skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ductility, strength, and toughness are each separate things.

In many cases, when metal gets stronger it becomes more brittle and less ductile, but this is not a fundamental relationship, in most cases it is an unwanted by-product.
NSA website recovers from outage amid intrigue
One view can be taken from applying conservation of energy. As a material deforms, it is absorbing energy and not transferring it to the vehicle nor the passengers. A brittle material will absorb less energy before shattering, letting the rest of the energy then be transferred to where you don't want it to be.
If you're paranoid enough to believe that the most likely explanation of this is cold war state actors and conspiracies, then you should have no trouble believing that said state actor can track a throwaway account on HN.
I know this is self-serving to some extent, but I have a web site that is devoted to content related to software testing practices - articles, videos, podcasts - all free. The purpose of my site is to be a resource for software testers. I am also happy to personally answer questions. The information is based on over 25 years of solid experience and adjustment of the techniques to keep up with methodologies and technology. My website is http://www.riceconsulting.com and my YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/user/rrice2000.

I also wrote a book on this topic, Surviving the Top Ten Challenges of Software Testing, which is focused on the human issues in testing.

I can also recommend the resources section of the ASTQB's website where there are past webinar recordings, white papers, past newsletters, etc. - https://www.astqb.org/certified-tester-resources/

I hope this helps! Feel free to contact me from my website if you like.

Randy Rice
Also, assess others in an optimistic way also.

I.e.

praise: personal, general, and permanent

criticism: impersonal, specific and temporal
I usually try to write a constructive comments... But this...

This made me laugh out loud. I'm sure they can build these cars, but as to being road ready. Good luck. As for being accepted by society, good luck. Finally, after the 20th or 30th death, do you really think they won't be regulated to extinction?
Are you a strong believer in putting a caret in front of every point?

I understand the association with up and optimism, but in this document, I think that it could be distracting the reader from the content you are presenting.

Thank you for writing this, though!
Especially when you compare on purpose against your competitor's 4 year old product.
> When giving feedback, some people say that they are brutally honest

As someone who prefers giving and receiving terse feedback... I would suggest that there's nothing wrong with brutal honesty for type of people who appreciate receiving it.

If I write code and forget to test some specific cases, I would much rather get a code review of "Missing tests for negative numbers, empty string, null" than a longwinded and "nice" version. I don't need to hear compliments on what's right... just what can be improved. Some people really value bluntness and see directness as more friendly because it's honest.
SpaceX already uses carbon fiber on their rockets in the interstage and payload shroud. They do provide some insulation: they're covered in cork. But most of the rocket body encounters extra low temperatures more than high temperatures.
I noticed that I missed out mentioning that, yes, Thumb-2 made Thumb variable length (it already sorta-was, branches were always kinda 32-bit)

Any halfword where bit[15:13]=='111' && bit[12:11]!='00' is the leading half of a 32-bit Thumb instruction
> No. You can't go faster than light. There are no loop holes.

That's what I just said. Your objection is silly.

You're basically saying "Look, if light follows an extrinsically curved geodesic that goes into a black hole it takes 10 minutes to reach the singularity. But if we shoot it straight into the black hole, the math says it only takes 9 minutes. Impossible! That's science fiction! It's going faster than light!"

Information traveling through a wormhole is emphatically not going faster than light. It's just taking a shorter route to get to the other side. You can't necessarily violate causality like this; you can just bring objects closer together.

The mathematics on wormholes is quite solid and appears to admit traversable wormholes in principle. There are many reasons why it might not actually feasible to build or use one, but your objection isn't one of them.
Yes, I remember that as well - it was very unfortunate. It's not what I mean though, I would swear that I had also seen criticism of the optimism training in the armed forces with respect to its tendency to disclaim responsibility for, or otherwise minimise, negative outcomes from one's actions. I can't find a reference now though, although I haven't had time to Google it properly yet.
> If Americans lose their guns they will continue to lose their other rights one by one.

