skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Male here, legos bored me. I do computers because I like computers. My parents, working class government employees, constantly pestered me to follow them and always asked me what anyone could possibly do with math and computers besides be an accountant, actuary, or teach those subjects in highschool. But like most males I had a driving interest in computers so I couldn't be dissuaded.
He had a Windows laptop according to the filing.

Engineers rarely use windows. He was also a manager at Google. Very techy folk don't take on manager responsibilities because it quickly saps time.

Both those things tell me he was more of a people person than a technical person.
True. But I wonder if more VCs are going to put money in smaller localized ride sharing startups now that Uber is getting such a bad rap.
PegaSwitch: Exploit Toolkit for Nintendo Switch
Are You in It for the Long Haul? [2015]
Sorry, I wanted to say it's based on Chromium not Chrome.
How to Optimize the Full Marketing Localization Process II
When you say hybrid, do you mean hybrid for the same customer (i.e. parts or instances of the service running at the same time on-premise and in the cloud) or for different customers (i.e. a particular customer will either run on-premise or in the cloud, but not both)?
Theranos 2.0...
What are you, communist or something?!

I read a poignant comment on Twitter the other day, about how nowadays public libraries and fire services would never be funded - perhaps we'd give illiterate people tax credits for buying books, and insurance companies would have private fire engines.

The neo-liberal agenda of not allowing any public entity to provide services that could possibly compete with a private corporation has succeeded too well.
I don't think so :( UC Berkeley were forced to take down lecture videos as a result of some slight violation of the ADA. There are a couple links about that further down this page.
Any further background or references on this?
Does supply chain expertise really carry over to last mile delivery though? Especially hot food delivery. Seems like Uber's strength is getting to where the customer actually is instead of putting the product where it is most economical.
I think that's probably correct. 4 courses per year is equivalent to 30 semester units in the US (2 semesters of 15 units each). You can't do it in less than 3 years, due to the university rules which won't let you take more than 4 courses per year.
Roger Ver's quote

“Say you haven’t had any water to drink for a day and a half, and you also need a haircut. Do you drink some water or go to the barber shop? SegWit is like going to the barber shop.”

fails to notice that this barber also provides free drinks...
Much like the programming language.
well, some people are paid for that.
The Powermag.com site seems to be melting down as well. After giving up on loading the page I was able to google a bit and found this article:

"Nuclear Energy Startup Transatomic Backtracks on Key Promises" https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603731/nuclear-energy-sta...

2x the energy per ton of uranium is decent, but I wonder how they ever thought they could get 75x.
I'm trying to add support for lldb to a gdb frontend (https://github.com/cs01/gdbgui/), and need a gdb-mi compatible interface to do it.

lldb-mi exists, but its compatibility with gdb's mi2 api is incomplete. Does anyone know of a more compatible api to gdb-mi2 commands, or if there are plans to improve lldb-mi's?
> vehicle purchasing, insurance, and maintenance, and buying fuel

These are all things Uber does not do. It comes out of the cut the driver takes home, not Uber's revenue.
> If there's a $680 million prize for a successful theft, and people think the chances of being caught are low, you'll need a big penalty to act as an effective deterrent.

The problem here is the prize. It's not a paltry few hundred millions. Just in the USA the yearly car sales are above 500 billion and we are talking about disrupting that big time. Really, really big time. It is not unreasonable to think that private car ownership will become deprecated in 20-30 years. Do you think Google won't be happy to burn the $260M they invested in Uber and a hundred more for lawyers over the years to make sure Uber doesn't get an illicit advantage when the time comes of who will be the doorkeeper?

Can you imagine -- and I know Google can -- the possibilities of an ad company selling all the cars there is? Or the software therein which amounts to the same. Your self driving taxi today is free you just need to listen / watch / immerse / whatever happens by then to ads enroute. You can't even count the trillions they would make.
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Nuclear engineering undergrad at NC State from 2009-2013. It's very easy to get overhyped about molten salt anything. Our groups senior design project presented at the ANS student conference at MIT was on a novel way to pyroprocess SNF to get only Uranium out one end and Plutonium & Radioactive Crap out the other, so it would be proliferation resistant. And continuous.

The theory and simulations all lined up. But we still were cautious about claiming any sort of breakthrough, because we needed empirical experiments to prove the theory. And the government doesn't just hand out SNF (as my Navy Nuke classmate learned when he asked the Pentagon).

