skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lived for a while right at the end of the Terminal Four runway at Heathrow. You could fairly reach up and touch the departing planes, and obviously cups and cutlery would rattle on the table as they passed overhead.

However, Concorde really wasn't the worst offender. The 747s delivered a noticeably deeper and more earthshaking thunder.

I am aware this is completely anecdotal, and that once supersonic, the Concorde would drown out anything Boeing.
No need to worry so much because this is all a big PR bubble. We will have self-driving lawyers long before we have real viable self-driving vehicles.
Mandatory rest exists in the US. But i assume the guy watching over the self driving car, should follow those laws.
Source repository does not appear to be abandoned: a good sign. http://www.helenos.org/browser
The owner or the liquor store I worked at required the drivers to do a lot. Heavy lifting and placing product. They are defacto employees. Owner of a liquor chain has great pull. From simple product placement, sales, etc.

Uber chose this market - but why a heavy perishable delivery.
I think awareness of the Vulcan's purpose coupled with that howling was the big thing for me when I saw it fly after they restored one. What an incredible machine.

Just a shame it was originally built to kill millions of Russians. I know military investment produces all kinds of awesome technology, but... we could be better than that. And that's something Concorde felt like it represented.
As has been mentioned elsewhere - there were other un/low skilled industries that people could move sideways into once they'd been displaced. Automation affected vertical industries in previous "revolutions", whereas now automation is impacting a vast swathe of un/low skilled industries simultaneously.
Live Free or Die: The Origins of the Geek License Plate
If you don't have a stage then you don't get to edit/stage/edit/stage/fix/commit, right? I use that workflow a lot. I generally like incrementally building and refining my next commit. The stage/index is one of Git's most innovative features IMHO.
Cheerleading with an agenda: how the press covers science
It depends on the venue. Almost every time I go to Houndstooth Coffee on Congress here in Austin I bump into someone I know and spend time catching up. The majority of people there are usually talking, not working solo. I can think of other coffee shops and cafes here that are the same.
That would be utterly horrible to me and i couldn't stand it at all.
Realistically, Google will run a monitor. But the important thing to realise is that the monitoring process is completely different from the validation process.

The fundamental idea is to make all certificate creation public, by putting it in a publicly auditable list. THis allows anyone to check that someone else hasn't given out a certificate for their domain, or for a large chunk of the internet etc.

In order to make that work, you have to make all certificates that aren't in that list unusable, and you do that by having the browser check that the certificate it is checking is in the list.
Even when arriving at the same time, yield to the vehicle to your the right. (in the US) If you are across from each other and one vehicle is turning, the turning vehicle yields. Not even that much code to write...
I know this is off-topic, but reading about it's mission has me wondering why (as far as I know) no agencies are sending devices that could return more sophisticated visuals. Even something simple like the 360 YouTube videos would be beyond words, and everyone could experience it. I've really enjoyed the panoramic images. I just wish they'd focus more on trying to get people there virtually since it's a fraction of the effort of getting them there physically, and it could be shared with everyone. Is there some kind of barrier to sending that much data through space? Or should the focus always be on looking for signs of life?
And soon "bye."
Or you could actually try and read Article 7. It does nowhere state that you can sanction a country without breach of fundamental laws like basic human rights.

And the most you could do with this Article is take the UK's voting rights.

I'm sure the UK can come up with ways to punish the EU into submission without breaching any laws. (5% tax would be legal) Also how about vetoing almost everything. That's a political tool that has shown to be very effective for centuries.

Either way you slice it, if the UK wants access to the market at advantageous terms she will get it. The question is only how much does she want it.
I invent a wheel

Steve Jobs uses the wheel to create a cart, a wheelbarrow, a chariot and eventually, a bicycle

Does my wheel invention matter more or Steve Jobs' cart invention?

Because by itself, a wheel is useless
"We can now go to a museum to see the future"

-Jeremy Clarkson
Now we strap ourselves into a piece of metal controlled by an AI which 99.99% of us can't even begin to understand, then barrel down roads at 80mph while praying that the AI in the other lane isn't hacked/faulty/Tesla v0.1a
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It's quite a fair question - not seen the stats recently, but combined with lower barriers to other transport options, increased learning and insurance costs, and density in cities, the numbers now learning to drive in their teens and twenties has dropped massively [0]

[0] http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-2279619/Numb...
It's worth noting that there's a Taiwanese BBS established in 1995 that's still extremely popular, with "over 150,000 users online during peak hours" according to Wikipedia.

