skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US doesn't buy rockets from Russia, ULA uses the RD-180 engine until the new Blue Origin engine is ready. The ULA rockets are eg Atlas V (uses the RS-180) and Delta IV. The Delta IV rocket and heavy lift variation uses the RS-68 [1] engine, which is US tech. Their new Vulcan rocket will use the Blue Origin engine.

SpaceX is certified for critical / national security launches and does not use Russia tech.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-68
Doesn't seem much different than when people would form "dislike mobs" or spam "flag inappropriate content" (or claim copyright...). Remember that the video create can always disable comments or lock them for moderation, etc, so they actually would have more control than these other situations too.

It's a new attack vector, sure, but users could already attack broadcasters in this way, so that hasn't really changed.
Warning: this link is NSFW. The article itself may make some valid points about the history of technology, but it is written in poor English and seems meant mainly to advertise services for starting one’s own porn site.
Youtube just needs to increase the barriers before a channel can be monetised. Then, with a smaller pool of channels, they need better human review to prevent exactly things like this from happening.

If they are worried about the costs of a lot of non-monetised videos, just limit non-partner channel quality to 720p30, until the channel is made partner or coughs up something like $100.

Then, they need to allow micro-pledges in addition to likes. I would happily buy a pack of 100 pledges for $10 (ie. one pledge = 10c) and tip that towards the videos that I've really liked. Youtube could take their cut but it would represent a great extra revenue stream for content creators, and the number of pledges made public.
What one person calls a "lack of spine" might be another person's "being responsible to your constituency".

I was an elected official of a party committee once and I faced issues where I believed one thing that only half of my constituents believed so I slowplayed whenever I could.
The blockchain doesn't resolve disputes, it rules them out of scope. The response from blockchain advocates to vendor fraud is "caveat emptor". The dispute is still there.
Between TSLint's no-switch-case-fall-through and an exhaustiveness check[1] I don't think any of these things are really problems with switch statements in TypeScript

[1] Putting a function like this in a default case will enforce that all cases are declared at compile time:

function exhaustive(exp: never): void {}
He's not saying it won't win, either. He's just saying that for it to win, it needs a viable dev platform. Which, if you reverse cause and effect is blatantly obvious.

If ARM comes anywhere close to viable enough to be "winning", there will be a good market for dev platforms, and somebody will step in and fill the need. Heck, some are even arguing here that the Pine64 already meets that need.
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NISTIR 8202
Blockchain Technology Overview

https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2018/NIST.IR.8202.pdf
Actually, while it's not common, a change in legal venue is perfectly legal and Apple knows how to play the game (see Google vs Rockstar, which, once upon a time, was Apple's patent trolling operation in the Eastern District of Texas).
I just can't shake the feeling that people like this guy just enjoy solving intellectually and estetically challenging puzzles more than solving actual problems in an efficent and (in terms of recruiment) scalable and maintainable way.

I really can relate to why this happens, but at the same time.. there are clear downsides towards employing a person like that if you're actually trying to build a company/product and solve a problem.
this just proves we haven't learned anything from the nuclear arms race.
Well, if you use a fictional interpretation of something known as a justification to claim that other people are stupid - you provide nothing of value regarding other people. And the only thing that can be extracted from this is that you feel the need to claim that other people are stupid.
if we assume that committers to these projects are government employees or contractors (possibly with access to juicy systems or info), it'd be interesting to use this commit data as well as a 1 hop followers/following graph of authors to build a dataset that may shed light into communities of gov't contractors that could then be spear phished/targeted in other manners by say other intel agencies. i wonder if this is being done currently.
Also, they are not necessarily mirror images:

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> I haven't read Gladwell's books, but read most of his New Yorker articles.

A significant part of what people (myself included) condemn about Gladwell is that you aren't losing anything at all by doing that.

How David Beats Goliath was a pretty interesting New Yorker article built around 2-3 very good stories, connected by some less-than-great history and dubious analysis. (Gladwell repeatedly implies that it's better to be David than Goliath, because Davids who use unusual strategies win more than half the time. He never manages to acknowledge that he's only looking at conventional-strategy Goliaths, and excluding cases where David looked for alternate approaches but found none.) Still, I'm glad I read it. The Eurisko strategy game story is superb, and the full-court press basketball narrative provides an interesting analogue to similar strategies in other sports like 'small ball'.

David and Goliath consisted of those 2-3 very good stories in a 300+ page book, filled out by tenuously-connected stories, ludicrously cherry-picked anecdotes, and confirmation bias filled blunders through sociological data.

