that was reformed by aristocrats who wanted more control from the monarchy. It took a lot of very specific historical events to develop that attitude toward property, let alone intellectual property. It's a claim that's impossible to justify except on inherited cultural values, and those values are constantly changing and unevenly supported in an increasingly global economy.

When the British created a worldwide empire, they imposed their ideas on their colonies, but eventually the colonies got strong enough that they developed their own values and asserted independence against colonialism. Now we have the same kind of situation happening with a certain segment of the world, mostly from Europe and its former colonies, attempting to impose a kind of intellectual colonialism over the world by controlling the use of information and using the rest of the world as a resource and manufactirng base. The same forces that took down colonialism are at work fighting against intellectual property, except it's much easier to fight intellectual property than colonial rule.
Poor trigger discipline would explain an accidental shot. He fired 3 times. He wanted to kill someone, like a large percentage of people who become cops, and saw an opportunity.
There are multiple providers supporting CNAME-like functionality on the apex that are compatible with Heroku (and other hostname-based endpoints):

* Cloudflare

* DNSMadeEasy

* DNSimple (my company)

* easydns

* PointDNS

I'm certain more will support it as open source name servers add support.
They don't teach bartenders that? I was told about it in school on many different occasions; first was in the second grade when we for some reason were handling limes. Second was in home economics. Third in biology in senior high.

I am curious, doesn't most people know this?
> at that point you could just store the whole object and give the user a lookup id to the object without the complexity of cryptographically signing anything.

Only if the collision of lookup IDs (accidental or malicious) is effectively impossible. If it's possible to generate a collision, then you've thrown away your security.

This would also effectively give every server the ability to issue auth tokens (and mutate them in the DB), which is not a great choice if you care about security. But if you're handing out unsigned lookup IDs, you probably don't.
Those are all features. Line of sight means don't propagate forever. Stepping on somebody else is evident to everybody of a lost transmission.

The only real complaints about radio transmissions are that better training is needed, and there's limited number of conversations per hour possible, sometimes being a limiting factor on landings.
Can you point me to the RFC where https was redefined to not be HTTP/1.1 over TLS?
It's likely a semantics discussion about what "profit" specifically means to each person

Fortunately, profit isn't defined so subjectively when talking about a corporation.
I've always viewed it kind of like minimized and obfuscated source code. If you took a program and replaced all of the variables with single (greek) letters and created custom notation for every type of function you would get something that looks a lot like mathematical notation.

People can certainly learn it, but it's hard to argue that it isn't a barrier to entry and has no doubt helped to turn many students off from mathematics.

I mean the primary reason a lot of our notation looks the way it does is so that it can be written compactly (paper was expensive) using quill pens. Is it so crazy to consider a world where mathematical language is more self documenting?
Are the cops trained in First aid!? Flipping him on his stomach is the worst thing to do.

Wtf is going on America!?
>Therefore it is as easy for Heroku (Salesforce) to man-in-the-middle your application as it is for CloudFlare

Heroku owns your server and can just as easily read your database off disk and/or your webserver process's memory. If you don't want to trust an infrastructure provider, you need to have physical control of your server. Such quibbles about architecture are deck chairs on the Titanic.
Yeah, that makes virtually no difference. I'm not familiar with picking these priors, so I could imagine picking (say) Beta[0.5,1] or Beta[5,30] as prior too, and that does make some difference (as in the prior alpha has some impact).

Is there some principled reason to pick one over the other, or is it just "whatever looks reasonable"?

I also can't explain why plain numerical simulation doesn't come up with almost identical p values - I get 1/1.5e8 to 1/1.7e8, but that's 6.25e-9. I mean, it's the same order of magnitude, but it's nevertheless quite different.

Oh well, unless you've got some insight there, I guess I'm going to give up on that analysis - that kind of nitty gritty stuff is a timesink ;-).
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From the link

"HTTP/1.x has a problem called “head-of-line blocking,” where effectively only one request can be outstanding on a connection at a time."

Does it? Why?
It's his site, I don't think the snarky comment is needed.
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Maybe start-ups can convince their employees to move to the Sunset with the singular goal of voting in a pro-growth person to the Board of Supervisors. You can do this one district at a time.
I think we should censor articles about how censorship is good for China.
I hadn't seen MithrilJS before. It looks great. It makes me wonder what kind of voodoo I'd be capable of if I combined it with Nim[0].

