skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't particularly care for Uber as a company, but reading this it seems to me that the "bad guy" is the US government. Making things like paying taxes more straightforward and automated, and providing a better health insurance structure to its citizens are 2 things that would allow people to partake in things like driving for Uber without most of the drawbacks exposed in this post. That's the kind of stuff really needed to enable a country built on entrepreneurship (things like a national "day of code" or White House hackathons are cute, but rank lower on the list of priorities)
GPG has been struggling with funding for some time now, but that's fixed: https://gigaom.com/2015/02/06/funds-flow-in-for-gnupg-author...

Also, to be fair, it's used widely by many infosec researchers/vendors/IC folks who know how it's done.
Agree. Physics doesn't lie. But Politicians lie (or don't know what they are talking about OR pretend to not know what they are talking about).
Yes, modern violins differ in various ways from baroque ones, and most of the surviving instruments from that era were "updated." The key differences include the length of the neck, which was shorter as players didn't use as much of the range of the violin. The bridge was flatter, which made chords easier to play. And the bass bar was generally shorter, although I'm not sure what the sonic implications of that are. And possibly most important, the bows were completely different. Modern bows have a screw mechanism that keeps the tension of the hair. Before that was invented (mid 19th c.) players would keep the tension with their hand.

As for strings, modern players mostly use strings made of synthetic cores wrapped in metal. The goal is to get as close to the sound of gut as possible without all of the hassle real gut entails (expense, tempermentality, short lifespan, long break-in periods).

That said, there is a growing movement of "historical informed performance," which is the idea that we should be playing period music on period instruments, instead of our modernized versions.
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One of the core components of the NextGen system, ADS-B, is already mandatory for airlines in some countries (such Australia). Its how flightradar24 and other sites manage to get real time info.

http://www.flightradar24.com/about

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_dependent_surveillanc...
> If a functioning switch has only a single wire feeding into it then it must be reaching ground

False dichotomy. You omitted a third option: magic.
Perceptiv founder here. Thanks for the support! Would love to talk to GoPro but we haven't been able to do that, so please talk to us if anyone has leads :) Great idea about live streaming! We're definitely trying to figure out how to do that.
As a cyclist from Arizona I stopped reading after seeing that. Complete BS. Lying via omission to support your claim is not a great way to inspire trust.
Go through my comment history. How many comments do you see? A handful? Yup.
The reason there are so few is because, I only reply to comments I wholeheartedly agree with. And this is one of them.
awesome, it works and looks good.

i love gnu unifont too and made a renderer[1], using a big spritesheet[2] rather than a proper font file. using an image seems like a good way to load unifont in terms of bandwidth, but of course the downside is losing the ability to treat it as real text.

[1] try typing into http://bon.gs/pxt/test.html (i haven't marked all the half-width chars yet so the spacing is off for a bunch)

[2] http://i.imgur.com/kiVf8Hm.png
That name, a dig at servers as "cattle vs pets" i take it?
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Before Lockhead Martin's work trying to modernize, IBM had a billions dollar contract in the 80's.

http://sebokwiki.org/wiki/FAA_Advanced_Automation_System_%28...

http://articles.latimes.com/1988-08-11/business/fi-288_1_air...

Basically, none of these huge companies want to do this kind of work unless the pay is obscene. And then once it's obscene, the companies all fight over it and throw each other under the bus. Court battles aren't even the half of it. They hire lobbyists, contribute to campaigns, and every 2-8 years there's some amount of government shuffling. So nothing is actually ever very consistent within the government. New politicians, new bureaucrats, new policies, new ideas (they think anyway), and they basically have been scrapping previously done work and starting over multiple times. And it's been longer than 40 years.

Perversely, running on vacuum tubes makes the old system a more security hardened system than what we're likely to end up with. We should hope the NSA has hacked the FAA and ATC as a defensive measure.
Is there more legitimacy/recourse to pay another company for services than to hire an employee (with the skill to back it up) to do the same work in-house? That level of indirection sounds inefficient...
Poe's law in effect here.
I wonder what the apologists will say, there certainly is no lack of imagination when it comes to defending torture and murder when done by the government.
This article should be another argument in favor of calling this "The 1099 economy" instead of "The Sharing Economy".

In the end, that 1099 will be much more salient to your everyday life than the notion of 'sharing'
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At least the //e could boot to a disk without any interaction with the command line.

I guess that's why I will always be a C=> fan.
Dakota – YES.XXX
How does it work when the subject matter is compilers, for example in the context of CompCert?
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From a security perspective, not really, the alternative is run Docker as root. Perhaps it is from a system stability perspective though?
The Uber claim is about the bay area/sf only.

