skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title is inaccurate. This is known as the Mother-of-all-bombs (MOAB unofficially, or GBU 43/B officially). For people who like comparisons, Russia tested the Father-of-all-Bombs in 2007, which is believed to be 4x more powerful. The FOAB is a thermobaric explosive that offers certain advantages over common explosives.

More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_of_All_Bombs
Meetups are awesome.

I highly recommend board game meetups! There are lots programming related meetups as well.
Tesla Semi truck unveil set for September
Actually it is a good metric. However the metric is not a linear shape, but within 20% of linear. If you are not within 20% you need to do something about it. In general once you are within that further effort towards perfection is not desirable.

Remember the real goal: money. Sometimes it is money from sales, sometimes it is money saved. (even in case of a charity where there are higher goals money is a proxy for the real goal since it can be applied to the goal in some other way). If management can predict with reasonable accuracy when features will be done they can translate that into how much it will cost. Then they compare cost vs expected rewards (expected rewards is the job of marketing) and decide if they should focus on feature A, B, or both.

Note that many managers fail to understand error bars. There is no way to know exact numbers. However you can predict your likely error, and if the error is too high you can spend more money to reduce the error.

I recommend the book "how to measure anything" for more detail.

In the mean time when management wants perfect linear burn down charts, there is only one way to achieve them: overestimate your stories, finish them early and then go home. If you are paid for a 40 hour week you should average about 15 hours a week, but once in a while you will need to work a 40 hour week (60 hours every 10 years or so). Most management considers this unreasonable (for obvious reasons), but if a perfect linear slope actually is that important to them they will agree.
Have a good idea but can’t code? How to find a technical co-founder
There's a brilliant, modern solution to this problem, and if the failed US democracy that I was born into can be fixed, I think this will be one of the cornerstones:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting

It's often called RCV (Ranked Choice Voting) because that's what it was dubbed in Maine, the only US state so far to approve a plan to implement it.

It rolls the runoff(s) into one vote, and leaves the drudgery to computers (could be done by schoolchildren manually, though, or whatever).
Oh yeah that was a miswording on my part. I wanted to say it can be claimed using copyright laws.
I found PhantomJS pretty unusable for my use-case. It always spits logs to stdout and there's no way to change that. Filed a bug and he said "fix it yourself"...sorry I don't know Qt.
What's the best way to get patent encumbered media working with Fedora for non Americans?

apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras, does it in Ubuntu.
> reporting bias accounts for a whopping 43% of the overall MBA wage gap. I can't imagine 'guys' ever over-stating their stats.
It's not a law but the two parties control the Presidential Debates with a bipartisan commission that consistently excludes third parties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_Presidential_Deb...

The history of it is very interesting; essentially it was formed after the League of Women Voters, who used to run the debates, stopped running them because the system had become too corrupt: "the demands of the two campaign organizations would perpetrate a fraud on the American voter."
I just have to smile. Parallel realtime garbage collector. What do you do, start threads? On an embedded system? What if all the other cores are already occupied with doing something? Do you preempt those threads? There, you lost a couple dozen microseconds until your garbage collector even started doing something (also see: Translation Lookaside Buffer flushes and its costs). I am sorry, I do not believe it. I need to hit timings within that time, accurately. I don't have any time for garbage, I need to get stuff done on the CPU, then and there!
>this open floor plan bullshit has permeated everywhere, and I have no desire to move to the west coast.

Um, what does the west coast have to do with it? In fact, isn't it even worse over there? It seems like that's where this stupid open-office fad started.

If there's some region where open offices are not the norm, someone please tell me so I can start making plans to move there.
yes I've thought about this as well after the event, now I keep a printed copy in my pocket and use the one on my phone in case something like this happens again (on a different airline)
That seems unlikely... It would seem they have two sets of crawlers... one that does typical/advanced scraping, and another that runs the JS (Chromium) and takes DOM snapshots. This is reflected by changing certain properties (window title etc) and seeing them reflected in Google's search results. A couple years ago, the lag was several days to a week behind on new content via as-rendered from the server vs. via JS.
Install the free and non-free rpmfusion repos https://rpmfusion.org/
til: terminix (gnome terminal emulator with tiling). Pretty neat. Interesting compromise for those (like me) who might like some features of a tiling window-manager, but prefer Gnome.

Oh, and other really neat feature: "terminix --quake" (https://github.com/gnunn1/tilix/wiki/Quake-Mode)
A trained cyclist is roughly 25% efficient, and 1 kCal = 4.184 kJ. The power meter precisely measures kJ. The end result is a near 1:1 ratio between kCal burned and kJ measured.

Sure, the power meter under reports total expenditure. For example, it doesn't exactly account for BMR, increased expenditure due to elevated heart and respiration rate, utilization of muscles in your arms and torso, etc.

