skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that the procurement system is dysfunctional, because of dynamics unrelated to suitability, but there are (at least) another two things in play:

1. Nobody really knows what you'll need until the fighting starts.

2. Once the fighting starts, the necessities of wartime production begin to dominate the necessities of peacetime politics.

But frankly, I hope never to find out whether the USA's carriers are necessary, sufficient or useful in a roughly-equal bunfight.

(edited for wording)
> I answered that the modern web apps are very complex both on front-end and on back-end, and is hard to master both sides at same time. Instead of doing a little bit everything, one should be professional at one side and contribute the best of his knowledge.

You do need to be 'cross functional', you might prefer front end development, but you also need to be able to do back end development, and vice versa.

When you understand both, it will make you a much better developer.

And to quote Bill Gates, 'Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight'

I'm sorry you lost your job but look at this as an opportunity to improve yourself and your skill set.
A 100mi round trip range is no problem for the modern evs, but the fact is that there just isn't enough money to lay out type2 chargers everywhere.

A type 2 50v charger can push my Chevy Bolt's battery from 25% to 80% in well under an hour, making it sort of perfect for errands. That takes me from a 80 mile range to a 232 mile range, approximately.

If these could be deployed in wider numbers, there really is no part of the US that isn't in range except perhaps the most intensely mountainous regions. I'm actually very surprised we aren't starting to see franchises sprouting up offering a renewable power source, a large power storage solution, and a series of type2 50v chargers in an array. It seems to me like a massive potential market if you could literally turn solar and wind into fuel for cars and charge people for parking in the same go.
In this case, the "dust, sweat and blood" could end up on the face of someone suffering from depression who ends up in an even worse situation as a result of that "move fast and break things" entrepreneurial spirit.

This is a field where you're literally playing with peoples' lives. Your "daring failure" could result in suffering and/or death for those people. If you think you should be free to do that without criticism, maybe it's time to learn a thing or two about "ethics".
On another failed warship note, the Vasa, built in Sweden in the 1620's barely made it off the dock before sinking but was amazingly well preserved. Worth seeing if you are in Stockholm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship)
Thankyou! I will ping my colleagues tomorrow.
This is what I don't understand... Why can't developers get non-dilutable shares?

If someone helps you invent something, and they are willing to put their own skin in the game in exchange for an ownership stake, then shouldn't they become wealthy along with you if it is successful?

This whole notion that developers are expendable and disposable and that it is acceptable to give them dilutable stock options is fundamentally immoral and needs to go away.

It's nothing more than greed and exploitation.
I flagged this for a typo in the title. It needs to be either "leads" or "led" to be grammatically correct, with "led" being the more likely choice given that the event was in the past.
Very bizarre that they spun this intentionally as a positive.
I think bikes are going to be bigger than electric cars.
I didn't say anything about anti-dilution.
There are complexities, but as you explain, if you take more money, you need to give the investors something.

If you look purely at the accounting, and ignoring voting rights and other complications, you are right. Dilution doesn't change anything.

IMHO this argument is a case of technically accurate, and completely useless.

It doesn't matter what the value of the company is at the moment of the dilutive event. It matters how that event affects the value of the company when the employee liquidates their stock.

The new round could be very good, but not necessarily. There is no guarantee a more well capitalized version of the company will end up growing faster or larger than the current cap table.

When the employee evaluated their original option grant they should have done an analysis of the business, its market, and future growth potential. Lets say the predicted value of the company is $100M in 10 years.

Lets look at two options:
Option 1 - The company is continuing on its original trajectory. It is running low on runway and needs a cash injection to continue gaining market share for its quest for profitability. The company still looks like a $100M company, if successful.

The new round may not be good for the employee. When you look forward to the eventual liquidity event, the employee now has a smaller piece of the same sized pie. Maybe the company could still reach its goal by tightening its belt a bit.

Option 2 - The company has identified a new market opportunity. They are raising capital to spin up a new project and capitalize the opportunity. If successful, the company now looks like a $10B company in 10 years.

The new round is potentially good for the employee. On liquidation, they will have a little bit smaller piece of a much bigger pie.
Not sure if you already knew about them, but there are consumer X99 motherboards that include PLX8747 switches to mux 32 PCIe lanes from the CPU into 7 PCIe x8 slots, at premium of maybe $200 for the motherboard and $300 for a compatible CPU. (ASUS X99-E-10G WS)

The catch being that the 7 slots are next to each other, so you either have to make a custom water loop with single slot GPUs or use simple risers on half of them. But that's probably the best bandwidth you can currently get between >4 GPUs on consumer parts.
Applications that rely on P2P data channels combined with end-to-end encrypted signalling like https://saltyrtc.org/ might also be an interesting area.

