skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We once had a bug that would cause a failure in our test suite, but very rarely. It was so rare that it would just "go away" and not show up for weeks. So we thought it was odd (maybe bad test data, etc) but moved on.

When we decided to look into it when we had some downtime, we found out that it was a date bug that only reared its head on the 31st day of the month, hence only happening every two months.

I'm not sure bisect would've helped but still was really funny when we did find the issue.
Well, that’s not true. Sure, connect it over PCIE and all bets are off, but connect it over USB and you should be fine. If you’re being super careful buy a Bluetooth 3G module.
More Than Coins: Blockchain Is Transforming the Way We Distribute Aid
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WHAT SOFTWARE DO USE IN YOUR EVER DAY FIFE OF BEING HACK
A.I. technology used to Detect Lies
Is there a software to "manage" a library of LEGO parts, which would then tell me what I can build?

And is there a software to easily feed/initiate this library? Maybe with something as simple as taking a photo of spread parts on the ground.

Am I dreaming?
Sidenote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob#Cast_of_characte...
Could you link to that area? Would be interesting to see.
> All these languages, except Julia, are much _worse_ syntactically than modern Fortran. Especially C++, which is a clusterfuck beyond the widest possible imagination.

There is some C++ code that is very bad out there but most C++ code maintained by normal people is passable. When I use it I use it as C with references.

> And all are worse performance-wise.

You are incorrect just by the facts of the situation [0][1][2]. This lie has stuck around so lazy people can pat themselves on the back for being lazy. "Yay we did it! We found the best language every! We don't need to learn anything new or update anything!".

The truth is a modern C/C++ compiler like GCC or clang/LLVM can generate far more efficient code than Intel's FORTAN compiler. Not only that but you have access to more performance and scalability libraries when you're not using the programming language equivalent of Latin. You're never going to get out of the MPI ditch that scientists have dug for themselves in a museum piece like FORTRAN. There will be no good abstractions, no well planned libraries, no in language support for newer hardware.

FORTRAN is going to be stuck in the 70s and 90s.

Languages like C++, Python's libraries, Julia, and other languages (like D/Go/etc) are going to evolve as industry needs them to. As we start being able to use less and less of the our computers abilities compilers, optimizers, and libraries are going to allow us to easily pick up the slack. You can already see this things like ViennaCL. GPUs, FPGAs and other tools are coming. MPI and FORTRAN can't be the only tool in your toolbox and if you're lying to yourself and burying your head in the sand in an attempt to pretend you can then good luck to you. You're wasting your budget, the taxpayer's money, and everyone's time on the supercomputer's queue because you don't want to try something new.

But it's fine. Who cares really. FORTRAN is the only language a scientist will ever need. I mean it is the fastest (even if it isn't) and it has the best compilers (even if they aren't the best and we waste thousands and thousands of dollars of taxpayer money to get them) and we know it and that's all that matters. Who cares about broader impact, portability, and future proofing.

[0] - http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/fortran.html

[1] - https://julialang.org/benchmarks/

[2] - http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...
My x86-assembly has become very rusty, but couldn't it work like this, not using a branch:

(with eax being the unsigned 32-bit input word)

xor ebx, ebx
test al, 7
stnz bl
shr eax, 3
add eax, ebx

(edit: replaced a movzx with an xor)
You don't know how much I did with the magic of copy-and-paste
> As a white cis male, I'm tired of being the punching bag due my so-called privilege.

Social justice is not a vast conspiracy to personally bully you. Christ.
> Japan has a country wide stigma against people who wear tattoos due to

Reasons I don't care about. Doesn't matter. Deal with different cultures.

> This is exactly the mentality being discussed in this thread that is so abhorrent. You don't see Japanese people strolling into an American house and telling everyone they should take their shoes off before entering. Why should their society turn a blind eye to foreigners and accept something that is non-trivially a massive taboo in their own country?

