skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every country spies on every other country. But not every country steals foreign technology for its companies.
SAFe both directly incorporated process evaluation and improvement and recognizes that the process starting point appropriate to different orgs in different tasks is different, and even in its framework doesn't dictate low-level team process though it describes what process combinations are common, so it seems to, as much as a canned starting-point process can be, be a fairly robust concrete implementation of Agile Manifesto values (it's arguably, though, more Lean than Agile, though I'd argue Lean’s focus on well-defined processes with continuous, team-involved evaluation and improvement is the best operationalization of the Agile Manifesto’s “individual and interactions over processes and tools” (remembering that the Manifesto’s “over” statements are explicitly about priority, not one thing instead of the other.)
I agree, but in the beginning, I've found that knowing the basics goes a long way.

I learned to program to build a product, and learning the basics of online marketing follows the same vein.
Unbelievable. When signing up for 2FA, FB never said what else it would be used for. From a legal standpoint, aren’t companies are supposed to say what the phone number will be used for when asking for phone number?

Somebody from FB - please tell us this is a bug.
These Confucius Institutes should register as an agent of a foreign government.
Maybe it's tinfoil hat time; the more the government says to not use Huawei, offering no proof at all, the more I think they are unable to track and log information like they can on US(ish) phones.

All US phones have components manufactured in China as well as all over the world. It is not a stretch to think the foreign governments couldn't get in the middle and create vulnerabilities or straight up drop attacks on different components they have access to. How is Huawei any different?

Are we supposed to take their complaints seriously when Snowden leaks revealed the NSA hacked Huawei servers to find vulnerabilities they themselves could use to spy on people around the world. /shrug operations Shotgiant doesn't matter? If the NSA hack revealed that Huawei was injecting spyware it's time to release the details of how they found out.
It's been interesting observing that sentiment myself of Chinese friends that immigrate and integrate into the tech sectors of the US. Very much makes me think about the training data culled up to create the rogue chatbots that made the news last year: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/08/03/rogue-chatb...

Guess its a form of voting with your feet.
What no-name state school cost $100k/yr for international students?

It is absurdly more expensive for int'l students but not $100k/yr.

For example UC Berkeley costs $45k/year for international students [1].

[1] https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/students/current/ex...
The whole point of hyperinflation is to devalue sovereign debt. The ONLY entity that benefits from hyperinflation is the government.
Event-driven and serverless are related, but distinct ideas. Event-driven architectures can be built in a datacenter, on virts, in containers, or on serverless. On the other hand, serverless architectures don't necessarily need to be event driven. These patterns do have natural affinity, so they are often referred to together.

Serverless is a set of financial, scaling and operational properties of an architecture. One of those common properties is phrased as "scaled per request", which is particularly interesting in event-driven architectures.
databaseless serverless productless architecture
It has started with the tabs, you are right.

I don't think introducing ads into the feed is as ludicrous as you say from a business standpoint. If done properly, I could see Google avoiding a mass exodus while simultaneously opening up more inventory for them. In some ways, I see Inbox as a test towards this vision.

My broader concern is a fundamental shift in the ownership of a customer/user relationship and the cost of reaching them. In today's world, you pay a fixed price for your ESP, and then some CPM rate for volume typically. Your costs are known, often negligible, and entirely under your control. Likewise, as long as you follow best email practices and nurture healthy relationships with those on your email lists, you have an expectation that your email will land in their inbox if they want to receive it.

That is similar to what FB had back in the day when someone Liked your brand page. If you posted, they would see it assuming they scrolled through their feed enough.

My fear is that Google will change that dynamic such that you cannot be guarantee to reach your audience (even if you have great deliverability) without entering into an auction and paying a constantly changing price that presumably will always increase as they maintain control as the new gatekeeper of that customer communication.
At first I was like "a word of caution" because Germany is inbetween governments (even though they will be the same) but seeing that ministers from all three parties involved support it, there might be something in it. On the other hand, the EU as well as the German Bundesverwaltungsgericht are playing hard regarding air quality in cities.

The source I've read (http://taz.de/Regierung-erwaegt-kostenlosen-OePNV/!5481464/ ) mentions seven more ideas in the letter to the EU, only the free public transport standing out as radical. Traffic restrictions, incentives for e-mobility and upgrading pollution vehicles are others. I bet that's what is to be expected sooner or later and someone just slipped the radical idea about free public transport in to see the fallout.
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We could call it DB sports.

On second thought that might be a bad name
Relevant quote: "Moving forward, developers will seek to protect the network’s ASIC resistance by slightly modifying its PoW algorithm at every scheduled hard fork, which generally occurs twice annually. These changes will not be noticeable to ordinary XMR users, but they will alter the network’s hashing algorithm enough that Cryptonight ASIC miners would become obsolete following every fork."

