skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Manned orbital reconnaissance was an outdated concept then, abandoned with Project MOL/Gemini B and Almaz. I guess, it would have been rather counterintuitive to suspect such a role for the shuttle, with the systems dedicatedly developed for this lying around unused. And then there was still this huge payload capacity, which wouldn't fit the purpose…

(PS: While Gemini B did an empty shell test flight only, Almaz actually flew a few missions. So the Soviets actually won – widely unbeknownst – this military space race. However, at the time the US had already switched to their recon satellite program. We may assume that the two parallel projects had shaped pretty much the idea of the profile of such a mission and that the shuttle would have been an odd fit.)
Let’s look at the cost, shall we?

Invasive and pervasive surveillance. Private and sensitive data sold wholesale not even to the highest bidder, but to anyone.

Hell, when news about NSA surveillance broke, it was a huge scandal that was the focus of attention of all media for more than a year. Now Facebook alone is reported to have the same level of maliciousness and willfull ignorance on a monthly basis, and it’s business as usual.

So yes, I don’t give a rat’s ass about the “poor developers” who couldn’t get their shit together and provide privacy and security to the common people. And who now pretend they are being unfairly punished by governments.

And yes, I’m a developer myself.
It would be a very elaborate bluff to interview at another company, receive a bigger offer and not sign it.
Purism Origin Story
Are you using @angular/cli (The ng command line)?
Apple does not have any obligation to enforce rules consistently from the standpoint of those it enforces against. Apple should enforce when and where will sell the most hardware. Apple is a phone manufacturer, not a government. They can and should selectively enforce to promote their brand values—some of which are security and privacy.
A few years ago, some KDE developers invested quite some time in concepts of creating a CSD/SSD hybrid titled DWD, marrying up the best of both worlds. Unfortunately it didn't gain any traction, but I still have hopes they'll tackle this again once all the Wayland work is mostly done.

https://kver.wordpress.com/2014/10/25/presenting-dwd-a-candi...

https://kver.wordpress.com/2014/10/25/what-if-kde-started-us...
Yup, and this is the GPL working as intended. The store doesn't allow you to redistribute the software, you must get your software from Apple.

Seems to be the right thing long-term, though it prevents you having that piece of GPL software that you want today.

Sad to see pieces of software relicensing so they weren't affected by such a clause, all because of the lure of being in the Mac app store.
Since this stuff is based on lasers, don't we have to be in LOS for it to work?
Advertisers often pay 3€ - 5€ to google for one click. If your 100,000 domains are not complete garbage, you should easily get a million out of it.
Why wouldn't the monthly renewal be automated away?
Naive question, but is using old school spinning HDs completely out of the question? In other words, can they play a role in a modern deployment?
It isn't really about how enforceable it is for me personally. Sure a strict policy may not be enforceable in the sense that they can't straight out fire me or sue me with a chance of winning. But at worst a company can still pile on stress and legal fees trying and at best it can just ruin my relationship with my employer. That still sucks, and isn't really a position I'd be interested in getting into in the first place in the future.
This is interesting, but I don't understand why the Soviet's conclusion would be that they also needed a shuttle. Wouldn't they invest in an alternate means to defeat the "dive-bombing" shuttle attacking Moscow such as developing high performance anti-aircraft (spacecraft?) missiles?
Ask HN: Is there a way I can view top posts of all time?
Sure, but not every chimney/antenna/building in the country is fitted with those. Quite often it's just a straight ladder with no extra safety rails going straight up 100-200 metres. In that case the basic principles(clipping in every 2 steps) should apply - but like I said, are frequently ignored because of the time they would take.
most people are in the world are brainwashed by government propaganda to believe that the solution to any problem is more government power and control
Might be, but it is does really lag behind what Unity was capable of, regarding performance.
I've used lombok in the past but only in projects where somebody insisted on using it before I joined. It can be nice having it around if you are stuck in a project where you have to use Java and it's just not negotiable to use something else and you have to use frameworks that expect a lot of model classes, DTO's and so on that comply with the java beans convention.

This is a convention that emerged in the late nineties where people used a naming convention for setters and getters to expose properties. Lots of frameworks (hibernate, jackson, gson, etc.) rely on discovering such properties via reflection. Unfortunately this results in a lot of boiler plate and code that does nothing interesting. Worse, a lot of these frameworks expect mutable classes, which should rightfully make you feel dirty every time you write one.

Lombok helps with that and you can sort of fake having quasi immutable classes. There's a price to pay unfortunately: it depends on generating code at compile time. This makes it necessary to use plugins for your favorite IDE to not get confused about all the non existent methods you are calling to access these getters, setters, builders and all the other boiler plate Lombok generates. Unfortunately these plugins make intellij more likely to get confused, which is something that can only be fixed with lengthy rebuilds, cache clearing, and the occasional restart. I've wasted no small amounts of time in trying to convince Intellij to get rid of phantom compile errors.

