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I enjoyed reading some of the blog posts on here awhile back: http://www.gdargaud.net/Antarctica/index.html.

The author spent a number of seasons, including winter, in Antartica. From what I remember he was a "techie" who would run/maintain experiments for European universities; outdoor experience & knowledge on how to operate a LIDAR were his qualifications for the job. The tasks may sound mundane however even running an ethernet cable by -70c is more challenging than it sounds.

There is also an American station but it's rather crowded so I doubt you'd get to enjoy solitude there. The British station is less crowded but I heard it smells terrible.
I have absolutely no experience with Rust, but I know it normally depends on libunwind, isn't that for unwinding the stack?
Amazon's businesses are currently self sustaining and make tons of profit right now. Amazon then takes those profits and invests them in other businesses it thinks will make more profit later, removing their status as profit. That's why it's as easy as turning on the spigot, they can simply choose to stop expanding, everything else is proven.
I think what's important for Goldman is the quality of feedback that is given. Feedback is so contextual and subjective that there are a lot of variables that could make it difficult to extract the signal from the noise, and increasing the frequency of this would make this worse.
Yes, that was my point. There are plenty of windy roads with no accidents and plenty with lots of accidents.

When the accident happens though the problem is the same. A big chunk of metal moving through your house at speed.

>but I still believe that living under a skyway will be far more risky than living next to a busy road.

Part of this I'm guessing is that you're still imagining a bunch of drunk, or aggressive or just plain bad drivers flying over your head.
> What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank?

The police rappel down the sides of your house in full gear and shoot your dog.

Or, per the article, the company pressures you to sign an NDA, and mentions "FBI" to instill fear of rappelling.
it is "optional". unless you run a headless server or a barebones desktop system with very carefully selected packages it is impossible to not install systemd because logind & pam dependencies are littered everywhere. Using sysvinit as pid 1 is achieved by installing systemd-shim, which still depends on systemd and uses systemd files and systemd is still run anyway, just not as pid1.

so yeah, there is practically no way to escape from systemd in Debian using vanilla packages.
Hi I just looked at your site. I found this very odd.

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Strictly timeboxed tasks ensure candidates don't feel pressured to devote silly amounts of time to interview coding exercises.

The biggest issue I've found as an dev looking for work is that, employers often want a full functioning, production grade, api, with tests, and some integration tests. These requirements cause the issues, and timeboxing would surely compound them?

I guess there's a learning curve for the potential employer, but as an employee I wouldn't want to potentially be a guinea pig while they get their act together when understanding how long a task should actually take.
This is mentioned in the article: the new streetlights are going to be at 3000K, between the 2200K of the sodium lamps and the 4000K of normal LED streetlights. It looks pretty good to me.
Well, even those might not be allowed right now. In France for instance, they're not, for a host of reasons: limited weight, limited range, and the need for authorization requests come to mind. There's also making sure there is no human within 30m of the drone, limited wireless power (don't pollute the spectrum!)…

We're not there yet.
I remember when the sodium vapors started deploying. Ugh... a fairly common reaction, at the time.

So, this may be a "change." But it's a change away from a few decades of orange.

One thing I wonder, is whether they will continue to deliberately "light everything", or whether they will implement some tuning to restrict lightflow to more relevant areas.

It isn't just street lighting. In places like Chicago, they've chosen in many areas to make that light as much as possible a seamless and universal presence. It doesn't just illuminate the streets and walkways. (Because crime, is the primary rhetoric around this.)

P.S. One difference between the sodium vapor (and before them, the mercury vapor) lights and the new LED lighting, is that the former hang down within a diffuser. This makes it easy to have illumination up to the second story windows. The LED lights I've seen have the LED's within or at the edge of the overhead hood. I wonder whether such broad illumination is as readily achieved with them. Also, the LED's are very bright pinpoints of light. Especially if they are going to go for "illuminate everything," this could make looking down the street kind of uncomfortable. I, for one, do my best not to look at those bright spots -- they are painfully bright, and I even worry about vision damage.
Exactly. The tech division, while overfunded and overengineered is fulfilling its role in a good enough way.
Mudge at DefCon IIRC had a good point about MIC contractors having Intellectual Property repeatedly stolen, govt gives more money each time and disincentives to root-cause analysis and patching vulns/0days.
How much should one spend to report this? Even the first consultation with that type of lawyer would be a few hundred $. If the threat is that real, why not just close the account and go somewhere else.
I am one such attorney.
Modern white LEDs are actually a blue LED behind a yellow phosphor mask that turns the light white. More power emmited in the blue side of the spectrum results in better efficiency, and the difference is significant.
We am already surrounded by drunk, aggressive, and just-plain-bad drivers. I am not so sure technology will make them simply go away.
So just assume it's your bank, and do whatever you would do next.

