skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Have you defined your value statement?

I suppose this is good advice, but boy oh boy does it make me want to live in a cabin in the woods as far away from the corporate world as possible.
Wireless Carriers Have a SIM Hijacking Problem They Don't Want to Talk About
The second paragraph of that is actually just one massive sentence :|
Don't look at it as a burden: look at it as a gift.

When you're born, you have no claim on anyone in the world other than your parents. You can't demand protection from the Singapore police; you can't demand that the consumer protections of Zaire be imposed on your diapers; you are alien to every state on earth. Every state, that is, but yours. At birth, you get the right to make demands of all these other people, and (under rules you'll get to contribute to) they'll answer those demands! You get welfare, healthcare, education — all because of your nation-state.

That's pretty awesome!
The 2013 Hyperloop paper claims a capacity of 840 pax/hour under some pretty optimistic assumptions. I'm willing to grant them all these assumptions because this number is tiny and pathetic. A highway has a nominal capacity of 1800 vehicles per hour at a 2-second following distance, which works out to a capacity of at least 1800 people/hour and at most, in a dedicated bus lane, something more like 20000 per hour. Railroad capacity is much higher. Even bad railroads like UK National Rail have demonstrated over 200k pax/hour into a single station.
Ask HN: What is the most impressive thing you've built on iOS?
What is the most impressive thing you've built on iOS? Something you'd bring during a technical interview.
“Black Panther” and the Invention of “Africa”
Occam's razor is not about the simplest theory being true, but about how from a simple theory you can create infinite more just adding an element.

If you have infinite possible theories, the only logical thing to do is to stay with the most simple theory until it can't explain the world anymore, then you choose the next one more simple.

There is also, I think, a theoretical information argument: when creating a theory you are trying to compress all the observations. The better the compression, the better the theory.

I don't understand why people down-vote you, by the way.
Nothing like a good massage!
> A user’s decision to move data to another service should not result in any loss of transparency or control over that data.

> It is worth noting that the Data Transfer Project doesn’t include any automated deletion architecture. Once a user has verified that the desired data is migrated, they would have to delete their data from their original service using that service’s deletion tool if they wanted the data deleted.

This project has copy, not move semantics. Therefore, in contrast to the stated purpose of allowing users to control their data, it actually has the opposite consequence of making it simpler to spread users' data around. Without a delete capability, the bias is towards multiple copies of user data.

This project normalizes web scraping to export data from non-participating APIs that project partners benefit from asymmetrically by establishing this as an open-source effort. In other words, API providers that do not provide export tools will nonetheless be subject to DTP adapters that exfiltrate data and send it to the (no doubt excellent) DTP importers maintained by DTP partners. This has the effect of creating a partial vacuum, sucking data from non-participants into participants' systems.

The economics of maintaining a high-volume bidirectional synchronization pipeline between DTP partners guarantees that these toy DTP adapters will not be the technology used to copy data between DTP partners, but rather, a dedicated pathway will be established instead. In other words, the public open-source DTP effort could be understood as a facade designed to create a plausible reason for why DTP partners have cross-connected their systems.

TLDR:

- Copy semantics are counterproductive to the goal of providing user control of their data.

- The approach of using existing APIs to scrape data from non-participating vendors is a priori hostile.

- Economics dictate that the lowest cost option for providing bidirectional synchronization between vendors involve dedicated links and specialized transport schemes that DTP project itself does not provide equally.

There is some merit to providing abstract representations of common data formats -- look at EDI, for instance. I'd welcome someone from the project stopping by to explain away my concerns.
Oh I got it. But that was not enough for me to Sign Up.

I still need to know...

- on which devices will this work?

- what email hosting / APIs does this support?

- do I like the UI?

- do I like the web site UI and think it'll translate to the app... ?

- does this cost me something, such as a subscription or time clicking through ads?

- will I actually like this UI for my email over what I do now?
Specifically, check out Chapters 1 & 2 (they're pretty short) to get a sense of how companies decide what to pay you and then jump to Chapter 7 for specific steps to take as you prep for your meeting.

(Thanks for the pointer @f_allwein, I appreciate it!)
This is a very blatant straw man argument. For every tobacco industry, you can find dozens of examples where we ended up with onerous regulation passed by an overzealous congress person.
That looks interesting, but I would also like to see a read-only rsync endpoint that I could grab the zones (raw) or formatted zone data.
The post makes it sound like the nonce size increase was a decision made by "Juniper" after a careful consideration by a committee of grayhaired security experts. More likely than not it was done by a random dev because 32 is the smallest power of 2 that's close to 20 and it increased their Smartbit throughput metrics by a fraction of percent and because it aligned shit better in the packet.

