skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Police officer" is in the top 10 most dangerous jobs in the US...but only barely. It's number 10 after fishing, logging, aircraft pilots and flight engineers, farmers and ranchers, mining, roofing, trash collection, truck driving, and stuntmen. (Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-10-most-dangerous-jobs.ht...). Remember to thank your garbageman.
Powering the robocar: Ultracapacitors and other energy sources
This cracks me up a bit. I don't have anything against whiteboarding, even though I find it meaningless. With this you more often than not have false positives.
And if Google had so many resumes they have to filter through, then why do they have all these recruiters literally spamming you to join? they have recruiting issues like many others tech companies, but the whiteboard is really a bad filter. I've seen very much capable,competent and experienced engineers being denied just because they didn't spend too much time learning cute algorithms or coding in the whiteboard, in front of interviewers sometimes more focused in showing off how smart they are.
I think of Minecraft as a visual representation of a database. Every block you see has a set of values, starting with the 3 that determine its location within the world (coordinates) and extending to include block type, which determines other values.

And too, even the open spaces. For Minecraft reminds you that a block can occupy any space. Indeed, an open space is a set of blocks whose block type is "open", which makes it both transparent to light sent from neighboring blocks, as well as not blocking player movement.
When you're a warrior, you're at war with someone ...
It is still a question Apple asks when you submit your app. It's up to the developer to figure out if they need an encryption registration number or not. The SNAP-R process takes about 3 days and can be done entirely online.
That's not a counter argument at all. Cook never said that user's shouldn't be allowed to use google. He said that there should be a privacy respecting option. That users shouldn't be forced to trade their privacy for free usage. It defaults to google because the majority of people want it to but at least it gives you the option. Android and google present no such option.
Yes, both Arch and Gentoo are rock solid IMHO, and I enjoyed many years in both those communities. Breakage was very rare, less than one per year even, and I always ran test releases for my desktops.
Tech Leaders: Cooperation with Government Can Move U.S. Forward
Another effect here is the paramilitarization of police equipment. Surplus equipment - armored vehicles, assault rifles, body armor, etc - is given away to police forces, leftovers from our overseas wars. This is why you see police in masks and camo that make no sense in an urban environment.

Clothes help define our relationship to others. How much does it change the attitude of a policeman to be wearing body armor and riot gear rather than shirt sleeves?
He said nothing about productivity. Workers can become more valuable by virtue of worker shortages that lead to higher wages and thus lower productivity which leads to higher prices for goods.
Looking into it further, apparently neither Time nor DateTime account for leap seconds (though they support a 60th second), and only the Time class seems to support daylight savings, according to the docs. So that's pretty weird.
Darpa Robotics Challenge: Amazing Moments, Lessons Learned, and What's Next
This looks promising. Does this server architecture also has an embedded API framework which can utilized to create APIs by just specifying end-points? and is there any testing framework integrated for node.js applications?
Anybody noticed ‏an istx25 stalking each tweet-job suggestion and ultimately getting busted[1]? :D

[1]: https://twitter.com/markmcerqueira/status/608914346706657280
Infer finds deeper infer-procedural bugs sometimes spanning multiple files. Linters, in contrast, typically implement simple syntactic checks that are local within one procedure. But they are valuable and Infer doesn't try to duplicate what they are good at. At Facebook we run both Infer and a collection of Android linters.

Findbugs can be useful too; it is more akin to linters.
For sure, but it could still be better than what publishers currently have, which is basically nothing. Especially for smaller sites. Very few succeed individually on a subscription basis, and micropayments haven't really taken off.

I was wondering if they could calculate the cut they have based on the length of time a person reads a given news source, which would promote long-form content.
you have all to do this yourself.
If the problem is "bullying", there's plenty of subreddits that exist solely to bully other subreddits. The administration are showing bias and bending around their own rules, but that's not really surprising for a site that shadowbans its users.
To paint these tools with an overfly broad brush, they linter-like in that they perform shallow intra-procedural analysis to identify common bug patterns (e.g.,
if (x != null) {
y = x.f
}
z = x.f // possible NPE; x was previously checked for null
or
foo(String s) {
if ("x" == s) // oops, should use .equals() for Java String comparison.
}).

By contrast, Infer performs deeper inter-procedural reasoning that can track the flow of values across long chains of procedure calls to identify subtle bugs that are hard to see with the naked eye. Infer doesn't support as many bug patterns as these existing tools do yet, but it can find some deep bugs that these tools will miss.
I agree with this and below comments. It took... considerable dedication... to keep reading it all the way to the end. I can't even comment on it directly as it was all over the place but with a nice integration/flow of the sub-topics. All I can call it is an experience lol.

