skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not just about having makework jobs. In order for the engines to be both cheap an reliable, there needs to be continuous line production. An engine put together by workers who build rocket engines for their living is better than one built by people who make rocket engines 1 month of a year, and for the line to work properly there are limits on how slowly things can be built. This means that if your engine demand goes too low, the quality suffers or price skyrockets.

The financial basis of SpaceX reusability is conditioned on having access to a lot of launches, and increasing the market even further by making launches cheaper. If SpaceX ended up only doing 12 launches a year each year from now on, they would lose money from reusability instead of saving it, because they would have pay ~as much to maintain the Merlin line as they do today, and that is probably most of the cost of making rockets. In order for them to make bank, they need to be able to maintain the line, and grow launches to consume all of it. (Hence, StarLink.)

Alternatively, they can produce all the first stages they ever intend to make, a good enough stockpile of Merlins for the second stages, and then shut down the line and get paid for launches without the expense of making rockets. This is what I suspect they'll do, except that at that point they will not shut down the line but will change it to make Raptors instead. Both for Raptor engined upper stages on Falcon 9:s, and eventually BFR.

In any case, Arianespace probably doesn't believe they can raise the launch count enough for reusability to be useful.
Do you mean originally? ULA is a 50/50 joint venture that Boeing and Lockheed Martin were forced into after almost corporate-espionaging themselves into oblivion. It owns, operates, and manufactures the factories and rockets that each company used to provide independently — Delta from Boeing and Atlas from Lockheed.
Thats really cool. I was looking for something like that when I found my first link. Though what I really want is a giant matrix of all passports to all passports.

Interestingly from this list Dominica is the best country to dollar investment at $20k / country. Though Turkey and Grenada actually get you 6. They are more per country. Would be interesting to do a full analysis of all the combos.

Though it looks like their sources are different than my link since the numbers don't line up. Total count of the US is 163 vs 186 from other site.
Thanks for your effort

I'd lije to be able to transfer all of my maps data. That is the places I have marked by both name, and location as well as tag, reviews, and photos.

places I could exchange this data with include OSM, Apple Maps, Yelp, etc...
The article briefly alluded to this, that C, R, H are both already seen in features of the universe, so it's not "middle of nowhere."
I never said poor communication. My subject regarded the entitlement of expectations from consumers.

We’re not talking about salmonella lettuce or a blood test kit that doesn’t work or carcinogenic flame retardants here. This is a product of digital entertainment, with minuscule value to our overall society.

Nobody forced these people to pre-order the game or buy it on launch day. They went and bought it before the reviews came out. It is entirely on them as consumers for failing to execute due diligence.

So what if the creator lied through their teeth? Plenty of people enjoyed the game for what it was anyway. If an investor wants to sue for breach of contract, they can go for it. Otherwise, the consumers have no recourse. There is no fraud without a court judgement, just a bunch of pissed off consumers. It may suck but that’s the law. Change it if you don’t like it.
I don't think it is common sense to correlate a duck and duckduckgo in real life...

Duck... is just delicious.
The promoters committed fraud.

Harrassment may be unpleasant, but I suspect they would rather that than be fined all profits and sitting in prison.
Espionage is, to me, the most obvious use.
It's literally financially untenable to have more costs for employees than the revenue they bring in. This is basic math and no amount of "I don't buy this" is going to change that reality.
It's a little verbose, but if you're looking for professional serious names, you've come to the wrong industry.
Using highway numbers is the wrong comparison.

Hyperloop does not compete with highways.

To get a better comparison, how many people fly from SF to LA every hour? That's the use case.

1 flight per hour sounds about right as a ball park estimate. A hyper loop beats that in capacity, and would likely be FASTER (due to not having to go through airport security).
For those confused, title was changed from something about "tiny robot Olympics."
This alarm has been sounded every year since at least as far back as the FB IPO. “We must be at the top!” “This is unsustainable!” “How could CompanyX be worth $NN billion? We are in a bubble!”

One year the person will be right and after the fact we will call him/her a genius for seeing it. All the other people making this prediction so far have been wrong and we have forgotten that they even made the prediction.

Same happened during the housing bubble. I distinctly remember predictions of doom in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007. The 2007 guy ended up being right.
how did you find the work-around?
> Examples include preventing the DuckCuckGo [sic] search engine from being added to Chrome on Android, while featuring the Chrome widget prominently on most Android builds.

I’m much less willing to assume good faith for this particular misspelling than once I was.
Your investment might be in danger
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleShowScrollBars -string "Always"

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This setting in terminal will always show scroll bars.
It was weird to watch the NMS train wreck happen in such fashion.

Critical people were actively warning people this would happen, and yet everyone went literally nuts for a scripted cinematic.

