skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the general idea is that it is unhealthy to be right in the beam of a high-power air search radar. when you are in port, you get used to lots of pierside announcements to the effect of "do not rotate or radiate any electrical or electronic equipment while men are working aloft [in the masts of a ship at this pier]."

on most ships, the air search radars are on masts or platforms well above where any people work while underway. but on US AEGIS ships (CG 47, DDG 51), the pilothouse is located above the phased array panels. however, all of the arrays are on the outside of the blocky superstructure, pointing AWAY from the pilothouse. (there was a quote in that message about not leaning over the rails when standing on the bridge wings!)

the navantia design and derivatives (including the Nansens) did not take up this idea. presumably because they're smaller and needed the stability, but i'm just guessing there.
Not often. Actually there is an interesting distinction here between frequency and probability... but anyway there has recently been a ZIRP induced bubble (~2008-2016), which leads to high prices of various assets in a trickle down way: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS
Can anyone post about anything on Twitter without the conversation devolving into a politicized shouting match? It seems like the only social currency nowadays is how many scalps, knee-bends, and ring-kisses one can collect.
Notable: Amazon, which put all the smaller companies out of business with it's unbeatable selection and convenience, is winnowing the range of products it sells.

This will reduce the variety of stuff available to consumers.
> Students aren't supposed to work, they're supposed to learn.

Why not both? Don't get me wrong, I think its shady to make money off someone without paying them. I personally just had a really positive experience working while I was in school, and never really stopped learning just because I left school. Curious why you think this is actually a bad thing?
My local bank even has a promo for 2% checking (some requirements, like debit transactions), so getting decent interest on checking isn't out of the question.
Did Schrodinger put a cat in a box?
> I'm not sure if you understand that sex workers make up a disproportionate share of the population that has sex with multiple people, at least in India

Surely you mean sex workers and their clients right?
How is letting someone build a bigger house for his family even remotely comparable to genocide? The city is basically telling his family that they are not welcome, this building is more important than them and they should leave.
I think this story is probably more damaging to Twitter https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/20/twitter-c...

To be honest, you could make a case for his twitter account to be suspended when compared to the kind of bans I see being handed out these days.

In reality, it shows how what might be a moral virtue to one is a moral defect to another and that is going to end up working against these kinds of social media companies that choose to "fight for social justice" when it comes to growth.

I just don't see how twitter is going to be able to have it's cake and eat it too.
I do not mean to attack you, but my initial reaction is similar to OP - this just reeks of BS.

> How Juul, founded on a life-saving mission, became the most embattled startup of 2018

A life-saving mission? They are currently being banned by the FDA, the organization that Trump just defanged, for their sale of questionably safe products targeted at children.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/health/juul-ecigarettes-v...
Clojure has more than a handful of data-types which allow you to mutate/change values. You have 'ref' which allows for multiple observers and manipulators that all see a discrete timeline. Think of a bank-transaction where two withdrawals run in parallel would yield a negative balance. Refs prevents that. Refs are mostly for synchronicity.

There's also atoms and agents to look at, but the overall perspective is that the world is as the world is and those who observe it always do so with some delay. The discrete timemodels allow you to have consistent views of the world from multiple observers.

This is a the heart of Datomics data-model. Nothing ever changes. If you commit a fact like "fred likes pizza" at 2pm. Fred will always be known to have liked pizza at 2pm. If you later commit that Fred likes apples. That will only be true from the point in time in which you commit, but you'll still be able to see that fred used to like pizza.

The IO is a side-note, but living on the JVM Clojure has native access to everything from files to streams and you can interact with them just like Java people do. There's a few helpers like with-io to manage multiple simultaneous writes, but they're rarely used.

Haskell in this regard, has the IO Monad which is briefly commented on the article. Its sort of a trick and as I understand it Haskell has no ambition of being the go-to concurrency language. It has recently had something like Refs/STM added though, haven't looked into it much.
Yeah. This stuff matters. Firefox is more important than it's ever been.
Extending this, the people who built the decision software are first on the list to be killed.
I think consumers would be quite happy if they got Gray-market Mexican or Canadian coca-cola made with real sugar...
a bit like this -> landlord arsonists?
https://www.gq.com/story/san-francisco-is-burning
> My life's work is not what I've made, it's who I am when I sit in front of a blank file. If I lost everything, I would have lost nothing.

-- Kroc Camen

I always liked this quote, but now I know what it means :)
Unfortunately, not a new situation. Nearly every insight which falls short of total incontrovertible victory--from Semelweis to Yudkin--is an invitation to a knee-capping by your peers.
Where did I say that?