I downloaded my certificate. Might put it on my resume. Evidence of willpower if nothing else. :)
created an account just to reply this.
Amazing story, but reminds me of the buildings in Manna by Marshall Brain.
I honestly have no idea what the numbers are, it's one of those things I've been meaning to research, but have never gotten around too. But from my experience, a large number of troops coming back from the war enter law enforcement.

But I also think (key word, think, it's a hypothesis, no current hard data to back this up at this point, see above paragraph on how I need to do this, but I've been too lazy/busy) this may be highly regional. In the sense that I live in a state with a large number of military bases/troops/persons who go into the military. They come back from their deployments, they go back home, they join the local PD. Some states have less of this than others.

Further, others have made this point, and I guess I was not as clear as I should have been, but in part, you only need one officer who's a vet to come into the department and he says, "When I was in Iraq, this is how we did it..." I don't think that's a huge influence, but I do think it's part of spreading the military culture that the original article is talking about.

Call it militarization of the police, hero worship, cargo-cult, whatever. I believe at the end of the day, the effect is the same, the GWoT has had negative impacts on how America has chosen to police itself.
This article doesn't raise any new issues about Pao's behavior that hasn't already been discussed on HN.

Linking to a cached version of a 3-month old article [1] raises suspicions about intent. Thus, flagged.

[1] http://www.therecorder.com/id=1202720356299/Internal-Kleiner...
The article ended up just yanking my Firefox session to somewhere in the middle of the page, followed by some Clippy expy nagging me about how fast I'm supposedly reading the article.
Littlecodr: A Kickstarted card game to teach kids programming
I really wish they would give us a way to get full packet capture from the entire VPC.

Simply add a span option, that we can send all traffic to a specific network interface (ENI). Or at the very least allow us to define custom routers (verses the VPC routes), where we could then capture/span/analyze/etc - this would provide us the means to analyze traffic from one VPC to another and inbound/outbound traffic.
Very necessary. A few questions:

- How big can records be? Are they stored as a single object in the persistence layer or using something like materialized paths. The firebase data model is one huge JSON structure, so this looks different.

- How are conflicts handled? Last writer on server wins or last writer anywhere? Do you ensure eventual consistency of all the clients even when you apply optimistic writes on the client?

- Can data be larger than the cache size? How is cache eviction handled?
1. It doesn't matter if it's illegal or not, nobody should ever have to put up with any of that crap.

2. Same as with bullying, nobody should ever tolerate this bullshit.

3. Flirting is harassment if the other party is not interested in flirting. At that point I don't think it's flirting anymore, but harassment.

4. It does suck indeed, and I'll seek for a new job.
According to the website there is a web of trust to establish reputation and you can set up voting pools whose members are those you trust. So it is based on buyer feedback.

https://blog.openbazaar.org/what-is-openbazaar/

https://gist.github.com/dionyziz/e3b296861175e0ebea4b
In what ways is OCaml's pattern matching superior to Haskell's?
Great closing statement - "Yes, you are a founder, but you are also a partner, son or daughter, friend and student. And you always have the power to decide what your startup’s success or failure will mean in the greater story of your life."
It is important to remember that your startup is a part of your life and not your life. Being grateful and mindful has helped me a lot in my journey with a startup.
There are things beyond your control that you cannot help. Things that were in your control but you were not able to help just leave you with lessons, for your next startup!
That's what I was thinking too. But then they seem like employees in the rest of the story. A little ambiguous.
By every measure the US has the most imprisonment. America is the première police state, how else would you measure it?
Well, on theory, yes, but in practice, it's a dichotomy. I strongly believe that materialism counters progress. For example, if we all believed in a greater mission for our civilization, all our efforts would be focused on building space ships and space colonization, not wasting efforts in buying a bigger home, a newer car model, buying new fancy clothes, getting a crazy haircut, and so on. Yes, there are people who are not on the either extreme today, but these are not the majority. I am happy that geeks start to embrace minimalism, simplify life, and focus our limited seconds on this planet in something productive, but, again, we're a minority. The majority needs guidance and religion has been effective for the masses so far.
This seems reasonable, thanks. Keep the blog posts coming, they're great!
Charting 110 Years of Native Washingtonians Leaving DC
XLData is an OSS iOS library to easily load and show data sets into a UITableView
What is code? If you don't know, you need to read this
This would be a huge win if the DOJ brings an anti-trust case and somehow forces Apple to treat ad-blocking to be treated equally in Safari and in native. i.e. The consumer can choose ads everywhere or ads nowhere, but it's not possible to opt into ads only in native apps. It would be double-plus-good if enabling ad-block also prevents advertising that a native app exists.
"You also get rid of (and prosecute) the "good" cops who don't report the bad ones."

This is why I say the police are corrupt. Looking the other way is corrupt, even if you didn't take part in the corruption.

