skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a new record. I can kinda understand incompetence "ok we hired too many people, some were not very good and we haven't fired them yet"... annoying but it makes sense.

But this is outright fraud. This is the literal definition of negative value. Paying someone money to test, then those testers failing "random tests" wasting actual developer time on non-bugs.

(With that said, this is very weird an offshore team would own the unit tests for a project.. the developers should own it)
Misestimating travel times may stop people from walking or biking to work
Don't navigation systems 'snap' to the most probable lane you are driving in based on general direction instead of your exact GPS coordinates?

A good example of this I think is when driving in tunnels, there is no GPS info there, but the navigation shows you following the (curved) road.
Not my ass on the line and not a major burn, but still: I got an email many years ago from a guy who said essentially 'I got your email address from <guy we both know>, are you interested in picking up some side work and if so, can we meet'. I say okay and when we meet, he explains that they had this SaaS idea (an industry-specific collaboration/data sharing tool essentially; this company did other work in this industry, they weren't a software shop but saw an opportunity and wanted to branch out) and they contracted it out to a largish 'web agency' as that was called back then in the area. They had delivered a mostly working product, developed using their own 'framework' (as everybody and their dog has).

But now of course it needed maintenance as well as some additional features (software of course is never done). That web agency had said though 'well these small contracts aren't really worth our time - we delivered what you asked, if you want small work on top of it, we have to charge you ridiculous rates'. So now this guy was looking for someone who could do some occasional work on it every few weeks, for a (for that time) complex web application, written in an undocumented proprietary framework. Yeah good luck with that, I politely declined, after explaining the situation - from the look on the guy's face, he only then and there fully realized the position this 'web agency' had put him in.

Heard from the guy we both knew months later that they were still looking, and after a year or two the product disappeared from their website. Not sure if it was the tech that took it under, but I never quite understand how companies think they can completely outsource the whole workings of a product they intend to offer, without even having someone on their own team who understands that product.
So it would be pretty silly for Russia to ban similar cameras for fear of state secrets being uncovered, right?
Perhaps it excludes Vitamin D on purpose because it isn’t being criticized. Though it actually does mention it near the end, in the context of a soon to be released study.
Did you? I always just scrolled past the fold.
That's an interesting viewpoint and maybe explains some of the weirdness around this whole affair.

Even so, it is hard for me to imagine what DoD, NSA or CIA might have in terms of reasons why low resolution video transmission from space would be problematic, especially since for other launches the 'from orbit' videos are not deemed a problem and from where I'm sitting they are functionally identical and potentially more problematic (because they are government launches).
Do you think doing the thee associate exams with 1 1/2 months fulltime learning is possible?
Tesla Model 3 instrumentation (MIT-AVT study) [video]
مشاهدة مباراة الاتحاد والاتفاق بث مباشر اليوم 6/4/2018 يوتيوب لايف: NewsA
On #3 and #4 I had what I believed to be some reasonable conceptions to formulate parameters for a discussion, here: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/71522

Basically I suggest dividing the questions into categories of:

1. Timeless: Questions with a timeless best answer, which is unlikely to be improved or updated in the future;

2. Revolving: Questions with a "best answer" today but in the future there will be a "better answer"; and

3. Wiki: Questions that are constantly being improved and updated.

Among a few other notions.

Insofar as it was a problem of interest when I wrote it in 2010, it's only become a more prominent issue since.
I've done work for organizations where the practices ranged from extremely strict processes, to no process at all (from requirements gathering to devops.) I feel my best experiences were always in places that had some process that was developed over time, that had management in place that was willing to experiment with changes to said processes. But the way Agile is bought into at most big companies these days...it feels like management just wants to be lazy: "follow the process because hey that's what these smart guys say worked over in org X" even if it's a waste of time/resources/etc.
There’s a theory which accounts for that called MACHO, for MAssive Compact Halo Object. While it’s possible, over many years of observation it’s very unlikely. You can’t see a black hole directly, unless it’s “eating” of course, but you can see gravitational effects like lensing. If black holes and neutron stars made up most dark matter, we’d expect to see evidence of it, and we don’t. It is still possible, although Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are more likely, along with Axions and Sterile Neutrinos.
Opinionated Styleguide for the Go language
> discussing

SO is not for discussion!
NixOS 18.03 Released
A high carb diet does not mean a high sugar diet.

Besides, obesity means basically too many calories no matter the source.

The worst case: fat + sugar.
The largest-dose individual, non-prescription vitamin D supplement pill I have ever seen is 5000 IU, so you'd have to take 10 of those every day, for months, to develop a toxicity symptom. At that point, the per-pill cost of the supplement and the sheer number of pills combine to discourage overdose.

