skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Special relativity is a fact.

The math behind GR and QM contradict each other. We have a large amount of empirical evidence for a speed limit for information travel, yes, but since we don't even know how the universe works (ie a mathematically consistent model, with few parameters, supported by experimental evidence), I don't think you can say "it's how the universe works". We might eventually find out that the information speed limit only holds at low energy scales for example.
I am really curious if the situation will be the same after November. At the moment it seems people are eager to buy into Bitcoin in order to have the extra chain that will come out of the forking as Bitcoin Gold.

The precedent with Bitcoin Cash was bad in this aspect, because it created a valued blockchain (albeit of lower value!) out of the blue. People want this to happen again.

Invention of the money tree... :)
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> These big companies always get away with a Warning.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/27/the-largest-fines-dished-out... - over 1.5 billion in fines, they were made to release versions without a media player, they were made to offer a browser selection window.
> Being free to do things your own way often means choosing not to do something if it's going to negatively impact other people. Once you realise that you need to think about the way your decisions impact other people you quickly realise that compromising on your choices for the benefit of the wider team results in much better code.

This becomes more and more important as the team grows, as there are more feet that you can step on. Working on a large team is really different than a solo or small team. Large teams are as much about communication, mutual respect, and shared goals than writing good code. Unfortunately, communication takes time and energy, and necessarily slows down the entire process, but it's critical.

The Mythical Man Month lays this out nicely. The possible lines of communication in a N person team grows quadratically at N*(N-1), which explains why large teams are often far less efficient on a per-person basis than smaller ones.
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It's built on top of Adobe CEP runtime - https://github.com/Adobe-CEP
Extensions are loaded into applications through the PlugPlug Library architecture. With CEP 4.0, HTML/JavaScript technology can be used to for these extensions.

The actual app is a standard web app based on React that connects to a GraphQL server.
It really depends on what you use your VPN for. If it's for keeping your traffic secret and secure from local eavesdroppers (as in people sharing your wi-fi router), I guess any VPN service will do.

If, however, you are using a VPN service to prevent a government agency from identifying you, there are opsec things you practice before you even consider going online.

I use a VPN to get into my networks - both my personal and my office when I'm not in the office (using different computers for each one that are never connected to the same network). I suppose any government agency that wants to capture my traffic will be able to do so, but I'll not be the easiest target for the more casual criminals.
Isn't that what contracts are for? That's how it works in sports. You stay with the team for X years, and after that you're a free agent. Why can't it work the same way in technology? The way I see it, employers are trying to have it both ways: they want you to stay, but they also want the ability to fire you as they please.
Sony's numbers are impressive, I wonder if they could create a VR portable next, i'm sure chips like the Nvidia k1/2 could push VR and also work as a portable and tv console.
Just a minor point, when you get interview training from someone who knows discrimination laws, you will learn that there are things you should not discuss with a candidate. That includes where they live, because of the discriminatory mental logic you describe about commute time.
Nice platform, liked it, especially delivery and insurance features. So as I understand, we are not paying anything else for delivery, right?
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I work with so many files that I can't read their names in the tabs - so I scroll the list of tabs horizontally - which is exactly what you do I guess if the vertical list doesn't fit on the screen. Or I just find the files again in the project tree. It works fine for me - they can't add everyone's preferred style to the UI or the project would eternally bloat.
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Thanks a lot, glad you liked it! You don't pay anything else for delivery, we cover delivery and insurance from Nearent fee, which is 25%.
> "JavaScript can be quite fast, but fundamentally it’s a scripting language with the unavoidable overhead that implies."

I don't even ... but better late than never.
Strict hierarchies suck because if you're a leaf in the hierarchy, it's very difficult to collaborate or work with other leafs that are not in your same sub-branch.

A flat fully connected hierarchy is better for small groups, but it doesn't scale well as the number of lines of communications is proportional to the square of the number of people.
One side note I'll offer: don't view the change as a permanent one. I've bounced back and forth over the 10+ years of my career, and that's been a surprisingly good idea.

As an engineer, I have a better understanding of team dynamics, business needs, and other "big picture" items. As a manager, I don't have to worry as much about "losing my edge" technically -- I'll be back into code 6 months or a few years from now.

