skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's travelling at around 80km/s radially according to the paper so that sounds about right. Almost all the velocity is radial, only 3km/s is observed tangential to us.

In perspective, it's only around 4-5 times faster than Voyager 1 or New Horizons.
Decent article full of good information. One exception -- the C standard is vague on how bitfields are implemented and the compiler can rearrange them in any way it pleases. You are not guaranteed efficient packing, placement order, or size.
How many to make the donuts, or to milk the Bavarians and churn the cream?
There's a lot of med tech in MN too.
> the world has many bad actors (including the US),

So what's the problem? You're using "implicated" as if it's a bad thing; by your own admission, even the US is "implicated" in such activities. The point was: even using your metrics, Saudi Arabia is a worse actor than Iran is.
There is no need to steal the source code. As mentioned in the article (or a different article?), they can just demand the manufacturer send the source code for NSA review before the government buys any drives.
I agree. When I follow kuschku's link (starting at the 900th result), there is no next page link at the bottom, and if I try hacking the "start" value in the URL to go even one document farther I get no results and a "Sorry, Google does not serve more than 1000 results for any query. (You asked for results starting from 901.)" below the search box.
I think the refugee policy is a very important plus for Minnesota. As a foreigner, I get nervous in places where there isn't enough diversity in the police force or other governmental services, for example. But in Minnesota, it is very common to see Hmong, Somali, and Nepali police officers, etc. It is a reality that immigrants who come to the US for employment are usually better off, and their children are less likely to become police officers, etc. whereas refugees and their children are more likely to take up such jobs. (Caveat: this is an observation of facts a posteriori, not a comment on the innate abilities of refugees vis a vis skilled immigrants, etc.)
What Albert Einstein said on his deathbed sheds light on his work ethic
That is basically the Nemesis hypothesis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_%28hypothetical_star%29
Bundling an alternative implementation of the API is probably a bad idea because of copyright.

That'd be a fun case; you could just use their own arguments in Oracle v. Google against them.
Why not? My e-mail provider does a very good job of filtering spam. I'd just flag responses like this as spam on Twitter, too.
LibreOffice attempts to replicate the MS Word "experience", which is good if that's what you looking for, but which I find atrocious.

Do you have recommendations for a word processor which

- Focuses on writing text documents, doesn't attempt to do everything

- Is visual, because sometimes it's painful to go through cycle of compilation with LaTeX

- Has a minimalistic UI that focuses on semantics; which lets you mark things as sections, titles, emphasis, etc. Fonts, colors, are handled separately within a template editor

- Ideally, allows for real-time collaborative editing
This is pretty cool for what it is. Ignore the trolls, none of them have any valid points.
HTTP/2: HTTP is getting major Updat in 16 years
I am convinced the majority of the software in the world is really written in Excel, which was ripped off Lotus 123. LibreOffice does not really compete.
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Yeah, again it's a YMMV. GDocs' .docx rendering is dismally awful compared to LO, and using LO to talk to .docx is my main compatibility point.

What I really want is LO to read/write to Google Drive transparently, but that's still an experimental feature (though it works well in TDF builds, but only for password authentication, not for two-factor). Again, it awaits someone spending money on it.
Why not just use an already created solution like tweetboss?
http://www.bootstrappers.io/
I've stumbled upon "too localized" a few times and it's BS. Just because I'm daring to build a desktop app on OpenBSD doesn't mean it's not a real question.

Google is very good at extracting needles from haystacks. If this SO mention is the only mention of an error message on the Internet, then someone else can find it in the future now.
How so? First was 1.0, then 1.1, then 1.2, etc.
That's the basis of the Nemesis hypothesis [1]; that supposedly there's a star that roughly orbits the sun and causes havoc every few miillion years. However, it's been pretty much debunked at this point

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_%28hypothetical_star%29
Any plans to make this work with Heroku, Amazon, etc?
What is the biggest Irony in India?
We only curate photos from CC0 resources. For both curated and user submitted images, we verify the identity of each author and perform reverse image lookups for each photo to ensure they're not copyrighted.
Does it finally do footnotes in a decent fashion?
Literally the only reason I kept a portable version of Word 2003 around during college was to do the final formatting and citations for my papers. I nearly broke down and learned LaTex instead, but that curve was just a little too steep.
Ask HN: Hired to write, but mostly code, what to do?
Hello denizens of Hacker News. I could really use your help.

Background: I've been slowly building up my webdev skills since I attended a bootcamp about a year and a half ago. I've been at my current job about 8 months (after doing freelance content work before then), where I was initially hired to write, but also told I would be given the freedom to develop my skills.