As elegant as this conspiracy theory is, it's likely not true. It is an elegant one though, I'll give it that.
For small values of "really nice", that is. A state-of-the-art Samsung or Pixel phone is much closer to USD 1000 that USD 100 these days.
> Jokes aside, i too think we need a new framework for divulgating math that actually tells what you need to know, without just handwaving at it, BUT without the amount of technical details of a mathematics class.

oh man, have i got bad news for you about the amount of technical detail present in math classes.
Yes, but many of the criticisms revolve around land acquisition and capital funding. Two problems that China can easily sidestep.
The concept is cool, but the website needs far, far, far more information. And having the very first thing you see is a giant "SIGN UP" screen is a pretty big turn off.
Working hard, being punctual, never calling in sick, being respectful are all things a company is already paying you for. I know shocking. These are not qualities for raises, they are expected of you. What matters is your impact to the company and helping them make money. Build your talking points around the value you add to the company and it reaching its goal (make money). Also keep in mind, salary is only one point in compensation. Things like more vacation time, better benefits, pension/401K contributions, stock options, educational funds, having them pay for an annual conference(s) you want to attend. But much of this depends on the company you are working for.
> We’re at risk of the “gig economy” undoing over a century of hard fought gains in workers rights

Consumer rights too. I've seen some really horrendous people on /r/Lyft arguing that they are well within their rights as independent contractors to refuse service to disabled people and if Lyft kicks them off the platform for it, they can sue Lyft for violating their rights as contractors.

And you can replace "refuse service to disabled people" with any other form of mistreating customers, and you'll see people on /r/Lyft arguing for it and claiming that Lyft can't kick them off the platform for it.

The gig economy needs to go.
LAX is 3,500 acres and only provides 1/2 the land area need for a flight. Worse you can't build anything tall near by and need all that land close to cities, making high speed trains a surprisingly good trade-off.
​J.D. Power declares Verizon to be the top carrier
If the label is wrong, how do you know something is actually organic? His point is that it's just a label you can practically slap on anything.
I think something similar to the original Hyperloop proposal can work, but I'm not going to actually believe it until I see at least one real world implementation.
they don't ring a bell at the top. i reiterate this is the largest & most systemic of all bubbles of all time.
>so that Americans don't come to their senses and build trains

And how is that working out for California? Rail is by far the single most expensive form of transportation on a per-passenger basis.
A simple library to provide RAII in standard-compliant C99
Wait, the US finally comes up with some new cool mass-transit technology and we're not even building it here?

Shame.
I think you are wrong. If he is following the scientific method, and he doesn't have evidence, he should 'conclude' that.

The key is that in science, you never 'conclude' (in the sense of finalize) anything. Everything is temporal until new evidence deny your current understanding.
Noone alive can claim it.
>Why would someone pay €75 million to launch 5 tonnes to GTO on the Ariane 6 when they can spend $62 million and get an extra 3.3 tonnes of capacity on the Falcon 9?

Because their satellite is, perhaps, 3 tonnes, allowing them to fly in the upper berth for €45 million while another customer pays the rest in the lower berth. Capability isn't useful if your payload doesn't use it.

>Based on your numbers, Falcon 9 is $9 million and $7.5 million per tonne. Ariane 6 is €15 million and €7.8 million, respectively. Given €1 is generally worth more than $1, and that the Ariane's prices are still just projections, I think you made your counterargument.

These prices are within 20%, which I'd call competitive given non-price factors. The claim was not that Ariane was cheaper.

>Source? It's been a few years since I was in the launch industry, but even then piggyback slots on Falcon 9s were in heavy demand. Sufficiently so that a number of companies (e.g. Spaceflight [1]) cropped up to broker them.

Secondary payloads — especially multi-smallsat rideshare — are notoriously hard to coordinate. Spaceflight's SHERPA mission was supposed to fly secondary to the (tiny) Formosat-5 payload, but was pulled due to delays.[0] SFI now plans to stick with "dedicated rideshare" on rockets booked by them entirely for their customers. Their first flight will be SSO-A on a dedicated Falcon 9 later this year.

Historically, Falcon has flown few secondary payloads. An OG-2 prototype flew as a secondary on CRS-1, but was lost due to the engine-out on ascent. Iridium-6 shared with NASA's Grace-FO, after both missions dropped off Dnepr due to the Ukraine crisis.[1] Hispasat-30W carried a small hosted (then released) secondary as part of an experimental deployment system.[2] I can't think of any other notable secondary payloads.

[0] https://spacenews.com/spacex-delays-force-spaceflight-to-fin...

[1] https://spacenews.com/iridium-buys-eighth-falcon-9-launch-sh...

