skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, its not like they have had a stellar record when it comes to covering up previous issues with their planes.

https://www.themilitant.com/1997/617/617_34.html
http://old.seattletimes.com/news/local/737/part04/
That's a pretty good analogue, given that bicycles are proprietary.
The oldest headlines I remember are from the 1960s and 70s. Also, there's already so many "refugees" in my country, I won't notice a couple of million more. The way I see it things will tip politically towards the far, far right and then I won't have to worry about people dying outside of my country.
Any plans to evolve gg to use open source serverless platforms like knative, openwhisk or openfaas?
This shows how much YouTube could benefit from a "I'm feeling lucky" button. No algorithms (except for flagging inappropriate content), no filter bubbles, just a random video uploaded from another human.
Why does God need public records? In Alabama, that’s a real question
> I think this is a high-level language programmer trying to understand herself/himself an issue without a clear idea of what he/she is talking about

FYI The author is a PhD student working on optimizing compiler.
> Eu will know where were you when you requested something

You don't request a positioning signal, they are broadcast by the satellites and nothing is sent back by the receivers. Some devices (like smartphones) may send their GPS discovered position over the Internet, where encryption may be used, but this is not what is being referred to.

Encryption allows you to restrict access, or provided tiered access to signals of varying accuracy. You can also use cryptography in order to prevent spoofing.
>Airlines fear some passengers will refuse to fly on the Max.

Well this sure solves that problem in an anti-customer way.

Your partner doesn't want want duck for dinner? Order it anyways and tell them it isn't duck. If you make up a new word for duck, it's not lying and you're a good partner. /s
You've neglected methods and cost of enforcement. Getting rid of the bulk rate for spam would help tremendously, but even at higher rates it's still going to be profitable for a lot of companies. Real estate, credit card, and automobile companies are the first that come to mind for me.

Politically, I expect the American Postal Workers' Union will put up a tremendous fight.
Hyderabad Airport Will Use Facial Recognition to ID Outbound Fliers
I mean I get the idea and all, but considering half the internet runs on AWS is this even feasible? Your day-to-day internet use would be crippled. Wouldn't it be better to spend the effort on writing letters to politicians or better yet campaigning yourself? (I'm assuming this is being posted because of the prime day walkouts today)
Just FYI the completion results in the omnibox have little to do with the search engine results. Clearly the search engine produces millions of hits for “Hillary Clinton emails”. The completions are a completely separate system based on what people type in the box, not what’s in the index, and it’s laser-focused on producing interactive results.
Yes, we have also been leaning towards running our sites for only "office hours" of 9-5, sometimes closer to 9-10 to allow for people who wake up outside of "human hours".

The downside of week-long events is that you exclude people who have to go to work or have other commitments, but might be able to make time over a weekend.
> A general good rule is what when you see someone do something, there’s probably a, if not good, understandable reason for it.

In this case, presumably a middle-class kid who was fed a line that going to college is the way forward. They were probably decent but not outstanding students who went mostly because that was expected and got a A of Arts degree because the BS degrees are miserable.

Motivated folks can make that BA work, but your barista was probably going to end up there with or without a Bachelor's; the BA just means they're promotable, or may be able to break out of that place later.
Under the hood it's all conditional jump instructions whether it's tail recursion, loops, or if/else expressions.
But the problem is credit scores are used as proxies for other purposes.
This is a stretch, IMO.

Tl;dr: Google and IBM collaborate on the Power architecture, which is widely used in scientific computing. One of the other companies collaborating on it is a Chinese company that sells chips to the Chinese state among other clients.

By this sort of Kevin Bacon logic you can basically tie anyone to anything.
Competitive bid doesn't have to mean lowest bidder. I've put tons of (non-government) projects out for bid because you're usually expected to do so to keep everyone relatively honest. I imagine the MIT Instrumentation Lab were the only people with the inertial guidance expertise at that time.
Want a job?

;-D
Can you provide some evidence or reading on this? I understand A/B typically measures _conversions_, but couldn't you have quantifiable proxies for usability? For example, things like form abandonment and time-to-complete a task.

To be clear, I'm not contesting the value of usability tests involving watching actual users. Our UX team does this with every release and it's invaluable. But I would think data from A/B testing would only help inform our decisions.
Well considering Ryanair's predilection for renaming random airports after a large city it's not really anywhere near, this seems like a logical step.
>What it actually (vaguely) says is “You can’t learn from data without making assumptions”.

That's what they taught us it means in our graduate machine learning class. What were people citing it to mean?
You're solving a problem that doesn't exist anymore.
Sounds like a pipe dream. I wouldn't lend you money for your wild fantasies.
> I am fascinated by the steps that lead to such decisions. When someone initially mentioned this idea, no one in the chain objected? Like, no one took 10 seconds to pause and say, this is not right? If they did, they got overruled?

