skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like that, yeah. Standard procedure I guess?
Another way is to use "n": https://github.com/tj/n
Ad hominem and appeal to authority are not the best way to argue about technology, so let's leave this.

(It feels really odd that someone tells me that he's making a living after cleaning up after people like me while so far I've thought I am paid for scaling small, poorly written systems up to enterprise levels, but well. I'd have appreciated more if we could have talked about specifics instead of "this works because I know it works").
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Who's to say they haven't already?
Played well, that sounds like a good way to get your side project off the ground. Then again, I imagine the cross section of under-performing employees that get this treatment and those that are ambitious enough to follow through on an idea for a side project/business is probably quite small.

Also, you probably would have to hide all the work, since depending on your contract your employer would probably have some claim to it, since it was during work hours.
The current case between Waymo and Uber is a civil dispute, but there is absolutely the possibility here of criminal charges being filed against Levandowski. It's already been referred to a federal prosecutor.
Compared to other podcast-hosting sites, they seem to offer quite a bit for the money (analytics, in-browser recording and editing, 10hrs worth of storage). By comparison, Blubrry charges $12/mo for their base plan, which only gives you hosting and storage. Gotta pay extra for analytics.
> Dynamic languages just don't scale to large codebases

You mean "popular" dynamic languages due to their lack of tooling. Dynamic languages like Smalltalk scale up just fine, but Smalltalk has automated refactoring tools. In other words it's a tool support problem, not a dynamic language problem.
I don't think so. But we are certainly trying to lower the barrier to entry for building useful biological tools. We hope to help 'smaller than billion-dollar-blockbuster drugs' be built by companies and researchers who are inventing all sorts of socially useful biological technologies. We are working with scientists to enable novel uses of biotechnologies for things like genetically targeted immunotherapies, synthetic biosensors, spider silk clothing, vegan gelatins meats and milks, oil-free biofuel production, and of course just much more rapid biological research.

Some of the uses for these proteins we've talked about already here on HN:
https://serotiny.bio/notes/proteins/
Indeed. I felt like the difference between my well funded public high school (IMSA) was at least 100x that of my old high school, which actually had a lot of criminal problems (knives/guns found on students and in lockers, drugs everywhere, student violence). It wasn't even about education at that school, it was about safety.

And yes, gifted children actually need somewhere to go. I can only imagine what would have happened if the education system supported me rather than held me back. In primary school we did have a very small "gifted" program that was after school, with Apple computers, a little programming even, and learning games. Even later on, the advanced classes were boring, but way ahead of "normal classes."

Example: One time we moved schools, the new school didn't get my records, so they put me in all remedial programs without even letting me know. I was literally learning long division by hand in 7th grade, which I already knew. The next year (it took them all year to figure it out and move me up), I was taking algebra in 8th grade. What a waste of a few years.
Don't think so. Originally the CRISPR mechanism was discovered in bacteria, which only have one cell. It doesn't make sense for bacteria's anti-virus system to kill it's only cell.
Kickstarter, Patreon, Donations, and Company seem like the best choices. The rest seem like it has a lot of overhead or restrictions.
Could also be because its not a good game. It could be so much more and dominating the charts instead of hanging in them.

I agree it is a huge success, but it could have been much more.
You don't need to detect it as it's going on, it should be a part of the approval process for getting the app accepting into the Play store. Apps should undergo regular static and dynamic analysis. And probably some improvements to Bouncer
They also don't sell your car to another person...

Its not quite analogous
They said those rights were exhausted as well. That was the point on which Ginsburg dissented; in my non-lawyerly paraphrasing it sounded as though she saw foreign patent law as something that could not be exhausted on the same grounds as domestic patent law (being foreign and all). I saw some citations of trade-treaties and such (Bern Convention) in her dissent, but didn't go farther. She joined on the the domestic point.
The key part of this is the software to detect synthetic voices. Seems a bit overeager to jump straight to a dedicated wearable device when it could just be implemented as an app.
And then what happens if the consumer just ignores the lease and sells it anyway?

They tell the company "I threw it away".

People throwing used printer cartridges away would probably happen a lot, anyway, right?

Technically it would break the contract but the issue is that it would be very difficult to enforce.
This is exciting news! I'm a long-time LAMP developer (now mostly Laravel) and have been experimenting with NodeJS for an upcoming API project. As Javascript becomes a larger part of each new project, using one language throughout the entire stack is becoming much more compelling.

