skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it killed a lot more astronauts than Soyuz even though Soyuz is older

That's only because Soyuz has a smaller crew capacity. Both Soyuz and STS have had the same number of catastrophic failures (Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 11 on the Soyuz side; Challenger and Columbia on the STS side).

Neat fun fact: Soyuz 11 also has the distinction of being the cause of the only in-space human fatalities (all other spaceflight-related fatalities occurred either during launch or during reentry).
Most car companies include R&D in COGS. So it's fair to point out that Tesla does not.
I've started really liking tools that generate dependency graphs for code bases. Terrific to reference when digging though.
Wonderfully said. Bill Gates remains net negative impact on the world at this point.

"If you are giving back, it means you took too much." See http://www.ted.com/talks/ricardo_semler_radical_wisdom_for_a...
DTrace is another advantage of using Solaris
It's a grotesque insult
to you, me, and all of HN
with NYT deliberately
exploitative psycho-babble
where the NYT believes that
the exalted, highly self-esteemed
NYT is way above their audience that
can be so exploited with such
nonsense.

It's an insult, a deliberate
arrogant insult. Haw haw,
hee, hee, the NYT, the highly
superior NYT, highly exalted,
is going to insult their
audience, milk it like their
own herd of cows, pass out smelly
bait for an ad hook, pat themselves
on their backs as they erect themselves
as authoritative arbiters of
what it means to be able to
solve a problem -- sewage.

You are being insulted as much
as if you were just walking
down a sidewalk and the NYT
saw you coming and
poured sewage
on you from two floors above.

Put up with that treatment
if you wish,
but know that you are being
insultingly exploited by
the psycho-babble version of
sewage.
I've been creating an application with Meteor and React* and it has been pretty easy thus far. Although I'm not using the official Meteor-React package, it does a lot of the same things that the official package does. The unofficial package also uses a mixin to use with React classes.

*edit: Meant to say React instead of flux
Absolutely. I am almost in the same position as you. I am a college student majoring in Computer Science. I'm going to be a senior this coming fall but I have only recently switched to CS from Pre-Med so I have a long way to go, particularly from an academic perspective. I've been programming for almost 9 years as a hobby yet I still feel like I have lightyears to go. Even worse, I have nothing to show for those past 9 years. The one thing I'm absolutely sure I have, however, is the passion to continue learning.

When I first joined HN about 6 months ago I couldn't comprehend 80% of the material. I remember browsing through and thinking it all looked like Assembly code. It felt great to be surrounded by such brilliant minds, which is why I kept coming back, but I did feel like a lost puppy. Now, months later, I don't yet consider myself knowledgable enough to be posting comments (this is probably my 5th comment), necessarily, but it feels great to now be able to follow at least 50% of the content. This is the result of two things: a, Browsing HN pretty much daily and b, Programming more, focusing on the things I don't already know.

There aren't many lessons to be learned in your comfort zone. Good luck!
Next time you reconnect your SSH session after changing from one WiFi network to another one, consider that this is a degenerate case of multihoming.
Isn't your answer technically wrong, though?

The sequence is not monotonically increasing. It's strictly increasing. If you test [1, 1, 2] or [1, 1, 1] or [1, 2, 2], you'll get "No" answers even though those sequences are monotonically increasing.
It's a definite tradeoff, I agree. But I think pass is on the correct side of this tradeoff:

1. ./blah.sh | grep LookupKey exposes just as much information as pass -c LookupKey. If someone has access to your machine and you don't carefully prune your bash history file, then you're screwed. However, in the latter case, at least you get something at the cost of giving up security -- namely, the convenience of tab completion.

2. The only way to solve problem #1 in general is to have multi-stage authentication, where you authenticate to access to lookup keys and then authenticate again to access the passwords. That's achievable using pass and some Bash -- obfuscate file names and store a obfuscated -> actual mapping in a gpg-encrypted file, and write a bash script that does the ln -s'ing. And then the command that does that dumps you into a shell that doesn't record history.

I did this for a while but found it's a bit of PITA. Also, I can almost always come up with names that would be difficult to exploit without a lot of information about my life (bank_primary, bank_secondary; email/personal, email/business, email/spammy; server/personal, server/2011; and so on. I won't remember these verbatim, but once tab-completion reminds me of my options I typically recall which is which. And in case you're afraid in several years you'll forget which server you first purchased in 2011, you can always just pass -e server/2011 and explain which one you meant in subsequent lines.
I think using the word private is a bit misleading. Ground water is shared among all the well users in the area/water shed.