We'll see how this works out. Hard to tell without any technical details about what these changes to the algorithn will be. I'm not quite sure though about amateurs mucking with the details of hash functions, it smells like going against the rule of "don't roll your own crypto".

Also, and in the full understanding that this ship has sailed, it's stupid to call a planned update everyone goes along with a "hard fork".
Getting into a rapid growth area definitely gets you a leg up.

I'm in such area (ketogenic diet). However, that's not a magic bullet.

There's competition still for eyeballs. How to get some of those eyeballs on your product consistently is the question.
You're right, that's a separate moral issue.

But as far as expenditures on NATO and the 800 bases around the world with all their stores that's what contributes a lot to the deficit.
Code is generally considered a mass noun among software engineers, but "codes" is pretty commonly used by academics, especially in other disciplines. In particular, physicists and mathematicians seem to use it pretty frequently, so that might explain why some in the HPC community use it as well.

I've also noticed that it seems more common among Europeans, but that might be just personal experience.
Thanks for the kind words :D
A certain frsction of Hacker News commenters have declared Bootstrap useless and advocated just writing your own custom CSS from scratch since before Grid, and before Flexbox and before supporting IE 7 could safely be ignored so bear that in mind when evaluating the answers you receive.
Deep Learning in Neuroradiology
OK, so now if Bitmain develops an ASIC they just won't tell anyone about it. Apart from the increase in difficulty (which is increasing all the time anyway), how would you know?

The ASIC companies are already de-facto mining operations. Bitmain premines on the customer's hardware and only ship once they've taken their profit and spiked the difficulty up. BFL did the same thing back in the day.
Duh. Ask Chinese grad student about it. They know who the active communist party members are and who they don't speak their mind in front of about affairs back home.
You have confused root and origin. The root of graphics is graph.

The comment I replied to said GPUs are more useful in cryptocoin mining and AI rather than graphics. Cryptocoin mining and AI are graph workloads. This is why GPUs are well suited to these tasks.
I'm sure our Samanthas would still want us to be happy. Maybe they could provide us with a world of eternal bliss. We could call it something like... 'The Matrix' :)
Monero has schedule hard-forks for software upgrade
What data?
How?

Lemon Laws require a persistent unreasonable issue to invoke.
Knowing canned answers vs being able to come up with it yourself.
Deep Learning with Data Dependent Implicit Activation Function
Are ICOs illegal in the USA?
Which is an absolutely massive advantage for them from an auction pricing standpoint (knowing more of what people are willing to pay), and competitive standpoint against the likes of Adobe and others.
But wouldn't you expect it to work the other way around? Say, if I search for "Detroit, MI" it would expand the search query to the surrounding area. But this takes "Dearborn, MI" expands the search query and gives preference to places that are outside of the city.

I'm not saying that's not the root cause, just that it seems like a backwards implementation if so.
Govt salaries aren’t that low.
The Ripple Effects of Ryan Murphy’s $300M Deal with Netflix
There is a long tradition, specially by the CIA, of creating their next enemy while fighting the current one.

I'm thinking, for instance, in the freedom fighters against the Russian invasion in Afghanistan, Noriega, weaponization of Iraq against Iran... we could keep going.
Personally I think some Mandarin should become compulsory in the US because I think basic lack of communication is the greatest security risk. The biggest problem to me is the Chinese suppression of dissent and overcentralization. And since there are so many Chinese people it seems almost inevitable that these tendencies will encroach upon or at least rub off on the US.

I assume at this point most universities realize any work they feel should be closed is not so if they have Chinese students involved.

I wonder if it might be possible to start requiring study of decentralization and free speech topics as general requirements for graduation.
Once upon a time, Austin, TX, made its Capitol Metro busses free. Ridership went way up, although there were a couple of complaints. The first was that really sketchy people starting riding the busses a lot[1]---possibly because they were heated/air conditioned---and the second was from UT Austin students, who were still paying for bus service as part of their student fees.

I never heard why they stopped, though.

[1] At one point, I was waiting at a bus stop and a man who was either on serious drugs or schizophrenic came up and started talking to me. When the bus arrived, he followed me on but didn't sit next to me while I started reading a book. A few minutes later, he started behaving even more oddly and pulled out a crack pipe. Sheriff's deputies eventually removed him because he was getting threatening.
Wow. I just used your SDR (totally cool). What I am hearing right now is simply horrific (LSB brings it in loud and clear). If these guys have tickets, the FCC needs to pull them.
This is a scenario where the headline sounds outrageous, but then you read the details in the actual article and it actually makes sense.
Made a library of generic intrusive data structures in ANSI C
> Then, given a framework, they have a lot more freedom than in the us...

You're dealing with two (probably incompatible) types of freedom.

