skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Particularly with how Germany really lost the war to the Soviets in late 1942 when they failed to subdue Russia in the early invasion. The west (US/UK/Canada) largely just cleaned up the mess from 1943-45, as the Nazi's were fighting an impossible war after that point. Even then Russia did most of the work in terms of raw combat. But even when this is noted in history books Russia's success is largely dismissed as merely due to their fortunate geography and willingness to treat their soldiers like expendable fodder. But it was in fact largely due to Russia having better technology than Germany (specifically better tanks/armour [1]) and the geography was far less of an issue to the Nazi's in 1942, who unlike Napolean had highly mobile tanks, aircraft, trains, and Blitzkrieg tactics.

That greatly overstates the USSR's role. While the USSR and the Germany were basically locked in a massive conflict hemorrhaging manpower, the USSR's side was largely propped up by the US lend-lease program, which supplied crucially needed supplies of logistics, particularly trucks. Without such support, the USSR would have faced the same problem that Germany did: a critical inability to properly supply their front-line troops.

Also, Russian geography also killed the Germans. Blitzkrieg, where every 30 miles you have to wait a week for supplies to be brought up, doesn't work when you're traversing 600 miles of terrain. It works even less well when the railroad is a single-track feature that's incompatible with your rail system, even the major roads are barely passable in the best times and impassable in the season of mud, and all of your supplies are being carted by horses (which have this nasty habit of dying in -30° weather).
> Pay transparency detrimental to you, as an individual. To live a happy life, you must figure out your own purpose and use your mind to achieve it. Happiness is not the result of income, nor is money required to be happy. Your happiness is a function of the achievement of the values you have defined for yourself.

Perhaps someday I'll be less cynical, but I'll go ahead and say it: money might not be happiness, but it sure goes a long way to helping. If you need to work 80 hours / week just to keep food on the table and a roof over your head, leaving no time for you to express you own desires and wishes (and no money to do so), how are you supposed to be happy?

Money isn't directly happiness, but it helps in that you can acquire things that make you happy. For example, if my dream is to become a great guitar player, money towards instruments, lessons, etc. greatly helps. What if I want to see the world? That will cost money and time, which is often even more valuable than money.

> If you allow the income of others to influence your decision making, you are only hurting yourself.

If I find out that I'm getting screwed by my employer, and that I should ask for $20k/year more (which I can only know if I know the salary distribution for people of my trade, in my location), I fail to see how that can harm me. By the very definition, I'm being harmed every day I remain ignorant.

(Certainly, there are individuals who will chase the number, and let their hubris get ahead of them. They're not the people I think such initiatives are attempting to benefit. And I think the argument is that while such initiatives might not be perfect, they do more good than harm.)
not if you ride on the back of them
allude. totally different word.
Make it linux compatible!
How much is an f1.2xlarge instance? My google fu seems to be failing me.
It makes me wonder:

How can we ever expect to solve the biggest problems when we’re ignoring them?
Still, sounds about right
> What "bleeding-edge" EV tech? Tesla hasn't made a single "bleeding-edge" contribution to EV tech.

They proved that an all-electric car is viable. While certainly not an advancement in the truest sense of the word since we already had Li-Ion batteries and large electric motors, it was definitely a contribution.
These are good terms. In fact, too good. Based on my experience, once credit card company reels in enough customer base, they will revise down rewards. But these should be good for at least a year.
I think it is safe to say that most of the people in that situation did sign up to AWS and AWS like just about every SaaS has a non-copy clause. Though it only has reverse engineering clauses on Microsoft software (Windows running on EC2) and some specific appliances.
Good points made but the little human-based infographic is just an horrible way to represent data.
Locating IMDB IDs of Movies in the Internet Archive Using Wikidata
There are many products that have never launched at hacker news or reddit.
Most reputable news sources claim to have a "firewall" between owners and editors/journalists, i.e. they claim the owners can not tell the reporters what to do. While it is fair to be somewhat jaded, organizations like NPR and NYT uphold this ideal most of the time. (NPR being publicly funded is a weirder case)
Also, if you have to need 10000 for a day to do some sort of dev/QA/integration efforts you don't have to actually own them. Or even physically deal with the things.
The Xbox One? I'd be very surprised if it did. The PS4, certainly, because the PS3 was a pretty bad experience for Sony.
Nice. This is an interesting example of WebRTC. And it's useful in mobile phone.
What do you mean exactly as "strange views on what is sexual assult?"

Are you getting it confused with sexual harassment? which we are also talking about in this thread.
The possibilities with CRISPR never fail to amaze me; however, I'm always concerned with ethics. Something this accessible is eventually bound to fall into the wrong hands.
It will actually make them far more effective at what the republicans want. More consolidation, more takeover by conservative news agencies.