I’d be very impressed and delighted to see this running in 30 years time ... but realistically there’s vanishingly small chance the hardware would last that long without some sort of failure. For now they’ve said they were able to scrounge replacements for broken parts, but that cannot last
Can Code Be Self Aware? Musings on Studying Computer Science at MIT (Part I)?
What a coincidence, CRaP is the acronym I use for any category of product from Amazon that I can't be certain if it is authentic or acceptable build quality.

The future is trustworthy merchants selling and shipping directly to their customers. The more holes Amazon pokes in their own product, the more openings there are to enable this.
In both my comments I explicitly said that vulnerabilities in browsers can and should be called RCEs. I was only arguing about what to call vulnerabilities in the underlying libraries (like SQLite) which aren't inherently exposed to "remote" data/manipulation.

Say for some reason someone used an exploitable version of SQLite in a program that had the setuid bit set. You wouldn't say SQLite had a privilege escalation vulnerability, would you?
Stress is part of the comp.

What is needed in a restructuring - access to the right people with capital, long hours to get the deals done, offloading of dead inventory, answering to shareholders, nervous employees, continue making payroll.

It's an outlier job. There's not an average employee that has that pedigree and access to take over the job.

Nor would the average employee ever want the hours nor are they productive enough.
I wouldn't be surprised if the new system has some features billed as saving tens of thousand dollars a year. That's entirely possible. My tiny little college made winter break 2 weeks longer and saved 200k a year.
Sandspiel – A falling sand game built in Rust and WebGL
To summarize, a few bozos expressed opinions about somebody's vacation instead of minding their own business like they're supposed to. Later, a journalist found this to be the easiest way to meet his quota.
The paper argues specifically against Prolog because it is not a "pure" control-agnostic language.

a = 1;
b = 2;

The programmer does not need to concern themselves with the order of these two assignment statements and when languages impose the order, it adds unnecessary complexity to the system. (especially when thinking about concurrency)
Hang in there, friend. Heal that ankle properly and start at it again slowly. Add some resistance training, like dumbell weights. I have struggled with depression for almost 30 yrs now and still haven't found a "groove".

You are well on your way having found ways to manage and cope. In addition you have identified the converses, as well - the things you need to watch for.
It wouldn't count as training unless there is some formal training program put on by the company. Additionally, the customers are paying money -- they're paying $49/mo to receive the work of an apprentice.

This sort of stuff happens all the time. Its surprisingly common for unpaid interns to operate in a grey area. Can't really say this company is doing anything illegal without actually knowing what the program looks like for the apprentices. Every company I've worked at has decided its better to just pay them something, even if just minimum wage, to avoid risk of lawsuit. I also just think thats the right thing to do.
>Where I live I cherish the work that's been done to preserve old buildings so I can see them today, and I hope they're preserved so my ancestors can see them as well.

Hmm Ancestors, are past tense.

Tear em down boys!
Hi there, I've been trying to contact you as I've recently realised that one of your comments ended up in the FAQ of one of my apps called "Joplin". If you see this comment, any chance you could contact me at laurent ATAT cozic DOTORSOMETHING net? Basically just want confirmation if I can put your name in the doc instead of "some random hn guy".
China isn't communist in anything but name, it's national socialist. They've basically copied Italy and Nazi Germany in terms of economic policy
Speaking in vast generalities, a continental level government seems to get big projects done better, but also seems to often treat their citizens much worse.

Personally I like that the world has both types of governments. It provides, to some extent anyways, redundancy against the failures of each type of government.
brew install telnet

or

brew install inetutils
iPhone uses VCSEL lasers operating in the infrared [1].

[1] http://spie.org/newsroom/faces-light-up-over-vcsel-prospects...
I remember people, not long ago, accusing him of being a bigot for eating lunch at Chic-FilA. Seriouly, how do you respond to that? Since then all stories like this one are safely ignored.
I have been trying to figure this out too. Did you find anything out about their usage fees? What about Yodlee?
It was these dark patterns that prompted me to really step back and re-evaluate what I wanted to get out of Reddit.

I set a hard timer on the app and focused on surfing Hacker News instead (since I wanted to keep abreast of tech news). I still browse /r/politics for popcorn purposes, but otherwise no other subreddits. To my surprise today I realised I hadn't opened Reddit and didn't even miss it at all.
LibGen appears to have instructor's manuals for several common non-honors texts, including Fraleigh and Gallian (abstract algebra), Rosen (number theory), and Bartle/Sherbert (analysis).
You'd have to stop people editing their comments, too. Or people end up responding to subsequent comments by editing previous comments and doing the whole:

"On subject foo:.... (insert four paragraphs of blather here)

On subject bar: .... (more blather)

In response to your point .... (yada yada)"

thing, and it gets even more unreadable.