Well that escalated quickly. The rest of your post almost had me (a Dutchman) believe guns aren't actually that bad.
> Try removing the pronouns, and being more specific with your steps.

That would be even worse. Let the strong gravitational force of the Earth go through a wormhole located on a small platform in deep space, and drop a rock near the wormhole (not through the wormhole).

Then move the wormhole (and the gravitational force) elsewhere, lift the rock off the platform, and bring the wormhole back.
100% - 99.9% is 1 in 1000 times.
In how many of the last 1000 car rides did you have a fender bender or accident? That's 1-3 years depending on how often you drive. I'd say 99.9% would be very close to an improvement over the current situation.

I would be more sympathetic to calls for strict regulation if the current situation weren't so alarmingly suboptimal.
This is a long shot, but if you could sign a HIPPA waver, I could convince the bureaucrats at my workplace to jump in.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12300210
You are implying absolute coordinates by saying that. It's similar to saying the universe has a center - the place where the big bang started.
Sometimes "I write software and I have a pretty good idea what's going on, could I talk to your tech support people please" works. Sometimes.
This isn't actually accurate with regard to China Standard Time... All of China is one timezone, despite spanning 5 of them.
Andy Grove famously said: "We have a simple strategy. We build fabs, and then we fill them."

That is not just a glib remark. Intel builds leading edge fabs, and runs them very well. Then it simply looks at every design it could run, and ranks them by gross margin per wafer. When the fab is full, low margin projects either run on non-Intel fabs or alternatively the teams get redeployed.

And the kind of fab capacity Intel has is a strategic weapon. If Intel decides your corner of the market is going to be paved with silicon, prepare to get paved over.

My take on Intel licensing ARM is two-fold: 1) They have decided the gross margin per wafer of running some ARMs is looking pretty good, and 2) they perceive a benefit of using Intel's fab technology as a strategic weapon to own as much of the ARM market as they want.
There is evidence that neonicotinoids are harmful to bees and there is also evidence that they aren't. Why makes you so sure it's a slam dunk explanation?

Hell, even the EPA and Dept of Agriculture conducted a massive study and said it's pretty far down the list of factors in the decline of the honey bee population.

[1]http://www.usda.gov/documents/ReportHoneyBeeHealth.pdf
Does it scare you more, or less, than normal humans driving cars? There is approximately 1 fatality per 100mm miles driven in the United States, resulting in about 30,000 fatalities/year. If Autonomous Vehicles could reduce that to, say, 15,000 fatalities, is there any value in saving 15,000 lives?

Serious question - is it better, from an ethical perspective, to have 30,000 people die at the hands of humans, or 15,000 people die in autonomous accidents? Elon Musk is betting on #2 from an ethical perspective. I know a lot of people prefer #1.
By pushing hard enough to equalize the GPR you're removing by going into space?

Consider an obvious example: a wormhole which connects two points on earth separated by 1m of real distance, at the same height.

Theres no violation of conservation of energy because you did not gain or lose gravitational potential energy, and your start and end momentum is conserved.
The solution to this is almost certainly "moving the wormhole takes energy and solves this 'paradox'". The mass-energy of the wormhole could be from gravitational field energy, for example.
> I see no discontinuity, but perhaps you're using a different definition?

Sorry. The gravitational field of the object you just sent through the wormhole, not the gravitational field of the wormhole itself.
One thing I constantly remind myself — all events in nature are neutral.

It is not on your side or against you. It's just something that has happened. How you react is what can be positive or negative.
Polybit’s stdlib helps developers spend less time on infrastructure
Or in this case, the HN comments actually provide a more complete article/summary :-)
Please comment civilly and substantively on HN or not at all.
There are a lot of mathematical things like that - tachyons for example are a mathematical "solution".

The ultraviolet example is the opposite: The universe acted in a certain way, so we looked for math to match, which happened to have a strange property to it.

Here first we found the strong property and are looking for the universe to match.