Best of both worlds.
Developers want the best quality from other industries, while in the mean time they suggest "Worse is better" for software industry. How about using the same strategy for air crafts, ships, cars, trains, medical devices? Some authority really needs to regulate software industry so every software company builds a high quality, energy efficient, crazy fast software. Aerospace people were successful to land human on moon on 1969. It is late 2017 and software industry is struggling to reduce the memory usage of a text editor to under 1GB. Retarded.
I'm working as developer, now since approx 8 years. At my first job I had a boss with Engineering background but he worked a long time in Management as well. So this was quite nice and when he asked me implement things that would take a long time or would be risky to build, I'd tell him and he would prefer me doing other things. At other jobs this changed, I had to talk to more people but doing the programming mostly alone. Although I sometimes got help from other technical people. Ever since on a regular base I'm confronted with this 60 minutes vs 600 hours problem. Just that it's my problem to write these things myself. But I don't really see myself as anything close to Management.
Usability testing for APIs
I think I know what you meant to say, but what you typed is logically wrong. s/jobs/workers/
They're not good markets, and even if they were, they fall far short of the Segway's original goals as a mass consumer product. There is a reason Segway is often used as a cautionary tale in product circles, and as as "What not to do" case study in academia.
It's always nice to see BQ-based research like this!
Not sure if this is a common story for most programmers or maybe me and the author have same personality traits. Back in the Delphi 6 days I was 16, with no internet access I started learning about programming. It all began by reading an article of how to write assembly code in Delphi. Had no idea what it meant, but it was interesting. So I've started.

12 months forward I had made my first "commercial" product - Power Crypt. A Windows application allowing to encrypt / decrypt files. It as written in Delphi, had a single class of ±5000 LOC and used open source cryptography library.

Main selling point was that it encrypted a file not by using a single algorithm, but with all (about 10 or even more) the algorithms the OS library had implemented. Thus making it more secure :-)
> Musk isn't a very good speaker and he seemed very nervous ...

Sort of.

Looking back, he sounded much more confident when he was younger [0] perhaps because he hadn't yet experienced life altering events like the loss of a child or coming close to bankruptcy at the end of 2008 after sinking his networth into SpaceX and Tesla.

I think his seeming lack of confidence when he speaks publicly today is a latent acknowledgement that the stakes are much higher relative to his PayPal days when the Internet was incipient, and that failure is still a possibility, regardless of the amount of resources he may have sunk into his investments.

[0] https://youtu.be/jbXhReHXTH8
Agree. Whenever I come across a keynote of his, I tell myself "ok, just watching this for 10 min, then get back to real work", and then usually what happens is that I find myself 2 h later after the presentation, totally amazed by all the cool stuff that's going on in Carmack's lab.
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2d game art tutorial – character design / dragon's head
Is that what we tell ourselves, "I'm making a difference"?
I work at an ISP.

GDPR is huge and #1 on just about every priority list. Accounting for every single piece of (even theoretically) personally identifiable information, access restrictions to said data, storage time limits, logging of access and changes (without logging anything sensitive) and everything else is a gigantic undertaking.

Every single system we have that stores or even just caches data is affected by this, and it's tying up a large amount of our resources.

As a consumer I certainly welcome the GDPR, but as someone who works in IT, holy shit our workloads have increased.
Same! I went and got the updated version from GOG though, it does bigger screen resolutions and works well under WINE. Danger, though, three days disappeared in the blink of an eye!
A good alternative to this that I have found is peer review: everybody gets their code reviewed by at least one other person on the team. Everybody gets to work autonomously initially, and everybody gets their code checked by the rest of the team.
Ah, my apologies then. It's their fault for not updating the FAQ and you can hardly be blamed for quoting from it!

There was an update to that 6 months later: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/better-sql-joins-in-cockr...

I'd assume they've made even more improvements since, so they really should update their docs.
> Apple boosted VLSI design smarts in the UK

What does this mean? What is a 'design smart'?
that's really only activated for some virtual machines.

And even there, it's a security threat, since it enables cross-VM timing and other attacks.
Nobody will buy it, because it will be unobtanium, just like the N version was.
It's just for adding obscurity, hence only one of the methods being in use.
Another step-by-step tutorial by 2dgameartguru.com on using simple elements, circles, and squares to create complex character designs like a dragon's head.
The tutorial works in most other vector tools (Adobe Illustrator, Affinity designer or Corel Draw) in a very similar way. The tools are named differently but the workflow would be the same.
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No degree here, and when I was in college I was essentially an artist. No one has ever asked me about it in an interview. Instead I get asked how to solve problems, and maybe what problems I’ve solved in the past.
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As a developer, I found that much of the programming I was doing was not very challenging or interesting. Hooking one API to another, optimizing some database routines, converting data efficiently... It felt more like "building" than "designing". Not sure it counts as pure management, but I've moved more into product design roll that needs to understand the business, what can be done in a given time, and set expectations. It's been far more challenging and interesting to me.

