skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You won't be doing a ton of damage with these, any structural metal pieces are prohibited and until you start getting into some of the larger high power motors, which are not easy to come by, they don't pack a lot of energy.

Over the years in our club we had a lot of land sharks(pop off the rod and delayed ignition), failure to eject, cato(engine explosion) and various RUDs(rapid unscheduled disassembly). Plenty of cars hit with only minor damage and never any serious injuries.
Curious about this. How do you do that? Shouldn’t you still have to read the statement forward to then be able to read it backward? I can see in lispy languages how you could do that, because of the structure of S-Expressions, not sure how you would do that with more conventional syntaxes (let’s say C-like).

I think that personally I do a lot of back-and-forth in-between forward and backward reading to construct the program logic in my working memory.

Edit: maybe, could you describe what you mean by reading backward? I read it originally as “reading from the first expression to be evaluated to the last one”, but I see now that you are talking about statements. If that’s the case I see a lot of issues related to the context/scope of a statement. Do you read, let’s say, from the last statement before closing a function, then up?
Disney does realtime streaming already. What does Netflix have that they would have problems to “copy”?

Edit: the question was obviously in the context of the parent comment talking about “the technology stack and processes“. Regarding the market share advantage, it’s debatable if each user is worth over $1000.
I couldn't agree more. It's very difficult, but in my opinion the most complicated part in teaching is getting the attention and grabbing the interest of students. If you have that, as long as you do it ok, people will learn. First, find the connections between the subjects and the students. Then, you can start teaching.

Of course, teaching some things in order might be important or useful, and students have some decent degree of attention too. And sometimes you need to explain boring things. Ok, but people learn the most when they want to learn. Curiosity can be induced.
Keep in mind that the big success of the current Google CEO is ChromeOS. Basically a minimum OS booting straight to a browser.

As "everything" is supposed to live inside a browser window, there "naturally" needs to be rich APIs for accessing whatever the user may decide to plug into ports or their wireless equivalents.

We are going full circle here, with the web "browser" becoming the new leased line terminal. Keep in mind that at the end of the mainframe era, some "terminals" had local hardware that could rival a micro-computer.

This is why the X protocol included support for printing, as the printer would be hooked up to the X "terminal" and not the mainframe (DEC had their own wire protocols for talking either to terminals or printers for doing bitmap and vector graphics).

Everything old is new again, and i wonder if i will live long enough to witness some rainbowhaired dev blog (or whatever it will be called at the time) about how they are gleefully ripping out all this cruft from the "soon" to be retired web protocol.
Observability: the hard parts
And who exactly do you think owns the current media companies in the US?
another blockchain hype?
> Repo Prerequisites

> README.md

> CONTRIBUTING.md

> LICENSE.txt

> A valid, filled out package.json

Hmmmm...one of those is not like the others.
Those do exist, though, and could probably be connected to such an algorithm as this one.
Unfortunately when we have no idea why things happened there is zero predictive power. So, history without context is little more than a story and at best interesting.

Really, nobody actually studies history going forward. We don't for example study random people's backgrounds on the off chance they might have an impact. Rather we pick important figures based on what they did and then go back and take a look at their backgrounds.

So the trap in teaching history going forward is you hide why things are being studied. The most critical part is filtering and thus ignoring 99.99999% of what happened. Further by focusing on only important things people start to associate importance with what is being focused on right now.
Less than a handful now thanks to Trump’s FTC. Make America pay again. And again. And again...
>In a cross-country analysis of over 125 countries, this study finds that corruption is lower in countries where a greater share of parliamentarians are women.

Can people please use their critical thinking skills here? Why would countries like Saudi Arabia have more corruption than countries like Sweeden? If you seriously think it's because Sweeden allows women in government you need your head checked.
>> Disney can probably copy what Netflix has today, but by the time they’ve done that, Netflix will have updated their platform hundreds of time

Last year Disney acquired BAMTech (a spun of MLB Media) - though less known, their technical chops when it comes to video streaming are already in Netflix territory.

https://www.theverge.com/2015/8/4/9090897/mlb-bam-live-strea...
As a product manager, I have often found it beneficial to write requirements backwards. Start first with the desired result of a feature or flow and work backwards to the necessary steps, options, preconditions, actors, setup/enrollment steps etc. that would have been required required to get there.
Yes, different licences for different impulse classes of rocket motors.

More details can be found on the National Association of Rocketry website (http://www.nar.org).

Level 1[1], Level 2[2] and Level 3[3] certifications.

[1] http://www.nar.org/high-power-rocketry-info/level-1-hpr-cert...

[2] http://www.nar.org/high-power-rocketry-info/level-2-hpr-cert...