The whole thing smelled from the beginning, because there's people showing demos, there's people showing cinematic, but Murray showed a cinematic with a controller on hand pretending it was a demo. That's, like, as red as a flag could get.

I'm glad the studio survived the whole con job, because the 500000 or so people getting sold on a dream actually made possible for them to survive to the NEXT patch, which is making me even consider the possibility of a purchase if the reviews are good and the netcode/servers are proven able to handle the load.

But a word of warning, this is just them doing marketing before a major patch, so I'd be wary of the article content given the suspicious timing.

That said, I wish people could live up to their mistakes instead of throwing death threats and harassing other people. For whatever Murray did, that kind of behavior is never warranted.
This is a pity. I actually use DuckDuckGo because I've come to distrust Google's political neutrality, and DDG has actually got quite good over the years. But this article is simply full of misleading nonsense. I find the DDG brand lessened in my eyes.

Firstly it's completely false that you can't set DDG as the search engine in Android Chrome. I just did it. Here's how:

1. You visit DuckDuckGo in mobile Chrome.

2. Instructions from DDG pop up on the screen telling you how to find the default search engine picker screen (you click settings, and search engine is the first setting on the screen, so this is not hard).

3. DDG is now an option I can pick under the "recently visited" section, which is clearly visible on screen.

The search engine screen has Bing, Ask Jeeves and a few others pre-bundled, so perhaps they're salty because they aren't pre-bundled. Or perhaps the current behaviour wasn't always true in the past. But even if that was the case, it's fine today, so why are they complaining?

As for owning duck.com what a stupid complaint. DDG chose an awkward name for their search engine and own the domain name for it. They are not called and do not own the name "duck". If they want a short single word .com domain they can always rebrand. Google owns lots of random seeming domain names, but there's nothing wrong with that.
They knew what they were doing. They most certainly reached a point where they realized they wouldn't deliver on the hype and speculation they were generating, so they had the option to either tell people before launch it to dial back expectations, or to double down to sell more and assume people will get over it. They even went as far as not send out review copies before launch so their fans had no warning to cancel their preorders.

This is not the first or will it be the last game to fail to deliver on promises, but the game was practically designed to sell around broken promises. The backlash was understandable, and simply more than they expected. My surprise is that the article doesn't read of regret for making poor decisions but more of victimhood like they didn't deserve the backlash.

The biggest thing they didn't consider about is the fact that there's a large subset of gamers that have tons of time but not a lot of money, so the money is incredibly important to them and when they're duped into buying something like that which drastically didn't deliver, they have a lot of time to spend to make other peoples lives miserable. Just imagine how angry these people got.
First business idea: sell this author a mobile optimized site.
I think the difference here is that those you are referencing are cases where enough evidence was provided that it was convincing after the fact.

So yes, conspiracies do exist; however, which of those did you suspect or predict beforehand? The theorist is often an early critic before there is enough evidence to be strongly convincing to the majority of people.
One of the researchers here. We wrote a paper about this that you might be interested in: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/376.pdf

The nonce size isn't a particularly significant element of the "conspiracy theory" here. Those things are worth looking at because they would rule out exploitability. If one requires a conspiracy theory in this case, it would be based on the following amazing facts:

1. In addition to the pseudorandom generator (PRNG) described in FIPS certification docs, all Juniper ScreenOS devices shipped with a second unannounced public-key pseudorandom number generator (Dual_EC_DRBG) that works in parallel with the certified PRNG.

2. This generator is well known to be easy to backdoor if one replaces the standard NIST parameters with custom parameters, and this has been known since well before the generator was added in ScreenOS.

3. Amazingly, the standard NIST parameters have been replaced with new parameters, and no justification for these new parameters was provided by Juniper -- after the presence of the generator was revealed (in 2013) or after they were hacked some years later.

4. Many years after initially shipping this generator, and due to a very public de-certification of the Dual_EC_DRBG generator, Juniper quietly admitted use of that generator and parameters, but declined to remove it -- claiming that post-processing by the (official) PRNG would prevent the backdoor from being exploited.

5. Except that due to a frankly amazing coding error, the second (avowed) RNG never actually runs, ensuring that raw output from the flawed Dual EC generator is transmitted. This renders the alleged backdoor exploitable.

6. There are a number of other conditions that must be present for this flaw to be efficiently exploitable (this is one of the places where nonces come in) and every single exploitability condition is present.

7. Many years later, some outside hacker comes along, replaces the (Juniper-derived) PRNG parameters with their own parameters, and despite no further code changes the manufacturer admits that this enables a passive decryption attack on all ScreenOS devices.

I don't think you need much of a conspiracy theory to ask what the heck is going on with this. Issues like the nonces aren't really proof of a conspiracy; they are things one would look for to determine whether there were specific barriers that would prevent exploitation.