Why shouldn't they? Everybody else has to. If a Japanese person owns a house in the U.S. and asks me to take off my shoes, maybe I should ignore that since my culture in my country doesn't do that? No, I'm not an asshole and I respect their culture, even if they want to practice it in my country. Obviously this is a trivial example, but it's not like tattoos representing gang membership/mafia is unique to Japan. Ever been to the U.S. ? Do people get kicked out of gyms here for having tattoos of any kind? People get offended by burqas so should I kick them out of the gym too if I don't like it because I believe it's a symbol of female oppression?

It's a silly double standard you're pulling here and I'll have none of it.
This. This is why I'm thankful to be a developer/designer at this time in the web's history. Browser support for features that I need to make a cohesive user experience has never been better!

I have a lot of gratitude to google, mozilla (and even Microsoft and Apple, as they come around to it) for making my job easier/possible.
Send me an email and I'll invite you to our "Solo Founders" slack channel, it's not super active, but if you're feeling lonely or just wanna chat, it's nice to have a few regulars to reach out to.

We all help each other, which can be handy to bounce tech problems off too
> would contest that no other software, even today, has come close to being able to do these three so seamlessly at once

What really made flash better than the rest (and still make it) was the ability to use a familiar interface for creatives (a timeline is a timeline) to to build resolution independent artifacts that they could test on their own, on their personal computers, just by pressing ENTER or frame by frame
Almost certainly almost everybody would be unaware that there's a light.
https://rebrickable.com/

It seems to be mostly geared towards sets, so if you don't know the sets you have it may be more difficult (impossible?) to use.
Is there any documentation for Gurobi being much better for MILP than CPLEX? I'd be very interested in those details.
Why do human beings speak so many languages?
You're not fighting against them. That would involve having skin in the game.
Unhosted Web Apps
I found it has strange defaults (all services publicly exposed) and quite unfriendly to automate. Ended up sticking with native deployments.
High school kids build fusors in their garages, fuse deuterium, and get neutron counts. Wendelstein certainly will as well. It'd be very silly not to, and if you look at their technical specs, you'll see that the fuel will include deuterium, at over 100M degrees, enough for plenty of fusion reactions.

http://www.ipp.mpg.de/16931/einfuehrung

Their initial tests did not use deuterium, and that gave a lot of people the wrong impression.

(For net power at this temperature they would need tritium, which they aren't using. Tritium is expensive and hard to deal with, and most fusion projects don't bother with it.)
Are there examples of non-TrustZone ARM SoCs? I'm not aware of any, which would make it a moot point about whether a theoretical vendor could make the decision to not includ eit.
> this is simply not a topic for foreigners to discuss

Heavily ironic when this applies in the country of freedom.
You list Code for America, imgur, Berkeley, Stanford, and others under partners on your website. How are they using this? And do you have some links to blog posts of them talking about it or something?
The content for this particular article would work fine as a single page. The sections are small and bite-sized with clear headings and separations.

It's a bit discombobulating to paginate and scroll. The slide approach would work better if the contents were limited to a single page without vertical scroll (IMO). Feels a bit like a "mixed metaphor" in terms of design patterns.

Good luck!
I think "ship ship ship" should be the title. Name of the website even if you really wanted to make a point.

All of my business ventures so far have failed due to a noted lack of actually shipping anything.
Yeah this is the best for me:

> Ship. Ship. SHIP. The overwhelming failure case among people who read interviews like this one is that they spend 98 units of effort reading about running a business for every 2 units of effort running a business. Flip that on its head.

I wonder how many successful entrepreneurs actually spent time reading advice blogs when they were starting.
How can you say "let's be honest", and than simply pull random numbers out of thin air ?
This was a really good piece. I have also lived in Japan for some time and I can relate to many of his experiences. Unlike some of his critics, I don't think anything he wrote is completely wrong. There may be some embellishment or unrepresentative anecdotes, but for the most part I think he paints a fairly accurate picture, at least from a foreign perspective.

