skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a bigger question which was asked in the Economist this week (http://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2016-25-08/spa...), which is can SpaceX create a big enough market where they can realize the savings of reusability? Right now satellites cost more than the price of the rocket, so if you shave off $10 million on a launch that's pretty much a drop in the bucket compared to the overall price.

This isn't to take anything away from SpaceX. It's absolutely amazing what they've done. I only hope that they can open up the market enough for things like asteroid mining and space tourism.
I'm not much of a timeline user but the old design of using the up/down buttons to switch watch faces was obviously not the best use of the primary interface. I'm surprised that is what you enjoyed best about it.

It's hard to be disappointed with Pebble on the software side -- they've continued to make smart solid improvements with each release and backport as much as possible to the older devices. There have been a few missteps but nothing too ridiculous.
If they think it's a good idea to require physical education for the students, why not require it for the faculty?
They'll definitely want to do extensive destructive testing on the first twice-used rocket if they can land it (or maybe put it in a museum and do that on the second)

There is a lot to learn about how the structure reacts to repeated launches (and undoubtedly engineering iterations to improve future models' reusability)
How are those counterexamples? I'm not talking about abstract mathematical geometry, I'm talking about actual physics. A paper that says "just drill infinite holes in a cube" isn't relevant here.
Well, it wasn’t intentional (and I’m female myself anyway), but [long family story omitted] I edited it out.
Where in the east bay are you paying $1400 for a one bedroom??
>Last year we completely re-wrote the Google+ Web app from scratch. Rather than rebuild every nook and cranny that developed over the five year history of Google+, we started with a clean slate of the features people used the most (based on our data & research). We then released this preview version to collect feedback and find out what people missed the most of what we left out.

Proof that Google+ 1.0 was an enormous flop.

https://plus.google.com/+LukeWroblewski/posts/Zcn7bDAwqmm
https://help.uber.com/h/e9302f73-8625-427f-abf7-dbe7ab25af7d
> lot more genuinely nice than most Bay Area folks, too.

I noticed that too. I miss that part of the Midwest as well. I am on the East coast now and here people are too aggressive and competitive, even without an obvious reason to be so. I mean they are still genuine, just genuine in their open hostility so to speak.

They say these are just stereotypes and are not accurate, but I don't know, seem to jive pretty well to what I noticed.
I'm not sure where this title came from - this article seems to indicate there has been no clemency?
Should one need Google access to do a fizz buzz type of programs?
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You are committing the exact generalization of segfaults=bad that I mentioned in the parent comment. Memory safety violations which cause segfaults can often be turned into an actual exploit. That does not mean the same thing as, "If A is a segfault, A can be turned into an exploit."

And it's not better to "explicitly" abort, because you get zero benefit from that. And because testing for null would be slow. (This is why JVM implementations often let it segfault.)
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And there are still those who deny evolution…
Not constantly living in fear of something is not the same thing as being unaware.
I feel like the industry has had a long time to consider both XSS and open redirects, and has come to a pretty firm conclusion on the severity ratings for each of those classes.

I'll sum it up as: "Google is not outside of the mainstream in their assessment."
Something improbable happening doesn't mean something else improbable will. I'm not sure what your point is.
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http://plaintextaccounting.org/
The boilerplate FOAD email they send when they decide to end the conversation is dripping with smart.

Exclamation points! Bummer!
I've known many terrible people who seem to keep winning for decades. If "it" catches up with you, it can sure take its time.
Um, I’m not sure that Poe’s law allows any conclusions. That’s kind of the entire point!
The whole point is that if you are properly testing candidates then it is an open test and there's no point in theoretical tests like fizzbuzz when it is open book. The correct solution to fizzbuzz in an open book test is to search Google for "optimal fizzbuzz solution in language X".

It forces the employer to create a test that is more real world and thus is a closer reflection of the actual work being done at that company.

Unless of course your company is doing alot of real world fizzbuzz.
The bluetooth stack on iOS isn't terribly stable. I used to blame the Pebble for it's disconnects until I discovered that it corresponds with the whole stack going out.

I've never had a problem with my phone locking up and neither has my wife but some people seem to have constant problems and some none at all. Bluetooth has never struck me as a particularly stable technology in general.

Pebble has been working on going full Bluetooth LE and dropping the regular Bluetooth connection. I'm not sure what the progress is on this (or if they abandoned it) but it would probably improve stability and battery life.
By "less than minimum wage", the poster was referring to tipped wage - this is the lower, $2.13 per hour federal minimum which can be paid out to employees who make at least $30 per month in tips.

