skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but the result is ultimately empty and meaningless

Similar to the end of our galaxy, in which all that we've worked for will literally be sucked into a black hole? And if we escape that, eventually our species will fade away like dust in the wind. I see an over-focus on the tangible same as I see an over-focus on the abstract -- they are both extremes that do actually end up nowhere. If one devotes his/her life to the tangible, but never questions the unknown, did they live? Did they ask themselves "What is love" and awe in its mystery when they found it? Or did they break down love into a series of chemical reactions?

No I would not say pondering the unknown or the unanswerable is empty and meaningless. It often provides the fodder for life's later actions. I do agree though that an overemphasis on it ("head in clouds") fits your epistomatic masturbation analogy.
Seems like PR bait. Tim Davis' page is much much nicer.

http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/matrices/synopsis/

I think Trefethen too has nice visualization like this (or maybe that was the spectral thing).
Trial jobs happen at the point that you would be ready to hire that candidate. This is after you have evaluated if they are excitable if they fit well in the current culture of your company or would bring a good change to your company culture, and if they have some level of technical expertise (they went to college, worked at another development position, or have side projects).
What are valid characters for an identifier? Can I have lbry://foo## for example?
Django Rest Framework http://www.django-rest-framework.org/. Makes writing APIs in Python quick and painless.
This is an interesting postulation and one I can support in theory.

My reaction though is tempered in the same way when I hear a US Federal Government person (ex: Secretary of Health) claim that a system of "Patient Empowerment and Patient Choice" is an ideal situation. I disagree. Looking at Health Statistics Reality (cough) a large portion of the US Population has made categorically bad decisions. Obesity. Heart Disease by way of contributing factors.

I get the rationale behind empowerment and allowing patients to find the "best" care around, but trusting Average Health Consumer to make Medical choices when they can't even get Dietary choices right is problematic.
You make a decent point, but if you're unhappy with a patented seed variety, you can change that the following season.

When you buy a combine you are making a pretty big commitment. They are many hundreds of thousands of dollars. Not only that, but it's mostly in your best interest to buy the same brand to buy-in to the ecosystem of parts, dealers, knowledge, etc... so sometimes there is inertia to overcome if you want to transition from, say Deere to Case IH.

It would be like switching from Apple/Lightning to Android/USB-C except instead of a few thousand bucks on devices and maybe a hundred on cables, you're talking millions of dollars.
Welcome the dethroning of Speigel from the youngest billionaire list
Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1 [video] – I'm surprised I haven't seen it before
It would have been nice to see more of the long tail of Years Since Learning to Code and Years Coding Professionally. Wonder why they chose to not ask for the distribution after 20 years?
If anything it will be a market adjustment year while companies building startups in low value industries shift to high value ones (ie, anything AI). High spikes and drops are relatively rare (at most 1-2 decades). And some industries don't have that volatility at all. Startups will always to some extent have fluctuations but that doesn't mean it will be world ending like the last two.

Markets and investors adapt to experience. Much like this article said, companies are learning to wind down companies faster and pivot earlier. Founders and VCs get better at managing risk.
Could someone more knowledgeable here explain this to me? How do you "crack the password using ssh" from a guest VM to the host? That seems to imply that the guest VM and the host were somehow on the same network and the host had a SSH service. Is this the case? And if so is that normal (or the default?) config, that you can network from the guest VM to the host?

Thanks
On the other hand, the majority of the cost of almost any flight is the fuel. Electricity won't be free, but should be considerably less than tonnes of kerosene(I'd love to hear how much less exactly) - which means that obviously airlines can pocket the difference as profit, and they do love that. There's already loads of short connections in EU, so an aircraft like that should be hugely attractive.
Is the terrain any more dangerous or grueling than a desert terrain on earth though?
I wonder if they collect exif metadata (which may contain geolocation). This is creepy.
Have you considered the plethora of cases and stands available for relatively low prices? For someone with 6+ tablets, it just sounds like you buy them because they were cheap... and so that you have something to complain about.
Texas passes bill allowing doctors to withhold information from pregnant women
Security policies don't sound right.

Leaving first employer: Sit in a windowless room with a newspaper and several other people also with feet on desks also reading newspapers, riding out 90 days of resignation notice looking forward to next job. Fully paid, needing to turn-up 4 hours per day mainly centered around lunch, which included a break and had social time with soon-to-be former-colleagues. Cannot in any way be associated with future employer during these 90 days: meetings, personal interaction, emails, visits, anything.

Edit: For those that think this doesn't sound right, think of your access to market-sensitive information, and a loyalty exists with the soon-to-be former employer. Mitigation of ourselves and the organisation.