There are plenty of reasons:

-- Manager is a tyrant and no one wanted to get on his or her bad side.

-- Directors made this mandatory, with no room for negotiation

-- Government might be cash strapped and selling this kind of information might be in much-needed funds.

-- Government lawyers reviewed the legality of it and constructed an argument that could hold up in court.
This is a world where giving money to a company is an inherently political act, even if you do not know it to be. Each dollar spent at Amazon is a tacit endorsement of its business, labor, and greater economic practices, and for one to detail why they choose to stop supporting a business is to enumerate the practices and side-effects of that business's existence that they find problematic or harmful.

This is meant to spark discussion of the thought process behind consciously decoupling from a specific product, not to look for kudos or get patted on the back.
Further, most of the 'program' is in the cellular mechanics. DNA does nothing just sitting on a table. It must have a machine to 'execute on', and the cellular machinery is a whopper.

I liken DNA to a paper tape with two punches: one for 'man' and one for 'mouse'. You run it through an enormous machine, and depending on which hole is punched you get a man or a mouse. But the paper tape is an almost trivial part of the process.
Curious and not refuting - what was the cause of the outage?
I'm not suggesting that. Nor am I saying China & Russia are anti Google. I was only responding to why your statement "article doesn't mention X,Y,Z" was missing the mark on taf2's argument
OpenTTP: A platform for traceable time and frequency
Even the US military doesn't use the encryption channels much anymore. Turns out that differential GPS is more accurate and you don't even need the encryption channel to do it. We already know the next message the GPS will send with high accuracy, the important part is detecting exactly when the first bit arrives at the antenna you everything you need from that.

If you want to get more accurate you don't use the encrypted channel you put a GPS in a fixed location on earth and have it send corrections to you. (called RTK)

Edit: Note that I have no information on what the US military uses their classified channel for. It is unlikely they get any accuracy information from it anymore given what civilian GPS systems have figured out.
Except there are plenty of people with prime who want next day but get two to three days because of the piss-poor couriers Amazon chooses to use.
I'm an ag engineer working on soil amendment for increased moisture retention, what kind of tech do you want?
"I can't believe it's not duck" !
Welcome to Tampa! There's an opt out link at the bottom of the article that leads to one of the data users.
This doesn't block any site using AWS, only sites which are fronted by a server hosted within AWS.
I interviewed for a position last year where the company had a very successful product and was growing, but still small. They wanted to restructure everything (the way they code, teams, management style) to be more like Google.

I made it to the last interview stage, which would have been a 4 hour remote white-boarding session, where they would give me something to code and a team of developers would watch me. I turned it turned it down and found a much better position the next day.

The first stage of the interview was light technical and almost all a psychological test to see if I would be a good 'culture' fit.

The interviewer was a first-time 20-something manager that wanted to make a name for himself and had read a few silicon valley books about technical interviews. He actually told me this.

Most companies aren't Google and shouldn't be emulating much of anything there.
I recently rejigged some of unlikekinds.com for performance and accessibility and climbed up Google fairly significantly, pretty much overnight.

I can only imagine The Verge would be pulling in a lot more traffic and ad dollars if they did the same.

But then, maybe the effect of all the links to the site completely outweighs any negative effect from slowness.

That said, if the site is really experienced that slowly, it might be that a high proportion of users give up before a page loads.
T-Mobile/Verizon 'Sprint' to Network Leads in 5G Race
I think bidding government contracts is a lot more complicated than just picking the cheapest option. There's a lot of other dimensions of validation that bids move through other than cost.

For something like this, I'm sure there is stringent engineering validation. I know some initial NN research was part of a larger government project of funding research around stabilizing missiles in flight for ICBMs that was not cheap.
Having a single master, instead of having to please every compiler vendor, helps.
my users are so stupid I need to remove or break stuff that would be useful for 99% of my userbase

Yes, that's what engineers often sound like when we try to interpret the conclusions of usability professionals. We get frustrated because the features that we would find easiest to work with are not necessarily the features the product should have. I'm not saying I'm a UX professional who does know better than engineers; I'm just saying that as engineers we should get used to the fact that what is horrible design from our perspective is often the result of careful work done with a more representative sample of users.
Mmmkay. Have fun with that.

The attempt is also incomplete. I suspect this would miss ranges advertised through AWS's BYOIP (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-byoi...) option. It would definitely miss ranges advertised through companies' own datacenters and serviced in the backend by AWS.
Thank drpancake in your Oscar speech.
Breaking up companies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are just not gonna happen in 2019 where huge, global mega-corps are the only way to compete outside of small local markets.

Even though a lot of these corporations build offices, hire non-Americans, and pay tons of foreign taxes in countries in which they do business, the main executives and talent still live in the US, the IP is developed here, and the majority of profits end up back in the home country.