Since it is expected that tips make up the difference between the tipped minimum wage and the regular minimum wage, yes, tipped employees are actually paid less by their employers than regular minimum wage in the vast majority of cases. This is a large part of why tipping remains in practice - tips effectively subsidize the employer's payroll.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipped_wage_in_the_United_Stat...

A waiter who earns $0 in tips is likely an awful waiter and won't remain employed long. His employer does not want to have to make up the difference on a regular basis.
> Here's hoping there are people on the outside to help him out.

I thought the same thing and wondered whether he had been granted clemency, so I googled a bit and found a page by his sister[1], which at least suggests that he has family that thinks of and cares about him. So hopefully they could help out.

1. https://www.change.org/p/my-brother-was-sentenced-to-life-wi...
Yeah, and WordPress is not outside the mainstream in their views on security either but they're wrong (which is constantly proven by how often WordPress sites get compromised.)

Part of my comment was directed at the fact that the mainstream standards of security for web developers (speaking as one myself) are too low.
I enjoyed the article. I have often thought that any new device should add no net complexity. Preferably it should reduce overall complexity.
Link actually mentioning the clemency: http://liveforlivemusic.com/news/grateful-dead-fan-timothy-t...

How would you even start putting your life back together after been in jail so long? It's unimaginable.
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Fully block all the Facebook network, they have trackers on virtually everything. From ad network (including "free" apps) to all the sites/services in their network (WhatsApp, Instagram)

https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/blob/master/corporatio...
The tools should be minified to reduce their download size and make them run faster (quicker parsing).
The pedantry you're referring to is also sometimes called "rule of law", and it's more beneficial than the expediency of witch trials. I avoid taxes as much as possible, though I admittedly lack the team of lawyers, and everyone who puts money in retirement accounts is also just avoiding taxes.

I hate Walmart for their ruinous development patterns, but I don't fault them for working within the system they're given. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
We need to come up with some new Silicon something for Midwest. Here's a quick guide on all the silicon something's so far...http://chicagoinno.streetwise.co/2015/05/03/silicon-valley-n...
Looks like Theranos just needs to just more knowledgable people...

"The FDA has cleared Zika tests from several other companies since invoking a rule allowing the agency to lower hurdles for new medical products during emergencies."
...or terrestrial interference, or something wrong with the telescope. Without even one other station reporting the signal, it's most likely something local.
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This is a non sequitur.

Also: WordPress is far outside the mainstream of security practice; they are, and have been for coming up on a full decade, a running joke in the field.

Nobody says that about Google.
> I have always considered "You can't have a social life without Facebook" to be pure hyperbole from people who never knew a world without FB.

Oh, don't get me wrong! I don't believe it impossible to have a social life without Facebook, and I hope I don't come across otherwise. But I have found it a great deal harder than seems at all reasonable, quite aside from the fact that it's absurd in the first place to have to develop a new social circle because opting out of Facebook sufficed to estrange me from my old one.
Weird, it worked perfectly for me just now.
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> I just think that they try to make the correct ones with the best of intentions and fail.

There is a saying that goes "the path to hell is paved with good intentions".
Actually, it's not obvious at all. The parent is suggesting that the EU should not adhere tax law as written and should instead attempt to impose it's morality.
In John Doerr's words, "no conflict, no interest."
Well it doesn't matter if you use FB or not.

I bet the patients of the Doctor found themselves through each having her phone number. Hey they both are "friends" with this person maybe they should be friends as well.

This doesn't require for the middle man to have an account. You are inadvertently acting as a conduit for people to connect to one another.

FB likely has a "ghost" account for you anyway that they use to do this connection. So it is like you are using FB in some alternate universe.
A non-vulnerability? I understand how you could call it non-serious if you don't work on user-oriented code or think all users have perfect periferic vision all the time. But how do you explain the purpose for the check that fails any non-google domain then?
There was a project linked to HN in ~December or November of last year about building your own Lisp, which would probably be a terrific jump off point into that, if you're looking for a place to get started.
Letter from Tim Cook about the European Commission's decision on Apple's taxes
Oh I agree that a good CMO is worth the money. But -- and I know this is a silly question since the company under discussion seems to be fraudulent to begin with -- would a good CMO seem like a worthy investment for that small size and early of company, when it comes to showing your books to VCs to convince them to join in the funding?
It's already there in the list, Silicon Prairie.
WordPress is the mainstream of web development. It's not a non-sequitur because you brought up "the mainstream".

If you're saying that you meant the mainstream of security professionals specifically, I'd be interested in what a survey of security professionals had to say about open redirect. For me it's clearly a potential attack vector, and Google's specific implementation is obviously sloppy and lazy. I can't see any security professional worth their salt giving it a pass.