I have met a lot of other western foreigners who have lived in Japan for a very long time. One of my coworkers is an eastern European guy who has lived in Japan since 1994. He absolutely adores everything about the country and its people. When I compare his perspective to that of this author's, an important point becomes clear in my mind: Being a happy immigrant requires a very deep level of assimilation.

It isn't about learning the language or copying the mannerisms. It is also about adopting the value system. Many of the author's complaints demonstrate a preference for a western European cultural value system. For example, he complains about the lack of hate speech laws, the more authoritarian police, the lack of tolerance of diversity, the lack of gender equality, and so on.

He uses phrases like "more enlightened 21st century countries," and makes a lot of sweeping statements about the Japanese people. It's almost as if he's annoyed that Japanese people are Japanese and not British. Cultures aren't costumes. It's not just different foods and clothing. It's fundamentally different ways of understanding the world. In racially homogeneous societies, it's also about an implicit in-group out-group orientation. You'll feel that everywhere from Japan to Nigeria.

I am an immigrant in Japan. I have made peace with the fact that I am always going to be an outsider. I have made peace with those aspects of their culture I find unpleasant. On balance I think the lifestyle and culture is superior to most other places, so I am content.
Maybe they followed the advice given by those that did succeed. Would be interesting to see.
Achieving ROI trumps security as the IoT industry’s biggest challenge
Ironically this survey does not work when javascript is disabled :)
Tossing Net Neutrality: ISPs Free to Throttle, Block, and Censor the Internet
Thanks again. As a beginner in this language family it would be helpful to see the doc go over this with some examples clarifying your points at some point when y'all are closer to 1.0. I'm probably not the only one who wouldn't know how to architect their code without overusing classes.
It's actually all but terrible. The constraint engine is better than all of LeoCAD, stud.io or mecabricks.

The only issue is that the database of parts is starting to be outdated, and the database of parts that actually exist even more so.
Monitoring and Pre-emptive support: The road to 5-9s on the BEAM
Kindly can someone tell me how these snall satellites are able to remain in orbit. Don't we need jet propulsion to have them stay in orbit and not fall into earth? I don't much about satellites.
Most projects are from large enterprises, and large enterprises use Java.
I agree; automated integration tests. Still incredibly useful (per the devs), and not quite the industry standard.
Buzz Aldrin: It’s Time for Humans to Start Looking at Other Planets to Live On
I had the same feeling. Personally I've only been stopped by police once (randomly, to show the gaijin card) in 15+ years, and similar is true of most of my friends. But I've occasionally met people who talked about getting stopped a lot, and they've all been people who biked in the city.
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> but this is simply not a topic for foreigners to discuss.

For any "outsiders" lurking here... discuss it! You'll take a social hit from certain types of people but future generations will thank you.

Having lived in various countries that seem to be able to handle critique quiet okay, it'd be a really pitty to just shy away from it in the US. A boastful bully often needs to hear that they are not the most fantastic person in the world. I mean, good self estime is great but so is some humility, even when it comes from the "outside". Actually it's often the person from the outside that is the only one to see the difference starkly enough.
Q. What Does It Really Take to Track a Million Cell Phones?

A. Sell outsourced billing solutions to the mobile carrier. (See AMDOCS)
Sounds like a terrible way of doing work. If you are expected to react to everything sent your way you never get to do any deep and meaningful work. Furthermore, running around and firefighting all the time does not give you the time and space require to learn, reflect, and improve. More people need to think about the long term impact of their work habits.
If you like this kind of stuff, there's a Dutch researcher who maintains a blog about old books, many of which are in old Dutch: https://medievalbooks.nl/ Sadly not updated in over a year, but there are a lot of gems in the archives.
Introduction to Cyber Incident Response
There are tools to convert LDraw models to povray source.
What an ass. I lived and worked in Japan for several years and I had understood all of the hardness of everyday Japan even before deciding to settle there for a while. To think that it took him several years to get it... and 10 years to decide to do something about it... It's a moron. Nothing else.
Was this the kind of test that only ran once a day?
(Octopus CEO here)

You can do Linux today actually - you can connect to machines over SSH, run bash scripts, etc. Today there's a Mono dependency, but in the next couple of weeks we'll be rolling out a beta that removes that dependency.

