skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, what I mean by that is that I would guess (emphasis on guess) that it is much more likely for mistakes to be made public rather than successes. Someone or some agency needs to be blamed if something goes wrong. It's well known that various CIA activities are not public, and so my conjecture is that those are disproportionately successful as they didn't result in public criticism, etc.
5-year-old Skype Backdoor Discovered – Mac OS X Users Urged to Update
Scala and Apache Groovy benefit from the JVM's backwards compatibility, but programmers can't benefit from backwards compatibility in those languages. Groovy even broke compatibility between various 1.x releases.
I guess you've not thought about routing...
Super Mario Run is a much deeper game than Flappy Bird.
> Basic income seems to be an acknowledgement capitalism does not work for the majority, wealth concentrates at the top, and self interest of a few take precedence.

This is what the leftist want you to believe.
Tech workers need to organize. Don't agree? Remember that other class action suit Apple was involved in? The one where workers sought $3 billion from them, along with Adobe, Intel, Google, and others for colluding to do wage-fixing, which probably lowered wages across the industry? This shit will keep happening. Organize.
Webpack?!? Somebody didn't get the memo... I think we're supposed to use Rollup [0] now...

[0] http://rollupjs.org/
Exactly, which is why I would conjecture that the secrets we don't find out about were disproportionately more successful than the failures that must be made public to place the blame on someone or some agency. This is strictly my conjecture, to be clear.
Isn't the CheckMe just a vital signs monitor like you would find in any hospital? Ok, maybe it's a bit smaller and does a touch more (ECG). But I don't think it does as much the X-Prize "tricorders" are supposed to.
The title of the article is very misleading. I would have loved to read how Google changed on the inside over the last 10 years. Or maybe even how the author changed. Instead, we get some spam about some tool that is neat.
Yay, Canadian glider pilots! ;)
> Nor is it much fun running back to your car within five minutes

Considering (a) the charging status can be monitored through the app, (b) there's a push notification for "almost done", (c) there's the final push notification of "charging completed" when the 5-minute grace period kicks in, it's hardly a surprise out of the blue.
It seems pretty clear people are using disability benefits as an income safety net, perhaps while they wait to reach the regular social security eligibility age.

Also interesting the regions with the highest percentage of claims are in deep red territory, where the political climate and political agenda is strictly anti-safety net. I wonder how that will work itself out.
I really annoys me that Slashdot has broken the back button.
I second this! My wife and I have been doing freelance web design for about a year now and we've been completely shocked at how quickly some people will hire you while only knowing that you are 1) a generally respectable person and 2) a web designer. Our number of clients seems to correlate directly with how many people we meet rather than any particular strategy.
I have one question - if I compile and link a program written in C and Fortran, can the linker inline Fortran functions in C? I know it can do it if I link object files produced from C source, but can it do it if I link object files from separate languages?
I've watched this show since I was a kid — I think it's one of the reasons I went into engineering. It makes you think about the different reasons that air accidents happen, and illustrates that there's almost never a single attributable cause.

What seems initially just like pilot error may also be due also to workplace conditions, bad training, a lack of communication, or fatigue — a chain of events and circumstances that culminates in the accident. It's fascinating.
This short interview (1m 20s) about Heimlich saving another guest at the nursing home he was living in is wonderful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3yWQ50MnBM
So is it the heat, or the sweating, or something else?
I'll have to agree with that. But then I would also say that I had to make some assumptions, right? :)

I think GHCi is helpful in this situation, however. It clearly distinguishes between leaky and non-leaky code. This leak is a product of "just doing what the coder says" (go to "Data.Monoid.sum" and do what it says there with such and such...). I'm assuming that, for this code, GHCi is bug-free.

I think

sum (replicate n 0)

is as dangerous as

foldl (+) 0 (replicate n 0)

or

foldr (+) 0 (replicate n 0)

. `sum (replicate n 0)` may be the right thing to do in some cases unknown to me.

There is `{-# LANGUAGE Strict #-}`, as you mention, and BangPatterns for strict arguments. But I would assume, those are used only by coders already familiar with haskell and its leaky pitfalls.
Nobody said that pursuing GDP inflation was actually a good idea. It's just an example of how GDP and income are not the same.
What if a plane gets tangled up in it?
> Here in Seattle that is basically the only place you can go to find a sauna.

Since this crappy cold weather hit I've found myself going to the gym nonstop just to dip in the jacuzzi... I don't know why most apartments in the PNW seem to not have one, maybe people up here don't like to swim as much as people in warmer climates?
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13208076 regarding availability of evidence (and reply there, if you feel the need, just to keep the thread coherent).

Second, my argument isn't "it's complicated". My argument is that the CIA of 2002 wasn't unanimously in support of the claim that Hussein had weapons programs. The DoD and VP's office, on the other hand, clearly were.