As far as Google not being a running joke, that's true and it's all the more reason it's surprising they are so dismissive of concerns about their way too broad whitelist.
If you'd like to be closer to the East Coast, the Scranton area is beginning to gain traction, as it's very accessible from Boston, New York, and Philadelphia.

Cost of living is rock-bottom (an actual Victorian mansion can be <$500k, and a beautiful rental apartment in one of the uber-trendy small towns such as Pittston can be had for $800/mo), the food is excellent, and there's very easy access to beautiful areas for hiking, biking, and fishing with multiple state parks and campgrounds within a short drive. The healthcare is among the best outside of a major medical center. Public education is generally very high quality, with private high schools, universities, and the medical school essentially free to high-performing or low income students.

Community banks are highly prevalent, and they're very willing to make small business loans to pre-profit companies with sufficient credibility. The area is also remarkably entrepreneurial, to the point where one is lionized for the mere act of forming a company, from a tech startup to a restaurant.

There's also been some solid tech exits, such as Solid Cactus, which was for an undisclosed sum, but they were already raking in annual profit in excess of $2 million.
That's encouraging to hear, thank you.
> Can you explain this further? I struggle to see how you get from "a lot of competition" to "de-facto net neutrality", and how that would continue indefinitely.

Well to paint it as an extreme, if there was so much competition that you could change ISP's within minutes then considering the fact NN is so important to many people there will always be ISP's looking to offer that because people will leave the ISP's that don't.
I'm 20 and know what an 9 volt is. I have also licked one before.

Now if you said 4.5V flat pack lantern batteries, then yes.
I've seen like 1 before, and it was dead.
>> I just meant "serious" in the general sense of the word, like the way that a bullet would in the leg is serious, even though one in the head is more serious."

To continue your analogy more accurately, open redirection is not a gunshot wound, it's a cold.
That would defeat the point of fizzbuzz in the first place. It's to see if they can translate rules into code, to see if they understand the very basics of programming. If they google "optimal fizzbuzz solution in language X" then you're seeing if they can copy and paste code.

There is plenty of room for more open tests, but fizzbuzz doesn't require it.
Mansa Musa can be considered the wealthiest man in history. On a pilgrimage to Mecca he gave gold to the poor everywhere along the way and traded great values of it too. He inadvertently destroyed many economies for a long time with the influx of capital.

Asteroid mining is going to do much the same thing, but the changes will be permanent.

It's not a matter of "if" but "when". Lots of sophisticated technology needs to be developed and the up-front cost is going to be in the billions... but once it's done and regular, lots of economies for materials are going to be shattered.

Satellite programs cost so much _because_ rockets cost so much. You can't justify putting a cheap satellite on an expensive rocket, but as the launch cost goes down, you get to being able to launch cheaper and cheaper satellites.

If SpaceX fails, someone else will succeed. The cat is out of the bag.
> youngest generation of internet users get this.

They get it because in the jungles of many junior high and high schools, anything that can get you bullied will get you bullied, and young people quickly realized that all the accidental oversharing (by themselves or by their parents, elders, etc.) were easily exploited by bullies.

Thus they came to prefer simpler networks with simpler security/sharing models and features (like automatic photo deletion) that respect user privacy.
I feel like at this point we both understand the point I was making and don't need to litigate it further. You can and should feel free to disagree with it, but there's a reason pentesters file open redirects sev:lo.

(XSS is the canonical sev:medium, for what it's worth).
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The text you're quoting is nowhere in this thread...

Look, teacher pay is in control of the government, not the market. And nurse pay and nursing demand has already had demonstrable impact on students' selection of what to study. (You can observe this by looking at the real world.)

Is there a particular hypothesis that you're arguing against? Is it that increasing pay won't attract students to the line of study? Do you disagree with the equation (Teaching Budget) = (Teacher Pay) * (Number Of Teachers) in a material way?

In fact I ... wait a second.

Me: > I proposed increasing their pay,

You: > No, you didn't.

Me (upthread): > let their salaries increase.

Well now, looks like I did. (You can observe this by looking at the real world.)
Doesn't the US defense industry use this phrase as well, even if in PR over marketing?
The federal minimum wage for a food server in the US is $2.13/hr. The employer only has to pay more if their tips don't average out to $7.25 an hour.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipped_wage_in_the_United_St...
Can Kimbal Musk Do for Farms What Elon Has for Cars?
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That's the Atlassian SaaS offering. You could still run it in any cloud yourself and get all the customizations you want.
They would have launched sooner, but public opinion is swayed too much by failure. Engineers and money men don't really care, failure is interesting and valuable. Unfortunately, so is public opinion and support... and every perceived failure has a million armchair rocket scientists shitting on SpaceX because people loove to do that sort of thing... so they have to be unduly careful about it.
This is apparently a FizzBuzz accelerator written in Verilog:

https://gist.github.com/houmei/4649209
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Which conferences do you enjoy attending for your industry and why? What industry are you in?
He unironically asks people to spy less, while working for the most famous spy org in the world? Wow
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I hate them and I have had to make the call to hire/not hire - what is that supposed to say?

