skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article states: "He took a process that typically plays out behind the scenes and made it public." and then suggests that his methods were manipulative.

Every successful company negotiates like this. You just never hear about it. They keep it under wraps and as a result nobody knows what really happened behind closed doors.
Is there any trascript of that speech? Or shownotes? Or at least a link list?
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If you're in Paris, you can see some of his sculptures being showcased (with live performances every half hour where a demonstrator shows how they work) at la Cité des Sciences until January 4: http://www.cite-sciences.fr/fr/au-programme/expos-temporaire...

Saw it in April, and the whole exhibition was pretty cool. It's about art and robots. My favorite thing was the 3D water matrix by Christian Partos and Shiro Takatani: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPvBV7VMqiY - I spent maybe an hour watching it.
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Regarding the power source, and why the mission depended on only solar energy:

"Why was RTG (Radioisotope thermoelectric generator) not used in Rosetta mission?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8610585

Only US and Russia have the technology.
Great. So your argument hinges on vitalism. Please, lets keep mysticism and religion out of a SCIENTIFIC debate.
This is just one of the many attempts to decipher linear A, so the title is quite misleading, and apparently it has already been criticized

http://www.people.ku.edu/~jyounger/LinearA/LaMarleAartun.htm...
At at beginning he says that he is kind of sold on most Haskell, but doesn't know if lazy evaluation is so great.

I wonder why he didn't try OCaml then. He doesn't even mention this possibility, he just goes on to compare Haskell to Lisp.

Regarding issues with lazy evaluation, there may be some truth to it. This reminds of a great article by Robert Harper:

https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2012/08/26/yet-another...
I am a big fan of these nano-images and really want to support them better in Docker's builder. See "nested builds" and "image squashing". Basically, you should be able to define a Dockerfile for the build environment, then within that define how to produce the final image. Then you need squashing to avoid carrying the build layers.

I personally played with aboriginal Linux, but I believe it's the same idea :)
My first commercial project was actually fairly recent. I'm not really employed to be a programmer, but we happened to have a project that required some stuff beyond PLC control. I wrote a C# program to interface with measurement computing DAQ hardware on a machine with a 200PSI air tank, 2x 2" dump valves, and a 10" diameter air cylinder. Bang! The safety systems were hardwired; my program could only charge and fire it once it was armed at the control panel.
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The targets have to change during the mission. The initial plan was even the another comet. It shouldn't matter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_%28spacecraft%29

"Rosetta was set to be launched on 12 January 2003 to rendezvous with the comet 46P/Wirtanen in 2011.

This plan was abandoned after a failure of the Ariane 5 carrier rocket during a communications satellite launch on 11 December 2002, grounding it until the cause of the failure could be determined."

No reason to blindly stick to the initial target when you're doing something for the first time ever. It's not that you planned to drive from your home to the shopping mall and have to excuse to your other that you went drinking beer instead. You would probably complain that it's not an initial comet now too?

The device landed on the darn comet! After travelling 6 billion km in 10 years. Managed to work a few days and send the data! First time ever! Powered only by the solar energy! (+) In the outside temperature of absolute zero. How many firsts do you need?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEY58fiSK8E

Nothing built by humans was ever on the comet surface before. This thing even worked.

+) Edit: Thanks to jdiez17 for pointing that the lander used a non-rechargeable battery on the comet surface. It was all the time planed to do the main work with that battery. The solar powered work wasn't the primary objective.
I wonder how hard it is to create a radiation hardened CPU. Is the premise that radiation can flip bits in the on-die cache and registers? would simply making those redundant be a solution? Or could a single flash of radiation invalidate all memory on the device?
Thanks for the clarification. I guess this solution is capable of becoming such a platform, but need the insights of such visual people. I'm happy to discuss further what would provide real value. What do you see a defining pain-point?
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Maybe most interesting you ever did. Question inspired from this video http://www.nationalgeographic.com/explorers/special-features/10explorers-1question/what-is-your-proudest-work-moment/
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It appears to be largely political issues that prevented this mission from using a Radioisotope thermoelectric generator , which would have eliminated this particular problem since solar panels would not be required. [1] This is how the Curiosity rover is powered.

If that is the case it's a massive shame - irrational fear of nuclear technology does a lot of damage.

1 - http://www.space4peace.org/ianus/npsm2.htm#2_3
Author here!

This is an almost complete rewrite of Bytengine in an attempt to make it easier to install, use and customise.

The long period between releases was due mostly to lack of time. This rewrite required that I do more research (by reading more code, documentation etc…) and actually dedicate some serious coding time. It's still a work in progress and I'm sure you will see some atrocities in my code so feel free to criticise and advise so I can become better at the craft.

