skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would make much more sense to run it like an auction, given the aims of the program.

So, for example, an entrepreneur that just raised $10m would be prioritized for the visa over someone who raised $100k.
Much better now. Red Hat has full time people working on it and the community is larger. I've heard that many of the people working on GNOME, systemd and the like use Fedora themselves, which certainly helps.

My favorite Linux distribution nowadays because I don't have to spend time fiddling with it.

I also really like spec files for packaging - they're really similar to PKGBUILD and similar formats.
Many people are saying here that the slowing of the rate of change is due to business consolidation... I would argue that it is probably due to physics instead. The traditional way of storing more data on a platter, shrinking the size of each bit, has just about run out. Each bit is now stored on a handful of atoms. The drive manufacturers are trying new things to get around this problem (e.g. shingling) but once each bit is down to a few atoms you can't really go any smaller. Further improvements in disk technology will probably have to be a bit more radical.
And, just to round this out, SUN is all-caps (rarely) because it was originally an acronym for Stanford University Network.
Shhhh node people still pretend threads don't exist
If we want to teach people how to think, I propose that math isn't the best way to do it. I can't tell you how many times I complained about how senseless math was. The real-world application is very limited, for the most part.

Contrast that to if I had learned programming instead. Programming definitely teaches you how to think, but it also has immense value and definite real-world application.
Possible explanation for why this happened: it was night, and the parallel runway 28L was closed and therefore unlit. The pilot may have mistaken 28R for 28L and hence the taxiway for 28R. This comes nowhere near excusing this mistake (there is no excuse for a screwup of this magnitude) but it makes it a little more understandable.
idk, I studied higher level math very seriously, and even there, practicing computations is pretty key to understanding the underlying concepts. Concepts and abstractions are important, but they don't stick without practice.
> I think the idea of focusing on concepts over computation 100% in the right spot

Concepts of what? Without intuitive understanding of basic computation procedures, what concepts can anyone build out of nothing?

Math is concrete. It's from observation of actual quantitative phenomenon.
Not sure what you are asking because XCode is an IDE and Unity is a 3D engine. You would be using both on an iOS project. You'd export your unity project to an XCode project then publish the .ipa from XCode.

Are you wondering if it's better to use OpenGL/Metal instead of Unity? I'd say stick with Unity unless you've written a shader before. You're not going to build an optimized 3D/AR app without quite a bit of experience.
Maybe it was read as:

Move fast and break things > Move fast with stable infra
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I think I'm asking for something in between a mathematically verifiable proof and fuzzing. A lightweight way to translate runnable code into a symbolic execution environment that can be exercised (not necessarily verified) exhaustively or stochastically.

There are relatively few functions that I want to do this for, and I'm okay with doing some manual work to define the possible inputs and how the functions talk to each other (i.e. mock out network / filesystem / database).
Basecamp has 50 employees. Google was founded in 1998 and has 50k employees. I think there's something more to be said about the differences in their experiences and the kind of mistakes they have made.
And yet, very importantly, Basecamp is insanely crappy.
zfs can almost get you there. snapshots are p fast. interesting concept.
Paper doesn't address what measures the aliens might use to disguise any obvious signature of the starshade.

You'd think that the aliens might not be too keen to create huge beacon advertising their presence to all and sundry...
Many people don't have high powered credentials on their work computers and have safer personal use devices. Eg Windows work laptop from corporate IT vs iOS personal devices.

Another type of user keeps confidential stuff out of networked computers and the cloud entirely.

Both are worthy defense strategies.
This isn't for piddly-ass "climate change" of a handful of degrees, this is "the sun is two times brighter than it was a million years ago and we're no longer in the habitable zone".

For our problems shades in Earth orbit would be just fine, and are probably the best solution overall, really, for dealing with climate change. Not just "man-made" climate change, but all climate change, full-stop.
I do a lot of work in local VMs (testing in clean environments, debugging drivers, etc.), and those can take up quite a bit of room.
So you're suggesting a progression rather than one being vastly superior? I took it as the latter.

Sure, we all know the trick to startup success. Sprint as fast as you can for that cliff and hope the cliff moves before you get there.
Absolutely. Critical thinking has never been more important.
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Reminds me of an anecdote in Richard Feynman's book in which the Brazilian education system revolved around memorizing definitions without understanding the underlying concepts: http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education
>I think the idea of focusing on concepts over computation 100% in the right spot.

Concepts over computation (or well, before computation) is probably right. But New math was about learning the abstract before the concrete. This was predictably an abject failure.