However, it is extremely accurate compared to the alternatives.
> Hey now, inferring that some journalists deserve protection because they may have credentials with a company or govt is both silly, and very dangerous.

I'm not sure what you mean by your comment with respect to what I wrote — I'm not inferring anything. The ESTA visa waiver program allowed for some leeway in granting people who visited certain countries (e.g., Iran, Iraq) access in certain cases. This seems to have included politicians and journalists. I expect that the US government did limit this to accredited journalists.

Personally I agree with those critics who point out that the whole ESTA program is effectively a thinly disguised visa program. It is a shame that it exists in the first place.
It's the best kind of comment. Haha
Keep in mind - Real Estate prices are a driving factor in this stereotype. Biking to work is cheap. Living close enough to work that you can comfortably bike is often expensive (especially for families/households).
U.S. Drops Its Largest Nonnuclear Bomb on ISIS Tunnel Complex in Afghanistan
Is there some form of LTS for Fedora? I'm lazy and only upgrade my system once a couple of years.
I meant, however, things that might have seemed absurd to readers and critics at the time

Right. I meant this is almost certainly wrong. It's both weirdly self-centered (why don't we think these things absurd? In what way were people in 1948 or 1985 so different and clueless) and ahistorical. The eugenics movement was in its heyday when Brave New World was written, the (not-at-all-voluntary) surveillance in 1984 could have hardly seemed such a stretch right around the peak of atrocities performed by states. The Islamic Revolution in Iran took place only a couple of years before Atwood started working on the Handmaid's Tale. And so on.
If we as consumers are voting with our wallets, in most cases we're the ones who have accepted the new norm as acceptable in the spirit of chasing ever lower fares. Consider the success of airlines like Ryanair which charges for every possible amenity and slight convenience.

United Airlines has largely been the laggard in the industry in the past 5 years even though their stock price has risen 200%, that is 50% less than their peers like Delta and Alaska Air group who have risen closer to 400% in the same time period. If flying the friendly skies took them into bankruptcy, what could they have done that would've kept them afloat while maintaining a "regulated" carrier status?
US drops largest non-nuclear bomb on Afghanistan
Healthy soil is the real key to feeding the world
Honest wuestion - what do you base this on? Anything besides personal experience?
This is just FB tracking you everywhere and recognising your account even though you are logged out, from cookies (possibly local storage, IP address, other browser fingerprinting methods).

This just happened to me: I visited booking.com earlier today, then FB showed me a FB ad with the same hotels I had looked at.
Yeah we were actually shocked at how much of an effect that seemed to have, but on the other hand, not surprising.
Man, I don't get why Teachers stress so much on lesson plans.

I was a high school teacher for about a decade and after the first three years, it doesn't take long or difficult to have lesson plans available.

If you want ideas, the school district often has a crap load of them. And if you are teaching a standardized course (like Algebra or Geometry) you are essentially provided lesson plans for every day.

The website is an interesting idea, but it won't make a bunch of people millionaires. It will make 2 or 3 teachers millionaires, with most people who contributed probably losing money for the amount of time invested in creating these lesson plans.

Really, the school districts biggest waste of resources are their teachers. You could easily open source all the teachers lesson plans for the district, then you could freely pick and choose from anyone in your district.

Also, you could do away with those crazy expensive textbooks. Get every kid a $50 android tablet and get a team of teachers to come up with an open source version.

It would take them a few weeks over the summer if you are dealing with experienced teachers.

Then, you update the textbook every summer and the students download the latest version in August.

The school district would save insane amounts of money.

But, they won't do that because the publishers and administrators have corrupted the textbook buying process to a maddening degree. So sad.
I've had the opportunity to develop with two HoloLens. From a consumer standpoint, it's a wash. You're spending $3,000 device on a device that can't do more than pin UW apps to your walls. There are no killer apps yet.

From a developer standpoint, it's terrible. Unity only just now supports UWP apps and only just, many many libraries just don't work. We are making a collaborative 3D app that needs access to the entire screen and a lot of system level resources. The only nice thing is that the anchor system is an operating system level abstraction.

TL;DR: After using one regularly for a few months, I'd say pas on this device, it's a barely usable AR platform with poor battery life and poor FOV, and it's absolutely unusable AR gaming platform.
Unfortunately, Amazon does not appear to keep different sellers products separate in the warehouse. All it takes is one seller sending counterfeit products to the warehouse for their inventory to be contaminated by counterfeits. This makes "fulfilled by Amazon" more risky in some respects.
Luminar releases new type of automotive LiDAR
How fast is headless vs. normal? According to

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/c...

the chrome browser spends a decent amount of time on other steps such as parsing HTML. I wonder how much time could be saved by not rendering pages into pixels.
Then we get to debate what is constitutes as a social media acct? Any forum, any public comment board? Or what is more traditionally called social media, Reddit/Facebook/Instagram/Snapchat/Twitter and the like? Is email social media?
Come on now. This shouldn't be dismissed as trivial. The most critical component of Nightscout (#WeAreNotWaiting's OSS) is continuous glucose monitoring. THIS provides THAT. And all by (what sounds like) wearing an Apple Watch 3 or 4.

