skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wind farms are dangerous and result in many fatalities to humans and wildlife: http://www.caithnesswindfarms.co.uk/accidents.pdf

I'll skip over the 170 human fatalities and mention:

> Environmental damage (including bird deaths)

> 203 cases of environmental damage have been reported – the majority since 2007. This is perhaps
due to a change in legislation or new reporting requirement. All involved damage to the site itself, or
reported damage to or death of wildlife. 66 instances reported here include confirmed deaths of
protected species of bird. Deaths, however, are known to be far higher. At the Altamont Pass
windfarm alone, 2400 protected golden eagles have been killed in 20 years, and about 10,000
protected raptors (Dr Smallwood, 2004). In Germany, 32 protected white tailed eagles were found
dead, killed by wind turbines (Brandenburg State records). In Australia, 22 critically endangered
Tasmanian eagles were killed by a single windfarm (Woolnorth). Further detailed information can be
found at: www.iberica2000.org/Es/Articulo.asp?Id=3071 and
at: www.iberica2000.org/Es/Articulo.asp?Id=1875

> 600,000 bats were estimated to be killed by US wind turbines in 2012 alone. 1.4 million bird fatalities per annum are estimated if the US reaches it’s 20% target for wind generation.

Solar farms are known to cause similar damage to wildlife. For example: http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/12918/20150223/solar...

> Unfortunately, though, anything that happens to wander too close to a boiling tower is very rapidly cooked by the focused sunlight. Workers at the Ivanpah solar power plant call these birds “streamers,” as they ignite in midair and plummet to the ground trailing smoke. Federal wildlife investigators said there was, on average, one streamer every two minutes — or hundreds of thousands of incinerated birds per year. Another expert estimated that the number is nearer 28,000 per year. BrightSource’s own estimate is around 1,000 roasted birds per year. BrightSource is reportedly looking to build an even-larger power plant, which wildlife officials say could be “four times as dangerous” to birds. BrightSource has offered $1.8 million in compensation for the expected bird deaths.

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/188328-californias-new-s...
True. The sticky aspect of it is that what might technically constitute wiretapping may not reveal special intent to eavesdrop on Trump or his campaign.

But this is precisely what's problematic about the metadata program, it casts a very wide net which deprives many innocent bystanders of their rights.
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So this person(Lewandowski) is fantastically wealthy then? Why was he still at Google then? I'm guessing he was on an earn out schedule?

Why would he need to steal if he had that kind of money already?
And how do you break that cycle?
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Last Scottish referendum, the EU was playing hardball, largely because other countries have restive separative regions. I suspect a region wanting independence because its parent country wants to leave will play out rather differently this time.
Yablo's Paradox [0], possibly [1].

Regarding [1], "circularity" in an uncountably infinite context seems different than "self-referential", though the latter is usually geometrically analogized as the former. I tentatively consider Yablo's Paradox to demonstrate that an ineradicable cycle of alternating truth-assignments is equivalent to an infinite (>= aleph-one) regression of alternating truth-assignments, and thus that circularity does not map coherently to self-reference in all logic systems.

[0] http://www.mit.edu/~yablo/pwsr.pdf

[1] http://ferenc.andrasek.hu/papersybprx/jcbeal_is_yablo_non_ci...
I was quite impressed by flow, it's so natural for me as Python developer to apply something like this. Awesome!
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> The proof is in the pudding.

Exactly, and while Obama promised "no surveillance pudding" he actually went into the kitchen and made "massive metadata surveillance pudding".
Technically possible, but that would probably also require referendums in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to leave the UK, and I don't think there's much appetite for that.

Interesting idea all the same, but it's just not going to happen.
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I was strongly against Scottish independence the first time, because it seemed to be to be stupid nationalism playing out over pragmatism. This time though, I'm sympathetic to the cause. And very very sad.
Bus driving is an addictive Zen like experience

The movie "Paterson" addresses this exact situation. A poet who drives a bus. Very good movie I recommend anyone interested in this topic to watch it.
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I'm not too sure about that. Mariano Rajoy, until very recently, was still against.
It might not be lack of initiative; It might be just the old fashioned mindset that companies are a lifelong partner in your career and retirement. After all, if not ever true, it was true enough to be a successful strategy for a generation of people. Those with pension funds intact did ok.

There was no final warning bell for everyone that from here on out you are 100% responsible for maintaining a skill set. It was so gradual it could have (and was by a lot of people) been missed.

I think the lesson is broader that passion for writing code. With equal intelligence and resources anyone will likely be crushed by someone with more motivation. How many scientists did great things because of insane drive bordering on or crossing into obsession?

