skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The site doesn't specify directly, but would the communication between Bob (the end-user) and Trent (the trusted entity) be encrypted? If not, why not?

It's always annoyed me how much of a mess DNS is when it comes to confidentiality. Why should my ISP or employer be able to deduce which sites I'm visiting by simply inspecting my UDP datagrams (filtering to port 53) and looking at the plaintext queries? Why was this thought to be a good idea?

In the wider scheme of things, there's far too much trust with many internet services/protocols. I like that NeoDNS provides a public key for the queried service - maybe with a scheme like this we can stop sending hostnames for SNI in plaintext as part of the TLS handshake too. We shouldn't accept these sorts of information leaks anymore, it's been demonstrated too many times in the past that sending things in plaintext is a bad idea.
To be most competitive in today's environment, GE should be broken up into separate companies listed separately on the stock exchange so that management can focus on improving a single (if large) product line.

For example:
1. Jet Engines and electric turbines
2. Railroad locomotives
3. Appliances
4. Medical devices and imaging and all other things medical
5. Lighting.

The market values to shareholders would be higher.

The firms could focus on their one product line and would have to work harder against competition since there will not be cross subsidizes.

The smaller firms could also be more responsive to markets and respond more quickly because there would be less bureaucratic inertia.
> Arthur Rock and Alfred Coyle from Hayden, Stone & Co. became interested in the offer, believing that trainees of a Nobel laureate were destined to succeed.

Perks of pedigree
An Interesting SETI Candidate in Hercules
So, EULAs and TOSes have no meaninful legal effect?
Opensource project pages and most Open Source centric / leaning blogs are good sources for info on these sorts of things.
Euler?
> Tech giants, including Amazon, Cisco, Google, IBM and Microsoft also have their eye on the industrial internet market, as do a bevy of start-ups.

This explains a lot of recent interest in IoT. Big companies like GE saw what happened to companies like Kodak and want to defend their profits. They could be entirely wrong, computing may not turn out add much value in these industries. But GE probably don't want to leave that to chance.
I think I saw something similar in one of the Linux magazines in Barnes and Noble like a couple of years ago. I wonder if they're the same thing. Still a cool project.
I agree with you, actually. I've seen before that upper management can be shown the advantages quickly, and folks at the coal face can be shown the advantages quickly.

People in the middle, whose reckoning includes career prospects and health insurance and worrying about mortgages and where their kids will go to school, tend to lean towards the "never take a risk ever" school of thought.

And a lot of corporate cultures are built on punishment and reward, distributed veto powers and a fondness for finding a neck whenever something goes wrong.

But, again, they are not all the same.
Nowadays, the reason why it broke is either you, or Systemd. But the reason why your system has systemd is that you didn't uninstall it.

Your system might have also broken because you didn't read the RSS feed, which warns of potentially breaking changes.

When in doubt, blame yourself. Or Alan.
I lived in Boston (Inman Sq, Cambridge, later Back Bay, Boston) for 5 years after my undergraduate education. NYC is far, far more interesting and exciting than Boston. As an indirect indicator, NYC draws far more VC than Boston.
@jaltekruse, reach out to me at the email on my profile, I am starting up similar stuff and may have some cross population ideas / leads
Oh cool idea! GatsbyJS definitely needs one. All we've got right now is this crappy thing I throw together in Inkscape :-) https://twitter.com/gatsbyjs

Pitch: "Gatsby is a React.js static site generator. It transforms plain text into dynamic blogs and websites using the latest web technologies."

https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby
That's too easy. Think of a game like Civilization. Granted, it's limited what you can learn from reading the in-game Civopedia, but probably thousands of kids have more awareness and interest in the historical progression of human civilization from playing that game.

And even if it is superficial awareness, those kinds of games exercise the fantasy-making faculties that make history itself interesting to learn about, even later as an adult.

Another example. There was this flop of a game in the early 90s, called SimEarth, that I have very fond memories of. It taught me about the Gaia hypothesis and the carbon cycle and stuff. Gameplay was pretty wacky though.
> Today one of San Ramon’s most important projects is to build a computer operating system, but on an industrial scale ... The project is central to G.E.’s drive to become what Mr. Immelt says will be a “top 10 software company” by 2020.

Does anyone know of such a list that's a genuine reflection of reality?
I really only have one coworker like this. It's more that I get easily distracted myself, so if I have nowhere to hide from distractions I will be affected by them. I don't usually do well listening to music and working at the same time, so headphones don't help either
Apparently, one of the scans is for glyph height. In -nw, your font's monospaced. If emacs is smart enough to drop the check, it should be slightly faster.
There is no need to bring private fields too. Just keep the same visibility rules. The new method would be written inside a user package which would have access only to the public members of the type being dispatched on. That mean that you could only define methods for external structs that make use of their public API.
Or inventing a conspiracy theory around the JFK assassination?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFK_(film)#Critical_reaction
Mann’s inhumanity to Mann
Didn't GE used to do stack ranking review and fire the bottom 10% annually?
netboot.xyz (https://netboot.xyz), uses the iPXE project to network boot Operating System installers and utilities from quick and easy to use menu.

