skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Philosophers have survived for thousands of years without social media, I should hope future philosophers are at least as competent as that. Besides, social media is a poor medium for philosophy, unless you mean the kind of teenage philosophy that seems destined for r/iamverysmart.
Can a mod change headline? It's libreboot.
Does this pedantry really change the meaning of Artlav's statement?
Why should dehydration be an acceptable problem ? i can understand heat and not using air-conditioning, but even soldiers in hot countries manage to stay hydrated.
What is the range on this thing?

Also, at this point of time, maybe we can engineer good specs and good price into the product, but we cannot overcome human factors.

- Riding in strong winds.
- Loss of control over populous areas.
- Higher risk of crime in a vehicle that has no boundaries like roads and dividers.

The most likely solution is to make a cloud connected one which refuses to fly in or into bad weather, automatically lands during emergencies etc. But then that will necessitate some sort of remote control over the vehicle, leading to a host of other issues related to lack of privacy.
So in the next 8 months? Seems like Google has an interesting pipeline of novel new products, but I wonder if any this will ever see the light of day, let alone by the end of the year.

I wonder why Google is doing all this pre-launch marketing hype. Usually this is the playbook that startups use to hype up VCs for funding rounds. Maybe just for PR and branding?

Reminds me of UBeam's "we plan on launching publicly this year!" (said in 2015, 2016, and now 2017)
>The nonsense is that your comparison again has no relevance to the social security trust fund.

It's YOUR comparison.

What a troll.
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At least the star offers binaries. I hate it when I get to a system and I have to compile everything myself.
They get discussed in almost every circumstance, every meeting. Especially the customer focus one. It really does seem to work, from my perspective.

I now work for a relatively new division at another company, one staffed with a lot of ex-AWS staff. One of the earliest things they did there is work with employees from a few different previous companies to figure out our own values, and we've proceeded to apply them to the business in similar fashion. First and foremost among them being one focusing on the customer.

Happy customers come back, and are also likely to talk about it to their friends. You might take a hit to your bottom line now, but you'll make it back in the long run with repeat business from the customer.

The only one I ever had an issue with there was frugality. I get why it's there, and the intention, but it leads to something we'd internally refer to as "Frupidity". Frupidity is where in the interests of frugality, the company would do something really stupid, or that would ultimately end up costing them more money.

It also became the last recourse of the bad manager. "we're not going to do this, because frugality" and you then won't be able to get them to budge an inch regardless of what data you bring. It especially will end up being a local to their team only frugality.
I like Donovan Brown's definition of DevOps:

http://donovanbrown.com/post/what-is-devops

"DevOps is the union of people, process, and products to enable continuous delivery of value to our end users."

"I am very deliberate in the terms used in this definition. I choose value over software. DevOps is not just automating a pipeline so we can quickly deliver software. Our goal is to deliver value. The term end users was also very carefully chosen. The value we produce must reach our end users. If the value only reaches the Dev and QA environments but is held up before reaching production where it can be realized by our end users, we are still failing."

"It is very important to realize that DevOps is not a product. You cannot buy DevOps and install it. DevOps is not just automation or infrastructure as code. DevOps is people following a process enabled by products to deliver value to our end users."
"It broke, fix it!!"

This is how DevOps is defined where I work (I'm on the recently formed team). 'It' is, of course, arbitrary (we're responsible for every old piece of cr*p that nobody else wants), and the 'fix' is always a band-aid slapped across it to keep it working until its undefined retirement date.

Most of our work week is like this >_>
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I'm not really a web guy, so perhaps I was never the target audience for ORMs. I was surprised by the author's assertion that they seem simple and elegant at first -- maybe it's because I learned SQL first. My first impression of ORMs was, "this looks impossible to do right, in general, and basically untrustworthy. If it's going to work at all, you have to impose harsh limitations on both the 'object' side and the 'relational' side." Having read the article, I'm feeling pretty self-congratulatory. Other than claims to "elegance", what was the motivation for ORMs?
To me, it means the empowerment of a solo developer through (intelligent) use of modern methods, hardware and software tools to achieve that which required a team of about 10-20 in the past.

In other words, the distillation of the last 50 years of computer science to get a job done faster and better.
On almost all your points, I do agree with you. But for one:

> are right a lot/disagree and commit don't seem to matter if the opposing argument is your manager wanting to do other stuff

"Disagree and commit" means that when you don't agree with the decision being made, you make that clear, you state why, but then you commit to the decision that was made and work with your team to achieve the goals. It means you don't whine throughout the project that it wasn't done the right way, and you don't bullshit with "I told you so" later if you turn out to be correct.

If your manager makes the call that it's going to be done in way X, you disagree with him politely, then you commit to doing it way X.

