skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, having worked with both PDF and SWF (and software for converting between them...), they're both complex formats in different ways, although I personally think SWF is slightly easier to parse; PDF is a weird pseudo-textual format that includes elements of PostScript and interactive features via embedded JS, while SWF is conceptually much simpler to parse and its graphics are also simpler, but its interactivity model is more complex.

Converting graphics from SWF to SVG is an easy demonstration of just how inefficient XML-based formats are. We just don't notice (most of the time) because of computing power.
In my Jeep Wrangler, I can instantly tell I forgot to switch from 4WD to 2WD as I turn onto pavement from a dirt road.
There is always news. If you don't hear any for a while, it means the news is bad.

That's all I have.
Searching for code without understanding could lead one astray. Even such places as Rosettacode host a buggy code.

http://karma-engineering.com/lab/blog/DoNotCopyPasteShit
You're not wrong but that is why the company is planning to end all relationships with China and start production in Mexico. When Mexican production is up to speed and perfect the rug will come out from under our Chinese factories.

I have a feeling they are not going to be very happy.
People like to misinterpret Keynes, so it is worth stressing the "can" does not mean that it will in a strict sense.

Similarly, "We're all dead in the long run," does not mean that whatever long run effect being discussed will wait until after we are dead either.
I guess they could always emulate a machine with Flash Player installed on it.

Outside of that it looks like it's up to Adobe to make a Flash runtime for the Web:

https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=4178275
The Radioactive Boy Scout (1998)
At least they didn't use an iPhone.

I recall coming across a site for an Android-only app --- which was being shown on an iPhone in the big banner at the top of the page.
Your Beliefs Doesn't Make You A Better Person; Your Behavior Does;
Could you elaborate on the link between DNSSEC and the FVEY?

> * The FVEY IC gains de jure control over the TLS keys all of the Internet's most important sites, including (along with the COMs and NETs and CO.UKs) every .IO host.

Please prove the above assertion.

Everytime I see you post something about DNSSEC I ask you these same questions and I've never gotten a response from you that elucidates this link. What is it exactly about DNSSEC that you think it gives controls to world governments? Spell it out for me in as much detail as possible.
I don't find the utility to outweigh the PITA. I've been on both sides of the fence, and maintained large projects with heavy protobuf use.

I don't find the schema validation powerful enough. You still have to write correct code to migrate semantics. Avoiding incorrect reuse of field names is... nice, but also the most trivial of the problems.

(I do like schemas in theory. It's possible I haven't worked with good enough tooling around protobufs to really experience joy resulting from those schemas. The protos themselves certainly aren't guaranteed to be self-documenting, in some of my experiences.)

I don't find code generation results to be smooth in many languages. At $company, we switched through no less than three different final-stage code generators in search of a smooth experience. Not all of this was misplaced perfectionism: in some cases, it was driven by the sheer absurd method count verbosity in one code generator basically making it impossible to ship an application. (You've perhaps heard of the method count limits in early android? Bam.)

I don't think the debug decoding tools for protobuf are directly comparable to CBOR's interoperability with JSON. CBOR and JSON are literally interchangable. That means I can flip a bit in my program config and start using one instead of the other. Config files? Flip the bit. Network traffic not meant for humans? Flip the bit. Need to debug on the network? Flip the bit. Want to pipe it into other tools like `jq`? No problem. There's a whole ecosystem around JSON, and I like that ecosystem. Working with CBOR, I can have the best of both worlds.

Sometimes opinionated is good and powerful and really makes things streamlined in a way that contributes to the overall utility of the system. I don't think this is one of them. Almost every major feature of gRPC I'm interested in -- multiplexing, deadlines and cancellations, standard definitions for bidi streaming, etc -- has nothing to do with protobufs.

natch, I used "I" heavily in this comment, because I realize these are heavily subjective statements, and not everyone shares these opinions :)
With rising salaries, labor unrest, environmental devastation and intellectual property theft, China is no longer an attractive place;
What area of NYC is the equivalent of Kendall Square
> we are animals, somewhat predictable, not that unique.

Oh I agree completely, didn't mean to give the impression I advocate the "special snowflake" view of the world either. My apologies! My entire field of research is practically based around our predictability ;)

What I meant to say rather, was that while there are definite behavioural patterns, they tend to cluster into discrete groupings, rather than being broad and generally applicable traits that can be used on everyone across the board in aggregate (i.e. a singular "average person"). There are certainly many 'trivial' human traits we all share in common of course, but I've found those to be less helpful in personal decision making situations than more specific correlated traits. But then again, I might be a bit bias given that's my area of expertise :)
What you don't seem to understand is that "r" is 0 for a very large portion of the country, and in many cases is even negative.

> the poor guy's investment

Except in rare cases, this doesn't exist.

