skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Venture capitalists circa 2032
New Star Wars book by military generals and zombie author Max Brooks
Plastic pollution has tons of drawbacks but at least it doesn't contribute to global warming since it effectively stores carbon. Having all the plastic in the world start rotting away and releasing carbon into the atmosphere might to a lot of harm. Especially if other petrol byproducts like the bitumen of our roads are concerned.

You're right however that if these products start becoming effectively unusable (or less usable) because they now rot it would make alternative solutions a lot more attractive, but we already have so much petrol byproducts in the wild that the transition would be pretty nasty.
“Great,” I’d reply. “So as a venture capital firm, I could give you $1 million to start your sneaker company. And maybe, in 10 years, your company grows so big that Nike wants to buy you for $10 million. Once that happens, you would make $8 million for selling your company, and we would make $2 million for helping you start it. Make sense?”
Oh I would say this is a case of multiple inheritance. It evolved out of the 2-step scene primarily, but it has influences from dub, grime/hip-hop, d&b, etc.
> how is Notepad not a good editor?

- Line endings. It mauls anything not "windows line endings" format

- Crappy undo (it will occasionally eat 5 lines of text instead of one word)

- No redo

- Barfs on large files (on a modern machine) If by accident you double click on a 1GB file you better kill it.

Please note I did not mention anything which could be argued as "rather belonging in a professional editor". No syntax highlighting, brackets matching, collapsing code / paragraphs, diff'ing 2 documents, tabs, macros, etc etc.
I'm chiming in late in the game here, but what's wrong with Salesforce? (Only reason I ask is because of the piece that I just saw on 60 minutes Sunday night, so your comment piqued my interest)
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How did you go about getting a software developer job without a degree
How do i go about getting a software developer job if i do not have a degree, but have a portfolio of previous works, Do i stand a chance or should i just suck it up and go get a degree in computer science
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It's really kind of hard to harm Russia more than it manages to harm itself. Yes, Hitler did manage to kill more Russians than Stalin did, but you could also lay the blame for at least some of that at Stalin's door, through the purges in the thirties.
> truly administering a modern Windows system is a big hassle

Why?
namesilo [1] provides free whois privacy on domain name purchases. Classic interface, but very cheap. :)

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Customers are validation, not investors. It is way, way easier to dupe an investor than a customer.
Meanwhile business selling defense systems for both NATO countries and Rusia is better than ever! Sometimes it seems to me they are playing by the WWF marketing rules, lots of chest thumping around, but mostly are others who are paying the broken bones(see how the death of 200 russian contractors that attacked Kurdish-American positions and got smashed, went mostly unnoticed 2 months ago) By others I mean Syrian, Yemenis, etc..

Of course it could go south and the blows become real (like in wrestling), but by the moment is mostly an useful show for both sides. NATO keeps the archenemy and the show business running. People in Russia see Putin as Peter the Great reborn, making Russia punch way above its weight internationally, recovering the pride lost in the 90s.

Edit a couple typos.
Namesilo?
In India, cheaper tunneling technology would be a boon the impossibly chaotic cities. Acquiring private properties to build urban metro transit systems is prohibitively expensive and so is tunneling.

A cheaper tunneling technology would be very much solving plenty of transit problems in a country like India.

I hear TBMs are just crazy expensive. They used two TBMs for the Bangalore Metro. One broke down and it took them months to fix it.

As of now cheaper tunneling tech would be the greatest thing ever for may cities in non developed countries.
Previous place I have worked had a strong 'degree-holders-only' policy, but made an exception at least 3 times I can remember for exceedingly strong candidates who demonstrated high levels of skill.

If you're good enough, and you have a body of work to prove it, you don't need a degree.
I think the problem is that a lot of people think something like, "It is an algorithm not a person so it must be totally scientific and unbiased" when that isn't the case. The non-techy public needs to be aware that these things are made by humans who may be recreating their bias in the technology.
Isn't OSS grand?
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Mapping Apple’s vast universe of space gray shades
German government opts for open-source cloud solution from Nextcloud
I feel old when these kind of Wikipedia pages make it to the front page and I was assuming that it was known and obvious for everyone. </grand parent mode off>
I suspect it would be the latter, similar to other disaster planning.

This gets you into that domain where most people really don't like to go, but... you don't get the choice of 100% perfectly likely to stand up, so where do you draw the line? You don't have an alternative. A line will be drawn. If you don't draw one deliberately, you'll draw one accidentally.

But if you want to have some fun with ways the probability estimates could be badly broken, correlated failures can be the way to go. Suppose for the sake of argument that there is an earthquake in the future that if each building was subjected to it individually would cause 10% of the buildings to come down. That doesn't mean that 10% of the buildings will fall down in real life, though, because the failures could be correlated and coupled, if one building falling down makes another building falling down more likely.