I think the best way to teach math is to follow the trajectory that humanity took when discovering it. The key that's missing is that math doesn't just come out of thin air, its just a systematization of precise quantitative thinking. If we motivate the concepts using real world examples, then explain how to abstract away the particulars into a general procedure, then these connections will get made that make math "real" and relevant.
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Facebook Graph API V2.9 Changes
I've received some fake ones but they were unbranded... The ones that I ordered online on Amazon with the whole retail packaging have always been good so far.

Sounds like something an evil cloud storage company would do to promote the use of online storage... that and removing SD cards slot from whatever they can.
I would be interested in seeing the log of the prices on the vertical axis. The curve seems to fit the exponential decline in prices that I expect to see. I think the difference in regimes would be more clear cut that way.

Just picking the end points and the middle, I see: (11 cents, 2009), (5 cents, 2013), (2.8 cents, 2017). So it went from slightly more than halving in cost in the first 4 years (55% reduction) to slightly less than halving in cost in the second 4 years (44% reduction). There's definitely a bit of a slowdown there, but not the huge difference that the article claims.

Of course, the first half includes the Thailand flood, and the second half doesn't. Googling for some historical data leads me to http://www.mkomo.com/cost-per-gigabyte, which claims that (from 1980-2010), the cost of a gigabyte has been halving in about 14 months, which is closer to the decay pre-Thailand flood.
Is Ruby Too Slow for Web-Scale?
Intels response to AMD throwing in all the free silicon features for.. well, free.. is yet more market segmentation?
But purity.
uasf.co will try to force SegWit activation. And we'll see what'll happen, and will there be economic majority or not to force SegWit activation, and how many blocks [and transactions] will end up orphaned.
Here I was hoping that Kepler had found a star shade.

Interesting point that at some point your observing apparatus gets good enough that you can 'see' the structures built by sufficiently advanced civilizations (sure they cloak their ships in orbit but you can see how they make their home world comfy!)

At one of the SETI seminars there was a discussion about when would be the "right" time to alert a newly discovered intelligent species that they aren't alone in the universe. There was a lot of back and forth about indigenous tribes in the Amazon, some of who learned of other tribes by the arrival of missionaries, some by loggers, and some who were out walkabout and came upon the strangers. How you meet outsiders has a different impact on how it affects you.

So if you were aliens and you didn't want to 'alarm' or 'damage' humans, what would you use as a signal that it was probably a good time to say "Hello" ? I've always felt that once you could detect they were having conversations on other planets you would now "know" we weren't alone and someone could appear in orbit and say Hi. Others felt it would only be safe if humans felt reasonably confident in their own ability to meet them at their level (so perhaps at least colonies on other solar system bodies). One person at our table was firmly in the only when it is unavoidable, which is to say they are about to send a probe to an inhabited planet or come across a construction like a station that is not easily concealed or moved.
Large databases for backend development on old projects that have been around for decades. I currently have a 1TB SSD installed in my work laptop, and it is about 75% full.
What Level of Feature Management Is Right for Your Team?
I have around 20 VMs sitting on disk, several of which have over 20GB disk allocated. I run these in VMware workstation, for testing on different Windows versions, and Linux and BSD distros. They eat a lot of space.

I also have virtual network devices which rub in GNS3, which also take up a fair bit of space.
Sure but if you look at how 401ks and IRAs _actually_ work you'll see people being broke in retirement as well and the idea that DB is more risky than DC for employees is just totally backward. The fix here is more transparent DB, not shoving people into DC plans which were never meant for them.
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I've been doing mobile AR since 2011 and it seems like there is probably demand for some AR app best practices now that ARKit and FB Studio are coming out. Is that accurate?

If so I'll take the time to write up something if people are interested.
People are being pretty friendly to this idea but honestly I've known more than one disgruntled developer, on their way out, who basically worked 90% of their time on their pet project, just doing the minimum work to not get fired. I don't think that is what people are advocating for but to answer the original question, I think this happens a lot where it isn't "practice" that the employer benefits from.
Alright, fair point, given Lumosity's claims.
"Hey, what does JS stand for?"
"ECMAScript"
Shades in Earth orbit raise the wonderful prospect of triggering Kessler syndrome. I'd rather not make near Earth orbit uninhabitable any time soon, thankyouverymuch.
There just needs to be faster feedback than once a test.

https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/teaching-ma...
I'm disappointed that two other large pieces of the economic puzzle are left out: workers and government. Corporations have more cash than they know what to do with? That means that 1) wages are too low, and 2) taxes are too low.

More specific to Apple's case, the hoarding of cash overseas to avoid paying US taxes on it is one of many poisonous symptoms of our international capitalism. The amount of tax Apple would pay if those profits did come to the US would make a not-inconsequential dent in the federal deficit. The whole take-on-debt-to-pay-dividends strategy is so skeevy that while I don't doubt it's legal, it's very questionably ethical.

