skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would agree with this but its not going to happen by 2030 thats for sure. Its going to take a lot longer.
http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm...
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I've made a grocery delivery app that lets customers hire drivers directly. Drivers post their time slots in advance and then customers choose a time slot/driver.

Drivers choose when and where they will deliver, and their delivery price. It's more like Airbnb's business model than Uber or Instacart.

https://www.goeggler.com
>"Regenerative cooling" is a rocket term. It came to mind because I used to be an aerospace engineer. There's no requirement in the definition of regenerative cooling for the coolant to be dumped.

?

Regenerative cooling in rocketry uses propellant. Propellant is always dumped overboard, because it's propellant.

Please show me a rocket that uses closed loop cooling of the rocket nozzle.

>Filtering and then compressing atmosphere, running it through a heat exchanger, and then letting it expand through the cooling channels before dumping it doesn't seem obviously worse than having kilometers of refrigerant running around.

My turn to be pedantic about definitions: this sure sounds like closed loop cooling to me! The working fluid is air, you draw it from a big reservoir, (the atmosphere) cool something with it, then return it to the reservoir. (Something you can't do with open-loop regenerative cooling of a rocket nozzle, since the coolant gets burned at the end of the cycle)

However, maintaining the air dryers and replacing the filters sounds like it wouldn't be any cheaper than conventional phase-change cooling, and having to build custom vacuum/compressor pumps for the hyperloop project is going to be more expensive than buying COTS vacuum pumps.
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I don't have solid answers, but that's exactly how my father-in-law got into the computer field back in the early 60s. He was working an administrative job at a bank, someone IDed him as having potential, and the bank put him through internal training in programming and computer science-y stuff. It worked out, he spent some time programming, and eventually moved into management.
I think the main nugget is that they took Codds powerful mathematical system for defining and manipulating relations and created a simpler way to interface with it through the English keywords SELECT FROM WHERE.

I see a similar thing happening in Elm, as it tries to translate Haskell/ML ideas into simpler concepts without all of the category theory.
Thats complete and utter nonsense.
I just can't share that optimism. I taught myself to code using youtube videos and books. There are 14 year olds on YouTube coding iOS video games in a matter of weeks.

Combine that with the fact that big companies (like Google) release SDKs that make application development trivial, and you've got a recipe for the skill cap lowering along with wages.
Are any of them dynamically stable?
I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner, much sooner. Netflix, Hulu and Amazon prime have been around for many, many years now. Why all the sudden, people realized they could leave their tv-subscriptions, now in 2017?
Personally, I think you are wrong. If you are an average engineer, you should be very afraid. But if you are exceptional, you will see your comp shoot through the roof in the coming years.
UPX was also good to protect the code, not only for compacting:

1. I used UPX to compact my Delphi EXE file.

2. Then I openned up any HEXA editor

3. looked for "UPX" string and changed to "222x"

Doing this, the UPX unpack tool didn't work and crackers could not easily see or edit my source code with Assembly (as UPX mess with everything!)

Thanks UPX :-)
>The comment you link to [2] replies to someone claiming the original white paper calls for a 22:1 atmosphere:tube pressure ratio. I pointed out that the figure they're referencing, Figure 11, discusses the capsule and not the tube.

I happen to be that someone. :) You were talking about state-of-the-art axial compressors (the GEnx-2B67), so I assumed you were talking about the axial compressor on the front of the pod. Mea culpa. But then you drew an analogy to the pressures in the SPS ("To get a sense of the engineering differences between 6:1 and 1,000:1..."), as if the Hyperloop people were trying to make a 1000:1 axial compressor. As I pointed out in my reply,[1] rotary vane compressors can easily maintain those pressures.

>The materials problem is the thermal expansion of the top of the tube relative to the bottom.

If that were really a problem, no pipelines of any kind could be built. Again thermal expansion joints are the solution, since with the abandonment of air-ski levitation the pod walls no longer have a requirement to be ultra-smooth. Tiny leakage on these joints is fine, since it will be made up for by the pumps located along the track.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15460061
UPX still works great when used with Go executables.

We use it heavily to compress some of our Docker image executables [1].

[1] https://github.com/znly/docker-protobuf/blob/master/Dockerfi...
Arguably, separating the digital copy code from the original disc may be against the terms of use, digital copies are not intended to be sold separately, and are supposed to merely provide the owner of a movie with a secondary medium with which to consume it.

Though arguably, they can't stop you from legally reselling your disc, and the code can't be transferred away from the initially redeemed account. And since they can't track the code prior to redemption, they can't do much to stop you from selling a slip of paper or the letters contained on it.