If I'm running the physics and numbers in my head correctly [1], even in an extremely large earthquake the Hollywood image of buildings toppling each other like dominos is still exceedingly unlikely. They'll go down, not sideways. But the additional shocks they create in both the air and the ground in the process could tip some other buildings over the edge. We know from 9/11 that buildings going down can seriously damage other nearby buildings.

So, densely packing buildings with a 90% survival rate can result in a net survival rate less than 90%.

And of course, if it's 90% at Richter x, there's no law of the universe that says x is the limit. x+1.5 is still perfectly possible.

[1]: It's hard to google up the amplitude of an earthquake in a distance measure, rather than Richter scale or something. But it looks like "several centimeters" of transverse motion would be a very large earthquake, which isn't going to put the center of mass of a building out of the area described by its foundations. Which isn't anywhere near a complete description of what it would take to tip a building like a domino, but is enough to say it's a long way from happening.

(My guess is that it's actually impossible to tip a tall building like a domino as any possible attempt to exert the forces necessary to do so would itself be enough to destroy the building. See also "why Superman must also be telekinetic", because it doesn't matter how strong you make an 747, there is no place on that plane it can be picked up by any amount of pressure exerted by two human-sized hands without the hands tearing right through the plane, rather than nicely carrying it. (A handful of non-telekinetic Supermans could do it if the plane lowers the landing gear and Supermans support the tires with their backs instead, but that'll be tricky to "fly" in other ways. Especially since the best way to support the plane will be with the Supermans being sideways, to maximize area of contact with the tire.) Similarly, some sort of Superman-esque force that applies equally to all atoms would be required, rather than the real forces we can apply via external pressures.)
You absolutely can ruin yourself doing it. The more outside capital you have, the larger the expectations of eventual returns are. If I take $100M in risk capital, I have to surpass $250M in returns or it was a failure. Simply doubling the money, even if done in mere years, is a failure. So from that perspective, investor money is actually worse than loans. I agree that loans are good for leverage, and banks are much less likely than investors to change the terms because they are senior and covered somewhat from downside. Investor money very much can ruin a perfectly good business with outsized expectations right when it starts working.
Or, the alternative, they dress in black, infiltrate your building, and then gouge your eyes out and deliver them to their client. If you think of them that way, then yes, they can be a good ninja.
It's slow AF.
If Google will comply with an order to remove apps from the store in certain regions then they can certainly comply with orders to filter push messages destined for specific apps as well.
What if the communication structures are poorly designed and you are building a system on top of an organisation that is struggling to communicate effectively?

The project leadership might hope that building a new system will be able change the communication problem. This suggests that it will only compound the problem.
Your thought is out of the box.
Imagine how great VC would be if the numbers worked out that way.

Instead of once you've worked out most of the kinks and started hiring an awesome team we come in and give $1m, then dilute your position continually until you own about 18% so you need to create a $1B company to make the numbers work. Because unfortunately it works out only about 1 out 500 times and most of the time you end up broke.

Kid: Oh so you run a lottery.
You are spreading FUD, for some reason a person that has no tiem to read the privacy settings checkboxes you are aware of the latest FUD campaigns, the latest one is about the program that collects hardware info at installation time, this is not tracking you, it is an option to send hardware info upsteeam so developers have real information, now everyone has to quote the Steam survey and this source is gaming focused.

Also, you can use distros based on Fedora/RedHat if you are a Canonical hater.
If you actually care about security/privacy, why not just use Signal?
I'm hating it after four. Nothing quite like the realization that you can either afford a house or to retire elsewhere.
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Not entirely. He has delivered a number of “firsts”, such as rockets that land upright, and is about to deliver more: the satellite internet business will operate a constellation of satellites that is vastly larger than all satellites currently in orbit. This means they can only be automatically controlled.

Frankly, even just delivering one innovation of this magnitude is impressive, being able to do it again and again deserves respect and admiration.
I think your second point is the most valid and hard to argue counter argument. I agree, there are things that simply require more capital than people have in their bank. I disagree that diversifying is virtuous unless there is a good reason to. Make the government your customer and your work will always be legal, not so for investors (see: countries "cleaning up" their portfolios, people still use gas though).
Is there a reason a crypto messenger team wouldn't seem to publish their protocol specs using BAN notation that people can objectively reason about, and then verify the implementation of it in the code?

