skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the government approached the families that lived there—some of whom had owned their farmsteads for generations—and “summarily evicted” them. [.. They described the project as a “demolition range,” so any possible holdouts could be scared off with the threat of near-constant explosions.

I'm curious how this was done legally in the US, given the strong property rights there and especially given it was the south? Sounds like a very soviet style beginning.

But I guess they bought some land or had some existing public property, then scared the other nearby landowners away by saying it would be used for 'demolitions'... with offers of money for their property?

Or was it a straight up legal order / eviction that the federal government has some ultimate power to do?
Yeah that's VTA. Not really used by professionals.
> Exclaimer: I don't know how this behaves in an embedded environment.

The handful of times I've written startup code for an embedded micro, I've always passed zero arguments to the program's "command line", not even its own program name.

Ie, from the perspective of _start, declare the application's entry point as int main(int argc, char argv), call it with main(0, NULL), and ignore the return value.

ARM passes the first several arguments in registers anyway, so your UB trick wouldn't reveal anything interesting.
Its lovely to see you engaging with a 16 year old person with a discussion about primes. Crack on.
Taboola is generally known to be one of the less-shady ad platforms, amusingly enough. The fact you consider it to be particularly egregious, which I don't really disagree with, seems to reflect the state of affairs in the online advertising industry.
I'm not an engineer, but i can relate a lot with that:

19. The odds are greatly against you being immensely smarter than everyone else in the field. If your analysis says your terminal velocity is twice the speed of light, you may have invented warp drive, but the chances are a lot better that you've screwed up
Why is it not possible to simply detect whether the car is stationary or moving?
Not really that impressive considering they are

1) Barely ahead of PUBG in unique players despite being free to play and PUBG costing $30

2) Shameless clone of PUBG

The cultural phenomenon is PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, and Fornite is riding on the hype by being free to play.
For an amusing take on this please read "On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant" by David Graeber
https://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs

It was good enough to warrant a response from the Economist https://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/08/labour-...
That was much, much later. I'm talking about the legislative movement that culminated in the Harrison Narcotics Act.
The risk far outweighs the reward.
Would be interesting to know what the Waymo car did in this circumstance. I imagine it would've hit the brakes when the sedan came into its lane, but not sure whether it would've swerved or not in an attempt to avoid the accident.
This App Delivers Leftover Food to the Hungry, Instead of to the Trash
Yeah it’s a bunch of inside jokes from building spacecraft the same way many times with varying degrees of success. There is little to no practical advice. The bit about never exceeding the requirements is great if you want to build something once and wash your hands of it. The “advice” on not building new launch vehicles sounds like someone had a bad time building a launch vehicle and I guess we should double down on the shuttle?
I don't see these as opposed principles.

16. They're not smart.

19. You're not smart, either.

Assume everyone is an idiot, including yourself. Verify everything (your own work and other people's work) using robust testing protocols. Don't use your own judgement; you're not smart enough for that. Gather evidence. But test your evidence-gatherers to make sure they're doing their jobs, too. Assume every component of your system-of-people is half-fallen-down and just barely limping along at all times. Make a system that works in the face of everyone coming to work with a concussion.

(And, if some component isn't barely limping along, then people are probably being too naive about its potential failures, so inject some chaos [monkeys] into it to get its reliability down to a level where routing around it has to be operationalized, too.)
>Due to a bug

>Write passwords to a log

Security level - Twitter.
500 Million quries.
I like curves but I don't know that one.

Can you clarify?

Is the following an example of an instance of that curve?

y = x2^(-1x)
If you're interested in atomic history and the Manhattan Project, a great book is Richard Rhodes' The making of the atomic bomb (ISBN: 1451677618). It's ~900 pages of history, from the personalities of the scientists involved, to the sites of Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, and Hanford, and the first uses. I enjoyed reading it while interning at ORNL and Sandia in the summers during undergrad.

The weapons are horrifying in their destructive power, but the Project is a testament to what we can accomplish in science and engineering if we apply virtually unlimited resources toward R&D to solve a problem. Beyond the obvious product of the Project, it led to the creation of the DOE national laboratory system, which has since served as a means of maintaining an able technical workforce in the US, with physicists, mathematicians, chemists, biologists, and computer scientists, among others, all working in the public interest (and on things beyond weapons). Investing in science can pay dividends well into the future.

For some perspective, the cost of the Manhattan Project was on the same order of magnitude as the Apollo Program in terms of inflation-adjusted cost, about $22-26 billion in 2016 dollars. Of course that amount does not include the environmental cost still being felt in Hanford and elsewhere, or the human cost.