[2] https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/03/12/spacexs-most-recent-la...
The way we allocate second level domains is already terrible (see also domain parking/domain squatting), why would I be okay with someone just throwing money at ICANN to get a bunch of generic top level ones too?
The tracking from Red Shell would be very hard to stop at the OS-level, because the things they're gathering are all stuff that has legitimate relevance to the game (e.g. the game may want to know what CPU, RAM, and videocard you have for recommended settings). Further, an internet connected game needs an internet connection to work.

So it would be very hard for the OS to tell the game, "You can send packets about the player's current position in the gameserver, but you can't send packets back to the software developer that contain fingerprint information." The developer would just encrypt the info and send it all to the same destination to make all packets look the same.
If there is some degree of proof that he was involved in the transaction (e.g. credit card payments), if agreeing to the terms was a precondition it's unlikely enough that a wandering cat or a curious child clicked the "accept" button for there to be no reasonable doubt (unless he proves otherwise).

By the way, the hypothetic wandering cat or curious child that were to do so would risk of being liable of perjury :|
And raising demand for building a space elevator, making further development even easier!
Adding to 1, I find that it is very helpful to have kept track of the things you did for the company as they happen as it is very easy to forget even important things along the way.

I have a script that grabs my commits that week and throws them into a templated document. Each week I edit that document by grouping the commits in a logical way, adding things that wouldn't necessarily be captured in my commits, and then cleaning it up to make a reasonable and concise report of what I did that week. Then, at the end of the year, when it is time to discuss adjusting your compensation, gathering all of the data points is as simple as condensing your weekly reports into a single document.
> never calling in sick

Seriously?
The nightmare videos of childrens' YouTube -TED
Okay, but it isn't exactly difficult to separate people into tiers: side-gig, part-time, and full-time depending on how many hours they work and what portion of their income comes from these services.
Nobody outside of the American fantasy believes this even for a second. In the US you have local law enforcement running around with cell trackers, public and private organizations deploying widespread facial tracking, and let's not even get to the absolute zero data protections Americans enjoy so literally all their data, from location history to purchase history, is available to the highest bidder. But hey, it's not the government doing the tracking so it doesn't matter! Anybody with even half a brain understands that Americans are the most surveiled people on the planet. (Though the Brits are a close second and it's not for lack of trying they're just less competent.)

But really keep focusing on China. Have a feeling this strategy will work great for you.
A lot of this advice (pay down high-interest debt first, have an emergency fund) is reasonable no matter what the market conditions are.

But the common wisdom is that "time in the market beats market timing." Since these boom-and-bust cycles tend to happen over 7-10 year periods, and you really can't predict when they'll happen exactly, I think a market-related investment can be rational at any point in the cycle, as long as it's considered untouchable for ten years.
You have to be kidding, right? How much do you think it would cost, per mile, to build roads capable of moving 100k people per hour? That's a 100-lane freeway. California High Speed Rail is being built because of all the alternatives studied it was, by a large margin, the cheapest. Freeways and airports are much more costly for the same capacity.
It's a market, but I don't think we're at a point yet where we're a commodity that is line replacable. There's no fair running daily auction on standard-issue developer/tech talent. Everyone has backgrounds and specialties that are so unique you can't really make apples-to-apples comparison.
Yeah, AssemblyScript is great! Huge potential there.
"I really like working here. I really want to keep working here. And I think I've proven that I'm a very valuable member of the team. But to continue being happy working here I need to receive a raise of $n. Otherwise I'm going to feel like I'm not being fair to the financial future of myself and/or my family."

Being direct and firm is really the only way. The threat of quitting is probably better implied than made directly. It feels less like a harsh ultimatum which might trigger a defensive response. You want them to understand that you're not upset at anyone, you're just doing what's best for yourself and/or your family.

But it's important to realize that it's usually hard to get a significant raise without changing jobs. Most companies have a very hard time doing this even when it's entirely warranted.
Probably because a lot of people are in the situation I'm in where they can't use it on their projects because their clients don't want to have to buy licenses just to verify the results.
I wonder how many hardcore Harry Potter fans are smiling at the 1st photograph?
Explaining how your skill-set matchs with the paradigm currently in place to advance the corporate mission statement should net you a couple thousand while making a little piece of your soul die.
Salary negotiation works nothing like raises, so I advise against this approach.
There was an interesting London Java Community meetup[1] this week covering this topic. Matthew Gilliard demonstrated Class Data Sharing[2] and Application Class Data Sharing[3] and its impact on JVM startup times.

My work proxy is making it a pain to find the presentation, I'll try again at home.

[1] - https://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/252118399/

[2] - https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/vm/cl...

