skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are getting close to advocating for "cost plus" which sounds really good to outsiders who are concerned about "too much profit" but have stunted every industry into which they have been deployed, and end up driving prices as suppliers look for ways to increase how much they spend. (The more they spend, the more profit they can make.) Look at the aerospace industry.
When reading comments like these, I can't help but wonder what the public response would have been if the government had taken action against a vague hijacking threat in Aug-Nov of 2001.
What I don't understand from this article is why the author didn't reach out to his team members in his first job. Maybe she did and just didn't write about it. I've never seen a team or been part of a team though that would not offer help to a new team member. Especially one that needed coaching or even teaching if need be. If the team was that not accepting of a new member, it's an issue with the team and not the new team member and should be addressed.
I'd be extremely surprised if half billion dollar contracts were automated in any way, that seems like a really bad idea.
Package Management: Stop using version ranges
Is this news? I thought it was well established that this was the case long ago.
The fun begins when you need to find performance issues in production, where you cannot really use profiler. Then you need to jump into APM tools. Unfortunately it seems there nothing really for that level for free, but take this for example:
https://www.dynatrace.com/blog/code-level-visibility-for-nod...
In my early days of web app creation, I hated.. and in a way, I still HATE creating an account. I hate handing over my email address. My email is bombarded with .. I would love to call it spam. Hell, I remember spam. My Yahoo email was filled with it! But my Gmail? It's filled with "spam" that I signed up for! It's tech letters and newsletters and things on sale and so on and so forth.. useful? Sometimes. A lot? Nope.

I end up deleting at least 25% of my email without ever reading it. I find some email useful that I wanted or needed. And then the rest? Oh I'll get to it... someday? Maybe? I used to go on a few plane trips every year.. and during that time, sitting, waiting, layover flights, etc., I would go through my emails. I have managed to get through at least 500 pieces of email that way... but as quickly as I delete them, they just re-appear.

And as much as I would love to read everyone's enticing article.. I just don't have the time.

Anyways, I figured I'd create a web app without any sign and no personal information. Only requirement is a headline and a password so that you can return to it later on if you wish. And it is being used throughout the world. I don't collect IP addresses, no email addresses, I don't collect anything. No need.. I'm busy doing other stuff.

But I created to rebel against those websites that require email addresses and email you things you don't want. None of that here... at all. I have no interest in obtaining email addresses or emailing anyone. Just wanted to create a tool for myself where I didn't have to hand over my email address "to the unknown" and I'm happy to have shared it with the world.

Check it out: https://mypost.io/
Why didn't he wire it to a Swiss or Cayman Islands bank account?
You may disagree, but IMO use of evil mode normally indicates a former vim user is trying really hard to not use emacs the emacs way.
You say typos so I assume you are referring to software, which has an automatic copyright on creation, and can be enforced much easier and faster than a patent.
Not Apple, but my recommendations below:

Since I am guessing that the data set will not be obtained until it is too late, I recommend changing your password and turning on Two Factor Auth and you'll essentially prevent this from happening to you at all.
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I believe I did.

Why would I assume that Concurrent runs == Seperate Runs or that other caching mechanisms aren't in place or really anything. Computers do really odd things trying to optimize and making assumptions that your system is the same over a period of 30 minutes when you don't even know it is the same 30 minutes is concurrent. There is all sorts of stuff that gets in the way of performance tests and I would like to know how it is mitigated. Again, I am sure there is proper process, but why wouldn't know want to know what that is?
I saw speculation on Twitter that it was Google or Apple and Facebook. But to me, it seems like it could be any of dozens of companies based on "Internet-related services and products" and "multinational ... online social media/networking".

See also: affidavit [1]

[1] https://www.scribd.com/document/342639731/Rimasauskas-Affida...
If you reference a null object, an exception is thrown.
You're right - you can see the cable harnesses to the drive actuators in the original article. A major concern would be if a big flake bends inward and manages to sever those wires.
The song "Are My Hands Clean?" from the 1980s, by Sweet Honey in the Rock, covers this exact subject. It traces the path of the materials used to make a cheap blouse you can buy at Sears from fields to the store. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vv60O2mk10
We're talking Mainframe system designs and code from the 70s and 80s. No they aren't running 64-bit linux. I think you guys need to re-read my post. The legacy systems on Y2K had none of these features.
Quite likely people on the other side (employees of the victim companies) collaborated with him and got their share...
More detail here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/lithuanian-man-arrested... There's a download link for the actual indictment as well.

He registered a company with a name very similar to an existing, legitimate computer hardware manufacturer. Then targeted companies that already had a relationship and already regularly paid invoices to the company with the similar name.