Another questionable practice if you haven't heard, is using Vudu's Mobile Disc 2 Digital (MD2D) service via a UPC code generator. Basically, it's intended for you to scan the barcode of movies you own. It location locks to your home address, but it's easily circumvented with a list of UPCs online. This lets you buy any Ultraviolet-supported movies for $2 a pop (and they will transition to Movies Anywhere correctly), but the assumption when they "sold" them to you is that you already owned them.

Personally I avoid both techniques because I feel heavy abuse of these unintended methods will lead to a crackdown/worse experience for everyone else.
Alternative idea for a service: Identify other “influencers” in your market niche and buy them thousands of obviously fake followers, when in discussions with advertisers point this out: "X has more followers, that is true, but look at the quality of them most of these are obvious bots. That is why my rates are 20% higher."
The NOAA HRRR smoke model is the best visualization I've found:

https://hwp-viz.gsd.esrl.noaa.gov/smoke/index.html

Enable Near Surface Smoke. And the Z-time at the bottom is 7 hours ahead of Pacific Daylight Time.
You could include it on the care instructions tag in tiny tiny print.
It's heating up this weekend, but will only be in mid-80s (at least near Palo Alto — perhaps 90s in the East Bay). So far, it's not too much of a dilemma: windows closed, AC off.
I found this interesting and posted the article because the accompanying video shows the complex wave form of the sound believed responsible for the injuries to dimplomats.
OK, I love a good build story like any other geek out there, but I'm not sure what the purpose of this is? The article says to detect metals? Or capture 'textures' of fine grained surfaces?

Any clarifications would be welcome!
LBA even has a pretty good Android port. Very playable.
I swear, many of the HN crowd seems like they'd be happiest if they were the only developer on the planet.
Unions? How has that worked for every other craft industry in the US?

Forgive my crass reply, but, I have only seen unions become weaker and weaker in the U.S. And even when they were "strong" they didn't protect labor interests against increases in labor supply. Globalization has wrecked a number of industries, which unions were powerless against. The strongest card in the hand of any laborer is their scarcity.

Also, nobody (including myself) is advocating for "playing gatekeeper". I merely made a post warning people of what's coming. If you look closely my advice was to the individual - invest in yourself. Don't count on unions, or governments playing gatekeeper, to protect your current salary.
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Before setting up companies in a different countries than where you live: This can get very messy and you should either have the company in the country where you live or live in a country which is very tolerant (tax-wise) about having companies in other countries.

On a secondary note: Germany is the worst country to incorporate: bureaucratic, expensive, tax offices are expensive and stuff is complicated, worst privacy regulation to come (from a company perspective), Labour is expensive compared to their skill level and English skills.

One good thing though: since share transactions are done with state notaries there is more safety when doing them and less need for lawyers for simple transactions. For more complicated transactions with higher funds it gets expensive again. The Articles of Association must be German, the rest can be in English.
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Drugs and ransomware.
By way of a bunch of years doing excellent systems engineering at Google and other places. I had the pleasure of working with Spencer, Peter, and Ben off and on. Good people and some of the best engineers I've ever worked with.
Fixed (private repo), thanks
IME the cot-caught merge is widespread enough that "split" can't be considered a requirement for standard. (Wikipedia says 40% merge, 60% don't.)
While this may be true, you will find quite a reasonable number of people who can speak non-English foreign languages quite well, and that excludes the foreign nationals that come to live and work in the Netherlands as well.

If you wanted to serve a largely German speaking clientele, then you could reasonably expect to get a decent number of applicants in the Netherlands in my experience, especially in the border regions. The kids here are still learning German and French in school, and while they might speak it less, there are still plenty that go there regularly.
nice. Still dreaming of open my own computer shop or more preferrable something like those japanese gaming/cmputer/anime/movie/manga cafes.
The script they hosted was legitimate. The Akamai content that it loaded, was legitimate. But Fireclick let the domain lapse, and someone else is now impersonating them and serving malware, and not just to Equifax, either. Why is the story "Equifax hacked again" instead of "Akamai serving content from known spammer site"?
A college-level IQ these days means something low like 100 -- you're probably thinking of a more stringent standard.
Certificate management is still a major pain. I would rather have standard auth options while using encrypted traffic between nodes instead of generating certs for every node.

What's the use of checking node name and ip with the certificates? I already have full control of all the nodes so a key/secret match inside a secure connection would work just as well, since that's how SQL clients connect anyway. It seems like this issue is why the kubernetes deployment also uses insecure mode?
Because some other nerds got really rich on Internet fun bucks and other people want in on it too.
Anti-Adblock or something said

> You value our content ...

Less than you think. Certainly not as much as my time, attention, and security. Bye.
My guess is that the copyright is for the whole body of work, and not just for the single file. The copyright notice in the single file is probably not a requirement from a legal standpoint and is merely indicative.
Mainly because they believe it will stay valuable. Which is what backs all stores of value - gold and diamonds are definitely not bought for their practical applications.

