skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What would be really useful would be a way for controllers on the ground (not ATCs) or in chase planes to assume control of airliners performing erratically, not responding to calls from ATC, air defense fighters, or their corporate offices. THAT could have averted the Germanwings crash and the 9/11 collisions without the need for highly classified hardware in every airliner."

this comment really resonated with me. we have the tech for this right now, we had it 10 years ago too... remote piloting drones is now a completely day-to-day occurance. you could argue we had it down "well enough" in the 80s even

someone somewhere should be pushing for this. i'd never thought of it before, but now i've seen this comment i'm wondering why we don't have this sort of thing. especially in light of 9/11...
The article mentioned that the project includes formal verification. From a moment scanning Galois' web page: https://galois.com/research-development/software-correctness...
I use wired devices on my desktop, where possible. The fewer batteries going to the landfill, the better. Rechargeable batteries are a real crapshoot, since I'm prone to recharging them overnight, when not in use, thereby shortening their lifespan (and it's a major PITA to figure out which ones suffer from that and which ones don't).
Right, then let me reword, since I used the wrong wording: if you are resident in Canada for tax purposes, wherever you are resident is tax free if you own it. Otherwise - including a single day residency a year - it is taxed.
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As I said above, the "socialism" promised by Hitler was that they should no longer pay for WW1 and since they're a superior race, they're entitled to the labour of Jews, Romas etc. for "free" - that's the "socialism" behind Naziism, just because the words are the same, doesn't mean they're the same thing.

Hitler essentially wanted the superior Germans to do nothing and be provided for by lesser races and I presume that's why you think he was a "socialist", but in reality he was much closer to early U.S. history than to socialist ideology.

> Centralized education, centralized health care, strict gun control laws

More like common sense laws than "socialist" ones if you ask me...

This is what upsets me about the right, they're so easily scammed by random screams of "Big government", "centralised health care", "strict gun control", "centralised education" etc. and the counter is simply "FREEDOM, LOW TAXES, PRIVATE HEALTHCARE, "THE BEST PROVIDER WINS" etc. and I get the appeal, these things sound awesome, but the problem is in the details; the "low taxes" are not for you, they're for Apple, Google, Shell etc. "private healthcare" is not excluded under socialism if you want it and can afford it, it's just that it's not the only option and every citizen has some form of healthcare provided, regardless of their socioeconomic status, just by the virtue of the fact that they're...you know...human.

The people who say it's too expensive ignore how much is spent on the military, (i.e. US military has 800+ overseas military bases, do you really think you need (all) of them?), the fact that US already spends more on healthcare than virtually any other modern nation and despite this it still has the worst quality healthcare of all of them.

"Centralised education" means that creationists in Iowa can't not teach evolution, which I would argue it's a good thing, but again, it's a base, so that everybody gets at least "some" consistent quality of education, it doesn't mean it can't be expanded upon...

> strict gun control laws

Again, more like common sense, than ideology driven, look up gun deaths in the US vs Europe.
If you have a gun in the US you don't actually have an advantage, because everybody else is armed as well, i.e. it's basically as if you didn't have one, but with greater risks of getting shot.
That's kind of a narrow view. There's nothing preventing you from continuing to sell your software directly, and just about any other retailer/publisher will take a similar share of your revenue.

The upshot is that by putting your software in the Windows store, there is a chance that you will gain new users that would have never found your product otherwise. It also removes some of your overhead considering that Microsoft hosts the software themselves, handling payment, storage, and bandwidth for you.
(Someone has downvoted you, wasn't me)

In re malware and walled gardens, I certainly don't have a solution, but I've been writing a chart of the extent of the problem: https://github.com/pjc50/pjc50.github.io/blob/master/pentagr...
> I don't think you know anything about the cause and effect relationship considering you have no idea who I am let alone what is wrong with me knee.

Why are you getting aggressive? You have your opinion, I have my opinion, no need to snap.

> People are different, bodies are different

Ok, I agree. But why do you then generalize yourself few sentences before and tell us that '20-30 miles a week is nothing' and treating everybody the same? I think, I was more differentiating, I said 20-30 miles/week for a long period is already too much for the majority—not for all.

> I wore down cartilage in my knee while running through pain I had been having for a while

Ok, doesn't really make your stance better. Who says that every other runner is so wise and stops running while having a pain? Maybe most of them do the same mistake like you did? Maybe they just want to win, just want to outperform other runners, just fear loosing or just want to prove themselves that they can run more than last week—all while slowly crushing their knees. And maybe it's the dynamics or game mechanics of running itself—it's not that easy to stop.

