skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most interesting narrative is from Jerry Pournelle, who points out that part of bankrupting of the USSR was their outfitting the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) with 3 complete armies of mechanized equipment, from trucks to tanks (this kind of army: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_army).

One was used up piecemeal. One was stomped flat by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and the air support provided by us (one of the first big uses of precision guided bombs), with 40,000 of it's 150,000 men counting themselves lucky to get back to the North sans equipment. And of course the third, using more armor than any WWII battle, finally succeeded when the Democrats used Nixon's Watergate infirmity to defund the South, not much a solider can do when he has less than a basic load of ammo and one grenade.

That, plus of course the general screwed up economy, lots of direct Reagan economic warfare and sabotage (e.g. those natural gas pumping turbines), supporting the Mujahideen (still cheap at the price), and the potential of our negating their entire $$$$$$ Strategic Rocket Force's inventory if we built out SDI, prompted their leadership to drastically change course. And in a way pretty much no one predicted, they failed but in a mostly peaceful way, no WWIII needed to end the Protracted Conflict.

Pournelle was a player in this in the '70s or so as a strategic "think tank" guy (worst thing the DoD asked him (and I assume his people) to evaluate was a proposal to flood the Midwest and hide subs in the resultant lake (I kid you not, and I've heard of this insane scheme independently)), then helping to get SDI launched in the Reagan administration.

Of course, the simplest narrative is that Reagan was the first US president who decided to end, rather than "contain", the USSR.
On my side, it calmed down because people criticized call-out culture.[1] How does one criticize reflexive fury toward social justice activism without being lumped in with the "warriors"?

[1] For example: http://everydayfeminism.com/2016/05/call-out-accountability/
c) People assume IBM is dumb, and incompetent. We can rest easy, knowing that they will never be involved in a dystopian nightmare. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
A LinkedIn that's not super awkward to use wrt personal relationships.
Anything similar for macOS?
Would it be a bad idea for Twitter to charge a small yearly fee for use? The reason why I think this might work is because some users are very loyal and might not mind spending $20/year for an advertisement free Twitter service. They have about 350 million users, according to a comment here, and if 50 million users would stay, that would be $100 million revenue per year, and with many fewer users, their cost of doing business would be reduced, but with reduced network effects the service would not be as valuable for users. I like Twitter and I would pay $20/year in return for no promoted tweets.
Ah. That may go down in history as one of the biggest big-company R&D management failures since Xerox couldn't figure out what to do with PARC. That would explain overpaying for Cruise - top management doesn't have to explain that failure to stockholders.
Personally I think Lombok should be mainlined at some point. It's just so perfect in everything I've tried.
Ask HN: What to include in a code of ethics for tech recruiters/hiring managers?
I was recently burned pretty hard by a company that I interviewed with. After completing two at home coding challenges (one of which required me to learn all of Django), multiple phone screenings, and going through an in person interview in their small, dirty, non-climate controlled office on the hottest day of the year, they didn't even bother to call me up to tell me I didn't get the job. And when I anonymously complained about their awful hiring practices on Glassdoor, they threatened to sue me. Sadly, this hasn't even been my worst interview experience, and I know many others who have gone through similarly terrible processes.

It's time that we as engineers create a code of ethics for technical recruiters and hiring managers and refuse to interview with companies that do not publicly endorse it, as well as hold those that do accountable. Hiring in this industry doesn't have to be as broken as it currently is. This likely won't make it perfect, but it should go a long way towards reducing the amount of wasted time and frustration people--particularly for those at the junior level--must endure in order to get a job.

So I ask you all, what should be included in a code of ethics for technical recruiters and hiring managers?
> No, a restraining order is issued when someone is performing actions that, taken individually, are legal - recording a link between an SSID and a street address, knocking on an ex-girlfriends door to ask them to talk to you, photographing a child - but when carried out systematically, constitute a pattern of behaviour that is undesirable, and by virtue of the order becomes illegal.

The subset of restraining orders (sometimes called "protective" orders) you are thinking of are available when something illegal has been done, and relate to patterns of activity related to that illegal thing. For California, there are several kinds [0] of such orders:

(1) Domestic Violence Restraining Order: available if someone close to you in specific ways defined in law has abused you in specific ways defined in law as acts of domestic violence.

(2) Elder or Dependent Adult Abuse Restraining Order: available if you are elderly or disabled and have been a victim of certain kinds of abuse.

(3) Civil Harassment Restraining Order: available if you are being harassed or stalked, etc., by someone not close enough to be covered by a domestic violence restraining order.

(4) Workplace Violence Restraining Order: available to an employer to protect an employee that has been a victim of stalking, harassment, violence, or serious threats.

