skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether this is the right course of action or not (which I don't think anyone outside of the government is informed enough to have a valid opinion on), I don't like the idea of an outgoing President making major foreign policy maneuvers in their last month of office, especially with the incoming President not being in agreement.

It's like if George W. Bush had started invading Iran in December of 2008.
Could this work as a Chrome extension instead? You get way less restrictions (e.g. CORS).
Don't trust the Silicon Valley 'break the rules until you're forced to stop' types either. The traditional car makers are much more likely to be very deliberate and methodical about the tremendous variability in conditions that a self-driving car has to succeed in.

On the other side you have guys like George Hotz who had a reporter in the car with him when he turned on the self-driving system he had only gotten working that morning..
David Bohm posited reality is what we think and talk about. Private vs. Public, if you will. I would say quantum gravity is an arbitrary goal concocted by humanity, but that initial idea had to come from someone's brain to kick it off the concoction.
I actually meant web devs stop caring, not Chrome devs.

Apologies for creating the misunderstanding.
> If I do contact the maintainer before I do any change, that means I'm making a commitment to do that change, which is not something I want to do.

There doesn't have to be a commitment to do anything. You are opening an issue and starting a dialogue. If you then disappear, someone else can come along later and implement/fix it with the benefit of the original discussion.
Yes, which means the original commenters position of "don't use their service" isn't strong enough, which is what I said. Note that "their service" isn't limited to FB.
Looks like the title is wrong or something got lost in translation.

It should, in fact, be "Japan's Carmakers Are Learning Tech Talent Doesn't Come Cheap"
Part of the reason for the shortage of IT talent is that companies want workers who are:

1. Intelligent

2. Talented

3. Willing to work insane hours

4. Willing to put with the companies insane crap

If companies were willing to settle for 1 & 2, they could draw on a large pool of people. But 3 & 4 have become such the norm that companies wind-up with permanent shortage.

And 3 & 4 are standard as part of the program which reduced the wages of shlep workers and random bureaucrats from 1980 to now everywhere so they aren't very negotiable.

The standard has been to endless rounds of layoff and we loose talent or common sense, we can hire from outside. It seems like this is the result.
Have you ever paid to have a sign made? It's not willy-nilly. There is a cost. And, I believe, there were regulations. It was ubiquitous- nearly every station had it. Probably still do.
Same concerns I have.

What real basis is there? If I had to sell someone on this right now, I have nothing solid to work with.

I'm not saying there is or isn't a basis. I am saying there should be, or we may well just do another Iraq.
Great points, but a bit misleading if the intent is to present this as something new under the sun. The illogical decision to buy a game boost that will not recoup its cost is not much different from buying a name-brand pair of sunglasses instead of $5 cheapies. Both cases lack any marginal utility in the purchasing decision, so the purchase is justified by marketing. That is, a story is created that the consumer either accepts or denies.

In the game, playing with the boost is more "fun", because you have more agency in the game and thus feel more powerful. You are temporarily unburdened from the artificial limitations of the game.

With sunglasses, there are (often illusory) promises of quality or imaginary utility, or participation in a social narrative that says a certain configuration of plastic is more fashionable than another. Or plain old conspicuous consumption, also a social narrative.

Simply put, IAPs did not invent this style of anti-economic behavior.
> Why would you ride a 40km/hr eBike on a deserted highway with 150km between towns when you could ride a 100km/hr+ electric motorcycle?

Because I want to? Riding an ebike is a very different experience to riding a motorcycle (I have my motorcycle license and have owned a motorcycle in the past). You see more of the land, but sometimes you want to go a bit faster than 25km/h without going 100km/h. This is sort of like demanding someone justify their use of a car since we have public transit.

Besides, the law shouldn't be based on "why would you?", it should be based on solid safety arguments. I can see the validity of those within cities, but not so much in more rural areas.
>a truly great way of measuring a user session's real value to the advertiser has been invented and discarded hundreds of thousands of times over the past two decades --

Most advertisers do track and measure actual revenue to them. I think your mistake is assuming junk traffic and bounced eyeballs dont convert or contribute to sales...They do. If you have a decent product with decent margins, each sale can pay for thousands of useless eyeballs.

If it didnt work, advertisers would stop.
> the global market for in-app purchases (not all aimed at kids) is estimated to hit about $30 billion next year, which is especially impressive considering that fewer than ten years ago it was zero

I wonder if people are shifting their discretionary spending patterns or if it's one of those situations where the market is 'creating' money.