All that said, I think US tax policy contributes to the problem. During the Bush administration, an effort was made to argue that taxes on dividends amounted to double taxation because the corporation had already paid taxes on that money, so why should the investors also pay tax on it. And while dividend income was not made tax free, it is now (or at least was for a while, I haven't kept up) taxed at a significantly lower rate than "earned" income. But the fix that makes the most sense to me, and which would solve Apple's problem, is to exempt corporations from paying taxes on the money they then pay out as dividends, and tax the individuals earning the dividends their normal marginal tax rate. This would encourage corporations to pay more dividends, end the "double" taxation, solve some percentage of off-shore hoarding, increase US government revenue, and put more money into the economy and not in corporate bank accounts.
In general yes. The policy was passed and signed. The industry was ready to start using it, since we are only a week away from the planned start date. This was a concerted effort to block the policy, and therefore could be considered a "blow".
Stumbling across things like this can ruin my entire day...
Employee takes sick leave for mental health, CEO’s response is refreshingly rare
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I am not defending or attacking anything.

Let's just understand what "the system" is in the first place.

Whether it is morally good or bad we can decide after we make sure we are talking about the same system.

It sounds like you are suggesting that DHS would kick out the entrepreneur if there was a falsehood on marketing materials?

I don't know what that example was supposed to illustrate so please clarify, because I don't think that is how it would work.

Secondly, I don't know under what conditions DHS is allowed to cancel visas.

But let's more on to the other matter, which is the relationship between the VC and the entrepreneur. You acknowledge that the "knowledge" is key, but you still think that they can replace the person who is running the company?

Finally, you agree that the person would still retain ownership in the company?
For that you'd need to wait until all major parser libraries support it, aaand that all deployments get updated. That means that little change is an at least 10 year long project.
The price of Ether has fallen 30% in the last week
No, the grandparent comment resonates with me. I have good eyesight (when last tested, four years ago, it was better than 20:20) and use monitors with standard DPI on standard resolutions, and yet it suddenly strikes me that never in my life have I had to zoom out on a web page, and yet I frequently zoom in (including on Hacker News). Standard font sizes really are too small.
Unrelated, but in Germany you get unemployment benefits after you quit a job? Wow.
find a niche you love and do it because you enjoy it.

if you go into it just trying to make money the odds of even finding subscribers is low.
Worse than that, the host wasn't a "common" investigator (and later executive assistant director) at the FBI, he was a specialist in computer crime, his bio:

https://www.crowdstrike.com/shawn-henry/

>... is credited with boosting the FBI’s computer crime and cybersecurity investigative capabilities. He oversaw computer crime investigations spanning the globe, including denial-of-service attacks, bank and corporate breaches, and state-sponsored intrusions. He posted FBI cyberexperts in police agencies around the world, including the Netherlands, Romania, Ukraine and Estonia.
If i can't make it here, i can't make it anywhere.
> Imagine you didn't need to trust a stranger to make a deal with them.

You mean, if I could deal with a specific stranger by trusting a much much larger group of strangers to ensure fairness for the individual case?

... Starts sounding like a government that enforces contracts, so that's not entirely new :)

> The second category are the profiteers who trying to make a quick buck off the unaware and the optimistic. Unfortunately, this second category is getting most of the attention.

True, it's the nano-socialnetwork-gene-plasatics du jour in some circles.
For Hacker News specifically: Verdana at 13px (12px for body text) was a fine choice at 72 dpi.

HN didn't exist in the 1990s, but its design principles are from that era. The look itself is a nice throwback, but the type size follows a technical constraint that no longer makes sense (it only made sense when CSS was nonexistent or very limited).
I'm a true believer in bottom up decision making. That said, when I was in the USMC, I had to lead some Marines that I would consider incapable of making even the most basic decisions on their own. It's unfortunate but that's reason the military must have such a rigid hierarchy. If I'd been able to pick only the best Marines for my team, we'd have been able to allow more bottom up decision making. I've experienced it on some teams, others not so much.
Great relevant article on the topic

http://www.techweez.com/2017/07/11/ushahidi-needs-to-act/
What is the tradeoff? Cryptographically secure hashes usually require dozens of rounds and take a lot of time. Could two less secure hashes could do the same thing in less time? What about when the crypto hash is hardware accelerated?

I haven't run the numbers, but I'd bet that two easy hashes still beat the hardware accelerated one by quite a lot (taking time is part of what makes cryptographic hashes secure).
It depends on the type of software that you're developing.

Do you see any game developers working on Linux? Hardly.

Do you see a lot of IT shops doing development on Linux? Nope.

There are way more web developers on Mac and Windows than Linux.

