skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taxpayer money is being diverted from services that are in dire need presently. That money is being used to privilege Musk and company to vast commonly owned underground land. In the past, fortunately still in some cases, companies were forced to pay the government for the externalities caused by the exclusive right to common land which deprives other tax payers of the same opportunity.
It definitely seems problematic to put your entire foundation of travel in the hands of government or companies, though. They especially do not represent the concerns of all people. A car on the other hand is complete freedom. I would have expected to hear that driverless cars are the future since it's not contingent on an non-existent infrastructure, rather on the roads that already exist.
No USB? No problem (2016)
Their day job might be managing servers :)
If Arby's and Wendy's are any measure of success then Social Media Expert is code for "Someone who can take the latest memes and apply them to our business".
"Farming and ranching. Case closed."

Is it? Are you a farmer or rancher? Why's it necessary to live so remotely? Is it not possible for a town to support farming and ranching? Is it necessary for everyone involved to live so remotely? Given the huge areas involved, living on the farm/ranch makes you local to one small part of it but still remote from all the rest, so why the need to live there?

"Why do you like living so close to each other?"

I don't, but it's the cost of having the things I do want. I want fast, reliable, cheap internet. I want my other utilities to be reliable as well. I want to be able to walk ten minutes to a mainline train station - it gives me a lot of opportunities very easily, needing nothing more than train fare. The density of people creates a lot of other opportunities; things that are wildly uneconomical in low-density communities become viable. Range of jobs, range of businesses for me to patronise, leisure opportunities. It's really about all those opportunities, and the people that make them. When I want to learn something, I just find a local class. If there isn't a local class, it's an hour from my door on foot and by train to central London (and I don't even live in a county adjacent to London), and there the opportunities increase by another order of magnitude.

We don't (necessarily) like living close to each other; we like all the opportunities that are created by that - economic and self-development - and we like the many things that become economical in doing so (cheap, reliable utilities and infrastructure and niche businesses and all the rest that I mentioned above).
So after tgat meeting at the MSFTB, I delved into the possibilities for a CAD system for the blind. An engineer myself, I'm very familar with standard CAD.

Yes, you can have a haptic feedback probe (e.g. a wand) that can be used to trace the surfaces and edges of a virtual object, but imagine trying to understand say, a sky scraper model with a single probe. Or a nest of pipes, valves and cables. And what about understanding precise scale, turning layers on/off, or slicing a model to understand interior arrangments? The challenge is overwhelming.

However, at the time I thought "OK, first things first - how do you sense basic objects like blocks and spheres without sight." It seemed to me that you'd want to exploit as many body sensory inputs as possible to get the job done. Also at that time haptic feedback glove research was growing - mostly for remote 'robotic arm' controls.

Now, I see there has been a lot of progress in this area: http://dev-blog.mimugloves.com/data-gloves-overview/

It would be great if a human could reach into a model and explore surface contours with both hands (all fingers). I think the ideal 'gloves' would not only impart resistance on fingers and wrist, but also the elbow, shoulder and perhaps torso to give the most accurate sense of realism of a model. In addition to resistance, it would be ideal for the glove to simulate texture using vibrational haptic feedback for even more realism. After that, the UI would really need to be fine-tuned to enable scaling, slicing, layering, measuring, and constructing in a virtual space using tactile/audio feedback vice visual feedback. What this UI is exactly, I dont know.
Transpo wonks call this "induced demand" - the component of transportation demand caused by people reacting to the availability of transportation. Every infrastructure improvement induces a certain amount of demand, including incremental ones like adding lanes to roads. It's the reason new lane additions always seem to reach a point of being congested, faster than anticipated.

In this way transportation spending is both the purported cure and the cause of congestion, and fits the definition of an addiction. See my comment from a few days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14850885
Bootstrapping a project with Spring Boot is 10x easier than dealing with some modern PHP framework's setup and nginx stuff.
Why so? I just skimmed read the linked page (after pasting the URL manually...) and it doesn't seem any worse than other articles posted here.
https://fastandes.com

It's a product search engine that ranks products from Reddit comments and posts.

Any offers welcome!
Two Formant Artificial Vowels
His ventures have also has catered to deep pockets. I'm not saying that's easy (or we could all be billionaires) but that's a fairly reliable way to make a go at a business.