It's better for everyone who actually matters - shareholders, intel agencies, government officials, associated businesses, etc - that these companies remain large and globally dominant, even if it screws over US citizens by having to pay the monopoly taxes and suffer the privacy invasions. We're an insignificant sacrifice in the decision-makers' minds.
From what I understand, Boeing became toxic when they bought McDonnell-Douglas and absorbed their company culture of "Safety? Quality control? What are those?".

The 737 MAX and the 787 Dreamliner were both designed after the acquisition and are full of issues. The 777 predates that, so it's fine.
How familiar would you say you are with Pakistani culture? It really is not very hard to believe.
I think it matters in the context of liability.

For instance, if you're a newspaper, and you publish "Politician X is a rapist" and you don't have a way to back up that allegation in court you're liable. As a platform, you're not liable for the content your users post.

If you are allowing people to say "Politician X is a rapist" but not allowing people to say "Politician Y is a rapist", you've crossed into the land of publisher in some people's minds.

Simply being a platform on the web is 'doing business' if you're getting revenue from that operation. Can a platform specifically reject a religious group from their site? Can a platform demonetize a religious group?

I personally don't believe in protected groups, but if we're going to have protected groups, we should apply the same protection to all groups, equally, even if the group size is 1.
Huh. Wonder what the difference is. Just checked, they seem to hit me with about 1/day, choosing something "relevant" (to what I've been looking at) when possible.
I generally hate being pedantic, but to really be accurate they started flying themselves into the ground rather than falling out of the sky.

I have thought a lot about this for personal reasons, and I increasingly think the biggest failing is not grounding the fleet after the Lion Air crash. The Ethiopia Air should never have happened in any company that prioritized safety and risk appropriately.
Because I don't think someone waiting tables should have to sacrifice a chunk of their income to fund the American military-industrial complex.
While you won’t have any trouble finding “From Mathematics to Generic Programming,” you may be interested in the book’s website, http://www.fm2gp.com/ , which includes a sample chapter and links to interviews about the book, including one with Lakos:

“John: ... How — and please be brutally honest — would you contrast your experiences of co-authoring a book with Dan versus Paul?

“Alex: The goals of the books were quite different. Both books have their place.

“Paul convinced me that it is essential to write a very formal treatise in order to unambiguously define the foundations of generic programming. He thought that the conversational style of my lectures undermines the seriousness of the subject. I agree with him. We wrote a very terse, but — in my opinion — elegant book. Some people appreciate it; but it is clearly not for everyone. I am very grateful to Paul. He is and will always remain my close friend. I would gladly collaborate with him on another book.

“Dan had a different idea. He thought that what was needed was a more accessible book, and I agree with him as well. And he led the work in such a direction. I would love to collaborate with him on another book as well.”
I don't think that developers, that's every office ever. It's an office full of smeagols anytime any privilege is taken away.
Immoral-as-the-norm is itself ridiculous.
Love the code comments referenced in the article
This is the reason why fast-food restaurants are always prepaid.
A regular restaurant could also require you to pay for the most expensive combination up front and then pay the difference back.
There is a good book on the computer systems of Apollo project: Digital Apollo https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/digital-apollo

It describes interesting questions that were faced on the project: say, how much control over a lunar module could be given to a computer system, and how much they should rely on human engagement.
Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M
In Florida, its not personal though and its not just DMVs. Basically if the government has your information, anyone can submit a FOIA request to get it. This is particularly bad with licensed professionals (Real Estate agents, hair saloon cutters, etc.) that have to have a business license to operate.

You can get the contact information (email, home address, phone number) for all of these individuals b/c its required by law for you to provide that and it be publicly listed.
I bought a new Macbook Air this weekend. I asked the sales associate who was helping me with my purchase why the new one was cheaper than the previous generation, which was still available in the store and being sold alongside the new ones.

He told me it was because they had dropped the price point on the SSDs. I'm curious if they were actually briefed on why they're cheaper and what to respond with when asked, or if he actually didn't know why Apple reduced the price (cheaper/worse SSDs).
I think a better comparison is a game like chess. Is chess useful outside of being a professional chess player/instructor? No. So being a chess Grandmaster is every bit as useless as being a spelling bee champion, apart from the prestige.

Having said that, being able to spell obscure words is likely to increase your vocabulary, which may be useful if you decide to become a writer. Frankly, that's probably more useful than learning how to throw horseshoes.
>The 1st option is clear tax evasion.

Yes, and?

