skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it's an amusing article but it's not about Tetrafluorohydrazine and there don't seem to be any others in the series that are. Tetrafluorohydrazine also doesn't seem to be the same thing as hydrazine which is used as a fuel in some spacecraft.

The article does mention tetrafluorohydrazine being added to FOOF which is the actual subject of the article and a comment mentions tetrafluorohydrazine being used as an oxidizer for rocket fuels.
the article mentions hexafluoride. but LANL did (and probably still does) hydrazine. source:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US2690378

(used to intern, and subsequently work there, although not as a chemist, of course. i'm not that smart)

and if you want to pedant that the patent wasn't issued to los alamos nat'l laboratory... well, in '54 things were different :)
Lockheed Martin Ventures manages its early-stage $200M fund
>This is wrong. Technical debt is almost always incurred because of the business requirements. They need to be made aware the debt is being incurred at that time so they are aware it will need to be paid down ASAP.

I absolutely loathe doing this - the costs of technical debt are too specific (e.g. 2 hours a week) while the benefits are too diffuse and too hard to measure. If you have a conversation with business people about it it feels like you're having to make a business case for buying pencils.
There's that old saw about being incapable of understanding when one's salary depends on the misunderstanding, and it applies here. Our profession has helped make advertisements markedly worse (which is to say, better, by data-mining the hell out of individuals and aggregates alike and sharpening the psychological tools of attack to points) and markedly more aggressive, but fuck it, let's go shopping. I guess.
Lived a pretty long life. Anyone ever met the guy?
I personally hate it when a bot closes an issue I wrote. What's the point of closing unresolved issues? Just assign them a label (it could be a "stale" label like some projects do). Otherwise it just feels like hiding your mess under the bed. Other sorting tools can provide the same list as automatically closing bugs would achieve. The opposite isn't true, unless assigning a specific label when manually closing an issue.
NY times recently fired/made redundant their head of cyber security
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21329453
Firefox OS at least lives on as KaiOS, more successful market-wise than Mozilla ever was with it.

Fairphone barely (it seems) keeps surviving and might still count somewhat as an "alternative" phone, even if their primary platform is Android.

A new OS is a big task to get to market - non-open contenders have failed too. The combination of an more open phone (which likely comes with compromises) and a new OS just makes the task even harder, and while enthusiastic, I'm not sure the market of people who'd prefer that product is large enough to make it real, sadly.
Anything in orbit can (and is) actively tracked by amateur and professionnal astronomers around the world. The secret aspect of the X37B plane is it's mission. Nobody knows what it was doing up there. Hypotheses range from carrying weapons, spying, or doing experiments. In any case, it is certainly also used as propaganda, a show of strength.
It isn't just a pubsub solution though

To compare to other frameworks out there:

featherjs:
A framework for real-time applications and REST APIs

meteor:
THE FASTEST WAY TO BUILD
JAVASCRIPT APPS

deepstream:
a fast and secure data-sync realtime server
for mobile, web & iot

The problem is that once you provide more functionality then pub/sub you end up in this vague toolkit statement land.

I would assume that the issue is more around the fact that the term data synchronization is still not used as often and so doesn't give the same familiar feeling people get when looking at other pub/sub frameworks. Deepstream supports HTTP/MQTT/Binary and JSON websocket protocols for rpcs, records, events and presence. Maybe that should be the sentence!

A secure scalable realtime server that supports HTTP, MQTT and WebSockets for rpcs, data-sync, pubsub and presence functionality
Wow, I love your email address! "Dot at dot at dot at"
Those factors are always considered on a macro level when an architect makes a project. Only when they are critical, they are analysed on a micro level with specialized software. In most cases you can get very far with some rules of thumb:

North: indirect light, the coldest orientation (northern hemisphere of course)

East: morning light, good for bedrooms

South: lots of direct light, the warmer orientation

West: afternoon light, good for living rooms or even kitchens

North-West: dominant winds (in my country)
Haha, yeah, no shit she is quitting journalism. You come away from this article thinking they just sold the next Google, but as a simple look at the front page reveals, it's simply a failed media startup that was likely sold for no more than the domain name is worth.
I dont think you can just say Hydro is far more dangerous than nuclear. When a nuclear accident happens not only a lot of people lose their lives but the effects are felt for centuries. Lands become inhabitable, generations of people carry the burden.
State of affairs in reasoning AI: GPT2 0% – 6yr old 100%
I'm trying to say that all hardware tokens are not created equally. A hardware RSA TOTP-esque fob offers no phishing protection where as a FIDO key does. Its unfortunate this site doesn't distinguish between those two cases.
If the "functioning countries" stay the same while the rest of the world catches up, the net result is -- drum roll, please -- growth! On a global scale! In fact, that would correspond to a global GDP growth of about 300%, or about 47 years at the current global GDP growth rate of 3%.

