skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If a market were as the simplistic theory describes, all the drivers would be completely independent, set their own terms, "

No - the 'free market' is at work here. The workers absolutely do not have the power to set any terms at all.

The issue is that the 'free market' is ultimatley a game over power - and when one entity has a lot, and others are divided and weak - salaries would be basically zero for them: just enough to survive. It would be much below min. wage as an entire economy of 'sub-dollar store' communities would develop. Much like favelas in Brazil etc..

For most people, we have some market power because of our skills, but for manual labour, they have none, which is why worker protections and min. wage laws exist.
You've been using HN for pure politics for quite a while now. That's an abuse of this site, and we ban accounts that do it. Please stop.
People use public transit for more than commuting. I'm very frustrated with MA's current focus on "core service".

Your comment about "screening" people is disgusting, and says more about you than commuters as a whole.
You're right. I built the page with leadpages so I figured they would do that for me. I'll have to shrink it down manually.
To be honest I think they did the best they could do given the technology and given its tradeoffs a solution that wasn't as bad as other people think. Maybe 10 years from now they will do a remastered version where the CG is more convincing. The issue I saw was that the skin was glassy possibly due to the lack of translucency. If I were to do it I would have made it into a holographic voice call for Tarkin and keep the reveal with Leia since there was less lighting and screen time for her.

If they had recast Tarkin we would also probably still see complaints.
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The snark is unwarranted because the parent is quite self-aware of their misjudgment and their comment would be helpful for others who didn't watch completely until the end. (when this was posted on reddit a lot of comments expressed a similar sentiment because they didn't watch completely until the end; [0] they thought the group photo was the end) By the way any comment can be top-level as long as it is its own thread of thought. Anything else is either a reply to one of those threads or a duplicate thread.

[0]: And in another comment ITT as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13201088
Edgy. Tell us your opinions on North Korea.
Swift: Challenges and Opportunity for Language and Compiler Research [pdf]
It's a solid book, although I don't recall the bit that you're citing. I didn't read it that thoroughly. Started it and realized that I'd rather work towards 5.13 than the summit of Everest/Denali/whatever.
I think the Korean war is a proxy war between USSR and USA.
Personal attacks are not allowed here.
The proximate reason for China getting involved in Korea was self-defense. It has been rather convincingly argued that if it weren't Truman and Douglas MacArthur's insistence on going all the way to the Yalu River (the border between North Korea and China), China would never have intervened militarily [1]. This is despite repeated warnings from China that they would intervene if US troops continued driving north, warnings which were completely ignored by Truman and his war cabinet [2].

The US had repeatedly sworn to not cross the 38th parallel in the past. Once the US decided to invade North Korea proper, Truman's promises to stop at the Yalu River no longer seemed credible to China's government. Note that Beijing is very close to Manchuria, and both the Manchus and Japanese invaded China along this route in the past.

The US has certainly threatened war against any foreign powers that interfered anywhere in the entire Western hemisphere [3] -- not sure how anyone can then turn around and fault China for reacting to American troops driving right up to its Manchurian border. Remember this was in 1951, the Cold War was getting warmed up, and the US had nuked Japan only a few years earlier. No responsible Chinese government could have ignored the very real and credible threat of another invasion.

The Vietnamese invasion has an interesting history -- the PLA invaded, failed to achieve its main objectives, then marched right back less than a month later. Certainly not a full-scale invasion nor an occupation, considering the proximate cause was to 'punish' Vietnam for invading Cambodia.

