skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tracking position - face-down, straight legs, arms by your side - lets you move head-first at very high speeds. There are claims of achieving a 1:1 glide ratio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracking_(skydiving)

As a student I've mistakenly jumped out of a plane quite far from the DZ and managed to track most of the way back during freefall (and flew the rest under canopy).
I wonder if maybe each checkpoint is treated as the entrance to a new hedge maze in the code, so what's actually happening is that the lower-intensity AIs have more attainable path-finding goals because they're searching for the next "ride" (checkpoint), whereas the other AIs are only trying to navigate to the exit. From a path-finding perspective, the next checkpoint is always closer than the exit, so the low-intensity AIs end up having a better heuristic for proceeding through the maze.
One of the things they do is data-mining so they can match up candidates with companies where they're likely to perform well onsite (since different companies emphasize different things, Triplebyte can look through data on how their previous candidates have faired and find which companies will value your personal strengths): http://blog.triplebyte.com/triplebyte-engineer-genome-projec...
It's also highly mobile, unlike property. You can easily move more than 10k euros in BTC on a storage medium across borders without declaring anything.
Instantly reminded me of "I have no mouth and I must scream". It's a short, but pretty depressing read.
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>break the web

Okay, how? AMP is built on HTML5 standards.

>hijack content

AMP Cache is different than AMP. Do CDNs also "hijack content", by serving them from faster servers?

>reduce the value for the publisher

By offering them an option to make pages load faster?

>make it impossible for the publisher to monetize their content

Incorrect. Read up on the allowed tags in AMP. Both ads and analytics are possible; they're just delayed until after the content is shown.

>are a step back from an open web

Built on open web standards.
What does a lawyer do on a daily basis at a tech company?
There is no subtlety here. That groups which are commutative are referred to as "abelian" is purely historical. Refering to them as commutative helps understanding for people who are not fammillar with them, and helps highlight the structural simmilarity that the diagram is attempting to show.

Sadly, I find it unlikely that we will get mathamaticians to agree to stop calling them Abelian groups, so learners will have to learn that name eventually.
Since the topic is citizens spying on citizens - There are a lot of American citizens in Guantanamo? Really? Since when?
I have over 100 tabs open in chrome on my phone right now. Lord only knows how many I have open across desktop browsers. This is why.
That's something I've been looking for, however $75 a month? Ouch!!
Wow. This is all moving very fast.

Maybe Alphabet will be the responsible one, but doesn't everyone recall how Uber's self driving car blew thru a red light without even slowing down? I think Uber is just the tip of the iceberg. There will soon be more players getting into the game. And the public will be the unwitting guinea pigs.

My prediction: The first time some self driving car wipes out a car full of kids or wipes out a few kids walking along the side of the road will be the last time we see self driving cars for at least another decade.

I might be wrong but I have to believe that the public will hold self driving cars to a much much higher standard than we currently have for drunk or distracted drivers. A much much higher standard.
I deleted my uber account last night. This is a company I can't give money to any more.

I'd heard enough of their culture. I suspected their app had been lying to me as well. Most times when I'd used it, it said a car was like 3 minutes away. When i booked i'd end up waiting for 10 or more. This sounds like a typical uber ploy to make things look better than they are. When i heard they had that app to deceive regulators i realised i was done.

Given what I've heard recently the behaviour in this claim sounds highly plausible. Maybe their chickens are coming home to roost...
Has google ever filed a lawsuit without merit before? It seems like they have a record of acting responsibly, so I would think this looks bad for Uber.
You would probably lose value by melting minted gold bullion anyway. It would effectively convert a standardised unit of value into black market gold.
"Do you take this ssd to be your lawfully wedded wife?"

"I do"
I think I am going to build this over a weekend or two. Will you be my first customer? That's how I start to validate the idea
As long as the profit motive incentivizes bad things, you probably won't be able to escape it.
I saw what Envato elements did with their pricing. They started off at $19 a month, and declared that their prices would increase as they came out of beta, had a full launch, etc. but the older customers would retain their lower prices. Their pricing was to go up from $19 to $49, so there was a lot of incentive for early customers to lock into the lower price.

If you look at the pricing page now, the price is fixed at $29. So maybe mentioning the $49 price point was just a marketing trick to lure customers in to the lower price. They also give a discounted price of $19 at cybermonday, etc.. What do you think of this approach? Can approaches like this be considered ethical?
Mindful meditation:To see or not to see
Long time BackBlaze user & fan here. Currently backing up three computers. Love your service.

However, for my main dev computer, I would totally pay another $5USD to replicate it to another location. I don't think that needs to complicate the pricing that much. You're essentially just paying for another backup, except it's the same computer in a different location.

