skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen both. The most truly pathetic thing I have seen was the rush to the bank to cash the payroll checks because certain employees knew that the account only had enough to pay a certain number of employees. Have also seen an innocent bank failure that screwed a payroll cycle. Luckily the bank covered overdrafts for the day it hosed everyone[1].

When the company is innocent, its best if the employer shows the employees the cause of the failure and be really, really oversharing so us very angry workers aren't inclined to riot.

1) at this late date, I get the feeling because the town was small enough to call around and make sure people banking at other banks didn't overdraft either instead of covering them money-wise after the fact.
I don't know exactly what kind of data you are using but here are a few things -

Often with geodata, people viewing a map of the whole country are interested in a different subset of the data than people viewing a small local area. For instance, when I view Texas I don't need the database to tell me where every street is - only the major rivers and highways. This is called layering. Consider 3-5 zoom levels and filter out the data that your user is going to care about at each, then in your indexing / storage scheme make it easy for the database to filter down to an appropriate dataset for the zoom level.

Also, fetch an area 4 times too big from the server and cache it so as they pan around in the local area you don't have to keep querying.

If you are rendering maps on the server side, and hand rolling that, consider using WMTS rather than WMS to serve your raster maps. WMTS tiles can be cached much more effectively than WMS tiles.

Just because something can be a spatial query doesn't mean it has to be. Spatial queries are relatively heavy. If your users are mostly operating inside one country, feel free to segment your data by country and only query the database for data for the countries on the screen - much lighter than applying a bounding box to a bunch of polygons.
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Calculist, a hybrid of Workflowy and Excel
> Even with exception support disabled, you can still throw them, you just can't catch them in C++ land.

Is something printed in the console under emscripten if an exception is thrown?
No. The definition of "undecidable" is that you can't prove it true or false. This means that if P is undecidable then so is not-P. But exactly one of these is true and the other false
Try Norway for size. I live in a rural area and the everyday car is a Land Cruiser - in summer, just about anything goes - but come winter, and big, studded tyres, low range and diff locks all over (well, center and rear in my case) are what gets you from A to B and back.

Anecdotal evidence makes me claim that electronic traction control systems are excellent, but still no match for good ol' manual systems - probably in part because the automagic systems are easily taken for granted, making drivers forget what icy conditions are like - and using the electronic systems to drive faster, not safer.
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Separate motors for front and rear wheels is far less complex than adding more moving parts.

For AWD, you need a driveshaft and a differential. The differential has a lot of parts, there are a lot of bearings that sap power, and it adds a lot of weight.

Using separate electric motors for front and rear instead increases the available power, enables unlimited torque ratios from all-forward to all-rear, and has many fewer moving parts.
Works fine here with no email, no login - not a subscriber.
They have a sign now - no AWD allowed. Super steep road.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xGp5anlXSA
I've often wondered if math would be better with a static type system
Google Play ASO: What Is Average Length of App Description?
https://ohsloth.com/

Ohsloth is an open source copy and paste manager that aims to provide contextual actions based on snippet content.

It is still super early but it definitely could use some design love!
I ran a Minecraft server with myself and friends about two years ago. They were most interested in exploring (and finding neat treasures), so I added mods for new lands, spontaneous adventures, rarer treasures and other places to go.

OTOH, I enjoyed building factories and ever more complicated toys and one friend created art pieces everywhere (we gave him creative mode and some other tools and sent him off).

One girl loved to farm almost exclusively for whatever reason; maybe I should have done something to make it more engaging somehow?

And now I've forgotten my point, but I'm reminded just how different everybody is!
While I don't agree with your characterization of your prior comment (at least as it was written, of course I don't know your intent), I'm sorry you felt my response was hostile; that's not what I meant to convey.
Gas turbines operate efficiently at constant output, which a hybrid-drive system with storage can manage. They only need to kick out enough power, on average, to keep the storage system fully charged. Batteries and eletric motors can handle both high-demand accelleration, and regenerative braking. Since the turbines are running at a very constant range, and can be rated to average out power load inclusive of idle times, they can be designed for optimum efficiency within that range. Or that's the theory.

There've been other gas-turbine automobiles, including some prototypes built in the 1960s. A friend of mine test drove one, claimed it could lay a patch (spin the tires) at highway speeds. Though my understanding is that in direct-drive applications (such as that), turbine lag is an issue.

The exhaust also runs quite hot, and turbines typically emit a lot of NOx (nitrous oxides), what you get when you run atmospheric nitrogen through a high-temperature field.

Much anecdata here, apply salt liberally.
How do we do arithmetic if we can only do movs?