It mentions the victims were "multinational internet companies". The indictment goes farther, saying:

"Victim-1 was a multinational technology company, specializing in Internet-related services and products, with headquarters in the United States"

and

"Victim-2 was a multinational corporation providing online social media and networking services, with headquarters in the United States"

Edit: It mentions that both victims already regularly paid multi-million dollar invoices to the computer hardware company being impersonated. So, if you're trying to guess who the victims are, they are large enough that they run on their own purchased hardware, in fairly large quantities.
6 months? that's a lot of time.
For picosecond resolution to be useful wouldn't clock rates need to be on the order of THz? Otherwise what advantages would ps resolution give you over ns?
While the space of possible axioms is infinite, and thus the possible mathematics you can derive from axioms is also potentially infinite, I think that a lot of that space is self-isomorphic, so it is possible that in actuality there are a finite set of mathematical relationships. To put it another way, the possibility space of mathematical systems could be like a mosaic made from a finite set of interlocking tiles.

Fundamentally, there has to be a layer of reality with no fixed rules. If the rules are a product of the system then they are affected by that system and it is almost certain that they change at some reachable points in the system's state space. If the rules are not a product of the system, then by definition there is a reality outside that system. That reality outside the system then suffers the same issue - either it has no fixed rules, or it is itself contained.
Why are legislators even involved in what transpires between doctor and patient? It's like half of the US has gone mad, and is only concerned about abortion and guns.
I keep my iPad on my couch end-table, if I need to do any browsing or streaming my phone cannot handle. An added benefit of keeping my iPad here is it serves as a decent TV tray.
Your mother determines your career, your father determines your happiness
even north koreans uses stackoverflow!
I thought, at not even thirty, I was still young. Reading about this chat bot made realize I'm a lot older than I thought I was.
It is tough to strike a balance between a good introduction for technical people and non-technical people.

https://lbry.io/quickstart is good practical introduction.

https://lbry.io/what is a more theoretical introduction.

We've got a WIP new homepage (more of a wireframe) at https://lbry.io/home2 if you want to share any feedback!
Terror attack outside U.K. Parliament
Looking for Peer Developer for Simple Game Idea and Learning Together
Hi Folks,

I have one idea for a simple game.

I am looking for a peer developer. I am a web programmer and feel like if i have to learn game programming i may take a couple months. I would like to get my idea of the ground sooner than that. So looking for some game programmer at advanced beginner or competent stage. Not looking for experts though who may finish the game in a day and take the fun out of it.

Would prefer to join and learn the techniques of game development in this process with this peer developer.

If interested in working together please connect with me at c.arthanari@gmail.com.

Thanks,
Artha
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It's not about getting the job done. It's more about opening ones eyes to the potentials of computer science. Learning Python open the doors to other kings. Not to mention many of the things you are mentioning here are power user features of python as well.
Didn't want to sound as severe but yes... it's hard to decipher why they want it to make like a petri dish under a microscope.
Indeed. I over-simplified - but whatever the mechanism people refer to it's mockable.
Ok, we changed to that from https://www.techpowerup.com/231536/amd-ryzen-machine-crashes.... Thanks!

Btw everybody, if you notice something like this or see a comment by someone who has, and you have a minute to drop us a note at hn@ycombinator.com, it's a real community service if you do so. Then we can change the URL (or title or what have you) sooner than 19 hours in—or rather, sooner than never, since we only found out about this one by a user telling us. We can't come close to reading all the comments but we do see all the emails and (usually) act on the time-sensitive ones quickly even if we can't reply till a bit later.
Even regarding Texas, about 16 million of those 27 million live in just 4 metro areas (Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio). Most of the the development, large metros included, is in the eastern half which is a fair bit less arid. Texas has 8 counties that make the top 50 least populous counties by density (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_statistics_of_the_Unite...).

It fits a pattern that also fits Australia and Canada... people don't want to live as much where it is extremely dry, or extremely hot / cold.
It's already a thing : podsync {dot} net
The risk of puncture would likely cause the safety precautions required to make this cost prohibitive. That's just one battery specific reason, there's hundreds more why jettisoning isn't done except with military aircraft and even then only rarely.
I won't address all your points because I'm phone posting, sorry.
It seems to me that there are two ideal consumers of the tor product; the people who need to use it because they are at risk of being identified in meatspace (needsecurity), and the people that are required to mask the first (providesecurity).

The needsecurity group should not have js enabled because it has been shown to be insecure (correct me if I'm wrong).

I would be happy if there was a big, red, fullscreen, flashing dialogue when tor browser was started asking the user which they were.