The more precisely you want to model the distribution, the more you can come up with all sorts of little technicalities. For example, if the rest of the world catches up to the developed countries without significant efficiency gains in many technologies, the environment is extremely screwed. We could go back and forth for days.

The question as posed was: does the world need to grow? The answer is a resounding yes.
I’ve recently been reading ‘A deepness in the sky’ and it has the concept of ‘Programmer-Archeologists’ exactly for this reason.

It’s set many thousands of years in the future and I have trouble imagining how many old versions of packages and libraries would exist at that point.
OC Judge Orders Blog and Resident to Stop Publishing Secret City Hall Documents
Recruiters are just doing their job. If you don't want to take tests, that's your prerogative. Demand for talented devs is so hot you can get away with it.

As for the best interviews: probably the interviews that I thought were just a conversation over a beer or coffee that I didn't realize was an interview until half-way through... or until the person (the person with hiring authority) point-blank offered me a spot on their team.

This gets to another point about which I've been meaning to blog: the articles about "the best languages for getting hired in 2020" overlook or ignore the importance of the human network. How many recruiters you know and how frequently you stay in contact to keep up with local market demand even when you're not looking for a job is invaluable. Not every company puts out their openings to all recruiters: it's always best to cast a wide net and intelligently analyze the companies/positions/offers. Recruiters deal in this market every day all day... tap their knowledge for all it's worth and offer to present lunch & learn talks at their offices to make them better informed about technology (which makes them think of YOU first when premium openings cross their desks).
> How are they controlling the “distribution”?

What do you mean? The very article we've been discussing is about Disney's attempt to control distribution.

I agree that for now there's a healthy ecosystem of distribution channels for newer, lower budget content - I said as much. What's happening is that the studios are countering that by tightly controlling valuable legacy content. The kind of stuff we see as part of the cultural zeitgeist of the last several decades (again, see the article for examples).
Yup, instead of passing relevant laws, punishing them seems to be what people want. Laws are boring I guess. They can make any level of punishment work, they can cut back in the US and expand elsewhere to make up for the loss. Meanwhile ,CNOOC and Gazprom are doing great.

Big bad corp makes for a nice villain but in a democratic country lack of good laws (bad voters!) is the problem. Should there have been a law compelling companies to listen to their scientists? Should there be criminal punishment of execs who spread any level if false information? What about media execs? Is the lobbying problem the root cause? It all seems to me lack of good voting or the US system of democracy being inadequate. I mean,it's not like oil companies use oil strictly for fossil fuels and it's not like civilization at the moment does not depend on fossip fuels. Less pitch forks and better laws is all I'm saying.
JumpStart Guide to Security Investigations and Posture Management in AWS
Great! Let's get a whole structure setup, so that these people who can hardly make ends meet as-is now have to worry about a whole extra structure to establish, and pay money for!
> It's pretty much in the news every time anything happens involving it

It's in the news every time they decide to put it in the news. Many other things could happen in secret.
An article about how to not leave tracks on the internet, requires me to sign up to read the said article, magnificent.
The UI looks incredible - was it closed source, and did it die with the company?
Now you are confusing security of PHP as a platform with security of applications written in PHP. Python had 2 RCEs in 2018: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1021...
None in 2019 so far. PHP has none in 2018 and has one in 2019 so far (there's another one in http module but it's not part of the core).

> I don't think for example I've heard of a Python based SQL injection in many years. Stuff like that seems to still crop up regularly in PHP land

This is an extremely subjective statement based on your personal experience of what you heard and didn't. As such, it's not verifiable and not useful. What is useful is to know that, obviously, PHP, as well as Python, has SQL implementations that eliminate injections for decades. And as in Python, there could be people that ignore it and stuff query params directly into strings. This has nothing to do with anything but these people being ignorant. There are of course tons of web apps in PHP, much more than in Python, so among them inevitably would be crappy ones. If you run one of them, do take precautionary measures.
Have you ever lived in these places? I have. Nobody is starving. The place is a little cheap, perhaps, but that means that it's only 10 times richer than what my parents and their parents had growing up -- and they weren't starving either. At the end of the day, I don't think there is a huge moral difference between being 10x richer than a third worlder and 20x.
FYI: KiCad is very good and is funded by CERN:
http://www.kicad-pcb.org/

Licence is GPL3/AGPL3.