The most exciting thing at the ANS student conference at the time was a presentation by a German Graduate student and her work on ceramic cladding of fuel rods. So, its an industry that doesn't naturally lend itself to hype.
Design in Tech Report (2017)
The university of london international programme (used to be called the external programme) has been around for more than 100 years, these are some of the alumni (not in CS though!)
http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/our-global-reputation/o...
Not saying you can make hardcore things on it yet, but: https://github.com/exponent/floatyplane ;)

Expo includes a `GLView` component that provides a WebGL-like API to OpenGL ES. Things like three.js run on it directly! But CPU-side JavaScript becomes a bottleneck (the shaders themselves run at normal speeds).
Seven Rules of Thumb for Web Site Experimenters [pdf]
Anyone have a screenshot of what the UI looks like?
Yeah, that should be completely fine. Presonus has a 8-channel preamp that's about the same price as the 4-channel Cloudlifter, too, btw.
even 2x is pretty damn good, though not being able to consume spent fuel is a huge bummer.

what of the claimed safety benefits? and how completely can it use up new fuel (thus reducing its own waste)?
I begg to differ, the tumbler crowd really doesn't define the extreme left very well at all. The real extreme left, like the black panther types and the revolutionary leftist street gang types ect are mostly in prison and therefore don't have much oppinion being heard in public discourse at all. Many of them also don't speak mainstream dialects of English and are therefore rather hard for us white folks to understand.
Take it easy, think about my country banned google.
Misleading title. The way this is phrased, it sounds like a reactor meltdown occurred (!) and is now under scrutiny.

In reality, it's just an energy startup's exaggerated performance claims that "melted down" (were proven incorrect) when examined by the community.
With for-profit enterprises, there's generally an objective measure of how well you're doing, the bottom line.

Non profits, you can get a lot of people arguing about how to best fulfill the intents of the non-profit. In that situation, whoever argues the most persuasively or loudly wins, and it's the customers that suffer.
https://archive.fo/YoYEu
Mongoose.js – v4.9.0
Here in Southern Ontario (GO train) I have never seen aisles full with passengers. Although on the lower level there are some people standing, the upper deck is usually all seated. Often with some free seats.
Except self-driving cars (in the sense that people in the Silicon Valley Bubble mean) don't exist and likely won't for decades.
That's partially true, but also assumes there's "something wrong" with being poor. Now of course, being poor is a worse lifestyle than being rich if all else were equal, but all else isn't equal. What if someone doesn't want to move to a major tech hub and instead makes just enough money doing something tolerable with people they like enough and they get to live and spend time with people they love. Am I really going to tell them they're missing out on life by not fleeing to a research university for 4 years and then Skyping their loved ones from their [big city] apartment while their roommates are playing loud music through the wall and they have no friends within 2 hours travel? All I'm saying is that there are tradeoffs that make working class people better off in many cases.
Not sure about COBOL but RPG programmers are still highly sought after by large, moated institutions.
Companies with large, existing apps that want to use React Native definitely share the desires written out in your last paragraph. Facebook has this need in their main app. And at React Conf today, Leland Richardson from Airbnb just gave a talk on using React Native in "brownfield" apps and seamlessly sharing a single navigation controller across React Native root views and UIViewControllers and Android Fragments. The navigation library that helps a lot with this is here: https://github.com/airbnb/native-navigation
I was reading like 'Morton Salt Reactor' and thinking do we really have one of those.
Like I said, no realistic mechanism. The effect is so small as to be insignificant, and even more so now than in the Bitcoin XT days.
It's likely not a popular opinion, but I hope React Native and similar frameworks don't come to dominate or be the only option considered in most situations. That's not to say that they have no place in the mobile space, but I do not enjoy web-style development at all. It's half the reason I'm a native mobile dev and not a front end web dev. If RN becomes king, I'll take it as my cue to find a different niche in software development.

I'd much rather see some of the positive traits of JS/RN/etc find their way into Swift/UIKit/etc so I don't have to trade away what I like about native development in its current form.
I didn't say that you need a car to live in Seattle. I said that commute times are not necessarily shorter.

Besides, where did you work when you lived in Seattle? Plenty of people live in the city, but work across the lake in one of the offices in Eastside (Microsoft in Bellevue, Redmond or Samammish, Google in Kirkland etc).

You don't need a car in a sense that you can take a bus, or the private connector shuttle if your employer provides one. But they sit in the same traffic jams on the roads, so it's not really saving you any time (although you do get the benefit of reading or doing something else while waiting).
I think those people think in terms of how much they can fit into their monthly income rather than how much the financing is going to cost them. In other words, if the person make $2000 a month and has $800 left over every month, a $500 car payment is ok and the 14% rate doesn't even enter into the calculation.
uh no. that's the id of the blog post

https://github.com/blog/2105
https://github.com/blog/2106
https://github.com/blog/2107
I'm not sure. I hadn't heard of Entroware before. If the laptop has an Intel WiFi chip it should work out-of-the-box with distros running a recent Linux kernel. I ordered my laptop without an OS and have been running Arch on it for over a year.
GV, of Alphabet, is the investor in Uber. They own 1.8 million series C-1 shares.
drove past there today; Geiger counter didnt budge, so i guess not :/
Right, because everyone is too busy driving their cars, clogging up your poorly designed expressways. 401 traffic is hell at any hour of the day.
eschewing shitty ad networks

Who does that leave?
Experimental implementation of interactable views in React Native
someone want to do us all a favor and define what an explanation is in this context
"technology journalists all too credulous." ha, I guess so.
IIRC, this was a side project written by a friend of mine. He developed it in his spare time, due to his frustrations with MAGIC, and showed it off to enough people that they at least took enough interest to put some effort into it.