I have no logo today but would love to see what you might be able to come up with.
Seems like it would give a large performance penalty. I don't get it.
Linux Networking Explained
I don't feel qualified to opine on GE's capital allocation record.
Ask HN: Learning a new skill, working full time
Hello HN, I have a decent job, but I also want to develop more skills in programming so that I can start my own business. My job is not good enough for me to hire someone to do it all, and I've been told all the time that an idea is worth nothing. Should I try to learn the skill on my own, or hire a dev to make an alpha version and seek investment from there?
> this is plain distorting of the truth.

In the context of business and many other interests, it's expedient to present a more polite face. You're providing a service, not a mirror. In the context of a search engine service, say, a specialized, domain-specific search for a certain profession, such biases often distract and detract from the quality of the service you provide to your customers.
You can't really lay this at the feet of eurosceptics. No, they don't want the institutions (and they also didn't want the currency), so they fought against them, which is exactly what you are supposed to do in a democracy.

But it was not eurosceptics who ignored Stiglitz and other economists and pushed forward with the implementation of a common currency anyway.
Their description doesn't really match what they do:

"Observatory by Mozilla is a project designed to help developers, system administrators, and security professionals configure their sites safely and securely.
"

All they check is if you have a few security headers and consider that "secure".

There is a LOT more to website security than adding a few extra headers and HTTPS to your site. Even if you get an A, it doesn't mean anything.

To give an example, Google gets a D, CloudFlare a D, Youtube a C+, etc..
It's a joke/demonstration that it is possible, not something you're supposed to use.
Read it here:

https://www.readability.com/articles/zgl0rbkx

If you are using Firefox, you can also just remove the styling by going to

view > pagestyle > No style
Microsoft Pix gives the iPhone camera an artificial brain
I think that's where R stats package (R Project) really shines, I love the command line console that displays every input / action so you have a track record of what you did. Used it for T-tests, linear regression, ANOVA, MANOVA. For those working in biological / environmental science fields, I would definitely recommend it.
Auto union workers don't have a license needed. But yes not nearly as successful as the lawyer or doctor unions.
"I've literally run a startup where I took an opportunity I saw, pitched it to a cofounder, got a single client, cofounder did all the work."

Pretty sure that's why. Also the part where "I told him how to turn the service into a product" is equated with actually doing that work.

Not saying that your contributions weren't important - I wasn't there. Maybe without you getting a client there would've been no business, and maybe your cofounder is super happy with how things turned out, too. But it does read a bit like exploitation, and it definitely raises the question of what things might have looked like if you'd bothered to work as hard as it seems like your cofounder did.

Edit: Also, I think this probably touches a nerve with HN people, many of whom dream of founding their own company and are probably scared of exactly this sort of thing happening to them, but without the happy(?) ending.
The problem with managed funds is that the whole fund market is completely skewed by survivorship bias. Despite all the warnings not to do it, people do value funds based on past performance, and because they do that, fund managers eliminate funds with bad past performance, so the only funds you'll ever see in the market are ones with good past performance, but there's still absolutely zero evidence that any of those funds will perform well in the future, because the actual performance is indistinguishable from random chance.
At a smaller scale, certainly. If you're talking thousands of developers, marketing yourself as a good place to work becomes cheaper than paying well (i.e., actually being a good place to work).
I think it's only for mobile versions of a website:

"To improve the mobile search experience, after January 10, 2017, pages where content is not easily accessible to a user on the transition from the mobile search results may not rank as highly."

They define what is acceptable and not right after. I like the move though !
Yeah I tend to disagree with absolutist positions, and Linus' lawyers are poisonous always position is just wrong. The SFC is more carrot than stick, and the suggestion the only right way to handle license violations is through carrot and honey all of the time is provably false. Stick has its role also, even if ideally, and apparently in practice, it's rarely used. So I think the blanket criticism of the SFC is misplaced.
Yes, but you probably need something more sophisticated than just running the same instruction type over and over again: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2744295.2724718
I concur about missing MXnet, but it's noteworthy that TF is the fastest for the convolutional nets on GPU -- a case many care about, and one covered best by Soumith's benchmarks.
(Full disclosure: I help develop TF part time).

Clearly room for optimizing the CPU versions of things. That may be Eigen. Intel now has a preview out of their DNN toolkit -- I wonder if we'll see the same speed convergence as we did with CuDNN.
I agree. Especially after seeing Aliens vid in another comment. It still would make a nice case for a rugged or military laptop. You see it and immediately know the manufacturer wasn't screwing around. I'd definitely reduce the weight, though. ;)
Sure, it's great in that one metric. But annoying me with the offer to get a bunch of emails I don't want isn't making me like your site.

