skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I already conceded that daily standups are probably overkill, but you are going to great lengths to overestimate the cost of a standup. It's not unreasonable to spend 20 minutes a couple times a week to let your colleagues know what you're doing.

Using some a wiki is emphatically not the right tool for the job. If the personalities are such that you really don't want to have to talk to a group, you could use something like StandupMail.

Also as a single developer, it's entirely possible that you don't know what you don't know, and thus your estimate of value is dubious. As someone who built a product from 0 to 7M users and took a team from 3 people in a room to a team of 50, I can tell you that once we passed the 7 or 8 engineer mark but before we had bi-weekly standups, there was steady drumbeat of cases where the right hand didn't know what the left hand was doing. One way to manage this would have been for the PM to micromanage everyone, but given that the team was built of entpreneurial full-stack hacker types, it worked a hell of a let better for people just sync up as a group periodically.

Obviously you are entitled to your opinion, but also consider that the corner of the dev world that you inhabit is not representative of the universe of software development, and just because sometimes there is a cargo cult mentality doesn't mean that there aren't good reasons for some overdone practices.
Monopoly isn't defined by marketshare in some descriptive category, it's defined by market (pricing) power. If you have that's you have a monopoly (which makes sense, because that means that even if there are participants in the same descriptive category, you empirically are not competing with them for sales.)
In my experience OSGi is horrible and unwieldy. Avoiding its complexity for this job is good.
No, civil disobedience is not permitted as a defense for humans in any jurisdiction that I am aware of. However, depending on the crime/charge, jurisdiction & relevant laws, it may be permitted to mitigate punishment for humans--but not for corporations. As far as I am aware, there is no court nor is there any case or any law passed, where a corporation is procedurally or statutorily permitted to introduce any claim that their liability or punishment ought to be mitigated by a claim of disobedience.

In other words, civil disobedience may be legally relevant (tho not as a defense) when a human is the defendant, but it is not relevant for a corporation.
I can't really think of an essential daily app (minus work / minus business related / minus intensive reading) that I use which has better UI and UX on a tablet. Everything just seems easier on my iPhone 6 Plus.

Plus as some people already mentioned, tablets from couple of years ago still run quite well right now. Especially newer iPads.
7 years later and I still miss the slide out keyboard on the original Droid. I've never gotten used to software keyboards and they're an almost daily source of frustration.
Samsung is selling 2/3rds as many Android tables as Apple sells iPads...

iPads aren't like iPhones where you need to replace it every two years, or at least your phone plan allows you to. I'm still using my Mini 3 just fine, and this past Christmas my parents finally decided their iPad 2 was too slow to keep using.

And aren't iPads outselling Surfaces? Not that the two really complete.
Thank you very much, please rate and share if you can, I need that because I dont have resources for marketing and want to many people see game :)
Could the OpenJDK folk just say, "fuck off" and do their own thing? Basically break Java into, I don't know, Fresh Press and Orcalse Brew? All of the old IP made available to OpenJDK and new stuff being their own.
Complexity can hide in unexpected places and sometimes a dash of complexity in one place can make something in another place much simpler.

I think this library has it's uses. I wouldn't use it uncritically but I wouldn't dismiss it either.
Have you seen their reddit AMA regarding this?
I agree, but when I saw this, my first assumption was that it was for personal projects primarily. I very rarely see libraries that change syntax like this in large scale or long term codebases.
I thought the literature suggested it worked better for women.
Differentials have the property of being universal angular velocity adder/subtractors at fixed ratios.

output := K * (input0 + input1) / 2

Spur-gear differentials are suitable for watches.
They have a new USB C equipped version
Water and black coffee are my staples. I don't get hungry until 11:30AM or so, when my body is starting to expect food.
The article says that a Local Management Service (LMS) must be installed for the bug to be demonstrated[0], and describes a Windows package that provides that. Is there a Linux equivalent?

[0] I say "demonstrated" instead of "exploited", since I don't understand the details sufficiently to rule out exploitation in the absence of LMS.
Credit card balance notifications for software developers
Or https://matrix.org/ / https://riot.im/app/
18% yield is awesome. Care to reveal the name of the company ?
If I were to take a guess, it would have to be Costco or AT&T
Even a small amount of Asprin, if taken regularly, will mess up your stomach in my experience!

I guess not everyone is sensitive to it, but for me I've avoided Asprin (and Ibuprofen, another NSAID drug) for years because of this.
Yeah, your device can't send an IPv6 UDP packet. Mysterious. Do you see IPv6 UDP working in other applications? Thanks again for your efforts.
> How would they deal with various minerals dissolved in the water from gumming up their turbines or heavy elements escaping into the environment?

