skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really enjoyed the part when they streamed from the camera attached to Orion and the audio gradually silenced, since the rocket was leaving the atmosphere and no air could be used for a sound wave medium.
I'll echo that for DC. If you don't know how to get from the watergate to union station via the most efficient route, or you have no business driving a cab.
Here is the relevant point in their ToS:

3.3 You shall not: (i) take any action that imposes or may impose (as determined by us in our sole discretion) an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our (or our third party providers’) infrastructure;
> Suggests that it's almost impossible to predict/curate a huge hit game...

It is. Just like whether a startup succeeds, or whether a stock will rise or fall in price. It's all a matter of flinging stuff at walls and if something sticks you got lucky.
Watching a live space launch via phone while eating breakfast is quite inspiring.
Honestly, this is not so much a problem. Cryptographers like to write simple C public domain implementations of their algorithms and then people go to work for months and years squeezing performance out of them, cryptanalyzing them, recoding them in various languages and releasing their own implementations under new licenses. You can see this happening with pretty much every newly designed crypto component from hashes to ciphers to entire crypto systems.

The problem is exactly the one elucidated in the blog post above: the long tail of baked in brokenness. These systems were never designed to be extensible, they are cooked into code that hasn't been serviced in years, perhaps even decades in some cases. They're bolted into specifications in ways that either obsolete the technology completely, or make it so incredibly complicated to update the technology that doing so outweighs the apparent cost. And that's without considering problems like deployment and phase-out.

These types of problems make it very likely we will be stuck with the stupidity of DES and MD5 in strange places until it becomes a fire drill and then all the sudden people will be baking in SHA-1/SHA-2 or BLAKE2 and we'll be going through these very same motions again in 5-15 years, wondering why we didn't learn from the mistakes we made last time.
all prices index are a fake, the govmmt say that we had 15% of inflation and we really have 35/40%... very sad, of course
I've always understood the origin of the "10x programmer" was about overall performance, and not mere "time-to-type". That is: we're talking about the reported value of the employee to the company.

In that way, the best performer is as much as 10x the worst; but the best performer is probably only 2-3x the majority.
I wonder if this works with Moto Assist for spoken SMS messages and responses while driving. SMS for Hangouts does not and this doesn't seem to replace the official Messaging app (...yet?)
The bottom line is that a single previous success is not indicative of likely future success when creating new things. If you create something like Facebook, that's fine, because you can monetize the core product indefinitely. But when you create a game or a movie or a hit song that has a limited lifespan, there's very little indication that you can do it again. Once you churn out a long sequence of hits like Disney, you can claim to understand the process, but until then you might have just done the right thing at the right time.
To you maybe, but what about fans that see it in the stores?

Don't underestimate the imagination and enthousiasm of the younger generation, when it comes to Angry Birds, Minecraft, modern Lego, and franchises like that.

Dismissing a successful business because you're not into it is just a bit shallow-minded (or elitist).
Uh, nice I guess? Is it end-to-end encrypted like TextSecure? (Or WhatsApp, now?)

Because if not, why would anyone want this? Is this just the moving of the SMS app out of AOSP and submerging with Hangouts? Is TextSecure (and the upcoming Signal) not clearly better?
There's no "someone" in this context, because you're not designing a language for the masses, you're making your personal language. At best, if you put it on Github you'll maybe find a bunch of people wanting the exact same thing so you'll have a bunch of users&co-implementors that know that they're basically on their own if they choose to use your language. This is where small and simple languages such as Scheme, Forth or Lua shine: you can master and hack everything from the first byte to the last.

The real issue with this approach is that, if you need a particular library you have to do the bindings yourself first. You have to deal with the delay required to design, implement and test it. On the other hand, the difference between learning the API for an another popular language and learning the native API so you can make the bindings for your language tends to zero as the complexity and size of said library goes up.
That can be skewed by people who marry and divorce multiple times, making "percentage of marriages that end in divorce" somewhat disconnected from the probability of any one marriage surviving.
The stream went down for me too. Anyone have a link for a video?
I am surprised they employed that many people! What did they all do? They can't all be working on pig noises, bird noises and basic physics simulations can they????
> I'm now an independent software developer. I already had a side project that was doing pretty well

Is it bringing enough money for you to pay half of your family's bills?

Forgive me for being so direct, but "independent software developer" is a very broad label, and it contains both the successful and the struggling programmers.

Not that being dependent on a family is a bad thing; the only downside is that it is not something that everyone can do.
Its quite debatable whether the 4th amendment prohibits the NSA programs we know about.[1] And I can't think of any support for the position that it prohibits requiring back doors that are used with a warrant, or only used when the user is foreign.