Is Express still considered the de facto web framework for NodeJS? Or are other frameworks better suited for someone used to the "batteries-included" philosophy of Laravel. I'm watching the new "Learning Node" course from WesBos since he covers async/await and Express seems very similar to most MVC frameworks.
Learning to read errors is itself a skill. The number of professional devs who ask questions of the form "I got this message what do I do" and the message itself tells them what to do is astonishing.
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If a product is rented for a long term then maybe a consumer should be able to pass a right to use it to someone else. Otherwise this can be used to circumvent the law.
I'd also say try out Baqqer. You can take pledges to help sustain yourself and your project there.
Strangely, at all the big corp jobs I've been at, the good programmers have become domain experts as part of the job. How else could they have a real feel for what the business needed and if the code was correct?
Interesting idea...

Original source could be the tweet embedded in https://supso.org/blog/funding-open-source-by-rethinking-the...
Though police do often drop criminal charges if the victim is uncooperative.

Here's a recent example: a friend of mine was raped and strangled to death last month. They caught her alleged murderer last week. When the media got a hold of it, they found out that he had been accused of rape and attempted strangulation five years ago, but police decided not to press charges because the victim wanted to let it drop.

So yeah, it happens; it's just a spectacularly bad idea for the police to do it. If they hadn't declined to file charges, my friend and another murder victim would probably still be alive today.

Source: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2017/05/26/man-killed-...
Helping porters of your opensource project to a platform is counterproductive if it will have a marketplace with commercial participants encouraging cost barriers to entry.
I have not tried, but I would guess no. Why not give it a try and see?
In Australia we have a "points" system for proof-of-ID. In order to get certain things (open a bank account, get a passport, so on) you need to have a certain number of "points". Most things require 100 points of ID, and there are different classes of IDs (passports -- 70, credit card -- 40, water bill -- 35).

The purpose was to make it harder to commit fraud, though it also makes it kinda difficult to legitimately bootstrap your ID when you're a minor (or if you're an immigrant).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_point_check

http://www.police.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/133...
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Interestingly I did not see a reference to Road Coase' theory of the firm which seems to have a big impact here.
> Commoditized market does not mean lack of options or low quality goods.

No, but it does mean that goods are perfect substitutes that compete only on price, although it is a condition which in practice is approximated more often than actually attained.

> People don't just buy generic meat they buy Grade A (means something) Prime Rib (means something) Angus Beef (means something).

Right. "Meat" isn't even approximately a commodity. A particular cut and grade might be approximately a commodity (though makers will actively seeking to decommoditize it by building brands; no one wants to sell into a commodity market, since basic economics mean that competitive factors will drive market prices in such a market down to producer costs and eliminate profits.)
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There are many hotel search engines out there already, and I don't really understand why new search engines would pick up meaningful market share. The priceline and expedia web properties (Booking.com, priceline.com, KAYAK, Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Hotwire, Travelocity, trivago, etc.) have pretty decent customer loyalty, a lot of app downloads, and highly optimized customer acquisition and conversion.
I would love a proper "hobbyist" priced license for a full 64-bit LispWorks at around $200.

Stephen Wolfram did it for Mathematica (Home license)...
I agree using tinted glasses really helps your eyes rest...
And helps to fall sleep faster.

You can read more infomation about it here:
https://lowbluelights.com/the-science-behind-lbl/
Ad hominem and appeal to authority are not the best way to argue about technology, so let's leave this.

It seems to be de riguer when dealing with some of the top ranked people on HN, who all too often seem to have long ago forgotten the rules that they apparently think no longer apply to them because they have more karma than god.

My hat is off to you in how well you handled this.
The court can (and did) order Uber to:

> immediately and in writing exercise the full extent of their corporate, employment, contractual, and other
authority to (a) prevent Anthony Levandowski and all other
officers, directors, employees, and agents of defendants from consulting, copying, or otherwise using the downloaded materials; and
(b) cause them to return the downloaded materials and all copies, excerpts, and summaries thereof to Waymo (or the Court) by MAY 31 AT NOON [1]

---

I believe that authority includes firing him if he did not comply.

[1] https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3722249/Uber-Inju...
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I always had the same issues with ext2. Dozens and dozens of errors, fsck -y, kernel panics, and then giving up. It wasn't until ext4 that I started to see some serious reliability.

Especially given how often I have to hard power-off machines because they just freeze, or because shutdown -h now doesn't work, or because they keyboard input doesn't work ...
Yep, this is what we do. Adding in some kind of object cache cluster wasn't a significant enough of an improvement over just hitting mysql to justify the extra point of failure.

The problem is WP just makes a ton of simple queries - in any complex install the bottleneck is probably going to be network latency to the database.
But if CRISPR cuts off a single DNA sequence, surely the repair mechanisms won't damage a random gene far away. My very limited understanding is this paper is reporting widely spread damage on the genome.

