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> can you quote Greg back on your "At most 80% of Linux contributors have jobs at software companies" because i don't see it in there? and you can add the source for your 20% while at it. on the other hand what Greg did say is this:

Sorry, it's 86% and 14% in Linux 4.11. It's literally in the link I posted. He gave a talk a few years ago at Linaro IIRC where he said "80% and 20%" as approximates but it seems like it's closer to 85% and 15%.

> not really, more than half of each is 'unknown', so you can't tell one way or another

Companies which pay their developers to work for Linux want to exercise their copyrights. It wouldn't make sense for them to conceal developers they are paying to work on Linux. I would argue more people who are listed as "from company X" are working outside of their work but have to declare their company ties due to IP worries.

> if it's on company time (and thus dime) then yes, it's a paid job.

Well, it's actually a bit more far-reaching than that. Most companies also claim that work directly related to your job (even not on "company time") is still owned by them (which you can assume means that's what they're paying you for). Maybe that's not the case in Hungary, but that is the case in America (and Australia where I am).

> if you took the money out of the picture, our work would still continue to live on as it has for the previous 16 years. that is absolutely not true for upstream linux development

I mean, Linux kernel development worked in this way for the first several years when it started. It doesn't really make sense to make authoritative statements about what is and is not possible in hypotheticals. Both Linux and grsecurity were developed for some time without direct income sources from most contributors.

All of the being said, I'm not sure why any of this is relevant. To me the statement "we are 100% unpaid for grsecurity R&D" sounds more like a semantic game than an earnest statement, given that you definitely are paid for grsecurity (whether it says R&D on the invoice is semantics IMO).

But w/e. You can pretend that you aren't paid for your work to seem more righteous. You don't get any sympathy points from me though.
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And worth pointing out that this is a very rare case where subcontractors are not used because it's cheaper. DHL is legally not allowed to own an airline which flies domestically within the US. Works the other way around (Fedex and UPS have EU flights) but no European airline can fly within the US.

I'm quite sure that otherwise, they'd fly themselves as they own all airlines flying for them within the EU and Asia (except the ones that also fly to US).
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The espresso machine is broken. You can see why I'm upset!

Seriously though, there is a long (and sad) tradition of flying machine inventors (or engineers) getting killed by their own inventions. Looking at this particular one it has all the flashy features ('Look! I am the Iron Man!') and none of the safety ones.
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Also from what I've seen, the typical peripherals around a automotive uC differ greatly from a ARM "entertainment" SoC and that's whats the bigger difference.
e.g. Infineon TC29xx http://www.infineon.com/export/sites/default/media/products/... vs Snapdragon 820 http://files.linuxgizmos.com/einfochips_eragon820_com_block.... Block Diagrams

In both of those chips the CPUs themselfes are the smallest part but the on chip peripherals differ greatly by usecase. The automotive has a great plethora of different busses and i/o (digital, analog, complex PWM, CAN, LIN, FlexRay) while the typical ARM core has less but higher bandwith IOs.

The other big step is backwards compatibility. Going to a completely different architecture is a bigger step than going from one iteration to the next one.

So probably even the "new" designs for 2020 may use the successor of the current generation of uC or SoC chips.
I don't think it's a spoiler for him at this point in life.
What would be a good description of this, then?
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Why don't these 800 startups, their thousands of brilliant employees, and the hackers on hacker news start a push to build a part-wireless and part-cable mesh network?

The only reason why the loons in the government or these companies have any clout is because they have the only working network that spans the US/Globe. If citizens just got together, on their time, and built a free and open network we'd have something better. It's not like it's never been done before [1].

[1] - https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/greek-off-the-grid-internet-...
You're right. But as always in history, these changes can't come by asking companies nicely. You either need a strong union that is willing to strike (and Southern actually has one) and/or federal regulators.

Why are hour restrictions different for freight than passenger? Adapting this would probably already change much. And a strike at Prime Air for a few weeks during holiday season should also help improving conditions.
But the nice thing about computers is that you can feed the results of the high level ML classifier into the mm accurate geometry detector. You can only determine whether X will be able to pass by Y if you already know that there is an X and a Y.

Humans and pigeons will identify an X and a Y and will then try to use the same method to classify the scene as either "will pass" or "won't pass". Computers can do the fuzzy thing for identification, but don't have to use the same method for "will pass"/"won't pass". They can switch to geometric measuring and simulation for that.
> So are you?