Python scripting support is on the roadmap - :-)
I guess thats similar to saying all deaths occur by hypoxia. What caused that to happen it is usually the part we are interested in.
Which is exactly why I posted this! We know what the survivors did. We get their interviews all of the time. Did the failures follow the same path and fail? Did they fail to follow some golden rule? How much of startup culture can be distilled down to follow some given advice versus some dumb luck?
Again the same old accusations without a single source ('local presentation', of course!).
> Curious what giants like Google do in these cases. I assume in their vast farms of servers there are post-2006 intel and/or post-2013 amd chips.

As far as I know Google mostly uses Xeons in their server farms, but also some POWER9 servers (for example cf. https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/10/introducing-Zai...) - many people say this is "some kind of Google's insurance against Intel/x86":

> Do they get a special deal to look under the hood?

It is well-known that the largest buyers of Xeons (plausible names are Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Alibaba and some others) have access to special versions of Xeons that have special features enabled that are disabled in the versions sold to the general public. One article giving hints into this direction is

> http://semiaccurate.com/2016/11/17/intel-preferentially-offe...

One such feature that is talked about is having access to an FPGA (why did Intel buy Altera again) and it is well-known that Microsoft uses FPGAs for Bing:

> https://blogs.microsoft.com/next/2016/10/17/the_moonshot_tha...

> https://www.golem.de/news/microsoft-weil-cpus-zu-langsam-sin... [German article]

With this information I would bet that they have a special deal to look under the hood.
Show HN: GRPC-like system for NATS
Never thought Carl might have done that for marketing reasons. Thanks for the insight. I look forward to a write-up on Red dialects :) than. Hopefully, I can start contributing to the project some once I get a better grasp.
Kind of like that old story about the war planes needing armour in the places where returning planes hadn't been shot.
Apple Machine Learning Journal
Adobe wasn't scared in to abandoning Flash, they just stopped investing in in the early 2000s. Nothing prevented them from cleaning up the warts, adding an automatic updater a decade earlier, taking security seriously, investing in performance, etc.

Part of why the HTML5 group got so much traction was that everyone else realized that the web's rich application platform couldn't be a company which wasn't serious about maintaining it.
> The phone companies already do this, more or less, as is shown in court cases where cell phone records are brought in as evidence

You can also arrange to buy this information. I worked for a place where you could request someone's location by phone number. There were a lot of contractual obligations around us having the phone owner "allow" us to do that, but no technical ones.
Great find! Apparently these guys were doing "serverless" before serverless was cool! I jest, serverless is the worst, most misleading marketing term devised in the last ten years. Is anyone using baas to build web apps these days? Seems like aws lambda has a lot of mindshare now, but I don't read a about anyone using baas or database as a service.
Backdoor confirmed.
> which ran on higher end Motorola 68k

And Intel 486, HP PA-RISC and Sun SPARC
This is the most annoying page design/behaviour I have encountered in the last 30 days. I am very curious, but I just can't.
Side tracking, but ARM really is everywhere now. Even inside x86 chips!
Two more ideas from me:

1) Toastmasters. This is like alcoholics anonymous for people that are addicted to shyness. And very likely there will be some people there that are even more quiet and introverted than you are.

2) Social dancing. I'm guessing you are male, in which case you will be in high demand. Even if you are overweight & ugly as sin, if you can keep a beat then the girls are gonna want some. If you are as intelligent as you sound then this is also a big plus: the smart people end up being the best dancers. And it's not about talking or being interesting, it's about the mechanics of space and time (physics and music). I would recommend tango: this is where all the real nerds end up.

Getting over the fear is not going to happen on its own. Instead I would suggest finding something where you are more excited than afraid.
There was a talk/demo I saw a few years ago that went into great detail about how this works. I remember it was given by a German. Anyone know what I am talking about?