Would the officer in McKinney the other day feel compelled to resign if he hadn't been caught "red handed" on video? Would his fellow officers have even reported him? I seriously doubt it, and because many of us probably have that doubt then it's up to the police to make that idea unthinkable among the public.
The linked material in the answer is also higly interesting, including details about the RAD-hardening. As the decision was made in 1991 to use the SPARC architecture, it makes sense that they continued the development of their architecture. It is also good to see that there seems to be VHDL code available to tinker with the core in FPGAs. Thank you for the link :)
How to find your TRUE self
> if we help men with some of their problems with toxic masculinity

And this is why nobody takes you seriously.
Logrotate race condition with copytruncate
Done oO https://github.com/coreos/coreos-xhyve
Currently at top of front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9698870
yes but it's currently not that fun. it's like watching cars on the highway. it relies on beacons and rf for sensing the track. like watching those sumo robot videos on youtube. fun for a short time
Most of the extremely specialized niche content I enjoy is written by people who write about things because they like to write about things they care about regardless of revenue. For those that need to get paid, if their content is worth it, they will be able to charge.
Factual Answer: Logging of IMSI (sim card ID) and IMEI (phone ID). Potentially also logging pTMSI (temporary IMSI used over the air), MSISDN (phone number).

You should be able to get good idea of the handsets distance from the station based on timing delay.

As it's acting as a full fake site it could potentially be used to deny service, drain the battery, MiTM outgoing SMS & phone calls, possibly use the E911 provision to request GPS location from the handset too...
I do this, but be aware, it's mainly for going from my office computer to my home computer. I don't know if it would suffice if I were using two computers at nearly the same time. Dropbox takes at least several seconds to sync files, longer for big ones, so if you're literally going back and forth between two keyboards you may need to wait for Dropbox to catch up.
Camden is plenty "typical enough" in terms of poverty-stricken, gang-filled neighborhoods.

What might exist in Camden that doesn't exist elsewhere is that, at least as far as local government goes, Camden doesn't have the governing tensions that exist in other cities, with a rich "governing class" (read: white yuppies) doing all that they can to "protect themselves" from "the others". Like all cities, it gets thoroughly screwed by the State, but at least locally, has far less of an internal "us" and "them" than, say, Philadelphia (which lies just across the river, and has neighborhoods with similar problems to Camden, but less policymaking authority to address them).
400 meters of road with no driveways, no intersections, no traffic lights, is just a waste of time. These results do not apply to the real world.
Can we use Snapchat for Marketing?
I went through a big interview spree after finishing my undergraduate degree this spring. I have one company that I was very excited about potentially working for. The job description was for a "Software Engineer" with no particular tools listed, but wanted experience with some things like databses, web apps, and so forth. I had worked several days a week during my senior year at a .NET shop (now working here full time temporarily until my next job starts), including some ASP.NET MVC and some other web-related work.

I put a section on my resume under education with relevant coursework. I noted there that I had taken a database course as part of my CS cousework and put "Databases (primarily MySQL with interfaces in PHP and JS)," as about 90% of the project-related courework involved using MySQL databases with web-based interfaces.

In the inital phone interview, I had a nice chat and talked about some of my former projects, familiarity with other languages, where I made it known I was fairly comfortable in JavaScript and Python and some other language, and most of my professional/educational experience was in .NET and Java. He asked about the databases course and I explained what the curriculum went over and the final project. I explained all I had used PHP for was a few database calls and that I wasn't very experienced with it.

Then, at the first technical interview, it was entirely in PHP. The interviewer mentioned it at the start, and I explained my level of familiarity (very little). It was asking about how specific data types behave in PHP, global variables, differences in PHP 4 and 5, and was entirely about PHP. I did my best, assuming wrongly about things like global variables, and so on. I never got a call back.

I removed PHP and have since only listed the technologies in any way that I am ready to interview in.
To me "programming" is text-based.

I'm afraid your interpretation of programming is an exceptionally heterodox one, then. It would make visual programming an oxymoron, which is at odds with most research.
You're living in a pretty isolated world, my friend. I'd say 90% of my friends would be the audience for this. I've been coding 20 years, most of my friends are successful, grad-degree educated people in a variety of fields, and some of them are even my coworkers.

Who is supposed to teach people what code is? Our schools? Who with a CS degree and programming experience would willfully choose to teach in the USA's education system?

Or maybe the companies who make all their money from code? I think not- it wouldn't help the economic position of Apple, Google, FB, or Microsoft if everyone knew what code is and how it works. It strengthens the tech economy's stranglehold on society when code is treated as something inscrutable.

So there's really very few resources for people- even educated, successful, technically literate folk- to grok "what is code?"

Many coders would do well to read a similar article, if there was one, called, "What is Society?"
I omitted: ...and create so many new problems there will be years of work in it to clean the mess up.

