skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uhh, they don't own the IP if they haven't paid, bottom line. Having been in a very similar situation to what you just described in regards to the retail store, that is exactly what you do when they drag ass on paying, as you are not a line of credit or a bank. If the customer resists call the sheriff and recover your companies property, and invoice for damage/wear and tear/depreciation & report on the credit of the former client.

What is unprofessional is not paying, if you can't afford something, don't buy it! Also, half up front & half on completion is way too risky, it means at different parts of a contract each party has a ton of risk.
It doesn't look like that:
http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/perl/
What we do is process a check in our admin which hits Stripe's API to create the customer if necessary (no payment source necessary when doing this via API in our experience) and then adjust the customer's account balance by the amount of the check. Then we process the customer's subscription and Stripe automatically debits the customer's account to pay the invoice.
Be sure to check before traveling.

All of the 26 European countries comprising the Schengen area require that U.S. passports are valid for at least 90 days beyond the traveler’s intended date of departure and many assume travellers will stay 3 months, thus requiring 6 month validity.

https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2014/09/231319.htm
> * I'm a CA licensed attorney and just happened to attend the temporary judge small claims training just a couple weeks ago.

Fair to assume this is not legal advice to the OP (or anyone), then?
https://gg.govt.nz/role/constofnz/intro
This can't be understated. The potential of self-driving cars is so vastly immense, it is hard to see at what level it will stop having a positive impact on people. And this potential reaches across every level of autonomy. Its just an opinion, but I believe the market demand for this technology will ensure success of the endeavor (except possibly at the margins).

As a thought experiment, just imagine how every daily activity is improved by self driving cars; not just relaxing while driving to work, but automatic transportation of children to school, removal of the annoying of finding a parking spot at a grocery store. Social activities are made much more convenient; having drinks with a friend, picking up parents from the airport, lending your car to the neighbor. And there is the potential of a world in which car ownership is itself redundant, and we are only speaking about lag time and comfort for transportation.
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i quit the industry for nearly a decade in my mid 20s. i went to work in the film industry in various on set roles (carpenter, painter, setdec, grip). i got to the point where i was mostly middle management and the hours were long and the money good-but-inconsistent so i got back into programming and returned to dev full time 2.5 years ago

i don't regret leaving dev but i'm also glad i returned
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2005 legacy. I wanted the AWD for going to the snow, and I got it really cheap because the check engine light was on and it had error codes that looked scary but I knew i could fix. Working on a car is therapeutic after coding I find. Does everything I want, and is essentially not worth insuring. When i was younger and stupider I bought nice cars, if i'm honest it was probably so people knew how much money I made. The thing about expensive cars though, is once you're in it, it doesn't really matter how much it cost. They all do the same thing. And how often do any of us rev our engine above 4k RPM? So how powerful it is doesn't matter either. Installed a DVD head unit in the legacy so I could use Bluetooth music from my phone on long drives, and a reversing camera because I don't want to reverse over somebodies child.

It's funny because my wife hates it compared to the new cars we used to own, not because they were expensive, just because they never needed me to fix them, I think she finds the idea of having to pull stuff apart to ensure they keep running a bit scary. I love it compared to the new cars though, I like how much work I have done to it, everything from replacing O2 sensors to re soldering circuit boards. I think if you work in software, you need a hands on hobby to stop yourself going insane.
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Do you have a link for the one with the general visiting? Sadly a google search just gave stories of military officers in plan crashes.
> We all know that early adopters suffer the growing pains of buggy first versions. No reason for all of society to share this burden when It hasn't even been put to a vote.

Humans, when aware, rested, and trained, are far better input devices for cars, I agree.

Where my sympathy for self-driving cars enters is that humans can be distracted by in-car entertainment (phones, screens, other humans or animals), tired/drunk/on drugs, or inexperienced. At least in the US (and several other countries I've visited, but not lived more than a handful of months in), I don't think driving safely is treated as a serious responsibility.

Beyond that, cars are already relatively automated -- steering, braking, traction, transmissions, and acceleration is computer controlled, and my car even tracks its maintenance schedule and various subsystem status, so I think it's somewhat logical that some degree of automation occurs to assist the driver more properly (/safely) operate the machine. At some point, this means normalizing "auto-pilot" functionality.

> Why not segregated roadways? If we're so desperate to automate trucking and shipping, how about big, thick K-rails, and dedicated roadway?

Because massive structural changes would be required. Similar to why buses are the go-to for public transit in developing countries -- four wheels and a relatively flat surface and you're done. Add in the challenge of retrofitting existing routes and our tendency to build large structures along roads and this is hilariously non-trivial.