[0]: https://hookrace.net/blog/what-is-special-about-nim/#compile...
Hello

I'm a French Software engineer and I've been working in China for 5 years (and now back in France)

As someone who has worker in IT both in the education part (I was teaching CS in a 3 tier small city of 4 million inhabitants) and a startup/webshop in Shanghai I can only recommend you to try the experience.

As other have said life there is extremly different. If you're in Shanghai/Beijing, you can still find places to eat/live that will make you feel like home, but I think it's missing the point.

I would say the more you're ready to try to "mix in", the bigger the opportunity will be. I finished with a near fluent Chinese fluent level (I can perfectly follow business and informal conversation, and get the rough meaning from written contract in Mandarin) and I think that's what definitely helped me to finish CTO of the company I was working in. (~60 employees, 99% Chinese, doing businesses with other Chinese companies)

Chinese is a very easy language once you've stopped trying to relate to English and you see start seing learning chinese as gathering "sentences" and speaking Chinese as "i take this sentence I heard last time and I replace this word by that one" (as there's no conjugation, plural etc.) and it will definitely helped relationship of any kind, especially if you look "foreigner"

On the technical side, speaking chinese will help you enter in the companies were people still do php4 without framework nor testing nor versionning (SVN if you're lucky) because there's no harsh competition. So arriving in this kind of company with your ability to bring them even what you would consider "plain old MVC framework" will increase their efficiency by several times. (and if the company was there, it's that it was profitable, most of the time because of the manager/commercial having a good network, so if you're now able to make technical side profitable too, they will soon ask you to supervise/teach/manage the whole set of developers). And you will be invited to meeting with the customer too as it will give face to the company "hey we're a good company, we can hire laowai foreigners".

There's a lot more to say but I think most of people here have already covered the other aspect of living and working in china
Which is still a big win because

* regex pattern is controlled by site, while regex input is external

* regex pattern is compiled once, while it is being run for every input
Which is a perfectly valid choice in many cases. I plan to drive my car for as long as possible and into the ground before I get another one. As long as I know the eventual replacement cost is coming and budget for it it can be a good choice.
Well, if you're programming bare metal you shouldn't be using any library's allocation routines but your own. Because, remember the cardinal rule: no mutices in ISRs!
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A simpler solution is to simply keep the connection open until the session is complete. That way you can use the long-lived session token (in the cookie) each time the user visits your site/app and then just keep a WebSocket open while the user is connected.

This has many advantages beyond the short/love-lived cookie stuff.
Can someone explain why it takes so long to form an image? The article reads like they still don't have enough data to see anything. From my understand of physical measurement, you start with a `blurry` image (or a graph with a wide peak), and it slowly comes into focus with more data. If the image is too faint because of the signal to instrument precision (noise) ratio is too low, you will never get an image, no matter how much data you have. I was bad at analytical chemistry, so my understanding may be completely wrong.
What's the problem with making a profit from the legal provision of information? They're not infringing copyright themselves anymore than Google are - put "torrent $mediaName" (eg https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=torrent+mad+max+hash&oq=to...) in to Google and you can get all you need to torrent that film.
To follow up on the potential acceptable answers vs. bad answers:
1. "I wish we'd use git instead of SVN" vs. "I wish we'd use source control instead of backing up .zip files of the tree."
2. "I wish we used Jenkins instead of $OTHER_BUILD_TOOL." vs. "I wish we'd set up a build server instead of pulling bits of a random dev's machine."
3. "I wish we we'd use OCMock to eliminate dependencies in our tests." vs. "I wish we were given time to write unit tests."

Sure, you might think you're the one to get them fixed up with what they need. But there are good reasons that things are they way they are, and it's not always because the ICs are lazy.
You'd need one hell of an accurate EEG in similar conditions to do this consistently.

That being said, give it a couple decades
Or you know a password that isn't written down and strong encryption.
The ESP8266 is an ingenious little chip. It's fully integrated - no external balun required unlike many of its competitors, no calibration by board manufacturers, just drop in and use. They reached the scales required to justify their NRE costs by making it a dual-use chip that could serve both as a a WiFi interface for cheap Android tablets and a standalone IoT design.