skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd imagine it would be profitable to install larger gas tanks in autonomous trucks.

To a point. There are still limits on the total weight of the tractor and trailer (and fuel). So, the more you scale fuel, the less load you can carry. There is a tradeoff, and it's _not_ much more beneficial than where we are today.

Considering most trucks take a 300 gallon load out already. That's already 2,600 lbs of fuel or 3% of your total weight limit.

If we choose a low value for the average MPG, let's say 5, then those 300 gallons of fuel will get you 1,500 miles. If we choose a high value of 70 miles per hour average speed, then it will take you 21 hours to deplete your fuel.

So, when I examine this, I don't see a case for much larger fuel tanks than we have today. The economics and realities of trucking are already very well thought out; more so than most people seem to believe.

I've said it before, but short other technological advances and human needs, I think we're at least 20 years away from fully automated trucking.
I agree. At least it takes "one" of the things out of the equation.
" It would be interesting to see an example contract with the insurance clauses and list of conditions which trigger a change of direction/control."

Here's one.[1] There are three parties, the producer, the financier (the party putting up the money for the film), and the guarantor (the insurance company). The contract calls for a "strike price" (the maximum film budget) and a delivery date. If the producer and director overrun those, the financier has the option to invoke the completion bond. The completion bond company can then 1) take over, or 2) abandon the picture and pay the amount of the bond to the financier. If the completion bond company takes over, they may have to put money into the production, in which case they get all gross receipts until they are paid back.

A well known director with a track record might get terms like that. Further down the food chain, the terms get tougher.[2] The bonding company watches progress and spending closely, and if the schedule starts to slip, sends observers in to monitor the production, and may take over before the production runs through all the money.

There's an up-front phase before production, during which the guarantor reviews the production budget, script, and shooting schedule for realism. This is where the real action happens. The guarantor wants to prevent cost and schedule overruns, not take over production. Completion bond companies are good at cost estimation; they see the full cost data for hundreds of films and know what everything costs. If the producer's estimate is, in the opinion of the guarantor, likely to result in an overrun, there are negotiations between the three parties. Either more money or more schedule has to go in, or some expensive or slow scenes have to come out.

This third-party check, by an independent party who's on the hook if there's an overrun, forces realistic budget and schedule estimates.

A completion bond costs 2% to 3% of the total budget.

If software development (especially game development) had that, there would be far fewer "crunches". Remember, in a unionized industry, crunches and 1.5x to 2x overtime pay increase the cost per unit of work.

[1] http://www.filmfinances.com/pdf/Completion%20Guaranty.pdf
[2] http://www.eqgroup.com/completion_bond.htm
No...it's not the criticism of anonymous sources, it's the lack of consideration given to the possibility that the anonymous source is lying. If you bring out an anonymous source that is making these kind of assertions, you need more than a claim that it's a retired intel officer to achieve credibility.
None of those government programs have anything to do with worker control of the means of production, the only definition of socialism that matters.
With beanstalk, you're paying in terms of multiples of server instances at all times, even if nothing is hitting your servers. With Lambda, you pay only for the execution time of your function, which is only when a request is made.
Contribute to libexplain if you want to help.
Created by the late Peter Miller.

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The problem is this: Chrome. Which, last time I checked, often ends up with >100MB private working set per tab.

And given the amount of dev time that's gone into Chrome / Chromium, it doesn't exactly set a good precedent.

Also, you're missing that there are a number of things that have to be duplicated in a multiprocess model that you only need one of in a multithreaded model. For instance: the JS heap, which has a reasonable amount of overhead.

Some things can be shared between processes like they can be between threads, but not everything.
hmm maybe put it in the kernel and use it for debugging? cant use userspace threading libraries though.
Thank you. Dr Evil is my hero.

You might like, http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/06/04/wi-fi-signals-enab...

and

https://epic.org/privacy/smartgrid/smart_meter.pdf

http://www.im.ethz.ch/publications/weiss_Percom2012.pdf
I agree with you it doesn't work this way, and my wife would say "that's why you don't get good employees." And she'd be right. It doesn't take half a day to give a short 20-30 minute skill assessment. And if you're going to pay this person $50k and up a year, both of you should find the time to do it. The cost of onboarding a new employee can be tens of thousands of dollars in salary and training costs before they're an effective employee. If you have 5 people on your short list, you can spend an entire day adequately testing them and still come out ahead.
One of the comments says

> she wasnt convicted because she posted the picture. she was convincted because she posted the picture, with hash tags like "one bullet one cop" and all cops are bastards".