>I can't think of a place w/o mobile internet

There are dead zones all over the rural east coast. I can imagine other parts of the country are even worse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZlLmESPWyw
The 21st century version of IBM and the Holocaust (https://ibmandtheholocaust.com/) is being written right before our eyes.
A coffee machine breakage would be treated as a work-stopping issue where I work, considering our consumption. But I don't think it would be treated like a 20% cut (which would most likely impossible here), it would be just a big annoyance.
China's rising tech scene threatens US brain drain as ‘sea turtles’ return home
I have a much harder time reasoning with loops than using map, reduce, recursion etc. I'll just say the whole truth, I can't program with loops, I get a headache and I'm forced to quit.
What exactly has Google, IBM, and Xilinx given Semptian? The only thing I can find is that they are all collaborating on POWER through the OpenPOWER foundation? Specifically,

> Together, they have worked to advance a breed of microprocessors that enable computers to analyze vast amounts of data more efficiently.

This means little to nothing: pretty much every company in the field is doing this. Here's a list of current members: https://openpowerfoundation.org/membership/current-members/. This is a pretty large list.
Bloomberg Opinion outside of Matt Levine doesn't have credibility to me.
OP here: maybe when the dev market gets saturated it will humble us all?
I agree, but I think it's worth pointing out that this abstraction costs more in a language like python. Unless I'm mistaken, I don't believe python has any way to fuse these higher order operations into a single pass.
On the other hand phospor deficiency is easy to come by with smallish amounts of phosporous. Only at hard deficiency the yield will suffer strongly. The nutrient supply-yield curve is very steep in the lower end of supply and shallow in the range of optimal supply. Check Sonneveld et.al.

What I am trying to say is that we sure would like to give optimal supply to out plants, but slight undersupply will still give reasonable yields. Profitability issue? Yes! Problem with feeding the world? Rather not.
It’s quite plausible that he has friends in Pakistani intelligence; many journalists (and, in the past, Marxists) came from élite families. Tariq Ali’s interview in the London Review of Books is very illuminating.⁰

> Our house was often filled with peasant leaders, trade-union leaders, radical poets, essayists, short-story writers, and occasionally, not encouraged too much, members of the family, or old family friends. In Pakistan, the Communist Party was banned, and two of its leaders, Muslim intellectuals from India who’d been sent to fertilise the barren land which was now Pakistan, were trying to create a party. One of them was a brilliant literary critic, Sajjad Zaheer, who was the party secretary. When the party was banned, they went underground, and Zaheer was put up in our house, pretending to be a professor of literature from Aligarh University. One night we were eating supper and there was a knock on the door. In walked one of my grandfather’s oldest and dearest friends, but who happened also to be inspector-general of the country’s police force. In he came, sat down and ate with us. There was a slight nervousness, but the professor/underground CP leader carried it off brilliantly. He knew how to deal with these people, discuss literature and Quranic interpretation, but after supper he beat a retreat: ‘With your leave, sir, I’m tired, I’ll just retire to bed.’ The inspector-general of police turned to my parents, and said: ‘I wish all your friends were like that! Where did you find such a cultured guy?’ A week later, when he was looking at pics of the disappeared CP leaders, he saw that the person he’d met at dinner was actually on the most-wanted list! So, it was a contradictory existence, though I never had any doubts which side I was on.

0. David Edgar, “That was the year that was”, London Review of Books 40.10 (24 May 2018), pp. 3-10, https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n10/tariq-ali/that-was-the-year-th...
> The OpenPower Foundation — a nonprofit led by Google and IBM executives with the aim of trying to “drive innovation” — has set up a collaboration between IBM, Chinese company Semptian, and U.S. chip manufacturer Xilinx. Together, they have worked to advance a breed of microprocessors that enable computers to analyze vast amounts of data more efficiently.

I think in order to satisfy the Intercept's perspective, the US would have to technologically starve China.
Ditto. And I'm really sad because after nearly two decades of not flying, I flew again last year (two round trips!) on Southwest, and I loved it and was looking forward to flying Southwest again. And now because of the 737 MAX, I'm going to have to avoid them.

What low-cost carriers in the US fly Airbus exclusively? There's Spirit, which is notoriously horrible, and I saw someone mention JetBlue elsewhere in this thread. Any others?
Ask HN: Should I offer to work for a free month to prove my worth at startup?
I perform okay in interviews but not stellar and was curious if current or past founders here on HN would consider allowing someone to do a "trial" month or two of free work to let a promising candidate prove their worth before negotiating a full-time employment / contract agreement.

I understand if this is entirely off base, but curious if it's another potential avenue to enter a startup or show your dedication and skills outside of an on-site interview or take-home challenge?

EDIT

Seems like the overwhelming consensus is NO

For some context, I have a few years of professional experience under my belt after graduating with a CS degree.

Have 2+ years of experience at early stage startups from college. Also took some time off in college to work in the bay area.
We call it exploratory testing.
No, read the conversation again. I've listed stuff that loads faster than zero point two seconds.
I strongly recommend. The audiobook is good too!
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