Further, how would you design the segregated roadway? Do you take an existing lane from a highway? Is this railed-lane protected by barriers to prevent vehicular debris or illegal use? How do the shipping-vehicles exit the highway without blocking/crossing lanes?
Former CIA and NSA Officials Just Joined Forces
Hmm, okay. I'm starting to poke at the TodoMVC's compiled code in the debugger, and it's not quite the super-duper-aggressive graph conversion that I was imagining—but it's interesting to look at :)
Ask HN: What's your computer setup?
I was wondering: how many computers do you guys have, and :

- Do you have a workstation and a laptop?

- Or just a laptop?

- Or just a workstation?

When it comes to laptops: which model/brand?

When it comes to workstations: how many monitors?
I think the idea behind "always show up in court if you are being sued" isn't that it will always work out for you, but that it almost definitely won't work out for you if you don't show up.
If you run Debian on your servers then having the same software, and the same versions available, is a good for consistency.

There's something to be said for running multiple distributions so you spot binaries in different places, etc, but really running the same system "everywhere" has more value to me.

My laptop/desktop run Debian stable, my servers run Debian stable, and so I know what to expect.

When I need things that aren't available, or have to be backported, I know how to do that. For extreme changes I can use containers, or virtual machines. But for the past few years I've not been convinced in the feature-churn or value added by Ubuntu. (Especially when you see that their "universe" isn't really supported by anybody - hell even looking at bug reports for their supported packages is often depressing. Bugs open for very long time with no updates because of lack of people willing/able to fix them - combined with forum advice which is often the blind leading the blind.)
The difference is when a PC couldn't do something a mainframe couldn't nobody got killed.

I'm not trying to be hyperbolic here, those really are the stakes with self driving cars. The problem is that when consumers think they are getting a self driving car they will very quickly resort to bad behavior (see the terribly sad Tesla fatality from last year.)

We really need to be careful about how these features are marketed and implemented.
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I don't care about self-driving cars until car company CEOs have their kids riding in them. Until then, I am not interested in taking the risk of testing their engineering.
> What kind of airplanes have you seen with radios that can listen on several frequencies at the same time? Are they large commercial craft?

Some early Junkers maybe?
Autobraking is a great technology that has been around for a few years (BMW was selling it in 2013), but nobody touted it as a self-driving feature. My point isn't that working on this technology is bad, my point is people expect it to do more than it can.
Its not the customer's property, you could DMCA takedown notice the customer's host if you don't have access to the site.

In regards to hired labor undoing work done, I've done that with a hand from my local sheriff here in Washington state. Theft of services and not paying for hardware installed is stealing, which just so happens to be a crime.
Lol so true.

I see small business people who try to make a sense out of all this tech stuff WHILE trying to avoid spending $$ a lot and yeah, some try to lie and cheat to get what they want. Not all, just a few.
Most drivers can't handle a Michigan winter. I just drove from Lansing to Grand Rapids in this weather we had today, and there were four cars off the road in the span of a dozen miles.

A lot of drivers have problems driving in winter conditions. But most? Over 50%? That's a pretty strong claim.
OSX/freebsd support should not be too far away -- see issue 5 in the kitty github for the status of the OS X port.
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Similar to the UK academic network JANET's problems with computer science department emails in the late eighties/early nineties. JANET used X.25 before transitioning to TCP/IP, with its own idiosyncratic email addressing that reversed the order of the domain name segments (relative to DNS order) in an email address. So, a University of Edinburgh CS department members with an address like 'grkvlt@cs.ed.ac.uk' was translated into user 'grkvlt' and host 'uk.ac.ed.cs' then promptly sent off to Czechoslovakia by overly-keen international mail gateways. This led to many CS mail server sub-domains gaining an initial departmental 'd', thus 'dcs', giving 'dcs.ed.ac.uk', 'dcs.gla.ac.uk' and so on...
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Quite a few.
I think it would be far more useful of myself and others, to properly identify and raise bugs so that developers with the proper knowledge and skill can address it.

The assumption that just anyone can contribute and resolve these issues is extremely generous, and unrealistic. Maybe if you're fresh out of school, you have the time available to truly dig in. But when you're working a FT job, and have a side project, and a life - there is no time for such a deep dive with such little yield. Because not only do you not know the language, you don't know the codebase and you don't know the domain. That's an awful lot to catch up on to fix a bug.

I agree people can be more involved with the software they use. But I think that can play out in many different ways, suited for what each person can bring to the table.
FWIW: IMO, we should separate CQRS and ES.

CQRS is a Good Thing(tm); for a real-world example of it in work on a not-so-shabby system processing 10B+ transactions/year - see http://ithare.com/gradual-oltp-db-development-from-zero-to-1... .