If true, it sounds a bit more plausible to call it criminal harassment. I haven't followed up, though.
The whole field of UX has a strong paternalistic feel to it, guiding people toward 'defaults' and making it as easy as possible to make 'correct' choices as if they can't act rationally or in their own self-interest.
Isn't the purpose of a shell to obfuscate the gritty details of what happens behind the scenes? In Linux, when I execute a binary or a shell script, there is no obvious difference to me. Can you explain why it matters or would be considered bad design?
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seems to me united wanted to be hacked: https://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/Contact/bugbounty.a...
Oh okay, I misunderstood the rules. I thought it was about displaying ads on the website itself, not ads that link to the website.
i'm sure you have some sick sociopathic justification for it in your head.
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Stanford is actually worse than Berkeley from the point of view of actual education. I have interviewed scores of both Berkeley and Stanford engineering students, and the Berkeley students have beaten the Stanford students every single time.

It wasn't even close.
Trivia: cat is actually an abbreviation of catenate, a lesser used (now) synonym for concatenate.

Unix is of course horrible for beginning users but if you think you can do better (as in fixing the problems without doing collateral damage) you are probably wrong.

Another aside: The UNIX Hater's Handbook should be read by every Unix sysadmin and programmer.
Looks like a predecessor of "The Unix-haters'andbook":

http://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf

Actually, I learned a lot about Unix when I read this in the 1980's.
If the allegations are true, he deserves prison, for reckless endangerment more than computer trespass.

There's no excuse for risking the lives of passengers and crew.
There are a few reasons I can think of.

1) Client libraries you might need to use in your web service might not be available in asynchronous versions.

2) Writing blocking code is much easier to write than asynchronous code.

3) Your server code is CPU bound, so there's no benefit to an asynchronous model.

4) If your web app runs in an asynchronous server and your app crashes, it'll crash the whole server. On the other hand, in a forking model, only the client that the child is serving will be impacted; the other workers will be unaffected.

5) Memory leaks are easier to contain in a forking model, assuming the child can exit or be killed after N requests.
How did she tag the police officers name in her instagram post if she didn't know who he was?
Why not ask them? Just send them an email saying that the offer sounds fair and you'd be happy to agree to it (assuming that's the case), but you're intrigued as to why they increased it by so much.

If I had to guess, it sounds like perhaps they had no idea how much the market rate was and then, after you countered, sought advice on this. Having learnt what the going rate is, they then offered what they thought was a fair price. Whilst it seems crazy to offer someone more than what they were asking, they might do so if they're planning to hire you full time.
As a Midwestern suburbanite, I don't think I understand this service. When it comes to trash removal, the city already comes around once per week and collects whatever I put out there. The cost of this is baked into my city taxes and can't be opted out of so far as I know. There may be some technical limit as to how much they'll take at once, but I've never hit it. They even come around and take big stuff, like couches and mattresses, a few times per year. Is this type of service not common throughout the US?

This is an interesting idea for donatable goods like clothes, but I lose the write off and I'm not sure waiting around for a pick-up is really more convenient than just driving the stuff to a drop off location myself.

The only real advantage I see here is getting rid of stuff that's hard to dispose of: car batteries (you know, cause I'm always throwing those away), poisonous or flammable liquids, medical waste (which I don't think I've ever had), etc... but I can't believe that is profitable cargo for them to haul away at $5/bag.

What am I missing here? Am I just the wrong demographic for this?
I would be very surprised and disappointed if there is any connection between flight systems and the entertainment system. As someone holds a private pilot license, I feel like the first thing that you're taught is about the various systems and how they are separated physically. It feels shocking that the entertainment system would even be on the same network.

Having said that, I once worked with a guy who used to work for Boeing. Given the work he produced while we worked together, nothing would surprise me.

I hope this just turns out to be a vocal series of lies, but I also hope it's fully investigated.
Is tacitly calling for a specific persons murder "criticism"?
It was discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9554841. The story seems to be of greater interest than that thread satisfied, so perhaps we won't bury this one as a duplicate.
He bragged about his hacking skills to the FBI? Really?

But maybe they asked him point blank if he had ever pwned a real plane in flight. And he didn't didn't want to risk lying to an FBI agent. Tough call.
There's always Vibe.d from the D programming language. Granted you would have to write in D, but most of the libraries of C are available. Concurrency is definitely accounted for since D supports it internally in the language. If you're seriously considering a 'native' approach to web development.
> Except that PowerShell commands, 'cmdlets', are really just .NET classes that run within PowerShell, like Ruby and Python classes, none of which are the same as working with GNU or BSD utilities and other executables in POSIX shells.

That's categorically incorrect and shows a lack of knowledge of both Powershell and .Net classes. But instead of me showing you that you're wrong, let me teach you how to prove to yourself that you're wrong.

Open up Powershell, type in

( get-command get-date ).dll

This will find the dll on your system for the get-date cmdlet, but any will do ( C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL\Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility on my box). Now spin up ILSpy or any .Net decompiler.