The freedom you're talking about is the freedom a parent has to leave their kids in a room with a turntable because their children know not to play with things that aren't designed to be toys because they may be delicate and could break.

The freedom you're comparing it to is the freedom a child has to put their hands on a turntable and scratch from an infinite number of rhythmic possibilities to create a new, dynamic form of music where there was previously a single, static form before.

And while you could amend the framework and make a bunch of edge cases for historical shifts in thinking, you cannot make a framework that leaves room for the future shifts because we don't know what those are yet.
AI Risk Mitigation Through Democratic Governance [pdf]
Tensor Comprehensions are not a deep learning framework, but a way to write new optimized operators for deep learning. Hence, Tensor Comprehensions can be integrated with TensorFlow.
Ask HN: Does Google hash images and penalize sites for relying on stock photos?
I noticed today that only rarely do "stock" images show up as part of the featured snippet. Made me wonder if Google is hashing stock images and penalizing sites who use it?

Any thoughts on this SEO conspiracy theory?
Those Kids and Their Darn Gadgets
I'm torn.

On the one hand, I do think people should be aware of it. On the other hand, I don't see the fuss. What you describe is the norm for many groups - not just the Chinese.

>At Columbia a decade ago, the club mobilized students to protest a presentation about human rights violations in China, urging them to “resolutely defend the honor and dignity of the Motherland.”

This is normal for many groups and many issues. On my campus, any issue involving the Palestinians or Israelis would have lots of groups protesting and putting a fair amount of pressure to get the university to intercede and cancel the speaker. There was once suspicion that the Turkish government was trying to influence the views on their conflict with the Kurds. Many/most Turkish students in my time were on government scholarships, and I do know for a fact that they did ask students to spy on one another - and risk losing funding for their education if they did not get in line. For many international student organizations, it was considered normal to request for funding from their embassy to host events promoting their culture (including informational materials, videos, etc).

So yes, the Chinese are doing it, just as everyone else is. This is not even considered controversial on campuses. Religious groups do likewise. As do political groups. What's so special about the Chinese?

The article does a fairly poor job of describing of giving details/examples. What have these groups done that makes them stand out compared to the norm?
They'll just turn around, provide better service at lower prices, drive spacex out of the market, and raise them again. They have a lot more money to play with (and their infrastructure is much cheaper to maintain).
> Hardly. Things can and are made to tolerate a high radiation environment. In SpaceX's case, this is done via redundancy (and perhaps shielding, to some extent) and replacing the satellites at regular intervals.

Redundancy doesn't help you with ionizing radiation. Parts get exposure even when powered off. Running at this altitude was considered a fundamental flaw of the first generation of Globalstar:

"Rusch said the "Achilles heel" of the spacecraft is their orbit at an altitude of about 1,414 kilometers (850 miles), which puts them at risk for radiation. "It was a fundamental flaw," he said. "At this altitude the radiation belts are extremely hazardous. Globalstar orbits experience radiation in the South Atlantic Anomaly where the Van Allen Belts nearly touch the atmosphere. Very few satellites are orbited in this region because of the radiation," which can irreparably damage satellite transistors."

http://www.satellitetoday.com/telecom/2007/02/12/degradation...
Scalability in the Presence of Variability [pdf]
Judging by how the response has been to companies leaking and abusing our data, I don't know that it will make a difference if it's a bug or intentional.
I'm a little confused because in your example, grid-template-areas lists words that are the same as the class names on the elements, but I'm not (yet) sure that grid-template-areas takes a list of class names rather than them being arbitrary identifiers for the areas being laid out.
I should have heeded the warning, this thing goes places, literally!
Ask HN: Royalty or fixed price?
I am providing an software engine (library) that is used for UI rendering. https://sciter.com if that matters.

The question is about pricing schema, when does it make sense to ask for royalty payments?

I see three major cases:

1. Desktop application that uses the engine, like https://notes.sciter.com

2. Desktop application - interface to particular device. Example printer configuration and maintenance application for particular vendor/model.

3. UI of embedded device - no other UI on the device. De facto the engine plays role of GUI layer of the whole device that has nothing but frame buffer.

Is royalty, as a concept, a viable solution for software producers at all?
It seems like you've put no thought or analysis into my comment. You assumed it was pejorative, which says more about your comment than it does mine. I love Google. I love Apple. We use loads of Google services at the startup I've founded (some of which we pay for). I am perfectly happy being the product. For the most part, I am happy to have my data monetized so that I can receive free services.

Nonetheless, it changes nothing. Google needs good services so that is has products to sell (i.e. users). Apple skips a step by creating things for which their customer is the user. It's a subtle difference, but it's worth discussing.
This was really interesting. I'm thinking about moving to Kubernetes and have wondered how to gracefully deal with websocket connections.