Gladwell is definitely a talented storyteller, and turned loose on the right stories that's not to be underestimated. But his book-length works are scattered and heavy on filler at best. At worst, they're things like Outliers, which is focused and persuasively argued - at the cost of wildly misrepresenting the basic facts it relies on.
Well, dark pools are a counter-HFT measure, of course they have limited price discovery. If you want price discovery, you can go to lit markets. If you want matching without showing your orders, you can put orders to the lit book algorithmically, or go to a dark pool. It's not that there is no choice. And people traded off-exchange like forever, OTC market still exists and predates exchanges.
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It's what I find appealing about the concept of "fluid democracy" - the ability to vote on particular issue in isolation. Taking it to the extreme is probably a bad idea, but so is our current way.
Should Mozilla remove the DNT header from Firefox like Apple did in Safari? When DNT does nothing except give trackers one more bit of fingerprint entropy, is there any value in users still allowing users to send DNT? "DNT: I am one of those people who does not want you to track even though I know you will."
Is it only for US people
And I'm saying illegality is not the only usecase, though it is definitely a valuable and useful one.

In case it wasn't clear, the usecases i mentioned above (gambling, getting around capital controls) exist and are live in crypto right now.
Thank you, I'll keep this in mind for the next time it happens.

It's just that the code is still there, and will need to be replaced in due time. Over and over again.
> which can't make anyone do anything

That's like arguing nobody forced you to create a LinkedIn account in order to get a job. All of the infrastructure to get a job is online and has been for years, as is journalism. Sure, you don't _have_ to create an online professional profile, but you're dramatically limiting your options by doing so. Print media chose move online largely due the explosive growth of the internet. Publications saw the internet as innovative (who didn't?), and chose to jump on. Look at the bubble in the 90's, companies were trying to figure out how to incorporate the web into their business years ago. The armchair argument of "they didn't have to jump on" is weak when you consider they didn't have the benefit of hindsight. Everyone was getting on the web.

> Too many journalists doing too little work that anyone actually values, too badly managed, often because their idea of an important local story isn't really aligned with what local people think is important.

Investigative journalism is dying in the United States because it often takes months or years to investigate a story and can come at an astronomically high cost.[0]

We're approaching an era of journalism where major landmark stories may never see the light of day because the market doesn't care to pay enough for them. Should we be concerned that future investigative scandals (think Catholic Church sex abuse) may not be unearthed in the future because we're not willing to pay people to investigate them? How much money is knowing about such scandals worth to a society that isn't willing to pay for it?

http://www.journalism.org/2002/11/01/investigative-journalis...
I suspect that developers tend to fall into roughly two kinds of backgrounds. That is static/compiled (c/java/etc) languages vs dynamic/interpreted (ruby/python/js/etc) languages.

Perhaps this leads to a different coding styles & expectations. The former end up with a preference for strong typing. Perhaps their coding style also depends on that.

The latter don't seem to find types to be a source of bugs.
At the moment, you need the right to work in the US in order to do the program.
They suggest in the article that is a "thousands of years ago" thing, which makes sense; tough living would have favoured tough-making DNA.
The title of the article is "An Open Letter to the FB recruiter" and not "An Open Letter to FB"
That latter clause seems unenforceable. At-will employment.

Or are there some monetary penalties if they match other employers' offers and you don't take the job?
I'm 100% on board. If you see how dentists run their practices you'll see the advantage of not being directly under the AMA. Not saying the ADA is a bunch of heroes but they're not the active enemy of America that the AMA is.
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Immutable data structure + GDPR right to correct or remove information = ?

(You can sort of get away with it if it's b2b only or a legal requirement to audit, but that limits the use cases further)
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Which one is it?

The fact that some people may have been misinformed about one aspect of the issue (the number of fulfillment jobs) does not -- in any way -- diminish the perfectly legitimate concerns that others had about rising rents and displacement.

What if someone commuted from NJ?

The concern is not about commuters from the metro region.

But rather for the expect large numbers of transplants from many thousands of miles of way -- in exchange for massive subsidies positioned as "necessary" for the benefit of local job creation.
As individuals, there's damn little we can achieve.
Exactly, not sure why the parent commenter couldn't do this.
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Blockchain is useful in a narrow set of cases: when you need a distributed network with no trusted central party, and at the same time you need to prevent double-spending. Usually when you have something valuable and want to prevent double-spending, there is a central authority like a bank or a physical item like cash which will authoritatively answer who holds what. And usually for distributed systems like bittorrent, lying on the network has relatively little risk to other people.
This E-Trade commercial that played during the Superbowl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnQMq5wtZcg
Great feedback, except for the part about the organizers, who obviously have not.