And they have completely, totally come through for me, allowing me to build tools like:

A realtime-ish dashboard built in Node and React that displays data from our industry database (can't be too specific!) on TV screens in our office lobby (built this at the CEO's request)

A twitterbot (also in Node) that tweets statistics to our members (we're an industry association) and can respond to specific stats queries with the relevant information

Scraping tools (mix of some hacked-out Python and Node again) for keeping member data up to date

And I'm currently a big bart of building our new site, as well as a website for the event-booking business our company wants to develop.

So now the current problem: I like it here, but I'm no longer interested in the written portion of my duties (or at least, writing about the subject of our industry). I want to keep building digital tools and not creating marketing collateral.

Is there a way I could address my future plans (and salary expectations) and how they could fit in at my current work? Am I being unreasonable since they have given me such good work to develop my portfolio?

Thanks in advance!
Did you actually do it? It did take me less than 5 minutes.
Google quickly gets a set of results from some servers, and then estimates the total.

Say, for example, that their Search cluster has 10000 nodes. And suppose that the query returns 60 results from the first node itself; so it could multiply 60*10,000 and claim there may be 600,000 results. But when it is asked to actually go and fetch the results, for various reasons, it may not get to that figure; most of the nodes may just shrug and say "we got nothin'".
On this tree called "life", new low-hanging fruit grows every day. It's a reason we see such churn in the sorts of tech that keeps solving the same easy problems in different ways.
I'm not down with your link between music and computer languages.

Music is performative while what makes success with computer languages is the ability to juggle abstractions at different levels of zoom. I don't see an overlap there other than the nominal "they are both langauges".
How would you have gotten even one HST sized telescope into orbit without a manned mission? Do you know what life span of a Hubble would have been if it were not serviceable? Your approach would have cost more, not less. More manned fights, more time consuming, expensive design and construction. Believe it or not, they thought about this stuff.
I don't buy it. They know going into it what the split is. If it's that big of a disincentive, then there are other platforms they can develop for.
Hi ndnichols, thanks for your feedback! "Every time someone visits News Feed there are on average 1,500 potential stories from friends, people they follow and Pages for them to see." The FB EdgeRank shows only an average of 300 stories out of these 1,500 each day. Some people do not care about Social Media but some do..and we believe that customers need a better solution to this :).
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I don't think it's unreasonable. I would speak to your manager about it. And honestly if he/she doesn't understand your career goals or is not willing to work with you on them, you should look for work elsewhere.
So you asked a question, someone went through the trouble of finding your question and answered it, with a pointer to a possible solution, and you will mark that as spam? Whose problem is that, grumpy?
A banner is the result of Shodan crawling a service/ port on an IP. For example, a HTTP banner would be the HTTP Header that gets returned from a website ala:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache
...

The banner includes metadata about the service/ software that is running on the device.
> Of course you never rewrite history on a public branch!!

The problem is that git doesn't track what "public" means. There was a proposal to work on this for GSoC 2012[1], but nobody picked it up. This concept is called "phases"[2] in Mercurial, which are a building block for Evolve[3].

In Mercurial, it'ss possible to safely rewrite commits, and it's also possible to safely propagate your edits to other repos. Git would have to grow something like changeset evolution to make this completely safe and to be able to deprecate `git push --force`. There could be a safer alternative that does not require any forcing.

[1] https://github.com/peff/git/wiki/SoC-2012-Ideas#published-an...

[2] http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Phases

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OlDm3akbqg
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>But I can't understand - how can they force monopoly protest, being monopolists itself?

Putin.
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"overlooking the amount of force deployed making capitalism work"

I was referring to force that has been deployed in the name of capitalism, not hypotheticals. Things ranging from US's for-profit prison system with its unusually large number of prisoners to the United Fruit Company. Capitalism+colonialism in particular has a terrible record.

Yes, Marxism and Marxists as currently prevalent need to really examine their failure record and revise accordingly. Capitalism as a political practice also needs to stop disclaiming responsibility for its casualties. In neither case is it helpful to make arguments about how it might be come the revolution/after the end of the world, because in both cases people make unreasonable claims about how things might work.
Also, if you want the opinion of your "trusted contacts" - TALK to them. That's not what Twitter is for. If you posted your question publicly, people assume you would appreciate an answer.
You know what else is an obstacle? Having to set up discovery, hosting, delivery, and payment processing yourself, and convincing the public to use your fly by night store.
I have to disagree with that pretty much completely.

I moved to Minneapolis from the Northeast 15 years ago and from the very beginning I felt I should have done it 10 years earlier.