What I find far more interesting about the leadership principles is that they recently dropped one: "Vocally self-critical". Oh, that's really just part of 'Earn Trust', apparently, but I'll bet in two more years that phrase isn't even part of the Earn Trust description anymore.
[chuckle] To quote from that link:

My name

It's spelled S-H-I-E-B-E-R, and pronounced shee-ber. No "c". Not "ei". Not shy-ber. Not "Schreiber", the name of my near-namesake at Harvard.

It is frequently misspelled, because it is close to being consistent with German orthography, the "ie" being pronounced as a long "e", though the initial consonant would then be spelled "sch". Nonetheless, there is no "c" in the name. Why? Because it is not a German name.

The name is an American invention, applied to my ancestors upon immigration to the US from the city Szczebrzeszyn, currently a part of Poland, and mapped below. During the immigration process, the surname was shortened from the city name, probably from its Yiddish pronunciation shebreshin. Had my ancestors not left Szczebrzeszyn, my existence would have been unlikely.

A grave sin indeed, committed by the OP :)
Indeed, the art of badly written headlines apparently takes up a whole chapter in the Ars Technica style guide. This should have been: "Google pushes fake news and hate-speech workshops (and YouTube) on UK teens". In addition, even the most basic grammar checking tool should have picked this up: "The ads was later removed."
Until the internet marketing team loads it up with scripts that inject 12 different versions of jQuery to do some a/b testing.

I wish engineers would actually be able to take responsibility for the whole, and dismiss marketing tags based on technical grounds.
Please don't put down accuracy.
I'm not really in to artefacts in that way. Somebody decided to use green, there might even have been a letter sent, but it's an expected part of creation of a traffic light colour; so no i would really find that of particular interest. (BTW it seems green was used in analogue to train signals, early traffic signals use semaphores, like train signals, which go back to use of signal flags).

I've been using the internet since one could decide how to route the emails one sends, I've used SSH a lot: it's just not interesting as a story, it's barely a factoid.

FWIW I think a better analogy is the adoption of CQD as the distress signal for Morse operators (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CQD). It's interesting, but the manner in which it was adopted has no story to it.
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Apple hires a couple Google satellite executives for reported hardware project
I wonder how hard it would be to use a Markov chain as a syntactic filter on the output of the RNNs?
Completely agree. I try to practice the Principle of Charity[1]. This means when arguing see the counter argument in its best light. I think this can also be expanded when reading others code. Assume they were not idiots (in this case they were kernel developers...), and that they made decisions for a reason. Figure out those reasons, and only then improve/criticize the code.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
The two are not at all alike, though. Rent is payment made in exchange for the use of a physical, scarce resource. Information, in contrast, is inherently non-scarce.
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It's taken very seriously and used a lot internally. I've worked elsewhere with those silly acronyms and the like. I've never worked anywhere before that practiced what it preached. It was good to see.
That's not how these "publishers" work. They don't rely on the ability to sell the final product to make money. What they do is charge the hapless and naive, budding author for the privilege of being published and various associated "services." i.e. They make money by fleecing authors who don't know any better.
For #%&$'s sake mods, why did you have to completely ruin it by editorialising the title?

The title is "GHOST IN THE SHELL | remake", please leave it as such.

edit: Thank you!
Huh.

That means that recordings of speeches/performances from concert halls are potentially suspicious.

Know of any other instances of reverb covering things up? This is interesting!
> They're so deeply cache-unfriendly

There a number of variations on linked lists, which are cache friendly (e.g. unrolled linked lists)
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SugarCRM stopped public development long ago. Most people use Sugar non-CE or SuiteCRM (a maintained fork) which probably has similar/same vulns.
Right back at you: have you considered the possibility that those people are right? Maybe the reason lots of people are saying this is bad design in the kernel and it would be better off written in Rust is simply that this bad design in the kernel and it would be better off written in Rust.

(Please don't use sarcasm, it's rarely constructive)
Looks like a silly contraption to me, far too slow to replace a car (and earn the misleading article title). I'd find a hybrid quadcopter / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_vehicle project more worthwhile. Take off and land like a quadcopter, then fly fast and efficiently using the ground effect. Compensate for uneven ground with the down facing rotors...

What does the Kitty Hawk compete with?

- small helicopters cost $XX.XXX and have been available for many years. Proven technology, though unsafe. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_Aviation_XE

- small airplanes for the crazy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLgR3Ipo-Ng

- flying cars that can actually drive on the road? https://www.aeromobil.com/flying-car/

It looks like a toy in comparison, to be operated by quadcopter enthusiasts for 5 minutes ... Perhaps they should call it "flying golf cart"?
current range of prototype should be 5 minutes empty.
It is great that you do so and I think it does provide some minimal "fulfillment" to you. Your last statement says it all, "It seems to help them". That is the fulfillment. It doesn't always have to be life shattering and completely consuming. I always aim to just make the world better than it was yesterday. If we all did that, who knows what might happen? :)
The source code (mines.c) is here:

https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/puzzles.git;a=blob;f=mines...