To me the lesson is there is not one simplistic goal (learn coding, get a degree, etc) that will bring you success in life, monetary or otherwise. We have to be diligent through our lives because not only are the rules elusive, they're likely changing as we learn them.
You sound like a troll. But solar panels are dangerous (I.e. causes death) to install and the materials they are made of had to be mined, also dangerous (I.e. causes death).
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> Their build system is weak.

I feel like this is a huge understatement. Doing anything non-default takes ages to configure, and there's so little documentation to help you out.
I enjoyed the bit about "in MIT’s highly regarded magazine, Technology Review". I don't know anybody from MIT who doesn't think it's worthless (except for the alumni news bound into the back of the alumni editions they send out free. It's only connection to MIT is that they pay the alumni association for the right to use the name (and agree to send alumni notes out).

A friend of mine (also an alum) refers to it as "the magazine of things that will never happen".
> But, to be honest, unless I'm very mis-informed, the difference in renumeration would be the first issue I'd face.

Contract based cleaning was actually fairly lucrative not too long ago, particularly for overnight cleaning. It paid 2-3 times (maybe more) what you would make from being employed as janitorial staff. This all changed when large managed service companies started to be a thing and a local contract cleaner couldn't compete with professional salesmen. In turn it meant that well paying cleaning jobs became a thing of the past.

Source: My father ran his own one or two man cleaning business. He was making much more at this in 1990 than when he retired (as an employee) in 2010.
This is a good point - the implementation always matters. If the implementation changes, it doesn't matter what the original specification was, the new implementation is the new spec, if it gains mass adoption.
Just finished up my pre-need (that's service, coffin, vault and transportation), headstone, burial plot and escrow account for opening (that's a backhoe). Do it now: it's cheaper to negotiate these costs now and less burdensome to your family. Also, leave an always current inventory of wills, trusts, passwords, keys, assets and accounts where survivors can easily find them. Leave specific instructions for what you'd like done with social media accounts and decide whom gets what ahead-of-time. Finally, don't put any children on bank accounts, make it payable upon death. Prevent, as much as possible, squabbling about money and/or property should someone die or become incapacitated.

PS: opt-in as an organ donor, where applicable.
> Democracy is not simply about
> following the rule of the 50%

The population has had 300-350 years to let it bed in, and the politicians the same amount of time to learn their jobs; much as the result upsets me, it's not like it's something particularly new.
See prospect theory [1]. But I think GP is approaching it in the right way to avoid these suboptimal biases: set reasonable limits up-front but otherwise treat it as a game.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_theory
>Only to the extent that is typically the sitting president's responsibility to jump on board with the campaign rhetoric of his/her own party

No. In this case, simply carrying out the normal duties of the president could have been seen as political, given the context. Obama himself later mentioned this and indicated it was why he hadn't acted sooner, especially with Trump already making the "rigged election" charges.

>If there had been evidence

There was evidence, as repeatedly and publicly corroborated by 17 U.S. intelligence agencies.

>For a president to do that weeks before a new administration takes over is abundantly petty

He was still president and doing his job. Had we been attacked militarily, it's doubtful that anyone would advocate that he await Trump to respond.

The attack on our electoral process was no less destructive in the eyes of those of us who value our democracy.
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The Spanish were always going to be the strongest against though.
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You're right that for most people the fastest route to advancement requires changing companies, and you're right that future companies are unlikely to care (much) or know (much). But you're wrong in your conclusion.

The (good) reason to take work home is not to suck up. That's crappy strategy. The good reason to take work home is that it's practice. The sooner you put in the hours, the sooner you can get-and-keep the better jobs. Obviously there's a limit to personal endurance, and so just pushing yourself to grind out 80 low-quality hours per week is insanity. But taking work home, selected with the intention of improving your own skills, is often good advice for getting ahead. Hustle correlates with prosperity.

You're right, though, that if _I_ take work home, that you, user5994461, are thereby disadvantaged in the market. Thus I assume that your imperious demand that others not pursue career success is a cynical ploy to improve your position.
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Kobos require nothing more than a 2 line shell script on an SD card to get telnet, after which, they publish their modified Qt sources, so you can even rebuild the UI framework without much effort, although I don't know much about keeping their proprietary display and touch driver blobs in place.

Back in time they had some kind of third party development support, so you could plug addons into the existing UI. AFAIK the framework hasn't changed much to prevent that kind of dev, and there example addons built around it

But in terms of a random stable embedded environment that is quite transparent, with an awesome out of box hardware/software experience, Kobo are not to be beaten
> What happens when Google, Apple, Amazon or other company with a solid cloud app team steps in?

This is sort of a fundamental problem with our entire conception of a digital economy. Google, Microsoft and Amazon are fundamentally the only games in town that can compete. Our regulations, laws, and economics are not well set up to deal with the fact that there is a wholly new type of meta-entity that is so overwhelmingly important for modern business.