The real estate is lower by far. Even with higher heating & cooling costs in my first, poorly insulated, house (built in 1951) in a desirable area in Southwest Minneapolis, the total cost was less than living in Connecticut. Although I didn't use them often, I had buses two blocks from my house. My commute to work in the outer suburbs averaged 25-30 minutes.

There is simply no way "you'll lose all the money you're supposed to be saving." At one point I had two car payments and even all that combined with my housing costs, the total was still less that I would be paying in Connecticut for a small house. Of course real estate in Mpls has gone up, but it's also increased in all those other places people are looking at.

Could I make more money in the Bay area, or Seattle, NYC, etc? No doubt about that, but my quality of life would be far lower. I lived in NYC for years: I'd much rather be here. And I think that's really the key.

More than cost, it boils down to "where do you want to live?" For some, it's worth the astronomical costs to live in coastal cities, for the rest of us we prefer a slower paced life and get the benefit of lower cost of living along with it.
Thanks for your feedback. I will try to make that data more clear for everyone.

If you see the "Pay as you go" section in MailChimp, it is indeed $200 for 10,000 emails.

OwlSend is $30 for sending 10,000 emails.
Don't elements of structures are sorted before even packing starts? For example
char c;
int i;
char c2;

I thought in reality c2 starts after c. Instead of adding padding between each element, you will only need in boundaries
Elon Musk Clarifies That Tesla's Patents Really Are Free
If I'm remembering correctly, the raw data was given under an NDA/DND as a one time only deal. There was a subreddit associated with the data and collection but its since been banned.
The real reason for the asymmetry between the conventional obligations of employee and employer is the underlying power asymmetry. A typical employee's life has a single point of failure in his employer, while a typical company doesn't any comparable dependency; it is one-to-one vs. many-to-one. Employees can't afford to get informally blacklisted, they'll have trouble paying bills. Companies can always hire another guy who needs to make rent. Employees stand to lose everything, but when companies go away, capital finds a way.

When a typical employee's BATNA against informal blacklisting on the employer grapevine is minimum wage, homelessness or gun in mouth they have no expectation of control over the situation, even if they do nothing wrong. Whereas a company does expect to have control; all they have to do is not write down any discriminatory reasons, and just claim underperformance. So if they want you to dance like a bear, you'll either dance like a bear or start scrambling to fund your early retirement.

That's why we have nothing to say any time someone raises the question of how it's fair for things to be so asymmetrical: because it isn't fair, it's just what you have to do to make your monthly payments.
What's the phrase?

Something like, "Marx was completely right about capitalism and completely wrong about communism."

Interesting thought experiment at least.
LaTeX is good if you wish you could program documents, include them in source control, use complex macros, etc.

If you don't want to learn a new programming language to create documents then something wysiwyg is better.
A general rule I like to go by is "if it's important, it'll come up again".

Missed a phone call and there's no message? If it's important, someone will call back or email / similar. If not, then I shouldn't worry anyway.

> There was a time that I used to check my Facebook about a 100 times a day, but lately I only check it a few times a week. Something is fundamentally broken.

Sounds like something was broken, and now it's ok.
I didn't know about tweetboss, but they all cost something around $50-100/mo. Although it seems like tweetboss is a desktop app with $47 for lifetime license?!
I second this.

Your time is really valuable and you should be spending it on things that you want to do (for whatever reason).
It's considered a professional courtesy, as is providing adequate severance. If you work at a place that doesn't give severance, I wouldn't necessarily give two weeks notice.

But there is some law about notice. The WARN Act covers large employers who are conducting large layoffs. They have to give 60 days notice of large layoffs 50-500 depending on work site size and other factors.
LaTeX is totally worth it. I started off by using the LaTeX plugin in LibreOffice to do formulas. Eventually I realized that I could just do the whole paper in LaTeX. It isn't too hard and there is a stackexchange site for LaTeX that is very helpful as well.
No, those are the reverse DNS entries for their IPs. For example, try looking up:

113.169.170.93

You can get a list of affected IPs by searching as follows:

https://www.shodan.io/search?query=hostname%3Alocalhost
I have experienced this. Asking questions about a new version of something, and having it closed with a pointed to a prior version of things that explicitly does not work any more.
I don't think the Hubble Space Telescope has anything to do with that term. We use "observable" because the Universe is far larger than what we can ever physically see or interact with (there's a growing body of evidence that it's infinite and "flat"). The observable part is an upper bound on the part of the Universe that will ever be relevant to us. Kind of makes me feel insignificant in a weird way :)

Also, the Hubble can't even see most of the Observable Universe; it can see ~15 billion lights years away, whereas the radius of the observable universe is 47 billion light years.
StarCraft isn't just a game. It's a sport. When you're creating a sport, you have to eliminate factors outside of player skill that could affect the outcome. That's why the characters in vs. fighters, and the races/factions in RTSes, have to be balanced w.r.t. each other.
That's a low bar to cross. Sure, Marxism is an eloquent description of many people's feelings about their lives. But religion is even better in this regard.
well written, very informative and helpful.
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If you're paying 100k to Apple, that means you've made about $330k. If you're not making market rates with that, then you're doing something wrong. Not Apple.
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The first Azure hosted service that runs on Linux
You are indeed misunderstanding.

