skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If an astronaut dies during a mission, there's a lot more indirect cost incurred than just the astronaut's life. There are the endless investigations and media coverage and related activities that are hard to put a number on.

Simply put, government funded programs receive more scrutiny than commercial ventures. If a private inventor dies while experimenting with their own invention, there isn't the massive, longtime affecting fallout similar to a government disaster.

Now, sure, I am a proponent of space exploration and its advancement. But, having worked with the government in the past, I kind of understand why their risk management is so heavy handed. Few government leaders will take on that much risk themselves.
I think we misunderstand. I'm arguing that children don't need to watch potentially disturbing imagery to ensure that they contribute to furthering science in the future.

The argument "we should not coddle children because science" rings false to me. "Coddling children" is a bit of a strawman; there are things we don't tell children because of their innate immaturity. As are most things, it's a spectrum.
Also, owning house and yard is a selfish waste of space compared to living apartments, but I don't hear too many people complaining. If a city were to say "NO CARS, TOO MUCH SPACE WASTED", then they might as well say "NO HOUSES OR YARDS, TOO MUCH SPACE SELFISHLY WASTED ON PERSON", but if I have the means and it is for sale, what is the issue? Not serving my fellow man with my purchase? Eh, count me in the selfish category permanently.
Platforms as a side-effect
Generally speaking, you don't want to run a server.
I see Jobs' Reality Distortion Field is still healthy in Cupertino.

To be fair, this isn't an Apple problem; it's the tech industry's dirty little secret. From massive environmental damage as a result of rare earth metal extraction, to deplorable conditions at the factories that make our consumer electronics, to the health calamities at the places where electronics are stripped and recycled for their valuable metals, ours is not the clean industry we like to pretend it is. So again, it's not an Apple thing, but Cook's crocodile tears and affected "outrage" at someone airing our dirty laundry is pretty transparent.
I have an Arch laptop that I frequently use with a second monitor, and I've never had to tweak my xorg.conf. The now-ubiquitous XRandR extension for X largely obviates the need for xorg.conf completely. These days, it tends to "just work".
How StackExchange monitors their servers
Well I think that was 'designed' basically to cast any type to it's string representation. Also wanted to point that I used type coercion when is supposed to be used, and never got a bug of that nature in my code, but yes, you must get the coercion rules right from the beginning, and yes, javascript code could live perfectly with this 'feature'.
FTA:

> Now, technically graphene oxide isn’t quite the same thing as graphene, but in a good way: graphene oxide is much easier to make.
They are the better part of an entire decade late on this. And now they have to compete against entrenched competitors with that much more development, improvement, and network effect accumulation in their favor.

To be honest, I sort of wish Nintendo would just give up making consoles and stick to making and release games for other systems.
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VP is an engineering title at Google, albeit not one handed out like candy as it is in companies who charge for expertise (management consultants for example).

Max Levchin acquired the title after Slide's acquisition.
The cache invalidation bit is going to be the interesting part of that write-up
He's losing more money than exists in the world every millisecond!
The problem is, humans are so much more effective than robots at planning and independent decision making, which is critical when there's a 8-40 minute communications round trip time. The two wildly successful MER probes Spirit and Opportunity traveled a combined ~40km in around 4,000 sols. A human areologist could cover that much in a week.
It's common to see servers with 100+ GB of memory these days and I've seen some programs use it all!
Apple pays its employees much better than what they would have been paid working at something else. That's why people flock there for a chance to work. My parents and grandparents are those exact people that would have had a much better quality of life if they had been given a chance to work at places like Foxconn. Luckily, they were able to escape China.

If you are so against it all (basic economics, the history of the world, etc), then don't buy products from Apple or any other company that uses Chinese manufacturing.

Apple has done far more for people than what you will ever do and you have the audacity to critique them. Do you not comprehend the arrogance of your statements?
I don't think using media created ad-hoc to show how something works is fair use. It's like Fox News showing footage from National Geographic (without paying)
Apple had the second biggest quarter by a company ever. It's good journalism to acknowledge not only the great aspects of Apple - design, products, marketing but also acknowledge the unsavory parts of how these companies have to rely on brutal labor conditions to get things done.

Yes, other companies are doing it but it's not the point of the article.
We can't standardize on RDP because it closes the remote display when we need someone to walk our help desk through what they are experiencing, VNC was hit or miss for features and support when we were looking at products so that wasn't used. pcAnywhere also integrates with our asset management system and help desk; both from Symantec.
Ask not what the Internet...(Dave Winer on Twitter Censorship)
I am absolutely doing that...but thanks for the thought.

