skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard from people in the space sector that it was the exception, not the overflow per se that caused the problem.
Had it not been caught the flight could have made it to orbit (if there weren't other problems). Wikipedia says it was a hardware exception but http://www.ima.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/ariane5rep.html says it was a software one, and it was only in code that was needed in pre-flight so it seems likely to not cause problems if there wasn't that crippling exception.

These systems have become so big and expensive. This was the case since ICBM:s and it got only worse with Apollo.

Yet they are so vulnerable since there is no way to abort intactly once you have flown something like 0.1 seconds. (At least Saturn V had some redundancy.) You do not get a second try.

Both issues create a perfect recipe for stagnation - everything has to be checked and rechecked for years before and after a software or hardware change. If someone tries something new, and there is a launch or spacecraft failure, it is a political issue and heads will roll. People's technical and political careers are destroyed.

In short, this way is not likely to reach real spacefaring.

A more organic approach with lots of smaller actors working in parallel and trying and failing a lot more - but with better processes built in to handle said failures (technical, political and cultural) could be much more conducive to real progress like increase in operational flexibility, shortened schedules, better reliability and lowered price.

Reasonable sized reusable rockets with good intact abort capability in a testing and development program could up the launch rate hugely, and all kinds of different solutions could be quickly tested. I find it likely that this will eventually happen, but it is frustrating how long it is taking.

In this "horizontal velocity overflow" case, you could do an intact abort if you had a fallback to some alternate control law or even manual control. Those are not incorporated to current expendable space launchers but they exist in aircraft. (Saturn V and also the Lunar Module did have manual backup. You could fly the Saturn to orbit. The LM was hard got get to the right orbit where the CM was waiting...)
And _my_ point was that startups cannot afford _not_ to adopt TDD. TDD does not take time, it saves time. It saves time _today_.
Nice, thanks! Added to my bookmark bar :)
I like the "bundles" idea. Plus, it is clever that we can send you back all our old socks to recycle.
The actual content holder, and the content provider are then eligible to counter-sue whomever filed the false takedown notice, applicable examples of this include:

OPG v. Diebold (2004):

https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2004/10/15

Lenz v. Universal Music Corp. (2007):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenz_v._Universal_Music_Corp (Overview)

https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/lenz_v_universal/lenzorde... (Court Orders)
When has any leader ever done something they believed would lower morale? The problem is almost always that leadership is so out of touch they don't know how their actions affect morale.
As an indirect shareholder of Yahoo (through MUTFs/ETFs), I find it a little infuriating that the only signal they had were VPN logs to determine that employees were completely not doing their job over a long period. Where is the manager accountability here?
Interested to hear more about what you like with the mac terminal.

Things I like about putty include that you can launch a profile very quickly (start->run, putty @profile_name); it's easy to carry a configuration around (copy a bit of the registry); fonts are fine; easy colour configuration for profiles; quick-switching to full-screen; you can alt-tab between terminals. OSX has workspaces which is an advantage, but lacks some of the others.

But I get the feeling you're talking about the terminal itself - what's the edge for the OSX approach?

And - wear your terminal with pride! 7-day roguelike is next week if you've ever wanted to have a go.
That is the number of direct victims. My point is that there will have been people (elderly or otherwise physically weaker) who died a few weeks/months earlier than they would have if that earthquake hadn't struck, for example because they got a heart attack worrying whether their grandchildren survived.

Such deaths both increase mortality in 2011 and decrease it in some time later.
Thanks, glad you like it. I wanted an easy way to transfer the URL without installing plugins or having to be signed into specific accounts.
Why don't we, as a community, collectively agree to boycott copyright trolls? (and teach them a lesson in the process)

esp. when the target audience consists of developers/designers

EDIT: I tried to cross-post this on Designer News, but it turns out they're invite-only. Can someone do me the honour?
right - she is trying to lead by example.

you shouldn't work from home - you should be homing from work.
I interpret Bob's post as saying that having automated tests is critical, not that TDD is the one and only way to test. I know he uses the acronym TDD but his logic all points toward the value of automated tests and he did not mention that TDD is the only way to do it.