Knowing the cost of those two programs really makes you question some other efforts, like the program to develop the F-35 aircraft, estimated to cost $380 billion before even considering the additional $1.1 trillion in operational cost. For comparison there, the Interstate Highway system cost about $500 billion to construct.
You too may experience this "luxury" by going to pretty much any club (dance or strip) on pretty much any weekend in pretty much any major US city. The opulence wears off quickly, as it is made clear that you're expected to tip and all you want to do is wash your hands like a decent person.
Here's the video of the DEFCON presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49KU9NDcCgI
Noah – Run a linux binary on macOS
But did you write it up and put it on arXiv?
Problem 7 has an even more fiendish counterpart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hardest_Logic_Puzzle_Ever.
League of Legends is beating Fortnite in:

* monthly active users -- 130 million as of late 2017[1] to Fortnite's 45 million total players as of March.

* maxed concurrent users[2] -- 7.5 million to 3.4 million.

* monthly revenue[3].

While I think LoL is losing ground to Fortnite and PUBG, they have a way left to go to supersede it.

[1] Notably, Riot hasn't released new numbers since, so its possible that monthly actives for LoL has shrunk in Q1 2018.

[2] https://www.pcgamesn.com/fortnite/fortnite-battle-royale-pla...

[3] https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-04-03-superdata-...
> Does the article actually reflect that?

No, the author is advocating taking opportunity cost into account, which is good advice.
HTML at one point didn't even allow for image embedding, or tables, or external CSS. HTML evolves over time, and the <script> tag is no less a part of that evolution than any other tag.
> training bokken takeaways.

against canonical aikido bokken waza. I never seen any aikido technique which could be applied against "small men" - most popular kendo strike. The same is applied for boxing jab, and wrestling legs takedown.

In my views the main aikido problem for self defense is that it is too focused on 80 years old canonical techniques, while world around continues progressing..
Sailing across an ocean to who knows what is pretty brave.

I expect the enormous wealth captured by computers and software gives people the leeway to experiment.
It's easy to dismiss comments you don't like as "tinfoil hat"-like, but it's much harder to explain why they should be suddenly trusted. Care to try?
We built https://usebx.com/app as a PWA after having experienced the nightmare of managing multiple native codebases (each with a variety of hacks for each target platform). The PWA still has a few hacks for certain Safari quirks, but it's not too bad. We also have the added benefit of a single front end codebase that runs everywhere, regardless of whether it's desktop, tablet or phone. I personally think PWAs will dominate the future, as browsers continue to expose more and more native functionality.
We knew five years ago that the NSA was receiving "billions of [call detail] records ... per day", just indiscriminately collecting every CDR they could -- from everyone (including my grandma and yours), not just criminals or "terrorists" or whomever the latest bogeyman is.

I have no reason to believe that that has changed, that they have stopped collecting all of this data that is so easily available to them.

With that in mind, I do not believe that "it is very unlikely any call" by anyone in my family was included in the catch. I believe it very likely that many calls by many people in my family was -- and continues to be -- included in their "net".
The author is 16 and does not ask for quarter. This post is not going to set the world on light but it is a damn good effort.

"If you do the minimal to avoid obvious non-primes" - I take it that is the prompt for "I'm having a laugh" (rofl, lol etc)
Somewhat related:

Anyone know of a clickbait "not why you think" blocker? I bet 71% or more of users find it an annoying pattern. And a clickbait blocker would be wonderful in general.
Why do you think there are millions to be made here? I'm sort of familiar with international development, and I'm surprised by that estimate.
> But as soon as the company gets big

FTA: 'A lack of successful “scale-up” tech firms in Canada has been cited as one of the reasons research development spending and productivity here have lagged other developed countries.'

> but they have a really hard time attracting local capital.

So is the problem, then, that "trying" has, so far, involved running incubators and grants and what's necessary, in addition, is incentivizing local capital to invest?

Other commenters have suggested tax breaks, which I personally believe is a state's greatest incentive "lever". Perhaps a lower (maybe even zero) capital gains tax rate on startup investments?

Otherwise, it doesn't seem like there's been any aggressive encouragement/funding/facilitation, as proposed by the parent comment.
Ask HN: Where could I post VOD's to be coached on interviews?
By uploading the file of myself doing a mock interview as a VOD (video on demand), and getting an experienced coach's opinion on one of your recent takes by uploading the file. Paying for that coaching can be optional, as it helps ease the queue of submissions and get priority.