Now, yes, they sometimes cover acts which would not otherwise be illegal, but they actual require something illegal to have happened as their basis (a temporary restraining order can be issued on the claim that such a thing has occurred, and a permanent restraining order only after a hearing to determine that.)

[0] http://www.courts.ca.gov/1260.htm
A stack for building web applications in the browser. HTML and CSS are pretty good for documents, but terrible for in-browser GUI apps that we're all building, its just piles of hacks upon hacks.

I want someone, probably Google since they own both a major browser and some of the most popular web applications, to re-invent the entire stack. Steal ideas from GUI-focused languages and toolkits, like QML, Swift, AppKit, etc. Lets pull in a superior scripting language like Lua and widget-layout framework like Qt, and support it natively and securely in the browser, building on everything we've learned in the last 20 years of creating web applications.
A friend recently started working for a company that builds the app pairade. It supposedly does that. Maybe you should check it out.

Disclaimer: I have never used it.
Bathroom Mutiyapa – Your Pee Your Choice
Interesting. I can look in the corporate address book, and we've got people in Burlington, Ontario who have titles like "SW Quality Engineer" and "Group Leader-SW Engineer". I wonder if that means that they can't put their official titles onto business cards.

Coming from a US perspective, I feel like "engineer" on its own is a descriptive word. "Professional Engineer" is a trademarked title, and that seems reasonable. Do I have certification as a PE? No. Do I think it's reasonable to describe what I do as software engineering? Yes. To me, it implies that I take part in planning, designing, implementing, supporting, and retiring software. "Programmer" connotes that I took someone else's design, wrote to that spec, and handed the results off to someone else, rather than taking part in the entire lifecycle.
Isn't that the idea behind Google+?
Musk is the new Jobs on HN. His company is beyond failure for he is a holy figure to be worshipped and everything his company does is not the result of the employees, but of his blessing and ability.
Geez. People these days don't seem to understand a simple fact.

You cannot control events that happen to you, but you can control how you react to them.

I sadly clicked through to the article where the millennial walked out of the talk. What a histrionic, self-absorbed rant that was.
Actually myself and a co-conspirator are in the process of building this.

Email is in my profile, if you'd like to be apart of the alpha once we get there.
The helium isn't "cryogenic" the LOX is, Oxygen is liquid at 182.9c, SpaceX cools it down to ~-206c when they load their fuel in cryogenic mode.

Helium boils at -268.9c, basically when liquid helium meets liquid oxygen it boils and expands to 757 times it's volume, which means boom.
Yes. NASA is drastically different from an academic institution and the difference in administrative culture alone allows it to be a more effective multidisciplinary research organization working on everything from pure science to industrial ready technologies. For example, Black and Decker developed the first cordless vacuum after their engineers got an idea while working on cordless drills with NASA in the same research center where they were working on Apollo 11+ and photovoltaics. Universities are simply not made for this purpose, since they focus on basic research and education.

Furthermore, much of NASA's success is due to the mix of scientists from different fields, universities, and business working on one problem. When the best of the best come together, it results in a cross polinatiom of ideas. It's not just being in the same building or sharing a cafeteria while working on disparate grants, but a day to day sharing of knowledge to tackle a single problem.
Just heating the lens would probably help a lot.
Its amazing how many parallels I can see in some software houses I've worked at.

Scope creep, unclear prioritisation, poor roadmap breakdown, hero cultures. Its not an unusual situation at all, but it is unusual to be in such a public facing position, and to be able to grow to such a size without a product for sale.

Its like a tech bubble running inside its very own organisation.
Our brain does non-trivial but deterministic visual processing. When you ask a surgeon after performing an eye surgery, they often mention that their patients see the world like through camera/with computer game perspective projection (pinhole model etc., the usual "wrong" projection used nowadays). After their eyes heal, vision returns back to normal (i.e. you don't see curved walls like in a camera but they are nicely straightened for you by your brain). Moon effect might be based on some of this processing; it seems horizon might play a larger role in our vision.
Instead of building, strengthen the independent pipe which is responsible for flowing the data/information across the Internet. I am talking about RSS. I wish more technical and policy people would consider supporting, or reviving, the RSS. RSS is practically not owned by anyone (like how email flows from one platform to another without ownership restrictions). The modern API world has proliferated silos and boundaries, which is ridiculous.
Rain-x works very well. I had the same issue.
It's true, a working linux desktop system is pretty complicated and somewhat inelegant. But somehow, the more popular competitors are even more inefficient. They spawn and exec processes slower, context switch slower, you can't run a minimal desktop environment on them, only the huge default one. ("min-win" being the minor exception here.)

You can make a 50 MB bootable live USB with a minimal graphical desktop and a minimal web browser, based on linux. No such chance in less than a few gigabytes with the more popular alternatives.