I know! Lookup tables!
https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=cert&fdid=in...

Android 4+ allows you to disable certificates from the system Settings and root isn't required, so try that first if you want to manually mess with the certificates. The app won't work with Android 4+ anyway.

An app to manage security certificates on your phone also containing a version of the Android CACert keystore derived from Mozilla. If a certificate has recently become untrusted you can either install an update to this app or you can backup and remove certificates by yourself.
>The risk is the business uses capital to acquire stock and defend against these attacks which is the right tactical thing to do.

The right tactical thing to do is for the company to manipulate it's own share price, so that after news breaks that they're selling defective products their share price won't go down?

>The real danger though is hackers making secret deals with nefarious hedge funds to attack hard so the company can't defend. Can you imagine if someone made a wide scale assault against a company who's revenue was based purely on its cloud revenue?

That might be 'a' real danger, but what you're describing is already illegal and it also doesn't require a hedge fund, you can just demand money directly from the company because you're already committing a crime.

What happened in this case is that a hedge fund made a deal with a firm that did research into a company's products and found that they were defective, the disclosure and the impact of the disclosure on the share price is the best possible outcome.
That'd be great, but I think the hard part about sharing representations is that many of the proof tools are based on different underlying type theories, which make it hard to go back and forth. For example Coq is based on the calculus of inductive constructions whereas Isabelle is based on HOL. Though, I'm guessing it's possible once a type scheme is fixed. Just poking around briefly, here's an SO question and answer on some of the differences between CIC and HOL (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30152139/what-are-the-st...)
Remember when the internet allowed you to have multiple identities on message boards and so on? It was a really unique time.
"It's possible to do some or all of this in software. Tesla has an ordinary open differential but will apply the brake on an overspeeding wheel. Tesla's all wheel drive system has a separate motor for the front and rear wheels. Power distribution between the two during acceleration is mostly equal, but once speed stabilizes, the rear powertrain takes most of the load. Off-road slip handling doesn't seem to be well documented, but Tesla cars aren't intended for off-roading."

I don't think about this a lot, but I assume that all of the interesting ways to distribute power from a single engine to 1-4 wheels are, all of them, inferior to having a dedicated motor for each.

That is, I assume that no matter how fancy you made your differentials, two motors is better than one and four motors (one for each wheel) is better than two (all else being equal).

Is that correct ? Or is there some scenario(s) wherein mechanical distribution of torque (with differentials) is superior to (again, all else being equal) a dedicated motor on that wheel ?

...

If I try to answer my own question, all I can come up with is:

1. If you have a motor for each wheel, the max output on that wheel is the max output of that motor, and theoretically, you can distribute more than 1/4 of the single engine to that wheel with differentials, so ... maybe that's a very big deal ? Do 4WD vehicles often send 70-80-90% of output to one wheel ?

2. Sending power to a specific wheel via the path of least resistance takes zero time - it's instantaneous - whereas deciding what to do with each of the four wheels (in software, presumably) might have a lag ... although that sort of breaks my "all else being equal" tag, above ...
No, that's the point, I can't without more information. "Network manager not working" is not exactly a good query.
Thanks. But isn't coordinating the motors complex? If the power delivered to the wheels is out of sync for a moment, I would imagine it could be catastrophic, and the system has to deal with variables of turns, traction, acceleration/braking, etc.
http://cropme.ru is a great app for instant screen sharing, still using stock logo. The project is free, used by a lot of people and for sure opensource
If you use gmail and don't pay google for Apps account, you are not their customer, that's the difference. How much does Microsoft charge for its email service?
Some warning signs I have seen:

* conflict between founders

* investors start "suggesting" changes to strategy or stack

* hiring someone external to take over tech team

* instituting some new "system" to improve productivity

* appearance of consultants
The situation in Syria can accurately be described as a proxy war between the CIA and the Pentagon.
Kind of an odd post to see on hacker news. As somewhat of a car buff my take away is that this article gives an adequate high level explanation but leaves out a lot of useful details, especially to anyone evaluating 4WD/AWD vehicles, like the tremendous differences between modern AWD systems.
For anyone interested in turbines and cars, there's a delightful episode of Jay Leno's Garage about a Chrysler turbine car:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2A5ijU3Ivs

He talks extensively about how it works, what it's like to drive, and the various difficulties that resulted in it never entering mass production.
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> (b) hire less qualified developers for roles that do not require deep technical knowledge

Therefore making them perfectly qualified for the job you are giving them?
Can you let me which open source community you prefer? Clearly It's the more welcoming one.
The maximum number of rows in the most recent version is 1,048,576 [0]. I'm deducing then that your data is in wide format. What would happen if you wanted it in long format? It seems you would just be out of luck with Excel, which is not a problem in any other major statistics software.