If you have a confirmed deficiency, a doctor can prescribe a limited course of higher-dose pills to get your serum levels back up quickly.

I take cholecalciferol (D3) and menatetrenone (K2-MK4) daily, along with a multivitamin that was essentially a gratis 2.7-year supply, thanks to a fortuitous coupon + sale price interaction, so it isn't actually just making my pee more expensive. I'd feel wasteful throwing it away after someone paid me to take it home, and it'd be great if it activated a placebo effect.

Also, I can't bring myself to like natto.
Sure. It's reasonable to desire a pony, too.

But given an already-complex language, you're not going to get a not-very-complex language that is backward compatible, no matter how reasonable it is to want one. It's simply not possible.

What people really want is a simpler language that doesn't change the parts they use. But there's nothing hindering them from continuing to do so. Just use the parts you need, and the complexity of the rest doesn't affect you much.
I agree it's terrible, people should really look out for these multi-billion dollar companies more.
Yes, they do that, and they rarely get that wrong.

Also, the better ones have inertial backup & flux gate for when GPS is unavailable. Inertial backup could also help to detect the signatures of lane changes and turns.
What else would people be using it for? It's a "drive my car for me while I send this text" mode that allows you to take your attention off the road every few seconds. Otherwise, the system makes no sense at all.
> how does it re-sync the current, up-to-date state to the new node

it is a core feature of the protocol.

> how does it make sure that when one of the nodes fails - that all of the clients do not overwhelm the rest of the system.

for write access (proposals), in a typical implementation (defined below [1]), one failed nodes actually slightly speed up the system with the cost of reduced reliability. Consider a typical setup with 3 nodes, the leader normally replicate state to 2 followers, the replication cost get cut in half once your cluster loses one member.

given that you can implement linearizable read by going through the write procedure, one can argue the above "speed up" can obviously be achieved on reads as well.

[1] independent replication to followers, for N followers, the same entry will be serialised and sent N times by the leader.

again - just talking about typical implementation and the described "speed up" comes with degraded reliability.
The scariest bit for me; in the comment's it's claimed that it has only done this for the last two software updates. Currently the worst I have to worry about when getting an OTA update is that it may make my phone less stable. Apparently in the future it may also influence precisely how my car tries to kill me.
Symantec May Violate Linux GPL in Norton Core Router
This is the thing. The vast majority of (sane) users likely get on just fine without complaint. It's usually a noisy minority of folks who vocalise their grievances, especially when the rules of the site won't fit their world view of how they think the site should work.

I've been a user on the site (and once upon a time a diamond mod) since the closed beta (userid < 500). Sure I've had my ups and downs and haven't always agreed with the way some things work. But at the end of the day I still think SO and the SE network is hugely useful for getting answers to questions on stuff I'm pottering about with.
But you are done - with the goals of that sprint. You complete the work, reflect, and reset for the next sprint's goals.

Think Pomodoro technique rather than belaboring the marathon/sprint metaphor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
I use lanekeeping on the freeway, usually with adaptive cruise control as well (subaru). I focus more on the Big Picture of all the cars around me, can see further and have a better sense of who is doing what. That's anecdotal, of course, and could well be placebo effect, but I still pay a lot of attention to the road.

Plus, lanekeeping can be really annoying if you rely on it all the time. The car sometimes tends to drift back and forth in a lane a little between corrections, instead of just going straight. So: you're still steering. It's just that you're steering less and have a defense in depth against loss of focus, and can drive without exhausting yourself.
> By that metric, psychics saying they can talk to your loved ones can be morally justifiable.

A truly altruistic lie, while less moral to tell than the truth, can in many cases be more compassionate and do less harm over the long run.

Issue is, there are very few truly altruistic lies (most of them are told in obituaries, goes the pithy one-liner). Most seemingly-non-damaging lies are told for dual benefit if the liar and the recipient. In your example, the psychic is out to make a buck. This is personal and debatable, but I consider such "it makes you feel good but I'm only telling you 'cause it enriches me" statements to be less moral than truly altruistic lies (which are less moral than the truth), but more moral than malicious/victimizing lies (e.g. "no, Charlie Brown, I won't move the football this time").
Experience: I was shot five times
I vote for English as a global standard everywhere and also ASCII only. We never really needed more, bye bye umlauts, dreierle-S, emojis and all that.
I took the classes even though I don't see a need to get the cert for my specific situation. The A Cloud Guru was indeed good.

I did watch them at 2x, though, and I skipped a couple of things... the specifics about how he setup WordPress hosting during my course was not how I'd handle it so I didn't bother with that part of it. I feel a lot better about my handle on AWS though.
I don't have tinnitus but I do know that not getting enough sleep can make you feel emotionally distraught and incredibly negative about everything.