Unless his hyperloop were framed as rapid-transit for the hyper-rich, it would be quite a departure for Musk to succeed in an area that benefits the "common man".
Why did United try to ban Comic-Con travelers from checking comic books?
Are you saying if it were Madonna instead of Adele, then some bodyguard company owner could be retired in Costa Rica on his earnings from "Papa Don't Preach" if Madonna had signed such a contract when she started working there as a secretary? Is it contractual only? (OP seemed to indicate that it was any employment, so I'm still wondering what country this might be.)
Hmmm... Kapersky's response is quite concerning!
I think that would only hinder conversation. The original idea of questions also seems dumb to me, since it feels like even many good posters who actually read the article would be too lazy to answer the questions, and if there was another comment section which didn't require answering questions, they'd just post in there. It also seems like having two comment sections would divide the conversation.
I will copy and paste my reply from your last thread:

NASA, like many large organizations known for prestigious accomplishments, can struggle to meet the needs of those doing the enterprise work (like internal HR apps as you mentioned). Especially in a place like the government, people's ego's feel small, and they try to compensate by making their projects bigger, grander, and overstated. This just results in bloat, too much talking, and BS as you mentioned.

I'm sorry you had that experience. If you ever consider coming back, I'd recommend getting involved with something more directly related to space applications.
It's rather misleading to ignore the convenience of existing modes fo transit (cars in particular) in North America relative to other places in the world. People don't widely support rail investment because cars work well enough. There is just enough parking, inefficient but tolerable traffic, etc. As a result, a lot of people just don't see the problem with the car culture here. Given an immediate problem, they (as with anyone else) will support a solution.
Diverted through what means? Are they somehow subsidizing his ventures apart from the electric vehicle subsidy?
I'm not sure about that. I worked at MSFC before and after Constellation was canceled and I'm not sure the perception isn't due to believing their own propaganda. From a short distance outside, it didn't seem to be running very well.

(I have a friend and excoworker there who was an aerospace engineer, specifically concerning the design of solid rocket motors, who explained why Constellation was not going to match its hype: you can't add a segment to a SSRB to get a bigger motor; it's a complete redesign anyway.)
Stealing is stealing. There is no excuse for it despite your "utility" excuse.
If you're using Quicken and hate it, lots of users are switching to this app
No, I'm not. Income taxes carry the extreme burden of the tax regime in the US.

The only alternative to partial subsidies for poor workers, is total subsidy (which is what happens if you try to make Walmart pay workers $20 / hour, tax payers end up paying for a total subsidy as those workers lose their jobs). That is your only choice. Highly developed nations in eg Europe also follow that exact model, despite their very advanced welfare state systems. Do you think the bottom 1/3 of workers in Britain - given how much lower Britain's median income is versus the US - are paying their full way in terms of costs via their very low incomes? No, they're being subsidized. Their healthcare and numerous other government benefits are being subsidized by richer people via taxation. The same is true in France and Germany as well, and essentially all developed nations.

The Medicaid and food stamp programs you reference (the part that are partial subsidies to Walmart), are overwhelmingly paid for by the top 1/3 in the US via taxation, just as in most developed nations. What exactly is your argument against that? You'd rather force Walmart to fire a million people courtesy of aggressive automation, by raising wages on them, just so the very well off top 1/3 aren't put in the position of having to subsidize that labor (to the benefit of Walmart shareholders, which are overwhelmingly made up of the tax payers footing that subsidy bill to begin with)?
I suspect it's because they didn't/don't want people to comment in the usual way - you can highlight text on an article and leave short comments in the relevant place if you want to do that.

I think the comments section at the end was intended more as a place for lengthy reaction posts. It's why comments have "recommend" rather than "like" as a button. I might "like" someone saying "great post!" but I'm not going to "recommend" it.

It often feels like Medium has made a product for what they want online discourse to be, rather than what it actually is. I don't hate them for trying.
I'm trying but I can't reproduce the error.

Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Version	10.0.14393 Build 14393(latest)

uninstalled Postage
removed the following folders:
C:\Users\jtocci\.postage
C:\Users\jtocci\AppData\Roaming\Postage
C:\Program Files (x86)\Workflow Products

Downloaded Postage.Windows.3.2.16.zip
tried to install by double-click. nothing happened. (known Electron issue)
right click to run as administrator
install for all users, default location

Postage popped right up. Any ideas how I can get the error you're getting?
or vulr half the cost
NASA has a classification of software into class A, class B, class C, etc. Class A is human spaceflight, class B is critical non-human spaceflight, and the rest is non-critical software.

The amount of process and oversight is highest at class A, and lowest at class E. If you are developing class E, you can do pretty much whatever you want and your team doesn't even need any training in software engineering.
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Good luck suing a Chinese company. China's court system is nakedly rigged in favor of domestic businesses, and is actively hostile to foreign interests.
Your riposte is a strawman argument on whether the rich should benefit more from the government because they pay more and their taxes help others (their same wealth that wouldn't have been possible without the government).

The government does not collect taxes, to privilege the wealthy to exclusive services. Quite the opposite, government provides services that benefits everyone instead of one minority group.

In redundancy, as I stated, I'm not a classist and I'm not disparaging the wealthy.
I bet trains win bigly for servicing bedroom communities. A stop is just a stop.
> In fact, computers could even help parents to regain a bit of the privilege to provide education to their children.