If drank only collected rain water then it would be private. Except for the pollutants picked up from the air.
you guys are missing the point..

Should the US prosecutor be allowed to withhold evidence of this crime when the SilkRoad founder was tried and sentenced..I say no as oges towards the idea of entrapment, etcf
I was there on the UO team. Fun fact: this server closet also gained an optical scanner as its security system, due I think to the generosity/love-for-toys of Richard Garriott. The optical scanner didn't work very well, and was way overkill, but it was super neat. We all felt like spies. Despite actually being geeks.
> They make money on cars (gross margin)

No they don't. Net operating cashflow has been hugely negative for their entire existence and there is no conceivable path to profitability.

Tesla is a taxpayer subsidized wall street scam that is going to blow up sooner or later.
Moya Project
Correct, it's not.

It's shifted on the application developer, who is the "user" of the network stack.
Yes, it was my example - exactly because there are multiple implementations of this very thing, this thread is littered with the links. My last remark was that the full, 100% standard-compliant Pascal, although impressive, is not very practical, and a lower level language is what is usually designed for this purpose.
And it's missing the point: Tesla is a battery and infrastructure R&D company that's kept afloat by selling cars.

It's clear that Elon is going for the long haul on this.
Well, it depends on what you are looking to with it. Do you want to learn about system administration, software development, networking, ...? It also depends on where the server is, physically - is it in your home or in some data center?

If it's system administration, one example that is reasonably useful is setting up an owncloud server. Or a private mail server. If it is in your home, setting up a DHCP server and a DNS server can be a fun excercise. In any case, there are many tutorials and HOWTOs available online. The search engine of your choice will tell you where. Most major linux distros also come with pretty good documentation or at least have some online.
(Depending on the circumstances, you might consider reinstalling the system first - without physical access to the machine, it is not easy, though.)

If you want to learn about software development, there are more things you can do with a linux server than I can think of. When I try to think of a fun programming project, I often make the mistake of thinking of the technology (programming language, libraries/frameworks) first and then choosing a problem that goes with it. For learning, though, it can be a good idea - so I want to learn about, say, building web apps with Ruby on Rails or Django or whatever; what better way to learn about that than building a small toy application? Okay, now all I need is a nice toy problem, difficult enough to actually teach me something, but not difficult enough to be frustrating.

Again, there far too many tutorials out there for me to mention anything specific. (Just as an example, I taught myself Django by writing an application that is basically a glorified RSS reader with a builtin Bayes network - I could rate news as boring or interesting, and after a while the app could classify news items a "probably boring" or "probably interesting" well enough so I could make it filter out news that were "probably boring". It did not work that well, was really slow, and I basically suck at UI design, so it was really ugly, too, but it was still useful and fun to build.)

I hope this helps at least a little. I am staying fairly vague because your question is kind of vague. If you supplied more details about your interest or your skills/background, I might be able to give a more helpful answer. Generally speaking, try to think of something that would be actually useful to you - that way, motivation will be less of a problem, and it will probably be more fun, as well. (To be honest, learning about Linux / Unix can be very frustrating initially - within the first six months of using Linux on my desktop, I was very close to physically throwing my computer out of the window no less than three times. The learning curve can be steep at the beginning, but to me, in retrospect, it was time well spent. It also tends to be a great deal of fun after a while.)
Somehow I read the title as "The single most useless Web site on the Internet: washingtonpost.com". LOL
Weren't they paid to design the buildings? Or are they expecting to recover part of their costs by extorting photographers?
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They are always YOY, because of seasonal sales. A spurt during thanksgiving season, does not always mean you did better than previous quarter.
Indeed, Tesla does things like startups do, not like big car companies. If you have a steady-state business, including R&D in COGS makes sense.

Another way that Tesla is different is that they don't announce monthly sales numbers. That means that a fair number of analysts ignore them; here's an example [1].

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/02/business/us-monthly-auto-s...
Interestingly, this one has been around and known for awhile. I reported it back in September of 2012 and got the same response. Basically it wasn't viewed as a bug because the user couldn't interact with the DOM. I explored this quite extensively and was never able to make it interactive.

Here's a screenshot of just some of my exploration of this bug back in 2012:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=517413654939227&set=...
With all due respect, I think you're really confusing two arguments here; that of wealth distribution and the concept of basic income.

The idea of a basic income does not imply a transfer of wealth from the middle class to the poor or indeed anyone. You could set up a basic income system tomorrow in your country of choice and set the level of basic income and tax levels so that everyone, at least in the beginning, was receiving the same amount of cash they were before.

