skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same with Reid Hillview in San Jose. Developers failed for years, then came up with the "leaded fuel omg" complaint, which worked. Nevermind the airport is adjacent to one of the the busiest freeways in the area.
My first job out of school nearly 30 years ago was building commercial research autonomous robots. We used a subsumption arch for real time avoidance and path following linked to a reactive planner implemented in C and xlisp for goal directed actions and task execution. While most modern books on robotics skim the history of this area - there are a lot of good ideas from that period of research that can be cheaply revistited. If you know anyone interested in robotics - get them to read Ron's (lisper) three layer architecture paper - its a classic in terms of summarizing previous approaches and it also that provided a foundation for a lot what now drives today's research.

re: NeilV - Braitenberg "Vehicles" book - enough goodness cannot be said about that book. It seems deceptively simple but its a wonderful place to start thinking about and being inspired to building simple beasties.

As should Grey walter's wonderful tortoise: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2008/212017945378.html
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Interesting, I setup a plex server on a Linux lxc container to test the software and so I could have Netflix and my local library on the same "client" (which is a ps3). But then I end up going back to kodi installed on the same Linux because it was wayyyyyy better than plex. I also have to say that my bandwidth does not allow me to stream content when I'm away...
Err, I meant setjmp, not memcpy. Quite the faux pas!
This whole article is nonsensical to the point I think this is some sort of guerrilla marketing, but may be you can answer these:

1. Is there anyway to verify authenticity of the goods? Why anyone would trust this?

2. Many items you can buy without complexity of raffle and at lower price. So why even bother?

3. How does raffle makes it legal from non-legal from Facebook perspective?
The standard answer from my parents when I asked what something meant was to "look it up in the dictionary". It annoyed child me, but I think it gave me the habit of doing my own research.

I still have a dictionary now.
I'm curious, which distros mimic the OSX shortcuts?
>And yet Apple beat IBM, DEC, HP, etc. which nobody anticipated.

In a totally different market. IBM wasn't making Apple I and II equivalents before, or Mac OS equivalents afterwards, and Apple wasn't making mainframes and workstations, and targeting enterprise (in fact, in the 90-96 period that it did try that, it almost tanked).

And the IBM PCs ended dominating the world (market share wise), IBM just didn't have exclusivity on building compatible devices.

But even all of those are beside the point: we're talking about now, not the 80s. At the time the home PC market didn't exist, companies started from scratch. And even enterprise computing (except for the big systems catered by IBM, DEC and co) was the Wild West.

It's like entering the search engine space in 1998 (when there were around 10 competing engines) vs today.
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Reading Infinera's network brochure, https://www.infinera.com/wp-content/uploads/Infinera-DTN-X-F..., they are talking about terabit speeds over fiber. I doubt they are using the Internet Protocol or anything close. I mean, they could be (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPoDWDM), but they have a bunch of different communication protocols going over it. I saw MPLS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiprotocol_Label_Switching) on Twitter and that has a TTL too, but unfortunately the FCC report doesn't go into detail. It's only slightly more informative than the outage report from last year: https://twitter.com/briankrebs/status/1079135599309791235/ph...
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I’m old enough to have used paper dictionaries and yet I don’t miss them.

Today I have a dictionary of every language I speak in my pocket.

The serendipity of using paper dictionary exist online. Some dictionaries (like Merriam Webster show neighboring words). Others shows random words. Many offer to subscribe to a word of the day via email or an app.

If anything I find serendipity to be greatly improved by hyperlinks. The dictionary is this flat shallow lexicographically ordered collection of word definitions. It can’t compete with the depth of the internet.

Wikipedia is a lot better than any paper encyclopedia I have used. It is updated with recent events. And following links you can go from rabbit hole to rabbit hole effortless. I have spent countless hours on topics I did not even know anything about in this fashion.

I think nostalgia gives people pink colored glasses that really distort reality. I have not owned a paper dictionary I over a decade and I really don’t miss it.
His response is a link that is the same as TFA.
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Would you say the same to someone writing a novel, painting, or composing poetry?
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Chinese has particular stroke orders that often carry over into English (e.g. cross the t before drawing the vertical) which leads to all kinds of differences when writing quickly, as the lines from the pen not leaving the paper are in different places. There are often also quite distinctive curving diagonal lines.

Arabic, being written right to left, requires quite a different hand position, which leads to very vertical strokes (not slanted to the right).