[0] https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Excel-specification...
I would recommend that you look at SoftLayer, or if you'd like to avoid someone part of a larger company (IBM), SingleHop has also been awesome to work with.
"Advanced manufacturing requires management and communication skills and the ability to operate complex information-based factories" is meaningless consultant jargon. It would have been better to explain exactly what about advanced manufacturing makes it so special that it requires 'management' and 'communication' skills that the managers and workers in non-advanced factories apparently lack. Meanwhile, "ability to operate complex information-based factories" is almost a tautology. Maybe talk about industrial IOT, or what specialized skills are necessary to efficiently operate a factory full of robots, or _something_?
Especially considering that the SF Bay Area wasn't the most expensive housing market in the country at the time.
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"The Art of Short Selling" written by Kathryn Staley in 1997 should be in your book collection. Its been a business model all the way back to the 1850s.

Software engineers are just late to the field, and now are much closer to the mechanisms that affect the market in many different industries.
Having violated this all the time I've been to Hawai'i I can understand why do they do that - for example, if you continue on the road to Hāna/Maui beyond, down to the southern side of Haleakalā the road becomes really dodgy, later turns into gravel and there is no water/gas for xy miles available, so for casual American tourists it might be pretty scary. Also, driving the north-western part of Maui is on a very narrow road over cliffs and fallen rocks (not as bad as parts of Tenerife though). I actually had an encounter on a pretty tall cliff where I was driving Subaru Forrester and some US female celebrity named Kim was driving the opposite way in even a larger car; we drove past each other with smiles in about 1mph to avoid collision and she must have been right on the edge with her car while I was almost scratching the right side rocks. Even Saddle Road between Maunas on the Big Island could be pretty demanding to casual tourists in fog and really slippery when descending down to Hilo in strong rain, which is like always (saw a crash once). There are also some scary roads on Kaua'i and O'ahu. In US it's so much easier to get a driving license than in EU, so your casual drivers are not used to fast and safe driving like in Germany, many off-road segments like in Spain or navigating chaotic situations as in 3rd world countries, and your society is generally on the safe side (even excessively so).
America doesn't need to ship electronics components over to China for manufacturing (into larger products). Those components are already made in Asia, and they have raw materials too.

I believe it really boils down to having a large enough middle class to afford advanced manufactured products. If those products don't require labor to manufacture, then who will earn enough to buy them?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pErRpkvtl-g

Timelapse of IDA-2 Removal from SpaceX Dragon Trunk [94 seconds]
That's probably a difference in suspension/tires/balance rather than drivetrain. With front biased AWD (very common setup) you have to apply power to maintain attitude in a skid, just like FWD.
No growth and/or no progress on getting traction.

Without this, it's only a matter of time.
Slightly off topic, but your comment reminded me of Tarski's paper The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics (http://www.jfsowa.com/logic/tarski.htm) Basically, it's actually kind of hard to define what true means and Tarski goes through a long discussion trying to pin it down.
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haha, good point! But I'm not sure if that's how other people would see it, but touche. :)
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A panel from the Spring 2014 Member Event. Panelists: Mitch Resnick, Marvin Minsky, Alan Kay, and Nicholas Negroponte.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvgef9ABDUc
Ridiculous all around. Had a similar thing happen to one of my EC2 instances on AWS. AWS shut down all outgoing connections, let me know about it, and even gave me time to investigate. It did not affect any other AWS resource I was using at the time. To shut down the whole account? I'm sorry, that's not only insane, stupid, and a huge over reaction, in this industry it's unacceptable. I don't care what Google offers. They can offer an AI that can pass the Turing test for all I care and I still would never trust them as my cloud provider. Ironically, I was looking at them as a target for getting off of AWS. AWS is far, far, far from perfect requiring customer service interaction every few days and suffering bugs too numerous to even document (I tried documenting a couple of months' worth but it was just futile to keep up the record keeping), but it's leaps and bounds ahead of Google's shitty automations.
Thank you for the detailed answer!
The article is by Vivek Wadhwa [1]. One quote, which doesn't quite make sense to me:

"Even though China is graduating far more than 1 million engineers every year, the quality of their education is so poor that they are not employable in technical professions."

Not even one of them is employable?