This is something that is already applied in some e-sports games, for amateurs to improve their skills by allowing their video recordings to be looked at. I think this concept could be carried over more towards personal interviewing experiences as well. Could it be a viable business model?
Good point. Have you, or someone else, mentioned this to the author?
What's weird about it? It's a valid IP address, the fact that they are all 1's isn't noteworthy except it's easy to remember.
Working for the government one can get that feeling that tech is a waste but there is an unlimited desire for phd's in unrelated fields getting hired in positions that sound great title wise but involve more technical skills. They wonder why these people keep leaving.
The major cost factors in software development are developer wages.

It’s all about how you spend the time you have. Don’t build stuff that you can get off shelf. You’re not going to write a better database, even if you think you can. You may get great performance for the current system on day one (after spending a huge amount of time and effort on developing it, perhaps with zero value created) but over the lifetime of the database you’ll incur huge costs that you probably can’t even fully foresee. The details here are not clear enough, but working from first principles (“I want to build an Evernote-like app”) I can’t imagine an experienced developer suggesting you should write a database (cache/file system).

The best software development is mundane: glue together what’s there, buy the resources you need to get sufficient performance. Switch a component if you need something to be faster, re-architect key parts, and buy the new components off the shelf too. It’s fun to build new stuff with custom algorithms you work out, but instead of that you can go home at 5pm, try building a database in your spare time and learn why you shouldn’t, and still have space to relax.

As Sam Altman wrote recently, the productivity tip that most people are astoundingly ignorant of is: choose what you do carefully.

It’s telling that this article does not begin: “we had a bottleneck that could not be solved.”
Oh I read it. I just don't believe it.

After learning of their liberal use of the English language and how they have "re-defined" common words to suit their agenda, I believe very little of anything they say.
> It was more often than not ruinously expensive and fraught with failure for the non-foreign Chinese empires to attempt to subjugate the steppes in the pre-gunpowder era

That isn't incompatible with what the article says, though. Just because China wasn't actively going out and attacking the steppe peoples, doesn't mean that the steppe peoples weren't actively going out and raiding Chinese villages, souring China's relations with individual steppe tribes (even if China never mounted any punitive expeditions in response.)

The difference being proposed here, I think, is that the Uighurs actively sought to pacify and build trade relations with the Chinese Empire, and actively prevented their citizens from engaging in raiding across the Chinese border.
Your friend is getting hosed. I have a 3 bed, 2.5 ba 1600 sq ft duplex with a yard near downtown for $4k/mo. It's older, but there's nothing wrong with it, it has a garage and a W/D, driveway, etc.
OK, I'm not sure I buy this explanation. If they want to revert whatever happened to 1.0.0.1, and fix 1.1.1.1, I'm fine with that.

Here's what I do know:

* I am an AT&T fiber customer.

* 1.1.1.1 did not resolve DNS for me any time I tested it.

* 1.0.0.1 did resolve DNS when I first tested it.

* Neither 1.1.1.1 or 1.0.0.1 work from the external interface of my AT&T router now.

* Strangely, 1.1.1.1 responds to ICMP requests from the diagnostic interface of the router, but not from the external interface.

* 1.0.0.1 does not respond to ICMP requests from the diagnostic interface of the router or from the external interface.

It sure looks like something upstream from my router is blocking requests to 1.0.0.1, and that this is new behavior.

Like I said earlier, I don't especially care what the reason is, as long as they do something to fix it.
So, does it have tail calls yet?
and China owns both.
It says “engineering is done with numbers.”
Rent is low because augmentations are regulated, I pay 1350 for three bedrooms, buying is very expensive.
Vancouver's weather is very much to my liking.. and I live in the SFBA!
It's good for Canada, that's for sure.
Seems to me that you might be able to keep the twitch part of that, but as a creator rather than a consumer. Sometimes having an audience might make a difference, and sometimes it'll be of interest to others (e.g. Wintergatan Wednesdays on YouTube)
There was talk about integrating Mailpile into cPanel years ago[1] - I remember discussing it with an acquaintance who worked at cPanel at the time. I wonder why it never gained traction with either them, or any other web hosting/control panels? Plesk for example, which is probably cPanel's biggest competitor, exclusively bundles Roundcube.

[1] https://features.cpanel.net/topic/add-mailpile-as-webmail-op...
Yep, I can still remember the clusterf#ck migration to Win2K.
I especially liked how the article looked closely at the architected, pre-fab housing and showed how easy that problem is to solve when there's a will to do it.

Houses like that could solve a lot of today's problems. In the same way, in the span of a few months, with ownership perpetually limited to low-income families.
(2013)

Original submit, 540+ points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6236478
also[0].

[0]: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-has-been-sneaking-in-sl...
On the flip side - building just enough software to solve the problem at hand can sometimes run circles around assembling things using off the shelf components. This is especially true if something like speed / memory / correctness / optimality is important.
It's something that has disappeared over time (like elevator attendants). If I had to guess it was a holdover from before there were actually conveyor belts and porters manually pushed out cards of luggage to stops and helped people with them.
> I'm developing an app with serverless

Lambda? If so, what benefit do you see over running AWS Container Service?