More guns is not the solution to problems with guns.

Improving access to medicine, economic stability and programs that help empower educators and students to build safer spaces may be though.

In my school all the kids knew who was having a hard time and who was isolated, it would be better to reach out to these students rather than shoot at them. Students are going to school to learn and we're teaching and modeling militarism and violence.

The reason, my guess - doesn't make headlines, isn't good for bottom line.
Of course not. Where would I get the week? I'd have to burn vacation time. I'm not going to come join your company unless I really want to work with you.
Apart from Redis, I just wanted to say thank you for starting dump1090. The community that has grown around it is massive, and it has given me a new hobby and interest. It is a great demonstration of the power of open source software and FLOSS culture as a whole.

Not to mention there are now businesses built on the data provided by this free software, being run by volunteers (like I).
Or a jurisdiction which has rules that you can't or choose not to comply with
But what if two banks are transferring money between themselves? Which bank owns the database? Why should the other bank trust that database?
Will his company survive when he's not around anymore? (I don't think so)

I think the chance for him to be that hero, is to opensource everything, and then lead that project (linus way) or retire.....
Is it possible for experienced backend developers to get into the program? I'm thinking someone like myself that has been programming in C# and would like to make a transition to frontend development.
It's still the case that environments should be as close as possible. It's easier to achieve now because the number of environments have shrunk significantly.

Nowadays you will be running on a CentOS/Debian server or a Windows desktop, on an AMD64 compatible CPU. Not so long ago, there were tens of Unix and Linux variants with significant differences. It was impossible to support half of them.
To steal terms from Tufte: mostly data ink, minimum chartjunk.
Nobody said you must do it alone.
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OAuth is the definition of dark pattern.

The way they set up their pop up is plain evil, trying to deceive the user. In the end, it is almost impossible to find the opt-out options, and you have to agree to share your data with the largest ad-networks anyway, otherwise you can not use the website.
The privacy "dash board" doesn't even work without error.

Even if you are not in a country where you are presented with that these pop-ups, the way this is handled should really make you think long and hard about the ethics of the companies behind oauth and techncrunch!
How everyone can be right, but everyone gets annoyed anyways.

Cast:

Developer A, a younger developer who is recognized company-wide as an expert in the latest features of blb++.

Developer B, an older developer who maintains widely used legacy code in blb++ involved in about 80% of a billion dollar multinational's profits.

Dev A: Your group should change the coding style in this application to the new standard.

Dev B: Sure. But since we don't have good Unit Test coverage in this area, we shouldn't just go in and do it by hand. I need to guarantee correctness. I've done a change this big before using a syntax driven automated code rewrite tool, and one can guarantee correctness if the code structure allows it. If you know of such a tool for blb++, you can help me out and we can do it.

(Background for the reader: No such tool exists for blb++ which can guarantee correctness. Such tools do exist for other languages in Dev B's work experience.)

Later on, Dev A is grousing about how Dev B is just coming up with esoteric excuses to do nothing. She's kind of put off. Dev B is put off, because he's kind of been accused of making stuff up, even though he's talking from a particularly interesting and valuable part of his work experience.

Dev A is correct, in that the new coding style is better, more efficient, and would even prevent mistakes going forwards. Dev B is correct, in that he really needs to guarantee correctness, especially if he's going to make a change that big which has no visible benefit to stakeholders. What's the takeaway?
No doubt that there are a lot of people selling those services, but I think they are capitalizing off the fact that a lot of people don't know/spend the time to understand where blockchain actually improves things - and it's no fault of those people.

From my understanding, blockchain is essentially "cheap trust" . You can pay the system a fee to trust math rather than a human. Once I learned that, I realized there are very few scenarios where cheap trust is needed.

So perhaps I should adjust my first statement with "people who understand blockchain" - although even that's not necessarily fair as it assumes that I "understand" it.

I suppose what I'm getting at is that I think it's unfair to look at the number of scammers/people selling "blockchain" services and make an assumption on the industry as a whole. Most of the developers in the space that I know completely write off those people and don't even consider them in the industry.