Let's look at the GetDateCommand class. That's a 400 line class, which according to you, shouldn't exist (as cmdlets are "really just .Net classes"). In fact this entire DLL shouldn't exist.

But GetDateCommand is one of PS's simplest commands since it wraps DateTime (in CorLib), so "wait! See!" you say. But what you need to understand is that Powershell is built on top of .Net, .Net is effectively Powershell cmdlet's "kernel" so just like UNIX commands communicate with the actual kernel, cmdlets are going to leverage functionality in their "kernel" (.Net whenever possible).

My point is, that no, Powershell cmdlets are NOT just .Net classes. However you CAN use .Net classes directly in Powershell. For example:

[System.DateTime]::Now
I can't believe Boeing would connect the entertainment system to the avionics system.

But the article mentions this:

"""
After news broke about a report from the Government Accountability Office revealing that passenger Wi-Fi networks on some Boeing and Airbus planes could allow an attacker to gain access to avionics systems and commandeer a flight,
"""

Anyone could find that report? I see mention about the report on other news sites, but not the report itself.

EDIT: I think I found the report:

http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-15-370
I'm still surprised I have to remember things like parameter order and that parameters don't have some kind of auto complete yet. Or that I don't get hints or definitions of parameters as I'm building up the command.
I feel similar in some ways. I live in an urban apartment building, we have a "recycle room" where I can leave anything I can produce and it magically goes away. Having said that, when I rented in a different part of the city we had a very small bin and shared it with the apartment downstairs. The bin would often fill up and I'd find myself holding onto trash because I had no room left for it and no time to drive to the dump. In that case $5 would have felt like a good deal!
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It's oft-repeated that avionics and other non-flight-critical systems like IFE are isolated from each other, so...

- If he was just lying, this must be one of the stupidest publicity stunts I've seen, and planes are still as resistant to hacking as they've always been.

- If he was telling the truth, there could be some serious effects and perhaps it was his way of imparting momentum to finally fix the vulnerabilities that he claims have been around for years; if that were the case, whatever happens to him, his "sacrifice" could even be considered heroic.

I'd really like to believe it's the former, but something about the latter still feels plausible.

Roberts is the founder of One World Labs

Incidentally, not to be confused with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneworld
I think the authors want to avoid thundering herd. You can find this basic pattern in the book UNIX Network Programming.
Thanks for the sources.

> There are people who've aligned themselves with Gamergate who actually care about ethics in game journalism, and it's a damn shame, because Gamergate is rooted in lies. If you really want to do something about corruption, don't do it while riding the coattails of a "movement" that was only ever a wildly-successful troll.

If you look in my post history, you'll find that I said exactly this a few months back. I'm convinced that Gamergate's #1 problem is how the name is reused for everything and based on a hashtag (which makes it easy to abuse as a "dialing my personal army" kind of thing). Twitter doesn't allow for intelligent discourse anyway, and encourages this kind of "us vs. them" mentality. (Maybe you're familiar with CGPGrey's video on it, if not, I very highly recommend it: http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/this-video-will-make-you-angry)

The tipping point that boosted GG's popularity wasn't specifically the Quinn scandal but the onslaught of "gamers are dead" article, which was followed by more and more revelations (and I'm sure a fair share of them were false). The Quinn scandal was one starting point, but it could have been anything else.

But does it matter what started a movement, really? Because right now, the controversy's is fueled by the people who stand to gain the most from the attention. Quinn is the least guilty of it, but if you look close enough, you'll find that the harrassment claims are really just claims. Just the other day, one of those recurring names was claiming she had to "flee to Europe because of the threats", and then when few-months older tweets surfaced about a "planned vacation to Europe" surfaced, the narrative changed. (Again, I apologise for no sources but I dislike giving those people attention - my email is accessible from my profile if you want to continue in private).

I'm sure they get their fair share of death threats but... don't be on twitter then? It's not just a horrible medium for discussion, it really encourages this behaviour. Anyone mildly popular and controversial gets death threats. Just like anyone mildly rich will find people asking for money.

I try to remain neutral, as I said. But it's hard to feel sympathy for those people. The only thing that can be done about corruption is that people find out and talk about it, and that won't happen without momentum. GG just happens to have the momentum.
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Get out there and set a goal of having ten people try it each day. Strangers. Buy a cheap netbook if you need to. See what they like and don't like. Try out a new idea. Test that new idea with a bunch of more people. Converge on the most wanted features, but not everything feature.
I believe this is a big misunderstanding that has snowballed recently. I think what he actually claimed was that he did all of these outrageous stunts in a network simulation that he had, not a live aircraft. That is why he has not been arrested. He wants publicity for the issue of security of aircraft computers and that's why he isn't rushing to squash these "I made the airplane do a barrel roll" stories.