Sorry, but the cause-effect-relationship is getting even clearer with your last comment. Extensive running can get quickly dangerous and the problem is that the runner might realize this too late.
Today, I talk with my friends in Alibaba Group, we all think the company does the wrong decision. The company stunts our personal growth. Most people decide to change a new job.
Due to my age I thought back to my childhood. When we didn't have internet. My first thought was: they use the Commodore as it is? :)
Do you remember Alibaba has fired 3 engineers last year?
Lies, damned lies, and statistics [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statist...
I'd echo this, and while this may sound curmudgeonly, too many people either want easy solutions or have shiny new object syndrome. These traits often flourish in the software industry because newly available "solutions" present themselves faster than any one person can even learn their names.

To use an analogy, I refuse to believe the roads would be safer with a bunch of drivers all learning while they go.
Even "rich people" don't like to take a 10% hit every year on their estate though. 2% is much less of a burden, especially in a bubbly market where the paper value rises by way more than that yearly.

The vacant home issue is prevalent in nearly every large city in the world and it has a vast social cost. If you don't want to suppress it through tax (force them to live there, sell, or subsidize the locals by paying extortionate tax), another way would be facilitating squatting of empty property.

When you do that, you actually have charities that specialize in "opening up" unoccupied spaces and setting them up for homeless people to live there. I actually like the way we do it in France where if you stay there for a couple of days you are legally an inhabitant so it takes up to a years worth of legal proceedings to expel you.
I love this. How did you generate it?
Drugs: NNT number and why medicines are apparently a scam
I therefore suggest a corollary:

"When Battridge's law does not apply, you can safely answer the headline with It depends".
Ask HN: Pricing dead zone: 300$-3000$
Recently, we launched a product with the following pricing: Free, 500$/m, 1000$/m, Enterprise (more info http://rolepoint.io/price.html)

I read somewhere there is very little software products in range 300$-3000$. It's too expensive to use a credit card, too cheap for enterprise sales. I think it was Joel Spolsky's comment to some article. I can't find it, because probably I'm using an incorrect term.

Can someone provide some resources?
There's NextGlass that's here in Wilmington NC. I think they're using machine learning to figure out how your brew really tastes. https://nextglass.co
>Do you speak Chinese? I doubt you know what you are talking about, because IMHO complex semantics are hardly possible without syntax.

I speak Chinese and have studied Japanese and Korean. As another poster mentioned - I was more referring to the fact that it is uncommon to find children consciously learning explicit syntax and grammar on a technical level. How many 5-10 year olds do you know who consciously are aware of the concept of declination, conjugation or subjunctive forms beyond using them?

>If you imply that Chinese are in general incapable of ideas as complex as American's, only because of the language, that would be perceived as a slur. Can you substantiate your claim?
This was not a slur on children from various nations. My observations are not judgemental --in case the language suggested so-- and my understanding of their underpinning causes are largely socioeconomic: it cannot be argued that most Western countries have had a great head start over Asia in the past 50-100 years and if anything, Asia should be lauded for the incredible catch-up they've achieved in such a short time-frame.

As an aside, I've been educated in 8 languages and have had at least 20 language teachers. In East-Asian languages rote-learning and pattern matching were encouraged for much longer than in other languages. For example, copying characters (pure rote learning) is encouraged until a far later stage in language proficiency than alphabet-based languages (where learning to spell has been acquired).

EDIT: As another example, I also recall Chinese-nationals preparing for SATs literally sitting down with a dictionary and learning 300 (or was it 3000 :S) words a day. This doesn't strike me as particularly efficient (I could be wrong, maybe they came up with useful games to memorise the words) and yet the practice was pretty commonplace.

Whether this is a cultural phenomenon or due to the nature of the language is what I can't ascertain; it feels a bit chicken-egg to me.

It could be that my personal experiences are completely unrepresentative, but I'm pretty confident that this is not the case.
If that is considered valid, then let's also apply that broad sentence to a ton of other companies out there (Google, Apple). There's huge value to them open sourcing the things they have without giving away their core software.

The problem I see with OSS folks is that they think if a company isn't all in, they are corrupt. This polarized view doesn't work in the real world.

At some point, some of us engineers like making money, we do need a place to live and eat after all.
Not sure if this helps, but trying to learn Angular2 I wrote a weather app with it using RC5. It is not the cleanest and I never used Angular 1 so I can't do a comparison.

https://github.com/mattsmithdev/weathercard.angular2
so the unspoken thing seems to be that they kept the same JVM arguments as java 7 and that caused problems in java 8? and they had a JVM argument that was setting a value to the same as the default?
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I don't understand the innovation that makes it possible, but Aurochs Brewing has a gluten-free beer that's actually tasty.

http://www.aurochsbrewing.com/
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Over the years I've seen many more unmaintainable atrocities caused by diligent adherence to these principles than I ever have because of ignorance of them.

All the horrid Java libraries that we hated working with 10 years ago were created because of slavish devotion to the single responsibility principle, short methods, DRY, and testability. The absolute worst codebases I've ever seen sprung from an overaggressive concern for extensibility.