The bloat of actual linux distributions and desktops is mostly down to user demand.
A good open source alternative to Google Apps. Secure by default, amazing UI, spam filtering and tools that will configure the thing properly so not to get blacklisted.
Man, I'm just really bad at git.
Bing tried this - they offered users cash for searching on Bing and buying things.

What resulted is that everybody searched on Google to find the thing they were interested in, then searched for that specific item on Bing, collected the cash, and quickly went back to Google. You don't change habits with a dollar or even $29, and consumer habits are immensely valuable.
To whom is the implementation of a generational, concurrent GC obvious? It requires a lot of compiler infrastructure and complex runtime support, much more than stack unwinding. I'm not a fan of, say C#'s, exception model, but it's far from the complexity of features Go already has in either implementation or programmer understanding.

On top of that, unwinding isn't the only way to get something where errors have to be handled or the program dies. Look at Swift's error handling for example: it's basically sugar over returned errors with correctness checks. Dead simple implementation, and dead simple to explain to users.

What I don't buy about the justifications for Go's design is that they were driven by the pure guiding hand of simplicity. It looks more to me like the designers simply treated language features they had seen done badly before as anathema and didn't try to think about how the mistakes could be corrected.
I just kept thinking my memory was poor since I knew the distance didn't change that much.
Simple, user-serviceable appliances.

Not a fridge with an UHD screen, not a washer with Bluetooth support, not a toaster that talks to the cloud.

Just functional appliances with a level of efficiency that existed 25-30 years ago and can be repaired, rather than thrown away because subcomponents are sealed black boxes with little regard to durability.

And after that, the really hard work: doing the same with printers.
First link seems to be irrelevant since it only covers drug addiction that can be treated as mental disease, but other potential crimes can not. Second article shows reduction of violence in or after the jail, not reduction of violence per se. You cannot forcibly cure not-yet-guilty with that, and they aren't guilty until commit a crime. But it is great method on its own.
Even more far fetched, someone shorting a large amount of SpaceX stock. That would make for a decent movie plot though.
The incumbent sports organizations will fight you all the way. I wouldn't count on getting the express written consent of Major League Baseball, put it that way.

Probably the best strategy is to give people an incentive -- even if only a social one -- to enter and maintain the data. WikiSports, basically.
How about Dart + Polymer?
Wait fb is losing money? Sorry I couldn't parse that correctly.
Articles like this are so obnoxious.

When the government calls it "Open Data" (ie. https://nycopendata.socrata.com, https://data.ny.gov) it's lauded as an inspirational embracing of transparency and seen as just awesome. When the government uses it to make itself more efficient and effective, there's this implication that something nefarious is going on.

If you want to be offended by government software purchases, check out the POs for Oracle Enterprise whatever or the IBM Passport Advantage agreement that NYC has issued in the last year. Chances are, the city doesn't even know wtf half of the products they license are!
If there was a billion dollar company to build on this premise, someone would have. In practice, users don't care about having to install five different messengers and not using their own clients.
It was this (hn:kefka) account when I posted the data about the Myo. I posted it multiple times, with the word "Thalmic" in there. All were killed instantly on creation. A few minutes could pass, and a user-based flag kill would be understandable.

In my experiences, instant decisions like that are results of a script. Obvious assumptions were that it was HN's script, protecting HN's assets.

You've got one heck of a community here. I try to positively add... But I know we don't see eye-to-eye on quite many things.
Are you looking for/interested in partners to help do the work?
I'm sorry, but I disagree. If someone refuses to bake a cake for gay people, I agree that is well within their rights. It is also my right to not buy a cake from them.

This is not a bullying tactic, this is people exercising the same freedoms that Palmer is by having and supporting his views.
What happened to Venus is a pretty good motivator for sustainability and limiting global warming, no?

How about the Earth-observing satellites that are monitoring key environmental variables (http://oco2.jpl.nasa.gov), or the exoplanet spectroscopy studies that will see how common different atmospheres are (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/habex/) ?
I found the 2010 technical talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7JQ7Rpwn2k

And the 2nd 2013 talk https://youtu.be/Bte_GHuxUGc?t=400
Now to set this up to discredit the big issues of the day...
The capacity error is fixable by using hdparm to secure erase the drive which as a side effect restores it’s original capacity.

You still lose all your data though :(
Think of how many prerequisite advancements are needed for deploying GPS. Now task a team with developing only GPS but not anything that might enable safer launches or better solar cells in space. They eventually develop a GPS solution but in order for it to be as good as what we got they would need to be part of a group full of interdisciplinary teams that would look allot like NASA.

