skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think if MS had a share of the mobile market greater than 2% (or whatever it is at now) they would be less inclined to enable such spying through their desktop OS.

However they are nowhere in mobile (and search), and desktop is the only source they have for user data. The thought of getting left behind in the data mining race by Google and Facebook must be a real concern, and they will do anything to keep up.

I suppose the LinkedIn takeover has changed this somewhat, but LinkedIn alone will not put them on terms with Google/Facebook.
If you are operating over a large and crowded area you are going to be facing more competition for customers (from competitors that can use the population density to justify the initial build costs of better infra) and you are also going to be facing more spectrum competition and interference. While flying over the corn fields of Iowa may not seem too useful, each plane could have a relatively large footprint and could also be used to enable a lot of non-urban IoT applications. Sell bulk bandwidth to precision farming equipment shops, mobile applications in the area, and households poorly served by old copper telco infra. Not necessarily huge bucks, but you could probably do it at a cost that would crush competing data providers in that plane's footprint and lock up a nice little revenue stream.
Support for game on linux is improving, but there is still few people playing on linux. Sales on linux are so sparse, I wonder if porting games on this plaform is profitable.
> Therefore, this will naturally cease to be a problem as the old generations die out, and we're already seeing signs of it.

I want my rights now.
Yes, moderation is dead. To embrace moderation one need to have doubt about his beliefs, to accept that someone else might hold a part of the truth. It's difficult and tiring and imply to constantly change one's state of mind and ideas. Moreover, it's much more fun and easy to treat everything as a sport match where you choose one side and you are against the other side.

In some way I notice the irony that these incentives for automakers (aimed to reduce pollution, to keep jobs, to communitize part of the drawbacks related with cars, ecc...) are a form of socialism in the US. Well done Yankees.
>No it doesn't. Hardly anybody would pay a large bribe if they could simply talk themselves out of it instead.

That's the case in game theory terms.

Fortunately real people don't act like that.

"Corrupted" third world officials and such are not profit-maximizing automata (well, a few are. Most are regular people trying to make a buck for the family on top of meagre salaries).

Even if you can afford a bribe and they know it (e.g. you look rich westerner etc), there's often tons of room for negotiation on the price. Including talking your way out of it, them getting a liking for you and just letting you go etc.

But I primarily talked about people who can't afford to pay and it shows. Sometimes what started as a probe as to whether you can pay them a bride even ends up as them getting out of their way to help you for free, if they see you cannot pay and they take sympathy on you.

Aside from "corruption" which might be all some westerner can see, those places also have ages old codes of hospitality and such.

>A prison sentence for a 1 day visum overstay is ridiculous, of course.

Well, if you can't change the law, another way is to selectively enforce it on someone's discretion (bribe or not). It might not benefit 100% of the people but it benefits massively more people than strictly following the ridiculous harsh law.
"It was virtually impossible"

Nope. Not virtually, and definitely not impossible.
Why not using one key per user? Then I would just have to invalidate this one user and not all of them.
The whole point of this thread is that what's "legally relevant" is not always what's morally or humanely relevant.

That's a millennia old distinction people have made. It's difficult for the puritan mindset to parse, of course.

Sodomy (and being gay) was not that far ago persecuted (still is in the books in some states). Blacks where not allowed in the same establishment as whites.

Slavery was the law once. I wouldn't blame Southern border guards looking the other way when blacks crossed to the North. Even if they took a bride.

And let's not forget the "I was just following orders"/"the law at the time" excuse that tons of military trials clarified that it is not a valid excuse.
Snowden explained that the CMOS button battery is enough to send a transponder signal that can be heard by a drone. He said the only way to shut it down is to put it in a freezer.

I mean, I'm a programmer, I am not an expert on sigint stuff, but I don't think it's very hard to innovate in intelligence gathering technologies.
I was under the impression that the bigger danger was the expected eventual earthquake of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, potentially leading to tens of thousands killed or injured and millions more displaced.[1][2]

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_subduction_zone#Earth...
Well, at least it's a good starting point.
It's like knowing that 1/2 dice rolls yields an even number, and after rolling twice in a row and getting odds making a big deal of the supposed statistical anomaly, because we got two odd numbers in a row we're really overdue for an even number, don't you think?

When volcanos/earthquakes etc. are said to occur every N years, that's averaged over geological periods. An event that occurs on average every 100 years over tens or hundreds of thousands of years could be occurring once every 10 years some millennium, or once every 250, 500 or 1000 years for some time span.
You are just using the worng pattern. Use
Computation a;
Computation b;
use(a, b);
Then if the computation aborts in b, then computation a will be cleaned up as intended.
It's a pretentious but arguably valid Latin singular.

