skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if thousands of people saw something out of this world is not enough of evidence? What is an extraordinary evidence for you?

I hear this extraordinary evidence claim text often and I think that people that say it in fact ask for an official government statement or a live tv streaming of a landing etc but they will never get it because the government will never admit that is not the absolute power unless it's too obvious to deny it and also to avoid population panic.
rkt is also written in Go.
> My impression has always been that many MBA folks were engineers to start with.

You were very lucky in your meetings with MBAs.

> A lot of MBA programs are structured to teach business acumen to folks that didn't take a 4 year business / commerce degree to start with..

Yeah, and in most cases they didn't take a 4 year engineering degree either.
There won't be. Scientific intuition and the available studies suggest that apart from perhaps in the immediate vicinity of where they pump the salt back in, the effect is minimal, no matter how much desalination you perform.

It's what you'd expect, in fact. The state of California (if my back of envelope calculations are correct) uses in total about 66 cubic kilometres of water each year.

If you produced California's entire water supply by desalination, this would be akin to removing 1/10,000,000 of the Pacific's water every year. It's a miniscule amount, and is of order of magnitude the same as not letting the Colorado reach the ocean.
Does Colorado[1] really look like such a great place to grow crops? Particularly in the context of what we're talking about here, water availability, snowpack changes, etc. Also, Colorado via Drought Monitor[3].

Iowa[2] for comparison.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Colorado/@38.9252672,-105....

[2] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Iowa/@41.9383166,-93.38979...

[3] http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?...
> "Does it work?"

This speaks nothing about maintainability or extensibility, which can add great value to a product in the long term. These factors aren't a matter of style or aesthetics, and they go beyond simply getting code to work.

> It is genuinely cool to see code that is well designed and well written. And doing that consistently does require the innate talent of a special mind.

And we've immediately returned to the bimodal myth.

I would say it comes from someone who (1) cares about the quality of their work, (2) has a sense of what constitutes good or bad code (a sense most often acquired through experience), and (3) has the foresight (also usually acquired through experience) to make early design decisions that pay off later. None of this requires an innate genius.
Yup. Being in tune with the vehicle is the most fantastic part of driving. The skill and coordination required, the tactile pleasure of the controls and the gearchange. The automatic kills much of the enjoyment of it. And yes, I've been driving for about 20 years, and yes, I've commuted in some of the worst traffic in America.

Also, changing gears myself does not preclude me from listening to audiobooks, as some commenter mentioned. I'm already sitting there operating the controls on the car. Having one more lever and one more pedal does not exactly tax me mentally, or preclude my other senses, not constitute any real effort aside from perhaps an extra calorie or three burned.
This paragraph really captures the essence of the problem:

"But California, from this drought onward, will be a state transformed. The Dust Bowl of the 1930s was human-caused, after the grasslands of the Great Plains were ripped up, and the land thrown to the wind. It never fully recovered. The California drought of today is mostly nature’s hand, diminishing an Eden created by man. The Golden State may recover, but it won’t be the same place."
That's pretty much my story too, although I didn't dig too deep because I got bored. Programming was so "trivial" for me I skipped on a Computer Science major and went with Electrical Engineering so I could learn something I didn't already know.

You think folks who can't solve "trivial" problems are afraid. I disagree. They just "don't see it" the way we do. It's the difference having talent gives you.
It seems plausible to me that the distribution of innate programming ability is a bell curve, but the distribution of programming effectiveness is bimodal. The missing ingredient of course is experience and education. It's similar to an athletic skill, such as the high jump. If you plotted the maximum height that a random assortment of individuals could jump, the resulting graph would be bimodal: the top clump would be those who can do the Fosbury flop and the bottom clump would be everyone else. The innate ability to jump follows a bell curve distribution, but unless you know that trick, you'll end up on the lower clump.
I don't need to reproduce an entire detailed CSV spec here to make the point.

There is a danger in being too detailed because there is no universal spec anyway. For many users, CSV is whatever the most recent version or two of Microsoft Excel accept, as confirmed by trial-and-error reverse engineering.
A malicious kernel module can remove itself from the output of lsmod.
> What about Colorado? Seems like a good place for agriculture.