This is a calculated and malicious move.
And there are about 6x as many victims of road accidents. And I guess almost every barometer of law and order will be worse in Africa; for tail events like terrorism, you'd expect more extreme differences.
The funny thing about many US and EU enviroment protection supporters, that they drive an abandonement of almost pure nuclear energy use, while increasing the dependecy on coal and oil energy plants... And those produce not only chemical, but also a radiological pollution.
$1.65/h on demand
That pocket looks rather like an anomaly in the data. There is a very large coal-fired power plant (Navajo Generating Station) near Page, Arizona, though.
Ask HN: What legal precautions to take launching an ICO?
It seems ICO to Ether to USD = Ponzi Scheme. What precautions should be taken before and after launching an ICO?
CERN Antimatter Experiment Suggest the Universe Shouldn't Exist
In Norway salary information is public, but with a catch. If you ask for someone's salary information they learn who made that inquiry. This might be as good as you can get with getting salary transparency and mitigating privacy concerns.
> It's funny that the tech industry is so insistent on side projects.

Are they? I've yet to be asked about it. It might be different for new grads, but what people seem to care about most is if you've worked for a major firm, or in the case of the video game industry, a "AAA title".
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/
$1.65/hour in N. Virginia

Way less with spot prices, but for something like this, you probably want on-demand.
Here's the full regulation :

http://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/c.r.c.,_c._870/pag...
An entirely new city, centrally planned from scratch by developers and investors without any organic growth, no history, no culture, an initial population of zero, in Saudi Arabia that costs half a trillion to make.

What could possibly go wrong?
My understanding is that OO wasn't so much designed into perl 5 as bolted on later with a pretty cool and useful hack. This makes writing your first few perl objects a bit awkward. "Bless an array, why? What's that got to do with what I want?" There's better library support that came in after I'd stopped writing much perl, but looks quite clean by comparison. Too late for me, sadly. Still python isn't so bad when you need to script something your colleagues might need to read. It could have been different though and I would have preferred a more Perl flavoured world. Maybe it will come again..?

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Moose/lib/Moose/Manual.pod
"Fake" doesn't mean fake. It's just signalling to his followers.
I couldn't tell whether the author was making a good point, because their facts were badly askew.

Historically, there were multiple UNIX debuggers. It's true, gdb largely exterminated them (and anyway, when people say UNIX they often mean linux+freebsd+macos, where gdb was the defacto standard). However, there is now a second common UNIX debugger from the llvm/clang alternate universe (lldb).

In the very bad old days, debugger wrappers did drive gdb via the exact same interface that a human would, with all the terribleness that entails. but gdb has gone through several iterations of "GDB/MI", alternate APIs for "machine interfaces"; the current iteration seems to be "mi2".

Besides this, GDB has long since standardized the "debugger stub", which does low level operations like reading memory from the debugged process, starting/interrupting, etc.

As you can see, there are a plurality of interfaces to the debugger, several of them oriented specifically to use by other programs, rather than being repurposed human interfaces.

Besides this, gdb has also become internally extensible in Python, which is pretty great.

In short, invoking gdb as a subprocess is A LOT more like using an API than it is like trying to parse the output of "ls -l" as the only way to get a listing of files and their properties. It just happens to involve a second address space (a third, when you count the debugged program). It's just stream oriented, and doesn't look like JSON (or name your preferred hotness) because it was developed independently of, and quite possibly before, that preferred hotness.

(I'm pretty sure lldb's interface is also designed to be driven by other programs from the start, and it may also support a same-address-space embedding mode, but I don't have any actual experience using lldb, I just know it's out there)
If you read the full paragraph in context (and the following paragraph), it says:

> Prior to the statute's enactment in 1710, copying restrictions were authorized by the Licensing of the Press Act 1662. [Your quote about the Stationers' Company]. The censorship administered under the Licensing Act led to public protest; as the act had to be renewed at two-year intervals, authors and others sought to prevent its reauthorisation. In 1694, Parliament refused to renew the Licensing Act, ending the Stationers' monopoly and press restrictions. Over the next 10 years the Stationers repeatedly advocated bills to re-authorize the old licensing system, but Parliament declined to enact them. Faced with this failure, the Stationers decided to emphasise the benefits of licensing to authors rather than publishers, and the Stationers succeeded in getting Parliament to consider a new bill.

Which means that your quote is quite out-of-context. The Stationers' Company lost their monopoly over printing rights due to public outcry, and they failed to get a new law passed until they made a change to it that emphasised the protection of authors. That law was called the Statute of Anne.

Even earlier on, copyright "law" was used as a tool of censorship by the Queen of England (who was Mary at the time). Effectively, a publisher would ask the monarch for the exclusive right to publish a particular book, and a guild of printers (the Stationers' Company) was formed later that then enforced their own version of Copyright under these monopolies they were given.