ES, however, is more controversial. If speaking about "pure" ES (i.e. not having any mutable state, and reconstructing current state from input events all the time) - versioning and potential synchronization failures (and synchronized access is a prereq for event sourcing) will kill it very quickly (and I didn't even start speaking about performance, which is going to be a very serious challenge).

OTOH, if understanding ES just as an ADDITION to classical mutable-state processing - it can be made very useful. Not only ES will serve as a perfect audit, the duplication of information (once in mutable state and once in input events) will allow such things as regression testing, and fixing data problems caused by bugs, within the DB. BTW - with this model, the latter can be done in a post-factum-fix manner and this, unlike "pure-ES" fixes, is not confusing to the readers who already got and stored previous state of the DB (with "pure" ES, after the fix, all the history can change, invalidating all the data which might have been stored by the third parties, and this is really crazy - imagine if your bank statements would change overnight; with a "ES+mutable" model, bugs still can be identified, and effects of the bugs can be found too - and then a separate correcting transaction can be issued against the DB, which is a much better match to a vast majority of existing business processes).

Hope it makes sense :-) (it is admittedly very sketchy, but forum is not a good place to elaborate further)
Why does a touch typist suddenly look at the keyboard when he's standing up? Or are the people standing the same that don't know how to properly use a keyboard?
I've learned to not trust what people say about a company's culture. Different people evaluate things very differently.

Unless you have some really good friend inside the group that can vouch for the presence of sanity, just assume your new group's management is a bunch of lunatics. Subsequently, decide whether what you're getting paid and what you will (likely) learn is worth dealing with said lunatics.
Might well be the parsing.
Many people might use \d+.\d+.\d+.\d+ or worse.

I.e. not escaping the .
For me it used to be like that about 4 years ago - everything was built with puppet (ruby). Now people seem to have moved on to ansible.

Perl is nowhere to be seen. Bash still crops up occasionally.
I purposely brake intermittently. But, the brakes are definitely very hot when I've checked them.

I had wheel bearing issues with a previous older car, under similar circumstances. I checked steering, it doesn't seem to make much difference. The dealership dismissed wheel bearings as a possibility and said they checked the CV joint.

Their only theory the first time around was a small rock or something getting stuck in there and working its way out. The old "mud in your tires" sort of thing I guess (Joe Pesci reference). That's a mighty devilish rock.
python , ruby , angularjs .
The country you're looking for is Delaware.
Did you mean SaaS?
If he's right then to be creative, it would certainly not help to be doing Scrum in an open office plan. I'll have to commandeer empty meeting rooms to really get into the zone.
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Of course he does. By choosing a GNU license he explicitly limits the choices available to anyone that might make use of his software in their own software projects. That's the whole point of the license to limit the freedoms of developers in favor of users... his favored group. Even then, his plea is for developers to willingly limit user choice in regard to proprietary software. Sure, his license doesn't legally prevent this, but he's asking developers to de facto limit user freedom to choose their operating environment in favor of his approved systems.

If he were merely trying to convince users to move to Libre systems while making no plea to the developers that might otherwise enable users to choose against his wishes, you might have a point: but that's not his goal.
It's so crowded nobody goes there anymore. Typical WSJ FUD.
The major plot point of Neal Stephenson's novel Reamde (2011) was people paying off ransomware in a MMORPG with in-game gold which was easily changed for real money. One of the characters makes the comment that ransomware was not possible until anonymous payment online could happen. It would be interesting to know when Stephenson became aware of bitcoin.
Not as cool as Finland, though. Their passport design features a moose on each page, which doubles as a flip-book animation of it walking! See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym4v2TBJwuI
It's an awkward position for your wrists to be in. You can't touch the home row with most of your fingers and hit the digits comfortably at the same time. That means moving your hands a lot, which means touch typing is likely to go badly.
The startup ecosystem & consumer property are driven by 0% interest rates; the investment property economy is driven by 0% interest rates & overseas money laundering. Agriculture relies on illegally imported labor & perpetual groundwater reserves.

All of these things add up to a "thriving" economy, but none of these things are perpetuities, especially when the state government is determined to Venezuelify at all costs.
That doesn't mean it isn't a self driving feature.... Automated accident prevention sounds awfully related to self driving.

The technology has been around, but it isn't deployed to the majority of cars yet.

What I am saying is that self driving technology doesn't have to be perfect for it to change the world.