It's not exactly management roll, and it still requires a degree of tech skills, but it's another type of career move option you can make.
Bureaucracy in Germany is an interesting meme. Everybody complains about it, I did as well.

Then I encountered the bureaucracy in the US. It's even more forms, more officials that get a say about everything (Different sales tax at all levels down to the county, wtf?), they're slow to deal with even for non-complex matters (the reason why Zootopia's DMV employs sloths totally went over the heads of most of my [German] acquaintances), and with little organization.

On a tangent (since it's not "public" bureaucracy per-se): You get a corporate bank account with credit line within a day in the US. That's wonderful. Now try to send money to an account at a different bank within the country, within a day. I'll wait.

So yes, Germany has a huge bureaucracy. But work with them and they'll work for you (I got tons of useful advice, for free, when I asked them how to approach whatever it is I went to them in the first place) - and compared to many other places bureaucracy seems highly efficient here.
Maybe the fact that on Android you often have to agree for the apps to to gather certain data and give them permissions. Of course there is a lot of grey area here, but mostly from the specific apps, not necessarily from the OS.
Android's location tracking is a feature and I believe is not turned on automatically. Most of Windows 10's data collection serves no obvious purpose and is on by default. It's also 4 screens full of toggles that make you go "uh what?!"

But I wouldn't mind if they went after android for the purpose of making it clearer what's being tracked and gathered.
Interesting to see 'var' isn't used as much as I thought it would be.
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Are there any networks like beaker that are not only distributed but also truly anonymous? There is no point in being peer to peer if you can't be anonymous as well. Well, there IS a point, like with the pro-catalonia websites, but it would be even more useful when you can be anonymous.

Also, how secure is beaker? Are there any security audits?
How can I prevent ransomware attacks?
Not the OP, but the point of survivor bias is that there were 10 million people flipping coins for the first "moonshot" idea, and let's say 1000 succeeded; then those tossed the coin for the second moonshot and only 1 succeeded. Was the one who succeeded so much better than the other 1000, or mostly luckier?
prima noctis was a myth.

There is no evidence of it ever being practiced.
Just created a live example: https://logdna.com/frame_tester.html

The gif was from our docs page which afaik doesn't allow js.
> As companies add more engineers, the engineers become less productive

This is definitely true, but it's a necessary evil. If you want to build something small, you can do it with a super efficient tiger team. But if you want something huge, you need a massive inefficient team, even if each additional engineer is only 1/10th as efficient as the engineer in the tiger team.

This is explained, with real-life examples, in the classic Mythical Man Month.
There are many less extreme cases than that.
Are the costs adjusted dollars? What I mean is with each iteration of, say phone camera, the older one's cost will way less than what it might cost back in 2008/2010. So a camera might cost $5 but might have cost $15 back then.
A couple misconceptions seemed buried in here. First of all, plenty of Google engineers are doing “boring” work that can be done by coding school grads. Secondly, Google declines qualified candidates roughly 50% of the time according to people who work there. The hiring process is far more random than we’d like to imagine it is when you have a “high bar”.
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On a regulated device, the coil resistance is irrelevant to battery amp draw. 50W will consume the same amount of current regardless of what it is being used for. The right way to figure it is 50W/3.7V = 13.5A. Add a bit more on that to account for regulator inefficiency. It also rises as the battery discharges down to cutoff voltage, which is usually 3.0 or 3.2V.

This holds true even if the coil is 0.5Ω
Well, yes I did think that GP meant distinctly greek peoples. The demigod-like figures in the Illias are Achilles, Ajax, Hector and others wich are exceptionally strong compared to other humans. These characters fought alongside the Achaeans or Troy, so definitly on the side of civilised folk.
Physically impossible or economically impossible? The physics doesn't look impossible at first glance.
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What's your typical workflow in your browser ?
There are some people who are easy to joint code with. But there are many people who are not assholes, but joint owning with them is still something uncomfortable to be avoided. Joint code ownership oftentimes means less clear structures and less predictable code, because neither is able to actually execute coherent vision.
Sounds good! Yeah our site is definitely in need of some love. Just haven't had time (busy plugging tech debt and working on new stuff). Planning on major improvements next month along with onboarding.
> It raises questions of motives

I don't think Project Zero ever analyzed something that isn't used at Google (for example with the Apple stuff: somebody at Google has to build the Google iOS apps).
Wanting to know what's going on on the corporate network is the job of a corporation's IT security unit.