The side of hiring I find interesting is more on the behavioral side - many employers don't find enough ways to screen candidates on those grounds, and it is interesting the ways you find candidates filtering themselves out there if you ask the right questions.
>> That would defeat the point of fizzbuzz in the first place.

That's precisely my point.

If your selection process includes fizzbuzz then your selection process is ineffective.
There's a zamboni like floor cleaner that goes and cleans the rows. Since they are assembling the engines not in a clean room, you still have to be worried about small things falling into them.
Not sure which you're referring to, but this is a very digestible overview on PL implementation by HN's very own nostrademons.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_...
It sounded to me like ,,sex proven'' condoms
Those infamous 'carrier weight' LSD laws where the weight of what the single drop of LSD is on counts as part of the drug in calculating the sentencing. And it's not even the dumbest 'war on drugs' law in our arsenal of dumb 'war on drugs' laws.
That's the point. It provides an incentive to cut as evenly as possible.
Were the abusive antics of those children and the hospital staff ever reported to authorities?
I'm not entirely sure if I understood your first paragraph, but it seems like you might have overlooked this quote from the page I linked:

> If an employee's tips combined with the employer's direct wages [...] do not equal the Federal minimum hourly wage, the employer must make up the difference.

In other words, the employer always needs to pay federal hourly minimum age. Paying a waiter less than minimum wage would be breaking the law regardless of what tips they get.

> tipped employees are actually paid less by their employers than regular minimum wage in the vast majority of cases

Edit: OK, I think I understand what you mean. I agree that because most waitstaff receive tips, the amount their employers pay can be less than minimum wage. However the amount that the waitstaff receive is always at least minimum wage.
Lawsuits yo, don't want to go around accusing people of crimes unless you've got lots of free time to spend in court defending said accusations.
> Sure you can.

Where's the source code for that? (I read the paper when it came out, good stuff!)

In my experience, I don't fully trust research results—especially for databases—until they've been replicated in production. Especially on high-performance systems, small changes (oh, we added error handling, or oh, now we're actually calling fsync) can easily drop actual achieved performance 1 or even 2 orders of magnitude. (I'm not saying this is true for the linked paper, just that I'd want to verify the actual achieved performance on my own workloads before I switched to it. I do believe it's possible FWIW, I just haven't seen it in the real world.)

So if there's an LMDB-style codebase out there I can spin up that uses a Bw-tree internally, I'm definitely interested and would love a link. :-)

Also FWIW, what I like about LMDB isn't just the speed, it's the entire architecture. This fall I'm looking into using ScyllaDB for page storage, and storing the meta pages inside CockroachDB, with a user-per-LMDB-environment model. LMDB's essential design makes that (relatively) easy, whereas with, say, RocksDB, not so much (at least for me).
I highly doubt Android Wear will improve on battery life to compete with the Pebbles short of a huge scientific breakthrough.

A full charge of the Pebble Time lasted me 5-6 days.
Some on this thread are saying it's very common for VC trustees to be closely involved in the businesses they fund. But normal VCs must sink or swim as private businesses. In-Q-Tel is a non-profit, kept afloat by the taxpayers.

This setup can easly be a nice channel for powerful people to funnel public money their own way. For one thing, if In-Q-Tel has close links with the CIA, they can steer contracts towards favoured companies.

Even without that, trustees can funnel VC money into businesses and then funnel it out to their own selves. When the business fails, they shrug. Failures happen.

That couldh appen in the private sector too. But even if In-Q-Tel keeps losing money in total, the trustees (who just made nice personal profits) can also shrug and say "this was never a for-profit thing anyway".
I've always been skeptical of these indoor grow operations. If you do the math it's always full of fuzzy assumptions on yields, grower prices or sales.

But with any Musk involved you always wonder about facts not in evidence. Is someone subsidizing this operation whether it be the Musk's, government or a national chain?
I hope people remember that AirBnB spammed Craigslist to grow their user base. Not a great example of ethical behavior, IMHO.
This could be the case. I wasn't able to quickly find market cap information for Ali Baba prior to it's US listing. Every since the Ali Baba IPO, Yahoo!'s stock has closely tracked BABA.
I can do a lot of things, but I'd rather not have to fiddle with my window sizes to workaround broken layout.