I hope you folks like the updates/changes and as usual, your feedback is always appreciated.

Cheers
>Your comment is stigmatizing and ignorant. OP is male. You do not seem to be askin about the risk of violence because of his maleness even though most violent crime is commited by men.

I wrote a big, long diatribe about how wrong it was of you to inject a weird sexism-hued gender argument, but I erased it.

I don't believe that asking a question is ever stigmatizing if done in good faith, and my question (which, by the way, is distinct from a comment) is most certainly in good faith. My question may certainly have been ignorant, but the removal of such ignorance is exactly the goal of my question! I ask to become wiser, I promise.

Simply put : I didn't ask about his gender because it wasn't his gender which alienated me towards him. The product of his authorship; the blog post and the details therein, is what alienated me towards him.

The blog post, with what dangerously little knowledge of psychology I have, made me feel as if it were written by a psychopath. I don't care to state specific reasons publicly. Psychopaths have a larger incidence of impulsive/threatening/amoral behaviors by definition than so-called 'normal' behaviors. That's the reason why I feel compelled to think of violence.

My jump towards violence wasn't as vague as 'mentally ill', but rather specifically towards descriptions of activities within that blog post which I categorized mentally as psychopathic.

One assumes that his co-workers were untrained in mental health disciplines, just as I am. I don't think that it is unreasonable to assume that upon reading the post they may have felt the same way as I did.

Let me distill the actual question for you, so that you can answer the right one this time.

The question was : "If an employee sues for wrongful termination after writing a blog post which has the effect of alienating people towards him, wouldn't it be quite easy to have that workforce testify that "X blog post made me feel Y.", and if so doesn't this pose a problem for OP and his plans to sue?"

The assumption that question falls upon is that I'm not the only person who was alienated by the blog post, and I would assume that if the author was actually an acquaintance that the effect would be stronger.

The question was asked as a hypothetical 'what-if' for possible motives behind the termination; a piece of the overall brainstorming session behind OPs lawsuit, and also a chance for me to better understand how laws work regarding such things. Please use a friendlier tone if you'd care to educate others. I feel that your passion for finding fair treatment for the ill is preventing you from reading what I wrote and considering my actual question without turning into a mouthpiece and discarding the question entirely.
Where does this inflation-hiding meme come from? The first federal government source from Google is http://www.bls.gov/cpi/ and over there the first number is the "all items" number, then the "less food and energy" number. It's not like they're trying to hide the all-items number. And the all-items number is the number used for things like cost-of-living adjustments.

If you look at a graph that shows both numbers, you see that they are on about the same level on average, just with more volatility in the all-items graph. Which is why economists like to use it for some things, they don't want the noise that comes from commodity price volatility and they want to see the "sticky" prices that show the direction where the inertia of inflation is headed.

Graph: http://www.investing.com/analysis/is-us-inflation-headed-hig...

Further explanation: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/still-coring-aft...
I don't know about Philae/Rosetta's hardware in particular, but there are very specific requirements to hardware that's sent into space.

I'm using the Mars Science Laboratory as an example here:

The MSL uses twin PowerPC RAD750 boards. If one of them fails, the rover could use the other as a backup. After all, you can't go out to Mars to fix a firmware update gone wrong. :)
The RAD750's are hardened against radiation in space, and can withstand extreme temperatures. They run at about 200Mhz, and cost around $200.000 a piece. [1] [2]

It runs the realtime operating system VxWorks, which also happens to be what Apple uses for their Airport routers. :) [3]

NASA uses C as their main language, with specific coding standards. [4]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Science_Laboratory#Rover
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAD750
[3] http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/134041-inside-nasas-curio...
[4] http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf
It's in development, but these 2 demos might give a general overview what will be available in 3 weeks time. http://riport.ziteboard.com/ and http://demo.ziteboard.com/

If you want to try, just send a link to embed and let's give it a spin.
The first link is an interesting tale of technical gamesmanship, but I don't see much bad about Microsoft in there. Other than the author's manager's empty threat to sue him, which is more of an individual case. I haven't heard of Microsoft suing employees are frequently as, say, Amazon actually does.

As for the Halloween documents, come on, 1) you're going to cite ESR, really? and 2) that boils down to "they said something bad about my religion / OS of choice". Marketing strategy commonly involves belittling your competitors. I laughed along at the Mac vs PC ads, even though I knew most of them were simply hyperbole.

> But when "everybody knows" we're doing something wrong, and things are going poorly, then for the love of god use some common sense and stop doing it!

1) Just like "everyone knew" the earth is flat?