KiCad has high-end drawing features, but the commercial tools will always have better parts libraries.
"Years of experience" is a massively variable measure. I've known devs who have "one year of experience ten years in a row" and know far less about programming than some college graduates who have done internships at three different companies during college. "Years of experience" isn't as critical as "range of architectures" or applications/situations in which you've worked. You always learn something new at every shop where you work... if you're not getting a lot of variety in your job then seek it out -- or think about getting more experience at another employer.
I played this gem when I was a kid, and I love Betrayal at Krondor dearly. Having not read the backstory before playing the game, it was kinda confusing at times, but game quality was awesome, especially compared to games bound to rectangle grids (wizardry, lands of lore, eye of the beholder series). It also did well for my English: the language was very rich with sprawling vocabulary. 10/10, the only games from the 90s that match my love for BaK are Star Control 2, Monkey Island and Full Throttle.
Speaking collectively, given how much we fight against standardization of our profession, we should be distrusted, IMHO.
"An acquisition is always a failure" — Pando, 2013

"An acquisition, or an aqui-hire, is always a failure. Either the founders failed to achieve their goal, or – far likelier – they failed to dream big enough. The proper ambition for a tech entrepreneur should be to join the ranks of the great tech companies, or, at least, to create a profitable, independent company beloved by employees, customers, and shareholders."

https://pando.com/2013/04/02/an-acquisition-is-always-a-fail...
Software patents are entirely useless if you want to implement what is described in the patent. Even the best intentioned patents are too vague and generalised to be of any use at all. And the patents filed by trolls are a mix of outlandish unworkable misleading claims, and bald-faced gibberish.
What is semantics in this context? When I use the word, I generally think about "what I mean" when I use a word, or a symbol. Then there is the alternative "interpretations" of that symbol. The hope with good semantic tooling is that these things match up. If they don't then there is ambiguity. At what levels are you attempting to resolve ambiguity? Concept, code, etc. And what challenges remain?

Finally, with your findings you could theoretically turn around and produce your own "semantics friendly" language/toolings, are there plans for that?

Thanks for your time.
Fired John Hopkins Professor in Talks to Join Xiaomi
What free market type supports individual corporations writing laws that benefit themselves over their customers and competition? Boeing is already the only player in town, they aren't writing laws to benefit anyone but themselves, they aren't trying to increase competition or open up the markets.

Markets are built both on corporations openly trading value to customers for money and competition keeping that system alive and healthy as markets/products/technology/organizations naturally grow and die and economies fluctuate. Stasis and one-sided deals are unsustainable, which is what this type of arrangement buys you.

Corporations being allowed to use state power for their own benefit (at the expense of their customers and/or competition) has nothing to do with free markets. All you're left with then are companies who rake in money from customers without trading full value or excluding competition from existing. That's not a market or a useful system for any society.

Regulations to serve some higher public good that markets can't practically account for are very different from individual corporations writing laws to benefit only themselves in the marketplace. Boeing selling more dangerous airplanes (even if that happens through government coordinated processes) and losing Airline customer's trust would be terrible for any real business, assuming there is competition and customers who aren't forced to buy from them.
If all it took to start a business was knowing about an idea to solve a problem, everyone would be a successful entrepreneur.

I help non-technical people build companies for a living (2-5 products every year).

Even some people with time, money, and connections can't make it happen. It's incredibly silly to suggest that execution is basically an afterthought.
Texas Instruments: Insiders profit on enormous buy backs
Based on own experience, there are a lot of systems out there that will only injest certain kinds of data via an FTP drop off. They won’t change or update their systems, but everyone who wants better visibility to the data they’re dropping into the ftp system will have to write something to cover that.

So, you’d probably need to build both halves of the FTP chain, but each would still need to deliver the value add if only half of the new system was being used.
> Which is that typically the police don't give a single shit about stolen bikes or anything like that unless you're rich or, apparently, Facebook. The poor already have weaker property rights than the rich, because if they were to report their bikes as being stolen the police would scoff at them and continue doing jack shit. Or worse, if you're a minority.

This is just totally wrong. Police have scoffed at all property theft I've ever reported to them, and it wasn't due to malice, it was because doing anything about it was basically impossible. I suppose I could have demanded they spend 10 hours a week scanning Craigslist for my stuff, but that is a waste of time for them. The same applies to everybody I know who has had stuff stolen.

Facebook's bikes are different because they very obviously belong to Facebook and are clearly, visibly being used. It's like cattle branding, it makes it much easier to recover property.
My definition of junior is "an engineer who can't complete start-to-finish general tasks alone". To unwrap it, it both requires certain knowledge and working experience which certainly couldn't be quantified in years (e.g. my current employee had a 21 y.o. lead developer on a certain system who had a 5 years of directly relevant experience hence the role).
Yes, the search engine they use (Gigablast) is the one decrypting. From the private.sh main page:

> Every single search request from our website and extension is encrypted locally on the client and proxied through our service, stripping away your public IP address ensuring that only the search provider is able to decrypt and see your query without any knowledge of who you are.

> The results are returned to you through our proxy and are rendered locally on your machine only using javascript running on your machine.