I'm paid more than double a good engineers rate in mining, so if I quit to go after RoR...I want to have as much speed as possible.
I can find so much use from this. Great job!
You bring up one factor left out of that calculation of how much an astronaut's life is worth, namely "don't make us look bad". The value of keeping up appearances is very high indeed!
Still have the "tau circle" printout nailed to my cube wall from the last time HN hashed this issue out. (Rather like the idea...)
It comes with the territory of being the biggest and most secretive. Not to mention the richest. Years ago Nike got a lot of media hate for its sweatshops, I don't see this as a lot different.
I disagree. I think it's prudent for hackers to think of the social and environmental costs associated with making great products. Hackers don't live in a vacuum, and even the best of companies should acknowledge that there are costs associated with becoming big and selling to customers all over the world. Moreover, there are some people who wouldn't like to work for a company that disregards or looks down on its workers; after all, that's why many of us young people think that the CS graduates who go on to work at a bank and take advantage of others' bad luck and misfortune are selling out. The GNU and Free Software movement arose out of a similar mindset, where companies were using copyrights and patents to take advantage of their customers and keep them locked in. Hackers should strive not only to make great software and products, but also ensure that they do so responsibly.

The reason we see so many articles about Apple or Walmart mistreating their workers isn't because of any union mudslinging. Unions have plenty of their own problems to take care of, with basic labor rights being called into question and the right to unionize slowly being taken away in states across the country, but that's besides the point. Any company that makes it big and becomes popular with the public will have its practices scrutinized by the media, by socially-conscious individuals, and by competitors. That we haven't heard much about HP or Dell mistreating workers isn't so much because the media is biased, but because those companies have lost mindshare and the public is less incensed when lesser-known companies take advantage of workers in other countries.

While I'd love to work for Apple and have an iPad, iPhone, and MacBook, I also would like to see them help the workers' living and work conditions at Foxconn and their other suppliers. Unfortunately, I also like having great products, and know that I'm a hypocrite for being bothered by the poor conditions in Foxconn factories and yet not caring enough to change or inconvenience myself. This doesn't mean that there aren't others who won't be bothered by this behavior, and it's important for the public to be aware of living and working conditions in the US and elsewhere so that companies are forced to at least respond to the problems that are exposed.
Pass me the kleenex, I'm going to cry for the loss of protected trademark status. (I had to google for the technical bits. Beats having to xerox them at the library.)

While I agree that deliberately marketing a new product with the name of an old one (that you don't own) isn't kosher, the public is going to use the terminology that it uses. Pretty much all that's left is to remember that this means you won mindshare.
Obligatory:

"It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and
realize that one's safety factor was determined by the
lowest bidder on a government contract." --Alan Shepard
Welcome Geoff
Add “MDN” to any javascript-related google query to get the MDN page at the top of the results page. Examples: “operator precedence mdn”, “string mdn”, “slice mdn”.
I'd disagree there. Once upon a time, the sea was seen as dangerous. Everything can be made "safe" at some point.
You are being too PC. "Men" suffices for both genders.
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I'm looking for complete immersion for a couple months or year!
>Frankly, I think the "Supplier Responsibility" report was a mistake. It is Apple giving in to the nonsense from people who are just throwing mud.

Apple started doing these reports after they got a lot of bad press about these same kind of things back in 2006 for iPod manufacturing by FoxConn. Over five years ago. Same problems. Same oppressed China workers. How dare people single out Apple, right?
the "wars" we're involved in now could be solved more cost-effectively by literally paying our enemies not to fight.

Thereby creating a nation of people dependent on our aid, who, when we cease sending aid due to budget constraints, will likely decide to start a war anyway. coughNorth Koreacough

Not saying that line of reasoning is totally invalid, but it's definitely not so clear-cut that you can use it in an analogy.
IIRC memcached is event-driven and swapping is death for event-driven programs because it blocks the whole event loop.
Bob Palais' original article title, "Pi Is Wrong!", was intentionally provocative. When I suggested the use of tau for 2 pi in The Tau Manifesto, I followed his usage for the sake of continuity.

"Pi is wrong!" also makes for a pithier rallying cry. Can you imagine Braveheart yelling "Tau: Why 2π Would Be a Better Constant than Pi!" Neither can I.
Welcome Geoff, I have nostalgic memories of RocketMail!
People should be glad they can get a minimum wage job!
I've seen stories that either mentioned or headlined that Foxconn makes components for other companies, such as Microsoft and its XBox.