I do agree with the guiding principle, that when you're writing code, it should be written for other people to read and work with. But sometimes that actually does mean that a class should represent an object that does more than one thing, and you shouldn't fight it. Sometimes a gritty algorithm really does make the most sense if it's laid out as a 40 line function in one place rather than spread across 5 different classes so each part is independently swappable and testable. Sometimes you really don't need extensibility, you know that up-front, and building it in just pisses off everyone that ever has to touch your code because now they have to go through five or six "Find implementing classes" dances to find the actual code that runs when your interface methods (of which, of course, there's only a single implementation) are called. Don't even get me started on abuses of dependency injection when it's not necessary...

Part of me is glad that these concepts are so commonly discussed, because they really are good things to consider, and can make code much tidier and easier to work with in the best case. But it takes a lot of experience to know when and where you should and shouldn't follow these "rules", and it tends to be much easier to unwind a novice's spaghetti code and tidy it up than it is to pick apart a poorly conceived tangle of abstraction and put it back together in a way that makes sense.
This is not a past mistake, racketeering against Linux and Android using their patents is still ongoing today.
https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/bierkeller-beer-cellar/id104... is definitely worth a look :)
So my thunderbolt ports are:

* One port dedicated to a monitor
* The second has to do double duty, swapping between ethernet ports and another monitor as needed.

I also have a USB->DVI adapter (https://www.engadget.com/2013/05/11/kensington-usb-3-0-multi...) when I need both the monitor and the ethernet port, but it's crappy. (Flickering cursor, occasionally cutting out, some applications like IntelliJ and Sublime Text have issues rendering on that monitor)
Surely you know that 3.0.0-rc.7 was deprecated in favor of 3.0.0-rc386, right?

:-p
Doesn't App-V / Desktop Bridge provide exactly this sandbox?

If the resulting file can be distributed outside the Windows app store, the developer can avoid the appstore tax and retain access to a direct customer billing relationship. If signing of the sandboxed-app-installer is required, $100/year (or other tolerable fixed cost) is still better than a 30% tax on every sale.
> In general GPL creates a lot of problems to which GPL supporters just plug their ears and mantra "if you were truly free you wouldn't have those problems".

I'm not plugging my ears. I recognize it, and it's terribly unfortunate that one would ever be in such a situation, but the idea there is that the GPL would encourage the liberation of other code, and other platforms. Here's an example:

http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/clisp/clisp/doc/Why-CLISP-is-under-GPL

Now, you're talking about a broader issue than liberating a single program. But enough useful GPL'd software might sway larger systems.

Otherwise, if modifying free software and in doing so making your modified program proprietary means that it can't be used at all, then that is the intent.
Programmers in this company do not have no dignity,who are willing to serve the company?
Couldn't they have ported to WPF with a lot less effort?
"The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13497021
is a recent, excellent, balanced, well-researched and -written book on this topic from Nick Harkaway -- a first-rate, under-read author of literary sci-fi. It's his first and only work of non-fiction. In my experience, it's common for "us" (speaking to the HN core demographic constituency here, i.e. the educated, privileged, connected and technology-empowered) to be too hasty in dismissing potentially valid criticism or objections from "them", presuming (and reinforcing) a binary choice between polar worldviews. IOW, "progressives vs luddites". IMHO reality will always be subtler than that. Harkaway -- though obviously writing as one of "us" -- examines a broad spectrum of perspectives and maintains a rare degree of objectivity in his analysis of the cultural impact of what are undeniably profound changes in humanity's interconnectedness and technology-driven capabilities. I offer no particular "TLDR" summary of the work, other than to say it reminded me there is more insight to be gleaned when we resist the temptation to divide the world into simplistic categories.
Animated GIF is a bit misleading, complete video shows a car in front moving out of the lane at the very last moment.
Report: Trump Wants Thiel on Supreme Court
I don't think the housing shortage will be fixed with tweaks to rental laws. Most of France happens in Paris (jobs, culture, …) and Paris has not kept up with the pace.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Croissan...

If you look at this plot you will see that the metro area has grown a lot, while the boundaries of the city haven't moved since 1860. There are various incentives in living in the city proper as opposed to one of the neighboring counties.

This is horizontal growth. Vertical growth has been forbidden for a while now as there are very tight laws about how tall new buildings can be and whether old buildings can be torn down.

Without relaxing at least one of these two constraints regulations on rent are going to do very little.
That's a good question. I can easily foresee someone inventing a "vapable" alcohol solution that could be revolutionary ;)

For now, most of the capital is being allocated to distribution. "Uber for liquor" 1-Hour delivery model:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/10/the-new-age-of-alcohol/
They should do this in London, but unfortunately our officials rarely seem to give a shit in the face of foreign money.
Pulling 50 miles a week currently and plan on putting 10 more to that number.