Another question, any plans for coming to Linux?
OTOH, if you're a Prolog programmer and you write a type checker, you rather quickly realize what's going on ;-)
You can probably reimplement (providing no patent infringement) but not steal. Same as if you built some kind of web app or other software.
If you're talking about things like UndecidableInstances or FlexibleContexts, um, they are n't exactly uncommon!

In any case, saying that Haskell 98 is the One True Haskell(TM) isn't accurate. Almost all code (beyond the LYAH level) written today uses a few Haskell 2010 extensions, mostly for ergonomics (things like OverloadedStrings are a good example of this), not to mention all the extensions that make mtl let you write "lift whatever" instead of "lift . lift . lift ..." and infer how "high" you want to go up the monad transformer stack.
Chrome by default uses a process per domain, and shares that process with other tabs on the same domain. This is to align with security boundaries.
Already exists:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/13/yeast-cells-...
Within 2 hours? thats a bit too much
Have you read Brian Alexander's Glass House yet, about how private equity profit was not creating value for Lancaster, Ohio? I encourage it, especially if you're from the Midwest. It's more than a bit confusing from the timeline perspective, but illuminating.
maybe its not available in US?
Its available in some eu countries.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3161861/linux/the-new-dell-xp...

http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-9360-laptop/pd?3x_n...

select OS option above.

Here is the original blog from dell engineer himself.
https://bartongeorge.io/2017/01/09/welcome-the-new-ubuntu-ba...
> IF you have to be safe because you're e.g. in Germany and you can't just change other peoples contracts after they signed up.

Isn't it the very nature of contracts that you cannot change them unilaterally? I'd be very surprised if there are places where you can legally do that, and I wouldn't call such a thing "contract".
There are a few (including USGS Earth Explorer and Astro Digital), but https://remotepixel.ca/projects/satellitesearch.html has one of the nicer interfaces.
The dev clearly stated he didn't want to do the work to support doing things 'the right way'. He didn't want to do the extra work to keep the same functionality and work within a sandbox.

It is ridiculous we are having this conversation about strictness of a sandbox requirements in the App Store and in another thread people bitch about Dropbox acting like an out of control virus.

As a user: I want it all sandboxed.
To be fair, sec ruling is a much smaller measure than country-wide referendum on economicy policy
Bubbles burst. Even the current price is pumped by China and the miners who can't survive at a low price. The crash to $0 is way overdue.
True. Very true. I'm more concerned about profit to top management outweighing profit to the company, though.

Or more accurately, I'm thinking about two different situations here - one is a startup a friend is founding; he wants to keep it true to purpose. The other is a company I plan to found in the future; I intend to make sure it provides economic stability to the community for the long term.

To be honest, I keep conflating these two goals, but they're not the same; they just fall into the same kind of ballpark, which is: how do you guard against poor judgment on the part of top management? And the answer is: you can't, not perfectly. Because if you could, they wouldn't be top management.
Demo setup for getting started with Docker swarm
> perpetually listed as 50% off

Illegal in the UK IIRC
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> Between 2008 and now, the Republican party was taken over by its most extreme members

I don't know if I agree. Whatever the platform says, the GOP have been active climate change denialists for decades (unless my memory is way off). They supported torture, the invasion of Iraq (along with many centrist Dems), the propaganda that Iraq was going well, and much more. They impeached a President for political reasons. They've been using dog-whistle politics to appeal to racists and their agenda since the 1960s (look up the Southern Strategy, or for a succinct explanation find the famous Lee Atwater interview).

Maybe it's a matter of degree (well, of course it is), but I don't think the degree of change in 2008 is that great. George W Bush, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, and the rest were considered pretty radical.
Haven't read it yet, but just yesterday someone recommended this book to me: The Ten-Day MBA by Steven A. Silbiger. Supposed to provide a very practical coverage of business realities, despite the silly title.
>What they've realized is the way to hire more is to find the good ones that are sitting in the resume review stage of the hiring process, not getting looked at because they don't have stand out credentials.

Yup, I was one of those people whose resume kept getting sucked into the review black hole due to lack of stand out credentials. I understand companies are swamped with applications and need some way to screen applicants even before phone interviews, but it was rather frustrating knowing I would do perfectly fine if I only I were given an interview.

Triplebyte was an immense help here (just today I accepted an offer from Asana that I got through Triplebyte). I'm really a fan of your philosophy and what you're trying to do to improve tech hiring, and strongly recommend people (especially those without great conventional resumes) to give Triplebyte a go.
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Does Thunderbird mmap it's mail archive or something? Because 1.5 GB sounds insane. Apple's Mail.app is only using 130 MB for a 1.8 GB mailbox. Might be an unfair comparison if Mail.app is leaning on the system for indexing/search (then again mds+mds_stores is using around 200 MB)
Given that the poster responded to my comment about the KGB, this is really a stretch.