Or let Bezos dictate which views your child acquires.
Those organic farmers are probably more easily replaced with robotics than ones arms or brains.
Offset programs do fund impactful projects. You can take a took here [0] at one company who funds these sort of things and what they do with the money. Not all of them are carbon-offset programs, but many are. Capturing landfill gas emissions, or reforestation projects are definitely not placebos.

[0] https://www.naturalcapitalpartners.com/projects
DO-178C has a formal methods follow-on. I haven't seen it, though.
Court Shifts Costs of Forensic Exam to Plaintiff for Not Preserving Emails
Hybrid systems combining different ML techniques were generally in back then. These should be revisited with today's processing power and data set availability.
> Couldn't finish this. It started off badly by calling the hyperloop "vacuum-powered". First, it's not even vacuum sealed (just low air pressure), and second, how can something even be powered by the vacuum? Are we just throwing terms around for effect here?

There's not really any such thing as a vacuum in a macroscopic sense, only how little air pressure you have. Hyperloop is a vactrain--it's using the same basic principle of "get rid of the air to eliminate air resistance"; it just avoids the name to make it not sound like a repackaging of a 100-year old failed concept.

> And then it talks about putting more money into Amtrak, when Musk's prime concern has been how slow and expensive the high-speed rail project in CA has been, precisely because of how hard it is to get land rights. Getting around existing commitments of surface land is the whole point of tunelling!

Tunnels are where you start measuring costs in hundreds of millions of dollars per mile--Japan's new, mostly underground maglev Shinkansen is costing $200m / km. Urban tunnels are expensive, because you often can't cut-and-cover (certainly not for long, linear corridors), which means expensive underground TBMs. You also have to avoid a maze of underground tunnels, wires, and pipes. Outside urban areas, land is quite cheap. It's just slow acquisition process because everyone wants to milk you for more money.

> Call me a fanboy if you will, but at least my fanboyism is evidence-based.

Civil engineers have looked at Elon Musk's Hyperloop proposal. They've generally agreed that it is about as attached to reality as Donald Trump's campaign promises.
Advice to convert new grad into a million dollar worth resource?
I see many people in the industry stand out because of their abilities. One of the examples being Adam D Angelo who built a music player at a young age and then helped Zuckerberg as the CEO and has now founded Quora. I would like to know key points everyone has to share to convert a new young computer science grad into such useful resource considering he still has lots of time to learn new things.
Why not take a profiling approach and cache the configurations rather than the compiled shader? You could then compile them on startup. By caching the configurations, you could then share this data between hosts and don't have to invalidate them as often.
There's more to Medium than exists on the surface. It's an entire social network of people recommending and tagging articles, newsletters, all sorts - I've gotten good long term traffic before now from posting on Medium, traffic that lasts a lot longer than a short term (but much higher) burst from a Reddit or HN post.

The problem for Medium is that it just wasn't successful enough. If a lot more people were using it, it would make sense as a social platform. But it's mostly just a blog platform people link to.

(also, being able to host a blog is an important skill, but I'd never dismiss a programmer who wrote a fascinating article just because they didn't also self-host it. I could just as easily make the case that writing clearly is an important skill, and any programmer who wrote an incoherent blog post is not worth their salt. But I won't.)
This is correct, thank you icebraining.

We stand by the README wording because we've gotten a lot of feedback from users who are not developers. There are additional README documents for developers.
> Your riposte is a strawman argument on whether the rich should benefit more from the government

That's incorrect. My post was about two simple things: the parent argument was wrong, presenting an overwhelmingly false narrative factually; and second, that there is very little to be concerned about regarding the top 1/3 of income earners partially subsidizing a Tesla or SpaceX (or NASA, they also pay for that too), it's a non-problem.
Inquiry education – from 1969 – is what we need today
Give me a break.

>empirical technique he devised in-house to come up with recipes people love

This doesn't even mean anything. Empty words.
And that's why web developer should stop using JavaScript without reason and use pure and clean HTML, CSS and well compressed images.
The last I heard, from outside the loop, there was considerable concern about how they were going to get man rated.
Through avoiding externality payment due to the cost of "the tragedy of the commons" to the tax payer, as well as the massive subsidies to SolarCity, Tesla, and Space X. It is suspect to believe Hyperloop won't be massively subsidized as well, given his track record.
How do you think it would have been if you stayed with the open project, and just sold support?
Medium is a blog platform and a news aggregator. I use it mostly for consuming news by using tags of interest. Good luck with that writing your own blog on your own server. Oh, and the daily newsletter is a delightful joy.