I ask because I've tried both. Serverless frameworks (AWS Lambda/AzFunc) were horrific. I picked up Docker as an answer and never looked back.

Others in my company are abandoning serverless after seeing our success. Turns out being easily able to run things locally, very similar to production, is very important. We have no problem concentrating on the business logic AND keeping flexibility.
As a German thank you...I feel just the same way about it!

To infinity and beyond guys
Yeah, I guess (I was curious, and you're right, about 1/3 live in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montréal metro areas), but (to me) the culture varies a lot more between Toronto and Montréal than between SF and, I don't know, some of the more rural parts of California. Thinking like a business, the difference in regulations is much more significant as well.
I suspect that if prisoners are meaningfully unenslaved (ie, enjoy basic rights to body, fair wages, etc) that the system will suddenly realize that drugs aren't so bad after all.

As I matter of legislative priority, however, I think it makes sense to work in the direction direction, ie, to work toward ending drug prohibition with an aim to making a substantial dent in what slavery remains in the USA.
Almost. Instead of being a variable that can be replaced by 2, e refers to the mathematical constant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_(mathematical_constant)

This curve is a variant of the natural exponential function, where the dependent variable is time. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_function
Been searching for something like this for awhile now. We have a small team that gets distributed across a handful of projects, but trying to find a good way to manage that has been a chore.

Originally we used JIRA, but it was complete overkill. We've settled on making adhoc GitHub Project kanbans and very creative use of the labels, and so far it's been ok, but not perfect.

The other thing we have to do is time tracking for specific tasks depending on the project/client, which has us going over to ConnectWise (the primary part of our company is an MSP), which is just terrible.

The final problem is tying all of the documentation together. The MSP side of the company uses ITGlue, but it's not enough for everything we do as developers. Confluence was actually nice for that, but since we've left Atlassian we're just tracking stuff using a doc folder attached to the project source itself.
I'm an engin ... err technic ... OK a muckerabouterer. Not a scientist.
Good initiative to push Apple. There are around 7k signatures now as its trending here. Let's assume it gets up to 10-20k over the trending period.

Some X% of the people petitioning there would be actual users of the model in scope (Macbook Pro 2017 and beyond). And Y% of those people may actually have this issue.

Problem is, nobody would ever know X and Y, and its really bad to speculate. It makes the whole petition basically a guessing game.

Realistically speaking, the only outcome would be to force Apple to take note, or at best issue a statement. Either way, the keyboard is not going away. It would be announced that it would get "better over time" - which it would have anyways. Its hard to do worse than this going by the feedback.
Not even close to as bad as the world's largest economy and their deficit.
I learned about this game on a recent post about the Impact HTML5 Game Engine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16984605

It turns out the typing game (built on Impact) allows you to get source text from any URL.

For example, you can type words from a Wikipedia article:

http://zty.pe/?url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript_...

http://zty.pe/?url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure_(co...
Thanks for trying it. I don't see any errors from today on my end. Would you mind emailing me at adrian@patter.io to debug?
I was quite impressed by this when I was in Paris ~2 years ago. A drunken mob of about 50 people had massed outside my hotel to celebrate a soccer victory, and they were blocking the street, being loud and a little aggressive, and doing some petty vandalism. In the US I feel like this would have induced an aggressive police response.

Instead what happened is the Paris police closed the street a few blocks up, massed a response force nearby out of sight, and waited to see what happened. Eventually the mob dissipated, and two street sweepers and a team of cleaners came through and cleaned the entire area up. The following morning it was if the event had never happened.
Taking back control
The biggest, lowest hanging fruit thing you can do is tell them you are only interested in working at startups and you are only applying to startups. You need this in your resume, linked in profile and also make sure to mention it during the phone screens and onsites.

As an engineering hiring manager for (mostly) startups, I love candidates that have both BigCo and TinyStartup experience. Diversity of thought and usually by then, the candidates have a sense of where they want to work.

If you find that your tech or skills or experience don't line up with startups then you may have some work to do.

Most BigCos need specialists. Most Startups need generalists. Depending on your field, you might need to study up as some other posters have mentioned. I wouldn't study haphazardly however. Apply to a few startups (or industries) you are interested in and take notes of the questions they ask you and especially the questions you struggle to answer. Those are the areas to spend your time getting up to speed on.
Clapper committed perjury and walked away a free man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=796gZxR9vVk
The chemical neuroanatomy of breathing (2008)