What certainty am I speaking in? I'm making a clearly expressed assumption that they are using their family core competency of managing wealth and not pissing it away.

> The things I brought up are relatively common sense.

If you mean common sense as in having no sense how to properly manage wealth. Which is what very few people on average understand.
>> For example, one of my favourite papers last year showed how to use geometry to learn depth with unsupervised training.

I've been saying that LIDAR is a hack for some time. People don't need it and neither should computers.
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> That scores within 7% of Readability’s output on a selection of its own test cases

"on a selection of" its own test cases = lol

> Fathom is a data-flow language like Prolog, so data conveniently “turns up” when there are applicable rules that haven’t yet seen it

Why are you trying to explain the concept of declarative programming without just telling people about declarative programming? Just because it's not common in a scene doesn't make it some proprietary concept you've just introduced there.

> The best part is that Fathom rulesets are data

That's actually kinda nice

> In 70 lines,

Insert that comic about 'just a few lines' masking the function calls that actually don't 'replace' a system, just change where work is being done when flexibility is not needed
I've yet to meet a manager that thinks that way. They always think that they've bought your time and get all of your skill for all of that time, no matter what they're paying.

And technically, they're right. If you aren't agreeing to that, you should find another job. But who would do that? Instead, as the answers on Quora say, people provide the value they think they've been paid for, and then use the rest of their time for their own things.

I have ethical issues with this, in case that wasn't clear. But everyone has issues with not getting paid what they're worth.
>what would happen if airlines sold their seats at a fixed price and let customers resell them?

Buying airline tickets involves multiple checks to minimize the possibility of the buyer blowing up the plane, and resale on the secondary market will weaken those
Why not allow foreign airlines to fly domestic US routes? DHL would buy the other 51% and make the ownership clear. They only have to use these vague relationships because of US regulation that tries to protect domestic players.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/2014/01/05/ell...
Open plan would work, if people would be cautious about the noise they are creating.

But people don't.
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I also found this sentence bizarre. It doesn't add any important information to the reader and makes it sound he was inspired by the suicide.
Off topic, I just looked up the definition of nitpick. Apparently it refers to removing nits, the eggs of lice :O

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

I did not mean to imply your comment has lice :)
But my point is that we're reaching an asymptote, where knowing much more about deep learning gives only a marginal advantage.

So it's actually worse than web development.
Single cells organisms are one thing. I don't think you can automatically extrapolate from bacteria to primates however.
There will have been 3 pilots on board. One can always rest so that you don't get over the maximum time. 23 hours is still at the limit of what you can do with 3 pilots. For passenger planes, you would've probably needed 4 pilots.
My mileage is different than yours. When I started using NixOS on my laptop I've asked for help a bunch of times on the #nixos IRC channel and people were really helpful.

This was somewhere in the second half of last year.
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As in every passenger flight >~10 hours, there was a third pilot on board so that they could rotate.
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True. Because your brain keeps/interprets the easiest version possible. ;)
"By the way, our planet isn't overpopulated either. "

What number would it have to reach before you concede it is?
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Because you don't want to experience a bug in the automatic flight while the 777 is above a major city.

Self driving cars will come soon, self driving planes won't come for decades. The risk of losing >1000 lives because of one bug or hack doesn't justify the cost savings.
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Even their normal ticket prices are regularly cheaper than their competitors. I fly a short hop once every six weeks or so (edinburgh to Dublin - maybe 40 minutes). Even the full price tickets for the flight are almost always cheaper than their only competitor on the route (aer lingus). I've noticed this on other European flights too, where they are often 40-50 euro cheaper than their competitor.
Why is this getting down voted ?
LIDAR is not a hack. It measures depth even when objects are not moving.

With vision we can estimate depth, but sometimes we need movement for that.
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If you're from Germany, go to a US hospital once to get a basic treatment. Then look at the bill and think about the argument of a corrupt insurance system. Because as a German, you'll likely never have seen how much a doctor or hospital actually charge a patient.
I can imagine people honestly believing that. So many jobs today are utter bullshit, and so many more are enough layers of abstraction away from anything useful than it's hard to find any motivation other than paycheck. And there are many people who would like to feel they're contributing to something, not just selling their time for currency.
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I;m pro choice and think this tech is great.

All the pro-life people i know that have seen it though think it's a disturbing, godless or unnatural...
You should fire them if they're not providing you the value your paying them for. That's it.