For this reason, I'd never introduce it in any project I'm in charge off. It's just not worth the pain and I'd rather solve the problem of not having to have stupid code like that to begin with by using something that does not require it. IMHO code generation is a bit of an anti pattern. It's kludge for having flawed languages and broken frameworks. There usually is a better solution than generating a lot of source code.

These days, Kotlin is a vastly superior way (and I say that with close to 25 years of Java experience) of avoiding that type of code and modern frameworks like spring boot work fine with it. Also worth pointing out that Java is slowly absorbing new features. Type inference is there now and they are working on data classes and a few other features. It might eventually catch up with less than half of what Kotlin does today in a decade or so. But why wait? IMHO Java is no longer a defensible choice on most new projects.

Converting Java to Kotlin with the built in conversion tool in intellij is not flawless but it gets you quite far and you can go class by class. I actually have one project where I've been gradually moving to Kotlin for over a year now. Every time I touch some old code, the first thing I do is convert it to Kotlin. Only takes a few minutes once you get the hang of it and it's a great way to explore the language. Mostly you spend this cleaning up the things it got wrong regarding nullability, funky generics, or just using a bit more idiomatic constructs (e.g. using sequences instead of streams), etc .
If you are looking for something that will run on even smaller embedded devices I highly recommend LittlevGL. I have used it to throw a UI on a few projects, and found it to be surprisingly easy to get going, and fairly responsive long as you can run it in buffered mode.

https://littlevgl.com
Just completed the tutorial. Nice exposition. Most of my work with React so far had been modifying existing programs to make small changes in behavior. The tutorial helped to form an overall picture.

What I liked:
1. No grand philosophical statements about functional programming paradigm or how awesome is React. (Most tutorials I have seen spend more ink on these than on the real stuff)
2. Easy way to install the tutorial and validate exercises.
3. Using React to teach React (the tutorial is a React program but this aspect is not emphasized).

My suggestions to the Author:
1. Leverage the fact that the tutorial itself is a React program to go one level deeper. This probably would require its own set of pages, each page emphasizing a different aspect such as Router and other components. It took me a while to appreciate that Components are not only for visual elements but they can also change behavior (example: Router).
2. Use HMR to load only the Solution component so that only that part of the page changes when the reader saves his edits. This will be a great showcase of React's power of applying only delta changes to a page.
3. This is a minor nit: the color of numbers in the tutorial is too close to the color of the background. Please use a different color.
Best. Link. On. Hacker News. Ever.

Favorited.
Cool. Nice to have this discussion with you. It felt like there was remarkable consensus on reddit while these changes took place, with remarkably few people who took a more principled (in a free speech sense) stance. So I’m glad it’s not just me. I’ve been questioning whether I am in the wrong for not wanting to censor unpopular or heinous opinions.
Reminds me of that black mirror episode where you had to pay to mute commercials.
It would quickly become very obvious. And then they'd be sued for a lot of money.
Could you afford Cakewalk when you were 19? What damage did you do?
Scala support in IntelliJ is ok, but still not great. There are some Akka constructs IntelliJ underlines in red for years and JetBrains doesn't fix it. I've never seen something like that with Kotlin.

The hard truth is that Scala was not designed with tool support in mind and it probably never will be. For example hierarchical implicit conversions, while powerful, are terrible for tooling.
Off topic: are there similar efforts for denoising audio? Any pointers appreciated.
because private firms make money by making things people want and every consumer is by choice.

government makes money by threatening you with violence (pay tax or go to jail) and its subjects are so rarely by choice, and if by choice, it's between one government and another.
Someone else might mind your nudes. E.g. your employer, the school your kids go to, the parents of your kids' friends, etc.

At least in the US, rest of the world isn't that shocked of our natural form.
Do you have any sources for what you’re saying? Specifically for your third paragraph.
A linear programming approach for aircraft boarding strategy
There is an alternative method to achieve similar results using very high frequency (40khz in the case of the video below) audio as a carrier for audio that is within the human range. It modulates the amplitude of the carrier signal (in the same way that AM radio does). The high frequency audio interacts with surfaces it hits and kind 'self decodes' into human-perceivable audio. It's doable by DIYers with a little electronics knowledge, too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBdVfUnS-pM
That's really great, thanks!
From a company’s perspective a person uses only a handful of IPs most of the time: home and work.

Combine that with cross-site tracking and phone companies selling your info...
I agree with your opinions, and sympathize with the chronic downvoting and excessive moderating meted out here.

There's little difference between the left and right these days, they've moved so far extreme that their underlying philosophies have started to align.