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

Interestingly, none of my friends that use it know what Telnet is. It's almost exclusively accessed through unofficial dedicated smartphone apps.
The Concorde was forbidden to fly overland in the USA because the sonic boom is horrible for the people underneath it. And it's even horribly loud flying subsonic.

We won't get supersonic commercial flight again without going suborbital (which seems likely to happen at some point, just land SpaceShipTwo somewhere else... like Australia), or someone figuring out how to design an airframe which dissipates the boom before it hits the ground.

People are working on that, though.
Let the system provide default names for them, based on the name of the branch they came from.
The SR-71 also had the problem that its fuel tanks wouldn't seal when the plane was cold, since naturally the whole thing was designed for sustained cruises with skin temperatures of hundreds of degrees. As a result, it leaked fuel like crazy before takeoff.
Study says 850,000 UK public sector jobs could be automated by 2030
You've conveyed it rather well. I was brought up with a C64 but it was the same for me. Having to sneak around to get online when everyone else was in bed...then staying up way too late and getting flak in the morning for still being up and having school in a few hours haha.
The article points to a specific feature that once removed...

> “the elimination of the staging area was enthusiastically received as a major reduction in complexity.”

But I'm using it regularly. This is the feature that makes git stand out, even for casual users who typically edit things then commit (and have to sort things out to make sensible, semantic commits instead of "whatevs"). Every single tutorial glosses over it, but it's the single most important feature that hinges on what git is and how it operates at its core.

Every time I teach git, I take great care explaining why and how the staging area (the index and git objects, really) works. Every single time I explain that you're preparing a transaction that you end up committing (with all relevant — but obviously wrong — database or journalling filesystem analogies). And every single time, it just clicks.
I've had the same thing happen with book recommendations. While I was traveling for work more frequently, I picked my next books from the Hugo and Nebula award winning websites. I happen to enjoy space operas more than alternate history or fantasy books. After reading and rating a couple, Amazon / GoodReads' recommendations started recommending only stories that involve humanity venturing out into the void and (eventually) saving the galaxy. I happened to like the first recommendations. It saved me the trouble of looking up the next book to be devoured!

However, after six months of this, I noticed that I was stuck in a literary (can I say "literal?") reading rut that became increasingly obvious. Humanity discovers X. X becomes increasingly useful, but there's a hidden price. Y reveals the cost, and that humanity is now an underdog. Human Z, with side kicks, ventures out, and little did he know, plays an important role on the galactic stage.

Customization is nice in software. However - recommendation engines (today) seem particularly dim-witted, and result in the creation of a single-person echo chamber that becomes increasingly lonely the longer you spend interacting with it.
Wow. Just wow.

- English is hardly the "most common script". Just because the retainers in Delhi impose the colonial apparatus on us, doesn't automagically give it "statistical power" as well.

- Every state has a (poor, uneducated, illiterate) captive linguistic population more than that of Korea; no reason they ought to use Hindi, nor even Nagari (script != language, in case your education didn't tell you that).

- Among the rich, yes, English is most common, and this is really what matters in the end, aint it ?

This is precisely why India will never be able to work in its own language, and also precisely why it is doomed to eternal poverty and continued illiteracy. Probably will remain a hub exporting little other than people, for the next couple centuries.

(See: https://youtu.be/SJx0KFtm9Rw?t=21m56s)

And this is why I admire China. It's not democratic, it has a paranoid regime, but at least they aren't run by hypocrites who'd use a "socialist democracy" as cover for continued colonization.

> trying to impose your minority language on the rest of us.

Your skills in generating irony amuse me.
That book definitely gave me a leg up on JavaScript, but I feel the real "ah ha!" moment came with this book, "You don't know JS, Scope and Closures". I can't recommend this book enough.

https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/tree/master/scope...
How realistic is a dry run via an earth simulation from high aptitude to make sure units are sane?
Just some git love
Didn't read, but there are so many articles out there... i started working with git from console ( when i didn't use the console that much ) and still compared to tfs, subversion etc. it felt like haven. I currently have to use SourceTree at Work... damn it makes git feel so slow... Somebody experience with https://www.gitkraken.com/? Any point in trying it out? All the best
Good thing it's free then.
Penn and Michigan Researchers Discover New Rules for Quasicrystals
As was said in another comment, not everything is imported and even for imported goods, not all prices will go up by 10%.Many imports are in the agriculture sector, and the current supermarket fight means that supermarkets will try to hold back price hikes as long as possible.

Measuring inflation is tricky as it affects everyone differently. The RPI is perhaps a better measure for consumers in the UK and could go a bit higher. Perceived inflation will certainly be even higher, as most people focus on prices for groceries and petrol to measure inflation, the most affected goods.
> Humans are weak unefficient creatures, it's no use to take offense in it, we all are weaks in some areas.

