skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a researcher at a university in Germany. Here in Germany, the administration has also been growing for many years and it's growing much faster than research staff. I have never heard anyone say that the administration is staffed with redundant workers. Everyone agrees that the admin people are totally overloaded. The primary reason is, as you say, regulations. However, my impression is that a lot of these regulations are home-made and completely unnecessary. Some people in admin (clearly not everyone) seem to have a tendency to make up new regulations that serve no real purpose apart from securing their own jobs. In a perverse sense, this may actually be rational behavior, so it is not surprising that this is happening. However, this means that poor management is in fact to blame, because what is poor management if not prioritizing your own personal agenda over the good of the institution you're working for. Disclaimer: My experience with (several) German institutions may obviously not translate to US universities. I have worked for one US university (UC system) and I have only (well, mostly) good things to say about the administration there.
I think quite contrary is true. Strong reaction to this is the only way.
most websites / apps have a page / menu option titled "legal" or "assets" and they dump all of their licensing information on there.
> L3 switches are typically overkill for a home network

My home network consists of a little more than a handful of computers that need internet access, I've also got a couple dozen VM's, FreeNAS (with direct 10Gbe links to the virtualization host), and a IP phone system. It's not some enterprise network, but I still hammer the crap out of my network and take full advantage of the light L3 features available in my TP-Link switch.

I've got 12 out of 24 ports currently in use on my switch, and I'm looking to add more when I finally manage to buy a place - worst case I can split the clients off to a separate switch and use some 10Gbe uplinks, but right now that accounts for a grand total of 1 port going to my wireless access point.

$500 is in my price range, but finding something with enough ports gets expensive really quick - and it gets even worse if I need to get 2 switches (one for my lab, one for client access) plus a 10Gbe-capable router to handle traffic between them :/
The law is one thing, but if a system works most of the time, can you really blame a driver for drifting away and doing something else. It's asking a lot for a driver to remain focused on baby sitting a robot. I'd rather just drive.
Yes calendar integration will be included in the next release - we're going to start with Google Calendar but will add more of the most popular calendar services as we go.

I'm not 100% familiar with caldav but will look into it!

In terms of voice as a feature vs. platform - I think right now it appears to many to be a feature, because the quality and capability of voice apps is just not that great. Most voice apps offer a sub-set of the functionality available on mobile or web, so from a phycological point of view when you use one it feels like just a small (and often not as good) feature of the main product. However as the accuracy of the underlying speech to text and natural language understanding of these platforms gets better, and as the capability of voice apps gets better, we see voice becoming a much more easy and natural way for people to access their favourite products, services, and content.

Whenever you want something, you'll just ask your assistant, and because you may be using multiple platforms, we think Life Bot will be the best way to do this that maintains the context of what you like / don't like.

Definitely still early days though - but that's the vision!
As opposed to what? Compared to 99% of the web, the Medium is, and has been designed from the start to be, minimal.

(Not talking about page size -- talking about design).
some deaths that are marked as accidents and suicides are actually murders
Speculation: Possibly just because they didn't have to preserve it. Possibly because it was stored in a hardware module and could not be extracted.
Move from Excel hell to NoSQL cloud database heaven (HOWTO)
If we have data let's go with the data. If all we have is opinions, let's go with mine.

What are we to do? One way of dealing with the problem would be to ask the question at census time: Do you believe in Nazi or Nazi like ideologies? and then round those people up and put them to death. This has it's own problems.
> The thing performing the verb may not be relevant or may be actively distracting to mention.

That's exactly what I was thinking when I mentioned my Chem 101 lab reports.

I tend to write in a passive voice and if I read my words out loud rather than silently, it's obvious to me. It's almost sounds like I'm using cop talk (the subject was observed exiting the vehicle).
Healthcare cost estimates using canonical episodes of care from claims data
The American west was once very lopsided as well, males became cowboys and the women rarely traveled west. In one generation the few women out west had equal numbers of both gender kids and now that history is not important to the culture.

The book is interesting, but it was written for a society that doesn't exist. Women and men will not be as lopsided in a colony. The first few ships might be mostly male construction workers, but after that expect to see a much closer balance.
The argument that I'd throw back is that you're not a programmer if you only know one language or only one execution model.
At least the Nokia N900 used the separate CPU and baseband configuration.

The osmocombb project [0] is an implementation of baseband modem functionality, but I'm not aware of anyone using it.
Old TI Calypso modems also have an open source firmware implementation [1].