The author is clearly knowledgeable, so I wonder if this is an editing error.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Wadhwa
Really? SpaceX made it over 90℅ cheaper to launch a rocket into space. That changes economic forces significantly already. Ancient humans walked continents and spread to the whole earth for no clear individual advantage (although perhaps a species advantage). Wanderlust and exploration appears ingrained in our species. It doesn't have to make (short term) sense for us to colonize other planets and stars, we are going to do it anyway. Politics change, technology grows at faster rates and culture will eventually support it. Why not?

We still have to fix our own planet's problems, but we can still colonize others. Some people will work on one and others will work on the other.
I had never heard of plasma pong; here's a youtube link, for anyone else who's curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDjseVmruH8
Refusal to report your private income (surrender your financial privacy) is punishable by prison.

>If your poor, the IRS won't throw you in jail. However, if you have a reasonable source of income, you will be asked to pay your share of the services you're using.

This is false. The government does not ask. The government demands and punishes non-compliance with expropriation of private property and or prison.
This is just normal phase Europe, US, Hong Kong have faced long time ago.

Transformation from product factory to service society.

What the article said about quality of Chinese engineers is unfortunately true, however easter part of China (Shanghai, Jiangsu-province, Beijing, Shenzhen) have tens of millions of excellent quality ones which are comparable with their western counter parts.

What's probably going to happen is that East China is going to keep on advancing and getting rich (and developing to the level of Europe and US) while other parts of the country stay poor.

I'm software engineer based in Helsinki, Finland and Shanghai, China.
Funny seeing The Economist as left wing. Wikipedia has it as "It takes an editorial stance of classical and economic liberalism which is supportive of free trade, globalisation, free immigration and cultural liberalism." Guess it shows how right the right has gotten.
> returning a load of NASA research from the International Space Station

Is it common practice to send down only, say, half of the results, while keeping the other half at the ISS for backup purposes?
Keep Dreaming.

China has made it a national priority to provide better standard of living to their people then the West.

..With rising salaries, labor unrest, environmental devastation and intellectual property theft, China is no longer an attractive place..

How are these things bad ? China has their own class of capitalists now - they no longer need wall street to finance their projects.

China may have bumpy roadblocks - but at the scale they operate - financially, manpower and political will. It sort of doesn't matter. Its like a elephant worrying about what an ant thinks.

Any issue that china faces - they seem to figure out how to overcome it. In the EU we cannot even figure out how to get our currency right - even though modern finance started here. China made all the right decisions when it comes to Keynesian economics.

And sure they have a lot of debt - but the losers are the banks who are lending them money. Who is going to knock on China's door to ask for their money back ?

China can afford to waste 1 million of their own engineers to just beat Airbus. That is the scale at which they operate. Just like how Stalin was able to screw up so many times.

I have meet a lot of Chinese students - and if they were good at English and didn't grew up with the great firewall. Silicon Valley wouldn't prolly exist. Software is the only industry where I have seen American and Indian be better than the Chinese - but its a very anecdotal observation.

You do not have to do a lot of analysis - just listen to a few episodes of Dan Carlin's hardcore history.

For most of history China dominated economically and technologically. Just because Europeans had better war technology ( due to the fact that europeans were do divided ) were we able to dominate for a few hundred years.

We are going back to what normal looks like.

Edit:

I am not some chinese shill, my personal opinion is china should be punished for crushing other countries through unfair trade practices.

The free market doesn't work if there are companies that have the backing of a state with 1.3 billion people !

China would probably dominate even without the massive financial backing of their state banks. But the aggressive nature of their expansion is worrying.

American's are still protected - you should ask the peripheral countries about the effect of the rise of China to their economies ( Vietnam, etc ) why do you think Obama is trying to push the TPP ?

China also worries me because they are showing that democracy doesn't matter, when it comes to wealth creation.
A potentially biasing factor is a factor that you think would be predictive if you included it in the model. If it's actually predictive, you win, your model becomes more accurate and you make more money.

Go read the wikipedia article on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omitted-variable_bias

It's true that as we learn more things we discover new predictive factors. That doesn't make them subjective. A lung cancer model that excludes smoking is not subjective, it's just wrong. And the way to fix the model is to add smoking as a feature and re-run your regression.

Again, would you make the same argument you just made if I said I had an accurate ad-targeting model?
Nitpick: Arch mimics FreeBSD.

Or rather, mimics CRUX, which imitated BSD-style init scripts.
> from a fall in the company's stock price

Under the presupposition that fictionally inflated prices in your 401k are a good thing.

More accurate prices of equities are better for the health of the market. The financial motivation should be the incentive to avoid delaying the inevitable.
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