You can do the first, but not the second.
Yes it's worse

Exercise, eating, laying flat when
not exercising or eating all day is
not worse.

Wait, what?
This seems to fly in direct opposition to research on growth vs. fixed mindset, which claims that praise should be impersonal, specific, and temporal in order to help people realize that they can do better based on the choices they make.
Twitch won the war of becoming the go to video game streaming app, but didn't do so by being a great innovator. It just got there first and now is a monopoly due to it having all the audience. Discord is clearly a passionate endeavor made by gamers. They may have a way of really changing the video game streaming business if they would be willing.
He said 'conditions' not number of rides. Why would the number of rides matter, especially independently of the length of each ride? The location, weather and traffic conditions should matter much more.
>Talking about relationships in pseudo-Darwinian terms is something that comes out of the pickup artist community.

You do realize that what Darwin is known for is discussing mating behaviour and natural selection, don't you? Or do you think that is not relevant because humans are not animals but special snowflakes, carried down on the wings of angels?

I'm not the OP, but I would say that kind of language is exactly what one would use in order to try to explain exactly what really motivates humans, beyond some ephemeral idea that our actions are based on "feelings", with no deeper interest in understanding of what might be the basis for those feelings.

And since you brought up dehumanizing (which I don't agree this is, BTW): If that is dehumanizing, would such a description not also dehumanize men, who are described as mindlessly dedicating a significant portion of their life to acquiring the money with which to impress? It's a pity that such behaviour would have no effect because women are humans with unfathomable and intractable feelings...

Or can we just admit that some women might be impressed by material wealth, making them precisely human, because some humans may be impressed by material wealth?
What Great Listeners Actually Do
The resin has a low Tg (temp at which it turns goopy again) - somewhere around 500*F even for 'aerospace' stuff. Whereas recycling aluminum requires roughly double that temperature to begin to melt aluminum.

The carbon fiber is then chopped and used as reinforcement in other material likes plastics. SGL Group, who supplies/partners in production with BMW, even uses reclaimed and production waste in it's production process for the new 7-series.

A more technical breakdown and state of the industry can be found here:
http://www.compositesworld.com/articles/recycled-carbon-fibe...
"Master, what is knowledge?"

"When you know a thing, to know that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to know that you do not know it -- this is knowledge."

I like this one better :-)
The author linked this written essay form below but it's in a deeply nested comment that might get overlooked. I found this much easier to read.

http://braythwayt.com/homoiconic/2009/05/01/optimism.html

Also the 30-min talk was recorded as a video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xjntzo-mYc
The scenarios you are describing are incredibly common, and trivial to develop for in comparison to real edge scenarios (not to say they are trivial to develop for). More challenging are things like, "How do you respond to a homeless guy standing on the street directing traffic into an alley", "How do you respond to a flooding on the road resulting in 6" of standing water obscuring all traffic lane markings", "How do you respond to a flooding on the road resulting in 18" of standing water? 24" of standing water?" How do you respond to a road covered in snow (12", 18", 24")? How do you respond to a road covered in snow with tire prints that seem to go into the oncoming lane? How do you respond to a road covered in snow with what appears to be a small 24" high snow drift in your lane?

Etc, Etc..

I think the answer to all these questions is, "Initial versions of Automated vehicles will only perform under ideal road scenarios. During Snow, Flooding, or other inclement weather, they will not be dispatched. Wait for future iterations in 2030, 2040, 2050, etc...
A while back, I had a major bank in Australia act completely puzzled that I might want a credit/debit card for my 10 year old web business. They appeared to have no offering and couldn't comprehend my need. I was trying to explain that I used it to pay for online services like hosting, domain registration and the like. It was like I was speaking a foreign language.

The only option they mentioned involved keeping thousands of dollars essentially in escrow. The bills I was needing to pay were easily less than that each year, let alone monthly as I paid.

