skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it's a British magazine.

In the British usage of the word, a sailboat is a dinghy if it's open-top, and yacht if it has an enclosed cabin. He can close his hatch creating a sealed interior, so it's a yacht. (We very rarely use 'sailboat' alone, as Americans do.)

In the US usage, the term 'yacht' seems to be mired in classism and elitism. A boat is french's mustard, and a yacht is grey poupon. There's no simple definition to tell you when a vessel is one or the other.

Quite bizarre - given that America traditionally imagines herself as classless, you'd almost expect these two to be reversed.
The cynic in me would say that saving 4000 African children would actually adversely affect the environment, where as supporting development of electric vehicles is at worst trivially beneficial.
I think I can help you out here.

> "I know nothing about boats, but...I...suggest...rounding off 6 - 12" from the edges."

That man is a professional sailor, and you know nothing about boats.
I think that people don't like when a person who knows nothing decides that they know better.

> Not sure why I was down voted...I wish the downvoter had...

Please don't do this. HN comment guidelines ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ) say "Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."
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The True History of Libertarianism in America (2013)
Another Global Tech Company Eliminates Working Remotely. Say What?
The immediate implications of this are bad enough: that there exists what's essentially a state of open warfare between applications and processes running under the same user state on Windows.

More generally, though, is the question of whether or not the concept of a general-purpose computer, in which a user launches applications, without any central vetting of those applications, or sandboxing of them, is viable.

We've seen earlier models of cooperative co-existence of applications in memory and processor resource claims give way, through protected memory and preemptive multitasking. Now the challenge is that individual processes cannot be trusted to leave well-enough-alone the data of other processes, even under the same userID.

The questions of how Google chooses to respond to this are interesting (better armour, more aggressive protection, countermeasures, seperate userspaces... ?). As what this suggests for both OS design (much the same) or software ecosystems.

I've noted before that the Google Apps store had over 2 million applications as of 2-3 years ago, a number that's all but certainly grown since. Whilst Linux is somewhat notorious for having a large number of applications (I counted 178 entries for "text editor" via 'apt search' on a recent Debian Jessie install), the same search reveals nearly 260 entries on Google Play. And several of the Linux entries are support and related packages, not applications as such.

At what point does a competitive applications marketplace backfire in encouraging, intentionally or otherwise, Very Bad Behaviour?

Be careful what you incentivise for.
> Isn't it should be a red flag if one messenger is prohibited in a country with an authoritarian regime, and the other is not?

No.
Married filing separately is a filing status of last resort. You really only want to do that if you'll save a ton of money through PAYE. Financially you'd be better off not getting married in these cases.
I agree with your ecological point but photosynthesis is a 1% efficient process and solar panels are easily available at 17%. So if you can gather the energy to perform the reactions to make the substrates to. Hold protein and carbohydrate in an industrial process, given the losses at each stage (some of which, as you identify, may be highly desirable - cow poo is a great fertiliser and there is a whole ecosystem supported in a hundred acres of land which could easily support 100 head cattle) your efficiency of generation would end up being orders of magnitude higher - quick fermi equation of 17x at solar conversion and guess at somewhere in the order of 50x for direct conversion to protein/cabs and you really do have a highly energy efficient process
The 60s-80s-born generation performed a real doozy and told their kids "you can be anything you wanted!", so of course we ended up with a culling in trades and "plebian" jobs, and an explosive influx into "soft skills" like history, literature, etc., since that's far better than milling drill-bits all day right?

The craziest thing is that this has been a totally first-world thing. Any english/american university student will tell you how engineering degree courses are made up predominately of foreign students, where-as the less employable and "trade"-producing courses are dominanted by the firsr-world population.

I did Physics. It was 130 students 120 white male, 9 white female, 1 black female. Zero international students

Same university, but mechanical engineering, 70%+ black, 70%+ international students (india/china essentially).

So, to answer your question to what happened to trade schools: they still exist, but the first world young white generation doesn't want to do it anymore, and foriegn/black students have filled in the gap, for whatever that may be.
I may have been thinking of 7.
What a poor design. Pilots should have a hard "manual control" switch that turns control completely to the pilots.

A friend of mine from childhood became a top expert in formal verification, and got a contract many years back to help Airbus perform formal verification on their control software. I don't know many details, but according to my friend's father, he would never fly on an Airbus jet after this experience.

A pilot friend told a story of some pilot friends of his who were piloting an Airbus in Canada, many years back, who couldn't get the jet to give control back and get out of a holding pattern to land. They had to wake up engineers in France in the middle of the night, who told them to take a hammer to certain fuses or breakers, and let them regain control.