So I'd say focus on getting a good sleep before anything else.
Nothing a few diacritical marks couldn't fix. Tried, tested, failed. (Benjamin Franklin tried to get Americans to adopt a writing system with diacritics. It didn't take.)

Just Spanish-style accent marks for some of the polysyllabic words would be a win, but it doesn't really matter. No matter where you put the stress on, say, "authoritative", people will understand which word you meant. If we did adopt stress diacritics we'd end up with more homophones that differ only in stress, which would complicate an already complex language unnecessarily.

I like English as it is.
There was some discussion here about the effort it took to emulate a lot of the bugs in order to keep the game the same.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16305769
> We were talking about how disclosing salary and compensation information for everyone would help everyone in the long run and some people objected saying they want privacy.

> For example, your employer knows how much they pay you. I say it isn't private.

It's also likely that your employer has shared your salary with other employers, so when you interview for a new job they know how much you're currently making without having to ask. For an example, see:

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

http://acceptance.theworknumber.com/Employees/DataReport/

I requested my report recently, and it had the last 5 years of my salary history, updated monthly.

Salary data isn't private, because everyone who can use it against you already has access.
Well done.

I think LibreOffice offers a python/javascript scripts/plugins? Anyone want to get an ultimatum from their girlfriend and build one for Linux?
Is that why everyone in China is fat?
The comic the CIA kept classified for over 50 years
FB people, if this isn't your canary, than what is?
> It's not possible to engineer an autonomous system that never fails, but it is possible to engineer one in such a way that it never fails to detect that it has failed.

This is a very good point: just like a human driver should slow down if they can't observe the road ahead well enough, an AI should slow down when it's not confident enough of its surroundings. This is probably very difficult to do, and I'm skeptical about your claim that an AI can be engineered to always detect its own failures. Further, I naively believe that Tesla is already doing a lot to detect conflicting inputs and other kinds of failures. Maybe being careful enough would prevent autopilot from working at all, so compromises have been made?

I probably don't understand AIs well enough to understand how they can be engineered to (almost) always recognize their own failures. But if a simple explanation exists, I'd love to hear it.
Sorry, but it's not like Facebook in Myanmar should share the same free speech and user privacy ideals as if they were operating in a typical Western democracy.

Facebook wants to compromise those principles in some Third World shithole as a means of short-circuiting government-sponsored genocide? Great, please do.
I cannot help but read "beginners" in a derogatory tone. Or at the very least a way to hand-wave away the unhealthy atmosphere that has formed at SO.

It is definitely a problem for people with low SO Reputation since others can come along and edit their posts completely changing the context and meaning, and seem more brave to bully low rep users (e.g. delete/dup their posts).

I have fairly high SO Rep from way-back-when, and all I seem to use that for is undoing others abusive mod actions (like de-dupping something that points to a completely different programming language or framework). But it isn't a community I care to take part in much these days, too toxic.

Back in my day SO existed exactly to help beginners. Now they want to be "the Wikipedia of programming questions." So be it, but none of us have to stick around to help form their little out of date empire of desert.
I think it's reasonable to assume though that this universe of things which are possible to invent is finite. Certainly we see that in some places. For example, cutlery. We hit the bounding box on inventing new useful cutlery a long time ago. Forks, knives, spoons, chopsticks. Then there wasn't much more to invent once we did all that. Or things like Moore's law slowing down.

For most areas of innovation, we don't seem to be near the limits. Certainly it is a sphere where today we are seeing more opportunities than completed explorations, but that may cease to be true in 50 or 150 or 1500 years.
How the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica Saga Unfolded
That was the predecessor not the multiplane aspect of it with moving layers, definitely inspired it. Lotte mostly just used it to swap out colored backgrounds on her silhouette cel style to adjust placement and color.

A predecessor to the multiplane camera was used by Lotte Reiniger for her animated feature The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926). Berthold Bartosch, who worked with Reiniger, used a similar setup in his film L'Idee (1932).

Ub Iwerks invented the multiplane camera with movable layers to create parallax and zooming [1] which created immersive depth. It also saved on budgets, tedious background animation and allowed animators to focus more on the character cels, the star of the show.

The first multiplane camera, using movable layers of flat artwork before a horizontal camera, was invented by former Walt Disney Studios animator/director Ub Iwerks in 1933, using parts from an old Chevrolet automobile. His multiplane camera was used in a number of the Iwerks Studio's Willie Whopper and Comicolor cartoons of the mid-1930s.

Fleischer Studios (Popeye/Betty Boop) also made one or copied in 1934 [1]

The technicians at Fleischer Studios created a distantly related device, called the Stereoptical Camera or Setback, in 1934. Their apparatus used three-dimensional miniature sets built to the scale of the animation artwork. The animation cels were placed within the setup so that various objects could pass in front of and behind them, and the entire scene was shot using a horizontal camera. The Tabletop process was used to create distinctive results in Fleischer's Betty Boop, Popeye the Sailor, and Color Classics cartoons.