[1] http://www3.nccu.edu.tw/~lorenzo/Hao%20Chinas%20Decision.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War#China_intervenes_.2...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine
Correct me if I am wrong, but user "sama" is Sam Altman, President of YC; so if he answers instead of killing the thread, I would guess he is OK with it.
There is open source support for contacting MS SQL servers for many years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeTDS
I've lately found myself wondering why there isn't a C/C++ tool comparable to npm, cargo, cpanm, etc. There's more C/C++ code in the wild than most languages, but it's not easy to find, not easy to install, not easy to update (though that's a problem in the npm ecosystem, too), and not easy to integrate. A good package manager would go a long way toward modernizing the C ecosystem, I think.
What about the infamous i386 LOADALL instruction? Certainly there is at least one that is kept secret.

http://www.rcollins.org/articles/loadall/tspec_a3_doc.html
>I thought that Westerners finally agreed that cultural imperialism is bad? Yet here you are proclaiming the superiority of Western culture over all other cultures.

The opposite of cultural imperialism is not moral relativism.
>It's just a very hard problem to deal with, and places like CA attract homeless people from other places, because they have good services. The US lacks a comprehensive national plan to deal with homelessness.

Do you have a source for this? My understanding is that California is awful when it comes to homelessness. Quite a few cities have higher rates of homelessness than every city in California, but have lower rates of unsheltered homeless people than them (especially SF and LA)[1][2]. I interpret this as meaning that Californian cities are generally worse when it comes to the homeless.

On top of that, many cities in California make it illegal to feed the homeless, which is something you don't see as much in the Northeast[3].

I'm also curious as to how a state "attracts" homeless people. I could be wrong about this, but I highly doubt that a person becomes homeless and then thinks, "San Francisco is where I should go," and then somehow travel hundreds or thousands of miles to get there. I feel like given the numbers I'm seeing regarding homelessness per 100k people, people generally don't go to Californian cities for their homeless services.

I'm open to learning more since I'm sure that there's context I'm missing, but from what I've read, California is not the best place to be if you're homeless.

[1] http://acsh.org/news/2016/10/13/which-cities-have-most-homel...

[2] http://projects.sfchronicle.com/sf-homeless/numbers/

[3] http://anonhq.com/illegal-feed-homeless-city/
That sounds miles slower.
Indeed, however I feel the main issue was the animation. A combination of cleaned up mocap protocols led to a "floaty" feel, and I suspect an over exaggeration on some phonemes done by hand afterwards also led to a cartoony feel.
Totally agree. It was definitely the only bad part of the movie. Everything else about it was excellent, including the other effects. He was too smooth and too shiny. It took me out of the movie every time he showed up on the screen. The voice was excellent though, just wish they had used his face less.

The Leia was pretty darn good, until she spoke. Something was off about the facial movement to me. Did others notice that too, or was it just me?
Expect more of this. Facial scans of full FACS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_Action_Coding_System have already been and are done. I expect more comprehensive scans as well as some advancement in audio synthesis (probably based on scans? I'm not knowledgable about audio). On top of that, some legal and you will get full-fledged synthespians soon enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_actor

Animators, to an extent, already are actors. You have to be in order to be an animator.
Sorry, I meant the undocumented MEI and SMM features.
Tibet was invaded far earlier than 1951 [1,2]:

"""
Qing dynasty rule in Tibet began with their 1720 expedition to the country when they expelled the invading Dzungars.
"""

"""
For several decades, peace reigned in Tibet, but in 1792 the Qing Qianlong Emperor sent a large Chinese army into Tibet to push the invading Nepalese out.
"""

"""
As the Qing dynasty weakened, its authority over Tibet also gradually declined, and by the mid-19th century its influence was minuscule. Qing authority over Tibet had become more symbolic than real by the late 19th century,[35][36][37][38] although in the 1860s the Tibetans still chose for reasons of their own to emphasize the empire's symbolic authority and make it seem substantial.[39]
"""