[3] http://www.nar.org/high-power-rocketry-info/level-3-certific...
A poor estimate is that 1 trillion tones of ice is 1000 cubic kilometers.
>People downvote for the stupidest reasons anymore. It will be the death of good, well thought out but not conformist commentary and become a boring monoculture, just like everywhere else. I'm getting in the habit of looking for stupid downvotes and upvote. I wager at least 2 for this comment.

I got 4 downvotes for this. It's sad that just 4 people can ruin one of the last places to have a good conversation on the internet. Perhaps a reconsideration of how the karma system works is in order, in order to save meaningful dialog. Off the top of my head, I would suggest any downvote also removes a karma point from the down voter. Instead of risking karma for taking a considerate but unpopular position, people willing to quell thought and ideas should be risking their own karma. I believe suppressing ideas and thought is far worse than presenting an unpopular idea and therefore should be at a much higher cost.
> I just want to know who the heck takes recommendations of 'influencers' seriously? Gullible teens with no money?

That doesn't mean mom and dad got no money, though.

I happen to know a kid with rich parents and they frequently have to buy him stuff he discovered on instagram -- YEEZY shoes and whatnot.

I'm sure there are enough kids that'll bug their parents about planning their next vacation where some popular influencer were.
Of the apps you have already moved, are any of them in the range of poorly documented, duct taped together, you know, the nightmare apps that I’m sure you have there? Just to be sure you’ve established both ends of the costs-to-savings spectrum. It may be the most cost effective approach is to outsource some apps and keep others on premise.
Nicely done, I'll note for the readership here that a similar technique works fine at 300 baud across the room using FSK.

Something you might consider is to write a web camera backend for it and use the screen/webcam. That has a lot more bandwidth and has higher SNR as the selector effect of the web camera is so much better than that of a microphone.
Certainly not only theory. We discuss many examples and find new ones, almost every day, Keep in mind, organized networks are rather small and somewhat invisible. They are focused on getting things done and not interested in visibility, more followers, likes etc. This is internet culture post-reputation and attention.
[video][Linux][sssd] SID to uid mapping algorithm explained
The system should also eventually allow a model rocket to land vertically under thrust, like the Falcon 9, using a second smaller rocket motor.

The title is a little clickbaity. Landing is not yet possible and it even says so in the article.
No, they're just looking up to her for lifestyle guidance...
I wasn't aware me posting on a webzone was actually displacing thousands of manual laborers.
> We don’t start our investigations at some arbitrarily chosen point in the past; we begin where we are, from our current burning passion.

That reveals a problem with learning backwards-- rampant epicism in which students would rarely choose to learn about, say, dead ideas like sonata form.

Rather than requiring the student to learn linearly through time, the professor ought to select a handful of musical periods and/or case studies and then randomize the order in which they are taught. Make a big spectacle of picking numbered ping pong balls from a bingo machine in the lecture hall. In the U.S. these are usually elective classes so they are essentially an institutional form of entertainment, anyway.

In other words-- it shouldn't matter how you pick a period/style/composer. What should matter is that students improve their ability to use their ears and their growing knowledge to investigate any music, no matter its origin or time period.

Publicly using randomness to select from possible periods/cases would show good faith that the professor is skilled enough to leave the chosen topic up to fate. That would make it harder for profs who aren't fully comfortable with all the material, which is probably why nobody teaches this way. :)

Edit: clarification
Have you considered open source work. Check out pachyderm on github. They are looking for people.
Working with an employer that a building core system softwares is what you may be looking for.
Journalists don't seem to need any help in damaging their reputation and the public's trust in them. These alternative distribution schemes seem to be a response to the bias and selective reporting done over the last two years.
Anecdote time. I know one person who matches the description of someone with the gene for not needing sleep. He’s an extremely high functioning individual.
Depends on the use case. There’s lots of ways that databases can can make trade offs on CAP. Unfortunately there’s not a single silver bullet.

You’ll make different choices for an application that’s processing clickstream data than one that’s managing highly relational data.
ActorDB might be great for distributed systems. How does it compare to CocktoachDB? The latter does transaction planning across shards?

None of these DBs seem to be byzantine fault tolerant, though. Any examples of BFT databases?
Mentat was also a company in the early 90s, they made a portable STREAMS implementation that was used in MacOS Open Transport, among other OSes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentat_Portable_Streams
AT&T bought Time Warner. Comcast and Disney both want Fox?
I remember those days. It would have been a very different game if Blizzard had decided to incentivize that kind of world PvP instead of leaving it essentially pointless.

So much weird and cool stuff was possible in vanilla. I remember someone kited a Servant of Razelikh into downtown Stormwind. It could only be killed by activating some object back in the Blasted Lands, so a crowd of dozens of guards and PC’s who didn’t know any better just whaled on it for half an hour.