When looked at in this light his advice is spot on for me. The kind of projects I work on would quickly get bogged down and have high failure chances without automated tests. When my current employer was in the startup phase they ignored testing, were making tones of money, hired tones of devs and wrote tons of code. At least they wrote tons of code for the first couple years then they hit a wall where it became incredibly difficult to add new functionality. Now that they have been writing automated tests for 5 years new functionality is comparatively easy to add to anything but that original project (which is still running making money but very hard to change). This is server side financial processing, user management, business logic code.
Whilst (afaik) unrelated to the DCMA claim at hand, it is possible to trademark a specific colour, with plenty of examples at [1], and there have been controversial suits over 'infringement' in the past. My recollection is that colour trademarks are much more restrictive in their coverage than other forms, although I may be wrong there.

Edit: Emphasise the trademark-ability, not copyright-ability, of particular colours/palettes.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/colors-that-are-trademarked-2...
You need cross product if you want to know sign. Dot product won't tell you which side of the line you're on, and that sounded like a big part of the algorithm.
this is not good noise :/
I have had the opposite problem - I've had people on my team that I wish would work remotely because they are frustrating to be in the same room with.
I think that's an oversimplification. 200 people were full time work-at-home, probably out of the area. I imagine many people at Yahoo live in the area and have an office, and just choose to work from home some days. They aren't full time work-at-home, but they are definitely affected by this edict.
While I agree that it's good to exhort one another to learn as much math as possible, I feel compelled to offer myself as a counterexample in the "getting away with it" argument.

My formal math education ended with calculus in high school (and college) and then probability in college. Never even took linear algebra, something I've always intended to remedy. I did rock Phil 160A, but that's not really apropos.

Anyway, on to the counterexample:

My first company was math-heavy, doing some pretty sweet web-scale analytics (in 1998!) pushing those matrices into SVD and then some crazy orthogonal rotation routines to make the results more human-readable. I was the only engineer for the first year plus, and the lead engineer for the lifetime of the company (1996-2002). One of the founders was a stats genius, old school, and he designed all of the analytics routines although I ended up implementing them. There is no way I could have ever approached his level, regardless of how much undergrad (or grad-level) math I had undertaken. If that company had been founded by a bunch of CS grads thinking "oh, sweet, I know some big data algos" I don't think we could have pulled it off. He had decades of psychographic analysis under his belt, informing all of our choices, and heading off any number of dead ends. But, even with my limited math, working with him, I was certainly able to implement the relevant bits in a performant manner.

My second company - which I founded - involves, essentially, zero math. (big surprise) Sure I know my CS algorithms and data structures and making educated choices like "should I use a bloom filter here?", but in the end our company deals almost exclusively in business processes that don't happen to need much math. And we're quite successful, with a great 10-years-and-going-strong history as a SaaS vendor.

Point being, there are tons of business problems that don't actually require big math to solve them. What they do require is a deep understanding of the problem space. If you're working on solving a real-world problem, and you've got some spare time, I'd argue that you are better off understanding every last frigging detail of that problem than you are doing some catch-up work in linear algebra. Sure, it may turn out that the solution you need requires sophisticated math - and, to your point, you may not even know that solution space exists if you ain't got the math - but that's secondary to the deep understanding in the first place.

Software is a big, complicated place full of layers upon layers of really complicated stuff. Some layers are full of math, especially when it comes to examples like the OP's. Other layers, however, are not - they are instead full of rules and processes that are based on RFC compliance and real-world knowledge ("oh, Exchange actually does it that way").

I, personally, think the OP took the right path in implementing a solution he understands rather than one which he'll never be able to debug down the road.
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There have been several posts on this thread in which research papers in support of TDD have been referenced. You can find them if you simply google it. I suggest you do that.
The number of people who might switch from OS X to a mooted Windows with a POSIXy toolchain is approximately zero. Engineering time and energy are not free.
Anecdotally, it's typically the people in the room who are either a) late to the meeting or b) go off on tangents or c) cause the meeting to overrun. There are lots of good and bad things about remote workers... but being a hamper on meetings shouldn't be one of them.

If you have 20 people in the office - and 1 remote worker - your conference times should be at the preferred time of the 20.
I learned one thing: I will never use LayerVault's service, and discourage anyone I know from using it.
Presumably with this method you can't selectively increase and decrease log levels for different components? That can be really useful in a large system where you don't want to generate several gigs of logging to sift through all the time, but sometimes you do want that extra detail to track down a tricky bug.
After the US pulled out though
All four of them make the majority of their money from consulting or from training -- books, videos, and workshops -- rather than from products.

Do you think that a book or a video is not a product?
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He's clearly a dualist and objects to Kurzweil's reductionist views. As I see it this isn't a book review in good faith so much as an excuse to air McGill's opinions on the matter.