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet#From_1950_to_present
[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet_(1912%E2%80%9351)
The time proximity is not the point of the article, though. It's about large parts of Greenland melting at times where temperatures were not very high and ice cover was so far supposed to have stayed stable.
Well, maybe so. But the point is that it wasn't much warmer when much of Greenland's ice melted than it is now. Will I live long enough to see Greenland melt off? It's hard to say. But it's a fair bet that some of you, or some of your kids, will. So maybe don't buy on the coast ;)
coz c++ itself is architecture dependent. and even lots of c++ code are architecture dependent.
c++ has much longer history than js or java. It runs on bare metal machine for all kind of purpose. So it is much harder to write universal useful libs.
The brain science identifies potential criminals while they’re still toddlers
You definitely can't say the CGI was "bad." It was imperfect, and probably still not good enough to include in the film, but still very impressive and the best it's ever been in that capacity.
Yep, I feel the opposite way! Tarkin felt very uncanny valley to me at first, but due to him appearing several more times, that feeling died off and it felt normal that someone 22 years dead was in this movie. Leia, however, only had that brief (and unnecessary, imo) scene so I had all of about 15 seconds to realize what I was seeing, process it, and get used to it. It looked/felt like a video game cutscene.

That being said I think the technology itself is absolutely amazing. I'd been avoiding rumors/trailers/etc. so it was a complete surprise to me when Tarkin turned around.
> crescent roll, cream cheese, apple pie

That one just looks awesome... well, a crescent roll is similar to pie crust anyway
A blockchain spam attack is exactly like trying to shut down Starbucks by planting a million stooges at every store to purchase lattes so that regular customers can't shop there. Starbucks gets rich from all the money the attacker is feeding it, and organic demand for coffee just shifts to other stores.

Great comparison IMO
Practical thoughts on industrial OPC
No, the political threads are toxic because politics itself is toxic by HN's definition: it makes civil, substantive discussion impossible. That's the raison d'etre of this site, and we ban accounts that don't use the site as intended.

Using a phrase like "these operatives" without evidence is itself abusive. Accusations of astroturfing and shillage are a dime a dozen, and people aren't allowed to sling them around on HN. If you have genuine evidence of abusive behavior, please email hn@ycombinator.com so we can look into it. Invoking it as an argument tactic or a drive-by smear is not legit.
Well I can tell you I've personally had situations in my life where:

- I was told things like "You can't understand this as a white man,"

- I had a coworker get very disturbed (and possibly go to HR) because another coworker used the word "Tight ass" about me (as a joke, which I was cool with. Unclear if he thought that was anti-homosexual, or disapproved of the word ass).

- Where I went to college, an allegedly racist student was attacked and it was recommended he withdraw from university "for his own safety" over some confusion over an allegedly racist cartoon on a fridge in a common area.

- I had a coworker recently say on slack that she would "feel uncomfortable as a woman if her manager suggested that Trump isn't racist."

- During the anti-Trump marches in SF I saw a group of people attack a man standing to the side holding a pro-Trump sign.

So, therefore, yes, some people are doing one of two things:

- Getting really emotional about equality and wanting to play hero so badly that it goes to their heads in a way that makes them the bad guys.

- Ruthless people use whatever tool they can to try to win an argument.

Now maybe you're in the South, where you are surrounded by actual racists doing actual hate crimes, so I understand you may have valid personal experiences around racism. But if you want to be a good person, it's your obligation to listen to and consider my experiences.

Because the pattern I seem to keep seeing is that self-righteousness is enemy.
Who got paid? Can they just rip any dead persons look for free?
Wow, I was wondering how they got Tarkin so wrong, while Leia was pretty darn good. The lighting is what made the difference. The shine that was on Tarkin, which didn't work in those dark scenes, worked perfectly fine in the super bright lighting.
I personally found Leia a bit jarring, but thought Tarkin was perfect.

There's definitely a wide range of reactions.
I can only speak to my own professional performance, as evidenced by people who have been paying me (quite well) to do various things for the past 25 years.

There are certain kinds of things I am better at when I'm not on my meds.

There are certain kinds of things I am better at when I am on my meds.

I'm not speaking for everyone, and I'm not encouraging people to not seek medical attention.

It's possible what I'm reporting is non-clinical, and I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're not speaking broadly when you use the word 'perverse'.