Now why exactly people believe it is and will stay a good store of value is more complicated, but mostly a mix of trust in how miner self interest will keep the keys safe and general desirability of online currency
Thanks very much for sharing this. Awesome.
This is basically how my mother was trained as a programmer. She got a job, was literally handed a stack of books and reference material and started figuring shit out.

She changed careers before I can really remember her at that job, but I too am self-taught in this field (but I trained myself at home).

The whole idea of companies not investing in their people is relatively new.
Emacs org-mode. It's great, especially when including math formulas or code.

http://luisquintanilla.me/2017/08/25/back-to-school-emacs-ed...
Honest question, are there legitimate use cases for an ICO? If so, are there real world examples you can point to?

Another way to put the question, are ICO's inherently flawed, or is there a wheat vs. chaff issue? I see opportunity in the latter.
I'm going to top-post this, but this argument is _precisely_ the one made by david foster wallace in "authority and american usage", and it is bang-on correct.
That's not quite how credit freezes work, if they pull Equifax and only that bureau is frozen then they will usually just pull from another credit bureau. People who churn credit cards use this to their advantage - they often freeze the report with the most recent inquiries (usually Experian) to spread out inquiries more evenly over the three bureaus. I've never heard of anyone getting flat out denied for credit (besides mortgages) because they had a single bureau frozen. Sometimes it requires a phone call but usually its just automatic.

You also can't prevent them from reporting information about you to Equifax.

Anyways, you aren't really hurting anyone by denying yourself the ability to get credit, you're only hurting yourself.
That's interesting. The UPX string is most likely a name of section in PE file. It's first UPX string you will find in the file.

How did UPX loader managed to find the section in which packed content is stored?

UPD. It's REALLY easy to "hack" this protection. You simply need to attach a debugger and you will see unprotected exe file in the memory. There are tools to convert loaded unprotected exe file into regular exe file on the disk. So... No one really tried to hack you. Sorry.
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I don't know if you really could filter all the obscurification. But definitely the ones that just add a space. Because even a one word change (removing 'debunked' as in the examples given) can significantly change the context.
I can't tell if this is a side project or a business. How are you planning on spreading your message?
Absolutely not true. I paid $0.40 cents on a $5.00 transaction yesterday that was confirmed within an hour. I could've easily paid the same $0.40 cents to move $50,000,000.00.
Having been in that system, the reality is so much more bizarre than that.

The actual reality I observed is that the government inspectors and regulators are lawyers and older industry people who simply don't understand technology. Since the US government has limited technical expertise they rely on FIs to adhere to standards and propose self-regulatory measures.
Its highly unlikely that an algorithm, however sophisticated can project the outcome of such an announcement in such a short time.

But discussions like this on a news/analysis piece by a fairly technical new source combined with above average human intelligence will project a more likely outcome.

The stock may go up on this news like you mentioned. But it more often than not settles down. But if OPs time horizon is medium term(a few quarters) or more, then its worth investing on such news.
I'm fairly privacy-obsessed, but this doesn't sound like a massive issue to me. I don't consider my movie collection to be significant privacy-wise. My movie collection is actually poor at indicating my interests, it's also only a fragment of my actual movie watching activity, and for what it's worth, Movies Anywhere collects barely any personal information: It asks for your first name only and your email address. (This information is ALREADY going to be available to any retailer you have an account with.)

I think it makes sense that retailers would want to sync your "video activity information" and that studios (who bear the cost of running MA, unlike UV, which retailers ate) would want to see usage activity and be able to correlate that with how well their films are marketable long-term.
So the rabbit hole goes deeper yet! That MD2D service is too unambiguously dubious for my taste. If you're going to so much trouble, why not just pirate the movie in the first place?

Reselling digital codes may be contrary to their terms of service, but is legal under first sale doctrine. But that's not what puts it on the side of the angels for me-- the key point there is that every digital code came from an actual physical sale.
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I'm reasonably sure the whole Fireclick infrastructure was abandoned, probably years ago. So Equifax's part was not having some mechanism in place to remove 3rd party references for 3rd parties that aren't delivering anymore. I strongly suspect that predated the change in ownership of the domain, which was almost a year ago. The fireclick.com domain is gone. The parent company (Digital River) doesn't mention offering any kind of analytics service.

So, yes, technically the vector wasn't directly an Equifax server. But it was only a vector because nobody removed the reference.