One such is mob like bullying of corporations, and hysterical outrage. Be it Nike & Kapernick, or __corp_advertizer__ and Ben Shapiro, tribalism and herd behavior have been amplified by the internet. That has unleashed baser instincts of retribution, and when network effects and scale do to retribution what they do to the viral spread and adoption of Uber or Facebook, all hell is unleashed on the afflicted, regardless of the gravity of their crime.

The internet was supposed to free our minds, not pile-on the moderately guilty, at scales VCs salivate over.
However if you test too much of your "internal" code, you just end up cementing the currently implemented logic.

I often see tests that are basically checking if the code didn't change. I.e. checking if function calls (on injected (mock) objects) have been done in the exact specific order, instead of checking for some correct end result.
A sad sign of the times, and it looks like the researchers were in the USA. Perhaps the media people thought this angle with garner their invention more attention.
Unsettled, or how I got my Settled status in the UK as an EU citizen
Chemistry lesson: how to expose a microchip's crystal for photography
It is trivial for you to access it if you want to exercise your rights as a consumer by actually doing a bit of work. There is no requirement that third-parties need to assist you in this endeavor.
Misleading title... why all bugs are "security bugs" nowadays? It's just a bug.

Also, the allocator does not hide the error. It's not a problem generated in or from the allocator. It's a problem generated by the programmer and the impossibility of static analyzers to know every allocator here and there.
Can you provide a linke to Google's paper? I'm really interested in it.
The demo has a Chinese name: 天女散花(means: fairy scatter blossoms)
Really reliable software does full MC/DC testing, but even that doesn't catch all mistakes. SQLite for example does this but there are still bugs discovered occasionally. It also leads to insane amounts of test code compared to the actual application code. That is much too expensive to maintain for most projects.
You don't really understand how accurate the media is until they report on something you know a lot about. Journalists are generalist laymen with strong incentives to be sensationalist and alarmist. Well researched journalism made by somebody who spent long enough on the story to understand what the hell they're talking about is legitimately rare. Uncommon would be an exaggeration.

One of the things that irks me is the rhetoric that Trump-era distrust of the media is somehow undermining democracy or whatever. If you aren't distrustful of the media you are a naive and dangerous fool. I remember the overwhelming majority of US mainstream media pushing the Iraq war with stories that relied on bias and bogus sources. Interviews with officals & experts that had skin in the game. Blind faith in the media is even more dangerous than the also dangerous posture of not paying any heed to what they have to say.
most registrars already charge a yearly fee per domain. Does ICANN not already charge a fee per domain?
Note that I live near a few superfund sites where irresponsible local industry (thanks Intel and Fairchild!)

Have you ever been to Sharks Ice (10th and Alma)?

That paved-over lot across the street is the former Lorentz Barrel and Drum Superfund site.
Why? Why not stop at the legally stipulated punishment proportionate to the crime. Why is there a need to deplatform someone to the same degree, regardless of the gravity of their crime?
It's like when you tell a joke: who posts a link and when is as important as the content of the link itself. It's unfair, but any human system is influenced that way.
My understanding is Shuttle launch preparations had to begin ages in advance, have good weather conditions, etc. So it's a first strike weapon the Soviets would have ample advance warning about (i.e. they'd see the thing crawling out to the pad at 1 mile/hr). Even if the Americans somehow managed to meticulously disguise the mission as a science one, it would only be useful as a very premeditated first strike, not as a rapid response to an imminent geopolitical threat.

The laser satellite stuff is interesting. I was under the impression the massive payload capability (which necessitated the external tank and SRB's) was dictated in part by the military, which lends some credence to those concerns.
At least they should try and get from different vendors/models
> 1. How meritocratic are the decisions we make today?

"Not very" based on my experiences.

> 2. Do we want more meritocracy, or less?

Ideally you want more meritocracy -but- that relies on a level playing field which is much, much, much harder to implement and would involve people paying taxes, etc.

> Would you accept a rubbish pull request in a personal project?

Honestly, I might, if it was something I was never going to get around to and it scratched >50% of an itch. Or if I could see it had potential for later work. Or if it was from someone I wanted to have contact with.

> Would you hire someone with no technical skills into a technical role in your company?

If you add "relevant" after "no", you'd be surprised how often this happens.
A missile that's re-entering at orbital velocities is incredibly difficult to defend against. You can't really shoot it down.

The threat profile of a Shuttle carrying nuclear bombs is that it combines the unstoppable nature of an ICBM with the potential for a surprise attack.

A surprise ICBM launch gives you 10-15 minutes between detection and mushroom clouds over your cities. An overflying Shuttle gives you 2-3 minutes.
This can be replicated in consumer drives by underprovisioning.
I think his argument was that unit tests don't hold up to "real-world" refactorings, because most of the time you change the interface of your classes. Unit tests work nicely if you have one fixed interface and you just refactor some specific implementation of that.
I'm living in Switzerland at the moment and I really appreciate swissinfo.ch (don't know much about the other sources because I only speak English).