Your third point concedes my argument without rebutting it.

Your fourth point knocks down a straw man.
> GPS helped solve a problem that existed for a long time before it came along (how do I get where I want to go?), so did Google (how do I find this piece of information I need?). Snapchat, by contrast, did not. Be wary of tools in this latter category as they tend to exist mainly to create addictive new behaviors that support ad sales.

I agree, in the case of Snapchat, but I don't see this as a very convincing argument that tools that solve new problems should induce caution because of potentially addictive behaviors. It seems like the author is using a few choice examples to make an assertion when perhaps a better argument (that I am hoping someone can provide) could be made.
Apple Silently Adds Support for Let’s Encrypt Certificates on Podcast Feeds
Dang didn't say you're not allowed to refute the substance of an article.

He just asked that you don't be "shallow", or in your own words, "snarky" about it, as it always makes discussions worse and degrades HN overall.
For the record: https://github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3
Well of course. Do you have any idea how expensive it is to move $2b worth of $20s and $100s? [1] A wire only cost $60. [2]

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/31/news/isis-oil-taxes/

[2] PDF Warning - https://www.hsbc.ca/1/PA_ES_Content_Mgmt/content/canada4/pdf...
All of the actual evidence that I've seen so far is equivalent to an investigator seeing "made in china" written on a hammer used to smash a store window and saying "china broke into wal-mart".

As far as Russia benefiting from the election, what benefit do you think Russia gets out of the situation that isn't just a large, common benefit that could be equally attributable to anyone?

EG: if you say Russia wanted Trump elected because Trump would be a better friend to Russia that doesn't convince me that Russia was involved in that at all. Fixing Russia/US relations has massive, global benefit, it seems equally fair to say that Belgium hacked the election (whatever that means) to prevent Hillary from ending up in a nuclear war with Russia which would obviously be bad for, well, everyone (to be crystal clear, i'm not saying this is true or that I believe this would have happened).

My point isn't that everything I'm saying is correct, merely that there are lots of equally plausible scenarios here.
Wikipedia says Luce Irigary says E=mc² could be a "sexed equation" as it privileges c over other "necessary speeds". How is it possible to think she isn't full of nonsense?
This is a pipe dream. And I say this as a developer, not a manager or business owner.

In particular:

> Estimates are to be avoided at all cost.

How is an executive supposed to decide what I should work on next if I don't provide estimates of the things that I could work on?

Besides that, I wouldn't like it if I asked when I'd get my next paycheck and the response was, "You'll get it when you get it. Leave me alone."
It's a matter of practicality. They came to the conclusion that enforcement would not actually accomplish the goal they had in mind, regardless of the right or wrong of it.
> they should simply ban abusive users from the network

Frequent chargers are not the issue. People who take up the parking spots are. For someone who lives near a supercharger or for certain businesses (cough, Tesloop) it was customary to park the vehicles overnight. You started early on some long drive, you get off at Culver City or Burbank supercharger around 7-8am and ... congrats, 8/8 or 12/12 spots taken, with none of the charger lights blinking (which means charging has been completed, possibly hours ago).
Because it's really that bad, and we all have to use it because somehow, Brendan Eich's cocktail-napkin language became the VM of the web.
The position of side-stepping the argument over the veracity of the Russia claims is an old and tired one. You can't just move the ball and dismiss anyone who questions you.

Your position seems to be "obviously my opinion is correct and LA LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOUUUU"
Its the company you choose to associate with. You probably don't hang out with the drug addicts,[0] unemployed[1] or the surprisingly large number of DUI arrestees.[2] Everyone has their own filter bubble of community, but I could pretty much guarantee that there will be people everywhere that waste UBI, and do nothing with their time, it's just human nature and the place you live won't change that.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CANEVA0URN
[1] https://www.mynevadacounty.com/nc/hhsa/bh/docs/Alcohol%20and...
[2] Nevada County has a much higher rate of alcohol involved motor vehicle accidents than
Placer County or the State as a whole
Assuming you're already past the meetup stage, and you already know some developers, this is what worked for me:

Identify and find a more experienced developer (it doesn't necessarily have to be a "senior developer", just somebody more experienced than you) who has far too many plates spinning and is getting bogged down in lower-level tasks, and offer to take care of that work as a contractor. Be great at unsexy things nobody else wants to do. Make sure these are the kinds of jobs where you can fill out your GitHub and get a few recommendations from the person or team you're contracting for.