I, and others in the windowless room were completely OK with this set-up of arrangements, as were our future employers who knew this on signing us. Not a non-complete clause in any way, simple prudence.
It is Y2K-ish; it's "different" so I'm not sure about seriousness. I'm thinking it simultaneously could be easier and more difficult, the standard "it depends" type answer. :)

Y2K is more of a formatting / digit representation problem than a pure data type overflow. The solution for Y2K was to switch the representation of year from 2 to 4 digits, along with coding and logic changes to go along with this.

For Unix / Linux, the solution for the 2038 problem involves changing time_t from 32 bits to 64 bits. At a higher level (eg what's in your C++ code), instinctively I don't think this in itself would involve as many code changes (maybe some data type changes, but probably less logic changes than Y2K, that's my guess). I believe several platforms have already moved towards 64 bit time_t by default... some support this by default even on 32 bit systems, such as Microsoft Visual C++ -- https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/3b2e7499.aspx

Since this involves a data type overflow issue, though, we're dealing more with platform specific / compiler / kernel type issues. I don't know, for instance, how easily 32 bit embedded type systems could handle a 64 bit time_t value. I understand that there are some technical issues with Linux kernels (mentioned in some of the comments) that prevent them from moving to a 64 bit time_t irregardless of platform (time_t should always be okay on 64 bit platforms, it's the 32 bit platforms that will have the issue...)

The good news is we have 21 years to think about it...
No, ambiguity was introduced when the measurement was switched from force to mass. The question remains: what is the weight/force experienced on the wheels on Mars? Knowing the mass won't tell us unless we also know the acceleration due to gravity on Mars.
X-less Ubuntu, unity8 and applications using mir only
There is the same issue with youtube in the browser, where the sub-woofer is not used.
When I went from netflix in browser to the wd-tv I was very surprised when the sub-woofer kicked in.

Both HTPC/WD-TV connect to 7.1 amp with sub.
Collision Finding the Maxwell Way
But then again with the OV card you'll have to check out and in again if you transfer and your train changes color (/operator)
It's not clear that it will change every industry; it'll definitely lead to great job losses in certain fields with the oncoming ADAS boom.

I can't think of other areas where it'll have such a big impact. Robotics (other than Automated driving) has decades more left to fulfill its promise.
This reminds me of the Magdeburg Water Bridge, which is exactly what it sounds like - a bridge where a canal (big enough for large ships) crosses over a river.
Comments do have a place in a data format if the format is intended to be human readable.
This is incorrect. The pound is a unit of force, similar to a Newton. The pound-mass(notated lb-m) is similar to the kg. The conversation you gave above is based on Earth gravity for weight.
I'm reminded of when I was in school, and took western philosophy to try to get some help with how to think about life and the world. Instead what I got was a bunch of, like, Descartes staring at a candle and trying to figure out if it's real.

My thought then and now has been, it doesn't matter. This existence has certain rules to it. Drink poison and you die, hurt people and go to jail. It's up to us to figure out how to navigate that for a time, and that's all we get. As far as we know.

Even if you knew what was outside what we call reality, even if you knew the form of the simulation- what could be done with that information?

I wonder if this sort of thinking is ultimately propelled by a fear of death or some other impetus compelling people to deny that reality is what it really is. Maybe it's somehow comforting to think that your loved ones don't really die and neither do you, suffering isn't real, it's just qubits being shuffled around in a formal game that lacks higher meaning.
In what way is .NET Core "vaporware"? It's a very real thing that is documented and downloadable from here:

https://www.microsoft.com/net/core
Then use another word; 'defect' and 'fault' are two acceptable synonyms I managed to look up in less than a minute.
Surprisingly the wheels only weigh a few pounds each! (I still can't think in metric and I don't have a real number.)

They were primarily constrained by packing volume during cruise (https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission/spacecraft/cruiseconfig/) and then by shock loads as the securing pyrobolts blew during landing (https://youtu.be/Ki_Af_o9Q9s?t=4m14s).
And lost on me is any reason anyone would want to use this chatbot? Does it at some point become an interesting conversationalist?
This is creepy and all but why would anyone ever actually want to use this product? If I wanted to talk to a robot there are tons of much better chat bots.
If they don't want people to easily replicate then why do they publish at all? Doesn't it defeat the scientific process? If it's about protection of the invention then why not patent it?
Even saying something like "California has a lot of people" can mislead you if you look at a map of the state. I live in Michigan and fly into Silicon Valley about twice a year; when I depart Michigan the entire state I fly over shows signs of human population, as everything is at least a farm [1]. In Silicon Valley, most of those mountains you can see on the horizon have nothing (visible from a plane) on the other side of them. Even most of California is empty mountain.

