skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tube might keep the train from flying off the tracks, but will possibly lose vaccuum. But maybe not. The trans-Alaska pipeline crosses the Denali fault, which is a big strike-slip fault similar to the San Andreas. The pipleline is on rail-mounted pylons that allow for several meters of lateral motion near the fault. The fault had a M 7.9 earthquake in 2002, and the pylons slid as intended, bending but not breaking the pipeline[1].

Now, I don't know that much about the Hyperloop design, but I imagine that the earthquake-induced deflection in the tube may render it unusable for some amount of time. However, the the example goes to show that somewhat similar infrastructure can be built to withstand large seismic events, as long as the faults are known about ahead of time (which is the case in southern California but not everywhere on earth).

[1]: http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2003/fs014-03/pipeline.html
Like you say, there is no consensus. You just have to ask at each company what the titles mean to them.

One way to ask is by percentage time spent coding vs managing. There's a small leaning of VP Eng towards more-managing rather than more-coding, but I've been the VP Eng who was 80% coding / 20% managing.
>>He also asserted, without evidence, that the deal would hurt the private sector.

Bourgeoisie propaganda.

>>even admitted in an interview that they had steered clear of explaining the content of the agreement and instead “focused on a message of indignation."

So it is literally propaganda, paid for by..

>>The Uribe administration has continued dealing with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, securing loans, agreeing to cut expenses, agreeing to continue debt payments, privatize public companies and foment investor confidence, in order to comply with financial orthodoxy.

Capitalists.

Communism is good in theory, but in practice it usually just ends up being destroyed in a military coup financed by the CIA.
"The uploader has not made this video available in your country."

Germany is full of surprises so far.
Correct, built with Electron like our Windows and macOS apps. Glad you're enjoying it.

Possible reason: https://medium.com/@wireapp/axolotl-and-proteus-788519b186a7...
Not really. I'm pretty sure Racket is bytecode compiled, but it's not nativecode compiled. It has a realtime interpreter, of course.

I'm more of a Chicken fan, myself, and Chicken has a REPL/interpreter and an optimizing compiler. It's compiler isn't especially fast, even at lower settings.

Racket really is the C++ to Scheme's C in that it's similar to its parent (although unlike C++, it's actually not compatible), and is more complex (I would say too complex, but unlike C++, it's fairly well designed, so it's a matter of opinion: if you like it, good on you).

Guile is also bytecode compiled. I don't know how fast compilation is.
It's harder to build the type of commitment necessary for a successful marriage when neither of you really needs the other one.

In the case of my wife and I, we built our lives together.

I hope you and your wife have a long, happy marriage. But, I think you are oversimplifying by quite a lot. Needing each other is not automatically a recipe for a successful marriage.

I was married more than 20 years. I am divorced. The divorce was amicable and I have no regrets. For various reasons, I have thought about this quite a lot, and I think no matter your circumstance, finding a real meeting of the minds is a serious challenge. If two people can achieve that, I think they can be okay. If they cannot, they will not be -- regardless of whether they stay together or divorce.
Ask HN: What has been your experience with bug/issue trackers?
I have been frustrated with the different issue trackers/project management tools on the market. I would like to know if I'm not the only one.

Can you tell me what you don't like about the issue tracking software that you are currently using? What do you think they lack?
Like I said: it has 1 and 3.
Experimentation. I use my blog to get experience with various technologies.
The original statement isn't a non-sequitur. If the compiler is spending a lot of time in malloc, it makes sense to replace those heap allocations with stack allocations where possible.

You are also correct that removing mallocs might not be much of a low-hanging fruit, since it might entail changing a lot of malloc calls rather than just a few, but that doesn't mean the original statement was wrong.
Ah, sounds like you don't know about from addresses: they are specified by the sender, and not authenticated. A spammer can send email that appears to be from anyone else, until you look at the validated headers (like "Return-path:").
I did not realize that FF had mobile addons. Time to switch.
Haha, I remember having a similar experience relating to the closing of mysteries as a kid. I remember being really mystified how a toilet and a bunch of home appliances worked. Then one day I had to fix some of them as an adult and thought, "Man this thing used to seem really mysterious and complicated as a boy".
ConnectorDB – opensource QS/IoT platform withPython API built for machine learning
IMO adding static types is good step but it sort of misses the point of modern type systems.

The good thing about types is not that you can just annotate (or not with good inference not) and validate that some type is what you expect it to be. It's that with a proper type system you can develop better abstractions.
> The best way to end the debate is to put it to the people to restate what their constitution means.

It would be five times longer with likely significantly less wiggle room for future generations to cope with societal and technological changes, and most people would still be unhappy with the new version.
> Amazon needs a way into social and real time news.

Why does Amazon need this?
Would be awesome if it stored your columns, cost, and preference settings in local storage/cookie.
This highlights two major issues, to me:

* Wow does the CFAA need reform.