Hearing banks confused by remotely atypical businesses no longer surprises me.
So the person complained that some minimum wage worker at the DMV inappropriately denied a vanity license plate, which was overruled by the person in charge

In many cases when religious beliefs are used to discriminate against someone, it is not merely a case of one lone bad apple who nobody ever condoned; instead it's a case of the institution itself either not caring or clandestinely condoning the behavior so long as it stays out of the limelight. Often, the supervisors and others higher up the chain are well aware of what's going on and either approve of it or see no reason to do anything to stop it, and so only do the minimum they think necessary to keep it from blowing up into a public scandal. Remember that culture comes from the top: if low-level employees think they can get away with this stuff it's because the higher-ups gave them reason to think it.

Forcing a public lawsuit that costs money and potentially jobs is one of the few ways to put an end to such things.
This is all true, but I was mostly comparing the pkg_* tools (pkg_add, pkg_info, etc.) that were used before the arrival of (NetBSD's) pkgin or (FreeBSD's) pkgng (does OpenBSD have something similar? If so, I haven't used it at this point).
What happened to real Super Soaker guns, like the 50, the 100, or even the 300? When I search for "super soaker" on Amazon I see only a few Nerf branded guns that look like cheap knockoffs.
Traversable wormholes also imply time travel the idea is just cra cra.

If wormholes can exist you won't be able to send information through them.

I idea of information being sent faster than light is nuts. It might be mathematically interesting but that's it.

I really don't get the tolerance around this idea of faster than light travel which also means time travel.
What you think about Oculus is irrelevant. FB has the money to see it through, along with dozens of other similar projects. Feel free to explain the other models.
Took a quick look at files:

> TOOLS/Apache/httpd-2.0.52-9.ent.i386.rpm

Heh RHEL4! Nothing points to a 3 letter US govt agency like an outdated RHEL version. Even for 2013 (based on file date) RHEL4 was ancient. RHEL7 beta for example, came out that year.

Also another striking thing about it, there are no swear or l33t-speak words in there. I know if I had to write ASN.1-based SNMP firmware hacks for obscure Juniper switches, that code would be drowning in curse words.

Seeing this kind of stuff is fun too:

ar rules update filename `/tmp/.b` type ar url http://topsec.com.cn

Also a bit of whimsy perhaps, can't be too serious after all, even at the NSA:

class ELCAExploit(HTTPSExploit):
name = "ELIGIBLECANDIDATE"
version = "v1.1.0.1"
desc="What is the sound of a single thread blocking?"
modes = ["nopen"]
I feel like Ventrillo and Teamspeak were marketing themselves to businesses and tried to cram in enterprise features instead of polishing their interface or smoothing out rough edges. Conversely discord markets to gamers and if you've ever talked to an indie dev you'll have had your ear chewed off on the value gamers put on "polish".

Regardless, props to discard. I've never used it but I downloaded it today due to this thread (which is ironic because Twitch purportedly bought curse to prevent that very thing!).
- Microsoft employs thousands and thousands of people.

- Facebook employs thousands and thousands of people.

- Apple employs thousands and thousands of people.

- Record labels employ thousands and thousands of people.

- One of these things is not like the others.
Kepler was the default GPGPU product for many tasks until GP100 released - and GP100 still has not hit general availability yet.

Essentially, anything that needed dynamic parallelism (launching kernels from within kernels, i.e. tasks where you don't know where the difficult/interesting needles are within a haystack), advanced/concurrent scheduling capabilities, or FP64 is going to be much, much better off with Kepler until users can get their hands on GP100 cards. Maxwell is good at neither of those things - it's actually only good at specifically deep learning/neural nets. Which is not every task within the GPGPU space.
The US wastes 40% of the food it produces. I imagine we could give up a fair amount of efficiency in favor of ecology.
it seems to me that taking time out of your day to put down some one who is a partner to your business would be better spent making your business better
More like Nanorobots That Can Travel Down the Bloodstream and Precisely Target Undesired Opinions.
Art is about surrender. Stop asking for it to be custom-tailored
Yes, it affects the NMDA receptors similar to Ketamine, though it's "safer" (when taken properly). Just search for DXM online. You can also read articles posted to Erowid. Another alternative is Memantine, but DXM also acts as a sort of SSRI and affects the mu-sigma opioid receptors, so for this one-off-once-every-2-weeks use it's more appropriate.