I find any serious, meaningful creative discussion almost impossible without proper threads. I have this same problem in Slack, where interesting, significant, discussions sit in a thread spawned from some innocuous comment and there's no way of highlighting it to say "this is significant.

I hate to say it, but old-school, early-internet forums did solve this problem really well.
Steve Easterbrook earns $21 million, the average worker just $7,000.

But Steve Easterbrook's corporate and branding directives scale across the company and produce 2billion in profit. While local employees service just the customer.

Paying someone $21 million that can decisions that result in 2 billion in profit is solid business.
50 Years in Tech. Part 13: Firing Frankness
Did they really target children, or just create flavours that were desired by both adults and children?

What flavour should they make that don’t (theoretically) appeal the children? Beer? Anchovies? Broccoli? Mesquite BBQ?

Adults can like bubblegum or sweet and fruity flavours. I know I ask for them from my dentist for my cleanings instead of mint.
What about situation where someone tries to commit suicide by jumping under the autonomous vehicle? Should this impact logic and in what way? And how would the vehicle determine that it's observing a potential suicide event?
IRC (and Slack) are really vulnerable to people missing out on the discussion altogether, though.

Especially in a global organisation, where only part of the team are awake at any one time, so it's impossible to have a real-time discussion regardless of platform.

The advantage of forums is that it's not a real-time discussion and everyone gets to contribute.
It seems odd that apprenticeships would prohibit the apprentice from working on activities that make money. I don't think that's the case anywhere. Maybe there's some special apprenticeship model where that's forbidden? It wouldn't make much sense since the purpose of most companies is to make a profit.
I couldn't handle the cold there! If winter sports are your jam though, it's a good place to be. I recommend hitting up the Arrowleaf, if you haven't. one of my homies runs it
Yes, it's much better code that solves all kinds of hidden problems in the second style. The second style seems ok to you, then you've not yet learned the benefits of abstraction nor of bottom up programming. It's easier to build simpler programs when you build them from many simple parts. It's easier to build parts if they do one thing. It's easier to test everything if they're all separate things. It's easier to reuse logic when they're separate things. It's easier to fix bugs when they're separate things. It's easier to separate implementation and interface, i.e. low level vs high level logic. It's easier to plug in alternate implementations when they're each separate things. That all adds up to being much easier to write, evolve, and grow a system using the first approach than with the second.
Irish scientists prove Vitamin D levels linked to depression
Yes I am fully ready. I got some popcorn and chips. /s

What a stupid title.
Designing for the Busy
Obviously it’s a mistake and I meant descendants. Don’t be so snide.
There are two sides with AMP:

- A set of enforced good practices that make sites faster and generally more user friendly

- A way for Google to get more control by introducing a semi-proprietary framework

The disturbing thing is that webmasters usually criticize the first aspect. Basically they want to bloat their sites and AMP doesn't let them do it. They don't really care about the second part. They are already using Google analytics, Google ads and optimize for Google search anyways.
It means that the ones who can do something want AMP to die for all the wrong reasons.

For that reason, I think that AMP is good (or less bad). Even better would be to do what AMP does but without the Google framework. That would make it even faster than AMP because there won't be any Google bloat.
I agree. Their competitors are getting more competent and amazon can’t do ship to store obviously, which makes them less convienent for certain folks.

With things like ApplePay, you can get buy with two clicks, which is only slightly more annoying than amazon.
> Just use IRC ... the problem with writing down all ideas and all discussion like with Git issues or a forum is that the few good ones get buried in all the shit.

Buried is still searchable and linkable, IRC generally isn't. Poorly rehashing old discussions generally doesn't help improve the signal to noise ratio either IME.

It's not necessarily obvious where all discussion should take place either. I started writing a VisualRust patch to add stdlib natvis files to MSVC projects, which instead morphed into a better rustc patch: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/43221

Thanks to this buried gem I stumbled across in a search: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/36503#issuecomment-...

If that was an IRC discussion somewhere instead, it probably wouldn't have gotten done (or at least not nearly so soon), because I'd be chatting and listening in the wrong channel/silo.
The last time I enjoyed using the Firefox rendering engine on a Mac was back in the Camino days. I’d almost say that that browser is a better Mac experience than Firefox is today.