Then the counter study is about the USA average for Uber.

Based on that, I can't say who tells the truth - but I can certainly say that I don't believe anything from this article either.
Xkcd sells a set of stickers which includes a magic/more magic pair:

http://store.xkcd.com/products/switch-and-button-stickers
Couldn't agree more.

All these are symptoms of lazy designers/managers essentially saying "fuck it, just throw a micro in there and do it in software".

A router doesn't need to be a full-stack linux system waiting to get pwned.

A memory stick doesn't need to have a full computer embedded in there waiting to be exploited by BadUSB.
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Control comes in many flavors - e.g. you might be able to influence random element selection but not general code flow. (e.g - you might be able to set the seed before the call to quicksort).

And I only mentioned control because that's what McIlroy's example required to use as-is. But as I already stated, it is enough to know in advance the output of the (pseudo) random used to select a pivot to make it go quadratic, which is usually easy -- unless it is cryptographically secure (I've never seen qsort use one. have you?)

So, no, it is completely fair: There is no way to cause mergesort to go quadratic. However, it is quite easy to cause quicksort to go quadratic if you know how it selects it pivots (whether or not you can directly influence it during runtime or not).
Reminds me of 7 years back when I was working at a major power generation company. There was a team working on restarting production of completely obsolete analog control equipment for nuclear reactors. The operator wanted to extend the life of their reactors by a decade or two and it just wasn't worth it for them to have to re-certify a modern system. The existing system had been running for decades without any serious accident, so with stakes that high and red tape that thick, they just went for "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". It was funny in a steampunk / Fallout kind of way.
"FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE, IF YOU PURCHASE WI-FI IN COACH, YOU'RE PRETTY MUCH BETTER OFF THAN THE PILOT."

So why does ATC not having GPS tracking make the pilot worse off? The pilot does have GPS, and even more precision navigation in certain cases like instrument landings.

If the FAA and the companies they keep hiring weren't so f'n sclerotic, I'd say they need to look at a totally decentralized system that account for autonomous drones, so all positive control flights (non-VFR) can be integrated into the same system; but obviously starting over yet again is a great way to just burn another $5 billion. No actually burning the cash would at least have residual value as potash.
Heck yes! Alas not a filmmaker but I have wanted something very nearly like this forever. I go horseback riding regularly, mostly through relatively open areas (county parks / regional preserves / city trails etc). I have wanted a drone that can carry a GoPro (or something) to capture footage of our rides (sometimes we go through some gorgeous country that we really wish we could capture on video).

However, here is the kicker, because we ride at a fast trot or canter, I can't actively control the quad. Instead, I must be able to passively control it. It must perform specific, pre-defined actions based on my position, speed, and heading while flying, steering, and maneuvering without receiving any input directly from me. It should continually adjust its position and flight path based on my speed according to the rules I pre-define. For example, after takeoff with the camera turned on, the drone ought to stay ahead of me, say 30 feet ahead and 20 feet off the ground. Then if I start moving faster than 10 mph it should come to my side about 30° (10 o'clock). If I continue at this speed for more than a minute it should do a slow semi circle around me and come to the 2 o'clock point for a minute. If I keep going it should... etc etc. I don't care if I have to program the drone in code or through a UI, I just want to be able to define lots and lots of rules (based on the terrain of the day). Of course it would need to protect itself from running into trees and walls, or any other objects while trying to follow my rules as closely as possible.

You have my attention.
AH! That's cool. You made a font renderer using an image. An interesting idea. I could use that to maybe reduce the download time, as the font is 3mb and your image of plane 0 is 850k. If all of plane 0 can fit in an 850k png, maybe it would be possible to do a custom compressed format for Unifont (that could still be scaled and colored), that beat out the WOFF file's 3mb. Thanks for sharing that!
In C# there's a similar tool called Code Digger[1]. It analyzes all possible branches of a function and generates input to cover all of them, this includes not only your own "if's" but also branches inside library functions and stuff like divide by zero and dereferencing null pointers. It's really impressive and can even generate strings and arrays with data that causes a different branch to be taken.

Sadly i found it to be no more than that, cool. On real life code it's not useful. Real code usually has a lot of mutable state, this tool works best with pure functions. Real code does pretty complex things like parsing xml, that takes too much time to analyze for these tools. Bugs in real code are not always exceptions or error codes returned, maybe you assigned foo.x to bar.y instead of bar.x, maybe the sort doesn't crash but your numbers came out unsorted, how would the tool know that's a fault? Real bugs happen across threads or even modules running on different machines. And the list goes on. Only if you have functions that are very pure and mostly work with simple data types, few strings and lists, it can be good to use as startng point for input to a test suite but doesn't replace it fully.

