skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right, we actually don't put much effort teaching these things, its pretty much lazy learning when it comes to devops. However, I make it a point to host and handle everything in-house so students see the whole picture of how the internet works. The alternative is to push to heroku or host code on github, which introduces black box.
That top pay grade is less than the starting compensation for PhD's at the big tech co's. Not to mention free food, potential for career growth, and an open non-militaristic culture where you can wear a hoodie instead of a tie.

I honestly don't understand why someone would work for the NSA given the choice.
Just like “peak oil” was undone by fracking this will be proven to be untrue by the wave of drug discovery startups that will decrease discovery time.

1) https://www.atomwise.com
2) https://www.recursionpharma.com
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Love seeing more tools for good old ASCII art, but it seems ANSI art has become a forgotten relic of the past...
I'm one of the knockout core developers. Just a heads up, knockout 3.5 just went into beta, and 4.0 is in alpha.

I spoke the other day with another core developer, Ryan Niemeyer, and he noted that ko is still a good fit for quick and lightweight dynamics, but with good conventions a solid foundation for really complex Web apps. It's still very solid, and the API largely unchanged since IE6 was around.

Tko, the monorepo for ko 4+, will hopefully make it easier to build frameworks out of the knockout code, so things like routers can be easier to tack on (if we don't build one in).

Incidentally I've just set up a patreon for tko/ko 4 in particular at patreon.com/brianmhunt- it'd be great to be able to have more time to hack at it.
Out of curiosity, was Robert B. Laughlins (Nobel price for Laughlin wavefunction explaining the fractional quantum Hall effect) on right track and is his work any way relevant to what is currently happening?

The Theory of Everything, R. B. Laughlin and David Pines
http://www.pnas.org/content/97/1/28.full

A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down, R. B. Laughlin
https://www.amazon.com/Different-Universe-Reinventing-Physic...

http://large.stanford.edu/publications/
You go to Denmark men are also found at the bottom and most of them are not homeless. So I don't think the homeless factor is useful even though I buy it's a matter of choice.
> Doesn't the board of directors usually set the CEO's compensation, not the CEO him/herself?

My understanding is that the board is just other executives and CxO from peer companies. Think Eric Schmidt on the Apple Board or the disgraced Citi CEO John Thank on Uber's board. Neither of them represent our desire to minimize executive pay.
No, they are perpendicular. An optimal path can be found so that both advance in the desired direction.
> 2. normal people ask 'why are we paying people so much for doing a bad job?'

The problem is that a normal tax payer doesn't interact with the R&D scientific side of the government. To them, their local BMV office (state govt) is representative of the entire (state+federal) government bureaucracy. When reports of government pay leading/lagging private industry come out, their first thought is that BMV worker, not the PhD engineer building mine sweeping robots.

The federal government doesn't make this any better by keeping NASA on GS tables. If NASA made the jump off the GS system (the Air Force and other DoD agencies have with lab-demo [1]), I think it would go a long way in separating scientist/engineer salaries from bureaucrat salaries. Once the separation is in place, you'd think it would be easier for the R&D pay tables to get higher bumps than the normal GS tables. OPM does have special pay tables for engineers at the lower end of the GS spectrum [2] so there is some precedent for giving scientists/engineers pay priority.

The talks of a federal pay freeze in 2019 have not helped morale at all for the younger S&Es I know. It's miserable to get a 1.85% COLA increase when your peers get a 7-10% raise. Patriotism only carries you so far and it seems like the NSA is figuring this out the hard way.

[1] http://www.wpafb.af.mil/Welcome/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/...

[2] https://apps.opm.gov/SpecialRates/2018/Table041401012018.asp...
Just curious - what are you doing now and what are you changing into?
From what I can tell, prior to this latest effort, around $200m dollars have already been spent looking for this plane.
Oh, plenty still do. It's like a cover letter to send the angel investor you want to back your next frivolous startup.
> Perception is everything. I say this as someone who dreamt of working at the NSA for most of my high school years, but would now never even consider it.

One of the first three technical books I read was Bruce Schneier's "Applied Cryptography". I loved crypto and wanted to work in it.

Fast forward to my 4-year degree when looked around and assessed my potential career paths. NSA salaries weren't competitive to what I could make as a generic software engineer and the NSA was starting to get a bad reputation, and that was well before Snowden.

Fast forward to today and it's hard to see myself working as an FTE for the NSA under almost any circumstances, both practical and ideological.
I have an xps13 with Debian.
I'm confused by the Old English font. It looks completely different in the reconstructed document. Compare the capital E for example.