Some other distinctive features I've noticed are that beautiful cursive is likely to be someone Indian, and very small, fine, and vertical, likely Indonesian. I'm sure handwriting experts can tell a lot more than me.
I'm sitting in Paradise, CA right now with only one neighbor's home left visible among dozens. There are about 1/3 as many tall trees (mostly pines 30m/100 ft tall) as before since the loggers have monetized them, P&GE didn't want to take any risks when rebuilding the power grid and the city/county/state motivation for future fire remediation. (IMO, the haphazard removal of trees is quite ugly and unnatural.) The policy of putting out all fires quickly set the stage for tragedy, leading to what was feared most. Living at the urban-wildlife interface needs resilient, prepared dwellers who safeguard their structures and allow fires to burn around without threatening lives or property.
> Intel has about...10x the number of employees.

In all seriousness, it is a miracle Intel is able to compete at all.

Pros of higher headcount: theoretically lower transaction costs for highly specialized people to work together.

Cons of higher headcount: more command and control; fewer competing ideas; no market mechanism to evaluate the beat ideas; massively increased politics and executive jockeying; way more middle managers and fewer entrepreneurs; and continuing to invest in failed ventures. I’m sure there are many more cons.
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Fascinating, I never knew that. Seems like the UK GPO sold or licensed handsets overseas too, which I also didn't know. From your link 1, they appear to have used at least some GPO 746's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPO_telephones#/media/File:746...

The 746 was the standard handset just about everyone got in the 1970s.
Pair programming seems to be social in some ways, but I could imagine two programmers with very little social awareness or self-consciousness being able to find a cadence for pair-programming.
Yeah I find just knock something up in NodeJS. Then when you need to do something custom you are writing JS. Familiar stuff. Compare that to the headache of figuring out how to get Hugo templates to do anything non trivial. Or even getting Jekyll to run.
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> In the end, we went with a database with role access control (only our machines and us can talk to the database). Our code gets the secrets from this database on startup.

How does the code get access to the database?

I've lived in AWS-land for so long, I don't know how the non-cloud world manages secrets.
It's pretty amazing that Facebook got such a foothold here that all these high profile apps use their SDK. Are they just using it for log-in? Are their mobile ads better than Google's for developers? I assume that Google provide all the same tools for their own ads, analytics etc. and presumably similar tracking by Google is already baked in and unavoidable.
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Names are an opportunity for fun. Call that old server PersistentSnail, or some old fashioned name like Myrtle. Make naming a reason to smile.
As mentioned in the video, but not afaics in the description, the page from the presenters at https://privacyinternational.org/appdata has the testing environment if you want to extend or replicate these results, as well as the report itself and its documentation, along with a March 2019 update.[1]

1: https://privacyinternational.org/blog/2758/guess-what-facebo...
Would be very insightful to learn where they did seek out and post a CFP.

From the article it implies they did not do that.
> Anyone offended by the use of porn star names wouldn't (or at least shouldn't) know what it's referencing.

“Offended by the use of X to name servers at their workplace” doesn't imply “have never heard and wouldn't recognize the names of X”. Whether X is “porn stars” or “Nazi leaders”.
I'm not a fan of the text that stretches across the whole screen, but I do like the use of <ul> to slightly indent the paragraphs wrt to the headings. Don't know how common it is, but it's the first I've seen it.
The ephemeris data is updated approximately daily and also allows you to predict the satellite's position fairly accurately several days in the future. Satellites change orbits very infrequently, so it's close enough to real time for most purposes.
I went to the torture device museum show when I was in San Diego about a decade ago.

Seeing how cruelty was inflicted stays with you, so I don't recommend it unless you're studying that area.

The closest analogy is that once you see the goatsie picture, you can't unsee it.

At a higher level, learning how government abused punishment in the past does make you question whether they're any more qualified today.
Why is Android included?
Whups! I had a mistake when I originally submitted - and thought it was a failed experiment...

Fixed that up and now the slotmap is _much_ faster :)

Current benchmark has it beating a native-map based approach by 2x in a mock real-world scenario
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Even if not you can still pick up and answer with them.
Cutting costs by fighting fires all the time^W^W^W^W^Wremoving smoke detectors. The classic strategy.
Is it necessary for manufacturing to be in the United States? Certainly secure shipping lanes and a country with a friendly government is enough.
OP here. Just to clarify the question a little bit more.

For example, I often set up ESLint + Webpack for my web dev projects. On the other hand, it always feels like a pain in the ass to go through that configuration process. But in the end, I know it'll make my programming easier and more productive.
This highlights one of the impacts that the internet has had on our society; the tyranny of the search result.

Precise results to queries, or results wrapped with irrelevant out of context, spam or just uninteresting near misses mean that our explorations are stymied.