[1] I won't rehash it here, but the 4th amendment has two big loopholes: 3rd party doctrine, and non-applicability to foreigners on foreign soil. The NSA programs seem calculated to fit into those loopholes.
@Mods: Please change the title as it has a typo, the Russian entity referred to is spelled "Roskomnadzor", not "Roskompazor"
The BBC is also streaming it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30327137

Edit: they've stopped now.
Well, the actual divorce rate is certainly not that different in magnitude. It is not 5-10%.
The point made originally was that Internet filtering is bad for society. The fact that there is not a single mandated filter but a set of different(?) filters at the major ISPs, which do not even have a legal basis, is just making the situation worse for end users. While I admit that my original wording was misleading, I can not see how the enacted back-and-forth contributes to the discussion.

From the media coverage of the "UK porn filter" that I followed, the government said they would make a law to require filtering, then the ISPs jumped on it and implemented their filtering systems, and then the proposed laws failed / stalled.

I do not know enough about the UK ISP landscape to be able to determine if all users of the major ISPs can switch to a non-filtering one, and at what additional expense.
I guess the main purpose is to update the UI of the default android messenger.
This is UK Only:

> Crowdcube does not advertise investment opportunities to people in the United States, Canada or Japan or any other country where it would be unlawful for our pitches to be advertised and investors must not register or view pitches if they are resident in these countries.
Of course, having lots of tech companies rely on Github cuts both ways. Yes, it might apply pressure to the Russian government but it also cuts directly into Github's finances if a significant portion of their revenue stream suddenly dries up.

Besides, given how well the recent economic sanctions worked, which were created to target those closest to Putin in order to apply pressure where it matters most, I doubt a few tech companies are going to be able to change much. I admit I could be wrong here, however.

I, too, wish that Github wouldn't have caved, but I can easily understand hot it might not have been feasible for them.
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Am I reading this wrong or does this article start out by implying that the number is over estimated and then goes on to give two examples of general long term trends, increasing population, and decreasing marriage rate that would lead to underestimating the number by the commonly used method?
"Intellectual property" is just an artificial construct, has little to do with actual property and most certainly can not be "stolen".

I'm disappointed to see such manipulative propaganda language used here.
I was wondering why I missed it. The video wouldn't load for a few minutes and when I finally was able to start viewing again the rocket was already T+2:35ish :/
I think this is a good point. After all the claims about how the majority of self-described programmers can't write FizzBuzz, are those of us who can write FizzBuzz already 10x programmers before we even get started on anything harder?
I'll wager that JB Straubel will be Tesla's CEO in 3-5 years and Tesla will no longer be a car company but a battery/infrastructure company.
Conversely, GitHub complying may also help Russia come to its senses.

GitHub: "Hey everyone, we've got something awesome."
Russia: "We don't want it."
Everyone else: "We'll take it."
Russia: "Hey, how come everyone's doing better than us."
Everyone else: "We used the free thing; it's awesome."
Russia: "дерьмо"
For those who missed it because of the sudden stream interruption: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCanbuiSywg
>alt.suicide.holiday

Now there's a blast from the past.
People being stabbed in dark alleys is not a good argument for banning knives.
This looks like a pun by the submitter, exchanging "надзор" (supervision/monitoring) with "позор" (shame).
Completely agree. When I hire engineers, I get them to write an app at home for a week and then send it in. I don't set an arbitrary deadline, just send it when you think it's ready. I'm then looking at:

1. Code quality (mainly with a view to maintainability)

2. Unit test coverage (I don't even asked them to do that, the good ones know to provide them).

3. How the app uses dependencies (APIs, databases, caches), and if they support dependency injection.

4. Can the app scale up and down (i.e. can I scale horizontally by just adding another instance?).

5. How are they using 3rd party libs?

6. How well documented is the solution?

7. How easy is it to build and deploy?

8. How well structured is their database (PKs, FKs, indexes, no excessives joins etc.)?

9. Is their a clean separation of the main modules in the app? E.g. MVC, having a REST API for the data and de-coupled clients etc.

I could go on. At a senior level, I just assume an engineer can write nice code in whatever language, but also has a keen understanding of software architecture with a view to how their code impacts on scaling and performance.

As a candidate, if all I get asked at interviews is low-level algorithms, I move on.
I remember the qbasic gorillas game. But there are older ancestors : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_game
And they are about 2x the cost that they are in the states. Most of these things are more expensive, not cheaper, here.
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I think the actual number is not the point of the article, exactly. The author is trying to point out that the method is flawed, and statistics is much more complicated than anyone one number from one source.
But if people do marry and divorce multiple times, wouldn't we want the divorce rate to change with it?
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It baffles me people use Github to measure anything.