The original bacteria CRISPR can only cut off pre-defined sequences, but the artificial gene tech CRISPR can add and edit as well. I'm wondering if the later two modes are the sources of the genome damage.
I live in seismicly boring Europe, so I have no idea what damage would be caused without this floor. Many broken hard drives? Or worse?
Yeah, that happens to me too. I believe the reason why the lag is so bad on openSUSE / SUSE [aside: note the spelling :P] is because we carry patches that make quotas actually apply correctly (but it increases the big-O complexity by quite a lot -- making balances way more expensive).
Most contracts limit a party's rights without giving everything in exchange.
I don't follow his tweets, so that is unlikely in this case. It is vastly more likely to have been a comment somewhere on HN that I happened to read. (But that's a really great source you have linked to. Thank you.)
Great! Thanks for the follow up.
Might look at Hapi (https://hapijs.com/) for a more "batteries-included" experience - but Express is still a great choice for just busting out a simple http service.
I feel the same way with the "this time it's different" bit, but I want to play the devil's advocate.

While knowledge tasks are different than mechanical ones, you could argue that they're both "tasks" that are being "done" and require thinking in some way, but just more (or different) thinking is involved this time.

I don't know if machines could automate things like ingenuity, although at the same time I don't know if the demand for ingenuity is large enough for people to have a stable job.
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How do you tax automation? How do you ensure you don't stifle its development?

Shouldn't we be focusing on distributing the fruits of automation as widely as possible?
Static analysis likely will not detect this type of malware as the malicious payload is only retrieved once the app is running. As for dynamic analysis, it's usually pretty easy to evade for a capable malware author. The only surefire way to catch this is to have someone manually analyze the app.
I know for a fact mine weren't, because the profs tended to tell us so. Also, many of the academics could barely code themselves. Instead they found creative ways to set mark schemes such that the code didn't matter, even for programming assignments.
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I had a really bad experience recently with Travelocity. I needed to change dates for a stay in SF, which ended up being very costly in addition to being a hassle. I was forced to cancel the stay as well as pay the entire cost for the stay, and there was no way to do it online. I had to sit on the phone with a Travelocity agent who called the hotel to "negotiate" (which did nothing but waste time), then they started telling me about some Travelocity deal involving coupons, etc. It was confusing in addition to being a waste of time and money.

I would probably just book directly these days. Hotels seem to have had it with dealing with the aggregators.
«Secondly because I don't like the closeness of UWP. Silverlight was a good platform in my opinion because its runs apps out-of-browser on various editions of Windows and Mac OS. UWP apps on the other side doesn't even run on the most deployed edition of Windows!»

If it helps, Microsoft's Xamarin team announced macOS, Linux, and WPF (Windows 7+) support for Xamarin.Forms (expanding it to full desktop support beyond just Android and iOS mobile support). Admittedly, Xamarin.Forms is a subset of the full UWP, but it hopefully should with XAML Standard 1.0 alignment converge to be more of a proper subset of UWP than Silverlight ever was for WPF.

These enhancements to Xamarin.Forms and the development of the XAML Standard 1.0 are all in open source development on GitHub.
More: to take the 5th in a civil dispute that they aren't even a party to. That's extremely unusual - and in this case, it didn't fly.
I think it's silly that this is being treated in the article as if it's some kind of invention. Structuring a deal like this has always been both possible and easy.
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Looking forward to writing unit tests for luwa. Node v8.0 should include wasm 1.0
> if you put me on a raft out in the ocean and ask me whether we should shoot and eat the Christian or the Atheist, I'm going to ask "which one of them asserts their death will result in a state of unending glory and euphoria while preserving the 'existence' of their mental state?" Because that's the one that should be killed

See what I mean when I talk about progressivism? Heretical it may be, but the truth of God shines through nonetheless. For all the wrong reasons, from all the wrong priors - you misunderstand the nature of death and that which follows after, and the nature of life and what it means to follow Christ - yet we still come up with precisely the same answer: "This is my body, which is given for you."
I'm going to need you to change that to "95% of all NEW jobs", then, because that's what those sources say.
Nice! This is a really neat idea.

What kind of analytics do you provide?
Actually, they did it because the judge suggested it. There was no other practical way for Uber to comply with the court's orders in light of Levandowski's pleading the Fifth.

Source: https://arstechnica.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Uber.Waym... (page 23, footnote 9).
Frankly I don't buy it, not even a little bit. I do DD for a living with some regularity and if someone popped up with that much IP in such a short time I would spend a lot of time on the origin story of that IP and I really would like to have a chat with the magical 1000x developers that they employed.