It's frankly immaterial if they're working on their side project at work. That may be part of what recharges them mentally. Which in the end, works out in your favor.
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An over-crowded open-office is even more productivity destroying than an open-office of a "normal" density.

Plus, like already said, you can increase density (at least if the target is not overdensity) in other configurations...

Maybe it's more difficult to over-crowd if you don't have an open-office, but that's a feature, not a bug.
Interesting, for now control seems to be extremely raw but I wonder how much an active exoskeleton could help in making this more approachable, both in terms of not needing as much muscle (both strength and endurance) as well as guiding the pilot into more stability.
That doesn't mean anybody _will_ risk enough to fail in an irreparable way.
Oh, and sound.

Sound is so hard to model, control, reason about.

Every assumption you make about how sound works within a space will be wrong, and small spaces like meeting rooms are even harder to get right.
> It then still sucks having to be in an aircraft for 23h, but he didn't have to work for 23h straight

If you're away from what you'd rather be doing at the company's discretion, you're working.
If it's a hot path, branch prediction will almost certainly make the cost of that comparison negligible though. If it's not a hot path, does it matter?
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Even better: Flyboard Air

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deyMNPbaRpA

It looks insane. Though more Green Goblin than Iron Man.
Since I discovered Clojurescript using reagent, re-frame and figwheel it is hard to go back to any JS framework, or JS itself. The feedback cycle is so short that it feels like doing Smalltalk properly.

Now I wish I could use similar combo for mobile and desktop development.
Server-side JS has existed as long as JS itself. Netscape had something called LiveWire as part of their Enterprise Server in 1995.
> Don’t use Redux if you don’t need it, as it is intentionally verbose.

Yeah... People say that, but is it true? Lifting the state gets very messy very quickly and you end up with a spaghetti code before you know it, with the separation of concerns dying short yet painful death. For that reason I use Redux even in small projects, guarding myself against unnecessary verbosity with redux-actions. It's really that simple. I understand the need to prove that React can stand on its own without Redux, but the truth is, without Redux it's limping.
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Recently i have had a number of friends and family members ask me how to get into programming as a profession.

I gave them a couple links to some online resources like coursera, learnpythonthehardway, and some mit opencourseware courses; but im not sure whether this really puts them on a path to programming as a profession.

So, i ask you HN, How would an non-fresh grad adult go about starting a career in programming without a degree in computer science?

Is a couple online courses and a twitter clone or so in your github profile all you need to get a real job these days? Do they need to pay thousands for some bootcamp to learn how to 'hack the interview'? Open source contributions? What is it that hiring managers are looking for in fresh programmers?

Thanks!
Mythbusters also did a segment on boarding efficiency. Their conclusion that "back to front" boarding was the slowest, and "no assigned seats" was the fastest, but that passengers hated boarding with no assigned seats. Window-middle-aisle boarding was second-fastest.

My experience is that American passengers are just terrible. Planes here in Japan board so quickly in comparison, with a standard back-to-front boarding.
was thinking that too. Isn't there already a genetic condition where mammals can be born with no brain ? If so, CRISPR that up and there you go -- suffering-free meat in a convenient boil-in-the-bag format
What we have here is literally a 21-point checklist that someone needs to go through before deigning to ask a question so as not to piss off the IT guy. We've all seen it before, hundreds of times, stackoverflow has made asking a question into a sacrament, yes, with the same level of sanctimony.

Perhaps that's not working? Perhaps its time to consider other approaches especially since complaints with such detailed advice for resolution ARE NOT READ by the people that actually need to read them? How is sharing this on HN REALLY going to help people ask better questions?

Many tech people fail to understand that having knowledge and giving knowledge are two distinct things. Just because you know something in great detail and can practice it with fantastic skill, doesn't mean you're able to answer basic questions about it or teach anyone to do the same. The problem is not just "asking the right question" but also the skill of "giving the right answer".

To a large extent this territory is covered well by teachers of all kinds. Pedagogy itself takes practice. I wonder if anyone has written a blog post with a 21 point checklist on how to ANSWER questions?
When looking at an employee, measure their output.. not their input. I'm honestly not concerned about the amount of hours put in... it could be 4 hours hard work.. but if they deliver on targets, then i'm happy.

I also want to know that they are obtainable during work hours, attentive in meetings and are available for brief interaction out-of-hours if needed.

I'm less keen to pay people to keep the seats warm, and moving the mouse just enough to stop the screensaver kicking-in.

