skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's easy to confuse Blue Origin with other companies with paper plans, but they're the real deal. Besides having demonstrated clear competence with New Shepard (with an LH2 engine no less), the orbital version is well underway. They've leased the pad, are currently building the factory, and are testing the engine. And Bezos definitely has the money. They may not be flying the New Glenn yet, but they will.
It's not a question of innocent or guilt. You're talking criminal terminology. In the case at bar it's a question of liable or not. If you're sued for a bazillion dollars and you didn't do anything wrong, then saying something that would help your case could save you a bazillion dollars.

On the other hand, if you did do everything you are accused of, then you're probably right, it can only hurt you.
If it was not for Hanlon's Razor, I'd think this was deliberate and part of the process of cheating the guy out of the money he was entitled to.

Though this is a repeat of history as this has happened before, for example with the guy that got bitten by a rottweiler[1].

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/11/your-money/questions-abou...
That behavior was what I was referring to. I only have limited understanding on the topic; it seems my explanation was not quite right. Thanks for correcting me.
This is one of the few posts that actually answers the question.

Invoking the fifth makes it more likely that he (and Uber) will lose the present civil case, which would be very bad for Uber and pretty bad for him. But it could protect him from future criminal prosecution. So I guess he thinks it's pretty likely that he would be found guilty.
I think the stated reason for building a sustainable city on Mars--to ensure that a disaster on Earth doesn't end the species--is a damned good one. The science and other technology that will come as a result of the colonization is just bonus.
Why Spike Lee Never Feels Bad Asking for Money
There are a number of issues.

1. Don't be too surprised if the investors don't care. Because a) as long as they put a decent play together who cares? and b) what are they going to do? sue them? that will make the investor look bad (they should have done DD) and give them a bad rep (who would ideally want to take investment from an investor who has a track record of suing you).

2. If the investor has a board position it might be ok. But you're probably under an NDA with the company. Disclosing this to the investor might be violating that NDA and you should consider this.

I would probably mention in casually if you mention it at all. Like, you found it interesting how that play worked out and were a bit surprised that they could get funding using a publicly available demo. Probably I would make it part of a wider discussion or something...
Do we not consider the storefront and payment processing offerings business software? What about Aurora, Redshit, and EMR competing directly with Oracle and SQL Server? Or, their replacement of a number of web application servers? Seems like they started to climb that vine a while back.
Reading comprehension is hard :p
a) It wasn't hereditary.
b) A bunch of ragtag Meccans came to Medina with a destitute Prophet, where there were two well armed and well established Arab tribes and three Jewish tribes. No armed conflict took place, because there is no reasonable way to assert that that would not be recorded, by both Jewish and Muslim sources.
Because if you fire them they will turn against you. They are your employees, and their wrongdoong will be attributed to you. They might very well agree to testify against you, civilly or criminally, in exchange for the suit being dropped. But if you keep them on the payroll (and often pay their lawyers) you can create a common front and limit their ability to 'go rogue' and harm you.

The reckoning can come after the suit's settled.
Eh... a thunk could absolutely call `dispatch({type : "SOME_ACTION"})` rather than doing `dispatch(anotherActionCreator())`. It also allows consistent use of binding to `dispatch` in conjunction with `connect`, per my post "Idiomatic Redux: Why Use Action Creators?" [0].

The canonical explanation for why middleware is the place for async logic is in a couple of SO posts by Dan Abramov [1] [2]. Quote:

> So the benefit of using middleware like Redux Thunk or Redux Promise is that components aren’t aware of how action creators are implemented, and whether they care about Redux state, whether they are synchronous or asynchronous, and whether or not they call other action creators.

In other words, a component simply calls `props.someFunction(someData)`, and it doesn't care where the function came from, or exactly what it does. It could be a plain action creator, a thunk, or a spy in a test. If there's asyncness that needs to happen, that can be handled outside the component in a reusable fashion.