Reddit is an independent entity, not a subsidiary of Condé Nast (like it used to be) and not a subsidiary of Advanced Publications (like it used to be).

It is an independent corporation, with it's own board of directors, and control of its own finances.

Just being a majority stakeholder doesn't mean you control the company either. There are a lot of details like share types and company by-laws that determine that.
This is true even for rolling layoffs that are purely financial. Better to rip the bandaid off than go through round after round of layoffs. Nobody feels safe and everyone is looking for a life raft.
Chicken, meet egg. How can one learn to accept and grow from criticism and feedback without exposure and practice?
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The internet really does draw all the scumbags.

"Trying to have a private conversation with friends? Have some advertising shoved in your face! Don't like it? GTFO!"

No wonder Twitter is dying.

Anyway, I don't use Twitter much anymore, but have to agree with the OP. If I wanted the opinion of random strangers, I wouldn't go to Twitter, I'd just Google it.
Hi pluma, thanks for your feedback! The Android version will be released soon after. Would you mind testing it?

p.s.: the company was created by three students and is currently bootstrapped. The UG is great for a start but you´re right: nothing beats a GmbH :). We will transform into this asap.
You could say the same thing about a lot of big name games. To me, all WW2 shooters are the same game. All grimdark shooters with sticky cover systems are the same game.
The article goes into more detail on the "why", but the "art" is not really that complicated or lost: sort structure elements by size/alignment, biggest first.
why down vote? US is in love with warfare, for past many decades, people make money off these events and as such make a lot of money. It sucks that this is so, but it is so...
I recently hacked a similar plugin for Cinnamon it could both read and write text via QR code to and from the clipboard. Sin e most desktops/laptops have webcams it works really well.
We are also coming up with that capability in couple of weeks.
What about the following combination: First, set up a Windows based X implementation (Cygwin X, or Xming for example). Then run a stateless Linux install in a VM (maybe based off a live CD), and then set up icons on your Windows desktop to remotely launch the given apps on the Linux VM, displaying them on your Windows desktop with your local X server.

The main problems I see with this would be automating the Linux VM startup, and configuring the local icons (they would have to launch a script that ssh's into the Linux VM after checking if a local X server and the Linux VM is running, forwarding X connections).
Why was Microsoft split in two?

Same fate will catch Google. Unfortunately for them, they are a one-trick pony, which tries to play everywhere and all the other circus animals hate it for it. Vertical apps are challenging google search in a serious way and this trend will only continue. Microsoft will seriously challenge search with win10 too. Both on the desktop and mobile. Display is facebook's turf and this will only continue too. Cloud is not a feasable option for Google to compete in. Home automation seems kinda desperate. Google effectively has not competed ever for anything. Also, their leadership has a track record for sinking companies with poor partner relations. The once mighty google doesn't seem so invulnerable now.
Well, if you allow for waiting long enough they come for free as spy satellite surplus.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_National_Reconnaissance_...
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There are competing app stores. Windows Phone is one, and Android has several. There isn't much difference in the fee.
Sounds like a Twilio project for an afternoon :-/
The book Corporate Confidential talks about how this works in large companies. It states that, generally, people who get laid off are the ones who have clashes with the managers. They disagree too much, complain, gossip, etc. Has nothing to do with work performance. Always comes down to if your boss likes you. If your boss doesn't like you, you make a layoff list so the next time the company needs to downsize, you go away. Solves any issues of wrongful termination because many places are "at-will" anyway, and they can simply say "sorry, we have more people than we have work" and not ever tell you the reason why.

I recommend that book highly. As I have seen the mistakes I've made over the years and have taken steps to correct that behavior. :)
AT&T is charging an extra $29/month to opt out of “tracking information”
> I do commercial closed-source development; there is no public branch to the whole world. OTOH, all feature branches are public to the team

If you don't work with private branches, it's not surprising that you don't see any value in rebasing which is mostly useful for private branches.

In fact, if you don't have private vs. public scenarios, it's not really clear whether you need a distributed version control system. But that makes sense, DCVS were developed for OSS after all.