Use this experience to get more jobs. Wash, rinse, repeat.
He could just set up a subdomain called "tel.namename.com" and put a link there pointing to tel:+3030303030
I've attended dozens of YC and non-YC demo days as an investor. I can vouch for the grandparent's comment. YC companies have valuations that are 1.5-2.5x higher than elsewhere, but (in my opinion) have outcomes that are 3x+ larger on average. So they are expensive investments on the surface, but still relatively great deals.
For critical functions - combination of inertial navigation systems, mapping, radar, and plain old visual recognition of the location - after all, you need to have a sophisticated visual recognition system anyways to scan for all of the dynamic activity, why not extend it to be more broadly used? GPS is okay for gross navigation and tracking, just don't design any critical life-safety system to rely on it. I'd be very surprised if there were any boats/cars/planes that absolutely required GPS to be functioning for safe operation beyond the higher level navigation functions. Very disappointed as well.
The Startcom revocation wasn't retroactive. It only affects certificates issued after 2016-10-21.
I don't know what you are reading but that post had nothing about income or the relationship between individual income and GDP:

>Increasing the GDP is easy. First, pay me 50$ to dig a hole. Then I pay you 50$ to fill the very same hole. We created nothing but the GDP increased by 100$ (well, tax aside).

there's nothing about individual income there.
Again more "lalalala i can't hear you" arguments go discuss this somewhere else and "you didn't do the research" arguments. Completely incoherent ramblings. At some point, you're going to need to face the fact that this is just your opinion and that the facts don't line up. Today? I guess not. Eventually you'll need to face reality.
In what way? Assuming you've already decided you're okay with rotating wallpapers on your lockscreen downloaded periodically (the only way in which you'll see these "ads"), what is the detrimental effect on your operating system?

We can both agree, I'm sure, that your OS tracking you is a clear problem, and I'm not unable to be convinced on this one here, but I'm going to need to see a line of reasoning on how it harms you.
There are some weird rules, like:

mypair* restrict position = &object->pair;
float* restrict position_x = &position->x;

Is undefined behaviour, as you can't take a restricted pointer to a child of a restricted pointer in the same scope (the rule isn't quite that simple, but that's part of it). In general, rules about pointers to pointers get complicated, and I've had trouble with them in the past.

In general, it's a good idea to try to only use restrict for "leaf" pointers, not intermediate objects, but that does block some optimisations.

There is also the obvious problem of people getting carried away, and marking something 'restrict' where they shouldn't have.

While 'restrict' is very easy to use on simple structures (like just int*), if you look around you'll find very little, if any, material about using it for complicated nested data structures.
A Whole Foods nearby has free charging spots and is headlining a small commercial plaza in the middle of a residential complex. Which basically means that whoever grabs the spot around 7-8pm gets an overnight parking spot, everybody else is welcome to get a quick charge next morning.
I would recommend finding a group of freelancer friends so you can build a community and share projects between each other. This is a fun group my friends and I started http://www.raptorsaur.com/ it's been fun. If you don't know people in your area yet, go to some meet ups and ask people how you can help with their projects. Good luck!
I have seen 3-lane roads where the middle lane switches direction depending on time of day, with clear lit-up overhead signage telling you which lanes are going which direction. During non-rush hours it acts as a standard protected turning lane as you describe.

It's not very good for safety: many drivers forget or don't see the signage, so driving even in the direction the sign tells you you're allowed can be dangerous.
As I member of the Rust team, I personally would like Rust to be a suitable replacement for fortran, and I suspect most Rust core contributors would feel the same. Rust already has competitive performance so it feels like a small step to be able to fit into fortran's niche. I don't know the particular multidimensional array discussion you experienced, but evolving a language takes slow time, and meanwhile people experiment with what is possible out-of-tree, like with the ndarray library, which seems to be well respected.

Right now there is a focus on SIMD in Rust, which is crucial for this domain, so there is progress being made.
An accurate global predictor with no regional information should have predicted a Hillary win (since Hillary won the popular vote by a fair margin). So if you had a global predictor predicting a Trump win, either (1) it must have taken regional information into account (in order to understand that the distribution of votes was concentrated in such a way that the electoral college would not swing Hillary's way), or (2) it must not have been an accurate predictor. Most of the polls or methods that predicted a Trump win did not take regional information into account, which means they were just inaccurate predictors.
Not bashing Fortran here, I'm defending it.
Doom as well. It didn't really help though
I think the larger point is that if you didn't perceive the problem as a problem before the tool existed, it might not actually be a problem. This is applicable outside of Internet technology too (e.g. fashionable clothing solves the problem of not being fashionable, but they also create the problem in the first place).
I'm not saying to completely dismiss it, but, keep a few things in mind.

Firstly, there is no evidence from the CIA regarding the election hacks. There are anonymous sources who claim to work with/in the CIA and/or have information from the CIA.

Secondly, I'm not saying to outright dismiss it, but, that you need to frame the information in the context of their success rate. (and, no, you don't get to consider secret unknowable wins in that calculation)
It works ok here!
Existing certs (those with a notBefore date before Oct 21 [0]) are still trusted by Firefox. New certificates are not.