[3] - http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/310
Err, this is far from neural networks. I once tried to combine it with some thing that can do the optimization faster, so that I could make it a tree structure (as to prevent feedback form amplifying iteratively, kind of like how you need to be careful that your GAN doesn't start doing dog pictures instead of cat pictures), and run the images that compromise a tree against the best guess of it's sibling tree, as well as vice versa, before using these new estimates of the distortion to get a new best guess from all images contained by the parent of these sibling trees. Repeat until you reach the top. You can use more than one sibling to handle non-power-of-two framecounts. There is partial software on my Github, in case someone is interested I can be reached, and while working for free isn't really in my interested (other things make more fun/seem more promising), I'd be happy to start working on it again if there was a reason.

Regarding your paper, I have to remind you that Michael got nice results from upsampling the images before running his software. I actually planned on using the texture units for this, to save on bandwidth/address calculation overhead in the pending partial rewrite of my software.
The GAN there also uses just a single frame, whereas this uses the properties of the distribution of the distortions when seen in the frequency domain to figure out how the distortions are most likely, and then combines the SNR from the many frames to a single image. There is research using a method very similar to Michael's with a GPU, GTX 580 or so iirc, which does >15 fps @720p in real time, with less than 2 frames latency and no more than 1 frame necessary latency if you run the GPU work queues rather empty (risking underutilisation if you don't get CPU time fast enough again). Combine with e.g. a nice Volta DGX, and something like a 400mm Schmidt camera including a field flattening lens and a CMOSIS CMV12000 (like, take the sensor out of an AXIOM beta camera, shrink the board around it to the smallest you can get, and stick it with a lens on top facing a 20 cm spherical mirror, with a corrective plate ~80cm from the mirror. This is about ~1000$ optics, 2500$ image hardware (including that necessary to get the full stream at >100 fps into the DGX), and whatever rent you pay for the DGX. Distortion free 10x slow motion with a pixel size of 14mm at 1km distance.

If you'd want to sell such a thing to non-military...

[0]: KIM, Dongmin; SRA, Suvrit; DHILLON, Inderjit S. A non-monotonic method for large-scale non-negative least squares. Optimization Methods and Software, 2013, 28. Jg., Nr. 5, S. 1012-1039.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/622c/84cfba9781ad846105f28d...
This is the logical approach, but it is the wrong one in my opinion. Your salary is not dictated by the value you provide the company. Your salary is dictated by what each of your and your employer's next best options are. You are better off talking about market rates for someone of your skill set rather than value to the company. If you talk about the value you provide, talk about it in relation to your peers. Value is irrelevant in a vacuum. Someone generating millions of dollars in value might not deserve a raise if they are in the bottom 10th percentile among their peers.
It has probably already been decided. You can articulate what you think is a fair raise for next cycle.

You're getting some silly advice here that will make you seem a bit cocky at best, delusional at worst (do not produce a promotional packet for yourself). This is what happens: the company defines a budget, the budget is allocated across teams based on risks/prior success. The budget defines the pool of salary adjustments and that is the anchor. You can influence your share of that pool in this conversation, at best.

If you want to get your manager to the right frame of mind, have this structure of conversation: first, if you are dissatisfied with your salary, say it. This is not a bluff, you have to be dissatisfied and have options elsewhere. Know what the pay at those options are, and be prepared to get bad news (either they don't think you are worth that, or cannot match it). If you are looking for incremental adjustments, know that COLAs are usually 2-3%, promotions are usually 5-10%, and merit is somewhere in the middle. Think about what you've done in the past year that has a lot of business value (if you did analytics that saved money or increased sales, or did important work on a product that won/retained customers). If you've shown professional development (leading a project, mentoring new team members) or improved the efficiency of an existing process (lower cloud costs, shorter duration) mention it and try to get a read if your manager remembers them and/or agrees. Since this is a form of negotiation be prepared to talk about how you want to build on last year's achievements/progress next year, and ask what you can work on that would help you achieve your salary/growth goals and help the team (what return your manager can expect from the increased investment in you).
> The "infrastructure" is usually a just a C header.

It's more than that. These languages often come with build systems for building extensions. For example, Ruby's 'mkmf'. You just list your .o files and mkmf creates a Makefile that builds against the correct headers with the correct flags:

https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/master/ruby/ext/goog...

This tool knows about C/C++. It sadly doesn't know about Rust.
>The Atlas family has 100% mission sucess since 1957.

Huh? Atlas I had failures in 1991, 1992, and 1993. Atlas G failed in 1984 and 1987.

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

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

http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/logsum.html
Oomd: A userspace out-of-memory killer by Facebook
Microsoft reveals first known Russian hacking attempt aimed at 2018 midterms
I agree with all the other points in your first sentence, but your company should not expect you to never call in sick. You get sick days for a reason.
> never calling in sick

really ?!
I'm not 100% sure why f(1)=0...

I ran it in Mathematica and it checks, but I just can't see why at first glance... Any help here?