As in, if you can't explain it this clearly, what's the problem?

http://www.lsv.fr/Software/spore/table.html

Having worked on some crypto projects, the admonition to, "just read the code," is disingenuous, because without a formal spec, you have nothing to compare the code to or evaluate the code against.
The long term solution would be having enough energy to modify the earth enough in order to prevent earthquakes.

From http://mkaku.org/home/articles/the-physics-of-extraterrestri... :

"For example, a Type I civilization is a truly planetary one, which has mastered most forms of planetary energy. Their energy output may be on the order of thousands to millions of times our current planetary output. Mark Twain once said, ”Everyone complains about the weather, but no one does anything about it.“ This may change with a Type I civilization, which has enough energy to modify the weather. They also have enough energy to alter the course of earthquakes, volcanoes, and build cities on their oceans."
I would say they are just as likely. I'd like to take a moment and point out that I see this response type way too often around here. Someone criticizes something and is almost always asked about why they aren't criticizing this other thing too. It's intellectually lazy and logically fallacious, as if when leveling justified ire on a person or company, you must then start listing every violator of the same type.
haha I do that too. If I need to leave something as it is but I need to fix it, I just write what I should do but without a "//" so it doesn't compile next day when I press build without thinking.
I've used Hover.com (owned by Tucows) for several years. In my opinion they are the anti-Godaddy. The things that should be free are and the extras are presented as just that. No trickery or beating you over the head with up-sales.
How does factory reset help your router from being pwned again though?
This is more true than false, but tariffs were popular with US business leaders really until a little while after the post-war period.
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Yes let not forget the unifed medical record.
Yet if you forget to lock your car doors or leave valuable items in plain sight on the back seat, the insurance company will not honor your claim.
Your math is wrong. The relevant angle is not 14 inches over 58 stories, it is 14 inches over the horizontal length of the building.

I'm not sure what this. Guessing maybe 120 feet, e.g., gives a tilt of 180/pi * arctan(14/12/120) = 0.56 degrees.
Thanks, this is super-helpful feedback! We'll definitely keep it in mind as we get into the groove of doing these. :)
The solution for identity is easy. Just don’t rely on unverified name association data for names. I don’t get why it’s so hard to avoid that. Just don’t do it. There are plenty of ways to train models without using that kind of data, both in the training phase and in active use.
I feel like I got left behind in 2010 when our attitude about Russia was, “Russia? What are you, in the ‘80s? They’re a decrepit machine running on fumes”.
Intel Announces Silicon-Level Security Technologies
The sad part about all this is that Google probably has more data on Americans through searches and Android than Facebook.
> At the moment, a litre of a solution of even the improved enzyme would break down just a few milligrams of plastic per day. Its plastic-digesting ability must therefore be improved by a hundredfold or more to be commercially useful.

Good! The last thing we need right now is yet another source of CO2. I say bury the thing, it's that much carbon sequestered for a few hundred years.
Look, your own personal experiences with not liking waking up early aren't unique to you. I hate waking up early too, and also hated homework. But I did them.

I hate merge conflicts and code reviews but I do them.

The ability to delay gratification is a core element of success. Period.
Bot accounts won’t be calling customer support.
wow - that is comprehensive and terrifying.

I skimmed the list and these particular ones jumped out at me:

> Movies
> URL for a specific two-second chunk of content if there is an error

> Music & TV
> Service URL for song being downloaded from the music service -- collected when an error occurs to facilitate restoration of service

> Photos App
> File source data -- local, SD card, network device, and OneDrive
SpaceX forced to delay launch of NASA’s planet-hunting TESS satellite
> The goal of the code, say proponents of a stronger one, should be the survival of cities — strengthening water systems, electrical grids and cellular networks — not just individual buildings.

I'm not sure how you'd prevent water & sewer lines from breaking during an earthquake - they're surrounded by earth (or secured along concrete walls in buried vaults) so they're going to get motion & shear all along their length - so not much room to flex. Assuming they were made of a flexible material and not cast iron.

One of the reasons why the 1906 earthquake was so devastating were the fires afterwards, where the fire companies couldn't get water.
I never actually understood the difference between self-censoring and just deciding to not be offensive, and why deciding not to be offensive is such an unscientific thing. If you can objectively observe that saying something doesn’t accomplish your goals(assuming your goals is to make friends and get along with others) and seems to offend or harm people around you, what are the consequences to simply not saying things?

In the specific context of science I’m unsure what self-censoring would even look like. Not only would such conclusions be a relatively small subset (hard to discuss the self-censorship of a graph algorithm) but there is plenty of attention(therefore funding) on both sides to uncover some truth about any political subject.
Contrast this article with the buzzword collider we had last week about how movio saved 50K$ by moving to a Go-microservice-InfiniDB-neural-kubernetes-something-something, that turned out to be a lack of basic knowledge on how to use databases.