Discoverability is key to the success of Medium.

https://medium.com/tag/swift/latest

https://medium.com/tag/kotlin/latest

https://medium.com/tag/python/latest

https://medium.com/tag/java/latest

Or by topic

https://medium.com/tag/design/latest

https://medium.com/tag/UX/latest

https://medium.com/tag/AI/latest
As someone who more or less grew up with the web (first computer at 12, finished "High School" in 2012, nearly 23), I can tell you that we've already been living in it.

There was a lot of questions growing up about particular hobbies for example, that I would just find online as no one in my small town would have any similar interests.

Same deal for homework eg; Algebra that my parents weren't able to answer, as neither had finished high school themselves nor having gone on to take STEM-ish careers.

Learning how to properly search is pretty much one of the most valuable skills you can have!

I think talking to Alexa is wonky on the surface, sure, but it's just changing the way in which you access the same information.
Nail Postman, one of the two authors of Teaching as a subversive activity also wrote the prophetic Amusing ourselves to death.

I read the introduction to the former when I was in college in the eighties, and it has stuck with me. They argue that the role of education (especially in a democracy) is to imbue students with "foolproof crap detectors".
That is my eventual goal. I want to re-enable Secure Boot, sign my Grub EFI and place my CA (and only my CA; getting rid of the default ones) in the UEFI/BIOS settings. I think you can also embed Grub with a key to verify the kernel. (You can also just compile a kernel with UEFI Stub support, digitally sign it and have that boot directly without Grub, but I'm not sure if you can use luks that way as you still need the initrd to unlock the disk).

This would mean that if your laptop gets stolen, and you have a strong password and disable booting from other devices, the thief/fencer would need to find a way to reset the UEFI before they could install Windows on it and resell it. It's probably still possible, but it makes it much more difficult and they may just have to end up parting out the laptop and tossing the motherboard.
Regex engine for all of those languages are coded in C, so that's probably not a good benchmark. That said CPython and Ruby MRI are slower than PHP5, so yeah PHP7 should be even faster.
PgAdmin 3 throws all kinds of errors with Postgres 9.6.
For me the main problem with self hosting is that I ended up spending more time tinkering with the website than actually writing content for it.

A hosted platform like Medium or Svbtle solves this problem.
We're actually working on mapping right now for a potential product so it might be possible to add something cool to Postage but I don't know what it would look like. Anything in particular you'd like to see?
The difference is that keyboards are better than punchcards in every way. Voice is inferior in almost every way.
Finding an Inclusive Work Environment That’s Right for YOU
Maybe, but a stop that can be twice as far away while taking the same commute time will probably yield lower housing costs since the amount of housing in an acceptable commute area is going to be much larger.
>This sounds like terms dictated by the Mob.

The simple fact is that copyright protections are far too strong. The copyright cartel doesn't need a shady network of 400 pound men to enforce their schemes; they just use the U.S. Attorney's office instead.

How many bright technical entrepreneurs have been crushed by rent-seekers milking the royalties out of a 40-year-old track? Copyright has completely lost the plot. We need to rein it in, with the awareness that this will be no small task, as it amounts to taking away a license to print money from some of the largest companies in the world.
Strange that the boom ended and there's a glut in supply but the rental prices are so high. Seems to counter the prevailing narrative that "build! build! build!" housing supply increases will drive down rents.

Or is it just too early to tell?
I think it's a joke (npm doesn't list it).

I would say the next two packages were just joke names, but apparently "is-positive-integer" does exist[1]... though I suppose it might still be a more elaborate joke, but 1000+ downloads per month? The JavaScript world is simply amazing.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-positive-integer
> A startup is a technical term with a precise meaning.

My point is that it's really not. The term existed before the valley-definition and it exists outside of the valley-definition. Yes, Paul Graham and others popularised that definition (and I personally think it's a good definition and usually use t as that), but it has existed and continues to exist with other meanings, so it's far from a "precise technical term".
Kullervo: Tolkien's fascination with Finland (2015)
farcebook is pathetic. Mark is a hack. He lucked out. That is all.
FLP says that any deterministic algorithm satisfying agreement and validity must have non-terminating executions. If you are allowed to pick the distribution over the sequence of events in the system I'm sure that the probability of non-termination is quickly zero. If FLP are allowed to pick the distribution, the probability of non-termination can be one.

Getting into a quantitative evaluation of the likelihood of consensus is beyond my ken, but different people have different beliefs about what constitute "in real systems", and different interpretations of "practically doesn't matter". For example, the fact that you are talking about data centers rather than satellites suggests (to me) that your beliefs about the scarcity and transience of partitions may not generalize.

We can afford to be clear about what is true and what isn't, especially when trying to build reliable distributed systems.

Note: Ben-Or's consensus algorithm uses randomization to drive the probability of termination to zero, but still has non-zero probability associated with any length of execution.
Reading through the linked paper, it seems that as long as P is fixed before the proof is attempted, wFS is secure. I probably could have made it more explicit, but that is indeed my assumption in the setup of the blog post.