I would/will be happier if/when major browsers transition to 'tor as normal' status and everyone is in the providessecurity group.
There were multiple paths we pursued in consultation with our lawyers. If you want me to take your advice over Fish & Richardson, okay.
From my laymen perspective I'd say the terrain itself is less of a problem, the change in temperatures is much more extreme. This article from 2014 has many insights into prior Curiosity wheel damage:

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2014/0819063...
Drugs are the only industry where this really matters. The government can just offer research subsidies to make up for the reduced patent protections, and everyone would still be better off. It's silly to keep our broken patent system just for the pharmaceutical industry.
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What surprises me is that the wheels aren't covered with a honeycomb-like texture instead of these longitudinals M's
Modern hardware is incredibly complex. It’s nearly impossible to reliably predict the performance outcome of the changes. Personally, when I work on optimizing performance of my code, I throw away like 25% of my changes after profiling.

Good architecture with well-defined levels of abstractions makes it easier to change algorithms, to replace implementation of algorithms with different ones, and so on. Even though abstractions are not always free performance-wise, often they do help fixing performance problems, albeit not directly.
Recently I dusted my Asus Transformer TF700 and slapped an AOSP Nougat rom on it. It's reactive, has a good form factor and a crisp, luminous 1980x1200 screen. I can't see a reason to change it. (Bonus: I took on a little challenge with it: No Google services and only FOSS apps. It's an interesting experience.)
I'm not OP but I worked on something similar that also never made it to production.

In our case we were going to use fingerprinting to prevent sweepstakes fraud. People would enter multiple times despite the rules specifying you can only enter once. A lot of people were not sophisticated so much of it was easy to detect (eg same contact info but different email). Some were less easy to detect so I figured fingerprinting could help.

I never finished it so it was never tested in a live environment. We wouldn't have shared the info with anyone except in the case of fraud so I don't see it being a problem.
My wife has some hearing problems and pays for an automatic speech to text in her voice messages.

There are some hilarious errors but it's surprisingly readable. So it's necessary for some people.

I definitely wouldn't mind such a service in our meetings provider, but the company currently uses either Skype or Go2Meeting (EDIT: I see it can dial in. I might try it :) ). I worry about confidentiality as well (the CSO would have my hide if some of the future projects are leaked due to such a service).

It's an extra I could provide in my very own startup though :) (we're still struggling with core features so not for version 1).
>That process being enforced will ensure that most code is buggy and development is totally unproductive.

I don't think I'm following you. The procurement process is quite different than our coding process which involves team reviews and the like. Yes, productivity isn't as high as it could be because we sometimes have to develop something in house instead of using open source code, but we still have code review, unit testing, and similar required.
Your attempt to respond sincerely was to say you don't have any women on staff because you don't have any executive assistants or office managers, which even a generous reader would call a sexist reason:

https://mobile.twitter.com/LBRYio/status/844194654656626688
That's blatantly racist.
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Try to call international company with thousands of workers and get somebody who knows anything on phone. Also, most workers simply don't care for a tiny chance of scam, it's not their money after all.
JSON Patch (http://jsonpatch.com/) also uses it.
Nothing that can be learned from tools belongs in a standup—or any meeting—unless it's especially notable. Spend a morning automating the reporting of it to email or IRC or Slack or whatever (god, email, please) and forget about it.
Tor comes with NoScript but JS is still enabled. The very first thing you should do after installing Tor is disable JS.
Exactly, we should be proud of creating Software that works and works great. Not the languages we develop in. The one main lesson if there is I learnt from 13 years of development is, keep the dev stack boring!
This is not obvious from the perspective of someone who's not familiar with rocketry or how light space structures need to be.
> In reality, those panels could maybe power the onboard lights and computers? Just about?

Doubtful. I don't have the exact numbers handy, but the power draw there is much higher than you think. That said, if you're unicorn farting skittles scenario was actually possibly (100kW solar per plane), which we know it isn't, then sure, it's enough power for that.
Their essay has a tl;dr at the bottom, I didn't bother reading the actual essay. It was way too long, when all I wanted was the answers to the three questions you posed.

>TL;DR
Digital art is one of the first goods to evolve beyond scarcity. This evolution is changing the way content is discovered, publicized, paid for and delivered. Heretofore, the lack of transparency and monetization mechanisms in peer-to-peer sharing networks has largely enabled piracy. By equipping a peer-to-peer protocol with a digital currency and transparent decentralized ledger, the LBRY protocol opens the door to a new era of digital content distribution making peer-to-peer content distribution suitable for major publishing houses, self-publishers and everyone in between.