We can barely regulate (and often fail to regulate) the energy industry appropriately and that's a way more competitive market.
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But, of course, that's not what happened, and there's no hypothetical in play. Ethereum sacrificed its principles to stop/censor a contract, and still keeps "unstoppable uncensorable contracts" on the website. It's the height of pathetic hypocrisy.
The emulation and homebrew scene is at a crossroads now. cemu [1] is on track to earn 250k through Patreon (h/t byuu), which is a good way to get stomped on by Nintendo legal.

Open source is critical for the success of projects like Dolphin, but what do you think the emulator developers of the future are going to do when they see the cash they can earn by being secretive?

[1]: cemu.info
Snowden* sigh, can't edit any longer.
Use a realistic work sample test. It's marginally more time consuming than a whiteboard interview, but it's fairer and more effective. Most candidates would vastly prefer to commit and document a small patch than solve brainteasers in front of an audience. You'll learn a lot more about their practical skills.
I am not sure if all the Spanish. The Partido Popular is against, but I am not too sure about the left.
How could I take something like PegaSwitch and use it to attack my "smart" TV? (It's running an old webkit, too)
That is a simplification - even Facebook runs sshd inside its containers.

I know what you are saying - that an atomic unit of work is the program itself..But we run stuff under supervisord even if it is a single program. It helps us to make quick debugging changes to scripts,etc and "restart" them without restarting the container.

In theory it seems the same - in practice it is not. This is the reason for the existence of tons of different init tools for docker.

BTW, I had trouble understanding what you meant because you are constantly moving from docker-as-an-application-unit concept (which is reasonably true) to systemd-nspawn-is-better-than-docker (which is something I am not generally opinionated about).
As someone who voted "against" Uber/Lyft, I can promise you their PACs misleading and blatantly false propaganda regarding the city ordinance directly caused them to lose my vote. That and people love getting 4 fliers per day in their mailbox.

Good riddance.
The tech industry needs more designers
That's not how random works.
If odd wandered like that, there would be long time frames where the slots were 'not fun' and would drive people away.
Well, that was Vote Leave, not UKIP. And in fact, the pledge wasn't to spend the entire £350 million on the NHS, but part of it. The government is still looking to do just that, but it can't until we've actually left the EU (we're still paying them money).
Glad to see it! And for those AWS customers, you're welcome [1].

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/signing-up-c...
> and making their own app (Ride Austin) that isn't designed to make investors and owners rich, instead just benefit drivers and riders.

As discussed upthread, Uber's investors and owners take a 20% loss on every ride. How much more benefit to drivers and riders do you want?
Ha, not really. I don't play gigs or anything like that. :)

My blog's in my profile, although I converted to a static hosted blog on github recently and haven't written anything since (classic!). I'm working on open sourcing something I think is pretty cool that I did at work, but it's pretty in-depth (mid-tier load balancing algorithm and design), so writing it up takes a bit of time!
Designers are the future of tech!
A lot of engineers use Windows, especially in circuit design since a lot of the design tools are only on Windows.

And as a Googler, I can comfortably state that most engineering managers are very technical. I know because I've worked under many of them.
Comparing the Closure compiler to UglifyJS2
You said "I think they have him dead to rights". Unless you are not a native English speaker and you don't understand the words that you're typing, it means you think that the accused is guilty. If that's not what you meant then I suggest using different words.

Of course you think they have a good case. All you've heard is their side.
> 2. the referendum in was >2/3, while the referendum out was barely >50%, you need a supermajority threshold on such a long-term issue where the opinion can swing bellow/above 50%

There never was a referendum to join, there was a referendum to join a very different thing that evolved into the EU, don't pretend they're the same thing.
Oh 100%.

I give 60 minute programming exercise in a language of choice as the first part of the interview.

I do that part first because it separates the doers from talkers quickly. Measurable and objective.
Where does it say Anthony Levandowski is worth hundreds of millions?
I think you are correlating success in life (whatever that is) with drive to learn. There are people who could be seen as very unsuccessful in life, but are active learners.
> An open documented rest API would be great.

I work on this: https://developer.honeywell.com

I also wrote some of our Alexa skills.

Our security systems having an Open API is half a technical problem and half a legal/PR one, as you can imagine. That being said.. there are some scraped projects out there.

Oh, and I believe I saw a really slick looking HTML5 version of Total Connect. I can ask.
Domain driven design in Python, Ruby, PHP and other dynamic languages
This question bothers me since the beginning of the time. Why DDD or any kind of domain/infrastructure separation isn't so popular in dynamic world? So I decided to collect all resources about the topic I can possibly reach. It includes talks, blogposts, code repositories, StackOverflow questions etc.
They did vote. They selected the "we don't care one way or the other" option. They made the decision and now they get to live with it.
One example I like to use (personally, not as Honeywell) is Blackhat/Defcon from a year ago (I forget which).