The Statute of Anne was the first time copyright was actually a public law, that anyone could enforce -- and it was the first time that something you could call a "copyright system" was intended to protect _authors_.
If he wanted to give a statement he should have hired a PR firm to help him write it.
I think the correlation is that if the metadata-to-securiry response pipeline is incorrectly targeting people it is already biased against, then this is proof that the pipeline can also incorrectly target the people it is biased to ignore.
Computer vision and NLP are pretty broad problem areas with many applications. These technologies are already powerful enough to influence the world in many positive ways. I wouldn’t say that Actually realizing this potential is a “distraction”
I disagree with you, and grandparent, and the article :-)

I've hired plenty of great engineers who didn't have side projects on github. I have never specifically been looking for people that don't have a life outside the field, and unlike GP I have found that there are other ways to evaluate people that can identify great engineers with very few mistakes.

But that doesn't mean I wouldn't see your high quality or impressive open source code as a huge plus. Quantity doesn't matter -- if anything if you're super prolific I might wonder if you have much energy for your day job -- but I'm not going to pass up a chance to see what kind of work you do.

And because quantity doesn't matter, I think that writing a little bit of code "for your resume" (every once in a while, to reflect your continuing development as an engineer) is a pretty reasonable investment even if you don't happen to want to spend your whole life outside work programming. It's not required, but it might get you a really great position some day, even if like the OP you're up front about having a life outside of software engineering.
> It might not be fair, but the company might not have the resources to offer a raise for the sake of fairness

They definitely have the option of not offering the raise and the employee choosing to leave. If the employee isn't worth X dollars more then the company should be ok with them walking without that bump.

In the end the issue being discussed is asymmetrical info, and positions. If an employ is producing less than their cost they don't get to keep that "surplus". They get written up / fired. But if an employee is producing more than their cost, the employer gets to keep that surplus. It's an imbalance.

Asymmetrical info on salaries produces this situation. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but it is imbalanced.
Robert Scoble: I didn’t sexually harass women as I lacked power over them
I've lived in Livingston for nearly 20 years and I know Alex, and his kids are classmates of mine. This has been big news locally for a while but interesting to see it hit the national wires.

However, I grew up in Scotland where we have a somewhat longer history of dealing with access to land and rich people ;) The solution there is that there is a legal right to access wild land. Note this doesn't just apply to "public land" but all land public or private.

http://www.snh.org.uk/pdfs/publications/access/full%20code.p...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam

One of the rights lost when folks moved to "the land of the free", it seems.
> I'd much rather have a well rounded individual who isn't moonlighting on other things but rather can bring his clear focused mind to the office.

I don't think it's wrong to work on side project. Some people like or want to. Who am I to judge what they do on their free time? It might happen to overlap with their job, or it might not.

But I agree, I don't require my surgeon to do surgery in his spare time. I've worked with plenty of great engineers who wanted to leave work at work, and after 40 hours of engineering, enough was enough and spent their free time doing something that wasn't engineering. I've also worked with people who did side projects, and were equally amazing.
The law isn’t even involved in this case. It’s a contract dispute. It’s a civil case
Elsewhere in these comments are people saying that landowners will remove (public) signage(!), which might impact what the parks people can do?

Maybe a well-publicised term for a private easement that people recognise is treated in a particular way? I like that in the States, National Park means something, BLM means something, etc. Our designations in Australia don't seem as clear. We have Crown land, but I have no idea where to find out about it.

Private easement guides would be: You are a guest here on private land. Don't stray from the road, leave gates as you found them, livestock has right of way, no camping, etc.

Surely there's a balance in making reasonable land access available to people.
>You realize that github dates can easily be falsified, right ?

Yea, but why would someone bother in this case?

>Besides, you are only using this as a negative ? So you'll actually hire people who don't put in extra effort over people who put slightly substandard free time code online ? That seems like a losing strategy.

That's not what I said at all. It's potentially a positive or a negative, just like anything else on a resume. I've seen plenty of Github profiles that have files with 2000 lines of spaghetti code and no structure or testability. Just like I've seen profiles with neat projects and excellent code.

>I've always found that willingness to put in effort vastly outperforms ability. Not to an infinite extent, but quite a bit.

I agree with this in general too.
> The US is now <15ppm sulfur for all Diesel uses except ships. It took 25 years to get there. The EPA is (was?) trying to get ships down to 1000ppm within 200 miles of shore.

Already done (knowledge only due to personal interest), but it only applies within 200 miles of shore. It's also the IMO (International Maritime Organization, a UN agency) rather than the EPA. Currently the limit on open waters is at 35,000 ppm (3.5%), which will tighten to 5000 ppm in January of 2020.