As a random comparison the North American comic book market is about a billion USD.
It would be interesting to gain some professional insight on what's happening here, as I (like several other responders) find this article somewhat objectionable. The story that is presented literally ends with these words:

> the gift shop can’t sell the calendar because "it’s not an official work of the U.S. government

There's no need for punctuation, no need to close the quote. The story is over.

There's still a question in my mind, though, about how this came to pass. Looking at the story closely, it appears to largely consist of a human interest filler piece on one particular man's hobby devotion to the CIA, as well as the sentimentality of several former operatives; actually, I imagine some frowns at the CIA to see the story being published, because it looks awfully like a major national newspaper known for investigative journalism doing a favour to former (and possibly current) CIA employees by publicizing their pet project.

I don't have the experience to look at an article and recognize what it was meant to be, but the structure seems very awkward, and I am wondering if we are seeing a story that just turned out to be meaningless and was published anyway (the gift shop refusal) or a rather boring (to anyone without a 'patriotic'-type interest in the CIA) human interest piece that was unwisely and badly rearranged to justify a clickbait title.

Knowledgeable replies would be very welcome. I am willing to say things that are wrong if that would help inspire you.
Nanodiscs deliver personalized cancer therapy to immune system
It's not so bad if your land transport uses the train. Although I'm really surprised at how unsafe trains are, according to that. Is that all from automobile/train collisions at level crossings?
Simplify Project Management with Scrum in Under 10 Minutes
How about a focus on the content of emails revealed? More to explore there.
Maybe reverse the behavior. Instead of asking, make it a standard feature in UI:

Alt-N => browser pop under:

[offers notifications][show all][show some]

Or maybe just some icon in the url bar ?
Trump's cavalier response to this is shocking. These are serious allegations. His statement is mind melting on so many levels:

Asked on Wednesday night at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., about reports of the impending sanctions, Mr. Trump said: “I think we ought to get on with our lives. I think that computers have complicated lives very greatly. The whole age of computer has made it where nobody knows exactly what is going on. We have speed, we have a lot of other things, but I’m not sure we have the kind, the security we need.”
List of Named Russian Hackers
Can it even store biometric data for you if it doesn't know who you are? I was under the assumption that it's only stored if your profile is linked with your face in a photo.
The US was a larger manufacturing nation than China as recently as five years ago. Cutting the US corporate income tax rate nearly in half and lightening economic regulations, will do wonders for boosting US manufacturing.

Given China's $3.x trillion in manufacturing is heavily tilted toward low cost, low value manufacturing, it's not going to be surprising to see their global share of manufacturing shrink in the next decade as other low cost competitors continue to take share from them (whether in Vietnam or Mexico).
That's not to say it's a bad idea to reduce sodium intake

Without knowing what's going on, we have no idea if reducing sodium would help or would make things worse.

I have a genetic disorder. People with it are prone to getting osteoporosis at early ages, yet there are also people with the condition who actively avoid calcium because calcium build up in the cells is known to precede cell death and they fear that. I think they have it backwards and our cells hoard calcium (as well as glutathione) because it is protective against worse things.

That's not anything I can prove and I don't have literature to point to at the moment to readily back up the general line of thought here. But build up of salt in the tissues is not proof that the salt is causative. It may be in reaction to some other process that is the real problem and as long as we do not understand the process here, jumping to such conclusions is incredibly problematic.

It might be a nice thing to do a study on though to see if cutting salt slows mental deterioration in MS patients.
Why isn't everyone just born a rich programmer, so we can finally eliminate that pesky poverty and start enjoy the libertarian utopia?
> "...the “Autonomous Non-commercial Organization Professional Association of Designers of Data Processing Systems,” whose lengthy name, American officials said, was cover for a group that provided specialized training for the hacking."

Holy cow, now that's a company name, although it appears they go by ANO PO KSI. And their website looks like a website for a shell company in a 1997 Hollywood movie:

http://www.poksi.ru/homeeng.html
I can't wait for browsers to become a first class application development framework and for things like SELFHOSTED-cloud UDEs to become more mainstream. Dev machines can become smaller and collaboration will become easier.
I am still skeptical that "excessive use of unsafe" is actually a thing happening in Rust. Almost all the unsafe I see is for doing FFI (either for interfacing with a library or OS primitives). There's a bunch of it for implementing datastructures and stuff, and extremely little unsafe being used "for performance". Off the top of my head nom and regex do this in a few places, and that's about it. Grepping through my cargo cache dir seems to support my assertion; most of the crates there are FFI (vast majority is FFI) or abstractions like parking_lot/crossbeam/petgraph.

I agree that we should avoid unsafe as much as possible and be sure that unsafe blocks are justifiable (with stringent criteria on justification). I'm don't think as-is this is currently a problem in the community.