Right now I have to drive a 1.5 inch needle into my gut every time I need to swap out my subcutaneous sensor, which is 1/week. These sensors are made of platinum and other precious metals and are expensive, especially without insurance. Plus, you have a lil nub sticking off your body, not the worse thing but it can get caught in door frames and what not.

I'm wearing an Apple Watch right now that shows my glucose readings (217 --> for the other T1Ds ;]). If I could remove the sensor from the equation, maybe even be liberated from my iPhone every now and again, it would ease dealing with my condition a good amount.

Simply put, one needs to monitor glucose passively to allow for the closed loop artificial pancreas these guys are working towards. This technology would make that monitoring so much easier, cheaper, more efficient and less wasteful.
Bye-Bye, Big Box: Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Waking Up Storage Market
> I don't understand why things like this get posted to HN so often.

Nostalgia.
Any chance you could expand on analytics a bit?

Also, I've looked through the MVA for the HoloLens and done some messing around in Unity, but are there any good, active blogs about the HoloLens? I know there are a few like Mike Taulty and some other blogs that might post about it occasionally, but I would like a "Morning Dew" for HoloLens.
In a work environment with many complex shell commands to perform daily tasks shell history is the most efficient way to repeat tasks with complex command lines performed weeks/months ago. Documentation, wikis etc are always slightly lacking/stale and are less effective than simply seeing how you did it last.
No performance issue for non-holey files, and the meaning of swap gets really really weird when you have 32 or 64GB of RAM. Ever since 16GB+ servers I've had no swap partition, and a 1GB swap file, if the swap file ever gets touched I figure out what was screwing up and fix it (I consider it an error to swap in my systems).

It is perhaps not too surprising but if you ever swap to a non-SSD device you're effective computation rate is reduced by 3 orders of magnitude.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14108915
Does this have to hold for SSDs as well, or is performance unconditionally the same?
I want to say it'd never come up (because it's never come up for me) but I just remembered Google is a search engine.

It may very well be that they have inverted binary trees on every desk.

--

Yes... I am aware inverted indexes are not binary trees.
They may see it as a warning to North Korea
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5 Now Out
Only CentOS/RHEL, but it's probably not for you if you'd like a distro with cutting edge software packages.

On the other hand, although I understand your need, keeping the /home in a different partition and just installing the next Fedora release every 13 months does the job for the most part. And the installation(from a USB) is not more than 15-20 minutes.
So what should be the idea here: brainless work in the morning and brain-intense work in the afternoon? Yup, sounds like the advice a lot of people use and give others.

What is frustrating is the article does not give that great information where I can just take a few of my own theories and test them through here.

I remember having a routine in high school where I would wake up at 5 am, do some language deciphering intense reading for half an hour, read through some interesting non-fictions for another half, get ready for school, and become sharper than anytime I have been before by 8o'clock.
hah.. I can so relate to both of you
The article mentions only a few. However, how many people did you think it took to sign off on building an ICBM 'shield' in Eastern Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_missile_defense_...

The official story, of course, is that it is intended to protect against Iran. From my limited understanding of geography, Poland does not lie between Iran and the United States.
Unrelated q: is increment.com an off-the-shelf magazine theme or custom development?
Uber Had yet Another Secret Tracking Program Called 'Hell'
I agree. Being on the receiving end of Scrum feels like being an assembly line worker. I totally empathize with the business people who need some transparency into what the developers are working on week to week. Software is pretty abstract. I get that. But obsessing over burn down charts is the wrong way to go about it.
Re: 1) I know for a fact they are.
I rank distros like this:

DIY: Arch Linux > Slackware

Compile It Yourself: Gentoo > BSDs

Friendly: Fedora > Mint > Ubuntu > Solus > countless other Desktop Env specific distros

Developer Focused: openSUSE > NixOS > Fedora > Debian
Times are fat right now, but remember not everyone has a YC pedigree, not everyone is West Coast, etc.

EDIT: it was a little funny though :)
The best thing about working from home is no one knows/cares where you are working from.
If you sick of your home office, go somewhere else!

I have spent the last two summers working remotely from Europe. My favorite office was a houseboat in Amsterdam!

Its good for my wife and kids to go on trips too. I bring a extra screen and they (mostly) respect my workspace.

I am more happy and more productive after becoming remote. Its been 4 years.
Original articla: http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/mp201744...
>I can't help but think that if the Linux kernel were under a CC-NC-BY-SA-type license, as you suggest, that it would be practically unheard of today.

I don't suggest that the Linux kernel be distributed under non-commercial terms, and I agree with you that such a project wouldn't have done well.