* With the rate that tech is advancing, it's becoming a problem how unfamiliar with it many in the justice system are. It's not a knock on them at all - it's hard to keep up for those of us working in the industry. I'm not sure what the best solution is outside of trying to make sure that the laws are as correctly formulated as possible, and even that's only a partial fix.
But here's the problem with censorship (which you have said the previous writer should impose upon himself):

I consider what Facebook is doing to be far more uncivil than use of the word Fuck. Should the word Facebook be censored because what it refers to offends me?
The People Who Roleplay as Cops in Grand Theft Auto
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Fair enough, but it's a good bet that most of those mallocs cannot be replaced with stack allocations.
A labyrinth that the world forgot
They are entrenched in enterprise. When all your systems (sales, marketing, ERP, finances, support, HR etc) are wired up to Salesforce workflows and automation, it's hard to leave the platform.
Some Postgres RDS reserved instances (1yr no upfront) are more expensive than on demand. Is this correct? m4.large, m3.large
It's an entirely reasonable tradeoff, which I understand. But not having TCO is a strong negative from the language perspective, IMHO. Not an impossibly bad one, but it's really nice.
I'm pretty much on the same page with you. I might differ on one thing, though: I don't think many people really want HRC. A big chunk of her voters want "not Trump". Trump unfortunately probably has more actual support, but a fair amount of his support is really "not Hillary". So if McMillan won in the House, I think maybe 70-80% of the country would breathe a huge sigh of relief, and think "I have no idea who this guy is, but it could have been a whole lot worse". (Put differently, if he were on the ballot in all 50 states, and everyone thought he had a legitimate chance to win, McMillan would win in a landslide.)

The issue is Trump's talk about the election being rigged. For the people who really support him, if he loses, there's the possibility of violence. Frighteningly, whether it erupts or not may well come down to Trump's choice of words in his concession speech.

But even if it goes to violence, I think that the violence will be lessened if the "not Hillary" people are split off from the "definitely Trump" people.
Pleb. You're not truly doing things right until you've build custom servers using the CPUs that use Forth as their instruction set.
Instacart Cancels Plans to Scrap Tips Amid Threats of Strikes
> "Sir, you want me to issue her this ticket."

I didn't even think about this, but it probably saved the driver thousands down the proverbial road. Still, for the poor woman it was probably insult to injury.
U.S. Department of Transportation bans Galaxy Note 7 from all flights
Dennis Ritchie Is Dead … Again
> With the rate that tech is advancing, it's becoming a problem how unfamiliar with it many in the justice system are.

People say that a lot. But yet you don't really hear doctors saying "how can a judge hear a case about a medical issue!" (look maybe some say that but not a lot).

The court has a solution for this -- they have expert witnesses and amicus briefs.

The problem is that technologists are allergic to politics (filing amicus briefs is basically politics as is lobbying), so they won't do what they need to do to make tech issues heard.
You'd think that, but then what happens is users get used to the warnings coming up and consciously/unconsciously adjust to click by it without reading.

I'd imagine in the case of the stock trader, where quick reaction is valued, he'd have quickly entered whatever key combo is necessary to dismiss it the warning and made the same mistake.
I'm a millennial that got married at 25. Now, I'm almost 30 and have 2 kids. I can honestly say I'm glad that I'm not any older. Kids take a lot more of your time/energy than you expect, and to wait until you're 40 seems crazy to me. (Marriage is obviously not required to have kids, but still)
Small clarification: I see that UT is listed as the system, but that's not used for University of California. Is it just Cal? Or the whole system?
Anecdotally, as a millennial with a full-time non-SV software job, I socialize with entirely different cohorts of millennials who experience vastly different lives.

Some of my peer group has attained professional success early on by landing well-paying jobs early. These are the people I notice marrying in their mid-20s, forming two-income families, transitioning from apartment living to buying houses, taking several family vacations, and pondering (or dismissing) the idea of having children. These young families orient their social lives towards themselves or work-related functions. I guess this is the life previous generations expect us to have.

Some other friends of mine have dropped out of college and are under-employed, working retail or foodservice. At these incomes, living alone is financially impossible, so friends band together in groups of three or four to share a rental. Social bonds are tight-knit but spread out to a core group of around a dozen, in which there's an overarching feel of solidarity and shared circumstance. Several people in the group have dated each other in the past, and have since broken up amicably; volatile breakups usually result in one of the parties ostracized. In this group, long-term romantic bonds do develop, but marriage is seldom taken as an option. I know multiple groups of such friends in entirely different cities, between which I'm the single common link.