Sulfur aerosols are just as bad as NOx and create just as much smog. They also turn into acid rain. They have a noted anti-geenhouse effect, but again... acid rain.

It should also be noted that there is basically zero technical or economic justification for sulfur pollution. It requires no significant inputs: a catalytic step that results in hydrogen sulfide, then a regenerating amine reaction (effectively solvent distillation), and finally the hydrogen sulfide is burnt (as in energy-producing) to produce elemental sulfur, which is sold. This is how the majority of sulfur is made.
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EVscope – 100 times more powerful than a classical telescope
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They fight to preserve and add to the existing lands.
She can cover the notch with her thumb.
They're not being ignored as much as being fueled. Just for starters, how many weapons used in Africa by dictators and terrorists are not made in Africa?
The future facebook alternative will probably be FOSS, considering it is harder to buy up software that is owned by everyone.
Have a +1 for being a good parent and letting her play however she wanted. Gotta love kids
It needs a browser (~50 MB, not 500) to do authentication once, then it works without it.

I'm not happy about it, but there's no other way.

It's still a native app, you don't have to always have a web browser running any more.
I know it was just the specific example a commonly-wrapped program that the author happened to use but it does bear noting that gdb actually ships with a perfectly usable raw mode interface built in. It even supports split panes.
It sincerely looks like a nonanswer to me. If you would care to explain how it is not, I am sincerely interested. But it seems to have no real bearing here, as far as I can tell.
Well our current facility takes up ca 2000 square feet and has sufficient capacity for our new consumer product launch, it really depends on what you want to do with the peroxide. If you want to compete on price against the current process though, it still has to be a lot bigger than our pilot facility.
I'm not understanding why it matters what the software is. Modern games are already being used as a glorified way of getting more money out of their users (micro-transactions, "loot boxes", endless DLCs, multiple tiers, etc). It's not as though they'll stop making money (with "gambling simulators" and micro-transactions alone you can make hundreds of dollars out of any given user).

Taxing proprietary software distribution is a form of regulation. The ideas you propose are too piece-meal and won't actually solve the underlying problems -- namely that proprietary software is used as a tool to abuse its users. This is something that is inherent to the power dynamic between a developer and the users of proprietary software, regulation won't help.
I have worked for a company with full pay transparency and for several with full opacity. I prefer opacity.

At the transparent company, I was hired in as one of the highest paid employees at a time that the company was struggling. Everyone ranked higher than me had taken a voluntary pay cut, to the point that some of them were paid less than me.

I felt guilty for taking more money than them, but conflicted as the problems were not of my making. I felt some resentment at pay peers that were underperforming. I was able to observe the performance of other employees and knew which ones were being treated fairly and not.

It was information that did nothing to benefit me, my peers or those below us in the organization. It led to more bad feelings than good and I am grateful that I do not have that information at my current employer.

I prefer sites like Glassdoor where you can get a general idea of what your coworkers might make, without the fine resolution of a name to dollar amount mapping.
No, but you can probably build YouTube in two years. (Yes, including their global CDN.)

Also, “exact replacement for killed product” is a realy good advertising pitch to differentiate from those thousand other versions. It worked for The Old Reader, and later Feedly, when Google Reader was killed.
I agree. I also think Twitter's in a rough place for one reason: 140 characters doesn't make sense anymore. But dropping it would be even scarier for them, as that's been their defining thing for so long.

When did 140 chars make sense? In the beginning of the social internet 10 years ago. For people new to sharing, it relieved pressure around saying something. For psychological reasons the false restriction made sharing on the internet frictionless. When the expectation is intentionally low, you don't have to worry if you're sharing enough or too little. And perhaps more subconsciously, such a low limit just kind of speaks to you, saying: "just say anything, and spit out."

But now, people are very accustomed to sharing. They don't need these training wheels.

It seems to me, regular people don't use twitter. Only various professional niches. That's just a problem, and will result in Twitter leaking users from their staple niches gradually over time, and probably has been going on for a long time now.

So in short, Jack's job and the decision he has to make is a very hard one. They've been too scared to make the hardest of decisions, and very naturally as a result have only rolled out these minor attempts. It seems like a very logical sequence of events to me.

They gotta do something bold, or die.

I'm not saying removing the limit is the answer on its own. I think it's more of a symbol of a willingness and capability to get back in the game. Do that along with something totally fresh front-and-center within the feed, and they would have a good recipe for success. Make a big moment out of dropping the restriction, and see what happens. Hell, try it for 30 days, and see what happens as a grand experiment.
I've definitely had my blog mentioned in interviews. My github is rather sparse. I'd rather do a coding interview in person, or better yet find a job through a referral.