He's very much a Meditech lifer, and at this point may have been there for ~20 years at this point. From where he started, it was a big step up. Though what he could've done after his first 7 years at the place, I can only imagine, if he simply put in the effort to go anywhere else.
These numbers go up and down - because yes it's easy to switch pools - but even if 5 pools is the "magic 51% number" today, this centralization is borderline extreme.

This is not about security mind you - this is about imposing the will where it takes 5-6 individuals or maybe one subpoena order from one government considering the physical location of these pools to force the rest of the blockchain to comply with you.
Oh that's awkward. Worse than not being 75 times as efficient, and instead only twice, is this other quote:

In addition, it now specifies that the design “does not reduce existing stockpiles of spent nuclear fuel” or use them as its fuel source.

To me that was the most inspiring aspect of this idea. I'd still one day hope to have a nuclear reactor in my back yard, but to realise that dream we've got to keep the science as well as the engineering on point.

If nuclear scientists goof like this, it does not inspire confidence to the public and all we will end up is projects like Shoreham.
Sorry, but that makes no sense. The used-car dealerships giving people crappy high-interest loans are not affiliated (nor are their lenders affiliated) with the new-car dealerships giving people 0% loans. What incentive is there to give someone a 0% loan at all? There's no profit in it. The only way it makes any sense for the lender is if 1) they hope you'll forget to make a payment and then they can charge you fees, or 2) they're affiliated with the manufacturer, and being used to promote sales.
Watch the TV show "The Good Wife" for a detailed treatment of this technique.
How to put it? I know where the state really lives in the real DOM. I have HTMLInputElement and if user edits it, I can always access HTMLInputElement.value and have the current value. I can associate my data directly with the DOM nodes as simply as node.myData = {something}; and it stays there no matter where the DOM node moves in the meantime.

Virtual DOM is easy to reason about in this simple case:

Events -> State -> VDOM -> DOM

But this is an illusion. DOM nodes can change state as a result of user interaction and you need to account for that (in your head and by updating the State to match).

Anything to do with DnD and animation at once seems like pain to think about in the VDOM world. Or any visual manipulation of dom nodes, reordering, nesting, grouping, etc. DOM has useful preexisting interface for moving nodes around the tree. Easy to use and directly related to what you see on the screen.

There are many cases where abstracting the state away from real DOM and pushing it down in the one way manner of VDOM just doesn't bring any benefits.

In the real DOM world you can glue the state/data to the visual elements on the page, write code that creates UI for re-arranging the visual DOM nodes and then at any time collect the data back from the DOM nodes in the visual or any appropriate order with powerful DOM traversal methods. This direct two way association of DOM and my JS objects helps in so many cases.

Sometimes it is easier to solve the problem in the visual space (DOM nodes) and sometimes it is easier to go from my custom JS objects representing a complex component or something. With VDOM this flexibility is lost and as a result some problems seem like requiring me to stuff the square peg into a round hole. I guess it is somehow possible, but what's the benefit?
> just want basic security against your average smash and grab criminals

I think the concern here is stated in the article;
"I'm attacking a established radio network protocol developed by TI that is used in hundreds, if not thousands of other products that could have also made the same fatal implementation mistakes."

The problem is this device protects against smash and grab criminals, but it literally opens the door and reduces the barrier of entry for more sophisticated, remote attackers. Adding this type of vulnerability to Shodan would mean these devices can be identified, attacked and remotely controlled by any remote attacker, giving them information about the target they never had originally.

I don't think it's too far fetched to imagine an "AirTasker" criminal network, where a remote (sophisticated) attacker links up with a "smash and grab" criminal for hands-and-feet on the ground, agrees to split proceeds and work as a team on something like this.

Personally, I find this very disturbing. A security device manufacturer should take their security, and the responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities, far more seriously than they appear to be to-date.
As Messenger’s bots lose steam, Facebook pushes menus over chat,
My daughter is two and says her favorite colors are pink and purple. Girls aren't innately drawn to those colors but pick them disproportionately based on our society.

I personally can't stand pinky princess shit. I ask for the boy toy in the Happy Meal. And yet she's picked that up.

Most of what kids do is because what society instills in them as the proper thing.
Thanks, I will probably make a wrapper gem around that (e.g. maybe just a `call rb_eval_string ("binding.pry")`).