One of the projects using WebRTC data channels right now is Threema Web to connect smartphone and browser across networks without trusting a server: https://github.com/threema-ch/threema-web (Disclaimer: I'm involved in development)
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No, I don't even want to use Gmail. I actually do use a theme in Gmail fyi. I would be just as happy with a color choice.
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Is-There-Enough...
I don't disagree with the sentiment, but I felt it important to point out that the assumption made in the sentence I quoted was itself a sexist assumption.
Adopting Flow and TypeScript
Can a thumbnail be set when playing audio from Safari?
It takes about 5 minutes to set up the dotnet CLI tools and get a "Hello World".

If you don't even want to spend that you can install Visual Studio and .NET Core stuff will just work out of the box, as is customary for VS.

Versioning and documentation is a mess, but neither you nor the grandparent seem to have actually made the minimal time investment necessary to even encounter those problems.
"The "belief" of the American people that "it's not fair" is pointless. It can only be resolved with policy, and if that policy is disliked, it's intellectually dishonest to hide behind individual portions of the bill being popular out of context."

I disagree. I think it's intellectually dishonest to claim that a policy is unpopular when the provisions of it actually are popular. And I think it really is telling that so many people claim to dislike the ACA, yet really like the provisions of it.
This story lacks perspective. They are 25% over budget. For a government defense program that just is not that bad. The reason they are over budget is because they are using a ton of new systems and new technology and guess what it is buggy. NASA blew up a ton of rockets before they got one to work, and blew up even more getting them to work reliably. Given the new technology 25% is pretty damn good. They will work out the issues. There are numerous military technologies that where less then stellar in the 1st run. It is like anything else, it gets better over time and effort. If you say hey, this worked for the last 50 years we should not change then I guess we should be flying bi-planes?
Referenced from a recent HN posting on "What really happened to Vista" - seems amazing prescient about precisely this sort of situation, master writing and a super quick read:

http://www.mayofamily.com/RLM/txt_Clarke_Superiority.html

Just a short sample (It's all worth reading - and it involves battleships!):

"...do you realize that there has been no basic change in armaments for over a century? It is, I am afraid, the result of a tradition that has become conservative. For too long, the Research Staff has devoted itself to perfecting old weapons instead of developing new ones. It is fortunate for us that our opponents have been no wiser: we cannot assume that this will always be so."
Show HN: Parse street addresses in Elixir
iTerm2 has a quake style drop-down layout that is instant and activated by hot key. I can't live without it. And just curious, is this an electron menu-bar app? What framework did you use for the tty
ive dreamt of this for years!!! so excited.

quick question: i noticed that the camera isnt available on iOS 11 if you put a web-app capable page on to your homescreen. when you open the page in full screen, mediaDevices is undefined. is that just an iOS beta bug?
No relation to the Ford, but speaking as someone who works for one of the big defense contractors the underbidding thing is a real issue. One of our competitors (also not related to the Ford) that stole some business from us a while back is currently eating some serious crow on some promises they couldn't fulfill... but they did get the contract. That's serious money in their pocket.

Likewise I'm pretty sure the average Dog Dating App startup has better equipment than we're given, although to be fair what we have does the job, just not nearly as well as it could. Not to mention the mountain of legacy equipment and code that no one ever wants to spend money to replace or upgrade properly (once again, underbidding). For every F-35 or USS Ford there are hundreds of smaller programs wither much tighter (also underbid) budgets that you never hear about (either because they're classified or just too boring for media coverage). But it has to be that way, otherwise we don't get the business at all.

Don't get me wrong I like my work and my coworkers, I'd certainly rather be where I am than Silicon Valley, but the red tape and budgetary constraints are a repeating source of frustration at all levels, and it sucks that there's not really all that much we (at least anyone remotely close to my pay grade) can do about it. At the end of the day it's up to our customers to set the bidding process and pick the winners. A realistic bid is likely a lost contract.
Wait, I think I heard this story before:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship)
>I simply will not spend time tailoring a nascent or even mature product to 0.0001% or whatever minscule percentage of the population turns off JS.

This is reasonable logic and I think it is an important point in getting more people into a technology movement, whether it is removing JS or anything else. A similar example is getting encrytion: many users don't know or care to use it, so it is usually a side issue if mentioned at all in a company. But if the percentage of people who do use it increases, companies will have a greater interest in supporting it.

Currently, normal users just care that content loads when the click the link for a website, and perhaps don't understand or care that JS is running or what the consequences of that is. A more constructive way to get better experience without JS is to ask others to also block it to show companies that this is an issue, rather than just directly asking companies to add support.
Eh, "community range" turns out to be pretty massive around the SF Bay Area, for example. Moving people two or more hours away by car can still do a lot of damage to their relationships, especially when their ability to drive is becoming weaker.

No the answer here is "sorry, but no" to all the people who have decided to block density in central areas in order to keep their own property values astronomically high.