Oh, new bank? Just assume it's your bank, and do whatever you would do next.
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Sorry, I didn't mean those cannot be made safer. I do sense a tradeof however: chopper blades can hit things, and this aircraft cannot handle power loss. Which is safer? I have no idea.
There is some crap like that still kicking around. Why you need to create a Comparator class to provide a single function for sorting or filtering out duplicate items is silly, when a Func <T, bool> lambda would work? Because it's the old way of doing things, back in the 1/2 era, when delegates didn't have all the syntax sugar to make them painless.
It's good to have this as a general reminder: "Not everyone is from the US", people tend to forget that so often :)
Parking lots we don't need after autonomous cars.
Regarding chicago this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Cup

Regarding a city that's already done this - Detroit went full LED this year:

http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2017/01/led_ligh...

The difference on the ground is quite noticeable, partly because we're so used to sodium yellow and as LEDs are in the 6000K range - i.e. daylight ... it's 'uncanny', things certainly seem more HD - here's a picture I recently took at night:

https://iainmait.land/img/photos/1280/street_crossing_2_2017...
Substansively? Tons of replies are not substansive at all but they pass thru your filter because they just more words in them. Sad!
Well, there's an interesting, tangentially related bit in their March 2017 newsletter [0]

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Moller International has received a number of emails from newsletter subscribers who have expressed concern that MI’s lead in VTOL capable flying cars is being upstaged by companies like Airbus, Ehang, Embraer, Google, and Joby. Nothing that is presently contemplated as a battery powered flying car is a threat to the technology that has been developed by MI.

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Incidentally, it it wrong that a kind of want a Moller v. Lilium PR battle to be a thing?

[0] http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=84c20a8ab4539585a29aaaa5...
Sorry - I think there's been a misunderstanding. I was referring to the context you mentioned in the latter half of your comment, and the supporting circumstances for that.

(In other words, I'm not aware of any way Skype can be pirated, and I'm not particularly aware of any, err, accessible commercial alternatives.)
>I am not so sure technology will make them simply go away.

Once they aren't in control of the vehicle it won't matter if they are drunk or aggressive or bad drivers. The people will still be there but it won't matter because they don't have any control over the vehicle.
I found it an interesting concept but pretty lacklustre as a piece of music, especially after the incredible Syro.

What's there is nice, but hardly any of the ideas develop beyond "hey, look what I did with these instruments". More like a demo than an EP.
Are you going to publish the source code for reproduction?
They could probably fit a parachute to compensate for the lack of gliding ability for emergency landings.
They tried that and even have a Google Shopping Express subscription that was intended to complement that. It's just Google being Google and not being focused in their efforts.
We used Lustre, pNFS and GPFS at Stanford on HPC gear (DDN, Panasas and some enterprise COTS). Luster has a lot of moving parts and config. Most folks tend to use Puppet/Chef and/or Rocks distro to deploy clusters in a somewhat sane manner. (Sometimes AFS too but not much.)

These days, Ceph/Gluster might work, but Lustre's proven.
Yes! I had previously noted how Holmes was, in many ways, taking the HN/SV memes seriously, in believing:

- that an entire industry has been doing it wrong

- that it can be fixed by a low-bureaucracy, Angel-funded startup

- that once you have enough success you can just rewrite the laws that were slowing you down

- that no one knows what they're doing anyway, major projects are 100% guesswork, and you should just "fake it till you make it"

- that any skill is just a matter of 10,000 hours of practice

- that you can outsmart an industry before even passing or placing out of sophomore level classes

- that any self-doubt must be Impostor Syndrome, and so it's not worth your time to even check if that doubt has a factual basis

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12068536#12071172
You've hit the nail, hard. I grew up on Amigas and SGIs and owe those platforms everything I am today professionally, but what is going on with Amiga post 90's is catering that nostalgia feel and that's about it. It's dead, Jim - but let's sell flowers to people worshiping the grave.
There are plenty of facts available around the Theranos situation. Not much benefit of the doubt left here.
No. Wind can be circular. For example, right above the runway could be the eyewall of a hurricane.
You can listen to some of the tracks made with these instruments here:

https://bleep.com/release/56481-aphex-twin-computer-controll...

Track 2 ('snar2') is basically a demo of the device.
But isn't this a new thing? I believe you couldn't do it in the initial versions.
A web page to show our unit test results. I forget why.
There's a large number of electronic music producers that still use these things.

I'm absolutely convinced they can't produce anything on their Amiga 500 that can't be made on a $50 sbc just as much as the people I've spoken to are absolutely convinced that I'm wrong and just don't get it.