It's good to be wary though :)
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> It seems that car manufacturers have trapped themselves into being feature whores.

That's because customers are feature whores. If there are two cars and one has a backup camera, internet connection, and an automatic transmission, people are going to buy that over a car with just a radio and a stick shift.

For the vast majority of drivers, a car is an appliance and any appliance that is easier and more comfortable to operate is better to them. So when a car can park itself, call the ambulance if you crash, keep your coffee hot in heated cupholders, and tap into your cloud music account, all the better for them.
prolog does this too, but it's not enough. if you don't have enough data, you could find a match that will fail in the future.

To answer OP's question, the reason people rewrite is that it's "faster" to write a new one than find what's out there

OR

I don't want an entire house when all I want is a faucet. Today if you want a faucet. you might have to do something such as house = new House(); faucet = house.getFaucet();
So you have to tear apart/copy and paste the code, if it's loosely coupled enough, you find yourself dealing with all the dependencies.

This is a question lots of people have been asking tho, checkout this talk from the creator of Erlang asking the same question
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4
Assassin's Creed Unity suffered from a lot of bugs for its PC release, namely graphical glitches on some (not all) hardware. Additionally, it had a number of bugs that could be broadly described as "open world jank": funny physics interactions, NPC spawning issues, etc. The game should have been delayed more on PC to allow for better hardware compatibility testing, but no, I wouldn't classify it on release as completely broken.

Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5 was a rushed project and generally poor game. It was buggy but that was the least of its problems. Many people considered it the worst, or at least one of the worst, major releases of that year. I don't think it is representative of contemporary games as your comment would imply.
I don't like the idea of an outgoing President making major foreign policy maneuvers in their last month of office, especially with the incoming President not being in agreement.

I agree that it's a bit sketchy. On the other hand, the incoming president might have benefited from the actions of Russian intelligence agencies, and he doesn't seem inclined to investigate (at least not without public outcry). So on balance, getting this information on the record now might be in the interests of national security.
I'm guessing it could 3D print/CNC quite a few of its own parts?
I mean, was it?

My Linux system has both installed. Software that needs one or the other just works.

I recently converted my scripts to Python3. I was shocked at how easy it was. Didn't spend more than a few minutes on any given script.

No dependencies that I need that aren't in Python3.
The reality is that this is the world we live in now. I don't think there's really a way to avoid it

I agree. Which is why when the original commenter stopped at "don't use their service", I pointed out that that action isn't enough. It's not good advice, because it doesn't actually work.
Without all of those managers and admin and sales doing what they do the engineers wouldn't be able to generate as much value. How do you decide who is responsible for the value and how everyone should be paid? If you can do it better than it is done traditionally, start your own company and eat their lunch.
Clang uses "module maps" to turn existing header-based libraries into modules. So, theoretically, your system compiler could include a module map for all of the system headers. I don't know if module maps are going to be part of the standard, though.
Use AppAuth for Mobile Single Sign-On (SSO)
Maybe a name change - as much as I like the name Phil's Crummy Corner - to something snobbier might help.

And take it from me -- 50somethings have as much trouble holding their liquor as 20somethings.
Automation is the biggest opportunity in car safety. The mechanical engineering on cars has entered the terminal stage. Software is all that's left to do, really.
Backbreeding to resurrect extinct Aurochs
The "quick, cheap, disposable" stereotype of Chinese manufacturing (whether deserved or not) seems like it would be a major hurdle for breaking into the Western civil aviation market. I see a lot of people leery of Airbus due to their approach to computer control and fly-by-wire, and that's without any doubts about their manufacturing care or attention to quality control.
Edit: not going to get into politics :)
Are there any resources you would suggest for someone in the same boat to get easily reacquainted and rebuild a good foundation?
The rent in UK (not London), Germany, France (not Paris), Italy, Spain, Portugal, etc... are under $1k a month.

Romania is eastern Europe. It should be way cheaper than that.
I don't agree with the idea that people, and society,
are completely impermeable to analysis.

Nice strawman - I never said that.

This is just like medicine: You can theorize all you want, but in the end only a clinical trial shows you if your plans actually work. The subject is too complex. All you can do with your models is use them as input into the trials. If you skip trials you will get disaster and failure on an unsafe scale.

And good luck designing experiments around, say,
national healthcare policy

If you don't you will still run a trial - only that your trial is a very large population. Good luck with that.
cloud9ide already did this
I try to spend 2 hours each day on open source or learning.

usually around dinner time (before or after dinner).

my problem is not that I don't have time, but that I don't have a focus. I do a little bit this and that.
George H.W. Bush did enter Somalia in December 1992[1].