Most of the parts of Colorado that are good for agriculture (e.g., not the Rockies) are already being used for agriculture. You can't really replace the area of California currently being used for agriculture with agriculture-suitable land in Colorado that isn't already being used for agriculture.
As a Canadian I would love to see a citation to this because it would have been pretty big news here and I recall nothing about it.
Just be aware of the unicode differences between the two versions and you should be fine with Python 3.
That would be true if programming were just one thing.
I think there's also an in-between for Green and Good, which is Effective... There are a lot of tasks that don't need an elegant solution, only a working one. If your solutions are broken up pretty well, where a given piece can be updated or rewritten without having to refactor everything, it makes that easier, and makes a project work better with multiple developers of varying skill.
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You might be a bit mixed up on the Tesla lineup. The P models are the high-end performance versions (the P is for "performance"). There's no such thing as a stripped-down P Tesla. There was never a 65 of any variety. There was a 60, but there was never a P60. Right now the lineup is 70D, 85, 85D, P85D. (The D being for "Dual motor" i.e. all wheel drive.) Previously there was a 60 instead of the 70D. Long ago there was a 40, but it got discontinued almost instantaneously.

My own anecdotal experience is that virtually every Tesla on the road is an 85, with 85D starting to supplant it now, and the 70D probably going to start taking that crown once it ships.

I bought my 85 with lots of reasonable/useful options (tech package, sunroof, rear seats) but without the frilly stuff (high-end sound system, "premium interior") and it was comfortably under $100,000 even without counting the federal tax credit.

I wouldn't object too strenuously to rounding my price up to "100k" as part of discussions like this, though.
The problem with relying on personal anecdotal evidence is that it is inherently biased. The only way to truly answer the question is find a way to reliable measure coding skill. Otherwise you find yourself making the same mistake you think Jacob is making. Using faulty data to back up an assumption.

Part of the thrust of Jacob's talk was that there is probably a whole class of developers out there who would be just as good as the rest of us but they can't get entry due to an assumption that Coding is an innate skill and not a learned one. He even gives examples like the lady who had written a working distributed GIS processing pipeline but didn't think she was a Coder.

I'm a little like Jacob in that people automatically assume I'm a 10x coder. I have a pedigree from Google. My github and bitbucket accounts are full of small libs and projects I've played around with. My code has been used by CouchDB and the list of languages I have at least surface knowledge about is huge. There is exactly one reason for all these qualifications though. I've been in the industry for more than 10 years and I was a hobbiest programmer for several decades before I was in industry. When I started learning I was doing gw Basic. My first "real" programming languages was VB6. I was a stereotypical below average programmer. I didn't know a linked list from a hashtable. All I needed to turn into the "ninja" people see when they look at me now was time.

I've met a lot of people who could absolutely reach this same level. And 90% of those people with potential resist trying because they think "I'm not really a coder". The myth really does need to die.
Does the article read like a smoke screen, designed to push a specific agenda? Given that Kubernetes supports Docker too?

I love Rocket and Docker, but I don't love misleading sensationalism in tech reporting. Maybe my mistake is thinking of wired as tech reporting?
I've been using CoreOS & Docker for about 3 months now in production (stable channel on AWS). At the moment I have a "cluster" of 2 machines on AWS and 1 simple CI server on DigitalOcean, also on CoreOS & Docker. It wasn't easy for me to get used to "the docker way" of doing things, but I think I'm quite fluent in using Docker & building containers now. Setting up everything is very easy & productive, they have a great documentation (example: https://coreos.com/docs/running-coreos/cloud-providers/ec2/). If you're interested, you can setup a test VMs using Vagrant, this takes like 5 minutes: https://coreos.com/docs/running-coreos/platforms/vagrant/

However, I don't really feel comfortable with Docker security and I will probably switch to rkt - more focus on security and better approach to containers imo. CoreOS is incredibly good product, these people see the future. Full disclosure: I'm very happy user of CoreOS products.
Why would you need an anti-anti-drone if your drone wasn't doing anything dubious in the first place? Who's going to attack it with an anti-drone?

Drones seem to be one of the most polarising new technologies. On the one hand, they have the potential for numerous beneficial applications. Just a few that I've seen seriously proposed or actually implemented are:

- searching large areas or dangerous locations for survivors after a natural disaster

- improving farming efficiency

- (my personal favourite so far) transporting an AED to a patient having a heart attack much quicker than any ground-based emergency vehicle can get there

- delivering more everyday items like books or groceries in the on-line shopping era.

Obviously there are practical concerns around safety and efficiency, but hopefully in time we'll develop good ways to address those.

On the other hand, there are inevitably people lining up who want to use the same technologies to build more powerful weapons or more effective surveillance systems. All of the usual concerns about the ethics of those applications arise. And then all of the usual concerns about corrupting the otherwise beneficial applications in order to turn drones into threats or surveillance tools even though those devices were never created with such intentions will arise as well.