[1]: I have to qualify it with "the parts I fly over" because obviously I'm flying over the southern part of the state. Head north and you start getting vast tracks of wilderness, and the upper peninsula is effectively not populated. There's just a few beads of "civilization" tied together by some fairly long roads, which are themselves most of the rest of the "civilization", and then it's square mile after square mile of wilderness.
A (semi-) educated guess:

Explosive detectors at airports are fine-tuned to detect a few substances; it is conceivable that some terrorist group have found a multi-component explosive whose ingredients will not trigger the current range of explosive detectors. (However, said components will need to be mixed for it to become an explosive, and this is where the 'We don't care what you put in the cargo hold' bit comes in.

That being said, I have a feeling this ban is more about commercial issues than anything else. But, anyway - for the sake of argument, &c. :)
Google Maps' location-sharing feature is one you might actually use
The Hawaii Cure
I feel this comment would be more justified if they didn't mention three other ways to install the tool.
Time and time again the EFF articles throw so many coats of fear mongering and "Chicken Little" doom over worthwhile subjects and causes for Review / Reform / Revision that they become an art of self-parody. If they'd drop the National Enquirer song and dance of extrapolating one to three case examples into an epidemic it would be to their benefit, in my opinion. They're free to behave as they please and raise funds if it works for them, and I'm fortunate enough to live in a place where I can criticize openly, because I do share some guiding principles I'm certain.
And they'll have time to deal with them.
The detecting of hijacked sessions with browser fingerprinting (mouse movements, typing speed, etc.) is a very neat idea - something that could be used to throw off red flags or have users sign-in again with the appropriate warnings and education.
Solution dictates the construction process. No point in over engineering a consumer facing app when flexibility dictates who wins in the market place. Not endorsing agile or any other practice in particular.
Always loved the name of the Curiosity rover, was just reading the wikipedia article, apparently it was crowd sourced from 9,000 proposals and the selected name was from a 12 year old student. Very cool

"A NASA panel selected the name Curiosity following a nationwide student contest that attracted more than 9,000 proposals via the Internet and mail. A sixth-grade student from Kansas, twelve-year-old Clara Ma from Sunflower Elementary School in Lenexa, Kansas, submitted the winning entry. As her prize, Ma won a trip to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, where she signed her name directly onto the rover as it was being assembled.

Ma wrote in her winning essay:

Curiosity is an everlasting flame that burns in everyone's mind. It makes me get out of bed in the morning and wonder what surprises life will throw at me that day. Curiosity is such a powerful force. Without it, we wouldn't be who we are today. Curiosity is the passion that drives us through our everyday lives. We have become explorers and scientists with our need to ask questions and to wonder."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_(rover)
I don't know why you were downvoted for this. I, for one, completely agree.
Try this version instead: There is a rocket to be launched for people to upload problems to solve, the rocket travels in such a way that it is able to solve all the problems and come back to tell people the solution. The way it solves the problem is by orbiting around a tiny planet full of computers devoted to compute the problems they are communicated of. The problem seems to be how to locate the observers.

Edited: time dilation and computation:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/0907.1579.pdf
You know how half of the population lives in less than a dollar a day or so? It's impossible that 2.7b can afford $20/month.
The government does not pay for development, they pay for a portion of basic research across all research areas (and it's nowhere near 50% of all research funds or drug research funds). The entire NIH budget is about 32 billion. Large pharma companies spent around 50 billion on R&D in 2010: http://www.nature.com/nrd/journal/v9/n3/full/nrd3078.html

The incredibly expensive pharma and device development costs are shouldered by industry. The government does not have the risk tolerance or patience for development.

Right now a significant portion of the patent lifetime is spent with the drug in clinical trials unable to be sold. Shortening the patent lifetime would increase prices until the drug went generic, not decrease them,as companies would have less time to get ROI.

The industry is much more complicated than you are making it out to be, and trying to make it unprofitable would not help innovation.
No it's not.

See how easy this is?
Just a "10 miles (16km)" and "half as thick as U.S. dime (0.68mm)" - either directly in text or as on-hover/on-tap tooltips (for web) - would've did the trick just perfectly.
That's not what I see happening. JSON is being used a lot for things that should be human readable. If we want formats purely for machines, we should go binary. Easier to parse and much more efficient.
It's not a pic fool. Take a pic from the keyboard!

I'm sorry, is that English? I have no idea what that sentence means.
Nah, I was just overestimating Paris's status as a flight hub. Although I do wonder if connecting in Paris might make more sense from some of the smaller London airports.
I had a bit of a tough time finding this previous discussion since it was flagged.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12418081

mrkgnao: These two goals -- being subject to the DMCA (and similar laws), and promising a predetermined, immutable set of rules -- are incompatible.

developer2: It's AOL keywords with a bidding system - for any site or service.