These two lifestyles couldn't be further apart; whenever I read about generalizations applied to millennials I am conflicted because it's unclear which group they refer to; in many cases, the other group is almost entirely exempt.
Twitter will be bought, but only when the price comes down quite a bit more. Payroll will be cut massively and it will become quite a nice little cash cow for someone.
I should probably look into Swift at some point, but I've never found the time, and I find languages like Rust, Go, Python, Ruby, JS, Haskell, CL, and Scheme far more compelling.
As you say, there's no particular consensus, and the roles vary at differing organizations.

One distinction I've seen frequently though is that the CTO is a visionary role, while VP Eng is an organizational role. The CTO's job is to set the overall technology vision for the company, including technology choice, investing in new & emerging technologies, setting an engineering culture, etc. They're outward-facing, while the VP-eng is inwards-facing. The VP Eng's job is to make sure the trains run on time, serve as the root of the managerial hierarchy, identify roadblocks to further engineering progress, and coordinate the efforts of the engineering team. Somewhat cynically, the CTO is where you put the technical cofounder when their wanton creativity and manic energy starts getting in the way of the engineering team's progress.

A similar distinction can be found with CEO vs. COO - the CEO is an outwards-facing visionary role, while the COO is an inwards-facing managerial role.
My 2013 post "Which Universities Produce the Most Successful Startup Founders?" is one of my posts which received the most notority at the time: http://minimaxir.com/2013/07/alma-mater-data/

However, there are a number of data fidelity issues which would get me teared apart in the HN comments nowadays.
I think VHDL makes things easier. Verilog has some fundamental nondeterminism: http://insights.sigasi.com/opinion/jan/verilogs-major-flaw.h... Still, HDL in general is probably on the order of difficulty as getting used to pointers. If you've already done a bunch of work with breadboards and logic gates it's even easier to grok. Of course a lot of people just instantiate a CPU core on the FPGA and program in C...
Hmmyeah, but the result is so-so, it experiences a few troubles in the warmest days of the summer and trains (especially high-speed trains who both need perfect rails and put more strains on them) have to be speed-limited or in a few cases even cancelled.
How did IV get its hands on a patent filed by Linus Torvalds?
Parent did not 'shift the argument to one about typing instead of superglobals-are-bad' as I read it.

They said superglobals are bad because they make it too easy to do the wrong thing.

And the followup was about how often people do the wrong thing.

If you interpreted that any other way you misread (afaict).
TL;DR: Another API break to fix glaring protocol holes.

Why are people entrusting money to this?
I really enjoy the way AMD and Nvidia fight.

Nvidia makes GSync. So the GPU can control and adjust display refresh rate on the fly. Proprietary, closed source, requires private Nvidia License. AMD makes FreeSync. FreeSync open sourced, added to the HDMI, and Display Port standards.

Now we see Nvidia makes NvLink. Proprietary, very fast, requires private Nvidia license. AMD partners with IBM, Google, etc., etc. to make OpenCAPI an open standard that can revise/replace PCIe3.0

Why does this feel like Microsoft vs Linux but with Hardware Standards.
You know your code is clean.
Teams are made of people, and people are made of animals stretched to purposes far beyond any resemblance to the environment they were designed for / by.

Animals will have ingrained habits, many of these will be maladaptive. People though can create systems and systems can adapt for those habits. Do some cost/benefit analysis to enacting policies within the system that is your software development lifecycle. Assign people tickets, tag machines with their desired longevity and kill machines past their designated life span (or a default minimum), hold code reviews for new highly conditional methods and include drawing out truth tables and checking the desired behavior for each row.

Lots of teams either expect everyone to be be an ideal spherical engineer and stumble when that proves not to be, or expect nothing of anyone and are doomed to achieve that expectation. The middle path of expecting excellence but tolerating failure is a lot of work but has plentiful advantages. How much failure you have to tolerate and how complex the systems designed to provide that tolerance are depend on the makeup of your team and its size (the larger your team the closer to the mean you'll have to be, and with more individuals a wider variety of behaviors will be represented).
I think he addresses this in the very next paragraph:

>It’s easy to accidentally become a CTO by getting hired by a small company with no other developers, like you would see in most startups. But while the title might say “Chief Technology Officer,” it is probably just a fancy acronym for an “overworked developer.”
"Anti-market?" Sure. But using that as a point assumes that the market itself is otherwise efficient, and that rent control does more harm than good. I'm not so sure. Further, rent control is not one policy in every place, and not every market sees the same effects from those policies.

The market does not exist as a continuum, where "pro-market" moves us closer to a platonic ideal that works for all players and anti-market just moves us further away.

This article is really light on details. Can anyone link me to a more robust explanation of this particular fight?
I do not see how scopes are related to a problem of memory leak. Let's say you have a Django middleware that is initialized outside the scope of a request. Let's say you decided to add some stats counter in that middleware and wrote a code like this:

def __call__(self, request):
client_ip = request.META['REMOTE_ADDR']
self.last_visitors.append(client_ip)
...