In my case I get "No symbol "rb_backtrace" in current context.", I will look deeper into it.

Also, there is a great gist about Ruby GDB debugging: https://gist.github.com/mmullis/6211061.
What do you think of Pb-Bi eutectic?
>>It gets way more complicated than that. After reading this kind of code for a few months, you get really good at parsing it.

This must be how APL language users feel parsing their ultra-terse syntaxes (includes J/K/Q variants). Seems most applicable to quant shops that still use kdb+.
The community (including me) is continuing to organize on the sandstorm-dev mailing list (https://groups.google.com/group/sandstorm-dev) and #sandstorm on Freenode IRC. Definitely drop by and say hello!

https://sandstorm.io/community
Same story from the 90s: there was a company called IDX in Massachusetts (and Vermont) which sucked in many MIT recent grads. They were bought by GE healthcare. One person I know is still working there, making periodic trips to Burlington.

I think MUMPS was closely tied to VAX VMS at one point. I'm sure HP (Compaq (DEC)) still makes MUMPS money from OpenVMS.
Mathsteps, a step-by-step solver for math
Are you thinking of Liar![0]?

Looking it up on the Wikipedia, the See Also section includes a reference to HAL.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar!_(short_story)
A light take on the subject can be found in Logicomix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logicomix - a cool blend between the dry topic and comics.
Imagine if every 6-figure dev gave just $1k a year to a basket of all the OSS they use daily.... Man that would be a different (and better) world.
Does Levandowski go to prison if this all bears out in court?
No, it's really not; it's wishful thinking on your part. When someone doesn't even speak the language that most of the host country uses, they're going to have a harder time integrating than someone who does (esp. if they speak it natively, as almost all non-Quebec Canadians do). Thinking otherwise is just fantasy. I'm not saying "there's no place for them", but we're talking about the ease of integration into a new host country here. It's always easier to adapt to and get along in a country where you speak the native language, can talk to most everyone, and can read all the signs, and understand most of the predominant culture, than to go someplace that's completely alien to you and you can't talk to many people and can't even read the signs anywhere.
Having immigration policy and not allowing immigration at all is not the same thing. Even Japan, whose immigration policies are very strict, has both sizeable number of foreign workers and immigrants too. US currently has very open immigration policy (1M immigrating every year) and a problem enforcing the immigration laws it has (tens of millions of illegal immigrants). It's a long distance between this and "no immigration" and there are many points on this way which one could choose to stay in.
Some people do that and get promoted, and in the end get paid well. You can't stop that; there are hustlers in every industry and always have been.

It's only a problem if the employer starts treating this as the norm, and expects to sacrifice their personal time. Then it's time to find a new employer.
> I cannot forget that that wall was supposedly built to keep people out

As far as I know, the Berlin wall was always supposed to keep people in. Strict exit restrictions was common in all soviet regimes, including one in DDR.
You should see the old metro north ones that run from CT to NYC, they are even older.
> KBB has a separate (supposedly more accurate) pricing service specifically for dealers.

This is correct, in my experience. My credit union had a set of data that was supposedly KBB but had totally different info (and lower numbers) than the consumer website. They also capped their auto loans at 120% of that value, to account for dealership markup.
This may be shocking to HN readers but go offline. Crazy idea, right? Join a business networking group, talk to people, and put yourself out there.
You'll will find the same problems in rails community(and I guess in nodejs community too)

Learn to program and do it yourself if you don't find a library/gem. THIS is the solution (anyway in any platform/framework you'll have the 'main' libraries/gems updated...)

Stuck with what you know better and hack a product.
The boards are presented side by side in the documents, but redacted.

I assume they must look similar enough to a non-technical judge for them to be presented in that form, or they would be presented with an expert analysis of the similarities.

My guess is they are identical except the logos. The dimensions of the redaction boxes is very similar.
linus if you are reading, i just discovered your website via this post, and have really enjoyed checking out all the stuff on it. lots of great fun on there, and also lots of very thought provoking ideas about music and the compositional process. thank you!
> all that behavior is super wonderful and exciting

Um. Nope. Uber based on its business on weakening the rule of law by wilfully ignoring the taxi regulations https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-... . To add insult to injury they worked steadily on reinstating indentured servitude by pushing subprime loans on drivers where the payments come out of their wages and their cars not starting if they are remiss. http://valleywag.gawker.com/uber-and-its-shady-partners-are-... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-31/inside-ub... https://twitter.com/shashashasha/status/688734478181732352 And to crown it all, when they started automated car testing they put cyclists in deadly danger https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/19/uber-self...

What's "wonderful and exciting" about this? Uber from day one has been running from the law. You can't do that forever. It's been some sixty years now when the "I fought the law and the law won" song was recorded. It's still true.