I haven't used it, so I don't know what their results are like, but you seem to be mistaken about the privacy.
Only reason I remember Pando was from the War Nerd moving to that site. Though they hid everything behind a paywall, so I didn't stay for long.
> Your point about ads being annoying to end-users

Is the entire point. Yes, advertising might add value to other parties. It's almost certainly net negative overall.
If I'm not mistaken, the thiveing Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, is where everything from that museum moved to, so no(?) artifacts were lost. I can personally recommend it.
Don't they park domain names? I remember trying to buy a domain name and coming across that name a couple of times.
Where the code is illustrative not intended on being literal copy paste, and the sharing of text without formatting hinders readability and illustrative intent
By a random columnist (Jake Lodwick) at Pando, not Sarah Lacy herself.
If it's as simple as the freelancer creating an LLC or a DBA to get around the law I'd be OK with it, but something tells me it's not.

The article is correct: the law's well intentioned but misguided. If, as a freelancer, I decide to focus on one huge contract with the same company for two years, that should be my decision.
Yeah when we made deepstream sound more like a standalone deployment, similar to nginx or rethinkdb (meaning you can get an executable/install via package managers and so forth) and downplayed the NodeJS part of it we ended up having alot less people contribute to the project or even using it as they wouldn't be aware that it could be installed via NPM.
I guess my point is that the status quo of node server dependencies seem to be run as part of a bigger project (featherjs, meteor, socket.io, sockeetcluster) which means you npm install and configure it via javascript. The last couple versions have been me trying to navigate the landscape so I can provide a totally standalone/configuration based server that can also be extended by end users (hence all the typescript interfaces and support).

Basically I'm not certain how to pitch this exactly. I feel a bit of condolence from the fact that when it was a startup with over ten employees we had the same issue (specially since I was the tech guy)

Anyways, more than happy to hear any suggestions! I been involved with this project for over 3 years so I definitely have a biased view on trying to see the project for the first time.
I mean, with everything that's happened since Snowden, it more or less started with ordinary US citizens losing trust in them before it carried over via other circumstances to nations like Syria. The root cause is elsewhere; what's happened in Syria is merely symptomatic.
If only we could use GM crops without handing control of the food supply to hostile corporations. It's only the irrational fear of GM that is strong enough to stand up to their lobbying - with the unfortunate side-effect of stopping all GM crops as well. But without that fear, the same misaligned incentives that result in tractor DRM and novel-length EULAs will be written into the DNA of the plants we need to live, while competitive forces will bankrupt those that stick with traditional seeds.
This is what you get when your IT specifications are routed through lawyers (who write the contract) via senior, non-technical public servants, and are only approved if the year-on-year costs for the next two decades can be reduced to near zero (meaning only break-fix maintenance and no functionality improvements).
Thanks! We had an awesome UX designer as a co-founder. It was closed source yup, also based on a pretty old stack of knockout and CSS so it isn't very salvageable
You don’t have to be good at war, you just have to be better than everybody else. And that’s what sets the US military apart.
Digital Computing History Timeline (1997)
hmm, I think worst case symbol-macro should work there :/

I expected specials to work in this case, but apparently not.
Not to mention the NYT is paywalled, and I suspect some folks might jump to conclusions before jumping through the hoops to read the article... :-)
How I would have did it:

1. (If possible) License a mediatek phone & ship an open source android image. Sell it for a low price. Pros: No risk, great phone, Cons: Might not be possible - though Fairphone did it for a high end phone.

2. Ship a Raspberry Pi Zero + Battery + LCD screen sandwiched together. Pros: A focus entirely on the mfg process might get you a slim mobile device. Cons: No 4G modem.

3. Don't do it at all. Pros: Save reputation. Cons: No Purism One funding.

The approach they took (custom everything) was insane.
Did you read the last paragraph in my post? I explicitly addressed that. My point is:

1. Ad arbitrage has a role.

2. The blame of annoying/bad UX is unfairly being deferred to arbitragers. It's usually the implementation that annoys users, and that's generally the publisher's fault.

I don't know anything about System1's ethics and I'm not trying defend them by any means, but I don't agree with an argument that X company is bad because they've participated in arbitrage.
Nor the Vallejo fire
Why Disney+ Will Win the Streaming Wars
Naive Question: Wouldn't a multivitamin be a cheaper and safer solution to counter a broad range of vitamin deficiencies?

If not, why would growing crops be a cheaper solution? What is the opportunity cost of growing golden rice to feed your vitamin deficient family vs. growing something else to sell on a broader market?
CVS receipt coupons are based upon previous purchases + like 15% randomization in related categories (or maybe just random promotions they have going).

My CVS coupons are nearly always for an antacid, nicotine cessation, or allergy medicine - then I usually get a few extra coupons for something that surprises me like beauty products or facial cleanser.

There’s nothing Google involved with the CVS coupons, I’d bet money on that.