If LBRY succeeds, we will enter a world that is even more creative, connected, and conservatory. We will waste less and we make more. We will create a world where a teenager in Kenya and a reality star in Los Angeles use the same tool to search the same network and have access to the same results -- a world where information, knowledge, and imagination know no borders.
Is there anonymity in LBRY?
>I don't recall Kansas folks trying to tell NY what to do about LGBT. That's the point I was making.

As someone who was born/raised and lived in Kansas until three years ago I can say that Kansas evangelicals have regularly tried to browbeat leftists and moderates in other states and cities.

>We're already there - just ask Brendan Eich, Curtis Yarvin or Donald Sterling.

Are any of these people unable to find work, pray as they wish, or life safely without threats or acts of violence? If the answer is no then their public faux pas aren't equivalent to being actually ARRESTED and KILLED as many folks (even German Princes) were during the Thirty Years War. The fact you want to dilute the impact of religious sectarianism shows your inherent dishonesty on these matters.

>Companies do check social media to make sure people haven't expressed views outside the overton window, e.g. being anti-gay or anti-fat.

That's called capitalism. Don't like capitalism then abolish it. Because the moment you become a professional or an entrepreneur under capitalism you become private property of the board of directors and anyone else who has legal authority to hire/fire you.

>See also my reply to Rayiner which asks the question why people who prefer not to buy health insurance (as opposed to people who prefer sex with men) don't also get equal protection under the law.

Well I prefer not to have to wear pants at work but that doesn't mean I should have the liberty to lounge around in my pajamas like some lazy ass college student. We do things like insurance mandates as a compromise between having a sprawling public bureaucracy versus a series of small and possibly more efficient private bureaucracies (as this point I'm not convinced of this benefit myself). Like it or not, that's the way our system works. Want to live in the US then you get health insurance (for now). Want to drive a car then you get car insurance, too. All this libertopia nonsense doesn't work especially in the US where private businesses are effectively the second federal government.

>Personally I quite enjoy sectarianism - I like the transactional society, where even a Nazi can peacefully purchase a Pepe-as-Hitler cake without getting sucker punched by a cowardly masked thug.

I'm sure you'd love it in Mugabe's Zimbabwe or 1990s Balkan states then where if you don't toe the line you're dead. Because that's where sectarianism leads. It's not many little enclaves that live in peace, it's many little enclaves that shoot at each other literally. And those Nazis do deserve a swift kick in the breeches since their ideology by definition seeks to abolish all democracy. You can't co-exist with someone who wants to disenfranchise you. It's either their way or the highway (which usually ends at a death camp). And they have no qualms with using violence to ensure their way is accomplished.
The problem is lack of knowledge, the average customer, including me when I bought my current crappy printer, doesn't have enough knowledge to know that certain printers eat ink. In fact, printer companies that use these sales tactics are relying on lack of customer knowledge. So it's not really reasonable to say that people are ingoring good companies and going to ones that use abusive tactics, its' more that people just don't know.

I get that the customer has some responsibilities, but it doesn't make sense to say that the customer has to exhaustively reserach the ethics of every single company they buy something from. That would make buying a full time job considering our complex modern economy where customers regularly interact with many many companies and buy many many things
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I dunno, this doesn't seem any creepier than Snapchat... They built a business where people send them free training data for their facial recognition ML.
Can't you just use something like performance counters, like perf for Linux?
I would love to see a write-up of everything we've learned about wheel engineering from the Mars rovers. What would the team(s) responsible for Curiousity's wheels do different now? (I don't mean to imply that their design is not successful -- just that I'm sure they've learned from this iteration)
I don't think it's not so much hypocrisy as much as they want to protect their reputation.

They can't control what third party software does so they don't want people loading third party software that negatively effects their products thus negatively affects their reputation.

I don't agree with it but I can see their angle.
While it can be nice to learn at work, that isn't the prime aim: the main reason to work is to make money. If you are productive, enjoy it and save your mental energy for after-work projects.

Granted; there are some things that require so much time you need to do it at work to really get the grasp of it, but this isn't everything.
application of DRY can also accumulate technical debt.

The main thing is communication - duplicate, but put comments in both places regarding the duplication so they can be merged if they haven't diverged after time.

This is also why I dislike "no comments in code" principles - communication is key, and there are some things only plain English can convey; If all your comments are code, you aren't communicating enough!
And there is literally nothing preventing that from functioning with Go. All you are complaining about is that the central "package repository" doesn't exist yet, where as my point is that Go has given you all the tools to build a central or distributed repository as you choose. You seem to be most upset that people are just using GitHub cause it's free and it works, and how is that different then any other central repository?
The flip side is that Curiosity has never, to my knowledge, flipped over and tumbled at near-escape-velocity, shedding solar panels and scientific instruments as it goes.