Even if I was the odd one and nobody else would mind those pop-ups: In the context of multiple experiments showing that a few hundred milliseconds additional page load time have a very real impact on engagement rates it stands to reason that interrupting the user experience with unrelated email sign ups should have a similar effect.
Thanks!

Yeah, we love using threads to keep discussion on track.

It took a long time to design. We weren't able to find anything like it, and had to design through a lot of corner cases.

We're still working on making it more discoverable. Once you use it, it's hard to go back, but it takes a while for people to discover the "Reply" button on messages.
It made me so sad when Firefox switched over to GTK3, and now I'm stuck with their foolish attempt at improving the file browser. For whatever reason by default it tries (and fails) to open a network connection, and they broke the ability to navigate through the filesystem using just the keyboard.
I am going to give her the benefit of the doubt that there was some intended hyperbole and suggest the author was a little silly to put her words under a microscope. I'm also going to put it in the context that success may not mean getting funded, or exiting, but learning and perhaps making it to your next job or startup.

In a world where we focus on headlines and the exception rather than the rule it a good lesson to learn. Primarily, hard work and commitment make all of the difference. Maybe you will succeed without them - the exception. However, understanding and valuing them will give you a lifetime of returns.
Amazon's bar is hugely variable based on the org you interview with.
You could just let the external methods only access public variables. That's exactly what Java let's you do when you extend another class. I agree that private members should stay private.

I wish I could add methods from outside of my package. I currently run into cyclical dependency issues when I try and define something like...

func (g Game) GetPlayers() []Player { ... }

func (p Player) GetGame() Game { ... }

While having Game and Player in separate packages. It's not the end of the world having them in the same package, but the amount of methods does pile up...
4WD vs. AWD. What's the Difference?
I don't think we'll know the answer to the age question for a little while. The number of coders has been growing over time, so the potential pool of seriously older coders (60+ for sake of argument) is already small to start with.

Anecdotally, three very different examples:

my mother (71) stopped coding in 1969

Guido van Rossum (60) is still coding

Darryl Havens (61) is Distinguished Engineer at Amazon - not per se a coding role, but definitely an engineering role
> We've seen that kids are pretty comfortable with the idiom of "Pages."

Hey man! Yes, the pages are a really good idea. Among other things, it seems like a great way of sowing the seeds of structured programming.

Can't wait for the game to be released!
To explain it in yet another way: As long as you maintain your height no energy is used for lift, as energy is equal to force integrated over distance. Like as standing on a table requires no energy ;) However, an airplaine isn't standing on anything and the lift force is generated by pushing air downwards and this is what consumes energy.

A car or a train that drives with a constant velocity has constant kinetic and potential energy (assuming level ground). Therefore all energy that is consumed to maintain the status quo is spent to counteract drag.

A plane however pushes down on air instead of solid ground and accelerates it downwards. So not only does the fuel heat up the system due to drag, some of the energy accelerates quite a chunk of air.

Now you can argue that 'moving air' is nothing else than turbulence that takes a bit longer to dissipate and is therefore just another form of drag ;)
Scribe: A document specification language and its compiler (1980) [pdf]
Well if it was Google or Facebook I certainly wouldn't entertain this thought but with Amazon? They are known to do things that some (not me) regard as pretty shady to shave off costs wherever they can.

I wouldn't object to that as Amazon didn't create the rules, they are just operating within the system in the most efficient way they can.

What I find concerning is that the rules are changed in the West to incentivise part time work (which doesn't pay living wages in other sectors than IT) over full time work, effectively leaving more and more workers dependant on welfare.

It's what we see here in the EU too since the crash in 2008. Many jobs were lost and the recovery was mostly in part time jobs where the government has to support these workers with additional payments in order for them to survive.
More details on specs, pictures, and usage here:

http://www.oldcomputers.net/grid1101.html
nit: the C style example, should use /* These kind of comments */ not // these kind of comments.
The monetization promise and pitfalls of Pokémon Go
India (1.2 B population) has tons of languages and states and is a democracy (each state has more population than many European countries).
In addition to that, I'm frankly not sure that a 10 hour/week (2 hour/day) savings is going to be worth a 25% pay cut to most people.

I'm not saying two hours per day (or an extra weekday or whatever) is entirely trivial, just that one has to be very fastidious and organised to take advantage of it. Even so, the economics of human task-switching and overhead, particularly in high cognitive load professions like software, are such that the marginal utility of two extra hours is going to be low. Life is not a spreadsheet, where one gets home at 3 PM and $ENJOYMENT or $NECESSARY_ERRANDS immediately commence. I'd probably just catch a breather for a few hours, if lucky, or catch up on the traffic from other life stressors gnawing at me.