From the paper: "Old
English, despite being supplied by Linotype for use on the 202, is actually a Monotype font, and hence was not PostScript-converted by Adobe. Nevertheless, it proved to be readily available as a PostScript font from the same
FontShop (in Cheltenham UK) that used to supply fonts
for the entire Linotron range."
I've used Pivotal Tracker and I think it's great for small teams, but I can not see a big company with 500+ users using it. JIRA is better for ticket tracking, issue linking, cloning, reporting, integration with Bitbucket/Github branches, user permissions, build system integrations, burndown charts, analytics, media services support, and not to mention the ecosystem around JIRA is just huge.

Disclosure: I'm an Atlassian employee, but I had these opinions before I started.
The State of California recently initiated a reclassification project for IT positions, which includes evaluating salaries. They last reclassified positions in 1976...back when Elvis was alive (note: salaries have risen modestly since that time, thankfully).
The most tragic aspect to the responses here is the strangely monochromatic assertion that only homeless people count as poor.

Utterly bizarre.
Sounds like session musicians, or maybe the composers of advertising jingles.
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If it's "just entertainment," then why should the government (and by extension, we the people) be engaged in propping up the profitability of their industry?

If you can't find a way to make your entertainment profitable without legal protectionism, maybe you don't deserve too.
One of my favorite "X Minus One" episodes: https://archive.org/details/OTRR_X_Minus_One_Singles/XMinusO... .
https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html

Literally the first three words.
Large teams generally use SSO solution like okta, oneLogin etc. so not really an issue
I understand what you’re saying, but I’m not a software developer so it may not hit as close to home as you hope. Having said that, I would point out that programming isn’t an art, but engineering. You’re not performing, you’re building something. Traditionally it’s been easier to earn a living by making something people want to buy than making art which may or may not be popular.

I don’t have a problem with that, and as I said, I don’t think anything other than a brief moment in the history of art does either.
> I would love to see what deductions this blogger takes and see if he complies with the "spirit" of tax law.

It's likely that he takes exactly one, the standard deduction, as most people do.
Slightly off topic, but here's my favorite conspiracy theory about MH370: It landed Kazakhstan. Interestingly enough, this conspiracy theory was informative on how satellite pings actually work (whether or not you believe the theory is a different matter)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2967157/Vladimir-Put...

It'll be interesting to see what what comes of this effort.
I find it's pretty straightforward using gradle (except that it doesn't build fat jars out of the box). Can you elaborate on what you're having trouble with?
Classic HN
It doesn't scale well. It saturates the upload bandwidth and grinds the connection to a halt. It ruins the internet for the entire family or office. Office sysadmins will block the software and start a witch hunt once they realize the problem.

Also, connecting doesn't work with NAT, carrier grade NAT and firewalls. They need a client-server model with a server that is accessible.
You say 60k deaths from guns is bad, but 4 kids not involved with guns is ok. I say the 87k uses of guns in resisting an attacker (where there is no documented outcome and it is possible that quite a few of the outcomes do add to the 60k deaths) is not a big number as compared to all crimes where a gun could have been used in defense (hence 0.9% is a low number).

I see your point about how gun experts, which could also include gun owners, should at least be included in deciding policy. As a counter example I will posit that gun owners have failed to put forth any meaningful policy changes. The second amendment still failed to created a well regulated militia, gun deaths are still rampant, mass shootings are still a mostly US problem in the developed world, and the NRA which is supported by most gun owners still is pushing for less gun control.

I think most reasonable people will agree that things like hunting can be treated separately from other uses of firearms by civilians. If there is more nuance to this, we can talk about that. But gun control debate often gets lost in nuance. Who cares about bump stocks when you can buy the AR-15 to attach it to without doing many or any background checks? Who cares about the rate of fire or magazine size when you can go to your pawn shop, buy a 22 and blow your brains out in the parking lot? Repeal the second amendment, give a 30 year cooling off period, then start with new legislation, with data from the past 30 years.
Well sure, but who owns the database? Where is it hosted and who vouches for its accuracy? What happens if it goes down or its maintainer goes out of business?

Of course, all these questions can be addressed in one way or another with conventional database tech. But blockchain has some undeniable appeal in an application like this.
Whereas most music is clearly the muses working through mortal souls, right? Come on...
That's for small scale real-time.