In this case, Obama's in a tough situation. On paper, he's the President till January 19th. He has to act on the results of the investigation. He can't just sit back and say "well, my days are almost over, so I'll just let the next guy handle it".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Task_Force
Most of what I've done professionally has been C++, which suits me because I actually like the language. That was chosen because the system in question was designed in about 1998 and has accordingly grown in scope during that time.

I've used Perl and Python for small applications and glue code. I liked Perl for a long time, but I don't want to go back to it after using Python.

Most of my personal projects are written mostly in C++, sometimes with bits in C, because they're suitable for emulators, game engines, renderers, Arduino programming, and robot control code and because (as previously stated) I like working with them. I've been meaning to start some things in Rust, but haven't gotten around to it, in any serious kind of way.

I choose employment based partially on what language they're working in. Systems-level stuff on Linux? Probably C or C++, so I'll probably be happy.
Zerohedge has the actual list of individuals and organizations being sanctioned: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-29/us-announces-sancti...
I see nothing unusual about their website. It looks like the sites for 5,000,000 other companies that don't sell things online.
>The biggest problem is that there is virtually no piracy possible on the iOS platforms, and even on Android people don't install shady cracks because they've been bitten by premium-calling trojans.

Ironically, game publishers have turned to the freemium model because it's one of the few models that's both profitable and resistant to today's ubiquitous piracy.

>Also, with a PC or console game I feel I have something valuable - not just the look and feel, where no tablet game can ever beat a real console, but also a physical medium where I know that I can reinstall the game even a decade in the future...

Not really. If/when the services for your PC or (particularly) console game go away, your ability to access patches, including the now de rigeur day one patches to fix last minute bugs, as well as DLC goes away with it. Online service for the Sony PSP and original Xbox have ended already, for example.

It's one of the reasons I'm very particular about buying games from GOG whenever they're available there vs. other services, since those games are DRM-free.
I can't help but wonder: if 35 were identified as intelligence operatives, why did the US gov't wait until now to eject them?

I can appreciate the need to perhaps keep a few known entities around to feed bogus information, but allowing that many to just hang out seems like a recipe for trouble. Unless this happens routinely, in which case it likely has nothing to do with this "punishment".
There is one other problem -- most states won't let you register it as a motorcycle unless it has been built on a motorcycle frame, and has other components that meet the appropriate safety standards (and probably for good reason -- see other comments regarding brakes). Of course, that makes the whole bike heavier, which requires a bigger motor/battery, etc.
Inheritance vs. Composition
My Bionx Xtracycle has regenerative breaking and it is as implied super-useful as a speed moderator here in SF when going downhill with a load (my two kids) would build up speed.

It's firmware limited to 20 mph which _feels_ slow but is probably a sane compromise. We only hit that going down hill, and are far from the fastest cycle; but we average 12-15 mph on mild uphills and flats when conventional cycles usually average a few mph slower.

I love my ebike, it makes a daily commute taking two kids to school then getting on to work feasible, regardless of weather or relative personal energy level.
> customers are feature whores

Yeah... or maybe because those features are now required by law:

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/u-s-requiring-back-up-cam...
"Salary can't and shouldn't be compared accross the globe."
I disagree. If the hiring company is looking for the best candidates in the world, then they must be prepared to shell out comparable 'global' salaries.
It's funny how the US is getting its panties in a bunch over the hacking, when they (i.e., we, as I'm a USC) themselves have been doing this all over the world for many decades.
Which doesn't say anything about its state on Linux.
Three Reasons Why Agencies Should Be Using a CMS API
Google docs works offline, and so do / can cloud-based IDEs. Another option is that your browser can still load local web apps, and you could run your IDE service locally.
>If
The music video is embedded into the article itself.
Looks like its not an issue, Was just reading the warnings a year or so ago specifically relating to FreeNAS and how it would corrupt your data.
Launched a product that is on the shelf in stores across the US.

Things I learned:

Be extremely careful with your demo apps, people will see the demo work and think its most of the way there and just needs polish where reality is very different.

Grasping new technology stacks is harder for many people than I anticipated. I chose Erlang/Elixir/BEAM and I wouldn't change that, but onboarding has been a challenge. What I see as mostly syntax and just learning what philosophies work best on a new VM others see as a sea change that takes much longer than anticipated to understand.
An interactive way of blogging about C++
+1 because The companies dont want to pay that much.

Very few people are exposing the truth, and even fewer go into details. Why dont companies want to pay yhe fair price ? Who are the gatekeepers or middlemen/middlewoman (- to be politically correct) ? How many jobs on the internet are duplicates ? How great developers are rejected and succeed on their on a few years later ?