This kind of ongoing, predictable maintenance is usually priced into the project, along with a health margin for error, and is rather easy to predict (except when you're one of the first such power plants using a new technology or exploiting a new geography). According to [1], the upfront capital cost for a geothermal plant is 5-6x that of a natural gas plant ($/kW) and the maintenance cost is over 10x ($/kW-yr) but since geothermal doesn't require expensive fuel it can be cheaper than fossil fuel based power (depending on price of fuel). Replacing pipes every few months isn't any different than buying tons of gas if you're still making profit and since geothermal plants rarely run more than 90% of the year because of diminishing returns, there's plenty of time for that maintenance.

> random thought: Could geothermal power be considered nuclear power considering half of the Earth's internal energy comes from decaying radioactive isotopes?

Technically yes, but nuclear power implies a concentrated sample of radioactive material. Radioisotope thermoelectric generators [2], which generate power from the heat of decaying isotopes, are relatively common nuclear power sources in space exploration. They were used on the Apollo 12-17 missions, they still power the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, Cassini, and many more including, most recently, the Mars Science Laboratory rover.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/capitalcost/pdf/updated_capcost...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
One big difference now is the scale of this potential crisis is massive. A lot more is at stake here and the state is highly motivated to keep things as stable as possible.

Despite the inefficacy of the Chinese government, and I do entirely agree with you that they are continually on fragile ground as the tentacles of the government continually wrap around every aspect of the economy, they still have beat many peoples projections that they'd have a big recession/debt crisis by now.
I disagree, visual stuff should be created with a visual tool. Code is not visual, therefore it's too indirect to rapidly iterate a visual design. You should not use painting tools that have no code equivalence though, that will lead to impedance.
That's a common use of these kinds of cargo aircraft, but if they have multiple visits from multiple aircraft for a single company, I'd be surprised if it was all just replacement engine transport.
> Don't you think it's fundamentally wrong to cause thousands of deaths every year for profit?

Depends on the alternatives.
I think most people use tablets to watch TV in bed. Now that iPhones and Androids are shipping with larger screens and higher resolutions, there isn't much need for a second device.
Also dot means attribute means less speed.
The use of improper SSL termination and re-captchas that take sometimes up to 20 minutes to complete (for one CAPTCHA, fuck you Google!) are much more atrocious abuses than the existence of some hate speech on sites they host. I'd much rather see them address those actual problems than read about some bitchiness that they won't censor their content. I actually agree with Cloudflare on this. Yes, the Daily Stormer might be an easy site to assess and block (I don't know, I've never visited), but once you're in the business of censorship, the censorship wing of the organization will eat up tons of resources and is guaranteed to turn away customers. See any major Internet company for plenty of examples of this. It seems to me that by not engaging with this stupidity, they are making a wise business decision.
Once I configured checks for all my banks, I started to spend less and visit online bank accounts only to make transfers.
restrict is pointer qualifier. Reference, even const reference doesn't have restrict-like promise. So potential for overlap still kills C++ speed.
> And my point was that if you look at ETH/ETC, the market is saying that they feel more comfortable with a known, trusted authority (i.e. small group of developers with trademarks and a conference schedule) than they do with true democratized first principles of immutable code.

But the fork wasn't a referendum on the governance model of Ethereum. If you picked ETC, you get your liberterian utopia - but you also get a chain where someone made off with 10% of the Ether supply.
What about the west coast volcanoes in North America?

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

...how deep do you have to go to get to the 400C temperature level on some of those volcanoes??
At the top, can you put a score or average of the analysis so we know if the overall movie is happy or sad? That number will be interesting :D
Microsoft bought something, transformed it to monetise it, and ruined it in the process; say it ain't so. /s
Anyone have a link to the paper? I'm usually the first to criticise popsci treatments of cancer developments, but this actually seems to be an interesting study/development.
IPMI falls into similar waters, and also has known design flaws around authentication. :(
I agree "smart contract" is a poor term, but they're way more than "conditional payment" - you can do a lot of things with them that have nothing to do with paying money.
Quite a bit of Java memory safety comes from the JVM. Array bounds checking, for example. If they're embedding an entire oracle JVM then it's probably pretty safe. On the other hand, if they're compiling down to a home made vm with a home made compiler, well. who knows? Dalvik did that and it had some problems.

It seems really hard to test from the point of an outside observer. I'd strongly suspect it's hard to test internally as well, which would indicate there are a bunch of bugs lurking in there.
Why should a bag of drugs labeled "drugs" be less illegal than a bag of drugs labeled "not drugs"?

The labeling can serve as evidence toward the smuggling case without needing to be its own crime.
I have to deal with Redux at work and I absolutely hate how much code I have to write to flip a binary in my React component!