I found this piece interesting, it introduces some basic concepts in a structured and easy to understand manner. Not very many writers take the time to develop such articles, they are rare thus useful as reference to point coworkers and for a quick recap.

The details of the precise technologies used will be irrelevant in 3 years, the fundamental concepts will not. It's not a recipe, it's a conceptual primer to build an architecture that scales.
Wouldn't you just have multiple NICs on one box for redundancy there?

What happens when the FBI raids the DC to confiscate the servers of another person, and also takes yours? https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/06/faq_about_the_recent_fbi_ra...
I did manual labor up until I finished college. I never felt forced to piss in bottles to keep any of those jobs.
If the multiple sub populations exist, that’ll be reflected in the data, as long as your dataset is good enough.
before anyone else downvotes the parent, take a look at the URL in the sibling comment about what is captured.

they're capturing more data about you than you probably realise exists to be captured.
North and South Korea reportedly set to announce official end to war
I pulled my numbers for vehicle elevators by looking at the website of someone who sells vehicle elevators (which said 30-120fpm). Vehicle elevators are slower than human elevators, partly because vehicles are much, much heavier. I suspect most vehicle elevators are going to have to be hydraulic drives, not cable-driven. There's also acceleration to worry about, but short elevator spans are not going to let you build to full speed anyways.

Depth is trickier to reason about. The Boring Company's FAQ explicitly states that "There is no practical limit to how many layers of tunnels can be built, so any level of traffic can be addressed." This suggests that they generally want multiple layers of tunnel. As a matter of practice, most major cities already have underground rapid transit systems that already occupy space. As you go higher, you have to worry about the complex geometry. Because of the inherent lower capacity of the system, you also need an order of magnitude more tunnels, which is going to push you deeper anyways.

Even if you think my numbers are close to 10× off, the capacity advantage of rapid transit is still looking closer to 10×. The advantage of transit over SOVs is simply that large.
You could also give the recognition system an additional hint by dropping in "the movie", "the play", etc. -- "where is the movie 'Isle of Dogs' playing?", "where is the play 'Death of a Salesman' playing?"
At www.symmitree.com we will be giving 1m refugees free, decent quality, biometric smartphones and access to key apps/dapps next year with a plan of making these phones free for anyone who wants them a few years after. We will be announcing full details of the mechanisms behind this in June.
It is relevant because IT projects are inherently difficult, and many of them fail. Just because the French government failed at two projects mentioned in the original comment does not mean that a) it's particularly bad at IT projects or b) it will necessarily fail again. Having the corporate failure rate as a baseline could help assess the proficiency of governments around the world.
The soup that united Switzerland
The lightweightness here referred to the complexity of the fork - i.e. it's not an attempt to entirely rewrite Riot, but instead a reskinning and UX simplification exercise. The intention is to be able to keep merging in updates from Riot proper (and indeed to port stuff back into Riot).

Agreed that Riot itself uses way too much RAM though - but we have some massive improvements on the horizon there; by lazyloading user data on demand rather than preloading it up front, we can improve RAM usage by ~5x. This work is happening over the next month or two (modulo GDPR).

Meanwhile, you can always use a desktop client; Nheko, Fractal and Quaternion are all looking increasingly good :)
>What do you build when everyone talks to each other over Slack?

This should be pretty obvious. You build all systems around a single messagebroker and each service/unit uses a chrome browser to connect to it.
I see the number of blocked IPs has reached 16 million. How wonderful!
Judging by the volume of sales people contacting me at work, I would bet a substantial number of companies have not even begun GDPR compliance until at least Q2 2018.
Automation is incredibly expensive. It is not a cost reduction.
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Do you have any degree? We've had good results in the past by hiring people with degrees in the sciences and (non-software) engineering. If it were purely portfolio, I'd want to see some strong evidence of maturity and self-discipline in the portfolio material.
> You might be able to pull together some specific targeted DOM manipulation that is faster in jQuery than in React, for example, but the difference is going to be minimal and the development impact substantial.

The usage difference in RAM and CPU usage will always be massive, because with jQuery (or if you're in for really high performance code, plain JS) you cut all the framework cruft and black magic away.

In addition, I would not be so sure about the development impact. JS frameworks come up every two or three years and vanish in about the same timeframe, yet the good old KISS-based dog jQuery happily barks along. jQuery devs are a dime a dozen, good luck finding someone today who does emberjs (if you want to maintain a legacy project) or knows the innards of the latest compatibility-breaking version of Webpack (if you ditch your legacy project and "relaunch" it).