I'm curious though, if the rollout was over a couple of hours for example, why would reconnections be that big of a problem? We host about 10,000+ websocket on a $20 VPS, and the Go server hosting it crashes from time to time. A surge of 10,000 reconnections instantly afterwards has never lasted for more than a minute or so, so why is it so bad? Moments of peak load aren't that big of a deal, or?
Things You Must Know Before Implementing an SSO Solution
Xi calls for hard work in new era
Dunno, that's just a self-limiting belief that's doing you no good. Like not approaching women because you think it broadcasts "oh look at me, thinking I'm good enough to approach you, how pretentious!" And then just stewing alone for the rest of your life because, hey, at least you avoided the thoughts you thought other people might have!
In Japanese lean manufacturing, Kanban is an object. It's interesting to see how it's been adopted in software development as a methodology.
I know we can't and shouldn't compare Tesla's production to traditional car production, but just to put the numbers into perspective:

Toyota produces that many cars every 11 days.
VW is about the same. Not electric cars of course, but I don't have numbers for these.
Graffiti typically means "illegal", so that's why the headline sounds outrageous. 5 Pointz was more of a "graffiti museum", with substantial cultural significance. It was a nice piece of news to see for a change. I was heartbroken when they whitewashed that building.
I understand your point; my issue is that "serverless" as a term is a misnomer. You cannot have a serverless architecture without some servers to support it.

The "serverless" distinction is a useful one to make, because it implies something about the architecture as you mention—my only point is that we could have done much better with the name we use to reference said architecture.
Finally, somewhere I can appropriately vent about this.

About TWO years ago I was constantly annoyed by the 'secure your account: add your phone number here' banner frequently displayed at the top of the page upon loading FB, so I input my number to make it disappear for good. (Also, they kept hiding the 'x' (close) icon in different spots, making the banner difficult to dismiss.)

A few days later I got a text message containing a Facebook notification. I was flabbergasted. What an EGREGIOUS misuse of personal information. Completely under the guise of account security... Facebook had in reality acquired another way to keep their brand under my nose.

Naturally I was livid so I spent the better portion of the day scrubbing whatever sensitive information I could. Sure enough, the banner came back a few days later. And here we are.

I realize that the proper solution is to terminate my account and never attempt to log back in.... but I've had my account since 2006 and despite the company's terrible practices, I'm really not interested in disconnecting for good at this time
iPhone, iPad or apple app data. What you listen to on itunes. What you watch. Etc. They have to in order to tailor their services better, manage their infrastructure and of course plan for their future development.

Apple uses their data to make better product to sell to you. They don't sell their data to advertisers because they don't need to.

What is going to happen if iphones, ipads, etc don't sell as well?
How about ch units? Heard someone mention it recently and am curious if people are using it. There is often a need to confine a layout to a certain amount of characters and it seems that this unit is better than rem/em for those cases. I would think there's a way to combine em, rem and ch to make some robust layouts.
>Here, they have access to learn and potentially influence our culture from within.

You say that as if it is some nefarious goal, when it is almost always the goal for all international student groups: Promoting their culture. It's not a hidden agenda - it is usually explicit.

As others have pointed out, for all the warnings, the article doesn't point out anything particularly bad that these groups on campus do.
I can't wait for the day I have a "What's wrong?" "Nothing" "Something seems wrong, what is it?" "Nothing!" fight with my phone and computer. Progress indeed.
Not always. A friend got two A3 miners and they seem rather new because they still copiously outgas formaldehyde.
All countries have some kind of educational projects like this. The German, for example, have the Goethe Institute that is active around the world. It seems now that the US now wants to criminalize this kind of diplomatic activity just because it is coming from a commercial competitor.
I'm kind of confused here, so i feel like i missing something.
The way this is written makes feel feel like you you don't think the junior devs need to become competent at those high level tasks over time?
Otherwise, how do they become senior devs if not by things like "gradually delegate higher level work, see what happens, help them learn by mentoring them based on results".
It's not like they read a book and suddenly know how to do that.

"hard enough that explaining them to juniors is not the most productive"
I strongly doubt this. Most of the differences i've seen over the years are in approach to complexity, and not level of complexity themselves.
I remember my Voodoo3 quite fondly. There was quite a performance boost in games based on the Quake engine. I also recall their being poor Linux driver support until 2005 or so.

My Voodoo3 ran right up through CS v1.6 (albeit struggling at times). A new system I built in 2005 used 2x BFG 6800s in SLI (3dfx tech nvidia inherited). While impressive I seem to recall their being some variation in nvidia's SLI spec/implementation. Perhaps 3dfx SLI performance was seemingly better because of Glide support but my memory escapes me (obviously not an apples to apples comparison).

FWIW, there was also a huge aftermarket of Voodoo cards on eBay (1999-2004) and a decent community providing 3rd party driver support.