"Arguably" because the word comes to English from French not straight from the Latin.
Well in this case the developer of NMS specifically said he was struggling with planet generation until he discovered that exact formula, so you can understand why there is _some_ (not a lot mind) reasoning for the company who owns this patent (who are making a game involving it iirc) are making this claim. Judging by their statement though it seems they want more of a 'partnership' type thing (knowledge sharing, ride on NMS coattails for a bit etc)
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Wireshark is most commonly used for packet sniffing.

https://www.wireshark.org/
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I would imagine a very significant portion if the Marina district just turning into rubble unfortunately. I'm hoping this doesn't happen until buildings have a chance to improve even more.
Well yes, pretty much any naturally occurring process involves some probability...
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Are you seriously asking this? Is his long history of racist, xenophobic, misogynistic and (for want of a better term) religiously-bigoted comments not enough for you? Are you asking us to go to Google and turn up one of the hundreds of compilations of these comments that you could very easily find for yourself?

Have you forgotten that he was a birther, and still is?

Is there anything short of a video of Trump at a KKK rally that would persuade you? It seems you're determined to pretend that he's not a racist despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
> I don't think that there is anyone on Hacker News who can say they succeeded getting their start in the industry outside of a 'software' tech hub.

Haha! Counterexample: practically every programmer in my country.

None of our cities are "software tech hubs" like you'll find in the USA, UK or Germany.
> why on earth was it rebuilt?

They probably thought: Great, now we have 100 years until the next one. ;)
The main problem with Reddit is the users dishonesty to themselves.

Ask a reddit user why they like reddit they'll probably mumble something about AMAs.

Then visit /r/all and a completely different picture will be painted for you as the sites most popular content is a mixture of pornography, racist jokes passed off as being subversive and political ranting.
> You aren't going to be talking about deep politics with a Beijing taxi driver without a good command of Chinese

Do people talk politics there? Accidentally let slip the wrong sentence when the wrong pair of ears is around and bam , your life as you know it is over.
Subduction actually.
Nice to meet again :). 3-4 years ago in our company history was a fun time for sure.

For the Z visa, I brought the Pazazz. Or rather I could rattle together 5 years of work experience combined with my age. In my opinion, as long as you are serious to work, and not do the old classic Student/English teacher gig, and the company has good people handling it, there is always a way.
For me there was a lot of going to South Korea for one week and get a new Visa there to be able to come back in etc.

For the Chinese language part, yes, learn it, its awesome and opens 5000 doors for you. But I have not mastered it to any degree but have survived very well. Nothing Im proud of, but a lack of it does not mean isolation, usually Chinese people are good at picking my vocabulary and find key words we can combine with gestures.

Pijiu?
Dui
Bing da ma
Dui.
Hao!

Done :)
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> It seems biased on SaaS tools

Yeah, that bothered me a little. I was expecting something like interesting lesser-known features of popular standalone tools, from command line tools to plugins for text editors and IDEs. Instead it felt more like sponsored ads loosely presented as a quiz.

I probably wouldn't mind so much if the examples were then discussed. I might have missed it, but I couldn't even find a "read more" link about any of the products so if I hadn't heard of the examples then I've gained nothing from the exercise.
you should put the descriptions around an image of doge.
It's not all integer ops. The peak throughput comes from a 4-wide accumulated dot product. dp4a if you want to look it up.
https://img0.etsystatic.com/000/0/6136922/il_fullxfull.22504... ;)
> What makes the new copy, but not the old one 'you'?

There are now two versions of "you". That's the point of making a copy.
Isn't this simple economics? The R&D cost is amortized over a larger market. You can always try to build specialized chips but the market might not be nearly as big so there's a lot less money. The general purpose market still moves faster.
Think of it reverse. Is it a universal right to have luxurious places to live in a high demand area? Why would people who want to move into or remain in SF on a budget not want to change that?

This is why issues like this are complicated. Both sides have some merit.

(also, not taking sides since I don't live there any more)
Then they have to become like most large companies and be willing to take criticism from the press. I mean, it's not like Twitter's immune to it already. They're getting hammered from every angle over their platform and its attitudes towards harasment and trolls and moderation.

Which brings me to a point about commmunity management I'd like to make:

Don't even get into this field if you want people to always like you. Or if you're obsessed with your 'reputation'.

Running a community site means making difficult decisions. It means losing friends over the community's rules and principles. It means you will get a very bad reputation from at least some part of society as a bully or dictator.

This is what a community manager is perceived as by a banned member:

http://www.managingcommunities.com/2012/12/03/community-mana...