On whether money can be completely represented without recourse to the outside world -> Agreed, I should again amend my statement to say "value". There is no doubt that 1 Bitcoin represents a certain amount of "value" right now and that value has so far proven to be un-censorable. Whether it will be successful money is a different question.
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I've just finished the first draft of my children's novel about robots, so I'm planning to post more about the writing, editing, querying, publishing process here. Right now, most of the posts on my site are about books, ultramarathons, coding, and music.
fwiw, in Matrix, to send a message, it's:

curl 'https://matrix.org/_matrix/client/r0/rooms/!RXNcERlITUVszBNIPW%3Amatrix.org/send/m.room.message/123?access_token='$TOKEN -X PUT --data '{"msgtype":"m.text","body":"hello world"}'

and to receive messages it's:

curl 'https://matrix.org/_matrix/client/r0/sync?access_token='$TOKEN

Hopefully this ends up being quite easy to work with :)
Having a location in that District is creating a nexus - you end up having legal residency in that location
That's similar what we're going for, apprenticeship. We think that hands-on projects help people learn very fast. Some of the projects are from us (specifically designed for learning), and some of them are real-world.

As for unionization, I am not sure. The demand is high enough for software developers that we are willing to take risk to not get paid back if they earning below $40,000. So we don't guarantee a salary but we make sure they don't pay us if they are aren't earning enough.
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>The presence of hard defensive positions augmented by landmines and autonomous sentry guns allows South Korea to deter Northern aggression without having to keep up with North Korea's punishing and impoverishing level of military spending.

And the presence of plenty of artillery pointed at Seoul has prevented anyone who doesn't want to see Seoul leveled as a result of their actions from taking aggressive action against North Korea. Knowing that if you do anything bad you will get whacked hard enough that it's not worth it is a powerful deterrent.

>Like any weapon, robotic weapons are only a problem if you use them for evil.

Because of the inherent defensive bias of the technology (stationary is easier than mobile, defending a known area is easier than entering an new area and figuring out what to shoot) robotic weapons are a bigger problem for those seeking to do or enable evil.
I've seen carpenter bees in California as big as that.
Yes, that is one potential countermeasure. I wonder if it would be effective or if it would be the beginning of the end for fb.
Gah, naming! It feels like a sign of a lack of empathy to not at least give some semi-meaningful name to a variable. "x" is only acceptable if you're literally writing a function to perform algebra.
I think this ignores the fact that these devs just write some js and push it to some cloud server and it uses APIs for storage on some other server.

The person running the infra for S3 or GitHub needs to think like Linus because they need to worry about that system level compatibility. But if I write an app using say node+s3 I trust that even though I develop on x86 I can run it under node on Arm.
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Plus, you can solve all the issues the article points out using linting tools like ESLint. Rules like no-case-declarations, no-duplicate-case, and no-fallthrough already exist for this exact purpose.
Contractors are not secret, nor are employees. You can go to LinkedIn and easily look up people who work for NSA, or Booz Allen Hamilton, and learn a great deal of who does what (again, not a secret). Counterintelligence measures are employed elsewhere.
65,000 lines of code? I'm not a developer but that seems impressive.
Here it is in flight and a shot of the interior as well as the sensor array bolted onto the nose:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxfNChMNQyM
Yes. Very enthusiastic, outspoken, easy going, pleasant to work with, but really can't complete the tasks without someone going back and fixing it.
Ah... bummer, you should make it clear at the front page though.
Autonomous robots are going to be really effective in all the places where it is difficult for a human to survive and where decision making is mediated be technology, not human senses. So, they are going to be really effective deep underwater, in space, and in high-g aerial combat at radar range.

Setting aside the moral question, there is also the institutional issue that officers may not like to see pilots replaced with drones, sailors with UUAVs, etc. That creates this dangerous place where the US military can have it's manned systems disrupted by cheaper unmanned ones. I think that is dangerous for me.

As far as the moral issue: What is the difference between a machine firing a missile at a plane it believes is attacking and an officer on a ship pressing a button to fire that missile based on the risk assessment of a machine that tells the officer that an airliner is an attacker. Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

In that case the crew may have made a mistake in judgement. But it is easy to see a potential future case where no human interpretation is better than how a computer interprets the incoming data, and humans have to act on the computer's judgement alone. We can insert humans in the loop but that may not really mean anything.
Trusted third party owned by the banks, or providing audited services to the banks. Banks trust the third party because contracts are enforced by law as well as federal and industry regulations.

Ain't no judge gonna throw up is hands and go "well, the smart contract says so, my hands are tied!". Blockchain doesn't solve anything where there is a functioning legal framework.

You can't use technology to solve a problem that isn't a technology problem.
> The whole industry is just selling snake-oil, and (I think?) people are buying it.

No, not people in the sense of end user customers. The industry is selling snake oil and some investors have bought into it and subsequently promote it.

10 years down the road and they're still trying to find a mainstream use case, but they won't find it because in the end using a blockchain makes everything harder if you are a legal enterprise.
No, it's just lack of true skill.