I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a kind of drone/anti-drone arms race for a while in those cases, particularly if non-military organisations like police forces and local councils start routinely and ubiquitously deploying these tools in civilian environments. I suspect that if they do then it will work against them in the long run, in the same way that mass surveillance on-line has prompted technological counter-measures that probably do make it harder for genuine security service investigations to monitor legitimate surveillance targets in some cases.

In some ways, I think the bigger danger will be the corruption/mission creep problem. For example, large-scale drone "postal systems" might develop, and maybe they'll offer much more efficiency and/or be more environmentally friendly than today's driver-and-van networks. On the other hand, if they also happen to fly around people's properties with high resolution cameras recording all the time, they make concerns about Google's Street View or local authority CCTV camera networks look like child's play. The answer here is probably better transparency and regulation, but we aren't very good at either of those right now, so again I could see the potential for a lot of people being upset and a few (but probably enough) of them being willing to take direct action in response, legal or otherwise.

IMHO it will be very unfortunate if that's the way our culture goes, but in this of all issues I could see the technology becoming shunned because of fear (legitimate or otherwise) of abuse.
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Went a bit over 2000 chars (570 words) so read here http://pastebin.com/9qqfhXPE but I will read and reply to responses here in HN.
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Every 3 months they also brought everyone in the office into a room and we would all go around and say one good thing and one bad thing about each other to the entire group.

That (saying a negative thing) seems like it could backfire.
hmmm, my mistake. I should have read this more carefully.

"Google also offers cloud computing services a la Amazon, and it was the first big-name cloud company to embrace Docker. Since then, Amazon, Microsoft, and others have followed, responding to Docker’s enormous popularity among Silicon Valley developers. But now, Google is backing Rocket as well, rolling the technology into its Kubernetes cloud computing software. Google calls this “an important milestone for the Kubernetes project.”

My reco is update the title.
> It may sound like a bad omen to buy the car from a car repair shop that you want to visit as seldom as possible.

That's....quite a good point.
That's more than made up for the fact that fossil fuels receive enormous subsidies in the form of being allowed to pollute without paying anything close to the costs generated by that pollution. If you actually charged the fossil fuel industry for their externalities, the subsidies listed here would fade into insignificance by comparison.
Have you tried it this year?

In his three minute lightning talk in October last year[1] nine demo'd the small things I think you're talking about (calling Python code from within Perl 5 code from within Perl 6 code and using XS-based Perl 5 modules from CPAN).

But that talk was merely a snapshot of his progress just a few hours after he began.

If you read the examples in the README of Inline::Perl5 as it is today I think you'll see that it is already a lot more capable than you are thinking it is. [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Y-lvQP6jI&list=UU7PuZDAIVM...

[2] https://github.com/niner/Inline-Perl5
You don't need to be truly rural for EV range to be an issue. While I couldn't use one as my only vehicle, Tesla's range would work pretty well for me although it's a ~$100K car when all is said and done--which is what I think the parent meant when he referred to "affordable." The options that are relatively affordable today only get about 80 miles on a charge which really isn't a lot unless you're driving around a pretty local area.

I live about an hour outside the local metropolis which is close enough to go in routinely for the evening and I couldn't take an 80 mile range car in.
First of all, there was an article about Hanx Writer just the other day. Yes, there ARE people who miss typewriters.

Secondly, the word processor does countless things the typewriter cannot do, and does so with an order of magnitude more speed.

The automatic transmission does nothing a manual transmission cannot do (from the end user perspective), other than being ever so slightly less effort, and perhaps a few milliseconds faster in gearchange, which does not matter unless perhaps you are being paid for how fast you can get to the grocery store.

Freed of the tyranny of having to use your left foot for a clutch, what is it that you accomplish while driving an automatic that you could not before?
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A measure of the elegance and cleanliness of code is so arbitrary in our industry that it's useless as a metric.

Faster is concrete enough to be useful though.
It's all very interesting. I believe programming is less obscure, less challenging for the senses thus easier to make progress in. In the end not everyone will be able to invent a new paradigm, or even solve hard problems in code.

I still don't understand music, but I've been through long plateau followed by big insights. Same as in programming, some ideas were out of reach for a long time.