They showed a ransomware takeover of a thermostat. Everyone started freaking out. Here is what they didn't say though:
- You needed physical access
- Thermostats are replaceable (as in put a new one on the wall)
- It was not a major brand to my knowledge.

Something you have to think about is path of least resistance.
Yeah, no fear here, except none of those parameters set any kind of logging and there's no way to tell if the download completed successfully (yay Australian Internet)
IMO it's not, but I have a background in such things. We just don't sell them direct to consumers.
You'd have to customize the exploit to the point where you basically need to start from scratch. All of the interesting stuff we have (from getting the stack pointer, to our insane JOP/ROP chain for native function calls) is specific to the Switch, and specific to the exact binary we're running in the context of. That said, the core of the exploit (sploitcore.setup/allocBuffers) probably wouldn't be too hard to port.
In the talk the swipe Down to update with a bounce is modeled as a spring so physics engine is the right word.
If I had that answer I probably would have been a political leader bringing change.
Rub lavender oil on the servers, say "web-scale" 3 times, click you heals and everything will be OK. Oh wait, but the Russians.
Another thing to consider about Airbnbs nav stack is that it's written in swift.

This is important because Apple can still make changes to Swift which can break language backward compatibility.

This happened last wwdc. So if you use any third party libraries that are written in swift they won't work till the authors or you update them to the new language conventions.

The wix native library which they reference is written in objective c so this won't have that problem.
Out of sight out of mind, but those aren't Nest Cams, those are the IP based systems and people just turn on remote access without knowing/thinking.
I think much about remaining was not known either. One thing that was clear was that a vote to remain was not a vote for the status quo.

But sure, it would have been nice to have been provided with more detail on what sort of Brexit we'd have. Perhaps the government at the time could have given greater clarity regarding that. Although, given the fact the government underwent a massive reshuffle, and the fact that the UK still has to negotiate terms with the EU, it might have been rather a challenge.
I'm not super familiar with how the wired sensors work, I'm more on the connected thermostat end. Learning more about security though.

I know more of our high/mid end systems use all wireless sensors now.
If these "3 miners" are controlling the majority of the hashing power - which isn't too far fetched from how the things really are - we're literally talking like 10 physical individuals here - then yes, they get to tell the others what to do.

This already happened in the past and looks like Ver and AntPool are trying to make it happen again. And they know full well that it's not that hard to do:

>>> "Ver says he plans to step up lobbying efforts, especially in China which is home to the majority of bitcoin mining."

and again this lobbying^^ will only need to be applied to a few concrete individuals again because of the extreme level of centralization of the hashing power.
It's the acronym for American Disabilities Act or something. I get ADA-related results every time I look for updates on what people are doing with the Ada programming language. It gets more unfortunate when one realizes how much words like safety, formal policies, and so on are used by web sites dedicated to both. I almost got fooled a few times thinking I was reading a result about the language but it was some ADA safety initiative. (rolls eyes) Have to work the filters carefully.

I will say you don't want to screw around with ADA requirements. I've seen plenty of news reports of companies taking hits in court over it. Best for business owners to see what they need to do and do it whenever they can afford.
I guess I misread your earlier comment, I thought you were talking about Australian immigration policies to the parent commenter who was an Australian.

My bad, since you are talking about US, yes I agree with you.
By that logic, since there is always someone as smart as or smarter than the next person, then by induction everyone is second-rate except some mythical super hero who is absolutely the best in a given field.

You know what happens to people who put in those two extra hours of work every night? They go to work the next day and still get paid the same amount of money as if they hadn't. Then they wake up at 40 wondering why they wasted decades doing extra work for the same salary instead of enjoying life and doing something, /anything/, besides staring at a computer all day.

99.9% of people don't have to care about being second-rate, or even third-rate or fourth-rate, because most developers aren't Paul Graham and they aren't Saving The World (TM). They're feeding their families and enjoying their hobbies outside the hours of 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. And that's okay. Even so, just because they don't print out Linux kernel mailing list e-mails and snort Dennis Ritchie's ashes with them doesn't mean they're second-rate.
As per their SLA:

Monthly Uptime Percentage, Service Credit Percentage

Equal to or greater than 99.0% but less than 99.9%, 10%

ref: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/sla/
Bezie gives you finer automation control in many DAWs, but not all. I don't think you'd gain anything from Bezie in FL Studio. Aside from automation, Bezie also allows you to connect a MIDI controller and trigger Bezie automation for use with DJ software [1] like Traktor.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBM5gAm83ao&feature=youtu.be...
Sounds like another would-be Theranos.
Any place you can point to where this was implemented and works or worked?
Is that the commodity cost of the ore, or does it include the cost of the fuel rod assembly and assorted middlemen costs?