P2P scales great at a slightly larger scale, especially with larger chunks of data.
I have used https://www.printme1.com/
I don't understand how your comment relates to mine. Care to elucidate?
I think the lag in certification partly came from NASA's risk assessment of some of SpaceX's plans. NASA increased focus on the risk of micormeteorite damage to the Dragon capsule while it is docked to the ISS, which has required additional shielding. Also NASA wants to see multiple Dragon flights with identical booster hardware before certifying the platform, and so far SpaceX has been iterating on Falcon a lot. Falcon 9 Block 5 is supposed to be the final iteration, so Dragon V2 certification has also been blocked on that.
Except the parent comment wasn't asking about a cloud-based replacement. They specifically mentioned setting up a CI environment yourself.
All recent (< 6 years old) ones
What have you developed for jira? Plugins? What type of functionality? Do you have any advice for someone desiring to develop a plugin and sell a jira plugin?
True. The tax code is complex and absurd because many interests benefit from it being that way.
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AS/400 and descendants have a security model, but they rely at least partially on a trusted runtime code generator (and, transitively, trusted boot). The systems have HW assist to tag real pointers, but that's mainly for performance reasons. Pointer validity checks are performed in software (or they were until ten years ago), automatically inserted by the bytecode translator. If you subverted the code generator, your malicious code could get a bit further by forging pointers.
Maybe Better Reducers
I'm also curious how so.
JS is part of the web - going JS-less under the guise of security seems fruitless to me. Even if I went JS-less, it would be very difficult for me to convince anyone with access to privileges on my life to go JS-less as well. A JS exploit could affect my parents which would in turn affect me. A JS exploit could affect my doctor/lawyer/bank teller which could affect me.

I'm not sure what the advantages of this argument are anymore. JS is now so ubiquitous I can only imagine how a drive-by JS exploit can truly mess you up in obscure ways despite the fact you browse the web with IE4.
This is pretty amusing. I can't actually tell if this is satire or not. Was this a parody of startups (and shutdown notices) or a legitimate service?
I agree with a lot of that talk. What's getting us now is that corporations are getting better at maximizing shareholder value. For a long time, big companies were relatively static entities. They got into some line of business, built the necessary factories or railroad tracks or stores, and mostly stayed there. Now, some of them pivot into new businesses with agility and take over. All the "tech" businesses use roughly the same infrastructure, which you can rent from Amazon. So agility is cheap.

Another point is that companies can be bigger now. There are scaling problems with heavy industry. General Motors ran into scaling problems decades ago - they were too big to get out of their own way, and management couldn't keep track of what was happening in distant plants. Google and Apple don't seem to have that problem. Neither does Maersk, the world's largest shipping line. Or DHL or FedEx or UPS or Amazon or WalMart or McDonalds.

Industrial civilization is even younger than Stross says. Less than 200 years. A good start date is the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Railway, 1830. For the first time, anyone could buy a ticket on a scheduled train and go someplace. This is when the industrial revolution got out of beta and started to scale. There were steam engines for a century before that, but they were isolated one-offs. The Manchester and Liverpool had many engines, double track, stations, timetables, signals, and paying customers. That's when things really started to move. Quite literally.
I'm not the one who brought up homelessness. I was asked about it. I replied. Then you had additional questions, that I answered to the best of my ability.

Also: Comments on HN talking about toxic masculinity and The Patriarchy should probably just be flagged/downvoted, not engaged in discussion. Talking like men are all evil pieces of shit for being born male in an overwhelmingly male forum is something I view as trollish. So I tend to downvote and/or flag them.
Let's put it this way. If every contended mutex were a bug, why not remove the mutex and let the code run as-is? No, you wouldn't, so no, not a bug.
> For example, while Mapbox use open source (OSM) tiles, other services - e.g. their search API - aren't open, as Mapzen's is(/was).

The geocoding engine[1] powering the Mapbox Search API is open source, and has been since its inception in 2012. The same is true of the routing engine[2] powering the Mapbox Directions API (OSRM), and the engine used to create Vector Tiles[3] for the Mapbox Maps API, along with the engines powering most Mapbox APIs.

Non-open code at Mapbox is usually tightly coupled to our infrastructure or data processing pipelines, which would not be generally useful to the community at large. The useful bits of even this infrastructure code is also typically abstracted into generally useful libraries for community use, such as earcut[4], rasterio[5], tile-cover[6], and hundreds of other modules of all varieties.