Consider this phrase:

> The belief that London is rainy intrinsically and literally contains the propositional content that London is rainy, but no state of neurons contains that content in that way—as opposed to metaphorically or derivatively (this kind of point has been forcibly urged by John Searle for a long time).

Or this one:

> So what is the basis for the theory? The answer must surely be that the brain is causally connected to the mind and the mind contains and processes information.

This is not the language of a book review, but that of a philosophical argument - although absent any of the justification or rigor one might thereby expect.

I'm not impressed with McGill - he shows little regard for his audience's time by pontificating on the subject instead of just reviewing the damn text. Lame.
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It has been able to for a while! Check out the cluster module, processes listening to the same port are load balanced and communication between processes is obviously (since each process only has 1 thread due to the event loop) done by message passing.
Did you read the book? Because that is one of the points Kurzweil makes.

The book review in question is crap. I'm happy to read Kurzweil critics but claiming something is too complex to understand to does not make for legitimate criticism, in any field.

Pattern recognition is a given, how to do it is not. That is really what the book is about (hint: hierarchical hidden markov models.) As for the philosophical stuff, I read The Age of Spiritual Machines many years ago when it came out (and I was barely in high school), so there was nothing in How to Create A Mind that challenged views I've had over a decade to think about.

The whole issue of consciousness I think is minor. Which, I personally would explain consciousness as "living" awareness ( in the book Kurzweil says even the smartest people start to sound stupid when trying to describe this.)

The good news is our industry is not going to get dull anytime soon.
Apparently, the notices say "under penalty of perjury", but at the very least you should be able to sue abusers civilly. I'm just not sure that is a great recourse for open source.

DMCA needs reform on this. There needs to be scale of fines for parties that issue takedowns based upon false copyright claims.
Yeah telecommuting probably enabled him to be.. who he was. And yeah, it's entirely possible if he had come in every day (as annoying as that would have been) we would have been able to call him on it more and either have him fall in line or compel him to take his BS elsewhere.
- GTK3 uses the triangle technique

GTK+ uses the triangle technique along with a delay of 225 ms. When the pointer is inside the triangle, the delay is 1500 ms.

Firefox subscribes to the misguided "fake the look and feel of the default toolkit" idea, so on Linux it has a 225 ms delay, but without the triangle. Unfortunately 225 ms is way too short when there is no triangle.
I disagree with your percentage breakdown.

Brennan made $106,443 from his products, for 45% of his income. He could have dropped the consulting altogether and still would have made a nice six figure salary.

Nathan earned 76% of his income from his products.

Amy earned 100% of her income from products (as best I can tell).

Products are not the same as software. An ebook is no less a product than a paper book you buy in a store.
Figured as much. I would argue for/request forking that "git diff" command and only processing its output in the VIM process, but for the moment I'll stick with my trusty ",gd" command:

map <leader>gd :!cd %:p:h && GIT_PAGER='' git diff HEAD -- %:t<CR><CR>
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I don't think YouTube's audience is going to buy into a subscription service for music - if I go to YouTube for a song, it's because I want it free, fast and often to be able to share it with someone else.

Make it so I can share a link to any song, with a friend, and maybe you've got something. Right now, YouTube's ad based model is what is going to work best with that audience. Until of course, it's too many ads.
To add some context, LayerVault posted a blog post outlining "The Flat Design Era"[1]. While the term has been used before in various context, to me, the post seemed to ignite a lot of discussion in the tech/design community about flat design (and by relation, skeumorphs, etc.,)

LayerVault is a vocal proponent of the "Flat UI" approach and uses it almost as a signature look and feel for their product. In the follow up discussions, the blog post author has said that no post or discussion fully understands what he meant [2].

I can't read the takedown letter or discussion where I am (for some reason github is blocked). But based on what I've seen, the kit is similar to LayerVault's approach to employing Flat UI. That combined with the blogpost, I wouldn't be surprised if LayerVault felt that their look and feel was infringed upon. Obviously, this doesn't mean that they actually were infringed upon in the eye of the law, even if the kit was derived from LayerVault.

As a designer, I can sympathize with LayerVault's issue with the kit (I'm making assumptions), but with such a design, I really wonder how valid their complaint is within the law.

[1]http://layervault.tumblr.com/post/32267022219/flat-interface...
[2]Designer News thread that I have no link to at the moment.
Great looking product, I'm a big fan of empowering everyday people to make money doing what they love. ShopLocket is a (local) favourite of mine, and I think GumRoad is also in this category.