> Try doing the math

The math is simple. The problem is your data seems to be based more on wishful thinking than actual experience and research.
Solar panels have dropped 80% in cost since 2010, reshaping the developing world
Why a Single-Payer Healthcare System Is Inevitable
I regret that I can only upvote your comment a single time.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-baltimore-secret-sur...

Highly recommend the read
I'm a fan of these videos! if I get stranded on an Island my only hope is to have enough battery and this guy's videos on a usb drive =)
No worries! You're always welcome at DigitalOcean :)
Why Duck Duck Moose Donated Itself to Khan Academy
Researchers orbit a muon around an atom
I'd say if others are experiencing the same issues and there is no easy fix (do a search for baking HP printer motherboards at 350Deg for 12 minutes or fixing a Brother printer error with scotch tape) then it is toast. It sounds like a production flaw and you will just be wasting your time.
It's scary that it's only a small step away from thoughtcrime. George Orwell was eerily prescient.
This the first I've heard of noti, looks cool tho.

Ntfy does many of these things too, for example A coworker had suggested the PID option so it has that too :)

I mostly use the shell-integration that automatically sends notifications for commands taking longer than 10 seconds (if the terminal isn't focused).
Totally agree. It's one of the reasons I created searchcode.com back before github had code search and after google code search closed.

I doubled down by offering the locally installable one which I then deployed at my workplace. It has been useful for finding how other teams implement bluebird promises and general auditing for checked in AWS keys and the like. Now I think about it it is used lot for code auditing. Probably something I should focus on for new release.
I didn't. Recorded videos on both the phone and the computer(a VM actually), then put it together with.. I don't remember what. Some video editor available in the Ubuntu repos.
When I was in elementary school, we were warned that we'd have to start going to school on Saturday to keep up with Japan.

Replace China with the USSR and your argument could be from the 1960s. Replace it with Japan and it could be from the early 90s. Do you see a trend here?

Every few decades we have a new enemy that's going to destroy our economy. Business interests push these narratives to move students into fields that will drive down labor costs for their companies. H-1Bs exist for the same reason.

Oh...and How many Americans enroll in Chinese Universities?
How so? It runs on Mac OS, Linux and Windows.
Apple is the source of mistreatment of Chinese workers
Given what I saw I'm amazed that any of their software actually works. Perhaps Predix will buck that trend, but I still posit that this would be the exception not the rule for them. What I can say is that I worked for a number of other large companies and the only other company that came close to having this level of inefficiency was a defense contractor. While some of these other large corporations had a some WTF moments for me GE had a much larger number, but it is a large organization so other's experiences may be different etc..
> your vlookups, hlookups will not change your column numbers

If you're not using tables yet, you should. They solve that problem easily, and make addressing more explicit (relative to the table name rather than the sheet)
Please tell me where you work. I don't ever want to be on the same team as you.
It's not wise to do drive-by analyses yet this guy sounds like a classic psychopath building a cult. I bet he never accepts any responsibility for what happened.
Is it time for a common open source stability fork of the docker engine?
In real life, if you publicly proclaim controversial beliefs, people will probably publicly confront or question you about them. Most of them will not push a debate further if you say "I don't want to talk about this topic" or something similar. But if you say "We seem to disagree about some basic facts", it seems to imply you think they are making basic/obvious mistakes, but you aren't going even going to deign to explain those mistakes to them. In short, it could come off as condescending or rude, and it could easily be averted by being a bit more polite.
Take her for a bush bash m8
Whats really scary, is that though right now this is fairly high tech and needs specialized hardware and software, that requirement won't always be there.

How many months until this is in the hands of any interested party with a bit of technical knowledge an the ability to read some documentation?
Gordon Shumway was the name of the main character in the TV show "Alf". This was the joke behind the name.
Thanks for sharing. Just watched it very interesting.

It was nostalgic seeing the old prayer book in Slavonic, with pages almost brown from being leafed through and used daily. I remembered by grandfather's books, they used to be like that. He tried to teach me some Slavonic, remember at least knowing the alphabet enough to read the words.

Then I like how Agafia explains what it is like to listen to the news about the outside world. The man who came to live next "door" (their relationship seems ...complicated) has a radio, and they listen to it sometimes. She mentions the impression she gets about the outside world from it, just terrible things: people killing each other, mining accidents, terrorist acts. It is as if aliens captured some of our broadcasts and tried to infer what we are like. Not that we are doing stellar job, but the news would make it seem like we are failing even more.

The other interesting comment was from the park ranger how wilderness cleanses people. Nobody is out that far stealing or committing crimes. That far out people are happy to see each other, help each other, hunters in their cabins leave food, matches and firewood.