One advantage of the idea is that the poor would be more likely to find work because the marginal reward is so much better, leading to more wealth overall and sharing out the tax burden more. At least in theory.
Yes, I consider ground crew just as valid human beings as those who go into space. The Soviet program was a dangerous mess that killed a lot of people through purposeful mismanagement. If someone wants to argue safety or mortality rates then ground crews must be part of that argument. A lot of people died in the Nedelin catastrophe, which the USSR covered up until 1989, and now we must acknowledged their sacrifices and place blame on Russian leadership.
So it was a 40MHz SPARC then? ;-P
"or it will reduce capital stocks that can be used for investment."

Doubtful. Lots of cash is sitting idle.
Maybe some positive/negative feedback built into the campaign could help; e.g. for each act of benevolence/violence, add/subtract a 'karma' point from some running total, and alter the gameplay as needed.
What do you think the skin tone of the people that came up with the AI is? Can you say with a straight face that this has 0 influence on how they initially calibrated the models? I would imagine that they tried their best to have the algorithm learn equally well across all skin tones...but my impression is that as a gut reaction, people generally envision an unknown person as someone of their own race.

Even though the association between blackness and great apes is a longstanding racist trope, I don't think anyone should be suing anyone over something like this. Instead of getting on your soap box though, you could at least acknowledge that there are increasingly meaningful decisions being made by algorithms that may or may not be monitored by human discretion. What happens when someone does actually get physically hurt, or experiences financial misfortune, due to shoddy programming? That's what the article is getting at -- you merely fell for the clickbait.

Nobody has the right to not be offended... but certain relationships between users and companies can engender certain obligations and duties between one or the other. That's the point of this article, and image connotations that stir up bad feelings are merely the latest topic to bring the subject to light.

P.S.: What exactly is "bullshit" about people expressing their dismay about associating blackness with monkeys? Just like people don't have a right to "not be offended," those same people have a right to voice their displeasure at the company and people that promote these shitty images. The fact that you're trying to silence their response makes you no better than those that wish to sue Google for something like this.
Eventually, remembering something - a movie, a song - will be considered copyright infringement.
As someone has said, the quality of your resume in the game industry (or film industry, I'm told) is only as good as the last game you worked on. Ultima Online was an attention getter for employers for many years; to a certain extent still is. That's unlike most games that are forgotten after a year or two: there are still a lot of old UO fans whose brains were pumped full of dopamine by this thing and will not let them forget it.

On the other hand, UO burned me on game development worse than any other game I ever worked on (though I have kept working on games since then). It was a miserable project. So the effect on the resume was good; the effect on the soul was awful. I never worked on another MMO again and never, ever would.
If you interpret "array programming language" as "language with support for arrays and matrices as first-class objects with nice operators, etc" then you get a lot more things coming into the mix beyond oddballs like apl.
I don't understand the question marks? I am missing something? This is a reference to something or what?
I tried, coincidentally, the exact same phrase as he did, with no effect.
(In other words, Goldman bought $100 million of credit default swaps against AIG failing.)
No way, the cloud is totally new and amazing! /s
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What is midnight commander?
You can submit path to vasm/vlink/vbcc authors and they would applt to his toolchain. They are very friendly to any improviment. On this way, We got a full macro assembler and linker for TR3200 cpu. Also, we have a SmallerC back end for TR3200. We only need to add some stuff for relocatable code on vasm tr3200 back end, and and write or adapt a libc to have a full C toolchain working.

Also, I think that is time to put our virtual computer here...
And my back button was hijacked.
Not to mention mobile.
This is how lots of really creative uses for things come about. If you haven't any idea what something's supposed to do, you're now totally free to come up with your own use.
>If a government were to do that for everyone it seems pretty obvious that society will be better off

I don't think it's obvious hence the necessity of actually testing it in a real-world setting.
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> However, this century, many social scientists disliked these facts, and have done everything they could to disprove them.

No, you are misunderstanding what they say to strengthen your negative opinion about them. They are talking about populations, not individuals. Everybody acknowledges that some individuals are born smarter than others.

However, even on the personal level, there are many things that influence future accumulation of power (and hence can be called potential) much more than genetics. A genius born in Uganda has much lower potential than an idiot born on the Upper East Side. And even intelligence is greatly affected by social forces. At the end of the day, you'll find that genetics has relatively little influence on "success" (accumulation of power). Always look at the effect size. There are many effects at play, and each -- while significant -- does not have the same effect size as the others.
Logs which showed which towers a specific cellphone was connected to was important evidence in the 1999 murder case covered by the SERIAL podcast.
Most car companies already have mature vehicle platforms (engines, transmissions, chassis and body experience, etc) to work off of and thus only have to charge R&D for a particular car against that car.