You can draw any conclusions you want from all of this, but it's really about as bad a fact pattern as you're ever going to see.
Right. But when someone is stuck and they interrupt someone else, now you have two people who are out of the zone and not working. You have to balance the lost productivity of the interruption against the lost productivity of the person being stuck. (There might be a quite a thumb on the scale of that, because questions often go "upward" to more productive contributors.) Moreover, it's not like the interrupter needs to sit and twiddle her thumbs while waiting for a response. She can switch to doing something else while waiting for a response.

There is a game-theoretic angle to it. The problem is that interrupting someone costs the team, but creates no cost for the interrupter. Individual interrupters have no incentive to try and balance the global cost to the team of their interruption versus their potential idleness.
Eh. Smart guy as always, but I read anything on company building/management by unicorn startups with a large degree of skepticism. Basically, if you have a great product, and then exercise some moderate degree of thoughtfulness in company building and hiring, everything will work itself out. Every tech unicorn loves to preen about their culture, etc, but they’re all driven by incredibly strong near-monopoly products. They would have to actively try to screw things up.
One of the most shameless clickbait articles I've seen in a while.

tl;dr No. This is an article about IDE share for Android development.

Last paragraph:

> "It doesn’t matter if IntelliJ has dominant market share among mobile developers. This does not translate into a monopoly in the sense that regulators care about because it is not using its position to hurt competitors."
That does it but also you can find more detailed information on their Github page: https://github.com/teslamotors/valhalla
This is not at all how professional trail/ultra runners approach their lives. You can follow a lot of them on social media (including Kilian Jornet) see how they actually spend their days.
It's web based not a desktop app but after Google Reader went down I somehow ended up with Newsblur and it's actually pretty good. The iOS and Android app is also nice.
owning a domain that is close to a rivals though is.
they have a good shorthand that's easy to type though -- ddg.gg.

Duck or Quack might be a good shorter name without confusing existing users, but Google and Yahoo! own those .coms, respectively.
Fair enough. "Google" is/was a silly looking word too. Perhaps DDG just needs a shorter and more memorable name though.
If 10 people are nearby, your loud answer might be disruptive those other 8 people.

Why not walk to a common area, book a conference room for 5 minutes, or just respond in Slack?

It seems like 8 people getting to have quiet conditions ought to be worth more than some minor convenience of not needing to walk away to a different area to answer vocally.
Managers talk to each other. Your manager talks to his boss and says "really can't afford to lose this guy right now, so we need to give him enough to keep him." So he's making a case alright, but everyone in the chain knows why

Problem is, now they know you're thinking of leaving. Since most of the time people do not leave over a few dollars, they assume, most likely correctly, that something else is pushing you to leave and the money is just delaying the inevitable.

When you do that to your manager, it demonstrates to him that he has a business risk which needs mitigating. So he keeps you for now while he tries to get someone else in a position to take over for you should you go through with your original plan to leave.

I've spent decades in the corporate world and I can't recall a single time that a forced raise like this ended up with either side happy, and nearly 100% of the time one year later the employee is gone for one reason or another.
You miss South America, Africa and APAC.
This is a major reason why I refuse to get into the video game industry. I read on TIL last week that the video game industry makes more than the music and film industries combined, and it shows. Every mobile game utilizes unethical or at the very least shady practices. Console games are slightly better in stability and quality but even more sketchy and ruthless. The industry is run by greed. Reading the story about how Minecraft started, before Microsoft bought them, that is a true inspiration. Make games because you enjoy them and let money be an afterthought. Is there room for that anymore? I don’t think so. The major players crush any competition. Read about Ketchapp. The video game industry is dead, no it’s a zombie, alive but dead, sucking the souls out of employees and customers alike, and that’s sad. But maybe it’s for the better. Don’t we already spend too much time staring and screens and not spending time with people right next to us?
The problem is your second sentence which is structured like this:

"Obviously death threats are unacceptable [...] but [...]".
Dave Jones / EEVblog made an interesting video comparing the LRO photos with Apollo 17 photos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYPmitSg268

Spoilers: they match, we really went to the moon :)
@dang - Why the title change here? The "Olympic-themed competitions" were the most interesting thing here to me, given DARPA's success with previous competitions and spurring innovations.
I never said it was fair play, I disputed that it was a "bizarre tactic".

There is a trademark angle to your example, so if DDG has a Trademark argument, they should challenge (although "duck" is pretty broad, so I doubt it). Otherwise, try to snipe the domain like the rest of us.
Those would both be (clearly intentional) trademark violations so probably not.