From a UI point of view, the control system and displays in the Airbus are a disaster. For instance, the pilots in the Air France plane that stalled over the pacific couldn't figure out that the plane was stalled for several minutes before it was too late to correct, with all of the displays in front of them.
I remember the internet in '95 and it sucked. The modem was loud as hell, everything took forever to load, there was very little content, and my parents would yell at me when they wanted to make a phone call.
It may have do with experience. When you have limited experience, you tend to use all your faculties and guided by logical reasoning. When you have lot of experience, you are guided by past experiences and likely to miss something new, when symptoms are similar to something you have encountered before. Interestingly both my major medical issues were diagnosed by my primar care physician and not by the specialists that I was already working with.

Even in my professional work experience, the new problems that may fall across multiple domains tend to be identified/solved by generalists rather than specialist.
I am in the UK and therefore am not allowed to read the article.
>"The best minds in Silicon Valley are preoccupied with a science fiction future they consider it their manifest destiny to build. Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are racing each other to Mars. Musk gets most of the press, but Bezos now sells $1B in Amazon stock a year to fund Blue Origin. Investors have put over $8 billion into space companies over the past five years, as part of a push to export our problems here on Earth into the rest of the Solar System.

>As happy as I am to see Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos fired into space, this does not seem to be worth the collapse of representative government."

This is an extraordinarily angry and poorly reasoned piece. How exactly are Musk or Bezos causing the collapse of representative government? This kind of assertion needs to be supported in a robust way rather than tossed in as a barb.

>"Tech culture prefers to solve harder, more abstract problems that haven't been sullied by contact with reality. So they worry about how to give Mars an earth-like climate, rather than how to give Earth an earth-like climate."

Is it really that unlikely that terraforming Mars would lead to advancements than help us better understand and take care of Earth? Of all the people to pin climate change on, why would this guy pick on the founder of Solar City and Tesla? Those two companies have been doing a great deal to shift energy consumption from burning fossil fuels towards using solar power and to replace gas-based cars with efficient electric cars.

How does someone who spends his time selling a bookmarking app and harassing people on twitter feel justified in attacking those actually moving clean tech forward?

>"These big five companies operate on a global scale, and partly because they created the industries they now dominate, they enjoy a very lax regulatory regime. Everywhere outside the United States and EU, they are immune to government oversight, and within the United States the last two administrations have played them with a light touch"

This is also false. Look at the intense scrutiny Apple and its suppliers have faced in China over environmental and labor regulations, for example. In fact, it would be fair to say that the "big five" US tech companies face far more scrutiny in China than either the US or Europe.

I suspect the same is true in Russia, Japan and other regions. Consider that Japanese regulators are currently examining Apple for anti-trust action related to its iOS/iPhone/App Store empire.
There is usually a small fee of a few hundred Euros. Or at least, that's what a few German students told me.
I see the same problems as the author; but in very different terms. The lack of connection to surroundings -- the lack of meaningful public goods in SF, for example -- contributes to the detachment and other worldly obsessions of tech leaders. Thus the pre-occupation with living forever and colonizing space: the circle of life on earth seems narrow for those who reject its depth.

However, this kind of escapism is not unique to tech in California. California has been a parade of cults, hedonists and lunatics for a hundred and fifty years or more. Tech entrepreneurs are merely lunatics whose pre-occupations were commercializable, legal and transformative for a very large swath of the economy. What is indicted by tech is not engineering or capitalism, but an escapist and visionary way of life.
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The most well known companies selling JDKs with support for AOT compilation, are PTC (former Aonix), Aicas, ExcelsiorJET, IBM.

There are probably others in the embedded space, as Java is actually gaining some traction to more classical approaches.

And of course, there is also Android with ART.

This was the paper I was referring to, http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1698145
The answer is simple.

They created an artificial gold rush so they could sell shovels.
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One of the things this mentions is that you can view what data Twitter has on you already, and viewing it has remarkably entertaining for just how bad their data is.

* I am apparently between the age of 13 and 55. They've really narrowed that down.

* I'm a male (the only accurate thing on here).

* I'm a corporate mom who is interested in eco friendly vehicles as well as full size SUVs.

* I own a domestic car, a luxury domestic vehicle and an imported luxury vehicle.

* I am looking to purchase three different types of vehicles.

* I am a senior citizen.

* I'm a millennial.

* I'm in generation x.

* My income is 125k, but my discretionary spending is $200k.

If this is really what they're sharing and how they're targeting their advertising then I've grossly overestimated their ability to datamine.
Curious question: Can you explain a bit more on "will block behind the cssdom due to the way it injects"

As far as I know, requireJS doesn't do XHR requests and evals. That sounds ugly. I think it dynamically injects a script tag and loads the module. I maybe wrong.

Either way, how's it a blocking one?