Doing things in time is already music. What most people want is a tiny bit of complexity, overlaying melodies and rhythmic patterns to tickle our senses. But to my deepest understanding, it is mostly the state of flow where you feel locked into the invisible energy of music. Maybe it's a high sensitivity between your interactions and the actual waves caused by your instrument, and an inner knowledge of how to keep that vibration moving without choking (think taking successive perfect curves with a car).
Also know Lindybeige and Skall, but Tim and Metatron are new to me. I'll watch them later, thanks for the data!
> Many people can't seem to make the jump to the "bigger picture" version of programming

TBH I am not sure there is even a viable "smaller picture" version of programming. Sure you can write some simple scripts and compile some C++ or Java or run some python. But I have to think 99.99% of what you could actually make a living doing would require knowing a stack at least from the database up to the browser or desktop.
Murphy's book is actually subtitled "A Probabilistic Perspective" -- "Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Approach" is a different book by a different author.
Mission - either where we directly effect the lives of people.

Working with a talented and motivated group of people

Salary - competitive salary based on location etc

Paid vacation time and an understanding that people do have lives outside of work
When will the state do something about this? Or are they? I've only heard about lawn watering bans. That seems like a pittance compared to the real abusers.

I feel like California is going to wake up one day and say "Well, shit, we knew this was coming and we did nothing".
I don't have any good answers to that, sorry. I know that SUSE and Red Hat worked together on the live-kernel-patching stuff just shipping with kernel 4.0 and work together on a number of other open source projects as well.

There is no denying the size of Red Hat, and thus its influence. I'm just thankful there are other out there doing the good work as well.
As a small investor in an oil company I'd be surprised if there was any net subsidy of the oil industry. If you tax a company $10 but then give back $2 in allowances you are not subsidising it by $2, you are taxing it $8. In the UK of what you pay at the pump for petrol about 60% goes in tax.
> (a) "spaces outside quotes in a field are not allowed", and (b) "Spaces are considered part of a field and should not be ignored."

Note that it's clear that (b) refers only to spaces inside quotes, because spaces outside quotes are not allowed.

> Maybe you're referring to the comment that CSV parsers should "be liberal in what you accept from others"...?

I actually don't believe in that principle. If there is a spec that everyone agrees upon, violations should be accurately and loudly diagnosed and rejected.

Both preparation of the data format and processing of that data format should be conservative. Being liberal in what is accepted has unintended negative consequences.

Be that as it may, there is no universal CSV spec, though. RFC 4180 is just someone's opinion on what CSV should be. CSV is something that has been widely implemented in numerous programs over numerous decades, in different ways.

My main point holds that if you split the string on commas and do nothing else, then one of the aspects you're neglecting to handle is the treatment of unquoted whitespace outside of a field.
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150 kilowatt Solid State combat laser is ready this year
Something that was invented by a statistician is not necessarily statistics, and that certainly applies even more to something invented by a mathematician. I guess with a broad enough notion of statistics some of these would fall in the field of statistics, but if something does not use at least one probability distribution it's probably far fetched to classify it as statistics.

It would be a lot more fair to classify machine learning as a subfield of convex optimization. Yet even that classification does not quite fit, so it makes most sense to just accept that it's a separate field which uses techniques from statistics, convex optimization, computer science, and more.
Wow, didn't even think of it that way.
Tesla S has a range of 400 km. This makes the cost 5.31 € per 100 km. An average ICE car of the same size uses, let's say, 8 L per 100 km. The cost for the ICE is then 11.2 €. Twice as much. Don't forget that: you can charge at free stations, charge at a free supercharger, and you can charge the car at night when the electricity price is lower( 25ct is quite high btw ), while the price for the petrol is always the same.
A lot of time equity is seen as motivation to take a risk (joining a startup and not an established and stable company).

There is (in my short experience) a feeling of "building stuff" at start ups that a lot (but not all) big companies lack.
If you can charge while you do your evening activity (becoming pretty common these days) then it would be practical for that.

I don't mean to argue that this makes the EV perfect, but it's something to consider just on the off chance that you'd otherwise want to buy one.
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Perhaps by "ugly" she meant that she didn't like the idea of all the baggage that came with same-culture relationships.

Perhaps she was in love with the idea that non-Chinese meant not being exclusively Chinese herself - she felt perhaps she could open up to another culture and escape her own.

Alternatively, maybe she just had the hots for you?
According to SICP data and code are the same! Interesting concept anyway.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/355406/concepts-that-surp...

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-14.html...
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Great way to harvest email addresses etc of all your committers. For identity theft, spamming and spoofing fun.
If you like old combat manuals, you should checkout Hans Talhoffers' "Alte Armatur und Ringkunst".
It has been digitized in nice quality. Page 162 is especially interesting.

http://www.kb.dk/da/nb/materialer/haandskrifter/HA/e-mss/tha...