Been in "IT" for a few decades, I've seen it happen in front of my own eyes time and time again.

The only self-help tool that has lasted so far has been the spreadsheet, and even that has gone horribly off the rails in many companies.
And you would be wrong. iOS 8 works fine on my iPhone 5. The iPhone 5 was released in the fall of 2012.
It's also got a lower quadratic bound, it has to fill in the whole matrix of m*n cells, at least for the simple implementation. There may well be some optimisation for almost identical strings.
Двери шпон – авилон
Thanks, I didn't know about the vendor spec.
You are missing the fact that there are other logical routes to the scenario, and some of those assumptions are correlated.

For example instead of Russia wanting to provide cyber security, Russia saw the opportunity to embarrass the US and score brownie points with Iran.

Instead of Kaspersky detected because of intelligence order, Kaspersky detected because they happened to be the ones in a position to do so.

And if Russia wanted to provide cyber security for Iran, then the odds are high that Kaspersky would be a component of that. Not because Russia has no other options, but because it is an obvious component that can be made available.
I'm posting from that very room right now.
NASA has been using Python for awhile apparently too: https://www.python.org/about/success/usa/
Great news for the Python community.
I concur with your assesment. The point is not to turn a syntax into an AST into processor code. The point is to provide things of value and 'easy' computing platforms targeting users who are not professional programmers create tremendous amounts of end user value.

Sadly, when I point this out professional programmers often go 'pffft - that's not real programmming' as if being knees deep in stack traces and gigantic code bases was a something with intrinsic value.
Is that really true though? I'd always heard that our military was a lot less trigger happy about arresting people - usually surrounding a house and demanding that the residents come out rather than battering down the door and rushing in with guns drawn.
"something incredible will emerge for the right-brained bourgeoisie and literati."

Yes, a real quantum computer. As long as we're dealing with 1's and 0's, there's an insurmountable barrier for those who would get creative with computing.
Granted, but even at 16 million it wasn't a positive exit. I know, and many others have pointed out, that Rose has a great network and knack for picking who to invest in. So going back to the original post I replied to that said "I co-founded Digg, give me money" is ironically the worst credential he could offer up.
Damn, I'm usually a humorless person when it comes to comments trying to be funny at HN but this, this was good.
The commenter above stated we have better quality in IT and that is the only thing that I reflected on.
They pretty much use everything. Apple was also an early investor in Akamai, and I believe Akamai is still used to transfer iOS and OS X updates.
The question is safe for who? Who are they trying to appease/attract to the site by changing it? They're just driving away their current userbase who likes things as they are.

The time to set boundaries was during the sites initial founding. It's a little late to have regrets.
I try to keep a daily habit of meditation, exercise, healthy food and solid sleep.

Here's the key for me - even when I'm feeling great and like I can skip a session I don't. When I do skip I feel fine for a few days then it hits me.
Separation in the perpendicular direction is required to allow room to maneuver left or right in the event of unexpected events (or even expected ones like oncoming traffic or emergency vehicles). This applies for both self-driving vehicles and human controlled ones.
This is funny in a sad way:

"One example from Facebook: complimentary egg freezing packages, valued up to $30,000."
I mean, they could just say it. "Give us 40k, and we'll ship you some well-designed prototype coffee machines. Our stretch goal is 100k."

I've stopped funding Kickstarters once they're significantly over their goal; I don't think it helps, and I can just buy their product later anyway.
Uhm, I just used their headline which describes perfectly what they're doing.
Simply saying with regards to this issue it didn't provide advance protection (that was my impression after reading the comment anyhow)
Susan Kare designed the icon on Apple's command key. [0]

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_key#Origin_of_the_symbo...
the half moon looks so awks
why didnt they use kinect?
Well, if you wanted to be absurdly pedantic, you could call instructions in an architecture predefined tools, or protons and electrons.

I don't think it matters if the tools are predefined - what matters is that they can be used together to build a system greater than the sum of it's parts.
I don't understand why people believe 'everyone' should be able to write code without much trouble. Virtually every activity requires focus and exercise to learn. Example: you can't just take a hammer and start building furniture or you will create a mess. If you want something nice and useful, you need to think about what you want to build, how you are going to construct it, which materials you need, which tools you need. You need to experience how the materials behave, try out certain subconstructions, research what specialized tools exist. I believe this idea that 'everyone' should be able to code is like expecting everyone to be able to build furniture. If you want to, you can learn how to build furniture, but it's not easy and will never be easy. Why would coding be any different?
On the web it's sort of all strings, so it's not hard to be in a situation where you have "length=7" & "cat=tabby" and get into a problem. Beyond that, many developers are in the habit of using primitives for everything, which makes these sorts of errors much more common.