For example take a look at the news for their upcoming vote: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/in-depth/vote-february-10--2019

They have numerous articles on the issue (urban sprawl) and unmodified opinion pieces from people on both sides of the issue.
So, then, you believe that your justice system fails to punish these people, and therefore you must take it upon yourself to punish them instead?

I don't like where this is going
I got an offer for 150% of my current salary and a senior title. I declined because it didn't match where I want my career to develop.

any way to leverage this in my current job? I'd have to disclose that I was flirting with others...
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So are we going to have websites blacklisting CA IPs and answering back with some vague "this content is not available in your region?"
> In the same way that we cannot see anything innovative about "agile" without understanding the standard that was "waterfall."

Yup. The most important thing to understand about "waterfall" that it was a strawman describing a hypothetical bad practice, created to contrast against better ways of managing projects. People who failed at reading comprehension ran off with this and started talking about waterfall as if it was a real thing everyone was doing.

> With "design thinking", you would not start with brainstorming "ideas". You would brainstorm problems to solve. (People not putting on their turn signals). Then you would go out and see if that really is a problem, and maybe interview people. If its not a problem, you would discard it without anyone voting on it.

This is barely "focus on problems to solve instead of particular solutions", and "verify the problem is actually a problem". Not following this is a trap everyone falls into more or less often, but alone that doesn't a design ideology make. We don't need the capitalized Design Thinking™ for this.

I've been involved in Design Thinking workshops, and my take is this: like Agile™, it's a core of good concepts. Not new concepts, just concepts that a random person may follow, but not figure out to name them and consider them explicitly. That core has accrued a large layer of nonsense, Capitalized Phrases, and other trinkets that make it look Serious. Is there a value in this? Not in terms of applying it to solving your problems. But definitely in forcing common sense down the throat of a company. Managing your bosses is unfortunately a thing, and a Named, Serious Methodology is frequently a useful vector to sneak in some reason that would otherwise be shot down by management.
Probably just timing & competition from other articles... Often an article is submitted twice, and the second attempt gains traction.
No, that was probably just crickets: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/acs1zv/the_sound...
Thread includes sound samples.
> how these data protection laws are implemented in general and I wish the discussion would be about that instead

Let’s do that, shall we?

Before GDPR there were laws in each European country protecting private data (GDPR is basically Sweden’s data protection law in that regard).

Not a single “poor company that will need comply” gave a damn.

Then GDPR was introduced, discussed, amended. Quite publicly. Not one of the “poor devs that would be hit by it” gave a damn.

GDPR was passed and companies were given two years to adjust their software/systems/business practices to comply. Hardly any of the “let’s have a discussion shall we” devs gave a damn until the last few months of the transition period.

And only when they realized that they had to actually do something, something they should have done literally years ago, we had (and still have) this fake outcry of “boohoo these laws make us work hard and do right things and we don’t wanna”.

Cry me a river.
A consumer always pays, whether by paying or looking at advertisements.

But the modern world offers nice alternatives now. I can watch movies and episodes without ads (thanks to Netflix), and can listen to all the songs in the world without ads (thanks to Spotify). Because I pay instead of watching ads.

A lot of platforms and products offer the choice between looking at ads or letting you pay.

But of course, everyone wants to have stuff for free without ads, but that's just not how a functional economy works.
The US arrests 'birth tourism' operators linked to China for the first time
Surely a battery backed raid controller would be enough? That's how we did it with spinning drives in the past.
The salient point when comparing modern SJW mobs with muck-raking journalism is the ease with which information spreads and the highly effective propaganda (which wasn't even a concept). We are at a turning point where one large portion of society knows how to use photoshop and another large portion will believe anything mildly illusory put in front of them.
That’s not Black Mirror, that’s Tuesday. Meet Google Contributor: https://www.zdnet.com/article/sick-of-ads-now-you-can-pay-go...
Then how do you sell your business? What if inflation or deflation happens?
> Whenever I use Chrome and it redirects a legitimate website URL that I've hosted locally to their search engine as a search query...

German internet provider T-Online pretty much does the same by default. When you enter a domain without a DNS record, they will redirect you to one of their pages.

I think it's something like "That domain does not exist" at the top and then their "news" site which is plastered with ads and more.

Shady tactics, but you can disable that in their settings when they are your ISP.
> Happens every time Hollywood makes a movie about any topic that would be better served by a documentary. It's never not infuriating.

As if documentaries were accurate.

I wish there was a genre of movies that take it as core principle to not abuse artistic license in service of making the plot flow.
I think the reason is that big raises are not sustainable over time.

The argument is turnover costs at least as much but probably more.