So, the only thing that makes fetchInject, differ from requireJS is the non-blocking way. Is my understanding correct?
Those states are only ill-defined on the assumption that you're entering text which will be parsed. You can still enter fragments when operations are in terms of language constructs rather than characters--you have just supplied a partial set of parameters to the construct, which you can go back and finish later.

Maybe the other part of this issue is expecting to use these potentially better editors in the same way we use text editors. I would bet different patterns of interaction would surface for the new editors which aren't obvious from our present standpoint.
How many people paid an ISP in the hope that someone would pay them more for their account at a later date?

If you're buying bitcoin because of some utility it offers you beyond speculation, the price doesn't really matter. You just exchange one monetary denomination for another and do whatever you plan to do with it.

When you buy something like an internet connection or any other good or service you perform a cost benefit analysis. For example, if internet connections were 100x their current price, many fewer people would have one.(And interestingly for a network like the internet, the higher the cost to access, the less users, and thus less useful because of the network effect.)
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Does this also happen in Bluetec engines?
Probably there isn't a real method of how, except for repeatedly trying things out until you hit something, a thing which is actually described in the talk. He says that reaching PMF once only lightly helps you reaching it again, and he thinks that the real help you gain from it is how to identify it once you have it.
Breaking Through the Normalization Barrier: A Self-Interpreter for Fω (2016) [pdf]
Google Play Store has a rollout feature that makes this possible, but it's not possible on the App Store AFAIK.
> I haven't needed any support competent or not on Mac or Linux

An overreaching admin could be precisely why Windows was such a pain for you (or the poster, who mentioned GPO). That is one of the downfalls of Windows - it's enterprise ready, which means that your experience is at the whim of another person or policy.
PowerShell scripts have the same access capability as any executable... but it may be easier to get a malicious PowerShell script onto and running on a target machine. Antivirus programs will scan executables and users may know to be suspicious of them, but it's not hard to imagine a user clicking a harmless-looking .ps1 file inside an archive that suddenly starts executing.
When there is nothing you can do then you do nothing. There is no requirement to be outside.
I go decaf for coffee and avoid caffeine. I think I feel better for it. Typically 4 or so beers a week, more if there is a night out but that's rare nowadays
I did consider that. It didn't seem like a valid upgrade path from a functioning 2012 MBP. I don't want to be having to use two laptops, and the MB lacks ports and power to be the fallback machine I think. I also don't like the keyboard (worse than the new MBP). In short, if I was going to get an MB, instead I would just keep my 2012 MBP. iPad was enough of a change to be worth trying (knowing I could return it in 2 weeks). I ended up keeping it!
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In large teams it is pretty easy to end up with things like unused vm's, files stored and forgotten about in s3/blobs etc, machines left running over weekends etc when not in use.

How do people make sure they aren't wasting money like this or don't they?

Thanks!
It's not as simple as "people like making money". That's just one part of the job. People who pay more on their loans with increasing income will behave like people behave when taxes go up - the pay will be comparatively less important when weighed against things like working conditions, commute time, and interest in the work.
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Strongly disagree that an engineering manager shouldn't code; that is the shortest way to lose the respect of the team. Don't get me wrong; you need not be the "best" or the expert in all areas, but you do need to stay on top of technical developments both within and outside your organisation.
I'd recommend trying out the Apple Smart Keyboard case. You can always return it in 2 weeks if you don't like it. It is currently, imho, the best keyboard Apple makes.
I guess some years ago you were calling Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme. HN has always been hard to change minds on this.
This is a bit true Scotsman. By viewing a filesystem as a type of db you can think more laterally about your tech choices.
Can we stop naming programming languages with letters and symbols and give it proper names that, when googled (or binged), makes the programming language appear on top?
> Internet companies would also be asked to help promote counter-extremism narratives

Funny, from the party who promoted Leave for the Brexit, a position which is usually considered as "far right".
Out of interest, what exactly do you like about it? It seems similar to several of the more prominent medical or bioscience journals that I frequently read.
It's the legislature's place to make that decision. The companies don't get a pass on breaking the law because everyone's doing it, the same way you and I don't get a pass.

And I don't think every company is breaking the rules. Letting the scofflaws off sends exactly the wrong signal to the companies that made sacrifices (in price or performance) to stay within the law.
Number 11: you are probably talking about authoritativeness and not authority
React is worst.
AFAIK there is such a switch: there are switches to disconnect the primary computers on the overhead panel. If those are disconnected, presumably the aeroplane reverts to direct law and flight envelope protections become inoperative.

I might be mistaken though; I'm no pilot and you seem more knowledgable. The article mentions they were able to regain control of the plane by leaving one of the primary computers disabled. (The end of the article itself has a quote from Airbus suggesting there's always supposed to be a way to get full control; presumably this is what they're referring to.)