[1] https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/fb5badda-4ea3...
It's bad for your eyes, imagine staring at a 50 foot 360 degree tv from up close, that is basically what VR experience is like. If you want to protect your eyes, be careful.
Japan is getting an anonymous whistleblowing platform
The problem is they switched to non-EV and they pinned only the EV root.
I can also confirm that WalmartLabs does do drug tests after accepting the offer and before orientation. The fine print says they can also drug test you at any time after starting employment, however, I have yet to see this happen in practice after three years.
"If it ain't costing me money in a way I can see on a simple spreadsheet, don't fix it."

There. That's the mature way of maintaining systems. That's how grown-ups approach the world.
Businesses will only care about mindfulness as long as they feel it keeps their employees happy. If any of them achieved any form of self actualization they probably wouldn't care too much about devoting a third of their life or more to lining someone else's pocket.
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The problem is that most people confuse bureaucracy with process and structure. Those are not the same thing. It is possible to have process and structure without bureaucracy.
Did I miss it or do they not mention what tech it is?

Are they talking about this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_9020
> It's a well know issue the problem that git has with large files,

True to some extent. (Large files I will agree with.) That wasn't his only argument: the other was about large repos. I've seen many places try to attempt a 1:1 conversion of a Perforce depot to a git repository, and this will likely not work well: the Perforce depots are simply too large. A Perforce depot typically, in my experience, contains the entire source code for the entire company. A Git repository would be suitable for a subtree in that depot that represents a logical project, often managed by a team of related co-workers. So one Perforce depot would correspond to multiple git repos; however, like I said, I feel like people try to shoehorn the entire depot into a single repo.

The downside is you have multiple repos, whereas before you had a single large repo, and any cross git-repo changes would be made in a single changelist. In git, you'll need multiple commits, and some way to manage inter-repo dependencies in those changes. (Such as semantic versioning, and a decent build system.)

The downside of Perforce that I ran into while working with it is that it lacks git's branching model, many of git's day-to-day conveniences (I so miss git add -p, git commit for just pushing out small fixes that either don't need review or for which review is trivial), and frankly, the fact that a commit hash represents a set state. (Between creation of a changelist, running tests, and submitting the changelist, someone can break you; this is not possible in git, as the push will fail.)

In the long run, I greatly prefer the extra management work of git for the power it brings with its branching model.

> I don't think he was that negative.

> > Most grownup software shops use Perforce

In my reading of this, there is an insinuation that shops using git are not "grownup"; I would call this disrespectful, myself.
Show HN: Minimal Vagrant base-box images for various Linuxen
I've been frustrated dealing with other Vagrant boxes that come pre-loaded with a bunch of cruft - old versions of Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and other software that just plain ships broken. To address that, I've created some Minimal Vagrant boxes at https://atlas.hashicorp.com/minimal/ 64-bit base installs of CentOS, Ubuntu, and Debian that have very little installed beyond what the base system needs. I threw on Git, Vim, and sshd just because those happen to be fairly key pieces of my personal toolchain, as well as some additional software needed to comply with Vagrant's Base Box Creation Guide (lots of stuff is needed to install and run the VirtualBox tools, for instance). I was pleasantly surprised to find that not only do the 'minimized' installs use significantly less disk space (particularly the Debian-based ones), but they also use less RAM. Feel free to check them out. I am particularly interested in ways I can make the images even more streamlined, so if others have any ideas along those lines I'd love to hear them!
Apple stifling the work of web standard
only way to deal with such stupidity is to ignore it and at the right moments crush it.... intelligence cannot win against stupidity.... it is like a clump of clay dashed against an adamantine wall...
I've always belived that source control was for source. Source is any piece of data created by a human being, which includes things such as large binaries, such as psd files (mentioned in a sibling). This belief excludes, however, large binaries output by a build system: the build script is the source (and should get versioned), the output, not so much. (The output should likely get stored somewhere, however. We keep our build scripts in git, and binaries in S3, for example.)
Win8.1 has certutil -generateSSTFromWU that lets you get the entire list
You can always use some other name,not use the title doctor, or even try to stay anonymous-Like the other non-doctors who consult on this platform.

I'm sure the non-doctors on this aren't exposed to any legal risk, or else the FDA would have closed this site already.
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Often, one of those is true on Tuesday and the other on Thursday. Our emotional connection to our experiences is dynamic and inconsistent.
Uber's driver income numbers have been wildly deceptive. They don't include the cost of the car, or of operating it.
I am the kind of person who likes to work with small but effective teams. I like people who are willing to go the extra mile to build something cool and advanced. Although i haven't been to Google, Apple, etc but i think these companies do not leave enough room for people to explore new cool technologies to work in, which is pretty much all you do in startups.