Are there specific use cases that CropUp provides more value? Eg. on physical products? Photography? Digital downloads?

I ask because I see more and more similar products cropping up (pardon the pun) which want to help anyone sell anything online, but can't help but think that focusing on a specific vertical may result in the platform providing more value to the sellers.
Reading this story, the only fault of Smith seems to be that he worked at home and didn't need to. That's an odd thing to be so upset about, so I would guess he was annoying in other ways.
> I'd take that to mean "who wrote the code"

Which would make sense, except that it's the code itself said to indicate this. Or, does he mean for that to be documented in the RCS?
Yup, like T-Mobile, who owns the trademark on Magenta in Europe.
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McGinn says that "thinking about London while in Miami" involves no pattern recognition, because no senses are involved. But Kurzweil's claim is pattern recognition is key to memory, and certainly memory is involved when recollecting London. It's fine to disagree with Kurzweil's claim about memory, but to imply he's discovered a big loophole ("this point seems totally obvious and quite devastating") and suggest Kurzweil thinks patterns only apply to our senses, is completely silly.

McGinn's tirade against anthropomorphic language is also silly. It's obviously something he's trotted out from previous writings, which is okay if it were insightful. Can't he mentally translate "a neuron shouts when it sees a pattern" into "a neuron fires when a certain combination of it's input terminals are excited" or perhaps instead of "fire" which is potentially anthropomorphic itself, Kurzweil should write a script to replace "fire" with "the voltage-gated ion channels embedded in the plasma membrane will open allowing an inward flow of sodium ions, etc. etc". Please, where does it stop. Look beyond the words to what the person is actually saying.

It's similar to his criticism of Kurzweil's "law" of accelerating change. Sure, it should be called a theory not a law, big deal.

Kurzweil is a huckster, he is selling books, he's going to overstate things. Just make the mental translation law->theory in your mind and move on with your life.

McGinn meanwhile has no opinion on what is actually going to happen. He says accelerating change is "just a fortunate historical fact about the twentieth century". So is he saying it has stopped now, 13 years in to the 21st century? I don't believe it has. Or that it will stop? When will it stop McGinn, in 2015, 2029, 2045, 2387? Because this matters a lot in terms of how much computer power we end up with. He has no opinion at all what is going to happen, he only cares what we call things.
Wow, I am absolutely not the target audience for these socks. It is a great idea tho - i'm clearly just a very boring sock person.
> TDD is one of the few actual disciplines I know of around coding that can't be just glossed over or faked.

TDD is trivially easy to fake. Perhaps worse, it's trivially easy to think you're doing it, when you're actually doing nothing constructive.
Whether it's called "condition of employment" or "a perk" the effect on other employees' morale can be the same. Other employees can, correctly or not, see themselves as busting their ass while Joe gets to slack off.

> Further I would never lead based upon reducing resentment

You give an example where an entire group is working well, and a single person is mad. That is not a good counterpoint against the theory that you should take action if one person is happy and many others are unhappy.

I'll say again (although I shouldn't need to) that I don't know if this was the situation at Yahoo.
Set up the submenu system so in the event of a single line, it presents an invisible target, which is three lines high, with the submenu in the middle.
Here is a link to the article http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/how-tw...
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Part of the problem here is considering working at home a perk.
Yeah, I agree. In my experience, the biggest problem with remote people on the phone is that they are actually doing other work during the call and being productive, so if you don't make it clear a question is aimed at them, they might miss it.
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And with lower effort/expense too, it seems.
Exactly. Very well respected and prevalent in certain circles, but outside that there's very little visibility.

His ideas would revolutionize American business, IMHO. But for some reason they seem incompatible with it at the same time...
Do you trust Facebook? Are you really that stupid?
Microsoft is an organization made up of many of the smartest, most creative developers on Earth that has been completely hobbled by organizational bureaucracy and office politics. Microsoft stifles more good ideas in one year than most companies have in a decade.
There's plenty of countries who use the imperial system... Liberia and Myanmar!
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Read any Jules Verne book, you'll see why in these times most kids dreamt about science.

Well the past wasn't brilliant either. Remember in those times, only boys should dream about science. Women were obviously incapable of doing science & maths, so there's no point encouraging them, there's probably something wrong with a woman who wants to do men's work like science.</sarcasm>
The founder of LayerVault is claiming it was specific illustrations which were stolen

https://twitter.com/Allan/status/309346292902014976
https://twitter.com/Allan/status/309350351054716929