Granted, most stories revolve around Apple but that's probably because they try to portray themselves in a certain way and the reports from Foxconn contradict that image. For example, I don't see many stories from Microsoft talking about their image as a good company that cares about overseas labor so reports out of Foxconn wouldn't be much of a gotcha to blast the company with.
I'm going to be really curious to see what he does next. Jon did an excellent job of making Palm relevant and exciting again. It was just too bad that their hardware was shoddy and the all-in push came too late.
Great Captcha IDEA
There's plenty of science still to be done on the moon, and when you combine the recent discovery of water in the craters and the theory that the moon is composed of Earth ejecta from an impact, and there's a reasonably strong science case to be made. Personally, I'm still of the opinion that we should prioritize Mars over the moon, but that's not based on any studied consideration of the science.
I think you're confusing the photo with the products. Perhaps the products are deceptive, but this case is about a unique photographic execution being a violation of copyright. Not a label infringing trademark.
Apple probably follows all the rules and complies with all laws. So, why is there an issue, right?

Well, when a company pushes toward making roughly $1M profit per employee per year, a reasonable person would expect that all people in the supply chain are reasonably well taken care of. Anything less would reek of blatant greed, wouldn't it?
I'm not a lawyer, but judging from the wikipedia article, it seems unlikely. This isn't a video of an "event", it's a video describing an event. Sky could have perfectly well made their own video.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing_in_United_Kingdom_...

In particular

Photographs are excluded, however; Cornish, Llewelyn and
Aplin write that this is "in order to preserve the full
value of holding a unique visual record of some person
or event".

Does a video count as "photographs"?
I think this is what you're looking for: http://www.devbootcamp.com/
There are a couple TVWS (TV White Space) equipment designers now that I know of, from following discussions among the Wireless Internet Service Provider Association (WISPA) trade group in the US:
http://www.carlsonwireless.com
http://www.ktswireless.com/
http://spectrumbridge.com/

I believe the fastest airspeed I've seen claimed is 16 - 20Mbit/s using these devices. Although, this is using pretty basic 802.11-style signaling, and with a signal antenna. Multiples of this airspeed via dual adjacent channel modes, comparable to HT modes in 802.11n are technical possible, although likely unfeasible due to the licensing situation. Fortunately, the spatial multiplexing done right now with the fancier 802.11n radios is quite possible with TVWS, with the non-negligible drawback of then having to deploy 2 or 4 identical antennas at critical spacing b/w each other. (And these antennas are comparable in size to old UHF TV aerials.)

That said, deploying TVWS in an urban area doesn't make much sense right now. 10 to 20ml of range is quite nice, but the tradeoff is that you will either have to severely limit your subscriber density, or severely reduce the bandwidth allotted to each subscriber.
Not always true; for any project we do which would impact patient care there is always at least a physician involved, sometimes a nurse as well. The reason our Epic UI looks they way it does is because clinicians want it that way.

We have tried to streamline the interface, but they don't want IT telling them what is important to put on the screen. During our last upgrade we had issues because some physicians put so much on the screen that caused a problem with the program; Epic implemented a fix for us, but the physician took something we showed them and ran with it. Then they started telling others who did the same.

The end result was like the image people like to link to whenever this topic comes up; a screen full of check boxes and sliders. They like this because all of the information they want is on one screen and they can quickly go down the screen making selections. When we tried to streamline this they didn't like that there would be multiple screens to load and then they wouldn't have one way to see everything selected without a summary page which was yet another screen.

I work in IT security and user experience is one of the key things we focus on; a system that is confusing or difficult to use will be used in ways we do not expect. Making the most obvious choice the right choice reduces risk, confusion and helps ensure people do the right thing.
Mobile Hardware Guru Jon Rubenstein Leaves HP
I think I'll reserve judgement until it becomes available. There were similar comments when the Wii was announced and look what happened there.
It is less bad because it is opt out (and the submission says 'can use', not 'will'); I won't say it's best. From the summary of the changes:

Section 2.K. Advertising and Endorsements on LinkedIn: We added this section to explain that LinkedIn may use you profile picture and name in social advertising shown to your network on LinkedIn. We also explain that social advertising will contain information from you and your connections’ interaction with the LinkedIn site (such as when you recommend a product or service on a company page, follow a company, etc.). We also point you to the Setting where you can control the use of your profile information in LinkedIn’s social advertising.

http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=pop%2Fpop_privacy_policy_...
This type of thing isn't just and electronics industry problem. Running a grain elevator isn't really that safe, and big grain companies spend a lot of time on safety issues for a lot of the same reasons Apple does, but it doesn't prevent the deaths that happen every year (yes, every year in the US). These aren't overall farming deaths, I'm just talking grain elevators.

It isn't as sexy as Apple and it is a problem in the US, but everyone needs to eat. The other electronics companies are probably pretty happy Apple is taking all the heat. It should be interesting when the Brazil plant opens.
Teaching is hard.