There's also precedent for overloading `dispatch` and "teaching" it to understand parameters other than plain action objects, such as promises.

I understand your points, but very much disagree with your conclusions. (In a slight appeal to authority: I'm one of the current maintainers of Redux, and keep a list of links to React+Redux resources [3].)

[0] http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2016/10/idiomatic-redux-why...

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35411423/how-to-dispatch-...

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34570758/why-do-we-need-m...

[3] https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links
"Nobody yet has mentioned the big picture. To me the big queston is: How the fuck do Levandowski and Kalanick still have jobs at Uber?
"

It would damage their claim that nothing bad happened.
You also assume this isn't a deliberate strategy on the part of the lawyers:

See if they can avoid discovery by having him claim the fifth, while not firing him/etc for doing it.

You can hold the fact that someone claimed the fifth against them in a civil lawsuit.
Uber could just be betting that the consequences of this strategy are better than the documents that would get released.
There was another good article posted on HN on floating points - http://lemire.me/blog/2017/02/28/how-many-floating-point-num...

where the key takeaway is that between -1 -> 1 is where the %50 of floats live.
I am acknowledging that there are probably(definitely) better ways to do what I did. I'm trying to think in advance to put my own ego aside and be open to changes. My work really isn't anything extraordinary. It's just a new thing for me to give access to something I've been working on that someone else might change completely.

Still I mean it's about production, doing it right, efficiency, performance, etc...

The other developer will be developing a separate area. I don't know I think I am pretty logical in my thinking on how I code/break a process down.

Yeah I guess I'll have to see how it goes.

Thanks for your input and the link.
Because plenty of enterprise companies did get rich prospecting. And as to your analogy: there's a lot more money in being BHP, Exxon, Chevron, Shell, BP, Glencore, Rio Tinto, etc. than in selling the shovels.

Oracle has earned $30 billion in net income the last three years and is worth $183 billion. That's just one enterprise company. It's as simple as that. There's no scenario under which AWS doesn't increasingly target enterprise software companies, in an attempt to commoditize various products & services they provide and destroy their margins.
Another thing to think about is SpaceX's customers don't buy the rockets, they buy the launch. So every first stage a customer pays SpaceX to build, once it completes it main mission, is now a stage SpaceX can use for their own purpose

... like building a LEO constellation of 11,943 satellites.
This oba-chan proves it’s never too late to start coding
I don't understand your distinction between the company and the people working at or managing it. The company = the people at the company.
Does it bother nobody else that the title says mandelwat and not Mandelbrot?
You wouldn't even believe how much I know about writing. Tons. It would knock your socks off.
The above poster may have overstated it slightly; the judge's response had a bit more to it that makes it less of a slap.

"Okay. The public will read what you just said.

I'm sorry, but the public's right to know what goes on in the federal courts is more important than the newspapers beating up on you in the press."

Which is absolutely true, and more than anything you can read it as cautionary from the judge. The Lawyer is trying really hard to draw attention away from what's going on and the Judge is outright saying the freedom of press and right of the public to know is more important than the case getting slammed.

It's not bias, and it's really not unprofessional either. Most of the transcripts I've taken the time to read, Judges usually do have a slight sarcastic side to them when Lawyers or participants in the court do unusual or silly things, but it's always framed around the work.

Sometimes judges lose it - true, but that's why why we have the stenographers.

In this case, the lawyer was trying to make a really silly play to garner sympathy for their client, and the judge called them out on in.
One of my most enjoyable projects was writing a Mandelbrot generator for the Gameboy. It was so slow that if you wanted to fill the very low res screen you'd be the better part through your battery life. Great fun though.
In fairness I haven't read the contract between this host and airbnb...but very unlikely is anyone "entitled" to any funds legally.

Rather, airbnb likely has a provision for a claims process to evaluate these types of incidents, make determinations and if applicable make an offer to settle the claim. But the host is not unilaterally entitled to any funds.