[0] http://osmocom.org/projects/baseband
[1] http://www.freecalypso.org
So, why is Elon Musk not excited about Moon?
Thanks!! :) - updated!
Minimalism doesn't mean bare or absolute essentials. It means that any decoration will be minimalistic itself too.

And giant letters + a yellow circle sounds absolutely that.

It's not about just a textfile in black letters on white text.
I dont understand, if he didn't do anything illegal what is the problem? It only brings light on the laws that made it happen right?
AKA Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods is 'a threat to everyone,' even restaurants
Seems insane, after all not all reboots are voluntary.
"For example with reminders, we allow users to get notified of the reminders they set where ever they are via SMS."

This was my #1 most desired feature!! Thank you
VW engineers broke laws to do what they were asked to do. Tesla engineers are just doing the best that they can and taking longer than marketing would like. If that's a moral equivalence, then I guess we're all VW engineers.
There are enough typos and Engrish construction that it really should be run through something like Paperrater.com. Not that such services will catch everything or have all the correct answers, but if your writing is bad enough, making changes until they stop finding errors is a good practice
I spent my career in tech, but wasn’t prepared for its effect on my kids
I don't think the amount of controversy Facebook is receiving on this is justified. The patent license could maybe be adjusted, but people's interpretation on this seems to be geared towards spreading FUD over facts.
From the guidelines:

Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.
I use Chrome, predominantly. At least, for my bookmark library. When you save a bookmark in Chrome, it defaults to using the page title as the bookmark description.

I have started renaming the bookmarks - I leave the relevant part of the title (removing irrelevant stuff like brands, brand descriptions etc.) and then I add a set of keywords I associate with the link.

Later, when I want to find it, and call I can remember are some words I associate with the link, I type them in Chrome's search bar and it usually ends up matching at least 1 or 2 that I picked for the title, so Chrome finds the bookmark.

It is not a flawless system but it is effectively bookmark tagging without any additional tools. It's also based on how I associate the memory, and not on whatever random (and usually useless SEO-based text) the page creator decided to use for the title; which means that recalling the link is alot more straightforward because the way we hook memories tends to be really consistent.
node's strength is its community -- how do any of the things you cited indicate that the community is going to fork, especially over a non-technical issue? The reason io.js took off with the community is because it addressed a core technical issue in node, namely the outdated version of V8 that 0.x was using.

It's a bit like the Bitcoin fork -- the only thing that matters is adoption, not resignations over personal issues and private meetings.

If Ayo.js suddenly offered 2x the performance of node, then we'd have a real story. Right now, this is the type of internal bickering that happens in any organization.
Riot/Android doesn't run on Linux, so directing limited resources into it is fairly irrelevant. The point of this campaign is to fund us to work on a native app which can benefit desktop and handset users alike - whilst also supporting the core team so we can also work on the React, Android and iOS SDKs which power Riot. I keep mentioning desktop because this is a significant benefit of the campaign.

The idea of somehow ripping out the core of the Signal or Ring apps and trying to bolt their UI onto Matrix SDKs is an interesting one, but in practice both protocols have significant differences to Matrix, and at best this would be a pretty big impedance mismatch. Of course, someone in the community is welcome to try to do it. Meanwhile, we'll keep plugging away at trying to make Riot kick ass (via the underlying Matrix SDKs), and add a native app to the pantheon too :)
Ask HN: What would attract you to switch jobs for less pay?
We struggled with code reviews, the bids diff tool caused crashes so we couldn't even use that. Merges were a huge pain, our packages at the time were too big but I've heard the gripe around the net a bit too. Then there's that PITA SCD task that looses all config each time it's opened. Believe there is at least 1 commercial equivalent for that one. Maybe 1 that pushes more of the work to the database would be good.

Reliability would be the big consideration for moving from ssis to a 3rd party product as main editor, support for future versions etc

BIML looked very interesting and seemed to be getting a lot of traction as well.

I'm mostly out of data work now, but id be curious to hear what your thinking of doing here?
My experience in KSP usually ends with an explosion
> The level-2 driving that Tesla is pushing seems like a worst case scenario to me

What are you measuring? The current autopilot already appears to be materially safer, in certain circumstances, than human drivers [1]. It seems probable Level 2 systems will be better still.

A refrain I hear, and used to believe, is that machine accidents will cause public uproar in a way human-mediated accidents don't. Yet Tesla's autopilot accidents have produced no such reaction. Perhaps assumptions around public perceptions of technology need revisiting.