Had to laugh of course, at her using the mangled test missile crashed nearby to scare the bears away, by hitting it with a stick. It is hard to fathom a more complete mix of Russian stereotypes in one single image: feisty old woman with a stick, wearing a head scarf, bears, soviet military artifact, and Siberia.
While not an instance of a security exploit, the right tweet can and does result in this sort of insider trading. Options are leveraged vehicles, you don't need to hurt the fundamentals of a business, you only need to ensure short term volatility to make money.

https://i.redd.it/ju3joa7i3fhx.png
My interpretation of your analogy is that if there were a resource which presented monad-related concepts in a manner a working Scala programmer is likely to relate with, as opposed to theory laden texts, then the usefulness of these concepts might be better received in general.

Fair enough. So here is a book which does precisely that:

"Functional Programming in Scala" (ISBN-13: 978-1617290657)

The authors incrementally present FP concepts, including monads, in a very approachable style. I can say first hand that this book does not require a heavy mathematical background (off hand, I don't think there are any formal proofs in it).
I'm not a mechanical engineer, but if I were to make mechanical parts I'd probably venture up to Detroit, Windsor, Seattle, or Los Angeles to tap into automotive and aerospace talent.

It's hard to believe there aren't a ton of shops out in those areas to help keep costs competitive. But I could see costs remaining high for the reasons you stated - high cost, high value industries.
Would you be willing to license your platform to an overseas franchisee?
"With a parking lot overflowing with exotic cars and a string of office renovations"

That was the story right there.
I remain confused by this question. The USG controls COM, ORG, NET, and US. The UK government, host of GCHQ, the world's most unhinged SIGINT agency, controls CO.UK, NET.UK, and IO.
One of the things I used it for was to see how a specific API is used in production ready code. It was of immense help.
I remember my uncle telling me about them when I was growing up in the 90s. He was an officer responsible for the environmental impact assessment of the Baikonur rocket launches and visited Lykovs a couple of times. They lived really close to the area where Proton rocket boosters are supposed to fall down. Couple of years ago I found out that V. Peskov even mentioned my uncle in his 'Lost in the Taiga' book about the Lykov family.
"I'm gonna starve to death, but at least I won't get bored!"
And I guess Gordon itself got its name from "Flash Gordon"?
What stuns me are some of the comments on

https://medium.com/@robconery/how-udemy-is-profiting-from-pi...

which accuse Rob Conery of ranting.

How can they not see that this is wrong?
Yup! I'll review it when I'm not sleepy :)
And also to prioritize.
You could do a lot of that by many other means: Simple cell phone tracking will tell you everywhere people go and everyone they meet. Plenty of apps track geolocation; data on hosted servers and the wire have plenty more data, etc.
Well, saying that SpaceX is setting up for interstellar travel is like saying that me going kayaking is preparing me for transatlantic navigation... but mighty impressive nonetheless.
For 3x vents and a puck unit, I'd owe you about $400 or so?
I can find your unit off baidu, all in, for $150 (5 vents as well). I have no idea if the software is legit (meaning working, it's likely not "legit legit").

Did you send your firmware to China?
It seems journalists mostly do this to mask how few facts they have on the subject. https://lostbetweentheletters.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/ba...
Communication and trust is key. I think developers can understand mistakes happen, they deal with bugs in code every day. But how it is handled and how the patterns look over time is what matters.
History is a pretty local thing. The ideas of democracy and freedom (these are two different, often contradictory things) seem ti be pervasive in Western Europe or North America. This does not mean they are pervasive, or desired, or even understood everywhere in the world, despite the "civilized West"'s attempts at propagating these ideas.

Chinese government has a pretty tight grip on the nation's information sources, and has a very significant political and military power. Democracy has no chance to be exported there, as it was exported e.g. to Iraq and Afghanistan (rather unsuccessfully).

Chinese government makes a lot of efforts to keep the political system of China under control, without Western-style democracy (and probably any other). It also makes a lot of efforts to keep China producing and selling a lot of stuff, and becoming better and better at it. It's rather successful on both accounts.

There are a few examples of countries becoming wild economic successes under quite undemocratic regimes: South Korea and Singapore spring to mind. But both are not Communist (or former Communist, since the Chinese seem to have abolished much of their previous communism). Maybe this is why the didn't look so suspicious to the Western public.
A fascinating story from 2013.

There was an interesting short follow up from the Siberian Times a year after the Smithsonian piece - the last surviving member was seeking help, or maybe just tiring of isolation, in her 70s.

http://www.businessinsider.com/agafya-lykova-asks-for-help-2...
I ran into this the other day but had trouble getting the server to run: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=notification...
And what exactly is going to replace it?
> The obvious counter-argument being that there's absolutely no moral or philosophical justification for the ownership of information.