Most of the enterprise projects are not even using Git!
They are probably the same price. I was just wondering if you were in Beijing. They have Starbucks almost everywhere now, even my wife's hometown in southern hunan.
Since you're going against the facts presented in the article, would you mind citing your sources? It will help readers evaluate your claims more effectively by allowing them to account for biases.
To be fair, there were a ton of international mirrors in popular streaming services (livestream.com, ustream.tv) as well as international news agencies (bbc.co.uk for example) which worked flawlessly.

I was watching livestream.com using VLC + livestreamer script and it worked without any issues.

The problem is that these mirrors should have been listed clearly at the nasatv site as well as in www.nasa.gov/orion.
I think this happens when founders make a tonne of money. Small wins don't whet their appetite anymore and the discussions they are having, with friends, investors, peers and agencies, are all about their existing global success and taking it even further--after all no business with that kind of momentum feels "we're big and this is as big we're gonna be".

When in reality, even the best of games in this genre need only a small core of maybe just 3-5 strong and highly motivated game developers.

To their credit, they juiced their one-hit-wonder as much as any company ever could.
I'm Russian and I don't support it at all. Github is losing its face
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Exactly, you have to invest in your security percautions. It will take more than a single lock to make a house secure.
Just a couple of short OT notes to illustrate this:

# As an example of deep Disney comics, Don Rosa's Magnum Opus "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" should be pointed out:

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

This book and Don Rosa's works in general are a prime example for love of detail in every aspect, deep characterization of the seemingly flat Disney characters and rigorous background research for the historic embedding (and the embedding in the works of Carl Barks).

# Another person benefiting the popularity of Disney comics in Europe was the German translator Erika Fuchs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erika_Fuchs

Being an art historian and a member of the educated middle-class, she took the liberty to translate Disney comics in a very literary fashion, with multiple references to classic literature. Many of her word and phrase creations have become part of the German language.

# A couple of months ago the French-German rather highbrow TV channel arte screened a documentary that circulated around the internet: The first half of the piece deeply characterized Donald Duck, while the second half applied this characterization to the acceptance of disorientation and personal failure in our society.

# The traveling exhibition "Duckomenta": http://www.duckomenta.de/content/engdex.htm
It depends on what one wants the "divorce rate" to mean.
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That's a pretty good summary.

In reality, though, what happens is that engineers with no experience first get an education. For example, in RF - getting your EE degree will quickly boost you up from a 1x to 5x engineer. Then, they go work for companies that do have experienced engineers, and they learn hundreds of skillsets, and develop deep domain knowledge in the ones that they are interested in, so my "engineer with little or no experience" in this space probably doesn't exist - a typical EE who came to work out of school for an RF company, probably learned a bunch of different concepts (PHY, MAC, Routing, DFM, RF Immunity, Antenna Design) from the 40x engineers already there with 10-20 years of relevant experience - and so, within a five years, would already be a 10x engineer in those field versus one that had no experience/education in them, and would be 20x in the projects that they had direct experience developing.

I would suggest that 40x performance increase comes from a combination of innate skill (you are already extraordinarily gifted and capable), Direct domain experience, a leadership role in which you were required to develop/invent/create and then document/x-train/and educate others on the technologies that you have mastery on, and, perhaps most importantly - passion, energy, and devotion to the field.

The caveat to all of this is that with projects of enough duration, everyone gets a chance to pick up experience, and knowledge, and so will increase their capability in a particular domain. The other caveat, is the vast amount of engineering is not simply repeating the same task over and over again - unless you are making cell phones for Samsung.
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We've had a TPB block in the Netherlands for a couple of years, but it's been undone now - not all ISP's got a court order to block it (or agreed to do it right away), TPB is accessible in a few dozen ways (via proxies), and it apparently gets special treatment since a lot of other torrent sites weren't banned, which is just stupid.

TL;DR, blocking torrent sites is nigh-on impossible, and if you go for more sweeping automated filtering you're in violation of net neutrality and freedom of speech. (Famously, TorrentFreak, a news site that doesn't offer any kind of file sharing services, regularly gets blocked)
I'm glad you like the attention, but I have to admit that I didn't waste too much time on that post. Five minutes tops. :)

The 'not an umlaut' part doesn't seem to be relevant though, since we talk about the character composition. 'ö' is the same character both as o-umlaut and as o-diaeresis (I admit I checked if there's a different way to write the latter), so the argument is weird.

de_DE has a character 'ö' on the keyboard, if I use that as umlaut or not is a different problem.

Composing " and o (or whatever you use) produces what looks like o-umlaut to a German speaker - and my understanding was that you were 'attacked' (if you will) for going out of your way to write 'ö'. Whatever that character signifies here.