Now if the host is unsatisfied with the terms of the settlement for any purpose, whether it be the amount, the required release of liability or confidentiality...then, the host can reject/counter the offer and take it to court if necessary, where they can prove they are entitled to damages and airbnb is liable for said damages.

But for the record you are right that is how it reads, because that's the rule on how settlement agreements read. In other words if you want to resolve x here and now with me putting cash in your pocket, while simultaneously waiving my right to due process, you will release me from further liability regarding the claim, and agree not to disclose the terms of the settlement. Otherwise you can incur the time and costs of court and I'll do the same to begin preparing my defense, And that's why I can't leave the offer open ended because the circumstances of the claim have changed (in this case time and cost involved, but in others it could be evidence that comes out that helping my case).
Yes, biases exist against everybody and the riddle is a poor example, but my point was that one poor argument does not invalidate all the research that points in the same direction: In the workplace the biases against women hardly compare to the biases against men.
Ha I like that on that link it says "...Bulldoze the site down ..Start over..." I am kind of guilty of that when I took over this abandoned single page eCommerce thing (without the payment) that was built using bootstrap and at the time I didn't know how to use Bootstrap (still don't really). So I rebuilt what they had with scratch code, the scroll-animations the sectioning of content it wasn't a large site to rebuild but yeah that was probably dumb.
>Walmart is not going to NOT sell Doritos. And a store brand imitation isn't going to substitute.

Walmart, with GreatValue have been able to imitate many popular brands en mass quite well. At the end of the day, people will choose the most convenient route, its partially why Walmart succeeded in the first place. Even though they didn't always have what your hometown or small chain store had, they had something like it, and it was cheaper.

Walmart has the power to replace popular products in their store with their own products and still draw in the same people in all 2200+ stores across the U.S. now that's a dystopian thought.
If you depend on Zig then you only depend on Zig to produce a binary or library for any system.

If you depend on Nim then you depend on Nim, a C compiler, and a linker. And I hope your C compiler supports cross compiling out of the box. It probably doesn't.
Trying to build the smallest Angular application possible
Do you think I am ELIZA? Would you like me to be ELIZA?

Seriously though, I quoted the reference exactly in my question, since I knew people would be touchy about the subject. Based upon other people's reaction to my question, some people are very touchy about the subject even when addressed elliptically and without pre-formed notions.

Thank you for your answer.
> the specifics of the law is absurd and deeply hostile to the intent of the Constitution.

All of these scenarios exist because courts have interpreted the constitution. I'm not sure SCOTUS is "deeply hostile to the intent of the Constitution."

Yes, it's complicated, but that is because real life is complicated.

Tangentially, this is why something like Ethereum or other "Smart Contracts" are so hard and why lawyers exist. The real world gets complicated quickly.
OP is in England. Do they have small claims courts?
Sightings Fuel Hope for Return of Tasmanian Tigers
This is pretty much my experience as well - accessible Bayesian methods (and now accessible causal inference models) were a major portion in those methods being adopted.
>737 that has done 2500 starts and landing

You can probably add another zero there. 737 airframes don't even need a special inspection and maintenance program until they hit 60,000 takeoff/landing cycles. [1]

[1] http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgFAR.nsf...
Depends on how many times they can re-use a core.

The upper limit comes from the fact that they are currently only reusing the first stage, and that the first stage core is ~75% of the cost of a launch.

So, if they can use a core n times, they get a % discount:

2 38%
3 50%
4 56%
5 60%
10 68%

They are planning on additional future reuse, the next portion is probably recovering the fairings.
I'd call it a poison pill. Consider what it most likely is trying to prevent you from doing, and then go do that instead of what condition the poison pill is attached to.
I call BS. I can't believe the claims that they are making about this chip. 50 times better battery life, and desktop level gpu in a button. I'm sure about that.
AI could destroy hiring in one of the biggest industries for graduates
Rambling alert

I doubt someone would rewrite the progressive loader I developed for this area (really bad internet like 0.3Mbps) that has a 2 second max-delay "interrupter" that shows what it has so you're not thinking the page is broken. I don't know I feel pretty proud of what I made but yeah it would suck from an external person to trace though it though not really it's two blocks that loop back on to themselves before ending. Load and grab the very small 1KB images and then load the higher resolution and replace the low res ones.