The monopolies of knowledge provision (google, wikipedia) also mean that narrow groups (either tacitly through algorithmic design or directly through editorial decisions) control the associations of knowledge. The concerns of the organisations offering the knowledge are also reflected in the structure of the systems provided. Google is a money making operation, children do not make it money, therefore Google does not offer a children's search engine (if I worked for Google I would be ashamed at how hard they make it for children to find things on the internet).

There are intentional manipulations, but these are not the fault of the internet providers (I believe, almost completely) and happened with dictionaries, encyclopedias and text books in any case. But what is new is the narrowness and exclusivity of information provision.
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did the exact same thing at the same time

Your tweet suggests that a person paid companies that paid humans to tweet.

How is that the exact same thing?

they are ignored because they are aligned with the other side.

The New York Times reported in 2016:
Inside Hillary Clinton’s Outrage Machine, Allies Push the Buttons -
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/us/politics/hillary-clint...
Theres at least one crossover phone that has buttons but isnt touch-tone.

Actually the Trimphone seems to have come in dial and full touch-tone variants.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimphone
I use Hugo for my blog but also for other non-blog sites. Generating static HTML gives me peace of mind and Go is super fast at regenerating the site.
Deploying is a joyful process using GitHub and Netlify.
I’d go static just to use Netlify.
And the best part for me is the tech is “boring” so I just focus on the content, rather than on the blog platform.
I had to recompile kernels all the time when I used Slackware, and that was definitely in the 21st century! Doesn’t seem like much has changed either, I used menuconfig then too.
> If the meaningful work you want to do is in education or environment... There is basically no well paying jobs.

Lambda School is an existence proof that you can do good and make money in education. Minerva University looks pretty good too. Udacity and Coursera are helping and have helped a ton of people as well. When I was a kindergarten teacher I used Starfall.com all the time. Mathletics and ixl.com come highly recommended by friends who teach primary school. Outschool.com are working on a teacher student marketplace for classes. Baselang.com is the best place to learn Spanish on the internet, hands down. Italki.com is a pretty good marketplace for language lessons too.

You can’t do much with schools really because schools are run for the benefit of teachers not students but if you want to help students there’s a lot to be done in education, and plenty of people doing it.
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A few things:
Make sure you hire developers that fit the business culture you are trying to establish and understand the "why" of your company.
This is worth a read: https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-hire

You don't have to have overly strict rule about hours, leave, documentation, etc. but make sure it is very clear to your developers what they are expected to do, and have them evaluate their own performance (obviously with your input) every few months.

Criticise in private, complement in public.

Choose your customers wisely. You make a lot more profit when you start saying no to the wrong customers. (An easy way to say no is just to charge a lot, like 10 times more, than you would normally charge for a certain job)

Don't be afraid to make mistakes, well rather: try not to make mistakes, but expect them to happen occasionally and when they do, don't beat yourself up about it - recognise the mistake, try learn from it, and move on. It might also be an opportunity to impress your customers, by turning a bad outcome into something positive.

Make sure you set things up in such a way that can get some downtime without your company falling apart.

Good luck!
I quite appreciated Rodney's paper from 1985 titled "A Robust Layered Control System for a Mobile Robot" [1]. I'm sometimes wondering if mobile robotics would look much different without this paper or if we would arrive to something similar anyway.

I even asked Rodney Brooks whether the results of this paper were applied on some robot platform as a follow up research and received a very interesting reply [2]. I agree that I might have worded it poorly but it's still one of my favourite tweets.

[1] https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a160833.pdf
[2] https://twitter.com/WeeklyRobotics/status/105775034299205222...
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If people don't know much then they are not in a position to discriminate. It's the unknown unknowns. In the case I gave I'd reasonably agree that the lead programmer should have sat down with a stack of MSSQL books and done his homework.

But even more so, the prat of a blog author, a well-known blogger in MSSQL at the time, should have done his homework and not published dangerous crap. Proclaim yourself an authority, you'd better be one! I've other examples of this too.

But sometimes the end-users just can't know. I'll skip the details but due to overload at work I couldn't help our support staff properly, so they did a web search and grabbed a snippet which did what they needed. Well done for initiative, lads.

It also silently disabled full trans logging on our clients production DBs. Not so good. Support staff couldn't know, they did their best, blame lies with idiot blogger 'expert'. Again.
Finance is the fundamental industry upon which all others are built.

Arguments against free trade or trade “imbalance” are always one or more of the following: economically ignorant; mercantilist; racist; or nationalist. They all deny individual rights in favor of tribalism.
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Press F12, type e.g.: loadVideoList(2019, 8, 25).

Wrapping this in a calendar widget and injecting through GreaseMonkey script is left as an exercise for the reader.
Thought I'd better check this. I went through the book's eponymous chapter 2 The Mythical Man-Month (p.14, 1975 ed), and it has not a single table; not a single datum.