It is beyond suspicious, but then again, maybe pigs really can fly.
It's ON!!!!
His situation was referred to a federal prosecutor. I'd say that's at least 'suspected of a crime'.
Very good list. I would add that most open source projects have many people working on them.

I'm almost positive this isn't true. If you restrict to the top few percent of projects, it'll be much more true, but even so I think you'll find a lot of projects with relatively small core groups, and sometimes a single hacker who wrote most of the core.

Weekend project: try to quantify this via GitHub APIs? Although suspect that might still give a somewhat skewed picture (not every major project is on GitHub...)
> Paying taxes on your purchase is a very rare case?

I think the point is that the situation where floating point error changes the result when rounded to cents is rare. Which is true, except when it is not (e.g., if you happen to have a price that tickets commonly hit that results in an error.)
Slightly related perhaps and something I have been curious about for a while... event sourcing seems like a very powerful pattern that I haven't seen wide adoption. The best documentation seems to be some MS dev library notes and a discussion from M Fowler.

Are there any open source implementations of a database that uses event sourcing?
You'd be wrong IMO:

https://twitter.com/Hello_World/status/861735184990961664
I don't think that liberals would want less IP laws.

IP laws are a government restriction on citizens. Conservatives generally want strict limits on government regulations and liberals want more government regulations.
I do hope EU gets on top of Apple/Google/Netflix/HBO/etc soon. It's supposed to be One Market, yet these all impose territory restrictions where content in Spain is not necessarily available in France and vice versa.
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Happens all the time, I wouldn't worry about it, just ignore it.
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My passion right now is feathers+nuxt+vuejs. If you're really wanting to keep the "Laravel" feeling though, there is also adonisjs.
You wouldn't be taxing automation but rather the output of automation.
> but the artificial gene tech CRISPR can add and edit as well.

I was under the impression that addition and editing capability were essentially done by injecting the sequence that is desired and performing the cut. Then you simply rely on the repair mechanisms to have a chance to put the new segment in instead of the old segment. Is that not the case?
Brunch is secular church. Sunday service for the socially starved. Something for the nothings. Specifically, something soulful and restorative.
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Yes and no. "Yes" because JS decorators are indeed very local - they apply to what they decorate. "No" because JS decorators are still imperative. Essentially when you write

@D class A { }

this simply means something along the lines of:

class A { }
D(A)

where D is an arbitrary function doing arbitrary things to A. There is nothing declarative here.
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That happens on a daily basis, on both stores.

There is no way either company can manually inspect billion+ apps plus their updates. So they are putting AI in charge which people seem to ba able to fool once in a while.
He was refuting my "greatly exaggerated" remark by going on to make the same points I was alluding to albeit directly and in more detail. So I was in turn elaborating on my choice of language.

I feel between this post and you're previous one that you are basically just agreeing with me via the process of nitpicking the language I used.
... comes as a result of his involvement in a legal battle between Uber and Waymo, the self-driving technology unit spun out of Google last year.

Honest question - can they do that to him, or anyone else, before guilt is actually proven? What if the result is that nothing is found?? Can he counter-sue for wrongful termination??

Next time if you are company X and are angry your employee Y left for company Z, just sue Z in hopes they will let Y go.
I believe that is what the _since_ means, at least that is how I read it.
> In almost all cases they nod and feign interest and understanding and their eyes glaze over. And why should they be interested? The stories are almost always abstract and the ROI is even more abstract. It's all implementation details to them.

If you're explaining it in terms of internals and implementation details, then you're always going to get this response.

Your job as a business-facing developer is to translate the technical details (in as honest a way as is possible) into a business outcome.

I'm not naive. We've all worked with stakeholders that make stupid choices and can't seem to grasp a point dangled right in front of them.

But. Even more often than that I've seen (especially in-house) IT talk down to the business, push an agenda through the way they summarize an issue or need, and try to use technical merits to subvert corporate decision making.

Ultimately, you're in it together with business stakeholders. Either you trust each other, or you don't. And "the business can't be trusted to make decisions that have technical impacts" is the first step towards a decay of trust on both sides.
even chips with AVX2 on all cores slow down
when it's fully used

Not really. Xeon Phi's clock low because the die is massive.
The downclocking for AVX started with Knights Landing. My Boardwell-EP Xeon stays at 3.0Ghz even when I (ab)use AVX2.
Actually it is a genuine dissent because the majority decision did specifically address that scenario as well:

> Applying patent exhaustion to foreign sales is just as straightforward. Patent exhaustion, too, has its roots in the antipathy toward restraints on alienation, and nothing in the Patent Act shows that Congress intended to confine that principle to domestic sales.
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