EDIT: Apparently this was not just for lolz as you could level up weapon skill on the thing. Neat!
Yes, but that’s not I was talking about in my original post, at least. I was discussing the fact that even if you explicitly choose “Amazon.com” from that list of vendors, Amazon itself is shipping goods from other vendors and making it impossible for you to know that, which can lead to receiving counterfeit goods. There is zero indication, anywhere, that it’s being shipped from anyone else’s stock in these cases.
> who exactly do you think owns the current media companies in the US?

Point being we can answer this question. If you put ownership on the blockchain, we can’t. It’s exactly what we have today, but worse.
A civilian is allowed to buy a guided missile in the US, even importing it from overseas, as long as they have the correct paperwork and their State permits it (many do); building one can definitely be permissible. Most of the restrictions involved in weaponry of this type are related to storage and handling of hazardous materials, in the same way that you generally aren't allowed to store large quantities of high explosives in a suburban garage even though you (until recently) could buy it by the truckload with a driver's license and cash. There is a hobbyist maker culture of DIY weapon designers in the US that has been around for many decades, typically in parts of the US where it is practical to meet safety and legal requirements.

Many people are surprised to discover that as an American you can buy or build almost any weapon system (if you can afford this expensive hobby) as long as you meet basic safety, local legal, and export restriction requirements. For some types of dangerous weapons you may need to file paperwork, but it is more disclosure than permission.
>UK passed >50% atheism some years back and is steadily becoming more so going on census.

Well, Ireland aside, the UK never had much of a religion to begin with (except back in times of John Fox or in the times of the druids). The English church is as close you can get to atheism while still being called Christian.
I believe there is a technical solution to this that does not involve sanitizing the whole Internet to the level of broadcast TV (good luck with that).

A "Child mode" flag would be set system wide when the device is configured by the parent to be used by a child. This should enforce a top down policy that only allows installing child safe apps or apps that propagate and enforce a similar policy. For example, Chrome would be installed but would only allow access to sites that respect the child safe flag. Youtube would load but only run videos and suggestions form a carefully curated set of publishers that respect the age. Etcetera.

Compared with previous approaches that failed due to lack of adoption (RASCi, ICRA) this system would provide a strong incentive for app and site owners to properly support the age flag, else they are simply invisible in the children market. A strong initial effort would be required from Google/Microsoft to bootstrap the initial whitelists.
> This is odd to hear since that "free roam" idea of letting them wander for miles unsupervised is all the rage on here. I'd say that's much more reckless than letting them use the internet.

I wouldn't. The real world has laws and rules, and people to enforce them. The internet (in all practical situations) is lawless and completly unpoliced.

That's not inherently a bad thing (I like having an open internet). But it's not something I'd ever expose a child to.

I'd easily let my own child wander the neighborhood unsupervised, long before I'll let my child wander the open internet unsupervised.
Use Safari in iOS UI tests to test custom URL scheme
What you’re proposing would lead to a terrible market structure. It would eliminate the most important differentiating factor: content. Subscribing to multiple streaming services might be somewhat less convenient, but it also allows competition based on producing and distributing quality content.
Yes I think you have it. I took that mahogany example and the slightly surreal case of requiring a slave to work a swing to operate one as exceptional. Generally aiming for conspicuous consumption is the simple answer.

I'm sure they'll find more than a few things to look at in confusion and wonder once they drop out of fashion, just as we can point at click farms, and other strange edges of our economy now. I wonder if we'll ever reach a point where so much human effort isn't wasted on sheer pointless trivia.
the difference is whether you actually believe it or are just doing it for fun. you can sing a Christmas song or put on a Christmas hat for the fun of it and still be atheist for example. in Japan you can greet the new year at a temple becasue it's a fun activity to do with your friends and family and not because you actually believe in any deity blessings you

that said Japanese are superstitious (in general). not sure if more or less than other places
Why is this [flagged]? May whoever flagged this come forth with an explanation?
The title makes it sound like there was some interesting technical trick or something. As far as I can tell, the article basically amounts to, "humans have ears, and putting slaves in close proximity to their slave owners allowed them to hear their conversations." Am I missing something, or is this just clickbait?
C++Now 2018: Eberhard Gräther “The Untapped Potential of Software Visualization”
Nukes have their own issues. See Chernobyl and Fukushima...unless you build them 1000 miles away in a desert (not feasible--water and transmission issues.)

This is like saying that airships have a lot of issues because of the Hindenburg disaster. Technology has come a long way since either Chernobyl or Fukushima were built! Nuclear plants can be made very safe, and as a bonus won’t contribute to the deaths of millions from pollution.
> Looking for those extra percentages of leaving out the middle man.

Is this profitable in the age of The Pirate Bay or illegal streaming?