It could have been written better like the tiling that calculates and "perfectly" divides the screen. Yet it's not easy to decrease the width of each tiles and change the number of tiles per row. There are currently five of them. If you kept scrolling you'd end up displaying 400 images+.

Anyway onwards I suppose. Rambled.

Edit: I shouldn't say I doubt. Once you see how something works I think it is easier to reverse engineer it than arriving to that conclusion due to various changes. I'm actually looking to the eventual freedom of moving away from this particular project.
Stochastic heuristics/sanity-checks
Ah! fond memories, related one of the most vexing and entertaining bug that I discovered in my code.

I was using C++'s std::sort and soon enough things would go wrong. It would crash at unpredictable times, I suspected I was corrupting memory somewhere. Parts of my data structures would get overwritten by parts from some other data structure. I checked and checked and checked my code, nothing seemed wrong.

Its only after opening the covers, when I started peering into the sort that I realized my mistake. I was passing the comparison operator that was a "less than equal" relation.
This seems like it will be an extremely difficult business to turn around. Food delivery is an extremely competitive and low margin business with highly price sensitive customers. I've seen coworkers rotate to whichever new service was offering a discount to juice their adoption numbers. I don't see this ever being a lucrative investment, just good money being thrown after bad.
SpaceX is an amazing company that is moving innovation forward in leaps and bounds. I love this because it does bring people together and gets humans to look up, above problems and fighting and gets us realizing we are in this together.

I still cannot get over the reverse landing on the drone that first time[1] it was almost unreal and took them a while to get there [2]. That image is seared in my brain like the moon landing probably is for people who lived through that.

It was about a year ago and SpaceX is already, in less than a year, performed the reverse landing on the drone and successful relaunched. Amazing moment in human history and SpaceX continues to lead the way.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPGUQySBikQ
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa_mtakPlfw
Whites are currently being replaced with Latinos and other non-Whites in the US thanks to immigration reform in the 60s. Soon people of majority White European descent will become a minority - all that in a time span of just about half a century.

That is indeed a slow and ironically self-inflicted genocide happening due to immigration and the massive difference in birth rates.
This project specifically does not try to implement memory, leaving this to Raspberry PI. In this case (1), the simplest CPU (by part count) is a 1-bit one, such as Motorola MC14500B. The application handbook http://tinymicros.com/mediawiki/images/e/ec/MC14500B_Handboo... (pdf) explains how it works.

- CPU does not contain program counter: instead, a regular binary counter counts PC from 0 to max program ROM, then wraps. You can clear OEN bit to turn write operations into no-op's. (For an advanced usage, you have JMP and RTN instructions which just set corresponding pins. It is up to you to wire something to them.)

- CPU does not contain instruction decoder: instead, some bits from program ROM are wired to address bus. For example, 16-bit wide ROM will be split into 4 bit instruction and 12 bit memory address. Max amount of RAM supported depends on your ROM's width. RAM is bit-addressable. There is no indirect RAM access (unless you implement it yourself).

- CPU does not contain wide registers: you get one data bit, one result bit, and two flags, for 4 bits of state total.

- CPU does not contain ALU: you can do AND/OR/XOR, optionally inverted -- so just a single bit LU unit.

This machine is not Turing complete at all (2), but it is still possible to implement basic arithmetic, as well as simple games such as "pong".

(1) I am ignoring all other requirements here, like clear layout and educational value.

(2) Strictly speaking, no real machine is Turing complete, because Turing machines require infinite memory. But this machine is super bad because it has no indirect memory access at all.
Certainly in the long term they won't be able to enjoy their margins.