Or if you prefer a programming analogy, what if all software teams only built what they were explicitly tasked for and could not collaborate on the tools used. Managers _might_ get their deliverables faster but I suspect by not developing tools incidentally we leave out future productivity gains.
Do you hang out in #HighAltitude or am I experiencing the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon?
Buy gold, they say – but how do you sell it? (2013)
SpaceX isn't publically traded IIRC, so shorting the stock isn't really possible.
Academia's primary product is credentialing, not knowledge. If knowledge were the product they would bill for knowledge, but they don't, they bill for credentials.
I think that history has proven that being open source does not render you immune from bugs and security holes.
The Israeli government approved the sale, they could've said no if they wanted too.

If some one doesn't want Israel to transfer satellite technology to China it's not really the Israeli government.

Also Spacecom is just a satellite operator, the satellite was built by IAI and other contractors, IAI is a state owned corporation which builds Israel's satellites and space launch vehicles.

For the most part Spacecom doesn't have anything of real worth the transfer (other than their commercial operations), they do not operate Israel's military satellites they do not even operate Israel's commercial dual-use earth observing satellites.
~60 simultaneous readers while at #13 front page, with 23 points, 2 hours old on a Friday.

Just a personal record.
Thank you for responding to my confusion with this excellent article. It is intriguing to me that increased information on pricing and availability through the Internet has already eroded some of the benefits of dealership regulation. Perhaps they are a dying breed even with protective regulation that at least in the past proved mutually beneficial for automakers and dealerships.
I think we're starting from the same assumptions - my reference to pedometer meant the software-fused data from whatever on-board inertial/nav sensing was available, 6DOF IMU, compass, etc... In practice in consumer products I most often see this provided as "estimated distance" based on a learned or hard-coded model of what a single step looks like from the IMU (the pedometer part) + the output of GPS/cell/wifi localization.

I'm specifically curious about evidence for a commercial smartphone that can track you to room-level accuracy using only IMU + GPS. (Add in wifi or other RF triangulation and it's clearly a solved problem.) In practice with a cell-phone GPS receiver and IMU only, attached to a person it is a hard problem to track a path to within a few meters. Trying to use accelerometer data to get position information over more than fractions of a second in that situation is... tricky.
I disagree, the law does provide these exceptions but I (and presumably the author) don't find these exceptions to be comprehensive enough to render the unqualified statement of the author "out of context".

How is a person supposed to prove that their views are "fair and accurate" or a "fair comment" and a "genuine belief"? These are highly subjective, and none of them helped Andrew Bolt, a reporter who was sued under these laws.

Note that you won't even grant that the author is quoting the law in good faith. How is a person supposed to show that their "racist" views are held in good faith?
SJWs are obsessed with identity, which strikes me as being narcissistic. As you describe, they define new terms like "gender fluid" in order to give people new categories to define themselves by.

But if anything should be fluid, it's identity itself. Identity fluidity acknowledges that people can (and should) change as they are continually exposed to more information. It rejects the notion of a static identity defined by things like race, religion and gender, in favor of a fluid identity based on character and knowledge.

According to SJWs, identity is ego-based and needs to be protected from outside influence. Their model only creates a more divisive society where people express their fragility by being easy offended, rather than eschewing their current sense of self in favor of mental growth.
Only in a loose sense. The CRS-7 failure was a strut failing which held the tank. This time, the tank itself is suspected to have failed. These are probably completely unrelated.
What is the purpose of women-only meetings, panels, conferences, etc?
Shipping petroleum products around the world isn't the only way to increase quality of life, and in many ways is detrimental to it.
I just got the email from them admitting the data breach.
"We want to inform you of an issue involving your Producteev username (i.e. your email address) and password. We learned on August 24 that your Producteev username and password had been held in a file outside our normal encryption procedures, and we believe that this file was potentially accessed by an unauthorized third party. We cannot confirm that your username or password was compromised, but we are notifying you so that you may take protective action."

So, they were holding usernames and passwords in plain text somewhere! What a terrible, clueless company. How on earth are passwords stored "outside our normal encryption procedures"
It sounds like they didn't get hacked. They just published all the passwords in a public place and aren't sure if anyone visited the URL.....
Those pesky observations are why planetary science funding got cut.
Uber – Selfies and Security
I can have Tesla in my driveway tomorrow if I buy one. Tesla dominates luxury category, GM has a lot of catching up to do.

Also, it is not just that it is electric car, have you been in one, it is like from the future. No other car is like that.
My suggestions:

-Candidate should be given thorough feedback for any coding challenges he/she completed for the company.

-Company should give candidate opportunity to complete interview process in a timely manner (2 weeks?).

-If company initiates contact with candidate, company must follow up with candidate in a timely manner to inform result of process, even if no offer is presented.

-In person interviews must be conducted in clean, comfortable environment.

-Company must not initiate contact with a candidate which they know is not qualified for the position.

-Outside recruiters may not ask candidates which companies they have interviewed with.

-Company must publicly state range of salaries which they are willing to offer for position.