(WoSign could theoretically backdate the notBefore date on new certs to make them look like existing certs, but Mozilla have said that if they catch WoSign doing this they'll distrust their root totally.)

Other browsers are taking similar measures, but I'm not sure on the details.

[0]: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2016/10/24/distrusting-new...
That may apply to you right now. Perhaps the poster you are replying to actually knows more than you, but you are biased to see the pattern of someone mistaking randomness for signal.
Thanks for adding this clarification!
To avoid vote manipulation and spam I reckon.
I can't tell if you're parodying HN here. This is from someone's blog and is a personal reflection on his most important work of the past 10 years. Do you expect everyone to be an historian?
Finite Simple Group (of Order Two) (2006)
Is it not a cloud flare issue? Hn is behind cloudflare, and cloudflare thinks it's a problem... last time I tried, it's requests verification each time, as do other cloudflare backed sites (my own included)
For many of those locations it's easier said than done. Some are inside popular malls, so by the time one finds a good spot on busy days, it might be time for another recharge. Others are on controlled property (Qualcomm HQ in San Diego) where guest parking spots are limited and access to a larger lot is employee-only.
This guy installed QBasic through DOSBOX and used it to successfully get his son into programming:

http://www.nicolasbize.com/blog/30-years-later-qbasic-is-sti...

Hacker News discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11636383
There's nothing ”stupid ass" about cleaning and beautifying our public spaces.
Linux Mint 18.1
I've posted on HN via Tor without issue in the recent past.
Same here. Watched this show with my dad (who is an Engineer). Ended up becoming an Engineer myself.

I credit this show and MythBusters for pushing me into Science and Tech.
Aren't new accounts limited?
Correct me if I'm wrong. Here of all places on the internet, an article with the title of "Ten Years at X" is expected to encapsulate some kind of intellectually rigorous narrative about the passing and the meaning of those 10 years to both the author and the organization. Or are we to assume that such standards no longer exist in order to receive upvotes on HN?
Not a bad idea. Some other comments here seem to have missed that this is mainly about signaling. Most of the signatories won't get a chance to act on the pledge, but this way they can signal to each other that they are not alone, make it easier for those with the capability to act to actually act, provide a list of possible allies in case of need, make it clear to those who would like to push in the opposite direction that they will have to deal with resistance etc.
So SQLPAL (great name) is in the current SQL Server for Windows? It's quite an engineering achievement, though you could hopefully automate a lot of the actual abstraction, and I bet the testers were on overtime. I'd be interested to know the timeline, is any version of SQLPAL in SQL Server 2016? Or is it SQL.Next?
IIRC HN only blocks Tor for recently created accounts, but perhaps HN has a more complex criteria.

For more details, you can try contacting the mods hn@ycombinator.com (from a throwaway email?)
Why? Obviously this doesn't apply to everything, but given that the marginal cost of another copy of an application is zero, it does seem to apply to software.
Apache Maven Dependency Plugin 3.0.0 Released
Who really cares that much about internet points?
Linkedin clone built using React and Firebase
> Note that Python, which is the darling of computer scientists

Actually physical scientists love Python as much as they love Fortran. It a lot of cases, it is the only two languages they know.
Are you going to apply for a job trimming hedges or cleaning up tables at a restaurant whey you finish your degree?

You are projecting your very unique and overachieving situation onto a world which is in quite the opposite position. The vast majority of the people that will end up in work programs have at best a high school degree. Many of them not even that and possibly some criminal or drug history. Or bad employment history.

~80% of the employment in the US is in the service industry. That is where most people are going to find employment.

These programs are not designed for PhD students they are designed for people who have had a hard time getting the basics straight like holding a job. Staying on the right side of the law. And making the right choices which You and I take for granted.
I heard a little about Niel's next project last night, and it does sound exciting. I look forward to trying it out.
To be clear, it's not that a receiver couldn't work, but that it shouldn't.

A civilian receiver is meant to deactivate under certain conditions lest it be suitable for use in things that go very fast and fly very high, e.g. missiles.

So as you say, you may be able to change the firmware to disable these restrictions, just don't try and take them out of the US...
Ah, I see. Noted!
I think the very cool thing with this show is that it really illustrates how crashes are virtually never the byproduct of a single failure.

The most fascinating ones to me are the ones where there is a completely survivable mechanical failure, combined with human failures that lead to crashes. The one that comes to mind there is the plane where the engine was leaking fuel, so the tanks were not equal so the pilots engaged the cross-feed valve, causing BOTH tanks to drain leading to an out-of-fuel situation. If they hadn't done that, they could have easily made it to their ETOPS airport with minimal issues.

Also, that show makes me sound smarter than I am. I've had conversations with pilots, who will ask if I'm a pilot. Its great fun for parties when you run into pilots (GA and commercial).