- [1] https://github.com/mapbox/carmen
- [2] https://github.com/project-osrm/osrm-backend
- [3] https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik
- [4] https://github.com/mapbox/earcut
- [5] https://github.com/mapbox/rasterio
- [6] https://github.com/mapbox/tile-cover
For 18 years, I thought she was stealing my identity. Until I found her
No one is making the claim that "change isn't happening". The skeptical view point isn't even "warming isn't happening". The skeptical view is that catastrophic warming isn't an accurate prediction of future temperature trends.

I believe the primary difference between the "consensus crowd" and the "skeptic crowd" is that the consensus crowd is confident in the predictive value of models that have a net positive feedback sensitivity to temperature increase while the skeptics argue that we don't actually know what the feedback mechanisms well enough to be confident in the models and in fact basic physical principles argue for a negative net feedback to temperature increases (to avoid runaway warming).

As for possibile negative feedback loops, increased CO2 might increase clouds, which increases the earth's albedo resulting in less energy input from the sun, which reduces temperature.
No one cares about government pay scales. You don't have to work FOR the government to work for the government. Many top NSA specialists work for contractor firms and do earn tremendous compensation from their employers. Those employers contract with our government for totally uncapped contract sums. Obviously the contracts have to be reviewed for budget and capex limitations but otherwise no such thing as a salary cap would be imposed on the various "consultants" or "contractors" coming in from a vendor.
Well you don't know anyone in the advertising and incidental music space
you are the mvp of this post. thanks for keeping things rational.
Ripple cofounder is now of of the world's richest people
Full version didn't work, have to be really quick to click on text version before it disappears!

This will save you the trouble..
Text version...

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Personally, I think this is the fairly useless move by Apple. Being able to build apps easier will not change this dead ecosystem. Easier ways to market apps, get them into the hands of users, and remind ppl to use the apps they downloaded is what's needed. Facebook, Google and Apple consume all free of users.
> To replace all of that would be difficult

Not particularly. Symmetry is totally arbitrary. It's having the same amount down as before, while having more up that is the problem.

> and the large players in the existing system -will- have economic motivations for fighting any change.

That's the real problem. The solution is to give them an economic incentive to change. Average users wanting more bandwidth/symmetry is an effective way to do that.
I think the point the cma was making is that this trick doesn't involve making changes to (formal) stock-sale plans. The formal plan is to sell regularly, and that remains unchanged, you just cancel it by hand habitually, except when you don't.

I am no lawyer, so I don't know if this is really allowed. My gut instinct is (a) no, it is not allowed and (b) there will always be some more subtle version of the tactic that is allowed.
How to run it?
If you know a good one, definitely let me know. Generally the only constraints are open source with a permissive license & on-premises installs.

One benefit is it can already integrate with whatever else is out there. When we switched from GitLab to GitHub Enterprise at work, our CI environment just needed to point somewhere else.
Very cool. I finally beat the game, although I did need to look at the source code. The most confusing thing to me was that you need to find the items in order. I kept clicking on the knife wondering why it wasn't going into my inventory.

Also found a few cheats :P (#locked_room).

Seriously though this is really impressive and I love the art work... it really felt like I was in those classic red room games from a decade+ (!!!) ago
I agree with you because it is civil and good points are being made. As a general point though notice that assertions about women are met with requests for sources, but assertions about men are assumed true.
Value to who? I already laid out the value to the Subscriber was I unclear?

It is more convenient for the individual subscriber to have 1 Patreon account to support many people, than for them to have many many accounts with many individuals sites. Where they have to manage their CC info, update expiration dates, etc

Even with something like PayPal ask anyone that has ever done Reoccurring translations on PayPal and they will tell you what a nightmare it is to get people to update their CC Info

Any time you can lesson the pain it takes for someone to give you money the better
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Wow, I had no idea the Shuttle was so crazy high. Wikipedia says it ranged from $16.5k - $50k, not sure on what basis. I guess the drastic cut in launch rate must have really tanked the efficiency of the program.
What are then victim hood stats by gender? While I would agree that homeless women would more often be victims of sexual violence, but sexual violence is not the only kind of violence. Do the stats really show that homeless men are safer?

Regarding your last comment, what do you mean by "greater degree of agency" and how do you measure it?

We don't live in Saudi Arabia. Women can make all the same choices men can.

Like what is stopping other women from doing what you did and how does that also not stop men?

It sounds like victim blaming because it is. In our society we tend towards believing people are not deserving of help if they are in bad situations due to their own choices.

I don't believe because I understand how hard it can be to make the right choices, and also because as far as I have seen that's true of almost everyone in a bad spot. That doesn't mean we shouldn't help them, because we should help everyone who suffers.