> Neither the driver nor the car manufacturer will have clear responsibility when there is an accident

This is not how courts work. The specific circumstances will be considered. Given the novelty of the situation, courts and prosecutors will likely pay extra attention to every detail.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-19/tesla-s-a...
X has been able to run rootless with KMS-based drivers for a while now.
I'm glad you said that.

I've gone back to making a home page (remember those?) for my Maths teaching next year. I'm trying to pack as much as I can into one page that students can just access without passwords and which will work ok on a variety of platforms.

http://www.maths91.uk/

I suppose this is 'maximalist'. Still no javascript. The style sheet is copypasta from various sources I'm afraid.
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No, it is to prevent the defendant from being unjustly blamed and punished.
DNS through a massive distributed ledger. The blockchain. I can't wait.

Individuals' devices will be the backbone of the web/internet, not massive server farms owned by Google and the likes. A small group of smart phones distributed across the region will be able to handle massive amounts of traffic with additional amazing cache protocols.
Easily filter review requests by team
> I was speaking about long-lived unsolved problems

Yes, and the word "unsolved" in there is the exact selection bias I was referring to.

Of course if you look at the universe of "unsolved" problems you don't see any verified solutions! It's a tautological statement. If you were looking specifically at unsolved problems, of _course_ there are no solutions yet. That was the definition of the term!
Heather Meeker is one of top lawyers in Open Source...most of the other people in this conversation don't have a background in this and should be ignored
Yao's minimax principle. It's not a very exciting read or a very exciting conclusion compared to some of these other papers, but it's still interesting, and the conclusion has been practically useful to me a small handful of times.

It concerns randomized algorithms, which are algorithms that try to overcome worst case performance by randomizing their behavior, so that a malicious user can't know which input will be the worst case input this time.

The principle states that the expected cost of a randomized algorithm on a single input is no better or worse than the cost of a deterministic algorithm with random input.

Yao proves this is the case by constructing two zero sum games based around the algorithms' running times and then using game theory (specifically von Neumann's minimax theorem) to show that the two approaches are equivalent. It's a really neat approach!
How is HPKP supposed to work when you change certificates? The new certificates don't have HPKP and the site still relies on old HPKP.

Letsencrypt certificates only lasts 90 days. It's a real pain-in-the-ass to figure out a process that allows HPKP with certificates that expire every 90 days.
Then that's our own fault for being too stupid to have self-driving cars.

Ideally, we should embrace them even if they are slightly more dangerous than human drivers, because we are getting the benefit of the time that would otherwise be spent driving.
This is an example of a lazy argument for not being taken from a real-world case that isn't an outlier, and one that is compatible with the image of police portrayed on cop shows, so people are conditioned to glom onto it.

It also ignores cases where private security has to deal with violent drunks (not an outlier at all) without tasers.

And this is how poor police performance in the US continues to get a pass.
> If you want to fling patent claims at a company that developed and released a great piece of code, removing the code from your business seems like a reasonable price to pay.

That seems to be the main point: Do you agree that you shouldn't be able to sue a company whose open source code you use or do you not? Everything else is just .. noise?
This is the third or 4th time I've heard that story repeated and the details change each time Meadows tells it, in my opinion. The date and viability of the system changes when I've read it and that leads me to believe that his motivation may not be altruistic but vengeful instead. He probably did get fired from Tesla for performance issues and so he feels the need to fire back at them by noting an incident that happened in the very early stages of the technology's development. We treated test pilots with the highest regard because they were separated from the technology/machinery itself. There was no personal stake in it for them other than making it out alive and exposing issues with the systems being tested. In the current cases, the "test pilots" have a vested interest in the system because they are the ones designing it and deploying it. That's why I have to stifle my gut reaction when I hear stories like Meadows'. Which is more likely, that Tesla would risk its entire reputation by releasing software that was dangerously inadequate or that he's a little butthurt about getting fired and threw a bit of a tantrum?
What % of employees eligible for ESPP even need the few hundred $ extra per paycheck that they won't max out ESPP?

They probably fall into these categories:
1> Unplanned financial crisis
2> New hires, typically from college with loans

I'd guess the market isn't big enough
Yup, that's the idea. Given this was the Matrix team's dayjob before getting sucked into Matrix, it's something relatively easy to do - although yes, we'd have to pass through the call/SMS and numbering costs. Now, if only Matrix had a payments ecosystem... https://matrix.org/blog/2017/08/22/thoughts-on-cryptocurrenc...
So you're saying we should let more people die (via human driving) to avoid people getting upset over tabloids ignoring statistics?
Ask HN: How much do developers earn in Latam?
The Byzantine Generals Problem by Lamport et al is a must read for anyone interested in distributed systems.