I’ve started using Safari and it’s actually pretty OK and the resource utilization is a lot better than Chrome (no fans blowing!). I empathize with Firefox making a big deal out of avoiding a monoculture but i really hope they’re figuring out how to do a better job on things like the Mac internally, because I don’t think that people are really going to use an inferior product as some moral statement.
> When China gets its shit together enough to protect its lands and people from the toxic output of all this industrial activity, large-scale manufacturing will move on to the next victim.

That's already happening: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-pollution-zibo/chin...

An acquaintance recently told me that Chinese ceramics production capacity is getting relocated to places like Cambodia.
what is SO?
Venice is an exception because of how much of the city’s economy comes from tourism. There is an economic benefit that accrues to all property owners by maintaining a consistent historic look. That said, Venice is gross.
Significant other
2018 - 1935 = 83

Also, in particular, see the segment from 0:45 to 1:30: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbzWYjVrvpI
What school doesn't prepare you for in your first programming job
Honestly I just see all this, even despite the author claiming taking time to "mull it over", as a knee-jerk reaction. There is little evidence that MS changing to Blink/V8 will have any tangible impact on the web.

Microsoft has hardly offered much as far as competition and diversity goes since IE6, basically the only web "innovations" they're responsible for is a bunch of IE-specific APIs that didn't work in any other browser.

The garbage rhetoric that Mozilla and their supporters have been spreading is pure FUD:

> By adopting Chromium, Microsoft hands over control of even more of online life to Google.

MS' new default browser being based on Chromium does not give any additional control of online life to Google. They're open-source projects that, while Google manages, does not have absolute control over the consumption of. If Google did ever try to muscle control on Chromium like they've been doing with Android, Microsoft could simply fork it without the hostile Google changes.

If anything I see this whole thing being beneficial for the web in the long run - now instead of MS engineers pissing their time and effort down the drain on a dead browser and needlessly fragmenting the market with engine differences, even if people don't use the default Windows browser Microsoft's engineers can contribute to and benefit the web by contributing their improvements upstream to the Chromium/Blink/V8 projects.
I find it kind of hilarious that people seem to think the solution to the Chrome monoculture is them personally switching to Firefox and then writing a blog post / comment / tweet about it. It's like saying we need to get serious about climate change, so you're going to start cycling to work, and encourage your friends to do the same. If that salves your conscience, then great, but your individual actions are statistically irrelevant.

There are systemic trends and market forces at play here involving billions of people. And nowhere amongst the significant forces and trends will you find "there are insufficient nerds evangelising Firefox". Hacker News can upvote as many as these kinds of articles as it likes, but Chrome's market share will continue to grow until there is something far more substantial to stop it than philosophical objections by tech insiders.
The hometown on the second link seems to match up. First one might be iffy, but maybe he moved around a bit.
What do you mean? I’m talking about the program’s intermediate state, not the human’s. Humans respond to the program, then give it new inputs, then the program outputs a new intermediate state, then the human responds again, and so on. This loop is fundamentally different than reading a static file that doesn’t change or depend on the state of the program.
my understanding (without research) was that one of the founders of IDEO created the concept so they could broaden their client pool from traditional design to finance / business consulting.

https://trydesignlab.com/blog/great-design-thinking-tim-brow...
whats Stripe mean? Whats Google mean? Whats Uber mean? Paul Graham has an essay about how the name of your company doesn't really mean anything, and you should always pick a name with the .com available.
The original trolley problem of "should you let 5 people die or actively kill 1 to save the 5" has genuine philosophical merit, these however are just so contrived they can't possibly offer any meaningful insight while at the same time planting the seed in the general public that this is the type of problem a self driving car should care about which could cause all kinds of wacky regulations to exist.
I want to build an ADU on my Mountain View property but was denied because the permitting department in anti-ADU and will obstruct any way they can, despite the rule changes. Yet others have gone ahead and built an ADU on their property anyway, under similar circumstances, ignoring the permitting department.

Morally speaking, did these people injure me? Did they slap me in the face? Are they wrong? They increased the housing supply during a shortage, but at the cost of ignoring the law.
My view: the muslim think is quite segregationist. None of the Muslim-majority nations were/are ready to take the Rohingyas except Bangladesh. That too after being promised aid from gulf countries.
So when MS controller the browsers we threw our arms in the air. But when google controls it we just sit here and go meh?
Because I didn't want to build a website, I wanted to build an OS X app, so that's what I did.
Although I haven't seen the movie, other coverage of Alex Honnold has definitely got my mind going on this topic. He's an excellent example of a personality eminently suited to the task.