The also generated some comments here, though most were focused on the Berkely issue rather than LBRY:

20,000 UC Berkeley Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13887428
I've hired maybe 30 to 40 people over the past 15-20 years and interviewed atleast an order of magnitude more.

I don't claim to have things figured out but I can create a list of things that owrk and things that don't work.

Things that work:

- white board interviews, they let you get a dialog going with the candidate,

- take home work, they let the candidate work at their own pace

- showing work samples, whether that's a hacker rank type thing or github repo or open source work that you use.

Things that don't work:

- white board interview, some people just aren't good at them and they don't map well to real world work

- take home work, its insulting to candidates that you expect them to do something on their own time without pay

- showing work samples, github repos, etc. To easy to fake or take others work as their own, some people don't work on open source-able code, etc

Hmm, so we can establish that no matter how you interview you'll cut out some good candidates. I think we've all come to the conclusion that there is not global maximum on how to hire. In my opinion, you're really just going to have to pick one option and stick with it.

As an aside, as a candidate that kind of sucks, if you don't like white board interviews then you're probably not going to work at a company like Google, Microsoft or Facebook. Your choices are to accept that you won't wokr there or to get better at white board interviews.

Well then we could start by looking at what really successful companies do.

The worlds most successful hedge funds tend to not allow people to really apply, instead they look around for who is doing great research and then reach out to them.

Now its easy to start by saying this isn't applicable to most other companies and you'd be right, your company probably can't have their pick of MIT professors, but it does open up an interesting line of thinking.

What are you looking for in a candidate and how do you find people who are doing great work in that area.

Honestly, I think finance has this area figured out better than tech does. They either hire new grads by doing very heavy university recruiting or they hire from competitors.

In finance the saying is that by the time you are 30 you don't need a resume anymore as wall street is so incestuous that everyone knows everyone else. You are only 1-3 degrees of freedom away from any other person, which means that to hire someone, I just need to pick up a phone and ask the 5 people I know that the candidate has worked with to see if a candidate is worth hiring.
I think some regulation is needed though. I can't look at a generic white pill and tell whether it's oxycodone or acetaminophen. Also, I don't want to take your acetaminophen if it hasn't been proven that whatever is in it won't cause other more serious issues or that I've at least been adequately informed of those side-effects on the front-end.

R&D is also in-part expensive because of the success rate of drug trials and the expertise necessary to conduct the experiments. I'm mostly a free-market proponent, but when a corporations own interests collide with the larger market's interests by killing or otherwise removing a large portion of the productive population from the workforce, I believe there should be regulation.
Ironic that the site is down...
> patents haven't savaged the printer marketplace

I'd _agree_ with you if the EFF claimed that, but they didn't in the article linked. The EFF here isn't making broad brush claims about market structures, except maybe for this section:

> "Courts and legal scholars have long acknowledged that such restrictions impair the purchasers’ personal autonomy, interfere with efficient use of property, create confusion in markets, and increase information costs"

But even here I argue that's the wrong reading. When taken in the context of the rest of the article, this appears to be a traditional consumer advocacy approach taken from the Ralph Nader playbook.
I don't know about that. As I understand it, interesting things can happen if a large number data lines toggle at the same time, and this obviously depends on both the data and the control path. Huge space of possible states.
I have to say though, that I'm not one of these vim users who hate Sublime. I think Sublime, Vim, Emacs and probably also VisualStudio are awesome editors. You should just know one and know it well. That means using it heavily for 2 years +.
>In a less serious vein, if you told me my kids couldn't have their Kindles or iPads on a seventeen hour flight, I'd probably want to kill someone by the end of it.

-Some of your co-passengers would probably beat you to it; you would likely be collateral damage.
Ah hah, I only knew about the first part. Thanks for the link.

Sounds to me like they're afraid of some sort of insider threat with those airlines. Maybe the other airports have sufficient screening for passengers but employees of those airlines might be able to sneak something on.
Frankly, if we are in a Sims type game, I really hope we're in one of those boring parts, or all bets are off.
Some have said that the headline is "sensationalist" or "misleading" because it's not a "keylogger" but a feature that collects all the keys you type so it can "improve your typing experience".

Uh, okay. I would say that's a distinction without a difference, though. What's important is that it collects keys and it's enabled by default. I don't really care about the "intention" behind it, because we all know that intention is not going to be the absolute only use for those collected keys, when the FBI come knocking with an NSL in hand.
Am I the only one that thought they meant the tracks left on the ground?
That's besides the point. Go and Rust developers still use abbreviations unnecessarily everywhere.
Oh please. How do you explain lower class voters voting in droves for Brexit? They did not like all the immigrants from the EU coming and taking plumber and cleaner and other manual labor type jobs. This is not just a US issue.