His point was that we'd fly people who were at the wrong place at the wrong time to black sites on the basis of tips and hearsay from insurgents, Afghani and Iraqi people.

If you know know you can throw innocent people, your enemy or a scapegoat under the bus for kicks and profit with no repercussions, it's going to happen. It isn't a uniquely American or Soviet thing.
Here is what you have missed.

The difference between the classical version and the constructive version that I wrote down is in what kind of rules you can use to construct a Cauchy sequence. My version is something that can be written down in a Turing machine. The classical version is that rules are anything that can follow a set of axiomatic rules - and includes rules that we cannot, even in principle, think of trying to evaluate.

Therefore in the classical version, you can create a rule that depends on being able to evaluate every other rule - including rules similar to itself. That is exactly what Cantor's argument does. In the constructive version you can only create rules using operations that we can guarantee will finish. Which doesn't include verifying the incalculable truth or falsity of arbitrary other rules.

Moving on, though, existence is critical. The key philosophical difference that drove the debate was pure existence proofs. Is proof by contradiction a valid method of reasoning with infinite sets? In particular, can you establish the existence of something by proving a contradiction if it does not exist? In what sense does the thing proven to exist actually exist? What if we prove that it exists but have no way to find it? What it we prove that it exists, have no way to find it, and no way to verify that we have found it?

These are not hypothetical questions. See the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertson%E2%80%93Seymour_theo... for a class of graph theory problems, all of which have polynomial time algorithms to solve. But we have no way to find those solutions. And in some cases it is impossible for us to verify whether a purported solution is a solution even if we were handed it.

So..do you believe in the existence of things in an infinite set that are impossible to find and impossible to verify?
That was a fun 20 minute distraction!
Why would that third party answer honestly? Aside from the possible negative reputation damage, that party is almost certainly prohibited from answering Waymo as part of standard bilateral NDAs executed between partners.

In a suit, at least, they can compel discovery and demand accurate testimony.
This is a long article that essentially repeats the claim without evidence or solutions. The claim is false for basic testing but true for sophisticated testing. Let me illustrate by comparing the coding and testing step:

Coding: There’s a spec in their head of what the code is supposed to do. This usually has output, may produce side effects, and may have an output. They write a series of steps in some functions to do that. They then run it on some input to see what it does. They’re already testing.

Testing. Typing both correct and incorrect inputs into the same function to see if it behaves according to the mental spec. This can be as simple as tweaking the variables in a range or just feeding random data in (i.e. fuzzing). Takes less thought and effort than coding above.

So, the claim starts out to be false. The mechanics of testing are already built-in to the runtime part of the coding phase. The others are slight tweaks. The basic testing that will knock out tons of problems in FOSS or proprietary apps takes no special skill past willingness to do the testing. Now let’s look at a simple example of where testing might take extra knowledge or effort.

https://casd.wordpress.ncsu.edu/files/2016/10/kuhn-casd-1610...

So, the government did some research. They re-discovered a rule that Hamilton wrote about for Apollo program: most failures are interface errors between two or more interacting components. That interfacing used them in ways they weren’t intended. The new discovery, combinatorial testing, was that you can treat these combinations of interfaces as sets to test directly in various random or exhaustive combinations. Just testing all 2-way interactions can knock out 96% of faults per empirical data. Virtually all faults drop off before 6-way point.

Why is this sophisticated enough to deserve a claim like in OP’s post? First, people don’t learn the concepts or mechanics during the course of programming. You have to run into someone that’s heard of it, be convinced of its value, think in terms of combinations, and so on. Once you know the method, you might have to build some testing infrastructure to identify the interfaces & test them. There’s also probably esoteric knowledge about what heuristics to use to save time when combinations go past 3-way toward combinatorial explosion. So, combinatorial testing is certainly a separate skill whose application could frustrate the hell out of developers. Until they learn it and it easily knocks out boatloads of bugs. :)

Regular testing of making inputs act outside of their range? Nope. Vanilla stuff same as the coding you’re doing. Easier than a lot of the coding actually since the concepts are so simple. Basic arithmetic and conditionals on functions you already wrote. What stops basic testing from happening is just apathy. Incidentally, that also stops them from learning the sophisticated stuff for quite a while.
Python's philosophy of "explicit is better than implicit" kind of dies when you get to types. Even the docs are quite vague on this too.
UAC is basically that except only for when administrator permissions are required, and apps still abuse it. Most users just click through things like that without reading, and don't really have the knowledge to evaluate whether it makes sense for an app to need such access in the first place.

I don't see how your idea would lead to anything else when it asks in even more cases that UAC does. Most developers will just not specify a list or just specify restricted, like they did on Windows when UAC came out.
Is it a crime to not acknowledge daylight savings time? I mean it's a law so it must be... What happens if I as a person or a city or a major corporation ignore it? Do I get a fine?