I think it's more a sign of prestige for them; like trying to argue that the durability and workmanship on the $1,000 designer t-shirt is indistinguishable in quality from the generic $10 one - this is also a losing battle.
Could you state reasons to support your assertion that a nonagenarian shouldn't be on the board of an innovative tech. Company ?
> I don't see why a human has to do this.

Because automated systems fail.

> Even if they do, I don't see why it can't be done with an awareness system like the F-35 helmet.

Because most aircraft aren't F-35s and expenses and fallible systems that are appropriate and sensible for combat aircraft that may have to operate in conditions in which civilian aviation would not aren't necessarily something you want to make civilian aviation dependent on in conditions in which, with sensible things like straight runways, it would not be.
Actually, I think that's a figure including transmission and receiver conversion efficiency, but it doesn't include path losses. That's still quite impressive, though.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/green-tech/solar/japan-d...
I believe that many people think about privacy in the axis of sexuality or political views but completely overlook the commercial axis or are buying into marketing that knowing more about them would provide them with better product/service.

The problem I see it is being singled out. The more singled out you are and more you stick out specifically, the worse.

Paying more for something is one thing (and it does not mean that you have more resources but simply less advantage to bargain) but not seeing products/services that do not "fit" your profile is ever worse.
You hope this doesn't gain traction because you're selfish? Devuan people aren't forcing you to write anything other than unit files. Support whatever you want and let other people freely developing their own distributions. because free software.
Type erasure is one of the ugliest things in java, on par with the Linq implementation using streams.
It's not a pain only if you never write generic code and you are happy with having a lot of duplication.
C# implementation is superior by far, and you can easily return newly created objects from a generic method or use an object properly without the need to pass the type of the object as a method parameter in addition of specifying the generic type.
The only reason to do everything with a blue LED + phosphor is that it's smaller and simpler than an array of LEDs – particularly for small lights.

Streetlights use arrays of LEDs anyway (to achieve appropriate brightness) so shouldn't have any problem using a mix of different colors.
I think I understood what you wrote. I just doubt that some people extending empathy to virtual personalities will lead to meaningful numbers of other people retracting it from humans.
I would be interested in something that made it so when I donated, an additional plugin was created in the download that outputted my support of caddy in the header or as some kind of call to be included in web pages.

Something similar to how SVG based icons are used in many Git repos to display TravisCI scan results of the number of downloads. A similar badge could be supplied via plugin to supporters that shows how much the user has donated to the Caddy project or that they're a contributing member.
Good point.

That might produce other problems for landing, though.
I find unsigned types more dangerous than signed bounded types. For unsigned types the edge-case is at 0, a frequently used number in eg. arrays. For signed types the edge-cases are at (random) positive and negative numbers.

Having to think more about edge-cases makes the code more dangerous:

for(uint i = arr.len()-1; i >= 0; i--) {...}
The usual financial system is far more efficient at converting your wealth for the use of the oligarchs. USD for example has lost almost 100% of its value since the institution of the Federal Reserve system. The wealth did not go away. It was merely transferred from the populace to the rentiers.
> I'll pass on sitting in the tiny plane with a 100kw laser pointed at it.

Now that's one place where a tinfoil hat might come in really handy.
Wouldn't one-sided heating, from earth, quite frequently lead to them being moved into a higher orbit (one side gasses off, conservation of momentum leads to movement)? That sounds quite hard to predict exactly and thus might end up being pretty dangerous for objects on other orbits.
After some investigation into session management and this library, I'm planning to move all CRUD operations to the `Couch` module. You should be able to perform any requests you want from that instance.

It's definitely optimal to offer as much flexibility on top of the core functionality as possible, I agree!

Indexes and views are on my list. I'd love to see where you would take that topic. It's a bit nebulous for me right now. I do want to be able to define views in code, and have the library figure out through hashing whether or not the view changed since the last revision.

But how exactly to do that and what to do with indexes... thank you for your feedback.
3000K is still not great. I would prefer they cut the light from the blue diode entirely. But 3000K is much better than the 4000K version.

“Color rendering index” is an absurd standard for nighttime lighting. (Not to mention a hacky ad-hoc metric from a few decades ago which is pretty terrible for any purpose, but that’s another story.)

Someone should make a “night vision clobbering index” by which to judge the SPDs of outdoor lighting.
How can one visualize 4-dimensional space?
I thought I read the Amiga's also had dedicated hardware for specific functions. That happens on desktops with graphics, sound, and networking cards. However, a modern Amiga might integrate a FPGA (or several) and standard API somewhat like HPC servers are doing. Then, apps can take advantage of it. Might also justify its cost.

Pico Computing already sells desktops that are similar to what I'm thinking about. They're just non-standard & you customize stuff to them where this would be standard with flagship apps (even FOSS) using accelerators by default.