Right now, they also reference crazyegg.com in their pages. If crazyegg goes belly up, the domain will be dormant, and when it expires, somebody might take it over. Does Equifax have an onus to deal with that, or can they blame someone else?
also http://www.farbrausch.de/~fg/kkrunchy/

and related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7739599
Sometimes I feel like folks push me to management just so that I stop writing and teaching FP techniques in the org, which are seen by some folks as "destructive"...
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I am print designer (not ui/ux startup designer) and most designers i know find the redesign sooo bad. It feels like they wanted to draw lot from fashion/art print scene (stuff like http://backcatalogue.co.uk/daily ) they picked similar typeface/style to one very trendy few years ago ( http://www.space-matters.com/ ) and well... they totaly failed.

Reasons might be ui/startup designers being pushed into territory they dont know. It might be management dumbing down "too cool" design. But overall it feels like strange hybrid without much energy or appeal.

But i applaud them for trying something new.

Only corp that manages to sucessfuly bring this kind of design approach is bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/businessweek
It seems to me that it's ideal for making several channels of textures (color, normal map, metalness, maybe roughness/glossy in the future) as input of a material in a 3D game engine or CGI picture/animation.

Kind of a "3D scanner" for the 2D part of 3D scenes (textures).
That's complicated and nuanced. I'd be happy to have that conversation over email.

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Doctors, actors, pro athletes. There are many types of guilds and professional associations beyond unions.

Furthermore, if tech is about disrupting everything, including the nature of work itself (through on-demand) and even the nature of human relations itself (through social media), then surely some attempt could be made to better labor relations by inventing a better type of union. It's especially rich to hear "no, it can't happen, it's always failed in the past" comments wrt labor unions come from workers who work in an industry that's supposedly all about innovation.

I wasn't trying to attack you for your original comment, in any case. You actually offer good advice. But my general sentiment is that we shouldn't try to restrict the labor market- it seems as wrongheaded as trying to fight gentrification by limiting house construction just because some of those units will be luxury condos instead of affordable housing- and that lowered wages could be fought by the presence of a tech union that protects tech workers.
That "grand bargain" is over, and never returning. The economy is global, cutthroat and changes on a dime. Every man/woman is in a mercenary situation today, whether they're aware of this fact or not.
There are already places that require tons of experience to even get an IT job. Complete automation and centralization of IT jobs isn't required to strongly impact American lives.

Not everyone lives in a tech hub of the country.
> Please show me a rocket that uses closed loop cooling of the rocket nozzle

The most famous one is the under-development SABRE [1], which includes a closed-loop helium cycle. For cryogenic rockets, closed-loop cooling of the nozzle has been explored [2] to avoid hydrogen embrittlement and oxidation of the nozzle channels, as well as to simplify plumbing.

In any case, we've devolved into arguing semantics.

> My turn to be pedantic about definitions: this sure sounds like closed loop cooling to me!

I was figuring on dumping the air once done versus worrying about a reservoir. That said, I haven't done any math on the benefits of saving the return piping (and reservoir cost and maintenance) versus using something traditional.

> maintaining the air dryers and replacing the filters sounds like it wouldn't be any cheaper than conventional phase-change cooling, and having to build custom vacuum/compressor pumps for the hyperloop project is going to be more expensive than buying COTS vacuum pumps

Fair enough. As you observe, it's a problem I haven't seen a suitable solution to (apart from burying, which trades the thermal problem for, in my view, the better water management problem and the scarier land-use problem.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABRE_(rocket_engine)

[2] https://www.google.com/patents/US3516254?dq=closed+loop+rock...
The one bright spot I see is that you wouldn't actually need to fly around; something akin to flying windmill designs might suffice. I think there are at least three major problems here, though, each bad enough to sink the idea.

First: the last major Yellowstone eruption involved 240 cubic miles of debris. Even if that's only 1% ash, that's a basically prohibitive amount of volume to remove from the upper atmosphere.

Second: ash distribution is rapid and extensive. There's not enough ash in any one place to make cleanup runs effective overall, and distribution is too fast to clean a region persistently.

Third: volcanic ash is some of the nastiest, most machinery-hostile stuff nature produces. I would expect it to jam and corrode basically any moving πarts we can build, while also blocking out enough light to prohibit any kind of sustained solar flight.

Frankly, I don't think there is a good answer at the moment; the sheer volume of the stuff is beyond any sort of geoengineering we've seriously considered.
This sounds like fixed pie logic to me.

My intuition is that the Pareto optional solution is one where nearly everyone is proficient in engineering. I see engineering as the new reading/writing. I think an engineering literate society would be more valuable and stable than our current society is.
Most developers aren't on H1B. There's what, tens of thousands on H1B, and hundreds of thousands of tech workers. While it's true some developers are underpaid, they are few in number and presumably of little significance on the prevailing developer wage.
There's some great tools on that airfire.org site! Data overload for sure.
> my RSS feed reader

Mind sharing a link?
Exactly. Instead of colluding to artificially depress wages, flood the market with trainees to naturally and legally accomplish the same end.
So Yemen is a proxy war, just like Syria is then?