I understand the impetus to filter out students that are less naturally inclined to it, and if your goal is to establish something of a programming conservatory, then administering a test like this would be an effective barrier. However, I think perhaps more advantageous reading of these results would be to recognize that the ability for students to construct these mental models is the single most important foundation in their education.

Anecdotally, I have had some experience teaching non-programmers basic programming skills at the university level, and it's absolutely the case that some kids, even bright ones, struggle greatly with these constructs at first. They look at the symbols and freeze, intimidated by the arcane expressions, and control flow is often non-intuitive to them. To me at least, that's a pedagogical challenge, not a lost cause. You should have seen the exclamations of wonder and excitement when some of them finally got it, once a particular way of illustrating it stuck for them.
Innovative, new idea but i don't think it is a great one. Bots can easily read pixels and pass that rest, don't you think?
Facebook could file for an IPO as early as Wednesday
"Foxconn's jobs are better than most in China, and when they have openings they have massive numbers of people who apply to fill them. These people are not masochists! Obviously Foxconn is offering them a better job than they would get elsewhere."

And therein lies the root of the problem: The workers have choice but the entire 'job choice space' is rigidly controlled.

As a country, as a people and especially as business owners that might take advantage of the current climate it is important to realize the full cost of the decisions we make.
Enthusiasm is the main currency among developers
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Paying enemies not to fight would probably just result in a lot more enemies who want to get paid all of the sudden.
I agree somewhat, but I tend to find that it's newbies who have managed to migrate away from MyFirstLinux™ that make all the annoying noise coming from the Arch community; so perhaps it's not fair to judge Arch users as a whole.

On the other hand, at this rate http://funroll-loops.info/ will need to be re-written for Arch ;)
If one rover is hit by a software blunder, it's likely the other one will have the same problem.

Actually, this is something they plan for. It is not unheard of to have the software for two different devices developed by two different teams who are not allowed to talk to each other, precisely to avoid this scenario.

In fact, there are Common Cause Analysis people whose whole job is to think of this sort of thing and recommend ways to avert it.
In theory it probably could, but you're losing all benefit at that point. The big selling point of memcahce is that it's VERY fast. Our memcache server (Ours is only 8GB, not nearly as impressive as some) averages under 1ms object fetch times, even accounting for network overhead.
The Wii had much success in the market without much if any online presence. Nintendo has always been precautions of online due to their younger user base, but obviously they need to be in that space.

The good new for Nintendo is that its not Millions (xbox live or PSN) vs Zero, Nintendo has millions of consoles out there, and Wii U will probably sell millions of consoles as well, especially with the added value of an online network.

All Nintendo needs to do to catch up in the online space is sell a bunch of consoles.

I for one, am glad to see Nintendo fight the good fight. The world doesn't need any more Nokia's or Palm's.
I'm very sorry the joke on Oink didn't register with you, and that's ok. Oink is not a competitor and I doubt Kevin Rose gives a sh@t about what we think about his app, which is indeed very well designed if you're into rating burritos. Oops, did it again ;)
My understanding of Epic's approach, to some extent, is that they know approximately how much it will cost to support an organization. When we were going live they had reservations due to our size at the time; if we were not big enough they did not want us as a client since the cost of support would be greater than what we honestly afford.

I really like how they have structured the support concerning Forums, UGM and Good Maintenance; for an enterprise software company it is the best approach I've seen.
Another of these "this thing is dead" pronouncements. Those tend to turn out wrong.

RIMM? Really? So you think Nintendo's new market strategy is to run around suing everybody over questionable technology ownership claims? Because that's RIMM. I'm not getting the comparison.

EDIT: wait, RIMM, wrong company in my head. I would still disagree with the comparison though.

Too little too late? Is that in general or just for you? Because I don't assume to guess the future of the market based on such a small sample size.
I agree Apple should be criticized for any unfair labor practices that go on under their watch, just like any company should be.

What I think me and many others are starting to wonder is why is it almost always Apple that's singled out? I could probably find 20 items in this room that were made by Foxconn et al and don't have an Apple logo on them. But there seem to be constant articles, radio news segments, one-man plays, etc criticizing Apple's labor practices specifically and nearly none about any other company's products — when there are non-Apple-specific discussions of unfair labor practices, they tend to refer to broad generic terms like "the electronics industry".

My guess is that at least a part of it is because many of Apple's users have such an emotional connection with their Apple devices that go everywhere with them — it "hurts" in a way to hear about one's iPhone being morally questionable in a way that it doesn't to hear the same about your Xbox.
I think it's time to switch back to Firefox, Chrome is freezing a lot for me lately (Aw, Snap!). The only thing I miss is the universal search/URL/autocomplete bar, is there an extension for this?