There is code for solving a grid using deductions in this section:

https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/puzzles.git;a=blob;f=mines...

And below that is the code that generates grids and checks that they are solvable without taking risks.

A similar approach is used to analyse the difficulty of Sudoku games here:

http://hodoku.sourceforge.net/en/index.php

with different names for the different types of deduction.
Mostly collapsing countries revert to .. dollars.
A new Google brand designed using only black, white and Roboto
To be fair, the Earth-Moon separation as seen from Saturn is about one arcminute, just at the limit of the angular resolution of human eye. To a human they wouldn't be discernible as separate objects. Cassini's camera has a much narrower field of view.
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Thanks! We'll take a look at this ASAP. In the mean time, I guess all I can do is apologise for the broken experience...

We use a technique called cutting the mustard to determine whether a browser is modern (read: >=IE9). This allows us to write one set of CSS that should work in pretty much any web browser (we call this the "core" experience), and another set that uses modern-ish CSS (the "enhanced" experience). One of the major drawbacks to this technique is that the technique relies on JS — it is literally just modernBrowser = ('addEventListener' in window && 'querySelector' in document && 'localStorage' in window).

So when you browse the BBC News website with JS disabled, you are getting a page that has been styled to work on a Nokia E65, BlackBerry OS4, IE8, and everything in between. Unfortunately right now we don't have a way to give you the enhanced version of the page without JS. In the future it might be possible for us cut the mustard at the server (or the CDN edge) based on User-Agent but that isn't something I can see happening in the foreseeable.
The good thing is that Sugar is slowly but steadily replacing the old codebase but they should be more transparent on addressing these serious issues.
I did not say it was a good thing. Just explanatory. Now we get word salad from the president, and 40% of the people are fine with that.
Amazon doesn't have definitive proof that following these overall guidelines will make the company successful, but they have been following them to help with decision making and they've also made a lot of money.

To quote a movie: 'the code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules'
No price, no information about how long the battery lasts.

https://kittyhawk.aero/faq/

I expect it will barely be a product when it launches, certainly not one with wide appeal.
DevOps gets sidelined as a single skill, part of the whole.

An analogy would be iPod/Music app in the iPhone from the glory days of the iPods.
This isn't Google/Alphabet, Larry Page is personally funding this startup.
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>>DevOps is good for people who like to always be learning; it can be difficult for people who like to ever more deeply specialize.

I agree with this, but I wonder if its because people right now are just still trying to figure out the tech. We're in the beginning of the adoption curve, so to speak and specialties will come eventually.

As an additional point, I see DevOps expanding to DevSecOps, DevTestOps, and when the marketing folks catch up I'm sure we'll soon see DevSecTestOps. These are all just fancy words for being a more complete Developer - and enabling Developers to deliver faster.

Anecdotally... From where I'm sitting right now (devops IT, huge non-tech company), it hasn't actually solved the problem of dumping crap over the wall, because ultimately people balk when going to prod with changes. (Compliance/SOX, fear of change, gui based existing deployments, bad APIs, etc....)
Not looking forward to a bunch of people trying to fly these around.

Also, not looking forward to the headlines about disputes[0] about airspace over people's property.

Edit: clarification

[0] Dude with a shotgun vs dude on a flying "car".
Just because you news events don't happen to get picked up according exactly to your priorities doesn't mean there is a hidden agenda.

There tons of stories that are underreported in my opinion, yet if you ever came anywhere near a copy desk you might know that in non-authoritarian countries there simply to much chaos there to pull of a coordinated effort of that magnitude.
As an Indian, my long analysis says the society experiences serious levels of scarcity.

Therefore there is a perennial drive to gather for yourself whatever you get, while you have the chance.
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I'm reminded of the fox/hedgehog delineation. Very clearly, tech values would be a fox and USMC values would be a hedgehog.

However at the same time, I am reading your argument and thinking, having a bunch of random contradicting guidelines and hoping that the law of averages smooths out the error inherent, can't be better than a more thoughtful list of consistent, higher-level principles.
> If you’ve ever poked fun at a French-quoting pedant..

Is the implication that someone who speaks French is "more developed"? It doesn't seem to me that speaking French represents a more sophisticated argument - it's just another, different language.
> We just need to identify them and put them in the right positions.

Such an approach hinges on the presumption that the people doing the identifying and appointing are also virtuous and non-corruptible. Any attempt at a guarantee of the neutrality of the arbiters and enforcers will quickly descend into a Seussian "who's watching the watch watchers?" scenario.
If that's your biggest question, then what did you think "weird attempt at levity" referred to?
How is this not vulnerable to the "Mickey Mouse animated feature film but drawn by 6th graders"?
SugarCRM is an example of projects that give PHP a bad rep.