>BTW, please mind the distinction between open-source software and Free Software. You don't have to like the FSF, but the distinction they recognize is important.

Right, so there are 3 levels of "purity" here. For the record, I didn't run afoul of any of them; I intentionally distinguished my suggestion as "source available", not "open-source".

There is "Free Software", which is software meeting Stallman's "Four Freedoms".

There is "Open Source", typically referred to as the improper noun "open-source", which activists insist refers solely to license approved by the OSI (Open Source Initiative). Because these include permissive licenses, the FSF considers them potentially non-free, and makes the point that Open Source isn't good enough; it must be Free Software.

Then there is "source available", insisted upon by the OSI people, to indicate that while you can download and modify the source, it is not distributed under copyright terms they like. This would be source distributed only for non-commercial use, for example. Jef Raskin's Archy project (apparently now dead) [0] was distributed under CC BY-NC-SA and made this distinction.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy
With cloud, I don't have to maintain the machine, or ask the IT guys at the office to poke open holes to access that machine... I can also access the same environment configured from work and home, and on the road, wherever... no need to keep a windows machine/vm. I was pretty happy with my Chromebook, except for "enterprise vpn" access not working, and wouldn't mind that interface when traveling.

I know there are other trade-offs, but having a working environment counts for a lot too.
I really don't understand the dependency on hours of the clock.

Would a student struggling in an 8am class in Pacific time suddenly excel if they moved to the East coast and went to 11am classes starting at the same moment?

Is there any variation between the east and west extremes of a given time zone?

Is 11am post daylight savings as effective as 11am before shifting the clocks?

Or is this more about the social habits of the people around the students than the height of the sun in the sky?
Welcome to open source software. Somebody has to fix it.

Better than it being closed source and you being told to go away.
My history file is a symlink into a directory synced to google drive. That's easy and appropriate security. You can turn on 2FA. People who think that's inappropriate security are forgetting all the items (like convenience) on the two sides of the cost-benefit analysis.
I prefer the "infant" lowercase 'a' purely on the basis of aesthetics. The two-story 'a' seems fussy and pedantic. And the loopy 'g' descender that's so fashionable nowadays drives me nuts. In both cases I suppose an argument can be made that the versions I dislike are better for readability, and thus should be preferable as defaults, but I'm glad we almost always get to choose our own typefaces most of the time nowadays.
> People really don't like the concept that I can see a world they can't experience. Some people become offended

This is the /exact/ kind of elitism that killed Google Glass. The whole "I have this and you don't" mentality is childish and damaging.
In other words, someone has a money incentive to change the game, and the power to do it, and we're all worse off as a result.
This is the thing that always bothers me. By _far_, when (at least US domestic) travelers book flights, their main and often only consideration is ticket price.

People claim to be annoyed by baggage fees, not being able to select their seat ahead of time, no or limited food, paid in-flight entertainment, overselling, etc., but they refuse to vote with their wallets and pay more for better service.

We've made this bed, and now we're apparently pissed that we have to lie in it.
Are you worried that you'll be bored? You certainly shouldn't be.

Worried that you have other things fighting for your attention that might be better uses of your time? That's a more personal question.
The customer can also choose to not give the job in 3 hours time and give it to someone else, app or not.
It's too bad airlines like Emirates, JAL, and Lufthansa can't do domestic US flights and put most of our crappy airlines out of business.
Today I learned, American students are lazy and ineffective before 11AM.
US drops largest ever non-nuclear bomb on Isis affiliate in Afghanistan
>I wonder if a lot of it stems from the fact that sometimes you have to relocate for a new gig, and making friends at work is easier.

I like this. Because it could lead to some interesting demographic shifts as more people go remote and where they live becomes less important to work, and more important for other things, like making friends.

For example, I like pro wrestling. I know that wrestling fans are overrepresented in Orlando, FL. If I already work remotely, then it would make sense for me to move to Orlando to be around people who have similar interests.

This could apply just as easily to religion, politics, hobbies, and other things once income is less tightly coupled to geography.
Background on how this came to be (from Stripe): https://stripe.com/blog/increment
I've been telling people since the late 00's that starting my career in embedded was the single best thing that happened to my career. I quickly follow that up with the fact that leaving embedded was the second best thing that happened to my career. I've dreamed about going back, because I do miss it, but the jobs aren't there (in my area and especially now that I've fallen in love with full-time remote work).

I know a hell of a lot more about what our code is actually doing up and down the stack than my colleagues, including most of the managers I've had and "Principals" I've worked with and so on. It helps, a whole lot, in fact, and I find that it's personally rewarding, but it doesn't amount to much more than being the person who gets asked the challenging profiling/performance/optimization questions.
Either that or the model is dead as the ladder gets pulled up behind the winners.

That's what I'm arguing is happening.