There's no good reason why we should be shipping everyone but the richest workers in their economic prime to painfully remote locals because people in San Francisco's Sunset District are blockading the kinds of buildings that make places like Barcelona, Amsterdam, and Brownstone Brooklyn such attractive places to live.
> I would like to believe that if the panel person was a male, it would have elicited the same building irritation from the audience. Although, I'm less sure that someone would have spoken up.

This makes me think of a complain I saw years ago from a woman about how she was treated on a mailing list. Apparently someone got aggressive with her and one of the things she complained about is that no one stepped in to defend her.

My response to that was along the lines of "they probably expected you to defend yourself".

Your comment reminded me of that, and even then I thought the same thing. Many women are used to getting defended, but men generally aren't and have learned to defend themselves.

So I think you're right that it would've been less likely for someone to defend the panelist if said panelist had been male and for much the same reason. You would expect the male to defend themselves.
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The Geneva Convention is only useful so long as the people with the big guns choose to uphold it. In many respects, it is a relic of early-modern limited war doctrines and archaic aristocratic sensibilities.
We offer scholarships - https://www.udacity.com/scholarships
HHVM 3.20 is released
The time used isn't completely arbitrary, the system launch time is ~3 seconds.
Why CNNs Are a Great Architecture for Machine Translation
With the title "The far-reaching effects of air conditioning" I didn't immediately think "Yup ... that's handy: frozen peas" even though the technology underlying them is the same.
Just to be clear, I'm not in any way criticizing your decision. It seems clear to me that it was correct, from what you've told us. I just don't think it's a good example, that's all.
A while. For now, SpaceX's passengers are all contracted passengers launched on behalf of third parties; none of them are SpaceX employees being launched on SpaceX missions. Possibly for future systems like the ITS SpaceX will need in-space maintenance and engineering staff.
Why did you have to type that. Now in my free time there's a 50/50 chance I am going to waste minutes or even hours looking into the viability of running a postgres/sinatra/nginx app on a phone.

Something about that appeals to me in a huge way. Showing people my "server room", etc etc.
GARABA!
Please quote the exact number in those papers. The summery of the first do not specify the levels of women interrupting women or men interrupting men, explicitly focusing only on interaction between men and women.

The other one only say that "both men and women exhibiting higher levels of interruption behavior in male-dominated groups".

Citations is only as good as the ability it provide to verify a claim. Those do not do that as far as summery goes.
> By your statement, the reason it disproportionately impacts women is not because of some rudimentary, fundamental reason but rather because they fail to react the same way the men did and speak up. That lies 100% on the women.

Saying "women should just act like men" is actually pretty sexist.
True, but the other side of this is the bystander effect - wouldn't you like to be the one person who acted when everyone else stood by?

Not that it would be very relaxing.
That means you're aiming for WebRTC 1.0, not for ORTC, right?
Uber Fires Executive Over Handling of Rape Investigation in India
It doesn't have to be a complex topic.

People braid ideas and emotions together to arrive at unsolvable hairballs like the one you're describing (which my rational self totally understands) - while the genie (monster) is out of the bottle, in the closet, getting bored..

When outside 'truth' is incomprehensible, the answer lies 'inside'..

And then it becomes much simpler (not necessarily easier) - the problem is not how to fix the outside world, but a binary 'good' or 'bad' on a fundamental, basic level: is it out of love or fear and which side do I stand on ?

Start building from that and then all that 'strategic' narrative presents itself as stories told by generations of people scared shitless of other similarly scared people on the other side of the planet.

I guess I'm just one of those naive enough to think that wars cannot happen without soldiers and weapons...
Ask HN: best setup on a new Mac (iMac / Macbook)?
I just bought a new Mac (iMac) and I will soon replace my 6 years old Macbook Air with an entry level Macbook pro.

I am open to any suggestions or link to resources to do the "perfect setup" for my machines. Thanks!
Especially e-bikes are gaining a lot of momentum. They take away the sweat factor of regular bikes while still having massive health and congestion advantages over car commutes (and within the city are often faster than cars due to congested streets).
I ask this out of deep curiosity and by no means with any intent to offend: how does (will?) dreamscopeapp.com make any money? (I don't have an Android device or I'd install it – I'm asking because it's entirely unapparent from your web presence.)
Robot Cars Can’t Count on Us in an Emergency
> Many individual portions of the policy are liked. Those portions have to be paired with less favorable portions in order to create a functional law.

You're basically acknowledging is that a functional policy has to balance benefits against costs. But what you're proposing is inferring support for a policy (i.e. a particular point in the cost-benefit space) from a poll that just asks about the benefits. That's irrational.
heres a part list to build a pc with 1080ti's:
https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Jjn2009/saved/#view=McvMpg

notice the custom part box accounts for two more GPUs, I'm not sure why the site doesn't let you add 4 to the GPU section.