2) "Everyone knows" Microsoft is "doing something wrong" only if you don't step out of the HN / Silicon Valley bubble. You and PG and thousands others might think MS is "irrelevant" and "dead" and "evil" and "produces crappy software", but it's trivially disproved by noting that it has consistently been in the top-5 brands worldwide by many different rankings (google it) for many years.

We may not need MS fanboys, but we sure has hell don't need MS haters who base their beliefs on incorrect information.
You had to waste a lot of IP addresses in the past because of Windows XP and IE8. :-(
Google probably data mines all of the pictures and video from all users for commercially relevant information. Probably why they make users sign that horrible EULA -- to try to separate themselves from potential thorny legal challenges of users illegally gathering said commercial information (mostly unwittingly).
"Once it's running, it should be mostly automated" - citation needed. Be aware that Tesla are at 10,000 employees now and they aren't making that many cars.
I read that as 'public between the competitors', not as in bringing any extraordinary daylight to the issue. It clearly says many of the politicians involved were thinking carefully about what the public would think when the deal was announced.

I don't think people are generally that impressed by this sort of corporate welfare. If the public takes on the burden of some of the liabilities, they should be entitled to some of the upside. Creating jobs is great (even though it also generates new public liabilities), but it's difficult to see this deal as worthwhile.
This looks like a nice language, mad props to the author(s) for actually creating a new language, that's something I dream of doing one day!

But I wonder, is this means for me to use, and then why should I use it? The text had great examples of how to use it, but I couldn't find the why.

Again, super cool that you wrote a language!
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The first successful attack where the victims stream is passed around as a snuff video will also happen.

"Strange Days" explored that topic way ahead of its time, especially in the opening. (Cut away the "fry the brain"-stuff)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Days_%28film%29
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Having moved from Des Moines to San Francisco, I can say with confidence that Iowa has its upsides. A flourishing community of startup founders, hilariously low rents (my perfectly nice studio ran for < $500/mo.), a culture of honesty and selflessness, and - shockingly - no lack of things to do. Even the music scene isn't half bad.

Lack of diversity is a serious problem; most people in Des Moines were born there. From a startup perspective, there's also not much of an investor ecosystem, and some companies struggle to find local funding. It's a smaller and more homogenous city, with everything that entails.
That's one of the most scary quotes ever. Way to write a horror story in 2 sentences.
Nice try, Des Moines Jaycees. Nice try.
To be completely fair, it was not powered by solar energy - the experiments were run on power from the non-rechargeable battery. Which is fine, this is what Philae was designed to do. It looks like they completed all the objectives in the First Science Sequence (FSS), which was the lander's primary mission.
And her hatred about France (at the time) too.
> When I believed in static typing I felt very busy, but I was mostly spending my time making the compiler happy, rather than the other way around.

And now you're busy writing tests instead?
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So F# modules is an unnecessary concept too?
I recognise the sense in what you're saying, but I tend towards treating corporations much like I treat people with regard to reputation. The reason for that is that I want companies to have to think seriously about how it will hurt them long-term before they trade off that reputation.

I don't want it to be an optimal business strategy to be evil to maximise growth, and then become nice once evil no longer pays off. Holding a grudge longer than might seem strictly logical is my way of pushing in that direction :-).
I'm sure Mr. Moore feels vindicated that the fruits of his design work have powered humanity's first comet landing ever.

Still, it's telling of the industry's regard for Forth that the manufacturer itself manages to misspell the language as "Fourth" in the chip's official product page.
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This reminds me a bit of how (AFAIK) Nix packages are patched to avoid timestamps and generate deterministic builds when needed.
1. Letting IE stagnate is different from holding back "ideas! concepts!" because Firefox (free software) and Opera were still around to pick up the slack. Sure, it caused (and still does) a lot of pain to web developers to make cross-browser compatible webpages, but that's not the same as "holding back ideas".

2. Note also that vendor prefixes always were and are still a thing, so it's not just IE that had "non-compliant" features. Adding non-compliant features and then working them into the standards seems to be the natural way web technologies advance.