I'd argue easy legal access & better discoverability would more than make up for the cut taken by middlemen like Netflix.
This is an interesting dichotomy to present (meaningful versus friendly work culture). I imagine there are also people who prefer the former. I am not judging at all -- find the dichotomy pretty accurate.
Wikipedia gives this as an "alternative etymology", the primary one still being that it was being played by kicking a ball around, analogous to handball.
Good point - I'm in the UK, and our trains are shit.
Almost all of these 'influencers' have fake followers. If they didn't buy them, the majority of their followers are auto following bots or people using bots to auto-follow to get more followers. Working inside this industry it's remarkable how little reach 99% of these people have.

Who wouldn't want to get luxury hotel stays for free, have brands send you free stuff, or get paid to promote something? It's an incredible deception and many are falling for it.
Ah, I assumed that was obvious.
CAP guarantees there isn't "one database to end them all"

You pick your poison.

Glossing over / ignoring / implying they solved CAP is very typical for database marketing.
Does Costco offer profit sharing and/or employee stock units?

Would,it be worth including that in the total long-term equation?

Every single hourly Amazon distribution worker from the first 5-7 years of the company would be multi-millionaires now had they exercised and held their options.

More recent hourly distribution employees of Amazon would have also done quite well in the most recent 5-7 years with stock units granted.

But I think you raise a good point about comparing Costco with Amazon.

I’d Be keen to compare their respective business models and total compensation systems for employees at the coalface.
Pot bellied middle-aged bald white man drives to his Motel 6 in his Ford Fiesta, crosses the street to a Waffle House, gorges himself on waffles and syrup, and returns to his hotel room to cry and wonder where it all went wrong?

Sounds great.
This sounds like a very exciting time, the work is changing, the very economics of the business are changing. Remember to lead throughout this transition. Communicate well, frame the transition in a positive way and take care of people. Do not allow your exuberance at the potential cost savings blind you to the pitfalls in a project of this magnitude. The transition will be harder than you think, take longer and cost more. That being said, it’s probably worth doing. Along the way you must remember that your employees are a super important part of your business so treat them accordingly.

Offer training. The automation work is more gratifying and valuable anyway. You’ll be offering them a step forward. Some will take it, some will move on. Even those who move on may find that the change catapults them forward as well.

I trained a colleague in cloud automation in two months. Admittedly he is very capable and committed, but you’ll find that in some of your people too. He’s now worth more than anyone I could have hired. You have the opportunity to elevate your existing employees significantly. Embrace that opportunity.

PM me if you’d like to see the training materials I’ve put together.
Here's an idea, don't give impressionable young children unrestricted internet access if you're worried about this kind of stuff.
Mozilla Firefox was originally called Mozilla Phoenix. Briefly after, its name was Mozilla Firebird, even though there was already an open source database called Firebird. So Mozilla eventually changed the name to Mozilla Firefox. I don't see how Mozilla Firebird and Firebird the open source database competed.
Marketshare?

People are happy to pay a single Netflix subscription, and many people already have one.

People would be less happy to shell out for yet another subscription, especially for a single kind of content (unless you watch Disney all day, it doesn't make sense to subscribe).
Centralized resource management, public index handles... So basically OpenGL? (They're called "object names" rather than "index handles" in OpenGL, but the principle seems to be the same.)
The President is Missing…a few finer points on how the cyber works in this novel
They're trying to recreate the cable TV channel package model on the internet, because it's a mechanism for price discrimination.

If you make twenty shows and you want to sell subscriptions a la carte, how much do you charge per show? If you charge $10/month per show then you lose the business of everyone who might have paid you anything even slightly less than that. If you charge $.50/month per show to get those customers, you lose $9.50/month from everyone who would have paid $10/month per show. But if you put all twenty shows together in a bundle and sell them collectively for $10/month, you get $10/month from everyone who values the collection of shows at $10/month or more, regardless of the value they place on each individual show. Which can turn out to be more money.

But that is less likely to work in a more competitive market. People only have so many hours to watch television. It may be worth $10/month for a package of shows to get the one you really want when that's the only option, but when someone else is offering an equivalently good show a la carte for $10/year and you don't have time to watch both, people will choose the one that saves them $90/year worth of shows they weren't actually interested in.

The broader problem is that without a distribution monopoly to use as a chokepoint, content creation is a highly competitive market, and highly competitive markets have low margins. So the incumbents are flailing around trying to find something that looks like the model they're used to, even though that model is now defunct.

The model which is likely to out-compete a la carte is the one where content producers make non-exclusive licenses to multiple aggregation companies that sell flat rate plans to their customers. Because $10/month for twenty shows can't out-compete $10/year for the one show you actually want anymore, but $20/month for every show can.