When you're developing a new car you have to do a lot of general R&D and a lot of car-specific R&D. What gets charged against the car and what are considered general? Who gets to decide? Why would they decide in a particular way?

It's not super obvious to me where you'd bill things even if they're ostensibly just for the Model S because in another year or two they might release a Model S2 with not a lot of R&D because they just stole parts from the Model S, Model X and Model 3.

Not saying it will happen, but it could. Then the R&D costs would be too low on that car and they'd have to go back and adjust their gross margin back as far as they've been selling the other cars and then the whole thing is a nightmare since I'm pretty sure the SEC won't let you do that.
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Just a correction, this can't be "incredibly obvious" merely from people having different abilities when grown, since that really doesn't cast much light on how they got that way.
Can you expand on how this would relate to entrapment? The story doesn't seem to indicate that the scam induced DPR to commit a crime he otherwise might not have engaged in.
The basic income concept is intriguing to me (because it simplifies things) but I do not think it will work for this reason: Who administers the basic income? The government and by extension politicians. Once they have every single person who breathes on the dole, this will give them unbelievable leverage against the people.
If the government is giving everyone a check, how hard is it to argue that the check should be more? Not hard. How hard is it to reduce the amount of the check. Almost impossible.

It will eventually devolve into a problem like Greece has now. Too many people receiving money, not enough people paying in.

Besides that, asking any government to take money from the people, run it through the giant bureaucracy machine, and magically produce a net benefit to the people is both logically impossible and naturally never going to happen.

I'm sure it will be attempted in America at some point and the "public servants" are licking their chops.
Would you care to elaborate? I don't see why you would want to inflict unjustified fear spikes on half of the population.

Unless, you know, you are a class-A jerk and happen to belong to the other half of the population.
I use Android. Here's an app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zeapo.pwds...

edit: looks like there's an iPhone app as well. See http://www.passwordstore.org/
You need to upgrade your Ruby version. The object id of `nil` is 8 these days :)
From an incremental improvement side, probably, but from a new product side, definitely not. You didn't get the Model T, the Macintosh, Edison power and light, etc because of some dedicated people already at their jobs, you got them via outsiders starting their own businesses and, yes perusing personal wealth, while pushing out the old guard. All the while the old guard kept most of the innovative people making TPS reports instead of doing worthwhile things. Most innovators have to flee their day jobs to do what they want to do in their field.

Ford didn't make a better saddle, he made a better horse. The Model T had to come from the outside to disrupt horse and buggy and the only way to really do that is via a capitalist approach. Pursing of wealth is one of the major motivators here and there's nothing wrong with it.

tldr; incentives matter
" All else equal, hiring a poor worker is probably perferable to hiring a wealthy one, as the poor worker has more incentives to work really hard."

Read from the other side, hiring a poor worker is preferable because they'll put up with more abuse, as they don't have much in the way of choice.
If you aren't talking about tests, then what are you talking about? What does "intelligence potential" mean? The IQ test is at least a specific operationalization of intelligence. If all you have to say is that you're not talking about the IQ test, then it isn't clear you're talking about anything scientifically valid whatsoever.
A game-changer for Greece?
The Android app is acceptable:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zeapo.pwds...

There's a iPhone one I cannot comment on.
Don't. Use an industrial historian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSIsoft

http://software.schneider-electric.com/products/wonderware/p...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_historian
I would love to see this. I really love flux and want to get flux into it, not just react. If it's open source, I'd really appreciate a github link :D.
That is the case. But I think the word "surge" is confusing people. If it said "up 52%" I'd assume year on year. But somehow "surge" implies a change in continuous state.
The more I think about it, the more I really like the idea of a basic income. One of the great things about universal healthcare is that you just never worry about it. I never have to think about what would happen to myself or my spouse or my kids if they get cancer after I quit or lose my job. Whether my insurance will fight me on some treatment, or if it covers the rights things. It's nice.

Basic income seems like it will give you that kind of piece of mind as well. You know that in the worst case, you'll have a hassle-free, indefinite, (modest) income to get you by. That's worth something.
> The idea of a relational schema having some kind of temporal dimension letting you get at changes is something that's been on my mind a lot lately.

You may want to check out Datomic. It uses an immutable, time-based model that covers deleted_at and many more scenarios (e.g., it's effortless to ask, "what was the state of this object last month?" without the need for looking at old backups.)