It doesn't matter if we are a ways away from getting to the "nobody owns a car, and everyone just uses self driving Ubers" future. Because the current, shit accident prevention technology can ALREADY change the world, even if it is "just" by cutting accidents in half and saving "only" 40,000 lives every year.
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Workstation with 4 monitors, but I truthfully use only 3 almost always.
Unfortunately it takes long enough to reproduce and is unreliable enough that I'm not willing to do enough trials relying on just engine-braking that I would be able to draw any firm conclusions. I have tried relying on gearing and I suspect it has something to do with the brakes but I don't know.

The last stretch where it goes down to 40 and then 30 is steep enough that engine braking without any brake pressure at all is not going to happen safely. And there are lights too, I almost always (but not always) hit at least a couple of them coming into town, so stopping is kind of mandatory there (and unpredictable).

I don't have a habit of riding the brakes though, I'm either gently depressing them or my foot is off. But without gearing down there's going to be a significant amount of intermittent braking; just not continuous.
Yeah, that's definitely true, and it depends on the composition of the shop in question. I see Ansible mostly in smaller shops with simpler needs. I see Chef more often once those needs grow a little bit (granted, I also endorse Chef when asked, because I'd rather have a real programming language to better express my intention--Puppet has the same issue). But I see most of that Ruby outside of the CM, dealing with the billion little glue problems involved in cloud crap. Bash too, of course, for obvious reasons.
We need time to mature this technology. Household home-ec bots are a safe start to a bold plan.

Autonomy is an ambitious project. Large heavy machinery is an unnecessarily risky entry into an immature field.

Building reliable technology in a mild environment will permit the opportunity to prove trusted patterns of operation, under the safest conditions. People will be able to gain a feel for normal dispositions of autonomous motile devices, and build good collective practices for safe operating environments.

Corporations should not be trusted as accountanle entities. Volkwagen's deceptive green emissions scandal shows how far a sub-department will go, to meet the bottom line.

Competitive business practices in a hazardous and unforgiving operating environment are not what we want birthing this sort of technology.
Are you really interested in a system that does the right thing 95% of the time, and the wrong thing for three seconds out of every minute? That sounds absolutely nerve-wracking to me.
Demonetization in India was a failure and how it could have been executed better
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There's a human backup in the car itself. I don't see why you'd need remote control until we're ready to let cars drive without passengers which is a lot further away than cars driving with people in the car. What kind of car would not have some sort of a manual override anyway? That'd be incredibly stupid to the point of gross negligence.

Also, the posted title is clickbait bullshit and not the actual title of the article.
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Which I didn't say, I simply said it was unlikely. In fact, vanishingly unlikely because it relies on infinity.
Great question! It's a very common misconception that an app that uses virtual DOM diffing somehow manages to be faster than an app that manipulates the DOM directly.

Re-rendering your entire app (i.e. creating all the nodes from scratch with innerHTML or document.createElement) is too slow for a lot of apps, and is a bad idea for lots of other reasons (losing state in form elements, etc). Virtual DOM just gives you a way to write your app as though you were re-rendering it from scratch, while still being fast enough that you can get away with it.

Svelte is significantly faster than React according to https://github.com/krausest/js-framework-benchmark, because it's taking a more direct approach to the same goal — updating existing elements or only creating/destroying them as necessary. It's also faster than Ember, Angular, Vue, etc. It's not yet quite as fast as Inferno, but it uses less memory.
Do you have some in Pivot mode?
It's a real question of how well it detects your /local/ network versus being on that over a third party VPN.

For desktops local network is fine.

For laptops it should be a no-go.
You point is sound that companies who produce faulty driverless cars take the upside of them after they socialize the losses from them.

Point 229 in Hammurabi's code:
[229] If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.

or to put it in your words. CEOs (or their kids) must drive around in driverless cars before patrons pay for them.
I agree, and that's great! But when a company sells a feature called Autopilot, and it's marketed as a car that drives itself, I have an issue when someone dies and the company spins bad statistics to defend its practice.

Incremental improvements that save lives and make driving better are fantastic. Overselling a feature that can kill people is not.
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The "trick of X" you speak of is that it figures out X window ID of the terminal, then asks the X server the coordinates of that window, then creates borderless windows at the correct coordinates above that window to show images.

However, in addition to this "trick of X" mode, links also supports rendering its own X window; with proportional fonts and everything; no terminal emulator needed.

However, the graphics system isn't based on X; X is just one backend; it can also render to the Linux framebuffer, so it doesn't even need X11 to be running, it can render full graphics straight in your TTY.
People have wildly different experiences there. Some hate it and burn out after a year. Others really like the work environment and get promoted quickly.

One good thing I'll say about Amazon is that it's a great way to break into the "big four" tech companies. If you didn't get into Google or Facebook initially but got into Amazon you can pretty much guarantee you'll get recruiter spam from lots of top companies.