But it is correct to take offense about people in position who command about things they are weak in.
I want to build an automated hydroponic marijuana farm in Colorado that's powered as much as possible by renewable energy.
It is quite superficial. Code being easy to read is much more important than code being easy to write. I'm not saying it's a bad idea to have both, but look at Java or C# that are a pain to write without a very smart IDE (just because of the amount of boilerplate). Even they have been saved by tooling.

Also, modern popular languages tend to use arrows (Java, C#, ES6). Not to say that popularity matters, but people are used to it nowadays.
I don't even know what double skill means. What is a skill of 5 vs 10?

The point is as you get better, you can MORE THAN double your rate at solving problems. A junior programmer might spend a week writing a way to sort a list. A senior programmer might call Arrays.sort and be done in 30 seconds.
WoSign's response[1] might also be of interest in this context.

They seem to take, at least partially, ownership of the issues. Am I also correct in that this only affects intermediate certificates? I see they say that they will have a workaround in place in about a months time.

[1]: https://www.wosign.com/English/News/announcement_about_Mozil...
Yes, we have a lot of them here. Kennesaw Mountain, Chickamauga, and others are packed with interesting monuments and signposts.
Interesting to see this come up so close to the election, and disappointing it's just another excuse for America to improve nothing.

i.e. "Yeah, America is shit but Canada is no better" - is not a way to improve anything - only comparing yourself to the bad, not the best.
Not quite this, however.

As you say, there have been multiple points in history where technological innovation obliterated the livelihood of whole categories of people, from dock workers to sailors to drivers.

Now, automated driving isn't in the "changes everything" category, no more than Diesel engines and containerisation changed everything. Yes, there are still areas which are feeling the impact from this change 50 years ago, but for the most part people moved on into other industries - the service industry in particular.

The thing is, the service industry is being eaten by automation. That does change everything, as without radical change there is not a further category of job for un or semi-skilled labour.

Within the current framework, UBI seems like a sane solution, although finding a way for people to be productive in a way that technology cannot and never can do better would be preferable. The thing is, I'm not certain there is any such thing even in the medium term - even creative and analytic skills are being assumed by AI. Not everybody can be a developer. Even developers will likely be substantially obsolete at some point - we are already at the point where silicon designs silicon with human intervention.

This is no small part of what's troubling the world right now - we have swathes of underemployment like we haven't seen before, and it shows in malcontentedness in the political process.

The other solution of course is to have a hell of a lot fewer humans, but that's unpalatable in terms of implementation.

It's interesting watching the economy contort in on itself in ever decreasing circles of mutation - it's something like Malthusian collapse, as we consume the available pool of productive purposes, leaving a hollowed out civilisation behind.
When you were 12, you could tell what was good caviar?
Agree on this, and am at the same stage myself; C# is a huge transition from e.g. Php (or ColdFusion). Can't help but be amazed at the doors it opens up though - Pluralsight is definitely one of your friends here. Jon Skeet's walkthrough of C# 4, SOLID, the courses on DDD etc - so much to learn! :) MS Dev Essentials will give you a 3 month sub for free, if you didn't have that already.
Ansible. and maybe Puppet a bit. They allowed me to scale with my career. Going from a few hand-managed servers to 100k+ environments at ease.
These days you have a mass of computers adjusting said ICE every nanosecond to stay within certain emissions regulations etc.

Damn it, when someone can hack the cars steering via the internet connected entertainment system, the engine is the least complicated part of the package.
Thanks @blobman but this is not that much curated ;)
Futuristic things I do today:

Working from home with people thousands of km away, talking to them, looking at them in the eye.

Working, pairing with other people, while in flight between cities.

Walking around with a phone in my pocket, people can call me wherever I am.

Looking things up from different sources quickly while talking at the dinner table (use to be single source dictionary + a trip to the library later).

At work, an my kids working together collaboratively on a document.
Satellites still use CPUs with speeds in the hundreds of MHz, because creating technology hardened enough to withstand travelling through space, or being used on another planet, is a very difficult challenge, and we just aren't at the point where we can make an Intel i7 (for example) work in space. This isn't even accounting for heat issues, and power issues.

Because of this, my guess is that the camera technology that we can safely get to Mars is significantly worse than what we expect in our day-to-day lives.
>Arriving at the exact same time is comparatively rare, and the computer will know who arrived first.

I recently moved to north america and heard that same 'what if everyone gets to the intersection at the same time' quandary. In Australia, the rules say the person to your right always goes first, regardless of who actually got there first. If you pull up and then a second after someone else pulls up to your right, they now go first instead.