What's better for raising consciousness about a potentially fatal flaw that by making people think that lives were at risk when they weren't?
Picture of Polar Pioneer Oil Rig at Seattle Terminal 5
Went to Harbor Island to take a picture of the Polar Pioneer Oil rig that is causing so much controversy after the Obama administration gave the OK to Shell to "explore" the arctic. Definitely an impressive structure, regardless of its purpose and politics attached.

The structure is about 14 stories high.

https://500px.com/photo/108886457
> the problem is it makes it much easier for scammers.

The real problem is that the legal system isn't set up for a bunch of small investors to try to sue a company/officers doing genuinely fraudulent things.

If the stock is carved up over 100 people, it's very difficult to get unified action, so fraud tends to linger on.
I believe the next major revision to command-line interfaces will be natural language input, preview, correct/verify. Maybe just input, action, then possibly undo/redo with modification.

No need for the user to remember if it was called make_dir or mkdir or whatever.
Why not? I'd love to build web applications on a router with pure C.
It likely depends heavily on which aircraft we're talking about. The new 787 is highly computerized. It would not surprise me to learn everything is on the same network and only segmented in software.
The world is full of people who genuinely believe they know what is best for you. Most of them are wrong. Many of them are in positions of power in government.

My point is that just because a "nudge" is coming from the government is no reason to believe it is correct, free from bias, has no ulterior motives, or is applicable to everyone.
Sometimes, the entire crew is much happier and better off pulling a "crunch mode" if that's what it takes to achieve something of value. More often than not, outstanding art "runs over budget" and requires sacrifices (Citizen Kane and Brazil come to mind). "Bad Girls" may have been in a success in mitigating risks/costs, but in the grand scheme of things, it's mediocre junk nobody will care to remember.
The odd thing is the original offer, not your new offer.

You are at about market rate for full-time employment. Consultants often charge >$100/hr, which works out to >$18-20K/month.
There's a tradition where behavior economists first come up with an esoteric model of rationality that would require people to do things that defeat their self interest, then perform experiments to see if subjects do them or not.

This guarantees them publishable results: either you get "humans not rational!" or "rational behavior leads to bad result!" no matter what the subjects do.

My experience is like yours: I've read a decent amount of economics stuff, and nothing that didn't have an axe to grind about the subject of rational actors itself ever proposes the kind of broken rationality models that the pop behavior economics stuff claims every economist believes.
How I Got 10,000 Visitors My First Month
One strategy: Figure out what would entice your team to move from their entrenched roles, then figure out a way to offer that...both to your current staff and to prospective candidates.

Another is just to identify a local you want to bring on board and do what it takes to land that person.

As an aside, if you are doing remote, Scott Hanselman's 30 tips have some ideas if you have not seen them: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/30TipsForSuccessfulCommunicati...
I like this idea. We need to talk more as humans in business.
Yelp only "works" because it isn't worth expending money on lawyers against obviously defamatory reviews.

Note what happens every time somebody tries to start "Yelp for doctors". Now add an extra couple zeros at stake for "Yelp for investment" and watch how many lawyers start flying when a negative review comes in.
I was looking for extra information so I entered my email into the field. Figured they'd sign me up for a mailing list like what all the sites out there do.

I was surprised to see it say "Thanks, expect an email from us first thing in the morning!"

I can't find a way to cancel the request. Hopefully it'll be in the email. I understand the need for rapid on-boarding but this was a bit of a surprise.
i dont see huge value added by looking at someone's github, maybe they dont use it, maybe they published someone else's code, maybe it was done in a group project and they didn't really do anything, maybe its private, etc etc. i'd rather see a portfolio of things (end products) they have done, see what they are excited about, and ask them about it.

like 'oh, you learned ROR on your own while doing your undergrad and made site x?' and go from there.
Yeah, Hersh's story can definitely be considered to be a red herring answer to the government's lies, so the fact remains that even if Hersh's version isn't true to the last detail, Bush still evaded military service, so to speak.
I found this which seems interesting

https://github.com/koanlogic/klone
> cmdlets are NOT just .Net classes

Yes they are.

The fact that you (and others I've seen here and elsewhere) continue to believe otherwise further demonstrates how deceptive PowerShell's design is.

What's interesting is that the cmdlet documentation is very clear:

"Cmdlets differ from commands in other command-shell environments in the following ways:

"Cmdlets are instances of .NET Framework classes; they are not stand-alone executables....

"Cmdlets do not generally do their own parsing, error presentation, or output formatting. Parsing, error presentation, and output formatting are handled by the Windows PowerShell runtime."

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms714395%28v=vs.85%...