Could you elaborate a bit, because on the face of it that seems to be kind of a ridiculous statement. There is extensive literature on the philosophical justifications for almost all parts of the law, including intellectual property. For IP, there are two or three major philosophical justifications. In Erupoe, an approach based on Hegel's theories of personality is common. In the US, Locke's theories of ownership of one's labor is often used as a justification.

Did you mean to say that you do not think that these philosophical justifications are sufficient, rather than that they do not exist?
That was my Nexus 5x. The computer was a VM tho.
That's completely nuts - for 30PB you'll be paying like $1.5M per month for storage and compute, you could buy all the hardware for maybe $3-5M and rent space for it for like $50k per month.. over 3 years the same cluster would cost you over $50M on AWS versus $10M to do it yourself (let's be generous and say plus 10 engineers at $2.5m/year to run it) so $17.5M to DIY.. there are some situations where it makes sense, like if your baseline is low and your fluctuation is high, but IMO if you have a baseline of 30PB, you'd be able to pay for a lot more engineers if it was in house.
> factories run on excel...terrifyingly so

Chemical plants too. But that does not mean there is no code.

An Excel document can be programmed with VBA to make connections to network resources, read/write files, send emails, etc.

I might not be the most effective tool for every task but it's everywhere and allows workers to automate work without making a request to hire a developer or buy new software. Someone can gradually automate business tasks on their own initiative rather than go through multiple layers of corporate bureaucracy.
you can still use table names in vlookups, and it will still not solve your problem because vlookups do not work by table headers but by column numbers
Mini bathroom makeovers for your weekend
Wow, the Glassdoor reviews for this place are brutal:

https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Fuhu-EI_IE3609...

2.2 stars overall. 41% CEO approval. Only 23% would recommend to a friend.

Even reptiles should recognize that an unhappy staff adds drastically to turnover, recruiting costs, and organizational turmoil. While reducing the quality, effectiveness, and creativity of the output. And human beings might consider treating staff well just because they're fellow human beings.
Thanks, that's interesting! Do you know if the future upgrades to Dragon with propulsive landing for the crew return will provide similar capabilities for fast landing at bases as the Dream Chaser?
> Replaced by a set of fast-hire "interns"*

Yes! Saw that happen. Senior people leave, management thinks, no worries, with their salary we can pay for 6 interns. We don't need those traitors / haters anyway. Next thing there are 6 interns there.

Not that interns are bad, they are great, I enjoyed mentoring and getting help from many during the years. It is when they are brought in to replace a senior devs that things might be getting a little weird.
Crew: Why you don’t have to be great to build a great company
They've traded one advantage for another. Now that they're doing most of the world's large-scale manufacturing, they have the manufacturing expertise. That's a huge advantage that's not accounted for in the article.
It looks like the year of the Linux desktop will finally come and Linux users will converge on a common package manager: the Google Play Store.

The universe certainly has a great sense of irony.
In my opinion Google is between a rock and hard place. They made it very easy to be certified for Android. My assumption for the reason is to spread it everywhere to get market dominance.

Now they are tightening it up a bit which as a developer I support but honestly end users are being screwed, and the root cause is Google not Qualcomm in my opinion. Google could have from the start been stricter about certification if they really cared about delivering a good experience to end users and developers, rather than just sending out a shitty product quickly.
I took your Google challenge and found that you were largely correct (one or two searches out of ten or so missed).

It makes one wonder about the self-esteem of people who only achieve a stolen recognition; a recognition that they know rightfully belongs to others. Sure, there might be some quick money involved, but even so these types knowing that the money they spend wasn't earned by their own actions would have to lower their visions of self-worth.
If Philosophers Were Programmers
If it makes you feel better, they've been dealing with electrical failure for years now. Each engine generates enough to power the airplane. Additionally, there are backup batteries and backup generators on board.

The 757/767 even has a pop-down turbine as a last resort.

Worst case, the power capacities of these systems needs to be beefed up. And like you hinted, flying a large plane without hydraulic power is practically impossible anyways. It's not a huge leap from that to plasma actuators.
They have a lot of interesting traditions, including meditation techniques not known to "Metropolitan of Moscow".
If it's anything like the first Apollo missions' capsules, it's pretty much three chairs tied back to back. There's barely enough room to sit in, I don't know how the astronauts didn't go crazy in it.
Tips for Better Redux Architecture
"One motor per wheel, in the wheel, is an old idea. It's been used most notably on LeTourneau heavy equipment. The usual problem is too much unspring weight, not a problem for giant earthmovers but bad for fast cars."

hmmm ... I wasn't thinking about motors in the wheel, although I am familiar with that concept.

I was thinking about a more pedestrian motor per wheel configuration wherein the motor is just behind the spring ... and is thus, sprung weight ... is there even space for that ?