If not and everyone hates it, why not just ignore it.

Without trying to sound like a crazy person, when and where did the federal government get the power to set the time? I'm genuinely curious as I know from history class time used to be a far more local construct varying for city to city.

Update: found [1] with a little bit of searching. Really interesting.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Time_Act
IMO, be aggressive to a fault.

Most service providers (esp. w/ repeating customers/ recurring revenue) will under price.

Key assumption: competition is thin/weak/lazy/etc.

Aggressive pricing is part of doing business. The "value" of a given service is EXTREMELY hard to pin down to a specific #. Thus, aggressively-high pricing is the best way to go.

If the feedback from (potential) customers consistently returns to price, then lower prices.

Otherwise, consistently provide a great service at a medium-high price until your competitors start grabbing your market share.
I used to do the same, but then...

1) I moved countries, now half my apps are on a separate account I have to log into separately randomly (sometimes updates need it, sometimes not...) and logging in and out of Apple IDs always confuses their system mightily.

2) Several of the apps left the app store...

So now if I see an app in the app store I'll look for it on the web to buy from the dev directly.
"Not amused," the rats said they were

But Pavel would not be deterred
Hackbusters Reports Largest Databreach in History
Yeah, you're right. I replied to this right after reading other comments about Gitlab. Sorry, thanks.
yeah, don't come to seattle either, it's full of the walking dead. no room for more people. vancouver is much better. austin is the top.
Shared CI environments should always impose some sort of resource limit.

Even without turing-complete type systems, you can still make compilation take effectively forever. It's been a while since I tested, but by my recollection, creating a fixed-length array of sufficiently large size in Rust would make compilation hang indefinitely (well, for much longer than I was ever willing to let it run). Of course this particular behavior may have been fixed (or maybe not; I'm not in a position to test right now), but I'm sure there's other ways to produce artificially long compilation times as well.
How long is your sales cycle from visitor to paid? If less than 1-2 months, just play around double the price for a month and see what happens.

Having run and advised numerous companies over years, increasing prices is one of the best decisions a startup can do. In 90% of cases there are no ill effects and just increased income which helps buld a better product. Profitability FTW.
I love Trello, but they never got enterprise sales down. SSO isn't federated, and the ACL system is leaky (much like Google Drive).

It also is too religiously adherent to the card metaphor (understandable) which works in most contexts but falls down in others where more traditional tools (Jira, Github) shine. We use Trello for a ton, but not mainline work.

I use it as a contact manager, todo list manager, and we use it a lot for card sorting/brainstorming and more "people" type stuff.
> you wouldn't be willing to bet...?

You just compared two (purely hypothetical) things someone said they'd do, you didn't address what @Osiris was talking about, which is the discrepancy between talk and action. The comment is correct, there is a lot of evidence out there that people do not pay what they say, that actions and talk do not correlate very well. So it would be interesting if you had some counter evidence to back your rebuttal, because theories based on logic alone rarely survive contact with actual human behavior.
A/B pricing has just as good of a chance of destroying your business. Far more "everyday" users than you'd expect will Google your company for coupon codes, discount opportunities, etc. The very moment that someone sees a $20 price for them, and finds out that other people are paying $10-15 - you've just lost a customer.

People like to think they're being clever by A/B testing their prices. The fact is enough people are smart enough to figure out that their "A" slot is worse than the "B" slot you've given other people.
I don't see that as a problem. If you take a backup CD home from the office, it's also stored in a single location. The chance of your house burning down at the same time your office computer gets hacked is low enough to not worry about.

Even if Backblaze replicated your backup in different locations, that only protects against their data center being destroyed. You will still lose your data if the app silently stopped working or your account gets deleted across all data centers, etc.

If you really want multiple locations, then I think you should use a 2nd backup service entirely to remove that single point of failure (Backblaze itself).
Cool thanks for your reply! You seem to have covered all the bases.

Sounds like this will settle in a year or so.
This is the most elegant comment I've seen in a while. Well said.
It's largely aimed at software companies using Twilio in their own offerings--I hadn't given much thought to personal use before. What would you consider a fair price?
I did a fresh linux install a few months ago. Installed Firefox, no addons, went to the New York Times. My underpowered laptop screamed while it waited for the page and all its beautiful javascript to load, and then whined annoyingly, opened another page somewhere else, more screaming and whining; the browser was essentially unusable.

Closed the pages, installed uBlockOrigin, and I had my browser back.

Sorry NYT, but if you ever want me to see an ad again (I'm not opposed to them), you're going to have to do something about your pages, and you're going to have to police your ad networks for my privacy and protection. (But, I suppose it's specifically my privacy that you're selling, so I guess the wait will be long.)