Maybe programming languages should have a minimum engineering and architectural design competence test such that required knowledge is assured before releasing craptacular poo upon the world.

(If you're write a SugarCRM sploit, obviously patch the Remove XSS to skip yourself.)
Ah, I'm on Ubuntu, and ManicTime would be an awesome choice, but their Ubuntu version is for tracking only, and requires a server to actually view the reports[0].

Seems like the same thing applies for macOS, so I would call it Windows-only solution in the serverless mode. Alternatively, you could run the server[1] on some always-on Windows machine, pay for the license(s) and use the server under your control to store the data.

[0] http://www.manictime.com/linux

[1] http://www.manictime.com/teams/download
But who would sign it?
Press ESC, it stops the page loading and everything freezes as-is. It's how I get around this exact problem on lots of sites due to my slow net.
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https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=devops

i think its safe to say its not dead
I've heard people from both India and China use high population and living space as a crutch and an excuse for the various problems of their countries. But the fact is, it doesn't hold any water.

Japan has a very high population density + high forest/natural cover, meaning people are squeezed into very tiny living space, yet the (generally) respectful and selfless way in which they treat each other (in general) is something most other counties learn from.

Similarly, Germany has 80+ million people living in a tiny parcel of land, but they're doing fine, and they've kept their country a beautiful and great place to live.

Just the condition of the streets in major cities in India tell a lot--strewn with garbage and resume. Yoy walk over empty McDonald's fries holders and cups, when you walk the streets of some cities. In some cities, you have a semi-open sewer system that runs by the road, creating a foul smell on evey street, and helping breed mosquitoes.

The almost repulsing and disgusting state of place places, the streets, and cities in general--tell a lot about the apathy of the people of the things that are outside their home.
>>It is good that it is happening and will help the indians

These sort of things make it harder for the deserving employees.

People who already H1's are now treated as kings to which every single person in offshore centers are supposed to bow and do whatever asked for.

The new people who get H1's will now be people in the inner most circles of the cartels.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14178397 (>500 points, ~ 450 comments)
The President Obama voice sounds decent. But the President Trump and Senator Clinton voices sound like robots. Reminds me of the crappy text to speech program that came with Windows.
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Company site: https://kittyhawk.aero/
Slightly off topic, but can you please allow fallback when there is no Flash. The player works, but you have to hack you user-agent string to get it. I don't have Flash in Firefox and the BBC news is only site, that I visit regularly, for which this is an issue.
Given how dangerous people already are driving their 1 tonne+ killing machines on wheels, giving wide spread access to flying cars is far from a thrilling prospect.
I had a job where if something required electricity it was ITs problem. Computers, coffee makers, standing desk, lamps... it's all IT apparently.
The principle "force-feeding” is to benefit the company, not you.
From the "Ethics" section of the Lyrebird site:

"Voice recordings are currently considered as strong pieces of evidence in our societies and in particular in jurisdictions of many countries. Our technology questions the validity of such evidence as it allows to easily manipulate audio recordings. This could potentially have dangerous consequences such as misleading diplomats, fraud and more generally any other problem caused by stealing the identity of someone else.

By releasing our technology publicly and making it available to anyone, we want to ensure that there will be no such risks. We hope that everyone will soon be aware that such technology exists and that copying the voice of someone else is possible. More generally, we want to raise attention about the lack of evidence that audio recordings may represent in the near future."

I'm glad the authors addressed this issue pretty forthrightly, but part of me wishes they'd written a bit more about exactly your point. Whether or not recorded speech will continue to be legally binding evidence, I think it's just as important to point out that many people are normally quite happy to take what they hear as solid evidence, especially when it aligns with their prejudices.
> "But what else would they serve? You can’t give everyone a bibimbap [...]"

That's exactly what Korean Air does. I've never had a better in flight meal.

http://www.inflightfeed.com/ireviewkorean-airlines-inflight-...
am working on a Startup with a similar aproach but using a fixed wing vehicle.

I speculate the kitty hawk vehicle will have 10-15 minutes airtime and will cost around $100k.

It will appeal to a very niche market of deep pocket hobbyists.
Someone pulled thd public keys of github and created a ssh server that would greet you by your username/name.

Configuring your ssh correctly would avoid a specific system to link you to another one. More privacy issue than security.
Acknowledgements... nice bit of ass kissing there! 12 months for a single page overhaul, that's pretty costly.
Game consoles also don't do any OpenGL, despite urban legends.
Just to clarify: We aren't redirecting HTTP -> HTTPS and don't have any plans to do so, at least in the short-term. All we're doing is enabling HTTPS for bbc.{com,co.uk}/news because at the moment we issue a 301 for HTTPS -> HTTP.