skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A microcontroller for a pump probably doesn't need floating point numbers, but flight control software uses it.

This went wrong before and an Ariane 5 was blown up (automatically as a safety measure), see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_(spacecraft)#Launch_fa...
Strictly speaking the problem was converting floats to 16-bit integers which ended in an overflow... So avoiding floats doesn't even help as it won't protect you from overflows.
Why is a garage entry system run on Windows?
Is that not something many people do all the time with hashtags? Those are a form of metadata...
Now, isn't that ironic?
The official preliminary report is due out in a day or two, but the contents have already started to leak: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/29/ethiopian-crash-boeing-737-m...
> No 3.5 mm jack

Oh well
If for example they also owned battlEye they would have a seat at the table to 'suggest' that was used for anti cheating.

No comment on the wider claims, but 40% does give them a tremendous amount of at least soft power.
After having watched White Collar I usually say that about most accusations. We have all seen shows where an innocent person looks guilty. We somehow went from innocent until proven guilty to ridiculed and reviled until dead (and even that doesnt end it) regardless of the verdict or the reality.
Awww, right in his face, that's cruial!
If anyone in your company needs convincing just tell them it's good for SEO. Seems to be the magic bullet for getting accessibility efforts through.
And yet it's still an extra device that you'd need to plan for using. I have this Sansa MP3 player with great quality audio that is 1/10th the size of your average digital camera. I still don't bring it with me anywhere anymore.
I am wondering how popular WeChat and QQ is outside of China. The most worrying news for me is Tencent investment in Reddit.
Do you work in 955?
If the country law is aimed to achive 100% surveillance and zero privacy, yes, you can blame it.
This is where Elixir and Phoenix really excels. It just renders pages so damn fast!
Scientific research on the source of bugs shows that type-related bugs are a minority.
this comment right there will be useful for years to come.
/Saving
Partly, it's just that everything is priced relative to the current market, which atm is cash rich and opportunity poor.

Uber and Lyft are an optimistic bet. They can't generate profits right now but (Uber especially) they might find a way. Self driving cars are otw. They could be in position for that. Regulation is otw. This could give them a moat.

..also efficiency, I suppose. A lot of recent "marketplace" successes (YouTube rev-share, app stores, steam, iTunes...) are built on thick margins. Uber and Lyft take 20-25%. Uber & Lyft's main job is software and software scales. There's no inherent reason preventing them from operating within a profit producing budget, especially if growth-at-all-costs ends. It'd be hard to justify the share price though.

Remember that FB went public well before the ad business turned into the money machine it became.

Not saying it's a good investment. I suspect it's not, but there aren't many good investments around.
etc.
Semantic HTML is more than a few easy steps to clearer document structure. For example, to ensure that screenreaders process your page correctly, you have to wrap every single foreign-language name or phrase sprinkled in English text in <span lang=""> tags. It is evident that the majority of web designers and content writers can't be bothered to do that.
The USPS already offers a service that will scan and email the outside of your mail, so you at least can usually see who it is from.
I suck at this too. I force myself to take out long walks (luckily, Spring is just starting around here, which means that they'll become pleasant again!) just to clear my head and unplug for 2 hours.

Other than that, my conclusion is that I have maybe 25 hours of focused work per week in me. Maybe if I did absolutely nothing else in life (i.e. literally lie in bed and stare at ceiling when not working), my mental capabilities would regenerate faster and thus I could work more, but what is the point of a life like this.
A lot have happened to HTML since I started with web development in the 90's, but I'm still waiting for the semantic web to catch on ... One problem is the rule of least resistance, people will usually do as little markup as possible. Adding schema itemprop etc is a lot of work for very little gain. The only effect is that it's now easier for Google to scrape your web page to show the data in the search result, instead of sending the user to your site. You offer free lunch, and your biggest competitor takes it all, then sell it for profit. For this reason, sites like Facebook and Linkedin make a lot of effort to make it hard or impossible to scrape data. There are also a lot of other sites that keep hugging their data, walling it off from the rest of the word. This is why the sematic web have a very hard time, even though it's such an great idea.
Don’t give up computing but consider doing test driven development. (Google it). It will help you discover the mistakes a lot quicker. I would certainly make the same mistakes especially with rarely used algorithms.

Most coders would use libraries for UTF8 and a high level programming language that doesn’t segfault - in other words they’d “cheat” but in reality they probably just want to solve the problem quick and get the job done.
Most of the organizations doing this work are nonprofits, not companies.
It's the blowback of romanticising city life.
Just like these "van life" and "minimalist" trends
The rise, fall and rise again of Nokia
I'm not too knowledgeable when it comes to finances. But isn't it possible to bet against a stock? As in someone promising you to buy stock X at price Y at future date Z?
So when the stock dips, you make money.