Especially with Opera in mind, I recall many new features being added to browsers regardless of IE's stagnation. Sure, they were not widely used because the then-dominant IE didn't have them, but that didn't prevent Opera and Firefox from adding them. So, unless you conflate "experimentation and advancement" with "widespread adoption", I would disagree that IE held back experimentation and advancement of web technologies.
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No, I meant of course that vurtun + all the callbacks are going to be at least as fast as iod. You'd basically pass a bit of context to every callback, so that the app would know where exactly it is in its parsing. It's clearly a bit more of leg work in terms of coding, but I would personally take that over introducing a dependency on a larger abstract framework. I come from the embedded programming background, so I would opt for a pre-processor step that takes in a struct definition and generates a proper set of parsing callbacks. This way you'd at least see the interim code before it gets compiled. But I digress, to each his own and that's not a point here. I spent a lot of time optimizing C code and I find your blanket performance claims to be too absolute and cocky for comfort.
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Letting a big problem eat yourself away besides sleep, knowing you're the only person to make it happen, and eventually solving it. However, real truth, planning out a big operation for a few weeks. Server migrations are the best. Knowing there's so much to go wrong. But you're prepped. Pop in Eye of the Tiger, terminals maxed out and you just make it happen. That's higher than jumping out of a plane when you love what you do.
> To use it, you first "charged" it by turning the knob back and forth a few times, then entering your code.

Reminds me of the telephones where you had to wind them before using them..
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Start on a small project on Github then work your way up.
Few sources that claim that TSL is almost free today.

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.h...

https://istlsfastyet.com/

http://blog.codinghorror.com/should-all-web-traffic-be-encry...

Although you may argue that if you are a CDN, encryption can be a significant portion of your costs.

Also, Jeff Atwood writes following:

> Of course, there's no reason to encrypt traffic for anonymous, not-logged-in users, and Twitter doesn't. You get a plain old HTTP connection until you log in, at which point they automatically switch to HTTPS encryption. Makes sense.

Today we know that it is no longer a valid point. TOR users can be deanonimized by injecting traffic into plain HTTP connections. Upgrade to HTTPS seems to be fixing that. So we really should use HTTPS by default and HTTP only in very well articulated cases.
Well if you are in HPC you are probably familiar withhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SISAL, what primarily necessitates garbage collection in modern functional programming languages is the insistence on functions as first class values (essentially they want to live in a cartesian closed category). If you look at something like Intel Thread Building Blocks or even CUDA, you will recognise that at its heart it really is a functional programming model. I mean sure in the case of CUDA you can try to write the same variable multiple times, but in reality to preserve parallelism you would not implement for example matrix multiplication by overwriting one of the matrices in the process. Moreover a more functional / mathematical view on most HPC actually yields additional insight on how to parallelise a problem.
I'm just raising the kind of precise, detail-oriented questions that typically emanate from this community.

Your response relies on an appeal to emotion rather than logic, and doesn't seem particularly interested in engaging with the substance of the questions raised?
And also to be fair, the whole mission didn't depend on any RTG technology, used only by the US and Russia in space:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8610585
Pick something you use regularly that's open source, and check out that. Something you have familiarity with is going to be a lot easier to contribute to, because you will notice bugs, or think up a feature. Like I added an option to a vim plugin I was using that was open source, and then sent a pull request because I thought someone else might like it, and it got accepted.

Another good thing to do is to write documentation for code before you contribute to it. Plenty of code lacks clear documentation, and having to read the code and understand it will help you contribute later.
This is one way you take science to the masses. I think giving each Philae instrument its own Twitter account is a great idea.
Another aspect of vector drawings https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8606502
I'd love to be able to write drivers in c#.
There's all sorts of problems you have to deal with. Memory flipping is one of the most visible, but that radiation also will damage the lattice of the processor, making some transistors harder to flip on, and some much easier to flip on, leading to transient glitches, etc.

Redundancy's definitely one solution, which is one reason why spacecraft tend to have multiple processors and/or processors with redundant logic pipelines. They also tend to use different substrates that are harder for cosmic rays to effect, different, more expensive, casings that offer more shielding, and also larger, older, more vetted processes. For example, this chip is uses a 1 micron process, which is a lot bigger than the process used in current cpus, which means that there's a lot more mass in the transistors to soak the effects of radiation, making it harder to cause damage.
I'll go check it out, are there any other similar subreddits the community could suggest I should check out? I already am a follower of /r/bitcoin and /r/bitcoinmarkets for reasons you can probably guess!
The logic is: to get something at least approximately close to your goals done for the first time ever, you have to adjust your targets as you go. Every other strategy simply doesn't work. You are welcome to just stick to your initial goals in your endeavours. Write now absolutely exactly what you plan to do for the first time. Than please report in some time and stick to describing your failures. Observe how motivated for more you'll be.

And to paraphrase Louis, since when the 25-years lasting mission that you've learnt it existed only recently owns you exactly seven days of function on the darn comet?

To be more serious: of course the scientists will learn a lot even from every thing that went wrong. That's exactly how science works. It still doesn't mean that the public attention should concentrate on that now. See also my comment response to the "mistake" claim.