Unfortunately, it seems Twitter (and a lot of such companies nowadays) seem more interested in keeping their friends in the media than they do running a decent community.
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http://archive.is/uOTnv (grabbed latest thing from archive is, so like, 7 hours ago)

There is... like, less than 10% matches what you describe

and a AmA is in 10th position with near 5000 points
“The anti-fascists are the real fascists!” is a tired argument and it has been for more than 70 years, ever since that was said in actual Nazi Germany and the fascists proceeded to win.
IBM POWER CPUs are really expensive because their yields must be very small. However there are other sources of POWER CPUs. POWER CPUs aren't intrinsically expensive.

Freescale are one (eg. the e5500 - I can't keep up with whether that exact model was POWER7, but last I checked Freescale did a POWER7 CPU). These are much cheaper. But the problem with them is they are embedded CPUs (book E?), so they omit some instructions required to run server versions of Linux. Also IIRC they are all big endian, or at least had some problem running in LE mode.

Anyway to get to my point: unless there are affordable development boards for POWER, no one is going to spend much time porting software and fixing bugs for POWER.
What happens to "newly created land" depends on local legislation. Where I live (Finland) this is a common question, because it happens all the time. We're still recovering from the depression of ground, caused by latest Ice Age. In Western Finland and Eastern Sweden, the land rises at about 1 cm per year, thus claiming area from the sea.

1 cm per year may not sound like a lot, but in shallow waters, it means that entire coastal towns become inland towns over the course of 100 years. Harbours have to be relocated, etc. Kilometres of new land is claimed from the sea over the course of centuries (and within a couple of millenia, the Gulf of Bothnia will dry up in places and create a land connection across, assuming water level rise caused by global climate change does not slow it down too much).

Over here, the law works so that the newly created land at the shore becomes property of the owner of the water area (fishing) rights which is a "commonwealth" of local land owners, but the owner of the particular piece of land formerly adjacent to the sea or lake has the pre-emptive right to purchase the area and attach it to his/her property, at a "fair" price i.e. price comparable to the price of his/her own property. So in effect you have to remember to buy regularly (every few decades) the new land between your plot and the water.

But that was Finland. How does this work regarding land created or lost in earthquakes in California? Let's assume that the fault line of tectonic plates happens to run through your plot, the plates push at each other and then in an earthquake run over each other, and the corner points of your plot move closer to each other. Is that just your loss? I.e. your plot became smaller? And likewise, if the borders of your plot move away from each other in an earthquake, your property expands, possibly impacting e.g. how large buildings can be constructed according to zoning regulations?
If you look at the long tail, it's probably profitable, but for now I am guessing it's not a very lucrative business, compared to developing for other platforms.
This is an irreducible complexity if any part of your computation can fail. You're simply ignoring the error cases if you pretend otherwise.

Exceptions with mutable state needs to be coded transactionally, yes, and this is an excellent reason to try and avoid mutable state and use persistent data structures where possible.
They wouldn't ask questions or admit that they're struggling with something. I saw a lot of this in the interviews as well, you would ask a question like "do you know what X is" and they would say yes, but then sit in silence. So you probe "well what is it?" and they would go "I'm not completely sure" or just try to make something up. They would sometimes sit for days doing nothing because they didn't understand the ticket.

Another was their definition of done. They would finish a ticket and mark it as resolved as soon as the functionality is partially working. I think because QA is enormously cheap in India they were used to handing things off to QA as soon as possible to save their own time. We didn't have a QA department so that was quite problematic. I started having to include all the edge cases I could think of in the ticket.

I don't think it's necessarily wrong, it was just different, different levels of politeness and views on managing their time. But it was these differences that made things more difficult for everyone involved than I expected. They probably had a lot of issues with my management style as well, although they were too polite to say anything :)
Returning an error type, and, in the caller, propagating that return type further up, is isomorphic to exceptions, except it's a lot more busywork, a lot more code bloat, and a lot easier to get wrong.
I never really understood the micro-framework hype. Django is heavyweight, but you don't need to use every feature. And when you do need the feature it will work nicely with the other components.
isn't that more "don't trust any company"? what he says applies to way more than reddit
I see. It’s not just a bailout, to stave off SolarCity’s looming demise, though it is partially about that. It’s also expected to be profitable, because they could consolidate SolarCity’s sales operations into Tesla’s existing showrooms, and sell a complete package that’s more attractive than solar panels or PowerWalls on their own.

Not entirely contradictory with my previous guess; being profitable by laying off the sales department is basically saying the company will not soon be profitable by itself; but Musk is so certain that it’s a good deal for the respective companies that he’s promising to recuse himself from the vote.