If yes, and this is such a clear cut case (again, I know very little about finances, just going of the comments here), shouldn't this be easy money? Hell, I would bet against it if I had any betting money.
>Like making a movie ... which one would expect it would be ... not "a financial scam"

I think you have better expectations of the film industry than I do :-)
And the reason MCAS doesn't respect it is because MCAS is designed to activate in high AoA situations. You get into a high AoA situation because you're already pulling back hard on the yoke, likely in an attempt to avoid something bad happening such as avoiding a collision. If MCAS did cutout when the yoke was pulled back hard, it would disable itself at precisely the time it is actually needed. This design decision does make sense. The real problem is not telling the pilots about it.
> There is an old study about 4.5 million .NET developers in 2004. Today, if I have to guess, there are at least 7-8 million .NET developers in the world.

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/forums/how-many-c-sharp-develo... (2014)
They can deal with it. Verizon has a tool to block this spam that used to cost $3/mo, and that they’re finally making available for free.

Why they don’t simply block it from their network in the first place, though, is beyond me.
Wow, I got goose bumps looking at that picture. Weird.
It is called short selling. Don't how/if that works in combination with an IPO.
Haha, I thought the same thing.
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I was just calling out a clickbait, didn't know that is a crime. I went back and checked the definition of "irony". This does not match any of the three:

* the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
* a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result.
* a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions is clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character.
>How can they be terrible and have the best doctors at the same time ?

If I'm understanding correctly, public doctors are in a good position to get experience in dificult cases and learn from worst cases before to jump to private hospitals

I have a problem with the idea of "passionate nurses".

Nurses shouldn't be "passionate", they have to be professional. Passionate people, unable to emotionally detach, will burn quickly in such place like an hospital (where the supply of suffering people is endless, and they can't decide and bassically obey orders from the upper staff). This has lead in the past to compassionate serial killers. Death angels have always the best intentions drawn in their head. Trying to be the mother and best friend of each one of your patients is a terrible strategy at long term.
Angular 2 has been around since 2015.
I do not think that would return if they are paid under 2k USD, and that doesn’t mean most of developers could earn more than 4k USD in China
That's not very surprising to anyone who has been following along. The more interesting question is why they failed to identify the trim runaway condition, or if they did indeed identify it, why the procedure failed to correct it?

This is significantly different to the Lion air incident where you can easily give the pilots the benefit of the doubt because the failure mode hadn't been previously identified. The details of MCAS and the procedure to handle it was communicated to all operators months before this accident.
You can immediately analyze the effort undertaken by the asker. And it is worth pointing out sometimes. Of course no need to be rude.
The only interaction you know about.

I was working for a telco hardware and software manufacturer and I remember when about 15 years ago, I was the QA, who was sent to China with an engineer to implement "a feature" onsite (yes it was a backdoor). Everybody could guessed in my team, why are we were sent there. Also worked at a cinema control software company and we had to implement the same feature.

So yeah, it only take one engineer to implement a feature. (or a bug)
Also https://instant.page/. It preloads a page when the user hovers over a link.
How developers and tech founders can turn their ideas into UI design
Russia’s censorship agency demands that VPN providers comply with its blocklist
Frequentist treat parameter as point estimate.

Bayesian treat parameter as a distribution.

The point estimate is base on sample space where as the parameter distribution is base the parameter space.

I think learning both is good and people who pit those two school of statistic against each other are a bit too zealot. They're both tools and use them as needed and when one is easier than the other.
It would definitely be ironic if a movie about honesty and integrity had been funded by a scam. This is sort of the opposite, the topic of the movie and its source of funding are thematically similar, rather than being in opposition. So rather than describing it as "ironic" I'd use an antonym like "fitting" or "congruous".
am i the only one that is reminded by the "multi-blade razor wars", when gillette and wilkinson got into a "mine has more blades" competition?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-knive...

>> Gillette has historically called the shots in this razor war. It enjoys a huge worldwide sales advantage over Schick/Wilkinson Sword, which is now based in St Louis. With several lawsuits and countersuits constantly on the go, the companies can fairly be said truly to hate one another - especially since Gillette was unnerved in 2003 by Wilkinson Sword's brilliant and somewhat insolent introduction of the Quattro, a four-blade beast of a razor, which captured Gillette's jealously-guarded "most blades" title and has held on to it for the past three years.
Very fascinating. Now I know why the Light-Camera [1] looks just plain ugly to me. The Nokia-Phone is a little better, but also non-pleasant at least.