So i'll always go with a smaller and effective team than being part of a very big company where my role is more or less insignificant.
Or both at the same time. They answer the question they wish you had asked.

http://jezebel.com/male-politician-thinks-that-your-vagina-a...
NextGen gives the pilots (with "ADS-B in") the same view of the airspace that the controllers get. Right now, they only have a limited view, via the TCAS.
Working with KeY is similar to writing a proof. The development of pre-, post-conditions and invariants is done interactively with the theorem prover, which shows you what is missing.
This strikes me as being interesting primarily for the potential impact it has on interface design. There are applications of (this sort of) virtual memory manipulation beyond circular buffers. Performance is one consideration, but not the only one.

Also, this is a demonstration - of course it lacks synchronization mechanisms for multithreading! Any particular application of the principle would be adapted for the context in which it occurred (and hopefully be justified thereby).

(As an aside, that caveat only applies if you begin with a poll function that performs the copy itself. That implementation isn't the only obvious one, especially given a large buffer - though I suppose there's room for disagreement on that.)
US taxes are ridiculously complicated, but trying to change any of it is basically impossible - at the slightest hint of any one sector having to increase taxes, it's game over, as the US public gets very loud when that happens.

About 20 years ago here in Australia, the sales tax was simplified. It used to be that you'd pay 0, 11, 22, or 33% tax on goods if they were classed as staples, luxuries, or something in-between. They scrapped this and replaced it with a flat 10% tax nationally, except for staple foods. My mother was a bookseller, which was previously tax-free (so it wasn't good for her business), but she said that other vendors were over the moon at the much greater ease of compliance. If you ran a mixed business, it was a pain to track which items were 11% versus one of the others.

Then I look at the US system and... shudder. Sales taxes can come from several different levels, and then be chargeable depending on where the seller is and also where the buyer is. It's ridiculously complex. But fixing it means that some people will have to pay a little more (never going to happen) and some entities will lose political power to someone further up the chain (also never going to happen).

On the other hand, the US economy is ridiculously powerful, so perhaps they can afford to waste money on process, keeping armies of accountants employed :)
If you can't do it on desktop, you can't do it at all. Mainly because some of us have real work to do.

If the only "usable" implementation is on a hard-to-physically-secure mobile device that uses a tonne of different uncontrolled network access points a day -- that's not really an option now, is it?
As a pilot myself, I wouldn't be so fast to blame the FAA (as much as we pilots don't like them at times). The FAA is using 40 year old tech for the same reason we (especially general aviation pilots) are flying 40+ year old planes: there used to be tons of money pouring into aviation, and now there's not. It's prohibitively expensive to do just about anything in aviation nowadays.
mmap seems very awesome when you first get to know it. You enter one of those "I just found a new programming technique" phases where you naively want to do all your I/O that way because you have just seen the light.

Then hopefully you start to understand the SIGBUS problem. I/O failure becomes indistinguishable from a bad pointer dereference. Oh wait, maybe I/O and memory really should be separate...

At least that's how I felt about it. From what I see many people do not reach that last phase.
Did they plan on making you an offer after just a phone screen and a reference check? If they still planned on doing an in-person I wouldn't let them go near my references until the very last step.
Always thought provoking for me, as always with worrydream. Especially the bit about unthinkable thoughts - mind blown.
amazing product and kickass team
Probably couldn't have hurt to reach out to the recruiter and/or hiring manager and make a personal case for yourself.
ANSSI if I remember correctly, and one of their intermediate CAs issued an intermediate that was installed in a MITM device. They seems to be phasing out the root now BTW.
I usually just ask the questions from the Joel Test. If they score high enough I get to other questions specific to their company.

Back to OP: I personally don't see myself working for a place that needs to talk to me for more than 1 hr before making a decision. If they take this long to decide on a hire, imagine how long and grueling are their technology decisions.
I don't have a "write some algorithm in 15 minutes" self because I never do it at my job, but here I am, trying to rush an implementation on a whiteboard.
Good callout.. especially considering the article started off like:
>3 screening calls, 5 FaceTime interviews, a trip to Cupertino for 5 two-person interviews
I'll take the opportunity to say that it saddens me that I still can not communicate using TextSecure with iOS users. It's been almost two years[1] since iOS support was "promised". TS is great, but we need to be able to communicate with iOS users.

[1] https://whispersystems.org/blog/sure/
5. They have $700B, and even they can't they afford more than a "thanks but no thanks."