Edit: It was a video.
JE VOUS AVOUE TOUT Google AdWords, Squeezie, Fidget Spinner, Bahamas
Survey-How Consumer Goods Companies Are Empowering Consumers
What's powering this site? Doesn't look like WebObjects.
> I think the justification is economic. They don't remove it because it's not clear that there is a market for not having ME.

Yes, especially when you stand to lose billions of dollars in contracts with the DoD by removing the remotely exploitable ME from processors. It's probably that kind of economic loss.
The Secret Passions of Git Checkout
Massive guide to building a RESTful API specifically for apps
It sounds like you're relying on the satellites de-orbiting and burning up in the atmosphere.

Are there any steps taken to ensure the satellites de-orbit in a timely manner? Are there any estimates on how many of the satellites will de-orbit and when, absent such an intervention?
This is genius. Where does this old story come from? Never heard it.

EDIT: thanks for the answers! This analogy is pretty good for simple cases (improvement on planes' armor). But if you optimize only this variable, your war plane will be heavier and you'll have a lot of other problems and fail, too.
I think of it in a different perspective: You combine humans and programmers to do better than each could do alone.

Start all-manual. Perhaps you only do it with a subsection of applications. Pay an extra fee and you get "certified" with special app placement. Then you start all-manual. You look for the people who are the best at finding issues, and pair them with programmers, and make the tools for the things that are gruntwork for them.

Build more and more tools, and you pull more and more people into the program as you build more and more intelligence into the machine.

Let the humans do the NP-hard portions. I'm sure this is what Apple has to be doing behind the scenes.
> If a Japanese person owns a house in the U.S. and asks me to take off my shoes, maybe I should ignore that since my culture in my country doesn't do that? No, I'm not an asshole and I respect their culture, even if they want to practice it in my country.

But you won't respect their culture in their own country? Double standards indeed.

Wearing your tattoo proudly in Japan is perfectly fine. Just be prepared to be asked to leave an establishment that doesn't tolerate them. It's closer to "No shirt, No shoes, No service" policies in the West if anything.
Not every house will have one of those on at all times. Sure, a house could use many multiples more than 1 kW for a bit, but will go back down eventually.
Anyone know what happened next in PA after this order?
The majority of people who read things like this and take them seriously are weird socially and don't read social cues well.
yeah, makes sense. We're indeed trying to find ways so authors could keep the contents of a single slide contained within the users view. Hope we get to a design sweet spot soon.

Thanks so much!
Things you do to achieve success are limited, but to fail aren't.
And lack of employers that want to pay for such developers.

Hence everything is being rewritten to Java(Script) and PHP.
Startup success is Anna Karenina Principle[1] flipped. I wrote about it some time back[2]. Every startup dies either because it failed to build something that people would want to pay for, or failed to create a profitable business around it (or, maybe the founders just got burned out). Successful businesses, on the other hand, find their own path to make it to the top. That doesn't mean you can't learn from articles and books, but it takes plenty of learnings and failures of your own to 'get' it. That's why it's important to keep shipping and trying.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_principle

[2]: https://shubhamjain.co/2017/05/12/contradictory-startup-advi...
I think it's clear now. Microsoft simply loves Google!

Sorry, couldn't help myself with all the "Microsoft loves Linux because it's working on some Linux code" arguments around here.

Microsoft only does what suits Microsoft's interests. If they want to use Kubernettes and they need Go engineers for that, or to support Go in any way, then they'll do it, especially if it makes strategic and financial sense for them to do so.
Stress: Health Problems and Overcoming Tips
World War II I think?

Found it, the guys name was Abraham Wald.
On connecting my (React) App to the HackerNews Firebase API
Why? Gender is a spectrum and you can fall anywhere on this spectrum. It is also not biological, it can change anytime and multiple times.

As dragonwriter put it earlier, your claim relies on two fundamental assumptions that are plain incorrect.