I am not down-voting your replies in this thread, but I understand why people are. You are using non-nuanced and absolutist language which won't be that effective in conveying your perspective.
I've been wondering where I can find guys to write a few dozen lines of C/C++ for my Go and/or bash scripts.

I often need some simple thing that can take input from Stdin while I'm piping stuff around in a bash script. Like telling me the db audio level of a mp3 file while reading through all the files in a directory.
Ask HN: What tools and work methodology for Systems Engineering (EE)
As a Systems Engineer in the very narrow field of Avionics, I always ask myself how we can improve our practice, be more efficient at problem solving and be more organized in the long term as teams, as we end up supporting our products for decades. The methodology we use, Agile w/daily Scrum, Sprints and Kanbans, are very quick at dispatching resources onto problems, which is great for quickly fixing problems that are under our code base and our ownership. However, I find it real bad at minimizing disruptions and generating the heightened levels of concentration required for big reworks. We also often have to stimulate very complex A/C parts, black boxes if you will, with partial or delayed support from vendors. Due to this, often our work is paused for days on issues due to missing data. This disrupts the flow of our work severely and forces our company to operate in an extremely dynamic matrix-based system, which in turn drives the resources away even more when there is no urgency on an issue. Thus, we end-up shipping with very little documentation, and accumulating huge amounts of technical debts on our products. While the work can be exhilarating, all of this is very hard on personnel, not only because of the constant interruptions, but also because because they often end up having to work on very old, complex tech and/or tech they are not the owner of.
Any suggestions on how to improve?

I'm also interested at which tools are used in the industry for Systems EE. We are mainly C/C++ based, freshly moved to git, for long term sustainability and as it seems likely to pass the test of time, with a lot of internal tools and automation strategies which are internally supported, mainly using XMLs and CSVs (Lower learning curve/faster for some complex systems than having everyone code from scratch).

Thanks HN!
Solving the cold case of four men uncovered in a mass grave at a frontier fort
AWS Managed Services
https://youtu.be/oxWFm5kUBGk?t=7m7s

"There's a character in this film that is full CGI[...]and it was very distracting."
Thing is, night people are forced to follow morning people schedule almost all life long (school, work, etc.). So they are used to wake up (too) early, and since they are night people, they can't sleep in the evening nevertheless. So the "awake from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m." is more or less the rhythm to which they are used (even if it exhausts them). The lazy bunch called morning people are not used to undergo this.
... so this is supposed to make us feel better about the current situation?
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You've already pointed out the abusive behavior by the guy and you're fully aware of these tactics, so why the call for an email?

This stuff happens everyday. And if politics is toxic, then why not go back to the no politics rule permanently? Or if it's so toxic then just make it a free-for-all.

Nothing changes. Are there plans to make changes?
You really believe the entire cryptographic community is so thoroughly morally compromised? The same community that has been investigating and fighting the NSA's wrongdoings?

Crypto is hard; coming up with sound cryptographic primitives is highly nontrivial if you do not have the right training. Even if you have the mathematics to back it up, safely implementing the mathematics is in itself tricky, with all kinds of side channel attacks potentially breaking your scheme.
Totally. When you consider linking and binary compatibility, C/C++ does well with the Linux package management world that's grown up around it.

Package management is somewhat less useful modern code that tends to self contain things (Java/Groovy/Scala) or where you want to pin dependencies for stability and create unique environments for them (Python's virtual env, Ruby's RVM, or .. and this is kinda a stretch, but Docker containers).
He doesn't represent the administration, he leads it.

It seems perfectly fair and reasonable reason to mention the power the president has in the situation given some of the president elect's statements.
I wonder if we've gotten to the point were attempting to turn it off would harm us (United States) directly as much as anyone else, even if we only do it in certain sections of the world.
Yep. They should have recast him like they did with Mon Mothma.