The publications serve to force vendors to fix their mess. Microsoft already complained that the 90 days limit by Project Zero is unfair (and got a 14 days-to-next-patchday extension). And there are other experiences from researchers adhering to "responsible disclosure" schemes where the vendor only became active once publication was a real threat.
I wish the USA had some data-protection laws in the pipeline.

But no--we just let them do as they wish.

(I don't blame anyone. Just making rent here seems like the last straw. Not the best/greatest anymore?)
No, what pressing the wifi icon button on every single wifi-capable phone ever made until iOS 11 is to turn off wifi. Not just temporarily, but specifically until the user decides to turn it on again.

This is how it was even before smartphones. Android keeps wifi location scanning and various other things running, even if you turn off wifi, so it actually accomplishes what people want: to turn off wifi networking until they turn it on again.

The change made in iOS 11 is a clear regression.
Yeah, I thought the same.

I now realise the better test of 'var' would be to compare it to how many times it's not used. That is count the times that 'var myClass = new MyClass()' is used v 'MyClass myClass = new MyClass()'. But my regex skills aren't good enough for that and I'm not even sure if you can do it purely in a regex?

Also I imagine that 'var someNumber = 1' is used less that 'int someNumber = 1', but again, I'm not sure how to do the regex? I certainly only use 'var' when the same word is on both sides of the '=', so not in the case of int/double/decimal etc.
At first I think that this would be some kind of terminal browsers with very limited number of features, but after few minutes of using it looks very impresive. I'll try to move all my dayly programming browsing and see how it will work.
> That is insane.

No, it's not. It's just easier to learn to entertain the average people, than to entertain the smaller group of more tasteful people, or to learn and sell things.

I was also quite impressed when I learnt the figures, and am still impressed at the fact that it managed to capture the mode of people's interest, but my every attempt to use Toutiao has ended in pain. I certainly spent longer than one day.
There's a one-year waiting period after the liquidation has been publicly announced in the Bundesanzeiger before the remaining assets can be distributed among the shareholders. See § 73 GmbhG http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gmbhg/__73.html
Yeah BQ is basically magic, it's so impressive how much data is can process in 30 secs or less.

(I know under-the-hood it consists of some very impressive algorithms/hardware/programming etc, as explained in https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/08/in-memory-que..., but it feels like magic!)
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Give me $150B, the inflation-adjusted cost of the Apollo space program, and I'll put together a team and build the perfect text editor that uses "less than 1GB of memory."

Also...

> Retarded

Come on. Let's have an adult conversation here.
5. Realize you should have gotten a subscription with an adequate data plan.

6. Get said subscription.

7. Stop worrying.
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That's not exactly true. A project manager in some ways has a more difficult people management job than an engineering manager does. They're held accountable for the coordination and performance of people over whom they hold no actual authority. That takes some major diplomatic skills.
It's a nice sum of money, but education is extremely expensive, it's probably less than you think. It's enough to pay roughly, for 7000 to go to college, or maybe 50,000 people to take a one semester programming bootcamp.

A great start, but it's not exactly transformational.
Amazon suspends video executive Roy Price following harassment claims
Are you familiar with the joys of autoconf, cmake and friends? Have you tried writing a non-trivial application that simply compiles on different flavors of Linux and Windows? Compiling on different platforms is also a non-trivial problem. Having a virtualised platform that abstracts away differences between OS makes it vastly easier to write portable applications.

For many applications running on a VM on different platforms Just Works. The idea is most definitely not over, in fact it is becoming ever more popular. Just look at the rise of abominations like Electron.
Android even goes too far here. "Download waiting for wifi", for a 20MB download. I use more data than that simply by opening certain apps!
Thanks for mentioning us, Florian.

We're aiming to get Tridactyl to feature-equality with Vimium and Saka-Key by the end of this weekend. (We are runnable now, but it's not a fantastic UX)

We hope to match or exceed the current WebExtension state of the art (cVim) by the FF57 release date (Mid November).

Our longer-term roadmap depends on how responsive Mozilla are to our feature requests. They've suggested that our two most important API extensions could be merged in FF58 (Jan 2018? I forget), but we'll have to see.

If you don't want to run other WebExtensions or Firefox, Qutebrowser offers a really good solution :)
The trouble is that in closely cooperating teams where I worked, people who did what you suggest ended up in submissive position against people who just do their thing ignoring others. If I proactive think about others and you don't, you get to work however you like it oftentimes making my work more difficult - while I am more restricted and have harder time to make my ideas reality.
Get them a subscription with an adequate data plan, then?
Wow, host of that site is seriously full of themselves. And of course, they own some "dance lounge" in San Francisco.
Tax avoidance is another topic, I thought. Roger that, though.