It has many graphs, without data points, and the text and their smoothness indicate they are graphs of functions, not data.

I have a disturbing feeling that the downvoters in this thread simply don't know what it means to validate a mathematical model with data.

BTW It's not a criticism of the field that it's not yet an engineering. It's just where it is at the moment.
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I frequently get emails from people which follow a predictable pattern:

"I'm doing a PhD in .. I saw your blog post .. can you point me at a tutorial for advanced-subject?"

I often wonder why people don't do research, and what would happen if tutorials just disappeared. People would have to do their own research and learning. Maybe things would take longer, but I think the people would benefit from it.
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Someone should make a Dijkstra font!
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Exactly, this is why this bug is unlikely to be exploitable in production (OpenStack for example only runs QEMU via Libvirt).
Legality is not a universal moral concept. It is nonsensical to say invading and conquering a group is illegal. What law are we breaking?
Why? Why does a conquering group owe the people they conquered anything at all?
FWIW, I don't think this is particularly revelatory. The Obama campaign was known for its effective and widespread use of digital voter information.

e.g. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-the-obama-campai...
Login is a big thing but if I can get away with it, I'll simply use a web view Facebook authentication instead. Adding all that framework weight for something the average user only uses once and will be a jarring experience from the rest of the app no matter what you do is not worth it to me.
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> It is especially tempting to name your first computer after yourself, but think about it. Do you name any of your other possessions after yourself? No. Your dog has its own name, as do your children. If you are one of those who feel so inclined to name your car and other objects, you certainly don't reuse your own name. Otherwise you would have a great deal of trouble distinguishing between them in speech.

a) I am, in fact, named after my father.

b) This does, indeed, cause trouble for other people trying to differentiate us.
Your posts have been helpful, thanks for the writing you do!
This could be incredibly useful. I drafted something up about this (and some other similar metrics to blend) a year or so back. I ran by an engineer Ive been freelancing with a few years (Im marketing) and they felt it was too much outside their skillset so it got mothballed.

I definitly feel there is a solid oppurtunity here. Good luck with it.

For your stats I'd keep it simple. I think the best 2 here are;

- most emailed person

- most actions / requests from
qwsc was referring to the almost-free international postal rates for parcels that China received from USPS when it was a struggling exporter decades ago.

As in, lower than domestic parcel rates inside the USA, typically in the range of $1 - $2.

I believe Trump mentioned considering re-negotiating that deal recently, which nobody has objected to.
ouf, me too. i changed my handwriting back to left handed on my first day at work. on my first holiday i wrote postcards for my mother and she wrote me back, how i could fix my handwriting. now i believe i am ambidextrous because both hands cause not much of an issue for me. only the left hand write somehow more intelligible. for me it looks all the same.
It gets annoying if you do math or physics or whatever. Otherwise, no one will get confused.
1. Rust (again) to a high level of proficiency this time

2. Bringing my modern web stack skills up from indifference to high proficiency

3. Math

4. Houdini + Redshift

5. Compositing software (ideally Nuke but it's looking like AE or Fusion)

6. UE4, basic proficiency

7. Managing things like screenplays and design docs on a continuous basis, rather than just having these things exist in my head for years on end.

8. Any interesting medical/biology material I can get my hands on. I'm seemingly way more passionate about biomedical stuff than I am software these days.

9. Cooking things that aren't just nutritious but actually taste good to other people.

10. Effective time management for all of this.

The gist of it is pretty much find a bunch of things I enjoy and bounce between them to maximize efficiency, while maintaining some sort of ongoing goal system/structure to manage or otherwise guide myself through it all.
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This might depend on your personal preference and approach, but I like books with high information density, with pieces that I can chew on for a long time - even if much of it is beyond my understanding at the beginning (or even at the end). Here are some of my favorites:

The Jazz Theory Book (Mark Levine)

Huge series of play-along books by Jamey Aebersold

The Geometry of Musical Rhythm (Godfried Toussaint)

Harmony (Walter Piston)

A Geometry of Music - Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice (Dmitri Tymoczko)

Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization (George Russell)

Augmented Scale Theory (Javier Arau)
Double reply, but for a different angle it might be interesting to read The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Election. It paints an interesting picture of what was effective and what wasn't in political advertising (classical advertising mostly, less focused on social media). In some cases, it's remarkable how close the margins were and how little change campaigns might effect.
Tolstoi's "War and peace" is pure literature. It is factually incorrect all over the place, I don't know of anyone claiming otherwise.
That's the "replace a freighter" model - I was commenting on the parent's "replace a road truck", which seems like a poorer return: since any Zeppelin is going to be inconveniently large may as well go for broke.