This code follows your scoping rules but still leaks memory. So it looks like you don't understand why memory leaks occur. I explained somewhere in ancestor comment that to prevent leaks you either need a language with pure functions or reset environment on each request, none of which is possible in Python yet the latter is available for PHP users.

With Django processing model any array can become the source of a memory leak. I have heard that Ruby and NodeJS developers often have to restart their applications every several hours because they even have no tools to find the source of a leak. The problem that does not exist in PHP by design.
First of all, it's really not an insult and more of a statement.

Barging into a thread and yelling "economy is not zero sum" is the CS equivalent of doing the same and yelling something like "X is not a good programming language" with no explanation or context. Wouldn't you be considered illiterate in that programming language by someone who uses it?

> So we decide to do a trade and both of us are better off than we were before.

In a vacuum, yes. However, consider that no actual new goods have been produced. Does your example work in the case when one party is unable or unwilling to see the benefit of the trade? Does it work when no new goods can be produced by one of the parties, like in the example of land?

If you want a more detailed statement - in the short run, everything in economics is essentially zero-sum. As we progress towards a longer time frame, it shifts to being non-zero sum, with the exception of intrinsically limited resources.

> Simply look at the simplest case.

Yes, most users of this site look at Economics as some series of simplest case scenarios. I'm standing by this statement until I see evidence to the contrary.
The UCs really aren't what they used to be. The Chancellor at UC Davis had her own students pepper sprayed for a peaceful protest and had a paid board seat at Devry. The UCs are run by crooks and they continue to rip off their students. I regret giving my money to the UC system and if I have kids, will guarantee to send them somewhere else.
It depends on what you're doing. If you're in the Apple ecosystem with a Mac and iPhone/iPad, the iCloud photo storage is really awesome. For us, it took away the hassle of managing iOS storage.

But... the iCloud Drive function is immature and unreliable.

Right now, I subscribe to Dropbox Pro and iCloud. I'll probably drop Dropbox as their photo story sucks, and they don't make key features available to "Pro" users like full text search.
You are 90 years too late with your phobia. It's called Autobahn, or Freeway. And whether it's 70, 100, or 150 Mph, they have proven themselves an integral part in our transportation systems. No one is replacing existinf residential 5mph zones with pedestrian right of way with Freeways. We're talking about having a glass of wine and a good view from a sidewindow during your safe trip throughout existing rules of the infrastructute, instead of current "Gas, brake, honk. Brake, brake, honk. Gas, gas, punch". Imagine being more rested on your trip, you could even have mini offices in cars. You won't need to travel 100mph through the city. 25mph will do just fine. And if you need fast, nearest freeway is never too far, just like it isn't now.
If your own code is clean other than de-allocating at exit, then I'm fine with that.

If not, I'm asking you to kindly leave the industry, and not inflict your messy code on others.
There is actually an undocumented neural net engine within the Intel chip on the Arduino 101.
Oh, OK. Just have to do the same with the train :-)
Dockets:

http://www.plainsite.org/profiles/theranos-inc/

http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/304bu4iy6/arizona-district-...
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I think there's a false distinction between static/dynamic types. As if all static type checkers offered the same benefit.

IMO writing a type annotation, or knowing whether a type is an int or a string, is the of minimal help in pushing errors into the type system. A good type system you don't even have to write the type of things, it's inferred.

Better 'statically typed' languages allow you to push more errors into the type system and give you tools for creating stronger abstractions.
The answer, to me, is to focus on eliminating patent trolls. I haven't thought this one through much, but something like requiring a minimum percentage of revenue to come from non-patent related activity might be a good start.
Twitter employees can't currently sell stock? I was unaware of this.
Handguns Are the New Home Security
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It won't sell unless it's bought at premium.
I think so - and the fact that it's so in the background speaks to how well the user experience is designed for iCloud. Apple pretty much surreptitiously hides the backup of contacts, photos, calendars, email (yes - a lot of people use iCloud mail), and lastly documents. The fact that Apple was so late to the game on iCloud Drive was that a lot of the shit that the average person doesn't want to manually back-up and monitor are handled in the background by Apple ("magically" to use their term.) I personally love Dropbox, but I would find it a nuisance to manage my contacts, or anything else beyond my documents and occasional photos backup.

Therefore, regardless of manual input necessary, it should still count as usage. I imagine a lot of people store backups on Dropbox, and that looks like it's counted in the article.

Yet, I am kind of surprised that the prevalence of Android software doesn't correlate to Google Drive market share.
How can we guarantee those patents went from the schools directly into IV ?

What if the school first sold it to a non-patent-troll 3rd party, and then that 3rd party transferred it to IV?

Is there a way to follow the history of a particular patent?
White people are learning to never call/invite the police the hard way. Fascinating.