[1] https://light.co/camera
Vitalik Buterin Is Embracing a New Role: Political Theorist
Seriously? Reinventing the wheel with no reason other than ignorance sounds bad to me.
> Preclinical models have shown that umbilical cord blood contains effector cells that, through paracrine signaling, suppress inflammation and alter brain connectivity 32, 33. We have reported significant improvements in behavior, including increased social functioning, improved communication abilities, and decreased clinical symptoms, following treatment with a single infusion of autologous cord blood in a phase I open‐label trial for children with ASD [1]

[1] https://stemcellsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/1...
Ask HN: Are pay-walled posts essentially a form of advertising?
In order to foster a real discussion about an article behind a paywall, all participants would be required to pay for access and read it, right?
I've only found this to be a real problem in the past 2 years. Reddit is particularly susceptible, but it's becoming more and more prevalent.
Given that the main function of US military capabilities since the second world war has been deterrence, that seems exactly wrong.
Multi-Scale Turing Patterns 2
The core issue with Boeing is that they have captured the government. Boeing the largest defense contractor, and one of the biggest lobbyists. Boeing recently successfully blocked Bombardier from competing with the 737 by getting the US government to effectively ban the C-series aircraft. (Bombariders "solution" was to give Airbus a controlling interest in a joint venture to build the C-series). I don't think this is really capitalism, it is corporatism - where the government and mega-corporations are indistinguishable and they only care about profits (and consequently about preventing competition)
> Yes, and you lose a hemi-field in both eyes if you have a stroke in the visual cortex on one side of the brain.

In my case the aura of my migraines (that I thankfully only had during puberty) were limited to the left hemi-field. Which I guess suggests that the migraine was "centered" in the right brain hemisphere.
That's really weird. Does it have something to do with its UK distribution rights or something?

Funny enough, I was able to find the Spanish version of the book on Amazon UK[0], but the English version apparently "will be released on September 12, 2019"[1] for Amazon UK.

I guess there exists a tiny niche market here where you can buy "early release" books from "early release" jurisdictions and ship it to "late release" jurisdictions.

[0] https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/6073176899

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1912854546
No idea why you are being downvoted. You are correct -- one of the forms of irony would, for example, entail the specific intent of making a movie in the most aboveboard manner, only to have it mired in fraud.
Scope of Research on Particle Swarm Optimization Based Data Clustering
I believe Appveyor meets your wishlist. It's known as a Windows build service but they recently added Linux support.

We're actually moving away from them though because they don't support build chains and artifact dependencies which is becoming an absolute requirement now. TeamCity is a much better fit for our workflow but Appveyor was very helpful for us to get started.

Aside from that, the only real downside however is that they update the base images without warning which can be a real pain if that happens to break something in the middle of a sprint.

Overall however I think the service is excellent, well designed and their support team are very responsive and knowledgeable.
Agreed. But I imagine if you buy something like the total stock market index (https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/VTSMX) that Lyft would be included, since they try to buy every public US stock.
That's training, the rocks in backpack make sense then (I too sometimes load my backpack with heavy books when I go for a long walk). It's very different from it having strapped to your body forever.
Aye, it's my goto for viewing diffed files from mercurial and git. Really nice tool.
Boston Dynamics Updates the Handle Robot
This is a microcosm yes, but I think a darker one of how the complexity of society has increased without a corresponding increase in coordination to manage it.

You can think of there being interaction and coordination graphs with the same nodes. Both are getting bigger (more nodes) and denser (more edges). But the interaction one is getting denser faster.

tl:dr 50/100 years ago it would have been harder to talk to the fisherman, but also way less trash in the ocean to ask about.
> When they had a machine exception, they'd paint little bombs on the left side of the screen

Earlier on, they used a mushroom cloud icon, but that was not well received apparently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_(icon)#Atari_ST_TOS
from GP: "I have patches in Git. If OpenBSD doesn't want to use it that's fine by me, and I wish them the best of luck. But let's be clear, it's not because we're telling them they can't use it."

I think he means he is a contributor to the source of `git` itself, and thus is justified in saying "we" in terms of not prohibiting OpenBSD's contributors from using the software he helps develop (git).
There is also a big difference between playing stardew valley 2 hours a day sitting in a comfy sofa VS working 8+ hours a day in a farm no matter the weather.

You can buy a farm in a remote area and be self sustainable in food / energy for not much, but yeah you won't make bay area money like that.

If you make "just enough to live" but live the life you want, more power to you. No one if forced to join the city rat race.
A masterful exercise in hype. Lyft and Uber are PR companies in the personal transportation domain.
This is great. What a wonderfully unexpected thing, to find a humorous piece of speculative fiction on HN on a Friday morning.
there's a difference between the semantic web and semantic HTML though - semantic HTML is particularly important for giving accessibility hints for example.
trade has always opened up specie to increased risk, ships crossing the oceans, canals, and more. Look at the issues the Atlantic origin lamprey's had on the Great Lakes.
Yes, English is the "universal" language, whether we like it or not, and speaking in another language in a public place (such as a github issue tracker) is disrespectful, because it's like gatekeeping information and knowledge.
>Google+ was the third largest social network.