Some of the others that have already been mentioned on this thread:

- Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System

- Paxos Made Simple
No worries! Great to hear!! :)

If there's anything else you'd like to see added just let me know at om@asklifebot.com
If the aim is to have a technology that's 100% fail-safe, we can stop pursuing self-driving cars now. We can in fact stop pursuing any kind of technology because the economic cost of making anything completely fail-safe are usually prohibitive. Also, isn't history ripe with counter examples to your argument? Planes have crashed, people died, tabloid headlines were written about it, and people still fly, probably because it's awfully convenient.
Do you have the numbers on how many miles Tesla's level 2 cars have actually been driven while using the feature? I see this sort of argument a lot in regards to Google's self-driving tests, and while it seems convincing to me, it doesn't seem realistic to me that's there a big enough pool of data to make that claim definitively.
No I meant the guy posting vacuous tired meme content
This reminds me of driving home from the eclipse. The Missouri Highway Patrol may not have created the 90-mile traffic jam, but they did their damnedest to make it worse. They didn't post alternate routes (which I took most of the way, but I had to get back on the main highway to get where I was going and was met with more bumper-to-bumper). They didn't wave traffic through the three stoplights (on the whole hundred miles of mostly-limited-access) that were causing most of the problem. Instead they continually zipped up and down the median and shoulders of the road in their own giant traffic machines, regularly pulling people over for minor offenses (no one was speeding, that's for sure) and finding other reasons to jam their cruisers in and out of traffic.

It's as if police never stop to think about the purpose of their jobs. I guess they're like many other people that way...
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments here?
Aerospace engineer here, this Airbus / Boeing divide rings true. There's a 99% Invisible episode that talks about some of these differences, more from an Airbus side of things:

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/children-of-the-magent...
That's not really doing anything. We don't do anything.

What we do is violate someone's rights and then hope we don't get caught. Police are likely to cover up for other police.

In the meantime, the person gets arrested. May or may not be able to post bail and may or may not be able to afford a lawyer. The longer he sits in jail, the more likely it is to severely mess up his life. Some places will let someone go or suspend them just for being arrested.

It is unlikely that the prosecutor refuses to prosecute because someone's rights might have been violated. So we take it to court. The public defender might have spent very little time on the case, and may or may not bring up the violation. The prosecutor definitely doesn't, and they might get found guilty.

If the defendent is really lucky, somewhere like the ACLU picks up his case and it goes to the surpreme court, like this one. Now this is where we really don't do anything:

We've completely screwed up this person's life. They get no compensation for the rights violation. Most times, the police nor prosecutor do not receive any punishment. And we do absolutely nothing for other folks in the same situation. Absolutely nothing. Their rights have been violated too - but they weren't public.

The checks and balances the system is supposed to have are broken. Simply broken. And we don't have the inclination to fix any of it. We refuse to hold different bits in the chain accountable and we refuse to provide more comprehensive training to the police. We refuse to make sure folks have adequate defense when they cannot hire an attorney - and in many states we make them pay for the defense nonetheless, regardless of how poor they actually are.
Language is political in India and I don't claim to understand half of it. Probably since the establishment of the republic after attaining independence there's been a tension between Hindi-speakers (who were the plurality of the population) and others. English was a "neutral" language and it helped that a lot of the administration, bureaucracy, and law carried over from the British already used it. Not to mention that the most influential leaders of the independence movement (Jawaharlal Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Patel) were lawyers educated in England.
This isn't exactly an isolated incident, YouTube has lots of videos of autopilot steering wildly off course. The biggest problem is that Tesla allows turning on autopilot on roads that are not a highway and feature significant turns and hills obscuring "perfect lane vision", and the system is not prepared to handle that at all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBaolsFyD9I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOnuKrzCLYc
What befuddles me is that in all these discussions about self-driving cars seemingly no one refers to the massive body of knowledge in this area that comes from the aviation world.

I've posted variants of this same comment several times and I'm starting to feel like a broken record.

Look at studies of efforts to make planes safer by removing the human element. While efforts like autopilot have made things safer it reaches the point where more automation can reduce safety as pilots are no longer alert and/or don't trust the instruments and/or can't fully manually override the automation.

Call it the uncanny valley of automation safety.

Bridging that last few percent for true automation (ie where vehicles aren't designed to have drivers or pilots at all) is going to be _incredibly_ difficult, to the point where I'm not convinced it won't require something resembling a general AI.

All of this is why I think driverless cars are going to take much longer than many expect.