However, they are already one of the lowest cost launch providers available at the moment. Others have work to do just to catch up with SpaceX today. And _nobody_ is just around the corner on reusability. I don't know of any other provider that will have a reusable launch in the next 3 years.

Even then, those other providers will just be dipping their toes in reusability.

I suspect, if reusability starts going well for them SpaceX will have 4-6 years to enjoy the benefits of being the only major provider on the market with a reusable first stage booster. It won't last forever, but there are some good times coming up for them in the near-term if they can keep things running smoothly.
Google Beats Apple as America’s ‘Most Valuable Brand’
That's exactly, what I'm doing in my current job. Just come on time and leave on time as well. Remember, "there will be always work for us to do", hence you need to set the expectations to your boss.
Setting up IPSec on OpenBSD is much, much easier than on Linux. IKEv2 setup is two lines in /etc/iked.conf:

user "someuser" "somepassword"

ikev2 "roaming" passive esp \
from 0.0.0.0/0 to 192.168.1.128/25 peer any \
ikesa auth hmac-sha2-512 enc aes-128 prf hmac-sha2-512 group modp2048 \
childsa enc aes-128-gcm group modp2048 \
eap "mschap-v2" \
config address 192.168.1.128/25 \
config name-server 192.168.1.1

Then setting up NAT is as simple as this one-liner in /etc/pf.conf:

pass out on egress from 192.168.1.128/25 to any nat-to egress

Using IKEv1 instead of IKEv2 is just as easy (one-liner in /etc/ipsec.conf), except you also have to configure L2TP. That's also very simple.

The Linux IPSec stack is just... incomparable.....
Absolutely disgusting. Most articles are mentioning the nefarious things the app cannot do and are skipping over the fact that VZ has implemented a carrier-wide MDM that allows them to force-push apps. Total insanity, Alice in Wonderland.
Oh man, high school. Our grade 11 CS class had us developing with C# and running our projects on local Xbox 360s. Being able to target the current gen console hardware was extremely engaging.

For the final projects most of the students made simple games such as pong or breakout. But I decided to write a Mandelbrot/Julia set viewer and had to dig into writing my own shaders in HLSL? (been a few years). At the end of the day flying around the sets with a controller in real time to Jonathan Coultons "Mandelbrot Set" felt bloody amazing.
Facebook clones GoFundMe with ‘personal fundraiser’ feature
As I said above, it's a question of whether he is innocent or guilty of the crimes he will be accused of in the potential criminal case that will follow. Remember, pleading the fifth can only be done to avoid self-incrimination, not to avoid testifying about your employer.
Plead the fifth cause you can't plead the first!

- RATM

I have no idea what's happening. I support autonomous vehicles and not having to walk 6 miles home after work if there was greater public transportation that operated at night.
Exactly the same. By reading comments, you do get the community idea on that particular article. To be frank, I felt comments gives more information than the article it self, atleast IMHO.
There's a lot of things in this presentation that it would be awesome if the JVM had. But unfortunately it seems it might take a long time before even some of these features are released.
They can survive, but from an investment standpoint they need to be able to expand and grow for it to make sense.
". Pleading the fifth may result in an adverse inference jury instruction, or an adverse inference determination by a judge in a nonjury trial. "

Yes, but they lose nothing as a strategy by having him do it unless the inference the judge threatens is so negative, and then, as they said, "his view on whether to claim the fifth may change as the case progresses".

....

Now, certainly, most companies are ethical enough not to try such a strategy, but ...
What privacy does a VPN actually provide?
I am an American, and dismayed (but not surprised) that the US Congress voted to allow ISPs to cash in on data derived from my usage of the internet. Supposedly VPNs solve this problem. What does this hide other than my IP address? If I, in the USA, visit foobar.com, whose server is also in the USA, then all the HTTP headers are intact, and someone who wants to track me has everything he had before I started using a VPN, except for IP. Or is the IP actually that important to the people who make a living by selling my data?