(I actually didn't know the name diaeresis, but the usage isn't uncommon here. I've driven my share of Citroën 2CVs in the past)
Not if you live here for a few years. There is a lower floor on quality and standards, as well as labor, but don't expect to get more for your money.
I like Scala, but it seems like it tries too hard to accommodate every possible programmer. If you stick to the OO side of Scala and avoid FP then it's similar to Java. Add some higher order functions to the mix and you'll get a mixture of OO and FP that dynamic language users will love. If you don't like higher order functions then you can sugar them with for-comprehensions, and suddenly it looks familiar to Pythonistas. Pull in Scalaz and now you've got monads, monoids, applicative functors, and all the other goodies you'd hope to have in Haskell-like languages.

On my team we've got a mix of backgrounds. We've got people who've done Java, a gaggle of diehard Pythonistas, our CTO is a badass Rubyist, and I can't seem to shut the hell up about Haskell. Our Scala looks like it suffers from multiple personality disorder at times.

Scala: we like you. You don't have to try so hard to impress us. Just tell us how you really feel instead of trying to figure out what we want to hear.
Rovio has been trying for at least a couple of years to break out of their Angry birds rut by developing and/or publishing bunch of different games in various genres. Unfortunately for them it doesn't seem to have gone that well.
AWS and most other cloud providers have prohibitively expensive bandwidth compared to Linode's bundled bandwidth. With Linode you get a free server to boot!

Just yesterday I compared a VM with 8gb ram moving 4.4TB of data. With Linode you get 8TB for $80 a month. Yesterday AWS was $630 for the same server and the 4.4TB of bandwidth. For that price on Linode you can get 4 16gb servers, totaling 32 cores and 64TB of bandwidth. Even with the just announced AWS price reduction, it is still extremely expensive.

If you move a lot of bandwidth, check out Linode.
I found it funny how people were posting ustream mirrors. All of ustream was struggling, so all the re-streams were buffering too.
Your defeatism is unbecoming.
Interesting. How did they make google check for that url in the first place? Via a sitemap or something?

By including the following meta tag:

<meta name="fragment" content="!">

Google provide their own guide for this:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/174992?hl=en
Can we stop with this kind of comment, already? Yes it has its warts but like it or not a fair amount of people enjoy using it. Get over it.
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The science behind global warming is relatively uncontroversial [0], it's what we should do about that is fraught with peril, special-interests wise. But that's inevitable, really, given that environmentalism is itself a "special interest," albiet one that concerns us all in one way or another.

[0]http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/
Whilst I'd agree that TPB is just a tool, the argument has some validity. It's called the PIRATE bay; they're heavily implying what this tool can be used for, and this matches its main use. YouTube often take action to block IP/Copyright infringement; TPB say they provide the tools and leave users to do with it as they will; i.e. they don't cooperate in preventing illegal usage.

I agree that the tool itself shouldn't be banned, but the idea of pushing for compromise (e.g. giving recognised authorities access to view users' details in cases where illegal material's being shared) doesn't seem unfair.
This way the authorities have options other than banning the tools, legitimate users don't suffer, and offending users are identified; all's good - unless you're using the tool illegally; which is fine (or at least, a different debate).
Not really.

There's tons of low-hanging fruit that could be worthy of some serious papers / prestige if the work was done for them.

1. Biology : Repetitive Strain Injury calculations via Neural Load

2. Computational Photography : Low Cost, Quick Photogrammetry Calculations via GPS/9DoF metadata

3. Biometric Security : MS Kinect Biometric Security via RGBD and 3D Sound
> Microsoft kept not figuring that out,

.NET 1.0 allowed it, but very few people ever used it.
We have more precise data about global warming.
Sensors are good at measuring temperature or sea rising, less at measuring divorce rates.
I can’t think of any grammar rules that are more applicable to documentation than to other writing. Thus, I think giving an overview of grammar rules would be out-of-scope for this site, and shouldn’t be added. However, it might be in scope for this site to have an appendix with a list of links about writing in general, and such a grammar site would deserve a spot.

> I believe that most readers of that site will be non-native speakers

I don’t see why this site would get a higher proportion of non-native speakers than any other site. Learning to understand a language and learning to write well in it are mostly separate things, and I think native speakers will understand that, so they won’t avoid using this site just because it’s about writing in English. Or are you saying that there are more non-native-speaker users in general who browse English programming sites than native-speaker users?
I should point out that "it" is still going on, the mission is rather hectic four hour mission concluding in atmospheric re-entry, splashdown and recovery. There should be plenty of fantastic footage coming up in the next few hours, it's worth staying tuned.

Now to grab some lunch to be back in time for the second stage burn to 3200 nm apogee orbit (3640 mi = 5760 km).