The other interesting aspect is that they don’t expect the sale to close and the details to be official for several months. It’s actually near the beginning of the negotiating process, with due diligence and stuff yet to be done. Since Musk is a large shareholder of both companies, they decided to announce it publicly this early.
The first episode is free indeed - but it's not the best one. It gets MUCH better in second and third episodes.
A lot.

When the company proxy is down, development grinds to halt.

Google
Twitter,
Facebook
Dropbox
Github
Every site that uses Google Fonts will not load without fiddling etc etc etc.
VPN or a good proxy is a must. Or you just space out and stop reading the news, use a simple ssh tunnel for Git and live in happy non social media bliss.

But over the years I learned a lot of corner cases with proxy settings in almost everything. Like if you set a http proxy in Ubuntu, apt-get dont give a fuck, you have to set that separately, but if you want to use a password or different port you end up in config hell. Or if you want to use http proxy on your phone, there is settings for it in Android for both Wifi and 3g, but if you put a password into the password field, your phone goes "well thats nice, lets not use it".

You can pre cache google maps on your phone. But if you use a app that displays a google map, that app will not use the google maps cache.

But since almost everything is blocked or slow, there is Chinese alternatives to everything. And we mostly use Wechat here for everything so there there is not that many convenience missing for me.

The hardest part for me was playing Ingress since the GPS location is shifted in China, and the login requires Google servers, and running a VPN drains batteries. But I would not really see that as a major concern :)
they should really be hiring a few contractors for the overlap, otherwise they'll get a new guy that can leave because of running into the same problems the current guy is having.
There are two links on every answer.

One to a StackShare profile and one to the website of the product.
It seems to follow the Stanford Swift aerodynamic philosophy: low taper and winglets.

This is different from the recent NASA Prandtl-d aircraft which is of the Horten paradigm: lots of taper and no winglets.

It's possible the former is a lot easier to build, because of constant chord, especially as a solar powered platform.

With batteries you can distribute the weight very well so designing for things like wing root moment might not be the defining thing, instead some re complex aeroelastic design criteria.

Very fascinating to see this resurgence of flying wing again, popping up in many other places too.
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And Tokyo in 1923. But really the entire Rim of Fire.

We build things in areas that are relatively dangerous geologically because there are other advantages to those areas. San Francisco has one of the best harbors on the West Coast and access to a lot of inland resources.

But just another reason not to concentrate a good chunk of the US software industry in the Bay area I guess.
Seems that only applies to users that don't have a paid plan.

Now they are paying with their data. What did they expect?
Please read up on binomial and Gaussian distributions.
Cyanogenmod has a feature that lets you randomize the numbers on the keyboard each time you try to unlock it, if you use a PIN.
Fine, but what's likely to be cheaper, building an artificial harbour away from the fault line or rebuilding a damaged city every 100 years or so?
Ask HN: Anyone else having no email deliver with SendGrid?
We have had no email delivered through SendGrid in over 16 hours. Their status says everything is normal but there are reports on Twitter of people having problems.

Is anyone else here having problems today?
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Is there a way to do file-level encryption without leaking the number of files and their sizes? Because that seems much worse than any known problem with block-level encryption.
a classic definition
IMO, it would take a very strong economy and very selfless generation to contribute 12.4% of their earnings over a lifetime and get nothing. They'd have to save well over a third of their earning power to have a hope of retiring. (12.4% that FICA is taking and giving to someone else, 12.4% for their own private replacement version of it, and at least 10% to replace what would today be their own supplemental retirement [today's 401k/403b/IRA/investments].) That's seriously into Mr Money Mustache territory!

IME with people, knowing that they are the only ones in history getting so screwed and this is a one-time thing will NOT make it OK nor reduce the feelings of burdens and resources.

(I do like that phrase a lot. I also wish you a good medical outcome, ofc.)
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Articles like this certainly don't help spread false rumors: http://thenextweb.com/dd/2016/04/07/google-facebook-uber-swi...
Yeah, that's what I mean about them being complimentary, tcpdump being useful to create the initial capture on a remote host, and Wireshark being useful to sift through it.
I meet cookie-cutter good people every day at office. I come online to see the interesting, the shocking, the disgusting, the entire individuality of people displayed with none of the façade necessitated by real life.
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hello Steve, could you tell more about "signed a clause giving Packt the right of first refusal on my next two books".

I am also with Packt and I don't see any clause like that in my contract :-) (I've finished 350 pages from 380 goal, my book is 90% finished).

I am interested in details, what and why you had to sign smth like that?

Regards,
Kamil
Repost here with discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12141311
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