What kind of dev work is Linux actually better for then? Servers? Most people are using Macs for that and deploying to Linux.
Node v6.11.1 (LTS)
250k is nothing for millions of people. There also millions of people for whome 1000 dollars is a lot of money and that don't know anyone rich enough to shell out that kind of money.
The goal of good government should be to make decisions that make the people's lives better, and not to make all decisions feel wonderfully democratic.

People with a likely decent track record are willing to put their money down on, "This person can create jobs." Would you prefer to have those jobs created or not? Saying yes to the option is very much not a zero-sum game.
Ah, good point. I forgot about that problem with instantaneous speed.
Good point. As far as I can tell the loan must have been around 1968 - 1971, and this inflation calculator [1] puts that at $7 Million in today's money.

[1] http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
I believe it's referred to as infotainment. The History Channel isn't news any more than Fox News is news. That it then made it onto mainstream media, "because it's out there", is another indication of the problems with Ad revenue based media seeking clicks.

http://video.foxnews.com/v/5497862627001/?#sp=show-clips

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/amelia-earhart-survived-plan...

It's telling that HISTORY is also being transparent:
https://twitter.com/HISTORY/status/884781394861469696
and that is also news.

p.s. thanks criddell!
As a someone with a degree in applied mathematics, I feel the problem with learning mathematics is more often than not a problem or a fault of the instructor of mathematics.

Many instructors approach the subject with a very broad understanding of the subject, and it's very difficult (more difficult than math) to shake that understanding and abstract it to understandable chunks of knowledge or reasoning.
Except oddly enough, you can frequently buy a drive wrapped in a USB enclosure for 10-15% less than the bare drive...

Plus, the sleep modes on a lot of "consumer" drives significantly slow them down when used in a desktop environment (as well as creating second long pauses in RAID arrays with more than 5-6 drives), and the option to disable that "feature" is slowly disappearing on drives without the "enterprise" tax.

Market segmentation shenanigans like this would never fly in a healthy competitive market are now very common.
I wrote a thing to pull the prices of all the hard drives on Amazon every 12 hours and sort them by price per GB. https://diskprices.com/
Please don't construe my comment as a condemnation of process. I'm talking only about "approvals". On all but the smallest (1-2 person) teams, process is vital and necessary in order to ship on time, under budget, with sufficient quality, whatever your business measurements are. This is particularly true for software. Without a clear product development process, we're all pretty much relying on chance in order to successfully ship a product.
I am weird but I have no clue why so many people are in cities. I have chickens, goats, dogs, large garden with fruit and veg, pool for very little money. No concrete, polution, noise and people, no attacks, less chance (history) of contagious disease, far less stress (for me). I like visiting cities for a few days but no clue why people insist on living there.
Pensions aren't portable - in the modern labor market where people are expected to have multiple emplyers and possibly even career arcs, that's a pretty limiting. Personally, I feel that too many pensions plans (private and state) are at financial risk and have seen too many companies go under (wiping out pensions), or severely cut back (changing their payouts and coverage). Really, I'd prefer something more portable than even a 401k. Rolling over to an IRA after you change companies is ok, but I'd really rather have savings separated from employers to a greater degree even when it's accumulating.
I blame TV in the 80's and 90's..and to today.
The smart kid is the dorky, beat up kid. The dad is usually a guy who thinks he can figure stuff out and repair stuff, but hes wrong and just breaks everything.. better just buy it at the depot.

Our media praises stupidity
Near as I can tell HIRL could not have been on, they were not following another aicraft to land, and the runway and taxiway lighting must've been sufficiently low that the taxi lights (low intensity version of a landing light) on the queued up airplanes on the taxiway, made it look like the taxiway was the runway. Pilot fatigue, and experience at this airport also are questions.

http://flightaware.com/resources/airport/SFO/IAP/ILS+RWY+28R...

All runways have high intensity runway lighting (HIRL) and 28R has touchdown zone and centerline lighting (TDZ/CL). Runway lights are white, taxiway lights are blue. If you see these elements, there's no way to get confused. So my assumption is the pilots, neither of them, saw this distinction.

HIRL is typically off for visual landings even at night. That's questionable because night conditions are reduced visibility situations and in many other countries night flying is considered as operating under instrument rules, but not in the U.S. You do not need instrument rated aircraft or pilot certification. For a long time I've though low intensity HIRL should be enabled briefy in the case of visual night landings, where an aircraft is not following behind another, at the time "runway in sight" verbal verification happens between ATC and pilot.
"largely influenced by Java"

I believe that's backwards. Javascript was based on Scheme & Self, the Java resemblance is only superficial; added later for marketing purposes when they picked up the JavaScript name.