You can also research options like combining it with Phenibut (1-2g split across 2 servings the day and night before, as it can become addictive or problematic if used too often (more than 1-2x/week) or in high quantities (more than 1-2g/day)), 5-HTP, Melatonin, fasoracetam, etc.
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The purpose is comedy, haha, but the need I have is to realistically estimate when companion robots (clean) will become conversational. Some of the robots in the book are more mechanical-looking. Some more "human-like," meaning: difficult to discern from humans. It's all for the purpose of serving the story, and I can see your point about where the market is. That is helpful as I can see that if these nonsexual companionship robots come to exist, it will be well after every other area is dominated by more useful robots. Thanks!
Approach to Building a Virtual Assistant or Bot Almost from Scratch
You can open an operational credit card account at a traditional bank outside of SVB and keep your primary banking relationship with them. I would expect American Express will give you the month-to-month cash flow and paperless billing while SVB can give you the larger line of credit and growth capital. Plus, think of all those credit card points.
> Why do you think different men/women have completely different preferences on those things?

Because evolutionarily optimal characteristics are different for men and women. An example: women have to endure long periods of partially debilitating gravidity, which means that, among other things, human males are optimized to perform physically exerting tasks. This is presumably why men have more muscle mass than women in general, and why women generally put more emphasis on a mate's musculature than men put on women's.

> since at least ancient Greece...

Most societies and religions select against those activities, presumably because it's sub-optimal from a memetic reproduction standpoint. If all your citizens or followers are galavanting about subverting the sexual reward system and reproducing less than they would if they were forced only to have sex for reproduction, then you will be out-bred by those societies who only allow sex for reproduction. This is why anti-sodomy, anti-homosexuality, anti-masturbation, and even anti-birth-control are extremely popular memes both in established religions and in many societies. Until quite recently the US was one such society, and we are still dealing with attitudes and policies borne of these memes. That is what I meant by "Society hasn't fully caught up to this yet". Not that I am not passing any value judgements on the morality or immorality of such policies; I am just stating historical fact.
> The attack on the Democratic National Committee has raised questions about whether the Russian government is trying to influence the American election.

I don't see where they're going with that. Anyone care to elaborate?
A hack seems pretty plausible. But looking at what was leaked and from what I could guess from their lingo, there's just "scripts" (documentation on how to implement specific operations/implant a target) and "bins" (the code-scripts, tools, and exploits themselves). It looks very operational and task-oriented, like a messy mishmash of directories a pentester would prepare before a CTF competition or something.

The documentation is fairly shitty and poorly formatted, and the Python I looked at is abysmal (though it's not uncommon for infosec experts to be shitty scripters).

So, they probably got into something akin to a "forward operating base", or perhaps a compromised server where an incompetent implanter accidentally left all of this stuff lying around, but not an actual compromise of NSA's network. There also doesn't look to be anything in here that wasn't already known from the Snowden leaks, other than some specific technical details and context clues from people writing the documentation.
How much energy? The wormhole doesn't have an inherent mass, so how much energy does it take? After all you can put an arbitrary amount of mass through it.
China’s Factories Count on Robots as Workforce Shrinks
This is the assumption I am operating on, so this is a great link. They all seem kind of mechanical, which is what I am using for some of the humor in the book. So, it was fun to watch these robots in action after having imagined what it would look like in my head for so long.
Well, for a long time, letting "Python be Python" required dealing with absolutely terrible time zone support. As an example, Python's strptime only got timezone support (in %z) in version 3.2 in 2011.