Is that worth making 25% less? I don't know about that. I suspect most people would just negotiate a "75%" salary that still makes them reasonably happy.
"which would not only bring about a more efficient and frictionless market (I.e. Simple cross-border trade for services and products), but also ultimately elevate the standard of living for all citizens."

But you would have to have a working culture that is similar, which is not the case in the EU. People in Spain don't work like people in France or Germany, their government are different and wanting to have a single fiscal policy is doomed to fail.

Also, the 1 to 5 salary for entry level workers is killing entry level workers in Western Europe, and that's one of the reasons behind so much euroskepticism
Might try OpenRC just as well. I've always liked the NetBSD rcorder-based startup, and OpenRC reminds me of it in some ways. But to be fair, I'm not in a hurry to replace sysv-rc.
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I work on Tasks, a GPLv3 licensed to-do list for Android. It is based on the source code of a popular app that got bought out and shut down a few years ago.

I have no design chops and the app doesn't really have any branding.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.tasks

https://github.com/tasks/tasks
The PBS movie "Silicon Valley" is an excellent documentary that discusses them at length.
Brian Reid won the Association for Computing Machinery's Grace Murray Hopper Award for this in 1982.
To be fair though, a Hollywood-Rasputin connection is still pretty funky.
Your numbers are tautological. Everyone including your straw man vc would take 10% of 100 instead of 0.1% of 1000. 10 > 1, qed, but you don't get any points for that observation.

(yes, there are situations where taking investor capital leads to divergent interests between investors and managing founders. But not gross arithmetic differences.)

Obviously if the expected value of the smaller sized business is greater, you choose that one. The only time these questions (whether to take capital/shoot the moon) is when the expected value of the larger business is greater. So to refactor your example, what about 10% chance at 100, or a 1% chance at 2000? Now you have more of a real question on your hands.

Much more interesting when contemplating whether to go big or stay small is the notion that there are invariant personal "fixed costs" regardless of the size of the opportunity you're pursuing. Meaning, you can overwork yourself and burn out on a $100k/year business as surely as a 100 M/ year business. So if you are going to give something your all, just make sure the expected payoff is worth it.
Webpack's runtime overhead is tiny, babel's varies based on what polyfills you need but very little is included here.

Most of the code here is actually from lodash due to the use of `throttle`, not either of the projects you mentioned.
How does LibreOffice compare?
I've been there. They tried to make it look like all those startups in warehouses in SF, and for the most part succeeded. You see agile boards around, decent kitchens, people hanging out on couches talking work, and some people heads down coding.

The main difference is that they seem to be dressed in a bit more "business casual" than your typical SF startup in a warehouse.
I hear you. But, isn't this just an editor's draft spec? Only Chrome and Android have done any implementation at all. So, as far as I can tell, there's a chance this will never be fully implemented? And, because it's a draft, the spec could change significantly. Is that right?
Its realtime server is Java though.
There is an Excel addin (RExcel) that allows the use of R from within Excel. But it's proprietary.
I'm not a software developer (and don't even live in the US) so apologies if this question is ridiculous: could software developers form a union, er I mean the 'American Software Developers Association'?

Well, the real nuance is that the AMA is not so much a union as a guild. It's not _legal_ to perform medical services without an AMA-blessed licence to practice.

If one could concoct a scheme by which it would be illegal to perform "unlicenced" software engineering work, I suppose there would be the same effect.
Possible Signs of Extraterrestrial Intelligence?
Lies are the lubrication of society; you're lied to anywhere between 9-200 times a day.
Looks like it could be similar to the Wow signal, a brief strong transient that was never re-observed. Hopefully this time, the Allen Telescope Array can keep an eye on it long term.

An issue in SETI is the duty cycle problem. If a transmitter is cycling between targets (an isotropic beacon would require insane amounts of power), the receiver needs to be looking at the transmitter at the right time.
India isn't a particularly good argument for democracy. It might be an argument against it.
Except when it's not, and the answer is the maintainers [1].

[1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=5051... (hit this myself a couple days ago)
It's more a case of not wanting to get sued than wanting a first mover advantage. The idea was not exactly earth-shattering either. Just another piece of plastic in a certain shape, for a medical use. First mover advantage is a business school trope, not something you should have to consider every time you have some minor invention.

And let's not pretend those documents actually disclose anything. They're made for lawyers to read, not engineers.
Because no one is certain it's going to reach that valuation. The expected value (chance times possible value) is presumably what makes up the current valuation.
If there's shady politics involved in this one then perhaps there are additional solutions needed. For another example, there's the cure for Hep C that costs $84,000.
Cool hack. So you had to do multiple laps? It's interesting that dead reckoning actually worked, we had lacquered wooden floor in my house and the slip was quite bad, dead reckoning never worked.
The write-up is really great.