It can be a little annoying in busy areas but I think that's also why we also have so many round abouts. I've always been curious if it's a written or unwritten rule in north america, the whole 'he who gets there first goes first' rule.
I think its true that Canada overall is much more progressive (though also smaller, more homogenous and possessing a much different history). Also I tend to take the words of people from big cities like Toronto and Vancouver with a grain of salt-I very much doubt a UofT grad living in Toronto is very much representative of Canada as a whole.

EDIT: I'm also amused by Canadians who say they are further to the left of any American moving to the Bay Area for the big $$$$ in tech.
History is full of examples, but there is no time in History when the world was as complex and populated - and armed - as it is today.

Not even close.

We're talking about tens of millions of people potentially loosing their jobs worldwide due to such 'progress'.

This can lead to uprisings, revolutions and bloodshed - a lot of suffering - which can be prevented if the transition is well planned.

'Global reach' cuts both ways, both through positive and negative consequences.
this is something I never got: why don't they just chuck a whole bunch of cheap consumer gadgets on these things ? Is it really that hard to attach an array (for redundancy) of gopros to constantly transmit video at 60fps (and sound, even if Mars doesn't really propogate sound) ?
The automobile inventors didn't have to deal with it, but somebody did.

It's unfortunate that Smith was particularly weak in this area (or rather, that so many people have followed him in hand waving about it) but the consequences of displaced jobs is something that a society absolutely, unavoidably, has to deal with. You only get to choose if you approach it with a realistic plan, or not.
Same thing here. One of the highest points of my regular mondays.
what is the leader/follower pattern? Something like master/slave approach?
Google buys Eyefluence eye-tracking startup
This is such a great question. In my experience:

- Django has been simply amazing to work with. It is the framework with which I measure other frameworks. Its far for perfect, but it has the features I need. It can also be customized to most requirements. Sure, it has downsides, but they don't get in the way as badly as other frameworks.

- Angular changed my opinion about front end development. My experience had been with Jquery heavy websites. Never with something better engineered from the start. Angular has issues that I'm very aware of, but it opened up my eyes to the world of better javascript programming.

- React took what I leatned from Angular and just made it easy to use. Which was my #1 issue with Angular. It was too bloated. React is so much simpler.

- Visual Studio Code made me open up to newer text editors and IDEs. I've mostly been a Vim user. But VSC has proven to be very nice to use. I have not abandoned Vim, but am doing more JS dev work on VSC.

- The Django rest framework is super amazing. It just works so well with Django and allows me to build great APIs without a lot of overhead. I wish there was something like it for Java.
We also found this:

- Habitica (https://github.com/HabitRPG/habitica)
Building (certain) applications using in-memory persistent objects instead of using a stateless web app + database server, somewhat similar to a multiplayer game.

Made programming fun again. Don't seem to get to use it at client sites as it's too extreme an approach :(
Kind of reminds me of a way simpler version of https://zulip.org/
Looks nice. I know Raft better than most of the other pieces, so that's where I started; I didn't see code for dynamic membership changes nor log truncation. I can understand getting by with a fixed membership, but log truncation seems like a requirement for a production system. Would be interested to hear whether this is planned or whether there is a clever way around it!
This is a recommendation I would back for people learning Haskell and don't want to get snagged in the weeds like this.

I have been programming in Haskell on and off for a year and eventually got the opportunity to write some REST services in it. It required Servant & PostgreSQL and I didn't generify it too much, just used straight IO. I am now "mature" enough with the language to start generify the API a bit more and depend on things like `MonadIO` instead of direct IO usage, which would also enable better unit testing like those described here: https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2016/10/03/using-types-to...

Good luck to GP!
Discover Weekly in this article is a microcosm of the problems with Spotify generally.

Spotify (especially on desktop) has a LOT of issues. From poorly implemented shuffle play to random removal of features (notifications to ctrl-f to playlist organization), and a complicated by a total lack of dev communication on any platform.

I think the issue with Spotify is not that their core is bad, it's that they never manage to improve and while they act like they're listening, they're not really listening. If there was any worthy competition, I'd switch.
Consumer grade electronics would likely not survive the radiation that is present in space outside of earth's atmosphere.
The amount of "disruption" the coming automation is going to cause is staggering I think.

If you haven't seen it, I highly highly recommend watching this video[0] - "Madam Sandi tells your future" (by Sandi Metz) It's all about change, and how when the step changes come, and they will, you need to be ready to adapt.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOM5_V5jLAs
How did you land this job?
Everyone has a plan, until they get hit by a planet.