William Garrity took Ub Iwerks invention further and that iteration was used in many large successful movies they made [1]

The most famous multiplane camera was invented by William Garity for the Walt Disney Studios to be used in the production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The camera was completed in early 1937 and tested in a Silly Symphony called The Old Mill, which won the 1937 Academy Award for Animated Short Film. Disney's multiplane camera, which used up to seven layers of artwork (painted in oils on glass) shot under a vertical and moveable camera, allowed for more sophisticated uses than the Iwerks or Fleischer versions, and was used prominently in Disney films such as Pinocchio, Fantasia, Bambi, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty and The Jungle Book

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplane_camera
Startup Lets Neighbors Pool Their Money to Invest in Their Communities
Launch growing pains, trying to figure out a way to weed out the content marketers as they have been flocking since we launched early access. I've been tweaking with the trending score along with considering adding invite-only at some point. For now I'm just testing but I wanted to know how I would dash out social media.
Worked for a large government agency that outsourced their IT department. I was on a team that was asked to look at the RFP before it was put out. We flagged things like incentivizing the contractor for resolving issues.

Predictably, the contractor that got the work created as many tickets as possible for resolving any given thing.

Years later, the agency now has no IT competency and they pay a lot more for much less service than before. They also have a lot less flexibility in what they do. They almost have no choice but to keep rewarding the contractor for poor quality service.

It's been interesting watching a situation where things keep getting worse and worse because the agency is basically too big to fail and will probably never run out of money.
You're good with the name. Don't overthink it now - it sounds business-y alright. If parent's logic were to prevail, no company name would end in 'soft' (since Microsoft) either. Doesn't hold.
http://flarerpg.org/
I think they changed it once SO started becoming popular (I may be misremembering the timeline, but I definitely remember being very frustrated about not being able to view the answers at one point)
That really is some great insight into entrepreneurship. I have that same problem of wanting everything to be perfect before showing it to anyone.
> it often works very well

Well, yeah, it's not like autopilot is driving cars into barriers every day. But I don't think "often works very well" (and then it kills you) is good enough for most people. It's certainly not good enough for me.
https://falltergeist.org/
FTA: 1.0.0.1 in addition to 1.1.1.1

Try that as an alternative.
I disagree. I got the opportunity to hear a talk from Jez Humble, and one of his examples was HP and printer drivers. So this is likely in your last scenario there. They still reaped a lot of benefits from fixing their development processes and advancing continuous integration and automated testing. It looks like it might be mentioned in this podcast, though I haven't listened yet:

http://www.se-radio.net/2015/02/episode-221-jez-humble-on-co...

EDIT: HP is covered roughly minutes 8-10.

Also found this, though I'm having trouble getting the video to load to vet it:

https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/continuous-de...
CSIndex: Exploring Brazilian Scientific Production in Computer Science
English is way too hard to learn and they have an irrational fondness for their spelling system.
I've worked at Google for almost ten years, and the posts in the toilet have been mostly "Testing on the Toilet", not "Don't sprinkle when you tinkle".
I know next-to-nothing about Chinese, but it seems to me that if a language can be spoken, it can be represented with a phonetic alphabet. There might be sentences in written Chinese that wouldn't make sense in spoken Chinese, and these wouldn't make sense in the phonetic alphabet either, but if we can agree that spoken Chinese is useful, then the phonetically written Chinese would also be useful.

However, if I were Chinese, I might worry that due to simplicity, the phonetically-written Chinese would eclipse the traditionally-written Chinese quickly. Those sentences which only make sense in traditionally-written, not spoken or phonetically-written Chinese, would obviously be a huge cultural loss. Not everything is about making business more efficient.
Perhaps we should invent some kind of a term for Agile, as it was meant originally...

"Agile? I'm not doing Agile. I'm doing Post-agile."
I really want to love Nix and have installed it multiple times. It's non-standard file layout gets me every time though. Something as simple as `#!/bin/bash` not working is problematic for me. I also find that trying to install anything not included in the Nix package manager is pretty much impossible (building from source...).

Please correct me if I'm Nix-ing wrong.
> Most coders these days say they use git while in reality the have no clue how it works and how to use it

Come on, seriously? Where do you work?
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Can someone explain what is NixOS designed for? (ELI5 please)
A Virtual Machine
Should I feel nervous that the data world is changing quickly&I can’t keep up?
I'm not a sci-fi or fantasy reader but had heard so much about "Left hand of darkness" that I gave it a try. It was just okay for me, sort of underdelivered on a great premise.

If I read one more LeGuin, which one should I take on?