I used MobX on the side projects and I absolutely love it! I might be biased but I think MobX is so much better for any size project. Redux is just too good at marketing and their "Hello world" looks very very interesting and reasonable but it doesn't scale. When you have multiple people working on the same codebase it becomes a hot mess!

If you're starting a project, give MobX a shot and see how it goes.
Or what about the benefits and wages of subcontracted service workers? These are the poverty wage workers on many of these company work sites. Not sure it falls in line with anyone's values to have the world's richest companies be relying on poverty wage workers to feed, clean, secure and drive their employees every day.

Similarly, the way in which "Legal Immigration" is highlighted seems to ignore the number of lower wage, undocumented workers within the service sector that is a part of the operations of these tech companies. Why not support all immigrants in their operations who are facing persecution?
It was replaced specifically because people were complaining that they had to install gfortran. Not for any performance reasons.
Sure it does - the marvelous thing about a turing-complete virtual machine is that you can write a decidable language that compiles to EVM bytecode.
NASA's Nighttime Maps Reveal Humanity's Impact on Earth
Exactly, the sum of what I need (init + logging + ntp) should be close to using just systemd.
The Lenovo Yoga tab3 plus released last year got a 9300 mAh battery and the rest of the specs are decent. Might be a good alternative. I'm thinking about buying it as the price is decent and my old Xperia tablet Z from 2013 which I'm still using more or less daily is starting to die on me.
May I suggest the bytes crate [0]? It's one of those small libraries providing a key building block (mutable and immutable byte buffers), and is a dependency of tokio-io and any other crate which implements tokio-io's Encoder/Decoder traits.

[0] https://crates.io/crates/bytes
The Self-Driving Dilemma
Not the person you were replying to but I would really want to read this, do you have a link?

edit

I think i may have found it, is it this
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5x4hxu/we_are_amd_crea...
I have no agenda and I am genuine in my efforts to understand the counter viewpoint. It is just that I am unable to see the evidence anywhere and I can not understand the love of low end worthless manufacturing jobs.

You are right only if you see things in isolation but society can not be seen that way.

For example my grandpa grew his own organic food and died at the age of 45 by choking on Asthma (no medical care). My father is still alive at 70 despite drinking and eating genetically modified stuff all the time. While in isolation GMO food (might) be horrible, the fact is the lower prices of food have increased human productivity and has ensured my father could afford better health care. I feel things are very interconnected.
Unfortunate name. I thought this was about libz aka zlib.
I'm basing this on my experience and numerous conversation with others which albeit is anecdotal and sort of worthless.

A quick googling shows mixed "feelings" (I stress feelings because I haven't seen/found an adequate reference yet).

Maybe later I will investigate it.
Not the original poster, but i'm guessing they are referring to Tesla including resale price guarantee in sale revenue numbers [1].

You can check out their SEC submissions as well, it's all public. [2]

1. http://www.investopedia.com/news/will-tesla-make-profit-2017...

2. https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&C...
I was wondering if anyone else had made the connection to claims (or maybe that's too weak of a word) that fracking causes earthquakes.
Ask HN: Do you make physical prototypes? Of What?
I am very visual and prototypes help me design things. For largeish projects I have been having trouble finding material; most recently to model a small building and roof redesign.

I was thinking about how great it would be to have home Depot materials at 1/8 scale but have only found pretty expensive balsa wood at local craft stores.

Is there a Lego type product that is meant to be representative of real world materials?
Nitpick: the sun is a huge fusion reactor.
Yep. Metallic ink is used in your green(/blue/red)backs.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2120883/A-step-spywa...
The Asus Nexus 7 was probably the best Android tablet for size, features, and value. I didn't buy a tablet this year because I couldn't find any Nexus 7s.
Learning something you like is never a waste of time.
What a kludge. They encoded a table in a variable-depth wheel, like the snail used in striking clocks, but not so regular. The table only has 29 entries. For a status-symbol complication watch, that's tacky. What does it do if not serviced? Display "needs service", or wrap around and show wrong values?
> I can't really think of an essential daily app (minus work / minus business related / minus intensive reading) that I use which has better UI and UX on a tablet.

For me it's TV. While I own a TV, I essentially never use it. A tablet has more viewing area than a phone, which makes it much more pleasant to consume TV shows on.

I think you hit the nail on the head re. how well relatively recent tablets work. At first I thought a tablet would be like a phone — replaced annually — but I find that I've had the same tablet for four years. It does its job, it's a nice size (and Google haven't come out with another 7" tablet since!); why replace it?
For anyone interested, there's a great conference talk on this topic by Lee Byron from Facebook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7IdS-PbEgI
I believe what you said is a bit off - you can't get an obstruction charge for remaining silent or choosing (legally) not to cooperate.