I'm a non-smoker, but I do not mind people having smoking breaks... but some people get really upset by this. If we are doing physical or menial jobs, then productivity is reduced.. but for intellectual jobs, we should simply measure output.

(Oh, and i guess /YOU/ are probably being paid by someone to read this comment.. instead of working)

Worth reading: http://mentalfloss.com/article/74710/how-much-time-do-we-act...
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Here's a random thought regarding an active exoskeleton, could help with both leg strain and limb control: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14218746
My question when I first saw this was where do you get such jet engines? They look small enough to be from any kind of plane/UAV, but also quite large for any small model aircraft.

I wonder how easy it is to get one, do you by any chance need any sort of special license to operate them?
Maybe provide a challenge for NLP researchers?
"This case" was an unusual incident. The majority of overbooking is handled before anyone enters the plane.

So while your analogy works for the doctor who was dragged off the plane, it doesn't work for the overbooking system in the air travel industry as a whole.
An artificial womb is also one of the steps required to bring back the mammoth.

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Because people use the down-vote button to express disagreement.

I wish they didn't, but as far as I can tell it's not explicitly against the guidelines, so what can you do really.

I don't agree with GP (as in, I'm pro-neutrality) but there are interesting points there that stir the free-market-ist in me. On some level I think 'let them' and I'll vote with my money.

However, I don't think that will actually work, it doesn't seem to be working with mobile phones even on price of text/voice/data; never mind data-neutrality.
> "it is easily capable of an altitude of a few thousand feet. But, for safety reasons, he keeps the altitude and speed low."

Sure.

I have watched some of the video, and at no point does he sustain a height high enough to stop benefiting from ground effect.

Hovering for maybe 10 seconds at 5 meters up would do it.

Until he does demonstrate this, I shall choose not to believe him, and won't consider this actual "flight". For much the same reason that an Ekranoplan is not actually an aircraft.

See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_(aerodynamics)

or comments last time this device was on hacker news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13993728
The big danger is the company siezing rights to any of the products the engineer made on company time, especially if they turn out to be worth a lot. It's one of the main reasons I wouldn't like to do this kind of stuff on the job.
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That's the movie premise.

In the comics, the first flying suit had chemical jets. And the early suits just ran on batteries.
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or, going the other way, it reminds me of a Stephen Baxter novel where humans were exclusively fed by "mummy cows", which were genetically-engineered cows who could provide meat while staying alive and actually enjoyed having meat taken from their bodies
I am strongly on the side of free markets.

The problem is that large infrastructure based industries like the internet are very vulnerable to monopolies or oligopolies. That is clearly the case with the internet and it is getting worse with the infrastructure owners are buying the content companies.

When oligopolies own the infrastructure needed for other companies to innovate then that is exactly where the government needs to step in to prevent them from abusing their position to stifle innovation. That move actually protects the free market.
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- This yields a child without lots of life baggage? The medical repercussions of gestating in-vitro are not known (and given the complexity of the system, it's all but certain that there will be side-effects). There's a large body of evidence linking in-utero gestation conditions to all manner of pathologies, physical and mental (if such a distinction can even be made). Note that it's not just a question of fetuses being exposed to positively harmful conditions (smoking, cortisol, disease, etc) -- an impoverished sensory environment can be linked to changes in perception at birth.

- Why should the safeguards against child-abuse that are present for contemporary adoption be lifted for cases of adoption ex vitro? What, are abusive parents suddenly going to refrain from abusing in vitro babies?

I don't see how this line of reasoning holds up. It's little more than shoe-horning the present debate into the abortion debate.
I think there are at least two different kinds of productivity. One is the kind where you need to progress through a non-trivial body of work with a well-understood end-state. Your primary, if not sole, output is code. This is probably well suited for private offices and remote teams.

The other is where you're solving a problem that isn't in the first order a code problem. There are typically humans involved in these kinds of problems. Most instances where the problem is defined as "building the right thing for the customer" where part of the problem is coming up with "the right thing". This works well in open plan offices where multiple people can quickly give input/get feedback. Remote working is probably not a great idea. Most work in early startups is probably in this category, and that also offers a model to explain why open plan offices are so common in not-startups-anymore: these companies are very eager to retain the energy of their early days, and a lot of that energy is tied to the collaboration of the open plan office, even if not necessarily suited to the workloads of the more mature company.

Tl;dr: when people speak of being more or less productive under certain conditions, a lot probably hinges on what kind of work they are doing.