I suspect the metrics were heavily cooked at the time when this was reported. At some point it was really easily to accidentally end up on G+ just by using other Google products, and Youtube comments counted as G+ posts, which no doubt made for incredible activity numbers.
The willingness to jump through outmoded and unnecessary hoops does not correlate to the quality of one's cryptographic code. In fact, many who are deliberately diligent will shy away from teams who care more about tradition than quality, in my experience.
WeWork Lenders Are Getting Cold Feet
It is not. Rather, you could say that it is congruous, or, seeking the more emphatic tone, apposite.
Looking at archive.org, the page has had "to be released soon" since at least 2005 [1]. So I think your skepticism is in order.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20050130011942/https://www.openb...
Ah, ninja'd!
> Ruby, which was a one trick pony

citation needed
Difference Between Batch Gradient Descent and Stochastic Gradient Descent (2017)
Starting on page 9 of his 75-page bio [0], work for many firms and associations in many industries, including some that routinely produce particulate pollution such as e.g. American Petroleum Institute, National Mining Association, American Chemistry Council, Engine Manufacturers Association, Western States Petroleum Association, Philip Morris, Xcel Energy, Goodyear Tire, Exxon Biomedical Sciences, Mobil Oil, etc. is described. I know this guy has been working a long time, but he must have been really busy to get all this stuff done!

[0] http://cox-associates.com/index_htm_files/Coxbio.pdf
Sure, but then the problem would be their ownership of the anti-cheat company, not of Epic. FWIW, BattlEye appears to be German and Easy Anti-Cheat Finnish (and bought by Epic).
It's situational irony, #2 in your list, since you'd expect people working on a film about corruption to be at least reasonably honest.
"Instead of relying on a single sensor indicating the angle of the plane’s nose, MCAS will rely on data from both of the plane’s sensors"

Why wouldn't you design it that way from the beginning? This isn't Boeing's first plane.
There's a great podcast interview about the what/why of Stimulus: https://changelog.com/podcast/286
But exceptions are the point.

We live with a system that allows exceptions that manifest as the Pharmabro.

My power bill doesn't randomly jump 5000% from last month.
The trolling on HN gets better every week!
Ignoring the obvious attempt to bring fascism as somehow not right-wing, which is all too common on the right today, FB/Twitter etc. make exceptions for governments/public figures, including Donald Trump and the DoD.

I don't think they should, but I also know that if they didn't, Trump and others would get banned and the cries from the fake free speech worriers, (who are quiet as heck on ie BDS), would be a lot louder.
Yes, there is a difference between giving all your information by your own free will and the state spying on everything you do.

On the other hand how many knows how much Facebook and Google collects about you and where that information ends up some time later? There was a lot of scifi about the information society and how that could derail in the future, where machines decides if you might commit a crime in the future and take preventative meassures. We are not far away from it now, just takes a few small jumps in the imagination to end up there :-)
I read your blog and I think that's why we still need Rails to keep other frameworks on their toe.

Feature/Improvements introduced in Rails are constantly being picked up by other frameworks but for some reason, people are ignorant about the progress made by Rails in the last couple of years.

I use Rails every day at work and trust me when I say this, It is so easy to get back to the code written last week or even last month(Of course Ruby plays a big role in that). It is a big advantage when you do not have to break your head every time you wanna review your code which is written some time back.
With cameras more physical lense area and more sensor area should actually be beneficial.
History of Biosphere 2
Minnesota is a paradise to drive in (even in winter) compared to where I'm from. You should have picked a better example.
It has only been less than a year since then though...

Also hello from NZ :)
Iceberg Twice the Size of New York City Is About to Split from Antarctica
If you think that is crazy look back to the Nokia 1020 that had a 41 MP camera and PureView back when most phones had like 8 MP. It took some awesome photos and several of my friends were very satisfied with the phone.
Quite a few SEOs would say it's better to have your page shown in the infobox, even if people can get the answer there, since it pushes your competitors down the page and out of view for that query. If you're both first and have that giant sidebar/top block in your favour, you're a lot more likely to get clicked than if not.

https://moz.com/blog/how-to-appear-in-googles-answer-boxes-w...
Paywalled, anyone have a workaround?
This works pretty well:

alias scp="rsync --partial --progress --rsh=ssh"

You should keep in mind that it is rsync in the background, because parameter are different.
Frankly, I had not realized scp and sftp were two distinct protocols, despite my heavily using them. I thought sftp was an interactive client, while scp was meant for scripting, and never really bothered to dig further. I now will, thank you.

However, I expect plenty of people to be in the same case.
There's definitely a case to be made that some of that song is situational, and if you peer and squint really hard it could even be a deeper irony:

https://www.salon.com/2014/05/08/what_everybody_gets_wrong_a...