EDIT: Or even heterogenous processors with varying strengths for great power/performance ratio. Similar to what phones are doing.
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"Will to Power"

I've seen more than a few HR departments that seemed to feel they should be running the whole company.

And I haven't seen one capable of running a gumball machine.
Ask HN: How to protect myself from a lawsuit?
I am a sole proprietor for my business. I'm worried some companies may pursue some law suits (possible copyright violations, it's a grey area), but I'd like to limit damages to the business itself and not my personal assets in the event that it happens.

Is the best way to do this an llc, or is there still a possibility I could be personally on the hook?
Hit another nerve I guess. I am good at bringing out the lynch mobs. But it is true: https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp...

As Anatole France observed: "In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread."
fellow limbo, what zim needs is a pure decentralized currency that zanu can't control e.g a time based one
What I want is no GC. I might settle for a way to tell it "Do not walk this graph over here, ever, ever." But really, I want to be nowhere near a GC at all, unless it gives me control of pretty much everything it does. I do develop in C#, and I have to work around the GC every step of the way. I really want not to have to work around it, not better work-arounds. For the most part, I simply don't allocate, but that is ugly and non-idiomatic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Fitzpatrick_(pilot)

https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/04/long-ago-a-pil...
I'm not saying the US is sketchy, I'm saying what they do is legally sketchy, considering copyright (which exists in the whole world). Though it's possible that some countries have archival exceptions that would cover them, I don't know.
Have you thought about investing in InfiniBand? Even a generation or two old beats the pants off of 10GigE in price and performance. As long as you're on a LAN....
Thanks for sharing...you've also reminded me that's it's been a while since I've read Ed Abbey's Desert Solitaire [1]. I think I may have to pull it off the shelf this weekend and dive in for another read.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Desert-Solitaire-Edward-Abbey/dp/0671...
It's a terrible idea. Please don't even think about building it.

As another poster mentioned real time feedback between team members and leaders happens organically (if the people are any good). The HR annual or bi-annual review is a formalization and documentation step but I can't imagine usually leads to better performance.
I see, so the banks are the new judiciary?
> It's not like every Firefox extension will be broken

Every Firefox extension will be broken. Only Chrome extensions will be supported.
Here's a better explanation of its feeding habits (after repeating some of the same video) https://youtu.be/7v9js8v048o
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Finally. The hateful orange glow will be gone. I my 4 years living there that sodium emission line was among my least favorite things.
Would it be much harder to have an even-yellow-er phosphor mask that would turn the light orange?
Seems like household bulbs are either too yellow or too blue/white. Our choices are now dim yellow or harsh unnatural white. For me, the GE Reveals and old "standard" bulbs were perfect.

It literally changes the colors we see in our environment. Always took colors/lighting for granted until the war on incandescents.
Facts and logic, please.
the satellites described would be disruptive technology...and the media is likely demonizing this tech at the behest of some fat wallet vested interest, most likely comcast et al.
The color reproduction of RGB white LEDs is terrible. You just have tree spikes in the spectrum were each LED emmits light.
Regions are just useless visual clutter most of the time.
You can put the methods/fields in the same order without using the regions.
In my experience regions are a very bad practice used only to mask bad design that produced gigantic classes.
The only place where I think they may be helpful is when you are writing a library and your class must be huge because you are implementing for example a Trie or some other collection or some other object pretty complicated that doesn't make sense to divide in smaller classes.
And even in that case I would first try really really hard to split it in smaller entities rather than just having a thousands lines class with some regions around.
The “better efficiency” of privileging the blue light coming directly from the diode is oversold.

At night, what happens is that directly visible blue lamps in your peripheral vision cause a severe adaptation response from your eyes (a kind of “oh hey, it’s daytime” misjudgement), which causes everything that isn’t directly lit to recede into dark shadow as the rods are swamped. You end up using mostly cone vision, where the blue part of the spectrum doesn’t really contribute to brightness response anyway, defeating the original purpose.

Longer wavelengths don’t cause the same kind of adaptation, allowing the rod cells in the eye to remain useful down to much lower levels of overall environmental lighting.

Industry has made up bogus metrics/arguments about “mesopic efficiency” of high-CCT street lamps and car headlamps which are IMO based more on marketing needs than dispassionate scientific investigation.

I’m hoping that someday non-industry-funded color scientists will do some proper research on the glare and adaptation effects of different outdoor lighting sources.
Yes, someone always brings up the fact that alloc/dealloc isn't free in any language. But that doesn't change the particular animosity between real-time and GC. Manual is like a flexible payment plan. GC is a debt-collector appearing at your bathroom window while you're on the can.
And even the ones that are large, flat, and uncluttered won't take the weight of an aircraft.