Now if Duck Duck Go trademarked "duck" then they'd have a case.
The protocol itself is open source: https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol . I'm sure the folks in charge of it would be happy to talk to PyCharm if they wanted to contribute.
We actually discussed it 8 years ago too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2027691
I agree. It's common sense that duck.com takes me to google. Usually when I'm thinking about eating ducks, I'm actually thinking about google.com.
"Cool" and "new" usually ends up meaning "expensive" and "proprietary" later on, especially if it's not standards conforming and tries to reinvent the wheel.

See: BART
Clickbait title, but here are the concrete claims in the article:

* preventing the DuckDuckGo search engine from being added to Chrome on Android, while featuring the Chrome widget prominently on most Android builds. (does the Independent mean Widget or App here?)

* “Every time we update our Chrome browser extension, all of our users are faced with an official-looking dialogue asking them if they'd like to revert their search settings and disable the entire extension.”

* Google have bought duck.com and redirect it to Google.com
This is a bummer. Anyone have a good alternative?
https://duck.co/forum/thread/1997/duck-com-redirects-to-goog...

>>>

Here's the whole Duck.com story, as posted by Yegg on Reddit three months ago:

Yes, duck.com came as an asset in the unrelated On2 acquisition (On2 used to be known as Duck Corp). But it just sat there (pointing to this Duck Corporation history page) for a long time.

I first inquired about it on 11/4/09. After several attempts, I got back a response "from management" on 3/25/10 that they didn't want to sell it. Understandable.

Now http://www.on2.com/ points to a Google explanation page about the On2 acquisition, yet http://duck.com/ points directly to Google search.

Google owns lots of domains that don't point anywhere, or not to their main search page. That means there was an affirmative decision somewhere along the line to redirect that particular domain to their search product.

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(source) [http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/epd59/google_poi...]
If you look under the Visual Studio 2017 instructions it mentions where to copy those files into the extension so they will get used.
I wonder what exactly the author misses in Reeder. I've been using it for years, and did not even notice that it wasn't being updated.

I have feeds. They have posts. I read (some). The end.

There's nothing I'm missing, nothing that's broken. Complaining just about missing updates probably explains why the author never got to read anything: he was too busy fiddling with the reading experience.
There are still some pretty good tech news sites out there. The Next Platform and The New Stack are examples of sites that are pretty much just focused on tech news.

But most of the organizations that can afford to cover tech news in-depth that may not be of that much interest to the general reader are behind (expensive) paywalls. They're analysts/consultants/etc. (As the Linley Group is with Microprocessor Report.)
Volumes have been written about this topic (principle of least assumption, parsimonious representation, Occam's razor, etc.). It underlies all statistical learning theory and information theory of which science is a special case.
Is it any less professional than the other nonsense names that other companies use? Uber, Alibaba, Snap, WhatsApp. Google, which, if you don't know what it means, sounds like something a baby would say. Mozilla, a reference to both Godzilla and Mosaic. Yahoo, a literal crazy person. GNU, a recursive backronymn, just to leave out any questions what kind of people run it.
I second that recommendation, adding only that I also use TheOldReader and it all works pretty well together. I've never tried it with any other kind of sync backend, but I'd like to.

If anyone has any suggestions for a FOSS selfhosted sync backend, I'd appreciate them.
> “The internet is really good at knowing when somebody has made a mistake,”

Hmmm, no, it wasn't a mistake, you lied. Many times.

He definitely doesn't deserve death threats, but I have no sympathy for him otherwise. Instead of admitting the promised game features will not happen, he chose to lie.
which webgl exploits are we talking about? I know of only one when it was still in beta and it was fixed immediatly. Are you spreading FUD or do you have a ton of links to share?
I liked the idea of helium mining. Even if we couldn't ship it back, it could be used remotely for the applications that require liquid helium cooling. We're running out of helium, and sometimes liquid nitrogen doesn't cut it.
Agreed. Seems almost like a reverse gambler's fallacy in a way. That said the advice in the article is just generally good. Not have debt, have an emergency fund, etc.
The same people who work on the browsers are the same people who are in favor of this. The initial authors of wasm created the spec in this way for a reason; it's something they care about.
I don't think that Apple and Google are much better names.
So, not just over-promised, under-delivered, a shitty way to run a business regardless, but outright bullshitting?
My ex-wife went to a 4-day workweek (with longer hours per day) for a few years, when our kids were smaller. A friend of mine did the same for a bit (albeit, to be fair, in a pretty small company).

I'm sure there are plenty of people who were refused the chance (some companies can be atrociously dickensian even today...); but on average, flexible arrangements are less uncommon than you might think.
I went upstairs to find the machine where I was already logged in so I could hunt down and upvote this comment.
So, for a pull model for email, how would that work? I’d log in and see a “give me a ready for work task” that would give me an email to triage?
In think this can be summed up in one word NO