What Martha Stewart did was lie to authorities during the course of a formal investigation in an attempt to convince them that she did nothing wrong and end the investigation. That's completely and entirely different. It's also, by the way, the reason you should never speak to authorities, especially if you are the subject of the investigation. Exercise your right to silence. She chose to speak up and lied. If she kept her mouth shut she might have been able to escape prosecution. Anytime you open your mouth to authorities you open yourself up to one of these obstruction charges. The easiest solution is to just not cooperate one iota with them. Because as soon as you stop playing ball and doing what they want, they will try to use any one of the gazillion laws on the books to try and screw you. Not saying Martha is/was innocent. That's just my take on how I view a person's options when in that situation.

Obstruction charges usually stem from providing false testimony or evidence, tampering with evidence, or witness tampering. None of those, nor any related actions, are applicable here.
Who exactly is 'they' in this case? Also, what is the 'public utility' involved here? Wasn't the root comment talking about manufacturers?
Someone with access to historical sales data for PCs, tablets & phones could check the data for support of this plausible hypothesis.
Though many reasonable rebuttals have been mentioned, the one case in which I find this pattern indispensable is when creating mock-instances for a variety of classes that need to be interleaved amongst genuine instances (say, ORM objects, if you're unlucky enough to have those in your life) so that code operating on collections of the latter doesn't get littered with special cases for the former.
Since we're all offering Scratch-asides, I'll note Hopscotch: https://www.gethopscotch.com/ – it's very similar to scratch, but I found it far easier to use. With Scratch I often feel like programming is a task of fighting with tile management. I also like the stronger emphasis on events in Hopscotch.

The big downside is that it's only really usable on an iPad.
Seems to be back up.
Show HN: Auto-indexing key-value store
I still think the need for tablets exists, because even larger phones feel inadequate for browsing the web, particularly on sites were the desktop version is superior to the mobile one. That said, tablets tend to limit the user's ability to perform other day to day tasks, most notably moving files around. My suspicion is that sales have fallen in part because tablets, particularly iPads, have too narrow a use case to justify their price.
Try zhihu.com. Though I don't think the quality is anywhere close to here.
Chris Rock Cover Story: On His New Tour and Starting Over – Rolling Stone
Intel ME has a DRM app called "Protected Audio-Video Path" [1], which obviously has to be secret.

As to whether anything actually uses the PAVP functionality, I have no idea. I wouldn't be surprised if it was something Intel included to try to push Atom-based set top boxes or whatever.

[1]: https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/codeblue_jp/igor-skochinsk...
It seems the author is referring to a few papers, but the one most directly related seems to be http://atvb.ahajournals.org/content/37/4/664.long

I don't see a free, open-access form available.
Worldwide PC sales were up in Q1 2017 for the first time in five years, https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/pc-market-sales-incr...
I came at this from the perspective of the Binomial theorem:

(x + y)^n = sum{k=0,n} (n choose k) x^(n-k) y^k

And since a powerset is:

sum{k=0,n} (n choose k)

The way we can turn the first equation into a powerset is by setting x=1 and y=1, hence:

2^n = sum{k=0,n} (n choose k)
Lamborghini has a similar policy ... there is a certain model of Lamborghini which is built entirely by hand, and they will only sell you one if you already own one of their other models.

Or so I've been told, anyway. For all I know it's an urban legend.
I have the opposite experience. My body and mind function best with regular small meals every 3 or 4 hours.

With that regime I have constant energy without ups and lulls. It's great.

When I do go too long without eating, I feel fine and I don't feel particularly hungry. But people around me say that I become uncommunicative, quarelsome, and that I tend to just kind of sit there and stare in front of me unmovingly.

People particularly notice this at group dinners/brunches. Before food, I reply with 1-word answers and mostly don't engage in conversation. After food I'm the life of the party.

So yeah, fasting does not work for me. But I do tend to have very small breakfast. At 10am regardless of when i wake up.
Pre-fork ETH owners didn't necessarily have to pick one over the other. Miners had to allocate their resources between the two chains (but could split their bets, and some did so). Pre-fork ETH owners ended up with both chains in a kind of 2-for-1 special.

Every market transaction since then has been a referendum on which model the market prefers. Ultimately, the market price dictates a LOT of down-stream behaviors, e.g. some miners will switch back and forth between ETH and ETC (and other alt-coins) based on hourly yield.
Aspirin (previously erroneously typed cancer, hat tip to 'tossaway1 for the correction!) has previously been associated with reduced colorectal cancer death[1]. The cancer/aspirin link has come up a fair amount over the past few decades.

1 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3354696/
I come from a long line of iron-stomachs who don't bat an eyelash at any of those. ;)