CGI Leia was also really bad and unnecessary.
This is one of my biggest regrets: learning to solve it at a young age (10) and not actually solving it, but rather learning an existing algorithm. I have had much satisfaction as an adult in solving 4x4 and 5x5 cubes, but even that tends to be derivative of existing 3x3 solutions (though I did create some sequences myself and those proved easier to scale that traditional ones).

Even then <spoiler alert>, I recall vividly the moment my 10 year old self understood the 3 dimensional nature of "a side", and how a side was not solved until the top row of the each of its neighbors was also correct. It was quite an intellectual thrill for a 10 year old to make that transition.

These days I try to focus on block building rather than memorized sequences. It's a little more intellectually stimulating. If I do go the memorized sequence route, I try to string 2 such sequences together.
Any guess when devices will start using Galileo?
I'm thinking about dropping some coin in a Garmin Fish Finder & chartplotter for my boat. Currently sell models that use GPS & GLONASS.
And as we add improved resource management and tuning to Kubernetes you gain those improvements without having to change your deployment pipeline - just like when a compiler gets better you get more performance for "free".
How Nvidia went from powering Video Games to revolutionizing AI
Sure, why not? It's just another distribution method of a library and it seems to fit the criteria.

Why would it matter if the original developer coded everything in a single, huge file or multiple small ones that get distributed as one? Seems arbitrary.
ENIGMA is easy compared to modern crypto; it did not have a sound mathematical analysis. Hell there was no such thing as proper cryptanalysis back then.

Academia is much more advanced now; all the tools we have for reasoning about our cryptography were developed in academia, with no evidence that the NSA has shown any interest in that kind of stuff. (In fact the NSA has expressed disdain for academic cryptography).
Automatic failover with read-only replicas.

No master/master - that's the only thing I would consider missing compared to Oracle. It scales up, but not out. Peer to peer replication technically is master/master, but calling that clunky would be a kindness.
This seems good: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-michael-j-breus/night-owl-s...
I've told you this elsewhere, but want users in this thread to see it too. You've been using HN exclusively for political arguments for a long time now. That's an abuse of this site, regardless of what you're arguing. We ban accounts that do this. Please don't do any more of it here.

HN is for civil, substantive discussion about stories that gratify intellectual curiosity. Political and ideological is not merely the opposite of that, it's actively destructive to it. We can't have both. Users who want the latter need to realize that HN is not the kind of site they're looking for.

The flamewars you've been provoking and fueling—such as this wretched thread—are pure poison for this place.
It's not necessarily that the whole community is compromised, it's that the goals of an organization devoted to signals intelligence align here with the guidance of the community, fostering what converges towards a monoculture.
This[1] might be helpful.

[1]: http://tinypng.com
> Active Directory

Active directory is not a separate product like the others it is very much a core part of Windows Server. Unless you think AAA parts of an OS are a separate product from the OS, AD is very much tied to Windows.

You could turn AD into just another identity management platform, but you would pretty much lose everything that makes AD awesome. AD is impressive because it is so integral and closely tied to Windows. It begins to lose its lustre when you integrate other platforms because when you lose that close coupling, there's nothing but a distributed user authentication store.
Since we're talking about the feasibility of using an iPad for software development, this seems like irrelevant semantics.
Would YC really be upfront about the success or failure of this experiment? Most people are shy enough about failures in professional contexts where impacts are isolated to the company itself. The outcome of this pilot has real potential political ramifications, further disincentivizing those who're committed to basic income (as YC obviously is) from revealing any serious flaws or difficulties experienced, beyond the typical already-pretty-strong impulse to keep failed experiments under wraps (and when they are discussed, to generalize and gloss over the more painful/sticky parts).

I know we all admire YC here, but let's be practical about it. They're not going to drum up any more bad press for themselves than necessary.
This is why a Land Value Tax is the clearly logical way to fund a UBI-- by collecting land rents in this fashion, you remove the ability for landlords to effectively confiscate the UBI.