I do it because my sanity needs it. Been through a very painful heartbreak after having the guts to fall in love again. Now back to square one again. But I want to get better and love again. and again.
So what exactly is it? No explanation on Github. Based on the first comment here it seems to be a javascript library of some kind, but nothing on what it does or should be used for.
CrunchBase [0] puts the number between 100 and 250.

[0] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/docker#/entity
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Wouldn't this make it easy for people to convert other peoples applications and upload them to the store? Especially if you don't need access to the code.

I wonder what barriers MS has in place to prevent that sort of piracy?
Knowledge Debt
https://www.picobrew.com/ makes a good platform/product.
> Maybe I'm in the minority but I prefer keeping my GNU/Linux and Windows installations separate, with each OS on its own drive.

Consider full disk encryption on the GNU/Linux drive as well, since Windows can still access the disk.
Older dude here. I've been running 30-40 miles a week for 20+ years, with no negative effect on my knees. Majority of people in my running group (some of whom are even older) fall into the same category: long-distance runners, minimal wear-and-tear. Obviously not everybody experiences 'payback' for a life of running; in fact, I'd argue a significant percentage of runners don't experience crippling side-effects over the course of their lifetimes.
Countdown to launch of Tiangong-2
Any good reason they have not published via npm?
And people who live next door, too. There's a pretty massive difference in standard of living when you can actually know/befriend your neighbors, vs when they change all the time.
Or, asserting their legal right to protect their investment in R&D that latecomers like Linux and Android simply ripped off. Just a matter of perspective, really. Is just that given open source is the dominant religion around these parts, that perspective is in the minority.
> I don't know why this is buried

Because it is the typical anti-M$ conspiracy theory. It blames on "evil" what it can't understand.

Win32 is not insecure because they wanted to sell security. It is what it is because that's what made sense at the time, before Internet and viruses appeared, memory was restrained and virtualization and sandboxing were obscure techniques and processing power and memory were severely constrained.

The "could have been done decades ago" is not that simple. One way or the other it should imply in limiting direct access to resources by programmers. And, giving how big the Win32 ecosystem became, that's more political than technical.
A least two. There was a third I had read about, but I don't remember the source

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/business/fatal-tesla-cr...

I'd also argue that there is a difference between incident and fatality. Incidents are also bad - even if they're not fatal.
Yup mine too, one grain of sand is all it seems to take. You could follow the path the single grain must have taken during a single commute. When the macbook is charging, a bit of static charge seems to build up on the screen, which can attract and hold small particles.

Why did I get downvoted for this by the way?
After click the buy button, the system will create an unpayed order and will not jump to the payment page for payment.
So if click many times in a second, it still will create so many orders.
As a citizen watching those in charge, it feels more like I'm the embarrassed child at a bbq watching our drunk dad slur something racist about the neighbours, take a swing at his brother in law for something he misheard, trip over his thongs and spill beer all over his pants.
Microsoft also has:

https://github.com/azure

https://github.com/OfficeDev

https://github.com/mspnp

https://github.com/dotnet

https://github.com/aspnet

https://github.com/powershell

https://github.com/nuget - not sure this counts

plus probable another 100 i'm not aware of.
OK. I was going by this - https://petewarden.com/2016/05/03/how-to-quantize-neural-net...

I haven't seen 8bit training implemented in any (public) frameworks yet - that's not to say it's not possible. If it works then that's great, especially for specialised hardware.
See, it's not about hard coding such behavior. I would say that it reaches human level of understanding if it automatically learns these ways of solving the problem. Asking relevant questions can be hard coded, but it doesn't equal "understanding" the problem.

I think the chinese room experiment overlooks this part of "understanding"
Clean code isn't always the most efficient code, but I think that's fine. Many times in my career I've found that you don't always need the most optimal, efficient, and performant solution to get the job done, and that sometimes you need to sacrifice those attributes for clear, readable, understandable code. Good architecture usually supercedes speed of individual algorithms. Hence why you see almost every major language under the sun has been used at scale.

I remember when looking into neural nets, the basic python code to get one running was super easy for me to understand. However, I also realize that the optimal, most efficient methods of neural network libraries are way more complicated (and for good reason).
> It just means using some API's that aren't available unless your app is well behaved. No admin access is the big one. Don't write to \Windows or Program Files. That kind of thing.

Does this also include "allocate executable memory" (you need this if you write a JIT compiler)?
A quick napkin calculation. Capital returns on houses are about 4-5%, and I'm guessing income tax is about 20-30%. So if you convert this income tex to a capital tax you get 0.8-1.5%. So I guess you're right in saying that 2% is not gonna be a big deterrent when compared with the kind of tax you'd pay on income from that.
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