I was surprised that they left the other computers enabled, especially given that the article suggests they were worried whether it would happen again; to me, the obvious thing would be to do would be to disable all primary computers and use direct law. Malfunction of the flight envelope protections seemed the obvious culprit from the moment it was mentioned the sticks were ignoring commands, short of a mechanical failure in the control surfaces themselves.

Certainly AF447 has demonstrated that Airbus aircraft are very poorly designed from a user interface perspective.

The anecdotes you have about people working at Airbus sound highly interesting and would be worthy of blog posts in themselves. Would your friend ever consider writing about these concerns (anonymously even)?

Also, was an accident report ever filed for that holding pattern incident? Can I read about it?
we use POSH extensively at work and I haven't seen a single person not using the built-in Unix aliases. Even the TIER 1 peeps got it.

Also, there's a story behind all these commands, their naming, the symbols, reasons for the brevity. But I've never not found Unix intuitive, even before I was aware of the reasoning behind everything. That said, Unix is definitely an environment for the more savvy. But what's intuitive for me is not necessarily intuitive for someone less savvy.
I try to limit my coffee to around 3 cups per day, or else it starts to affect my sleep.

I drink, on average, 6 standard drinks per week (all beer). Usually after work and, in the last 3 three years, no more than 2 at once.
> I might be a bit biased working in offensive security, but 90% of the PowerShell I see in use is malicious.
>
> Unfortunately Microsoft has let the genie out of the bottle

And if you worked in that niche before PowerShell existed, you probably saw similar prevalence in PE/COFF use. Is it fair to say Microsoft "let the genie out" by allowing users of its operating system run software on it?
Where does it tell to not code?
The same phenomenon exists in the UK. That is, an apparent disconnect between wages, GDP growth and employment, resulting in lower productivity metrics for the economy as a whole.
I read older diesel engines emitted bigger particles, so larger that they were filtered by your nose. With the newer EURO5/6 norm the diesel engines got a lot more unhealthy (PM2.5).
Lol, I know when I hiked into Canada, they were very clear that you should have your credit card in hand and ready to pay the $2k charge if they had to use a helicopter to get you out of there. Apparently they've had more than a few people ready to pay the parks service for said service when getting to the top of the pass!

Everything else was included in the minimal day use fee, saw one guy take an abridged version of the hike (due to injury), whereby they covered the finger lakes on boat, and hiked by the short rapids in the slot valleys.

On another note, Parker's Trail is horrible, and when they actually hike the Chilkoot trail they successfully picked the absolute shittiest of conditions (not quite snow, but a slushy, slippery mess). In the summer, it isn't terrible to boulder up, and I found it to be quite an enjoyable trip, got really lucky with some great views & conditions.
Which country is that? Does this rule apply to tourists as well?
also wondering about the cssom comment. I can confirm that requirejs works by injecting <script> tags - <script async> to be precise. requirejs' api isn't promise based, but that's mostly an aesthetic concern.

btw you seem to imply that requirejs blocks - what do you mean by that?
This is related to something that I try to teach junior devs: solve the problem, then figure out what problem your solution is solving and re-solve for that more general problem; only once because:

If you continue this chain of thought you conclude that most software is solving communication. Uber? Communication between a rider and a taxi. Facebook? Communication between friends. Etherium? Communication between an investor and a developer. Business process management? Communication between employees. This is probably the basis of Zawinski's law.
> the illiteracy the average American has in personal finance

These are supposed to be college educated Americans.
If this is true: “We raise our 2025 forecast for EV sales by ~50pc to 14.2m - 14pc of global car sales.”

Then where does the electricity come from to be able to recharge so many cars? To fully charge a Tesla Model S needs 70 to 100 kWh (at 100% efficiency). Sure, a typical daily charge might only be 20% of max, but still that's a lot of kWh needed.

And if it's 14% of global car sales, then is it 30% or 50% of car sales in trendy places like California? Then we truly have a massive problem. California commutes are much longer than in other states, so the strain on the grid would be even worse.

California does have plenty of sunshine. Maybe that's the savior? A Tesla Powerwall in every garage? But that doesn't solve the problem for apartment dwellers. Plus the initial Powerwall only has a capacity of 13.5 kWh; it seems dicey to count on that to be able to recharge a Model S.
Poisoning the well is older than either. It has been an antisemitic stereotype with one notable early hayday in central Europe 1350 or something to blame the Jews for the plague.
requirejs doesn't natively support css, but it has a pretty easy to use loader api so it'd be easy to add css support and in fact one already exists: https://github.com/guybedford/require-css
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