This setup ranges from $5250 with 4 GPU to $3240 with 1 GPU. You might want to bump up the PSU for 4 GPU its currently 1500 watts, which may or may not be enough at max load. The article shows a max of ~2800 watts with 8 GPUs
It has implications for the viable syntaxes for partial application and currying, but is not opposed to it.

For instance, you could use a distinct sigil for an omitted argument for partial application.
I worry that I'm wasting my years on a career that keeps me comfortable but doesn't really exercise my mind. I often daydream about working in academia, journalism or some other vocation where I could be paid to research, think and write. Then I snap awake and get back to writing generic web applications shuffling strings around.
Do you have a reference to this? I’m particularly curious if they address the secondary effects this will have on bids, and if the strategy then remains viable.
I don't think this is that arbitrary - presumably the charge is delivered over 3 seconds, and the question is, how much power did that represent - 12,000 homes is a pretty good way of mentally visualizing how much power is being delivered.
It's because the charge is delivered over 3 seconds, that they used 3 seconds.
You don't need to sink an aircraft carrier, just keep it at long range.

A country like Egypt, Iran or China could keep carriers out of territorial waters or block key choke points in their region with diesel subs or mine. A moderate projection of force could block the straight of Malacca and damage operations.

Even if you didn't sink the carrier, you could wound it, which would be worse than a sinking in some ways. At best you can keep it a few hundred miles away, which will render its future complement of short-range F-35s safely neutered. Alternatively, you probably just need to sink a few container ships to get the desired outcome.
That sounds amazing - do you know of any in particular? I can't seem to find any motherboards with 8 PCIe slots. Or do they need some sort of additional splitter?
First. Strawman. Not helpful.

I actually lifted the nomenclature directly from National Security experts. I did not invent or distort any of the nomenclature.

Further, it is a very accurate representation of the terminology and nomenclature.

The point I hope to drive home is that 70 years later the same "chilling" (title word, not mine) is in effect.

> "competitor countries" in the nuclear context mean "countries that threaten us with nuclear war"

No. If you look at the list of target nations they include non-nuclear countries (Syria, Iran, etc).

> "coercive tactic" and "when it serves the US national interest" correspondingly means "threatening nuclear war to dissuade existential threats"

Mostly wrong. An existential threat could be an economic or political existential threat, or it could be conventional. And it can also be used (IS used) for non-existential coercion: say defending an ally.

> "competitive disadvantage" means "being on the losing side of a nuclear exchange".

No. It means facing a large risk of losing in a conflict of some kind for which there is a large interest in the US of winning. This does not apply only to nuclear exchange and indeed National Security practitioners are quite keen to discuss "cross-domain" warfare (lawfare, sanctions, political entanglement, etc).

> We can debate what the official policy should or should not say but please don't take the terms out of context to make them sound scary

You've taken the terms out of context.

I hope I didn't make them sound scary. I mean, reality is a bit scary some times but I wrote that as quite matter-of-fact.
Nearly any new method of treatment opens up new doors for human failings and there will inevitably be some nonzero number of people whose lives are made worse by an overwhelmingly positive experience for humanity and mental health. Let's first worry about making the apps "good enough" for people to feel like they're getting _any_ decent treatment, let alone comprehensive to the point of eliminating the desire for additional human components, before we worry about this strange, potentially irrelevant rabbit hole.
sorry to kill your dreams...

> As part of the Astronaut Candidate training program, candidates are required to complete military water survival before beginning their flying syllabus, and become SCUBA qualified to prepare them for spacewalk training. Consequently, all Astronaut Candidates are required to pass a swimming test during their first month of training. They must swim 3 lengths of a 25-meter pool without stopping, and then swim 3 lengths of the pool in a flight suit and tennis shoes with no time limit. They must also tread water continuously for 10 minutes wearing a flight suit.

Source: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/pdf/606877main_FS-2011-...

I'm actually Canadian and when I looked into applying for CSA, they stated the requirement was a strong swimmer. They did some drills in the Atlantic.
A Guide to Challenges Facing Self-Driving Car Technologists
iOS is specifically mentioned:

https://webkit.org/blog/7726/announcing-webrtc-and-media-cap...

"Today we are thrilled to announce WebKit support for WebRTC, available on Safari on macOS High Sierra, iOS 11, and Safari Technology Preview 32."
This was 2001 remember, and all the "p-notes", as they were called, I created were the old-school bills with few security measures.

Yes I passed them at fast-food places and, to be honest, for drug deals, which perhaps doesn't count as much to some, but I do remember a McDonalds where the drive-thru person said "sorry we can't take this" and I just feigned surprise and handed them a real note.

Also, I used a linen paper from office depot that gave the notes a decent feel.